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Decatur, Illinois Sunday, May 14, 1989 LifCStylOjRO Mom's role earns applause 93 Jni goes up each day, someone is there to dazzle, ad-lib, support, comfort, listen and fulfill what I feel is the most important role I'll ever be offered in my life. It's the only one I'll be remembered for. On a day like today, there is even applause. Erma Bombeck Commentary I jfipp rod custom cflcLtionalb Macon County Fairgrounds June 23 -25, 1989 Your Dental HEALTH Motherhood is the longest-running, continuous production of your life. Every day.

Seven days a week. It doesn't matter if it's SRO or an empty house: You play to it. It doesn't matter if the critics love or hate your performance. The show never closes. Every day you climb into your costume and do the best you can, writing the.

script as you go along. As I climbed into my makeup this morning for yet another performance, I thought about how long I have played this part. When I was pregnant with the first child, I remember saying to my husband, "I'm too inexperienced for this role. I don't know how I'm supposed to act or what I'm supposed to do. I mean, what's my motivation?" He said, "Your motivation is if you don't give birth soon, you're going to have your own ZIP code!" The first couple of years, I had all the lines.

It was a demanding role, but I controlled the stage. When the kids developed speaking parts, their moves were unpredictable and my job got tougher. After the children started school, there were times when I felt alone on the stage. I even talked to the tropical fish one day about China's foreign policy. I toyed with the idea of briefly taking a part in another production.

Surely someone could make an announcement each morning, "The principal role of mother today will be played by an understudy." But I knew better. No matter what I Erma Bombeck writes from Arizona for Universal Press Syndicate. FRIDAY NIGHT co-sponsored by. Herald Review end did, the contract was binding. The performances would have to mesh.

Some days, we did Neil Simon; other nights we performed scenes right out of Tennessee Williams. Throughout the years we were joined by an unending parade of supporting players: grandparents, teachers, coaches, friends, doctors, neighbors, dogs, guppies, girlfriends, boyfriends and orthodontists. They came and they went. The dialogue changed with the times. When I began the part, I used to say, "I'm tired." Now I'm "stressed out." I used to "rap" with the family.

Now I "bond." "Talk to me, I'm your mother" has become, "Let's make some quality time." The theater has a way of grooming people for better things. I like to think that's what happened to our "cast" of children. Oh, occasionally they come back for a special performance, but mostly, my husband and I are like Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy doing "The Gin Game." I've seen the motherhood role played by men, grandparents, friends, aunts and even social workers. It doesn't matter who plays it. What does matter is that when the curtain June 23.

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and nwnbam of lhaa arenaoatfo NEWELL Sy OPEN 9-5 Mi. East of K-Mart Plaza on Rt. 36E Brian Culbertson is an electronic composer. The 16-year-old MacArthur High School sophomore computes what he calls "pop jazz fusion" music. It's the new wave in music.

A computer mixes a multitude of instrumental sounds keyboards, drums, bass, guitar, strings, trumpet, whatever you fancy as provided by a synthesizer. Add the melody. You get orchestra sound. The technique looks simple a "track" for each instrument, then combine. In fact, the technique is extremely sophisticated.

"Not just anyone can do it," explains Jim Culbertson, the MacArthur band director and Brian's father. Yes, Bach and Beethoven and Mozart would be overjoyed to compose like this. It's time-saving. It's like magic. One musician can make the music of an entire orchestra.

All you need is an idea. Brian's ideas blossomed after a couple of instructional sessions with Craig Lindvahl, Teutopolis High School music teacher and electronic composer. "Two Saturday mornings with him got me started," Brian recalls. In the summer of 1987, Brian recorded a song on a four-track recorder three hours after a session with Lindval. Last summer, Lindvahl taught Brian how to use the com trained in classical piano with Rosemary Thompson, acquiring the necessary background to compose.

During the week, he concentrates on the trombone. On weekends, he becomes an electronic whiz. Promised for summer delivery: A cassette tape of Brian's best electronic sounds. Speaking of musical promise, Joel Southern has it, too. "I have lots of talented piano students," reports N.

Edith Somp-pi of Decatur. "Joel is gifted. None of my 68 students is like Joel." The Warrensburg-Latham High School junior is a nine-year Somp- mmmmimmmmmmimmammmmmimmmmmmmmmm tanwiaa. -tit --s tj if it, r. Cf --7 (4 TS'y AfcfrJ J( iiarfcinf i mM ftMS" iffcClii C.Ji-jr&...yuL I pi piano stu- dent.

He played a 45-minute solo recital his first Saturday in Northwest Christian Church in Decatur, including selections by Bach, Mozart, Chopin and Ibert and C7f s-, s-rsC -r C7 1 Joel Southern A 'find' the complete "Rhapsody in Blue" by George The Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra is getting ready for another great season and we'd like to share it with you! puter. Now Brian has completed 50 tunes he prefers to call them "ideas." At MusicFest U.S.A. in Philadelphia, April 26-30, Brian was picked as an outstanding performer and composer. MacAr-thur's Electric Combo, including Brian on synthesizer, John Camp on tenor sax and Desi Anderson on bass, received a gold certificate. Furthermore, Brian's song "Construction" will be on a MusicFest U.S.A.

compact disc. It's a prestigious start toward Brian's goal of film music scoring. Meanwhile, he plays the trombone in MacArthur Jazz Band I and will play this summer in the Decatur Park Singers band. He has played the trombone, since fifth grade. All along, too, he has Bob Fallstrom is Herald Review lifestyle editor.

Gershwin. Joel Southern, like Brian Culbertson, is a one-of-a-kind "find." The 16-year-old son of Del and Sandi Southern of rural Latham, Joel is also: No. 1 scholastically in his class An accomplished athlete: Wide receiver in football, shortstop-pitcher in baseball, basketball player A member of the Macon County honor band (trumpet) and chorus. His future? Music, math or medicine, I'm told. This year we have a wide range of concerts planned from Rich Little, world renowned impressionist, comedian and actor, to a full production of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro.

You don't have to know a lot about symphony music to enjoy our concerts, and the tickets cost less than you'd think. This year why not Share the Symphony as a Season Ticket Holder, or even a Guild Member. For more information just complete the coupon below, or call 217424-3501. Millikin Decatur Symphony Orchestra 1989 1990 Season Concert I Saturday, September 23, 1989 8:00 p.m. Guest Artist Rich Little (Concert sponsored by A.

E. Staley Manufacturing Company) Concert II Sunday, November 12, 1989 4:00 p.m. MARRIAGES Oratorio Concert Faure's REQUIEM Wells' GLORIA Concert III Sunday, February 11, 1990 4:00 p.m. Young Artists Concert Concert IV Sunday, March 11, 1990 4:00 p.m. "Decatur's Own" Concert, Guest Artist Bill Keck James Ernest Peckert, Decatur; Kim-berly Ann Garrets, Decatur Danny Joe Logan, Decatur; Marcia Jean Rucker, Decatur Joseph Lee Kidd, Decatur; Pamela Kay Gordon, Decatur Kenny Lynn Ferguson, Decatur; Tracie Lynn Quintan, Decatur Daryl Joseph Barnett, Decatur; Pamela Sue Hagan, Decatur Robert Earl Taylor, Decatur; Lashell Letrice Lawson, Decatur i yes, ra DISSOLUTIONS Concert Friday, April 6, 1990 7:30 p.m.

Cabaret Concert Concert VI Friday Saturday, May 4 5, 1990 8:00 p.m. Sunday, May 6, 1990 2:00 p.m. Opera Mozart's Marriage of Figaro Nathan Thomas Ping, Decatur; Dorothy Mae Simpson, Decatur Kim Parker Vrkara, Clinton; Jeanette Marie Delbridge, Decatur Jerry Lee Cummings, Decatur; Angela June Adams, Decatur Mark Scott Craycraft, Decatur; Gail Lynette Pool, Decatur Lawrence Eugene BoHek Decatur; Pamela Sue Ellis, Decatur Scott Lynn Tague, Argent Deborah Kay Shad well, Argenta Terry Anson Myers, Bartonville; Denize Helene Babcock, Decatur Bruce Wayne Sobert, Leesburg, Laura Diane Grider, Leesburg, Ind. Charles Curtis Stine, Decatur; Kim-berly Sue Leslie, Decatur Richard Damashek, Decatur; Jane Ann Thomas, Burlington Michael Charles Vail, Decatur; Melissa Susanne Cooley, Decatur Marvin Duane Greve, Decatur; Karen Sue Bandor, Decatur Brian Keith French, Decatur; Carol Sue Dunham, Maroa Michael Lynn Tomlinson, Decatur; Barbara Gardner, Decatur Andrew Carlton Clark, Decatur; Cheri Diane Embree, Decatur David Wayne Mast Decatur; Sheila Marie Allison, Decatur Ramon Allen Gillespie, Decatur; Sherry Renee Pearson, Decatur Timothy Wayne Burch, Decatur; Susan Annette Noe, Decatur Danny Lee Zimmerman, Decatur; Me-linda Sue Sills, Decatur please sen" 0ay ne- --zzr BURNS, David Bruce and Jackie Lee CAMPBELL. Roy James Sr.

and Sally Anne COOK, Gary James and Sheree J. DOUGLAS, James Pell and Blesilda Villamor GARDNER, Samuel Goody and Barbara GIBSON, Michael Ralph and Dolores Dale GRAFF, Mark Wayne and LeAnn Lillian LEWIS, Thomas William and Laura Lea MCQUEEN, Lloyd D. and Ursula PATRICK, Gary E. and Christina M. REED, Kent A.

and Pamela Christine SCHROCK, Leon J. and Car la J. TOMLINSON, Michael Lynn and Kathleen Doris YOUNG, James E. and Avery E. ay-' 1 Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra P.O.

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