MARCH
Flutist Burr Spellbinds1
GulieJc Auditorium
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By.Michele A. Fazekas
Gulick Auditorium was
excited, enticed, calmed and
captivated Wednesday night,
l i s t e n i n g to- the original
sounds of jazz flutist Leslie.
Burrs. Burrs was presented:
by St. Lawrence University's
Association for Culture and
Entertainment (AGE).
Burrs performance ctiiisisted of ten songs, seven of
which were composed .or cocomposed by Burrs himself.
He has been composing since
high school, when he first
started playing the^flute.
' Burrs feels composing music
is a given when one plays an
instrument.
"You are ifnprovising all of the time with
, the flute, which is actually
composing. I just take the
time to write it down," he
said.
.••' In W e d n e s d a y ' s performance. Burrs used several
different .typ0s of flutes, including; two made of bamboo.
The opening.piece entitled
"litiprov'isation For Bamboo
Flute,'.' composed by Burrs,
set aii eerie mood, with the
help of unusual lighting and
the brilliant accompaniment
of
Bobby
J o n e s - on
synthesizer:
The result was a beautiful
piece, tinged with melancholy, and accompanied by the
. dazzling Jones on piano:
During the second half of
his program, Bjirrs played a
piece that he co-composed
entitled "The Children of
Soweto.'' rBufrs again shared
with his audience the inspiration for his composition,
saying that he read an article
about children in South Africa who. have to fight in the
civil war.1 "I was appalled
t h a t children there were
denied the opportunity to be
c h i l d r e n , " he told h i s
audience; Burrs played.the,
first part of "the Children of
Soweto," which was subtitled
"Before the. Coming.f In it,
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he portrayed what he J thought
it would be.like for j,he children living in South; Africa,
before Afrikaners. c4me. It
was a beautiful piecej, depicting the care free irvejs of the
children,, and yet sijuL per-,
haps i'n expectation for the
times to come.
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Burrs has seen terrific
success', both in the United
States and.in Europe, and is
very pleased: "Most of the
goals t have set for myself
have been accomplished." "he
Other highlights of Burrs'
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program included the second • s a i d - . ' •.
s e l e c t i o n , e n t i t l e d "Mill
These goals include wri'tM o u n t a i n , " which Burrs
ing for orehestras ;ind perbased on a poem by Sterling
forming as a soloist ^vith the
A. Brown. . Burrs told his
<frchestras, as well jas per*
audience that, he wanted to
forming abroad. Most, recentportray the images in the
ly he has been .working with
poem of a 'mart Caking Ills
Phillips Records, an internawife up a mountain and over>;
tional record company, and
looking the scene before him, he is commissioned to write a
saying how they Can 'oyer*,
string quartet, piece for Max
come living in the city by
Roach's new album.
climbing Mill Mountain. "I
If Wednesday's concert is .
wanted to capture the ebb
any indication of the future of ..
and flow of going through difLeslie Burrs, he wilt! be sure
ficulties in life, and yet
to set his magical spe|l all
making sure you are settled
over the world.
I
in life as well," said Burrs.
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Jazz flutist Leslie
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