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2/11/02

'HORN PLEASE' PERFORMANCE PART OF SLU ARTS FESTIVAL

CANTON - "Conundrum," a performance by the musicians' collective 
Horn Please, will take place at St. Lawrence University on 
Friday, February 22, at 7 p.m. in the Black Box Theatre, as part 
of the University's Festival of the Arts. The festival's theme 
this year is "Remapping the Goddess: Global Visions," and the event 
is open to the public, free of charge.
	"Conundrum" is described as "an interaction between 
dhimay drummers and sounds drawn from field recordings and commercial 
recordings available in Nepal." Dhimay are large, barrel-shaped 
drums played in approximate unison by a group of drummers, 
accompanied by bhuchyah, or cymbals. Dhimay musicians appear often 
at public festivals in Nepal, and are called upon to honor female 
deities in particular.
	The members of Horn Please are St. Lawrence Visiting 
Assistant Professor of Music David Henderson, Visiting Assistant 
Professor of Music and Sound Technology Ben Sutherland and several 
University students, as well as people from the local community. 
They take their name from the words painted on the backs of trucks, 
tempos and other vehicles in Nepal.
	The St. Lawrence University Festival of the Arts is February 
16 through March 7 and includes a variety of performances, exhibitions, 
lectures, discussions and other events, all exploring "the shifting 
representations and cultic practices of female deities in their own 
locale and in translation to other contexts."

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