United States Military Academy West Point - Howitzer Yearbook (West Point, NY)

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The guitar pickin ' of Roy Clark helped the Cadet Fine Arts Forum began its fifteenth season with a big bang. With its eight diversified seminars, the Forum has something for everyone. From the foreign clas- sical music of the Gewandhaus Or- chestra of Leipzig to the good ol ' Southern classical from Atlanta, from Amadeus in the fall to Evita in the spring, from the vaudeville com- edy of Milton Berle to the hilarious Robert Klein, the entire spectrum of the performing arts was covered. With solid leadership at the top from LTC Turner and Todd Hann, the Fine Arts Forum has given West Point another year of top flight en- tertainment. 338 ABOVE: Harvey Evans plays the legendary showman P.T. Barnum in the Broadway Musical Hit Barnum . LEFT: Linda Ron- stadt thrilled West Point when she appeared in an Army cheerleader uniform. RIGHT: ..38 Special kicked off the Dialectic Society sea- .son with a dazzling show. OPPOSITE: P.T. Barnum (played by Harvey Evans) and his wife (Jan Pessano) from the hit show Bar- num. The anticipated slump in the music and entertainment industry did not affect the success of this year ' s Dia- lectic Society ' s concert season. The Dialectic Society, under the leader- ship of President Todd Wendt and the advice of Cultural Arts Director Bill Yost, was able to draw seven major contemporary artists to per- form at West Point. First semester was filled with great groups includ- ing. 38 Special. Juice Newton, Linda Ronstadt, Chicago and the Charlie Daniels Band. Second semester brought Joan Jet t and the Black- hearts with David Johansen, and Jimmy Buffett rounded out the sea- son. All of this year ' s presentations were very well accepted and most of the groups played to near capacity crowds in the Eisenhower Hall the- ater. Dii h

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TOP LEFT: The Award-winning musica Evila played to consecuUve sellout West Point audiences. TOP RIGHT: Fiorenre La- cey in a scene from Evita. ABOVE: The Soldiers of Argentina in Evita presented a unique marching style. RIGHT: Peter Crook as the musical genius Mozart along with Dan- iel Davis as composer Antonio Salieri in the Tony Award-winning hit Amadeus. A 340