UpDate - Vol. 12, No. 9, Page 3                        
October 29, 1992                                       
Bob Dylan opens Carpenter Center                       
                                                       
     It was a righteous evening for 4,053 music fans as the first 
concert in the new Bob Carpenter Center became two hours with a
legend.                                                      
     The sports arena/concert hall has excellent seating and 
acoustics, so everyone had first-class access to Bob Dylan, the
poet/troubadour of the 1960s.                                
     It was a spectacle even before Dylan began singing.     
     The audience, a combination of Dylan contemporaries and the young
and the restless, walked the concourse that rings the seats (most 
likely sightseeing the new facility), hit the concession stands,
visited, socialized and boogied to the music of the opening act.
     But when Dylan walked on stage, everything else stopped as the
crowd rose to its feet to roar its approval.                 
     Dylan acknowledged their adulation with an evening of music that
had something for everyone, from acoustic and electric guitar to his
trademark harmonica. The more obscure rock numbers impressed the
youngsters in the crowd and they danced in their seats.      
     When he did sing the familiar, the songs that made the whole
world think-like "Positively Fourth Street," "Maggie's Farm," "The
Times They Are a Changing," "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "All Along the
Watchtower"-his appreciative contemporaries responded with cheers.
     He came back for a three-song encore, saluting the crowd with two
bows after his final number, an acoustic "It Ain't Me Babe." He also
gave Delaware's newest home for sports and entertainment an auspicious
beginning.                                                   
                                        -Barbara Garrison