PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY TTTl CTY ATT T7"TTIYb TT a. 'imA f a -- PAGE TWO T av vas Ml f :I N flAt V ' . 1 TUESDJAY, FEBRSUARY 13, 1968 poetry and prose- New Poets and Their New Poetry records Angel's Janet Baker 17h du Fait 'm 5th Ave. near Liberty--761 -9700 U - R EDITOP'S NOTE: Ted. Berrigan, Tom Clark and Ron Padgett will read from their works tonight at 8:00 p.m. in the Union Assembly Room. They are participating in the last event of the Creative Arts Festial-The Young Poets Festival. Ber- rigan's published works include "Sonnets," "Bean Spasms," collaborations with Ron Padgett, and three songs written for the Fugs. Clark was the editor of the "Once" series of magazines and books, and is presently poetry editor of The Paris Review. Padgett is important, of course, but doesn't like biographical notes. Superballs You approach me carrying a book The instructions you read carry me back beyond birth To childhood and a courtyard bouncing a ball The town is silent there is only one recreation It's throwing the ball against the wall and waiting To see if it returns One day The wall reverses The ball bounces the other way Across this barrier into the future. Where it begets occupations names This is known as the human heart a muscle A woman adopts it it enters her chest She falls from a train The womanrebounds 500 miles back to her childhood The heart falls from her clothing you retrieve it Turn it over in your hand the trademark Gives the name of a noted maker of balls Elastic flexible yes but this is awful You say Her body is limp not plsstic Your heart is missing from it You replace your heart in your breast and go on your way -Tom Clark Poem, like musical instruments Abandoned in a field The party of your feelings Are starting to know a quiet The pure conversion of your Life into art seems destined, Never to occur You don't mind You feel spiritual and alert As the air must feel Turning into sky aloft and blue You feel like You'll never feel like touching anyone or anything Again And then you do -Tom Clark -Daily-Anita Kessler "Young Poet" Ted Berrigan Only the beautiful Closerie des Lilas escapes our classification. And still remains in Paris. The lilac, is it round? People here do a lot of sitting around As in the Luxembourg Gardens Where the toy sailboats go round the artificial pond. They do this. Last but not least-and how natural! Are the paintings of Robert Delaunay Called The NVindowsF In which Paris is seen As lots of circles. -Ron Padgett Personal Poem It's 8:54 a.m in Brooklyn it's the 28th of July and it's probably 8:54 in Manhattan but I'm in Brooklyn I'm eating English muffins and drinking pepsi and I'm thinking of how Brooklyn is New York city too how odd I usually think of it as something all its own like Bellows Falls like little Chute like Uijongbu I never thought on the Williams- burg bridge that I'd come so much to Brooklyn just to see lawyers and cops who don't even carry guns taking my wife away and bi inging her back No and I never thought Dick would be back at Gude's beard shaved off long hair cut and Carol reading his books when we were playirg cribbage and watching the sun come up over the Navy Yard a- cross the river I think I was thinking when I was ahead I'd be somewhere like Perry street erudite dazzling slim and badly loved contemplating my new book of poems to be printed in simple type on old brown paper feminine marvelous and tough -Ted Berrigan By R. A. PERRY Angel Records, to whom the enthusiast of great singing has turned for such artists as Fischer- Dieskau, Schwarzkopf, de los Angeles, and Callas, has now added another super-star to its affluent family. That singer is Janet Baker, called by Harold Schonberg the second greatest English i in p o r t since wool (Beatles' devotees take note). I recently heard Miss Baker sing in the Verdi Requiem in Cleveland, and she more than fulfilled the impression she has been making on records. Her mezzo-soprano voice not only revealed round notes of deep resonanceandtonal purity, with a sense of untapped reserve, but her vocalism also goes beyond mere self-satisfac- tion with its own rich sound, Janet Baker searches for the expressive heart of the music, in- tent on matching feeling with content. At its weakest, this may be called "intelligent singing," but at its most expressive, her voice becomes only the agent for the composer'sydeepest intentions. Thus in the Verdi Requiem, her voice delineated both fearful sup- plications at the Judgment and noble declarations of the Power without ever seeming artfully dra- matic for its own sake. What Janet Baker's voice liter- ally reeks of is High Victorian Ser- iousness, the purely English orato- rio sound that Kathleen Ferrier so deeply possessed. Indeed, the com- parison between the two singers is inevitable and immediate. All of this leads up to new recommended Angel recording Janet Baker Sings a Treasury of English Songs, on which Miss Baker surveys in fifty minutes the history of English song writing. With Gerald Moore at the piano, Miss Baker sings love songs and dirges from Dowland to Britten, lingering over Campian and that prolific composer "Anon." Arne's "Where the Bee Sucks" especially reveals Miss Baker's versatility, and we begin to think that there is as much soprano as mezzo to this singer's voice. If the solemn and sanctimonious tone of latter-day English song writing little shits your fancy, you might do better by the piano mus- ic of Erik Satie. Satie, the arch Dadaist composer, has been re- cently embrased by John Cage's coterie - the importance of si- lence, the incorporation of incon- gruous sounds, the seriousness beneath the apparent pution. Satie's titles, such as "Veritable Flabby Preludes (for a dog) " and "Chapters Turned Every Which Way," may suggest Happenings (and indeed he once drove a ja- I'op Billing lopy through one of his own bal- lets), but at the same time they are almost defenses for the ser- ious wit and compositional con- trol in the music itself. Thus, despite Satie's popularity with the avant-garde, this music will not blow your mind. Angel's first recording of Satie's piano music reached a small audience, but recently it has been selling very well. Therefore, this month saw Piano Music of Erik Satie, Volume II. The pianist on both records is Aldo Ciccolini, and his frequent heaviness and lack of fine shading vitiates a certain amount of the music's spirit. Nevertheless, his are the only recordings and they are still mar- velous fun. I suggest Vol. I over the new set only because it con-I tains the beautifully serene "Trois Gymnopedias" as well as the Za- zie-like counterparts. From the recording contract be- tween Angel and Russia's Melodiya have come many excellent discs by Russian artists. Nikolai Petrov, the 1964 Gold Medal winner of the Brussels Competition, this month received his recording debut in performances of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No.. 4 and Proko- fiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 that make critical quibbling over tech- nique absurd. Rachmaninoff's concerto is full of that sound and fury which sig- nifies idiom, Russian Gershwin if you will, but Prokofiev's score is rich in idea and irony. 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