PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2968 FAGE TWO TilE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24. 1968 ... a ... . _._._ r , .. .... ... . . ,.a .,F ..,.. -music Montez and Byrds-Together? By FRED LaBOUR Out bounces Chris Montez looking like he just stepped out of a fraternity rush booklet. "Come on and clap along with me," he says. "Everybody sing la la la la." The four piece' band lays into a cute little Latin rhythm, Montez picks up the mike, and POW! We're in our favorite local supermarket. There is a place for Chris Montez in American muzak. His schlockey south-of-the-border arrangements of oldies - that were of questionable merit to begin with-waft out of cleverly hidden speakers in grocery emporiums and restaurants throughout the land. After watching Montez per- form lastf night at Hill Aud. one gets the feeling that be hasn't worked much lately. His ar- rangements are fairly polished, (one or two weren't even cli- ches) but he stumbles and stut- ters when addressing the audi- ence directly. His back-up group, (drums, vibes, guitar, and electric bass) are pretty fuzzy around the edg- es but it's impossible to tell if it was the musicians or the godawful sound system in Hill. Montez comes across fairly well when he sings those whis- pery little ditties that landed him in the Top Ten. The audi- ence helps him sing "The More I See You" and "Call Me" and he gets away with it. But his limitations become painfully evident on a little louder stuff like "Goin' Out of My Head" and "You've Got Your Trou- bles." After Montez sinverely thanks us for the privilege of perform- ing, the featured group, The Byrds, get set tip. Now, it seems quite strange that these two acts should ever appear within 500 miles of each other, let alone on the same stage. God only knows what the UAC people w.re thinking when they tucked in this pair of strange musical bedfellows. It's like serving catsup with waffles. Anyway, The Byrds come out and launch into "I'll Probably Feel A Whole Lot Better" and it becomes apparent that they will salvage the concert. The group, after an incred- ible number of personnel changes, now consists of Roger (formerly Jim) McGuinn on lead, Chris Hillman on bass, Kevin Kelly on drums and some new guy on organ. The organ adds needed depth to the con- cert performance but seriously detracts from the well-known Byrds style. The Byrds have always de- pended on crystal clear guitar work, threading the rhythm with the lead, to bring off their songs. But the organ muffles McGuinn's guitar to a great ex- tent and the audience can only hear snatches of his beautiful riffs. The group definitely needs a good rhythm man again. The damned sound system wounded The Byrds' show even more than Montez' because so much depends on the quality of their voices and their words. All in all, they don't repro- duce terribly well onstage. The Byrds have started to get into country and western music more and more and they didl two numbers last night that arts strictly Nashville: "Hickory Wind" and "Satisfied Mind." They also did a jazz oriented piece in 5/4 time to demon- strate their versatility and per- haps point out future directions for the group. But mainly, The Byrds are still folk-rock, and they are the only group in the world who can truly live up to that label. They still are most effective with "Chimes of Freedom," "Turn, Turn, Turn," and "He Was A Friend of Mine." McGuinn is obviously the heartbeat of the group, like Sebastian is to the Spoonful and Young is to the Spring- field. A whole generation of rock arrangers have been in- fluenced by McGuinn's lead style, his unresolved D chords and his sneaky little space noises way up on the neck. The Byrds are a very honest group who seem to have made it almost in spite of themselves. REGISTER to VOTE Call NEW POLITICS for assistance and transportation 761 -7147 971-2856 TONIGHT at 8 P.M. GLEN DA FEARS- Opera major {with Instrumental Ensemble) singing Negro spirituals, gospel songs, and soul music - showing the development of Negro music to the present day. AND 1421 Hill St. 8 30 P.M. 4 e 4 -Daily-Tay Cassidy DANCERS SHOW CREATIVITYj The University's Concert Dance Organization opened their 18th annual dance concert last night in the dance studio at Barbour Gymnasium. The program included modern interpretive dancing, a suite of pre-classie dances, and a special guest performance by Mr. James Payton, former member of the Jose Limon Dance Company. The program will be repeated today with performances at 2:30 and 8:00 p.m. Tickets are avail- able at the gym, costing $1.50 for the evening performance and $1.00 for the matinee. B liPze ORGANIZATION NOTICES 'Nominees?"::.:." uOGB< nV rWTI I1nT .TT f TVInD A~tLN- +"on+ nnei~relinn ~ig; fluk L.U~if fl ::rill' Roger McGuinn cinema 'Madding Crowd' Falls Short A nnounced Judges for the National Book Committee's National Book Awards competition have selected 31 books' in six divisions as "leading nom- inees" for the publishing indus- try's most coveted prizes. The eight-year-old National; Book Awards are granted to the best books written each year by American authors. The 1968 nominees: FICTION: "Why Are We in Viet Nam?," Norman Mailer; "A Gar- den of Earthly Delights," Joyce Carol Oates; "The Chosen," Chaim Potok; "Confessions of Nat Turner," William Styron; "The Eighth Day," Thornton1 wauder. POETRY: "The Light Around the Body," Robert Bly; "Sorrow Dance, IDenise Levertov; "Lice," W. S. Mer- will; "The Collected Shorter Poems of Kenneth Rexroth"; " 'A' 1-12, Louis Zukofsky; "The Hard Hours," Anthony IHeclit. ARTS AND LETERS: "Music, the Arts and Ideas," Leonard Meyers; "A Primer of Ignorance," R. P. Black- mur; "stop-Time," Frank Conroy; "The New Poets," M. L. Rosenthal; "Selected Essays," William Troy; "leardsley," Stanley Weintraub. SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY, and RE- LIGION: "The Biology of Ultimate Concern," T. Dobzhansky; "The New Industrial State," John Kenneth Gal- braith; "Death at an Early Age," Jonathan Kozel; "Mind: An Essay in Human Feeling," Susanne K. L~an- ger; "The Myth of the Machine," Lewis Mumlord. University Lutheran Chapel, 1511 Bach Club meeting, Wed., Feb. 28. Washtenaw, Feb. 25, 9:45 & 11:15 a.m. 8 p.m., Guild House, 802 Monroe. BYO -Workshop Services with Pastor Bach records. For further information Scheips speaking on "Comforting and call 769-2922. USE OF THIS COLUMN FOR AN- f NOUNCEMENTS is available to offi- cially recognized and registered student organizations only. Forms are available in room 1011 SAB. La Soceidad Hispanica, Una Tertulia, Mon., Feb. 26, 3-5 p.m., 3050 Frieze, Cafe, conversacion, musica. Vengan todos! I By LIZ WISSMAN As a film, "Far from the Mad- ding Crowd" (at the Michigan Theatre) will probably be called "faithful to the book." But it is faithful only in the sense of a nagging wife without the daring for adultery. The marriage of Hardy'stheme andJohn Schles- inger's movie is loveless at best. A part of the problem lies in the novel itself; at least in any literal interpretation of the novel. In Hardy, the plot movement is made up of a chain of ironic concidence. The book has been studied as a textbook in the use of the "pathetic fallacy." That is, when Nature is presented as an anthropomorphic f o r c e replete with rainy teardrops. Schlesinger has followed these aspects of the novel with a mind- less regard for sanctity. As a re- sult, the audience receives only the clutter of a schizophrenic un- certainty. In poorly edited se- quence, the film flashes from a pigsty to Julie Christie (with no poetic reference intended.) What is missing is the super- structures of Hardy's novel --- its unity of vision and tone. Schle- singer has filmed footage of raw natural beauty, as when a herd of sheep are driven over a cliff. But he has not succeeded in allowing this harsh primitivism to dominate the more "slick" portions of his film. The figures in Hardy's novel are enclosed within their natural setting. Only when we perceive the servere limitations of human life by an omnipresent natural fa- tality, do the multiple coincidences become believable. Only by sus- tained combat with this fatal atmosphere, do the pastoral virtues which. Hardy celebrates seem noble. Schlesinger has created a sitting which ishmerely pictures- que, and so, the shepherd-hero becomes insipid. The characterization, that other "half" of the film, is equally weak. It is difficult to believe that a movie starring Miss Christie, Alan Bates, Terrance Stamp, and Peter Finch could suffer from a lack of character-strength. It is not the Strengthening." Holy Communion will be celebrated. 6:00 p.m.-Fellowship supper, 6:45 p.m.-Gamma Delta pro- gram-"The Church-Related College." University Forum, Feb. 25, 10 a.m., Friend's Center, 1416 Hill, "Inevitably -Sex: So What's So Special about That." Discussion leader, George Mink. THE VOYAGE OF THE PHOENIX A Canadian Broadcasting Co. documentary color film-showing the humanitarian voyage of the Phoenix to carry medicine to VIETNAM. HORACE CHAMPNEY (one who was on the voyage) will also be on hand for questions and discussion. (The film will be shown at 8 P.M.) $1.00 cover includes entertainment and refreshments! FROM THE COPACABANA IN NEW YORK to the WATERFALL Tom and Glenn, "Variety Unlimited" STARTING SAT.,,FEB. 24 /Wfffe~ Wate 6a/ 261 W. Stadium For reservations call 662-2545 Subscribe to The Michigan Daily -A-- - -L--E- - A-- - - - O- - i N result of too much subtlety, how- ever. Both Hardy, and his disciple in film, make use of sharply delinea- ted, "typed" characterization. But there is a difference in what the types are attempting to represent. Schlesinger seems to have con- fused Hardy's Victorian stance with the more optimistic Victor- ianiam of Charles Dickens. But the comic and the dramactic stereotype are not interchange- able. The Victorian town which Schlesinger depicts is quaint, ra- ther than archaic. The rustic farm workers are indeed simple "folk," but they lack any natural evil admixed with their natural good. In simplifying his characters, Schlesinger has distilled most of the passion from Hardy's Biblical archetypes. The heroic vanity of Bathsheba is reduced to a faint pout on Julie Christie's mouth. And her passion is equally lim- ited, appearing only in one scene, in which she shouts the name "Frank" 47 separate times over her husband's body. Most disturbing, however, is the self-conscious use of the cam- era. At times, it appears as a to- tally subjective eye. At other times, there is a deliberate attempt at visual poetry, as when the "se- duction" of Bathsheba is accom- plished. But such attempts are - - -- - -- - 3029 Washtenaw, Ph. 434-1782 Between Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor unevenly employed, and scattered among the most conventional style of narrative plot. Lacking a sustained filmic im- agery, we are usually left with the attempts by the individual per- formers to make evident the emo- tional upheaval involved in each scene. With the exception of Pe- ter Finch, who makes plausible an almost unbelievable passion, the actors also fail to "bring it off." 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