Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY r theatre In the dark of the mind Unfurling a new Marlboro banneri By JOHN ALLEi k Dark of the Moon,. a folk- drama that unfolds the tragedy of Barbara Allen against a back-' drop of the Smoky Mountains, is delicately poised between the realms of the real and the un- real. The passions of its char- acters are genuine enough; yeti the characters themselves are evanescent archetypes of human (and sometimes not-so-human) beings. Their movement merges with dancing, their speech with chanting. The University Players have brought this strange amalgam of mystery play, drama, pageant, andmasqueto the Trueblood stage and done both it and . themselves justice. Even before the houselights dim and the per- formers enter, Dark of the Moon begins to work its peculiar mo- tions upon the mind: scene- designer Ron Beebe's massy, gray-black drapings loom over he audience from beginning to end, drawing the audience into the otherworldly atmosphere of the action even as its dark con- figurations maintain the dis- tance of fantasy. It is this Para- doxical power to hold the audi- ence at arm's length and simul- taneously to embrace it that is at first a weakness in the pro- duction and ultimately its strength. Perhaps the language itself is the greatest barrier to involve- ment .It seems at times there are no verbs in the play: "He gone . she dead .etc." Lines written in a heavy hill- billy dialect are delivered in a straightforward manner char- . acteristic of the Queen's Eng- lish. After the initial discomfort of this strict stylization wears away, however, one begins to groove on its ability to combine the two worlds of the drama: the real world of the people in the valley and the world of witchcraft which intrudes upon their lives and leads to a double tragedy. (F o r contemporary audiences familiar with Rose- mary's Baby the tragedy takes on intersting vibrations.) By R. A. PERRY Much has changed since the Marlboro Music Festival was founded in 1950 by Adolph and Herman Busch, Louis and Blanche Moyse, and Rudolph Serkin. "I Remember Mama" was then a favorite tv series, "How Much Is That: Doggy in the Window" sold a record- breaking number of singles, and people sauntered into a movie house in the middle of the film, The music which then emanated from the weathered sheds in Marlboro, Vermont; shared in a mood less frenetic and apocalyp- tic than that which inevitably affects and afflicts the arts in the sixties. Any "Music f ro m Marlboro" recording from the early fifties - such as Colum- bia ML 5426 of Beethoven and Dvorak wind music - reveals that performances served to as- sauge world-weariness not in imitate it. But the highways chewed their ways even through Vermont and, as the sixties progressed, o n e could witness the changing style of the Marlboro participants. The older, European musicians retired or died, and younger in- strumental artists, leaving their posts at busy metropolitan or- chestras, came to share in the informal exchange of musical ideas at Marlboro.,bringing with them the unavoidable new awareness of global angst and of contentless media, these out- standing musicians effect a chamber-music style in which tension between voices, technical prowess, and a certain aggres- sive love become hallmarks. Last night's concert at Rack- ham Aud., sponsored by the University Musical Society, pre- sented six young musicians con- certizing under the aegis of the Marlboro banner. This pick-up group-Richard Goode (piano), Paula Robison (flute), Jos- eph Turner (oboe), Larry Combs (clarinet), William Winstead (bassoon), and Richard Solis (horn) - were more tentative than the older Marlboro "regu- lars" but they nevertheless ex- hibited the latter's "sixties style." Such inclinations were most evident in Schubert's oJp. 160 Variations for Flute and Piano, based on the song "Trock'ne Blu- men" which appears in Die Schone Mullerin. The mood of these variations is essentially tragic or at least melancholy, but as played by Miss Robison and Mr. Goode, the variations ap- peared more adventuresome and ostentatious. Playing too loud- ly, too heavily (especially in the left hand), and far too aggres- sively, Mr. Goode did not help matters much. Miss Robison's tone is slightly fuzzy and brea- thy, but her technique is good and her stylizations appropriate; she was too often swamped by Mr. Goode, who began the sixth variation without checking on his partner's readiness, causing the flutist to catch up. Mr. Gode's self-centered play- ing (his piano .mannerisms would make Victor Borge blush) vitiated the ensemble cohesive- ness necessary to make Mozart's gorgeous E-Flat major Quintet, K. 452, fluid and plastic. Lovely, limpid woodwind playing re- peatedly found interruption in Goode's attacking touch. By far, the best of the eve- ning's entertainment came from the performance of Carl Niel- sen's Quintet for Winds; pung- ent, witty, slightly repetitious, the Quintet received an alert and sympathetic rendering that proved this "pick-up group" of wind players' long preparation. s7 Thursday, January 29, 1970 I ANN ARBOR BLUES FESTIVAL GENERAL MEETING SUNDAY, FEB. 1, 4 P.M. 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Marilyn Scher, Catherine Spingler, and Wanda Bimson punctuate the play at regular intervals as a trio of lovely - but -deadly Devotees of realism will find little to engage their attention in Dark of the Moon; but those who are willing to leave realism to housemaids and college ad- ministrators and who enjoy the fantastical and ritualized should find much to praise and re- member in this production. For that matter, college adminis- trators in particular may find Dark in the Moon intriguing: it explains so many of the things that otherwise seem inexplicable in the lives of student's .. . F r r. 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