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THE MICHIGAN DAILY

Wednesday, September ZS, 1968


Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesday, September 25, 1968


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Music school steps in

new direction

MHR.I director to shift emphasis
from research to clinical work

By MARCIA ABRAMSON
A new chamber music ensemble will emerge
from the music school Oct. 13.
"As far as we know, this will be the first cham-
ber music ensemble in the state," says Prof.
Theo Alcantara, conductor of the University Phil-
harmonica, who also will conduct the new en-
semble.
The repertory of the new Michigan Chamber
Ensemble will range from baroque to what Alcan-
tara calls "the most contemp(*ary" music.
"We'll also try to include world premieres in
our programs," he says.
The ensemble consists of five members of the
music school faculty, and 30 students.
The students were selected from the entire
school by audition before the faculty. Alcantara
calls them the "top 30" students in the music
school.
The group-tthe first in the University with both
faculty and students-expects to present two con-
certs each term in Ann Arbor, the first this year
scheduled for 8 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 13, in Rackham
Aud. The ensemble also may tour other states,
and more Ann Arbor concerts may be added
later on.
"We don'f, anticipate ,any admission charge for
the first concerts," Alcantara explains. "We want
to establish a regular audience first."

"This is a completely new experience for us,"
he continues. "The students play right next to
their own teachers-they can actually see how the
teachers perform themselves."
The Michigan Chamber Ensemble is the Uni-
versity's third major orchestra. The ensemble
joins the larger University Symphony and the
Philharmonia.
Both the symphony and the philharmonia are
required programs. All performing music stu-
dents must elect eight terms of orchestra.
However, the ensemble is offered as a one credit
course open to all music students who pass the
audition. Doctoral students as well as freshman
play in the group.
New auditions will be held for the ensemble
each year, to replace students who graduate or
leave the University.
"We started to form the ensemble last spring
in order to give greater emphasis to the chamber
music type of repertory at the University," Alcan-
tara says.
"Our other" orchestras are very large ensembles
and tend to concentrate on large works. We felt
a need for this kind of group.
In addition to Alcantara, faculty members of
the ensemble are Profs. Charles Avsharian, con-
cert master; Francis Bunbra, viola; Lawrence
Hurst, double bass; and Lawrence McDonald,
clarinet.

(Continued from Page I
We need to give serious atten-
tion to theory and effect a slow
conversion of that theory into
other research," Quarton sug-
gests.
Implicit in the director's pre-
diction is the prime historical
issue facing academic research,
namely the extent to which the
generation of new knowledge
should be shaped or constricted
by real world conditions.
The issue has been a particu
larly knotty one for public in-
stitutions and for the medical
profession, where the bulk of
influence has been strongly af-
fected by therapeutic considera-
tions.
With MHRI, the interdisciplin-
ary nature of its work has been a
defining characteristic of its ac-
tivity. The institute has scien-
tistsiin biochemistry, bio-
physics, mathematics, psychia-
try, political science, sociology,
history, clinical and social psy-
chology, t h e neurosciences,
econometrics, and a number
of other tangentially related
sciences.
It has made a strong effort
to gather' people from each dis-
cipline together in ,a entral
location where, through b ot h
formal and informal contact,
new ideas and methods can be.
synthesized.
The intellectual notion around
which the Institute has been

built is that research related to
mental health must be concern-
ed with the quantitative analy-
sis of any human activity which
involves the uses of the mind.
According to associate direc-
tor John Platt, himself a
physicist who has switched his
discipline to biophysics, the
planned "bridge to clinical
work" willnot seriously alter
the intellectual pursuits of those
non-clinical scientists already
at the institute.
It remains to be seen, how-
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entertainment: BLEH.

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BY LITTLE SHERRI FUNN
Taste Expert
Bill Cosb3? Johnny Carson?i
Dionne Warwick? Bob Hope?!
Harry Belafonte?,
BLEH!
Bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh.
A revolution took place onf
campus this fall, a revolution
perpetrated by a lot of sneaky,
crafty, bourgeois students a d
bolstered by $100,009.
You want to know what they
did? They didn't overrun
WCBN (more's the pity), they
didn't assassinate vice presi-
dents, they didn't let loose moles
on President Fleming's lawn.
All they did was destroy taste
at Michigan. Destroyed it.
Dead.
Killed.
Decaying.
Rotten.'
Not only that, they're pro-
bably going to make money out
-of it, the creeps.'
These aforementioned money-
mongers accomplished their
plan by presenting to the Uni-
versity community this fall the
,motliest, most commonplace
gaggle of middleclass trendset-
ters ever to collapse into the
category of "Entertainers."

Five of 'em. Five "big" names
enlisted by the various campus
organizations in an apparent
last ditch attempt to wrest the
Midwest Tasteless Champion-
ship award away from Michi-
gan State. Let's look at them
one by one.,
COSBY. He gets $30,000 a
night for doing his album ma-
terial. I'll admit he founded a
nice record company, but he's
not worth $30,000 or going
around the block to hear.
CARSON. He gets $30,000 a
night for doing his television
material. I'll admit Doc Severin-
sen is a nice fella, but I'd just
as soon watch him on televis-
ion where I can turn him off at
will.
WARWICK? Perhaps most
justifiable of the five. She does
a nice straightforward concert
and she's very pleasant. Not
very exciting, but pleasant.
HOPE? Bleh.
BELAFONTE? Another may-
be. He might be worth seeing if
he weren't appearing in the
Special Events Barn, a build-
ing with as much intimacy as
an aging crappie.

by quaddies on the Diag if I
thought we might have a
chance at some good live music.

But nope.
their cronies
people down.

UAC, IFC, and
shut us music

I can't help but be angry
when I think of who they could
have brought with some of that
money. We could have had the
greatest music festival ever in
the Midwest with a little plan-
ning.
Imagine a program with
Aretha Franklin, the Dead, Pro-
col Harum, and Sly and the Fam-
ily Stone. The organizers would
have still made their little pots
of money and the rest of us
would have had something new
and worthwhile to attend.
But as it is, the Homecom-
ing and fall programs are just
going to be dry pre-parties for
the frat rats and their' nyloned
dates. Block tickets will go at
record paces.
"Arf, arf," the people will say
when Carson hits his imagin-
ary golf ball.

'Ho," they'll shout when Cos-
by says "Right."
"Ah," they'll say when Dionne
does "Walk on By."
"Chortle," they'll chortle when
Belafonte does "Matilda."
And the rest of us will have"
to live with memories of the
Lovin' Spoonful performance of
two years past.-;
I talked to a sorority girl who
knows the UAC workings in
August and she told me that
the people who were handling
entertainment this year were
really "with it" and that we'd
have no more Chris Montez con-
certs.

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I wouldn't mind one, or even
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