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'Sex': Old customs never die

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A buyer's guide with the ear in mind
By R. A. PERRY petitively joyful; one wishes for with a complex variation of conscious dissection Though vious recording of the Mozart

By HENRY GRIX
"I see you've found a way to
kill time," the Oriental house-
maid says smiling to her master.
She might as well be speaking
to the audience..Lost Sex, now
showing at the Campus, is an
extraordinarily beautiful, some-
times poignant, but exceedingly
boring film.
Belying its title and beckoning
publicity, "Sex" is not a shock-
er. .Staged in the heavy-handed
manner unique to Japanese and
Eastern European films, the film
is frigid, stilted, obtrusively
symbolic.
On the Noh stage, Sensei's
acting is appropriate; he is the
super-masculine hero of prim-
evil dramas. But offstage, he is
impotent, an unscarred victim
of the shock and radiation at
Hiroshima.
Director Kaneto Shindo con-
structs a suggestive world for
Sensei, where men and nature
conspire to remind the actor of
'his "lost sex." Icicles are phal-
lie! snow drifts form breasts.
Smoking suggests the love act
and drinking coffee is like kiss-
ing.
But there is no passion. Sense
walks alone, unhappy, empty,
even though his ludicrous, Chap-
linesque waddle makes him ap-
p3ear constantly constipated.
To relieve his pain, the gentle
maid Obasan contrives a plan
of sex-education. "People don't
abandon old customs," she tells
Sensei, and invites him to the
ancient fertility ceremony of
Yobai.
His passions are revived. In
scarf and sunglasses, Sense
mimics the rite, prowling around
his servant's home the next eve-

ning. Sighing "Hachibei,' Oba-
san, the chaste widow, accepts
her master's love. Sensei strolls
home, singing.
To prove the whole adventure
was not a fluke, the actor tries
his luck the next night. Once
again, Obasan welcomes him
with open arms.
The camera shifts the open-
ing door of a bus. And the pleas-
ant, if dulling, simplicity of the
film undoes itself.
All the obtrusive symbolism,
unsubtle shifts of scene, and
leaden pace of the, plot would
be acceptable in a deliberate
melodrama of medieval Japan.
But this morality play is dealing
'with thefear and loneliness of
a modern man.
Lost Sex might be an effec-
tive film if voided of its pres-
sure cookers, transistor radios
and souvenirs of Hiroshima.
And it might have been a good
contemporary work if done with
a bit more subtlety. But it comes
on too strong as an allegory of
the triumph of one man,
through one gentle woman, over
the destructive power of the
bomb.
Despite the disconcerting
anachronisms and the heavy-
handedness, Lost Sex has all
the virtues of simplicity. The
stark black and white photo-
graphy, particularly in the na-
ture scenes, possesses a power
that technicolor obscures. The
acting is direct, straightfor-
ward, convincing. Although the
dialogue is banal, and the pace
drags, each prolonged moment
reveals how deadened are the
senses of the impotent, actor.
But, even in the stylized Jap-

anese context, the film becomes
deadly dull.
That Lost Sex has roots in
Japanese literature and lore is
obvious, and perhaps much of
its punch escapes a naive West-
ern viewer. Constant references
to old marriage practices and
ancient phallic worship contrast
sharply with the young lovers
and body worship of this epoch.
In the character of Sensei, old
and new clash most profoundly,
and finally resolve themselves in
the knowledge that "A human
being is a wonderful thing,"
who can "conquer the atom
bomb."
"Men are not like Buddha,"
though, Obasan says. So the
film reminds the viewer of
man's inhumanity to man-and
to woman. Recurring images of
A-bombs explode in calm moun-
tain pools; and after sleeping
with the maid, Obasan advises
her master to "go off to Tokyo
and find a good wife." While
she is entombed alone in her
village, she tells him, "Never
be afraid again."
Of course, Obasan's death
clouds things. We would be sat-
isfied, and believing, if the fifty-
ish widow died from loneliness,
but she perishes from "extra-
uterine pregnancy," a peril of
too-late love in the modern
world.
Nevertheless, spring comes,'
babies are born and Sensei is
cured. Even the bomb is still
around.
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I would rather discuss a few
records at length than any
briefly, but several new releases
have piled up that should be of
interest to the student record
buyer.
Dvorak: Piano Quintet, Op.
81. Coming from Dvorak's ma-
ture period, this melodic and
dramatic work precedes such
masterpieces as his Fourth
Symphony and "American
Quartet. Lyrics in the Czech
idiom and a sense of tragedy
clouding even the sunniest pas-
sages-perhaps the influence of
Brahms - mark this moving
work which is structurally
looser than the "American," but
which possesses equal fervor.
When the present perform-
ance appeared on the Van-
guard label a few years ago it
met warm reviews. On the bud-
get Everyman line (SRV-
288SD) it is a distinct bargain.
The players include the young
Peter Serkin, Alexander
Schneider of the Budapest
Quartet, Felix Galimir, Michael
Tree, and David Soyer, the lat-
ter two of the excellent Guar-
neri Quartet. The ensemble do
not play together with the in-
tuitive sympatico that comes
from a long relationship, but
they do play with artistry, de-
votion, and a fine sense of ex-
ploration.
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas. Al-
fred Deller may be a fine coun-
ter-tenor, but he appears on
this Everyman recording (SRV-
279SD) as a stodgy conductor,
of dubious taste. The perform-
ance is perfunctory and hur-
ried, though some of the voices
are fine, and the special effects
(the witches) come off like a
bad Shakespearean b a t t 1 e
scene: laughable. Better ver-
sions abound:
Telemann: Suite "The Pros-
titute," Assorted Concerti. This
composer, born four years be-
fore Bach, exhibited musical
fertility that bordered on the
diarrhetic. Between 1705 and
1706, for example, he wrote
over 200 French suites. All of
his music, even his Masses, are
irrepressibly and too often re-

a tremor of doubt!
Much Telemann sounds alike
and indeed it is often merely
the bubbly sound, seldom the
personal sensibility, to which
we respond. David Blum and
the Esterhazy Orchestra have'
selected pieces that for the most
part escape the "wallpaper
music" syndrome and present
them with exemplary polish
and style. Soloists like Samuel
Baron (flute) and Henry Schu-
man (oboe) help make a con-
vincing case for the individual-
ity of the music. The Vanguard
sound (BGS-70695) is excel-
lent.
Schutz: Eight Concertos
from Book II of Symphoniae
Sacrae. This is a magnificent
record from Nonesuch (H-
71196), the company which pre-
viously issued a splendid set of
Schutz's Kleine Geistliche Kon-
zerte. These eight "concertos"
are sacred vocal works that in-
volve single or paired voices

obligati instrumental parts.
Schutz developed in these works
all sorts of means of expression
that Bach could later call upon,
and he did so in the most aur-
ally fascinating and pleasing
ways, borrowing at times from
Monteverdi.
The richness and beauty of
these, pieces will surprise those
who believe that musical glori-
fication of God before Bach
lacked personal expressiveness
and color. Performance and
sound reproduction is of the
highest quality. The price is
low.
Schubert: Octet in F for
Strings and Winds. Schubert
almost achieved in his Op. 166
Octet the mystery and mag-
nificence of Mozart-unbroken
melodic and structural flow.
Completely melliflous, the oc-
tet was meant for the evening
entertainment of Schubert's
patron Count Troyer, and it
requires of the listener no great

the music student may delve.
into its structure, the work real-
ly creates an ineffable atmos-
phere of repose, an ambient
perfect for meditation, letter-
writing, reading, or making
love.
The Melos Ensemble, who
perform ,the work on new Angel
disc (8-36529), are perfectly
suited to this type of calm,
happy gemutlich, as their pre-

Clarinet Quintet attests. Except
in the final movement when the
fabric tends to show too many
holes, the ensemble find a re-
markable balance between in-
strumental integration and in-
dividuality. Gervase de Peyer
(clarinet> and, Neill Sanders
(horn) are especially note-
worthy. The piece is nearly an
hour long and Angel has re-
corded it well.

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"THE MAKING OF
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