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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
.Saturday, November 9, 1968
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Bach's cantatas fare well at
Hill with Chamber Choir
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Unlike other classics
West Side Story"
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By HENRY GRIX
The haggard Christ figure is
a fixture of contemporary art,
crucified most recently in the
APA's Hamlet and in Cool Hand
Luke.
That Luis Bunuel's bitter re-
telling of the myth of Jesus of
Nazareth pre-dated Paul New-
man can perhaps explain its
heavy-handedness, but it cannot
save it from seeming uninspir-
cd.
Nazarin, now showing at the
Fifth Forum, is a smeared car-
bon of the Old Testament,
which preaches an overheard
gospel; Christ was really a mas-'
ochist whose philosophy of self-
denial promises only self-des-
truction.
This time, the Nazarene is
from Spain, transplanted in
Mexico and living, as always, in
an unreal world. Unfortunately,
the director never fully defines
and develops the credibility gap
which exists between Christians
and their Christ even in the
mystical world of nineteenth
century Mexico.
Bunuel's forceful characters
are the products of the real
world: the saintly whores; sweat-
ty colonels and petty bourgeois
who populate the Mexican pro-
vinces.
However, the camera fails to
exploit the detail of peasant
hovels and merely scans the
panorama of cathedral plazas,
which from the vital backdrop
for Bunuel's updated p a s s i o n,
play.
The acting is at times second
rate, which must be expected
with the prosaic lines the play-'
ers are given to recite. Bunuel,
who helped adopt his screenplay
from a noval, and quite evident-
ly\ from the Spanish idiom of
the New Testament and the
Quixote, staged his drama to
the point of denying its life.
The Nazarin's great flaw is
that Father; Nazaro and, his
world arehdead from the begin-
ning. Isolated episodes like the
fight between the whores, the
Last Supper dialogue between
priest and disciples, the over-
whelming ending, are moving
and vital, but they stand alone,
distinct from what precedes and
what follows.
This episodic approach is, of
course, in the manner of the
New Testament. Bunuel illustra-
tes in Biblical style that the
Christian life is a series of
meaningless segments, not even
united ,by a consistent or satis-
fying philosophy. But the di-
rector succeeds at displaying,
above all, incoherence. Seg-
ments end; tales intertwine; the
characters travel from town to
town, do good, are beaten, pray,
all without cause and effect.
Part of the film's problem is
obviously a skimpy budget. The
disappointing camera work, the
choppy editing and poor acting
are the result of Bunuel n o t
having enough money to make
an elaborate, Belle de, Jour in
1958,. However, much of the poor
camera work, the dull screen-
play and stagey acting point
more clearly to Bunuel's inept-
ness in 1958.
At the same time, Bunuel's
pessimistic Christ myth has its
redeeming features.,Notably, the
film avoids becoming trapped in
satire on the pharasaical clergy,
and concentrates instead on
shooting barbs at the earnest
Father Nazario (Francisco Ra-
bal - ironically the aging con-
man of Belle de Jour).
As the film progresses, Rabal's
straightforward and impressive
acting acquires the psychologi-
cal complexity of a man yearn-
ing, but hesitant, to play God.
At first, he spouts platitudes
with regularity and sincerity
and is repulsed when adored as
a saint by hysterical women. Al-
though the camera work and
subplots undercut Rabal's por-
trayal, he is perfectly, passively
Christ-like for most of the film.
Blissfully ignorant of the cor-
ruption around him, the priest
lives with his two female dis-
ciples and preaches sermons of
love. Never does he realize it
is not the Word they want, but
the Word made flesh.
However, in the final minutes
of the film, to the terrifying,
exciting drum beat of a Spanish
passion play, Nazario is crush-
ed by the brutal futility of his
imitation of Christ.
Deprived of his apostles (who
are better off without him), the
father tries to act dignified,
priest-like and avoid the temp-
tation to beg ("All things be-
long to those who need them.")
But he succumbs, and marches
on, a prisoner, condemned to
die stupidly, worthlessly. Bun-
uel has made his point.
By JIM PETERS,
The University Chamber Choir
was on the wrong road in its
concert last night at Hill Aud.
But, in time, conductor Thomas
Hilbish found a road map and
things turned out pretty well.
The chorale music of Bach
was the fare in three cantatas
from a relatively late series,
numbers 130, 150, and 191. With
these works the troubles which
can arise are many. Due to the
really professional level of the'
singers, most of the vocal troub-
les, however, were non-existent.
I found much fault with the
orchestra in the beginning of
the concert. The awful intona-
tion of the violins was enough to
destroy the first cantata at its
very beginning; I listened to
the singers and ignored the or-
chestral group until they found
their proper place. Thankfully it
didn't take them too long.
The first cantata, "Aus d e r
Tiefe," starts out with a slow
orchestral and then choral in-
troduction, moving quite grad-
ually into the main body of the
piece with a very careful trans-
ition to a fast section. 4
Bass Joseph Long's w a r m
lyrical voice conveyed the pow-
er of Bach's musical line in his
bass aria. His warm tones were
sure, and he was dramatic
enough to be completely suc-
cessful.
But this was the problem
with the tenor aria which fol-
lowed. Jerrold Vandershaaf has
a beautiful voice; it is clear and
clean in the low tones and nev-
er sharp even in high sections.
But he just stood there and
mouthed the lyrics and followed
the score to the letter without
any emotion or expression.
He was a real disappointment,
but the chorus itself remained
fairly capable throughout the
first piece. Both of these arias
are backed by choral comments
and Hilbish kept the balance,
intact.
Despite the problems in the
strings, there were some stars in
in the orchestra. The continuo
was excellent; both the harp-
sichordist and the cellist did
some perfect work last night. I
marveled at some furious cello
lines which were executed with
ease.
,Cantata 150, "Nach dir, Herr,
verlangt mich," called for more
violins with no viola part at
all. This cantata with its aus-
tere instrumentation begins
with a. strangely emotional
opening chorus; starting and
stopping, hesitating, it changes
tempi in an almost conversa-
tional style.
Soprano Linda Oakley has a
small fragile voice; her aria,
however, was short, and her
voice never strained in the
quickly turning sections of her
piece.
The final offering, termed
Cantata 191, is an adaptation
of the "Gloria" from Bach's
Mass in B minor. Fusing the
opening section from this piece
with a short "Gloria PatriV' sec-
tion based on the "Cum Sancto
Spiritu" of the "Gloria," Bach
had another cantata to use
when he was pressed for time.
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elements came together; every-
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working Well. But when you give
dedicated people the music of
Bach, good things usually hap-
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"NAZARIN is one of
the great films of
Bunuel's career.. .
And made me remember something
Bunuel once said: 'To show with a
cold white eye what they have done
here on earth in the name of God."'
-Penelope Gilliatt, The New Yorker
"STUNNING-A movie that really glows
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-Judith Crist, Today S owWNBC
"An amazingly strong film with earmarks
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"More Bunuel than 'Belle de Jour' . .
Bunuel is one of the most audacious, single
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