Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesday,* February 26, 1969 F'a g T w T H E M I C I G A D A I Y W d n e s a y; F e b u ary 2 6, 1 9 6 records Flying Dutchman may change your mind By R. A. PERRY Wagner, perhaps like Jean Luc-Godard (if you will pardon t h e comparison), is an artist either hotly detested or enthu- siastically embraced; s e 1 d o m does he elicit a middle-road re- sponse of disinterest. Many mu- sic lovers would like to apply Wagner's estimation of Meyer- beer to Wagner himself: "an ir- resistibly mongrel, historico-ro- mantic, diabolico-religious, emo- tionally fickle, bigoted-voluptu- ous, frivolously sacred, myster- loso - shameless hodge - podge." Others w o u 1 d sincerely agree with Baudelaire when he wrote to Wagner "I owe to you the greatest musical pleasure I have ever experienced." To those who know Wagner only by exerpted orchestral pas- sages and who view the prospect of sitting through the Ring cycle (lest making the voyage to the Mecca called Bayreuth) a horror of unending boredom, I would suggest acquaintance with the early and magnificent opera The Flying Dutchman. A recent- lY released set by Angel (SCL- 3730) with a fine cast and even finer engineering makes this en- counter an exhilirating affair. The plot of The Flying Dutch- man deals with the mental tor- ment of existential wandering, a mythic Western horror of time, the sacrifice of love, and Release only through death, which, if love be true, may be a dying into Life. Wagner's libretto evoked many sources, primarily Heine's Memoirs of Herr von Schnabele- wopski and Eugene Sue's The Wandering Jew. A y e a r after reading Heine, Wagner himself experienced a terrific storm at sea that activated the literature he was reading into a personal reality. That storm is scored in- to the opera itself. Wagner wrote: "a feeling of indescrib- able contentment came over me when the enormous granite wialls echoed w i t h the calls of the crew . . . the sharp rhythm of the call struck me like a mighty consoling omen, and soon shap- ed itself into the theme of the sailors' song in my Flying Dutch- man." One thinks of Turner rid- ing trains with his head out the window and later translating these blurry visual experiences into his luminescent paintings. Libretto and score grew out of Wagner in two years, and the final w o r k was completed in 1841. It was not, however, until 1843 that the opera was present- ed in Dresden, and then to a grumpy press that preferred Wagner's easier Rienzi. In time it has come to be recognized as a dramatic masterpiece that ex- plores with vivid intensity the psychological flux of its char- acters' minds as well as music- ally invokes the larger mythos in which these characters play out their personal destinies. In estimating Angel's new re- cording, which uses the original Dresden version thus restoring several "traditional" cuts, I have to first mention that the stereo effects employed are not only enormously successful, but seemingly essential. The engin- eers have enabled us to visualize t h e Dutchman's ship creeping closer to Daland's and to see the sweep of the waves moving across the stereo seascapes. Cer- tain effects, such as the creak- ing of anchor ropes, or the click- ing whirr of the girls' spinning wheels, add immensely to the dramatic visualization of scene. Happily, the recording stands not merely upon its stereoisms but upon its excellent singers as well. Theo Adam provides a truly tormented Dutchman who con- vinces us of his endless trials by appropriately paying great heed to the dramatic exigencies of the text. Thus in his opening mono- log ("Die First ist um"), Adam does not so much captivate us by the richness of his bass voice as by the sensitive reading of his lines. The transformation within this monolog from resignation to hope to defiance becomes vital and real. Although Adam at times loses vocal command when asked to sing quietly, he main- tains the high dramatic inten- sity and reality of his r o 1 e throughout the opera. Martti Talvela, who sings the role of Daland, seems to be ev- erywhere in today's internation- al music scene, performing in both oratoria a n d opera with' increasing frequency. (I heard his profondo voice in Cleveland last spring in the Verdi Req- uiem). His enactment here of the Norwegian sea captain de- sirous of the Dutchman's treas- ure I found to be not only ex- ceedingly well controlled, but also dramatically believable at all times. The leading female role, that of Daland's daughter Senta who sacrifices herself for the Dutch- man, thus releasing him from his eternal wandering, is sung by twenty-seven-year-old Anja SilJa. Silia provides no special asset to the performance - her voice constricts in t h e upper registers and s h e suggests no reserve power (a sine qua non of Wagnerian singing) - but she is, at least, also aware ofi the theatrical reality that hallmarks this recording endeavor, and contributes accordingly. Otto Klemperer, who conducts this Angel performance, is not known for spontaneity or flex- ibility, yet his supreme control provides a needed balance here. That is, the dramatic thrust and fervor of the score never is al- !owed to sprawl and sink to mel- odrama, yet the rhythmic pulse is maintained at all times. Klemperer, in whose Beethoven and Brahms I find coursing no- ble blood that is 90% embalm- ing fluid, builds enormously ex- citing crescendos of power in the storm sequences, allows the perfect amount of swagger to the sailors' chorus, and - keeps the excellent soloists always- for- ward-moving, while -allowing enough time for the psycholo- gical validity of the r o 1e s to emerge. If you 1 o v e Wagner, you'll certainly like this Angel set; if you hate Wagner, t h i s Flying Dutchman may change your mind. A ONE-DAY EXHIBITION & SALE Graphics presented by LONDON GRAFICA ARTS Publishers of contemporary printmakers More than 400 lithographs, etchings, woodcuts and screenprints on show, including works by: PICASSO, DURER, GOYA, CHAGALL, DAUMIER, CASSAT, GAUGUIN, TOULOUSE-LAUTREC Also MANUSCRIPTS AND MAPS ITEMS FROM $8 to $3000 BELL TOWER INN 300 South Thayer Thursday and Friday February 27 & 28, 1969 HOURS: 10-7, Thurs. 10-4, Fri. 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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26 Day Calendar Bureau of Industrial Relations Sem- inar: "Management of Managers, Pro- gram No. 82": North Campus Commons, 8:15 a.m. Anatomy Seminar, Dr. Burton L. Baker, Dept. of Anatomy, University of Michigan, "The Localization of Function in Cells of the Adenhypo- physis", Room 1520 E. Med., 1:10 p.m. Department of Zoology Seminar: Dr. Richard B. Root, Department of En- tomology, Cornell University, "The Structure and Stability. of a Plant- Arthropod Association": 1400 Chemistry, 4:00 p.m. Department of History of Art Lec- ture: George Heard Hamilton, director, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Insti- tute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, "Impressionism: Pictures or Paintings?" Auditorium B. 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University Herbarium, Univer- sity of Michigan will speak on "Boletes of Mchigan" Thursday, February 27, 1969 at 4:15 p.m., Botanical Gardens. MHEAA Scholarship Checks for Win- ter '69: all students on Michigan High- er Education Assistance Authority Tui- tion Scholarships who have not yet endorsed their winter term checks should go to Window No. 2, Cashier's Office, LS&A Bldg. and do so this week. All MHEAA Scholarship Holders who have not yet picked up their $30 in- crease-in-tuition checks for W'69 should go to 2226 SAB and do so this week. Education Juniors and Seniors: Ap- lications for the School of Education Scholarships for the Spring Term (IIIA) and the Fall Term (I) 1969 will be available in room 2000 University school on March 3. Applicants must have high scholastic standing and fin- ancial need. Both the application and the interview are to be completed dur- ing March. 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The Child Development Project, Bar- bara Sizemore, the Center for Inner- City Studies at the Northeastern Il- linois State College in Chicago, on Feb- ruary 27th from 4 - 6 p~m. in the Shor- ting Auditorium of the University High School on East University. Topic: "Separation: A Viable Means for Quality Education." SUMMARY OF ACTION TAKEN BY STUDENT GOVERNMENT COUNCIL T ITS MEETING FEBRUARY 20,'69 Defeated To amend Article II of the Council Plan by substitution to read " . . . fifteen members elected at large from the student body . . .' This change in composition shall take ef- fect in the following form: 1. 7 mem- (Continued on Page 3) I- - I I Ypsilanti, Mich. Adm. $1 DON'T MISS THIS ONE Shows at 1,3, 5,7, & 9:05 Feature 25 Min. Later Student 198200624 WasI Designated Missing.. 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