.. ; . , Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY PaewoTH M CH GA D IL - - I , -f- - - . -, , - - - records: { Mama By FUNNY LITTLE FREDDY Bob Dylan went on down to Nashville for the third time in as many years and made him- self a brand new record for us. He chose to call it Nashville Skyline (KCS 9825) and he put a lovely picture of him and his guitar on the front. On the back are liner notes by a part-Cherokee fellow nam- ed Cash and a picture of the Nashville skyline. On the record are ten songs, each one good standing alone and magnificent Dylan can be standing together. Mama Dylan up in Hibbing can sure be proud of what her boy has done this time. Mr. Dylan can be approached critically from a number of an- gels and most of them stink. Amateur ethnographers, a nick- el apiece and mostly under 25, find it a consistent delight to dissect his "progress" from al- bum to album with words like "trends" and metaphors t h a t would wrinkle a hair shirt. He is discussed in learned circles by those who should know better with regards to his being a spokesman for a generation or a "poet" (God forbid) or a me- Oia-bending showman who sings like a penny whistle with a hernia. Ho ho. We've laughed at that non- sense for a long time and now is certainly no time to get caught up in it ourselves. If we do, and sanity evaporates, there could conceivably be a course someday at some college called "The Development of Metaphor in Bob Dylan's Poetry And How We Should Take This Strange Young Man Anyway." But we are sane, to be sure. (Yes, but fair is fair. The best thing to read to get you from his first album to John Wesley Harding is an article that show- ed up about a year ago in Craw- daddy by Jon Landau. In the jargon, "Be Advised.") We won't talk about how this album is different from all of the past ones, how it's a logical extension of what has gone be- fore, how it's the artistry of a man who has come toknow that indeed there. is nothing else than what is here. We will scarcely spend time castigating critics with intellectual stardust in their eyes for making Mr. Dy- lan something other than the rock and roll star he really is. We will give altogether no simple answers to stupid questions that better go unspoken. You still out there? The thing that has made Mr. Dylan what he is can probably best be ex- plained by relating how my cat Frank and I reacted upon view- ing thte Nashville Skyline re- cord cover for the first time. We both felt that it was a present just for us, that Mr. Dylan had seen to us and our needs in his remarkable way and was seeking now to comfort and warm us. It is this personal subversion that anchors Mr. Dylan's suc- )cess as a writer and singer. He has given us a free gift. (Are you listening?) Free gifts al- ways make people uneasy, look how they react to life for exam- ple, but they are remarkable un- to themselves. Mr. Dylan has bled for us (Let me explain that he actually bled for himself, but we made it seem like he bled for us. In real life, everybody winds up bleeding for lthemselevs any- way.) in the past and now is source of easy laughter and glowing beauty. The substance of Nashville, Skyline is its songs and those songs are the substance of Mr. Dylan,. He opens up the al- bum with Johnny Cash in an unrehearsed duet of his "G i r l from the North Country" that has the power to set you straight again no matter how out of whack you think you are. And so on through an instru- mental and more songs, the proud most towering of which is "Lay Lady Lay" and my personal (yes, my 'personal', how im- portant can I make that) fa- vorite "I Threw It All Away." The musicians on all the songs are predictably named and tal- ented. The old group of Kenny Buttrey, Charlie McCoy, and Pete Drake are together again, smooth as honey. It is a rich album, one that is properly accessible but with enough loopholes to satisfy the most obstinate of the "poetry" lovers. It will be discussed t o o often I think, so do what you can to get people to shut up and listen. Excuse me for a moment, but do you know about maple sap? When it first comes out of the tree it's very thin and almost transparent. A guy takes 60 gal- lons of it and puts it on the stove. He boils it all night and it gradually turns browner and thicker. He adds nothing b u t heat. If the man falls asleep and isn't able to turn off the heat at the correct moment, t h e sap turns into maple candy or more probably burns up on the bottom of the pan. But if he gets it right, he has nice hot sy- rup on his pancackes for break- fast. . It takes 60 gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup. Atthe beginning of "To Be Alone With You" on Nashville Skyline, Bob Dylan says to his producer Mi. Johnston, "Is it rolling, Bob?" It is. Firsts mark 76th 'U' May Festival Several "firsts" mark the 76th Annual May Festival sponsored by the University Musical So- ciety. The opening concert is scheduled for Thursday evening, April 24th, and the last of the five concerts planned for Sun- day evening, April 27th. As us- ual, the Philadelphia Orchestra will fill the Hill Auditorium stage and will be led by both Eugene Ormandy and visiting conductor Thor Johnson. Of special interest to students will be the new $1.00 "R u s h Tickets" available between 5:00 and 6:00 p.m. the day of each concert. These tickets do not mean the back of the hall, but rather that the UMS will be filling all unsold seats, includ- ing many in .the prime main floor sections. Quite openly, this experiment seeks to attract more students into Hill Aud., and the continuation of "Rush Tickets" will depend upon the success of this month's offer. Other "firsts" involve artists making their Ann Arbor debut. Regine Crespin, famed Metro- politan prima donna, will be performing Ravel's Sheherazade, a work she has successfully re- corded, and Beethoven's a r i a, "Ah, Perfido." Also appearing for the first time in Ann Ar- bor will be the powerful German pianist Hans Richter-Haaser The oft-recorded and excel- lent Swiss soprano Maria Stad- er will be singing along with John McCollum and Willis Pat- terson from the School of Music in Schubert's Mass in A- flat, No. 5. Zara Nelsova w i l l perform the Elgar Cello Con- certo and the young American mezzo soprano Joanna Simon will sing Pantasilea's aria from Ginastera's Bomarzo, a work in the world premiere of which Miss Simon sang. Ginastera's Psalm No. 150 shall be rendered by the University Choral Union. The Philadelphia Orchestra shall be presenting symphonic fare including Mahler's 1st. Ives' 3rd, Prokovieff's 1st, Mo- zart's 31st, and Debussy's La Mer, all conducted by Eugene Ormandy. The specific arrange- ment of each program and their days of performance, as well as ticket information, may be ob- tained from the University Mu- sical Society's offices in Burton Tower. For the student seeking a re- spite from exam studies, the May Festival offers a relaxing and ocdasionally inspiring even- ing's entertainment, and with the inauguration of "R u s h Tickets," ai inexpensive refuge from the library. ANN ARBOR BLUES FESTIVAL THE PREVIEW LUTHER ALLISON CHICAGO BLUES BAND FREE UNION BALLROOM MONDAY, APRIL 21 - Sponsored by U jD and CANTERBURY HOUSE "What' gou bo still betters what d is l., ,. 1 playing the Chopin Concerto, and leading politan tenor Richard '] arias by Mozart, Hande beer, and Respighi. E-minor Metro- tucker in 4, Meyer- Program Informati SHOWS AT 1, fest YTODAY IS LAI SLadies Day ( Until 6 F Jon 662-6264 Winners~of 8mm film Stilwell has an.ear By LARRY RUSS Professor Robert Stilwell gave a poetry reading at the UGLI yesterday. It was the last of the series of poetry readings for this semester. Before going on to discuss the readings at hand, I think that Professor 'Burt Hornback should be thanked very much for his work in ar- ranging the series (work which he will be continuing next se- mester). A few weeks ago Professor Stilwell gave a guest lecture in Donald Hall's Introduction to Poetry course on "The Evalua- tion of Poetry." I mention this because there were a couple of relevant things that I became aware of during that class. The first thing was Professor Stilwell's sensitivity .and his aura of kindness. I believe that it was apparent at the reading. And it's about time that people stopped thinking that a man's ability to write is not connected to his compassion or spirituality. The other thing about Stil- well's talk that I think was re- vealing was his remarking that he has a tremendous admiration for the work of James Dickey. Very often a -poet's strengths and weaknesses are reflected by those of the poets whom he ad- mires. I think - that this is the case, at least in part, with Stil- wel's great liking for Dickey. Dickey, as time goes on, seems to write poems that are more and more inflated with stale air, growing larger and larger, with 6 repetitive and excessive descrip- tion, statement, and exclama- tion. Professor Stilwell does have an excellent eye for description. His poems make it quite clear that he observes things very DIAL 8-6416 TONIGHT 6:48-9:00 Wed.-1 :15-3 :45-6 :15-8 :45 A . "FACES" IS "ONE OF THE YEAR'S 10 BEST!" r -Judith Crist -jNew York Times "FACES" IS "A PHENOMENALLY GOOD PICTURE!" -Newsweek . closely, very accurately. And the images are not always just phys- ical description; he knows how to make them echo beyond the surface: the leaf of autumn seemed one orange hand fumbling a knob that would never turn again But the problem is that, rath- er than being selective, rather than picking just the number of images or lines he needs to ac- complish his effect, he will get repetitive, or j u s t excessive, blurring and bringing down the poem. When it comes to sound, though, Stilwell has a better ear than Dickey. Whereas Dickey, writes a very energetic but somewhat flat rhetoric, Stil- well's verse is much more mus- ical and has a percussiveness I like.' I hope that Stilwell will do the necessary winnowing in the fu- ture; he is certainly talented. If you'd like to s e e an excellent poem, look up his "Two Assig- nations" in the new Avon. 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