Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, November 2, 1969 Pa go Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, November 2, 1969 music NATIONAL 8ENERAL CORPORATION_ NOW FOX EASTERN THEATE$ 00 SHOWING FOH VILLAGE 375 No. MAPLE RD. -769-1300 TIMES MON.-FRI. Homecoming: A test of man By DANIEL ZWERL)LING I sira Nero. Richie Havens a rising rock group called S ater gave talented and valiante iforts last night to put on a good show, despite the best i uris of the Athletic Events Bldg to destroy their perform- : ICU5, When Ihe acoustics of an auditorium are so garbled that they bmr the music instead of anplifying it. one can only feel >orry for the performers-- per- foriners who have spent per- imps a lifetime cultivating their styles. channeling their emo- tions into a voice and an instru- ment and a song, now all utter- ly ripped apart by electronics. Laura Nyro emerged the most unscathed, and the crowd loved her most. Her songs float and fade like disturbed mists, some- times wispy and so delicate they barely linger over quiet piano chords, and then suddenly into freewheeling exuberance. New York Tendaberry-Laura Nyro's latest hit- sings confused praises of a city which breeds the neurotic emotionalism of sensitive souls like Laura Nyro herself. He's a Runner focuses on the fright which drives oth- ers to run from their emotions. Most of Nyro's songs were quiet, persive, pausing-most like on her most recent album. Only near the end of her short set did Nyro swing into the strid- ing cycle of songs like Wedding Bell Blues, and And When I Die which characterize her second and most successful album, Eli's Confession, Nyro's voice and poetics could overcome the acoustics enough to bring her a long ovation (which failed to bring her back after only eight songs). But Richie Havens with his more powerful, aggressive voice (too loud for the mikes) did not fare so well. Havens is always Richie Havens - gravel-voiced, loud, compelling, sometimes excit- ing but never subtle. He lacks the nuances which keep a per- former from becoming tedious. Every song sounds the same. Coming on last at 11:30, after the crowd had already put up with more annoyance than it wanted, Havens also spoke a little too much in between songs about loneliness, and the grow- ing brotherhood of man - nice philosophical gestures, but peo- ple would rather hear him sing. But the fatalities of the eve- ning were neither Nyro nor Havens. For Nyro is often a brilliant singer and everyone who loves her will continue to buy her records: and Havens enjoys enough stature through- out the country to continue successfully also (he had just arrived from a concert Friday night at New York's Philhar- monic Hall). Sing requiem instead for the two groups who filled the first half of the concert, Napawa's Pottery Shop - an acid rock group from New York - and Sweetwater, a' highly talented, original group from Los An- geles. Napawa is basically just ano- ther acid band ,except it seems to put its songs together w i t h more concern and originality than the typical fraternity dance group, using effects like an elec- tric flute on wah-wah attach- ment. And it does a fine imi- tation of the Platters (which got bigger applause than it s straight efforts). But any of its talent died in the amplifiers. Napawa's singing may have some good harmonies -- may have, because no one could hear more than some static strands. Voices sounded everywhere in the auditorium like someone was screaming through a comb into a microphone which has waxed paper for its fibers. Sweetwater features jazz cello, organ an( electric piano, drums, excellent jazz flute, and a girl who plays guitar and sings in a beautiful clear voice. Approaching rock with soph- istication, they blend r o n d o and machine forms, medieval madrigal style their crosslegged seats on the and middle eastern motifs into floor and return to their proper a sometimes exciting frame- positions-many of them in the work - crowds trickled from farthest reaches of that domed the netherlands of the balcon- monstrosity, which by mid-con- ies onto the floor to watch and cert are lost in a far away cig- hear them better. But their arette smoke mist. voice work, which could h a v e But the crowd, after all, had been outstanding, buzzed apart paid up to $5 a ticket to see in the vicious kazoo of the amps. and hear good music. At the A girl sitting in the fifth row next concert like this, perhaps claimed she couldn't hear a the people should suggest that word. unless they can hear the music People got angry -- with the they're paying for, thousands lousy acoustics, with the inter- will not only sit on the floor, minable waits between numbers, but close down the damn build- with the officious insistence of ing until the University builds a concert officials that they leave proper auditorium where we can enjoy fine music. Don't force performers like Laura Ny- ro to sing in spaces built for basketball pets, and into speak- ers which amplify just as poorly. 3020 Washtenow, Ph. 434-1782 Between Yosilanti & Ann Arbor NOW SHOWING At 22, he gained a throne and saved a kingdom. 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He also seemed in line for much caf the.vwhite middle-class and blue ooliar vote with his "law and or- dcr- theme. But Pro(-Icino plunged in the, polls during October, after a ser-: ics of television and radio debates, in -which the political experts think he hurt hinslf with angry utbursts Marchi, too, shed his usual -calm at least once on the camera. Gi ly Lindsay remained A major element in the can- paigi In recent days has been the st raw poll conducted by the New York Daily News. I has shown Lindsay far ahead of Procaccino and Maci and added a lift to the mayors campaign. Procaccino vet to court to force the news- paper to disclose how it operated the poll The News has endorsed Marchi,i while the New York Times, the Nev York Post, the Long Island Press, and the Staten Island Ad- vance are supporting Lindsay ed- itoria'ly.. Lindsays attempt at building a coalitihn of supporters has been highly successful He has won the: endorsement of such prominent Democrats as former Supreme CowlI Jut ice Arthur D. Goldberg, A host of local Democrats desert- ed Procaccino to support the may- 01' hen lar u.4 NcA s 1oll, completed last Wednesday, gave Lindsay 47 per cent of the straws, Procaccino 29 per cent and Marchi 20 per cent. Only 4 per ent were listed: as undecided, One Lindsay action that was seen as helping him w it h the Jewih vote -- and plrobably a brmad sweep of voters - was his strong antiwar stand on the Oct. I5 Moratorium Day. Lindsay de- clared it a day of mourning and a eda a series of anti-war rallie.1 In Cleveland, Mayor Carl B. Stokur, a Democrat and the first black mar .t of a major U.S. city lacesa touh opponentt, Reoub- lican Ralp J. Perk, who is white, in hi a tempt for re-election. I ate polls indicate many white Democrats may rote for Perk and that Mayor Stokes is being hurt by a p (lic departnent feud. S1okes. however. has the support ot both daily newspapers and the regular temocratic Party organ- In New Jersey, voters will de- cide one of the m o s t bitterly fought and apparently closest gubernatorial elections in the state's history. The race matches Democrat Robert B. Meyner, a 61 year old former governor, against William T. Cahill, 57, a Republican con- gressman for 11 years. Both Democrats and Republi- cans have said their polls indi- cate the race is too close to call,I but neither side has ruled out the possibility of a 1 a t e trend that could sweep either major candi- date into office by a margin of comfortable if not landslide pro- portions. The governor's race h a s at-I tracted most. of the attention in New Jersey, which is considered a barometer of national trends and which has voted for the win- ner in presidential elections all but twice in this century. Presi- dent Nixon attracted the largest crowds of the campaign when he; campaigned with Cahill last weekI Meyner and Cahill, both law- yers, have attacked each other at length in the campaign over al- leged conflicts of interests. The major issues have been tax- es, crime, education and the Viet- nam war a n d Nixon's spending priorities. The chief political question mark in the campaign has been the support of Democratic leader John V. Kenny and the Hudson County organization which he di- rects.- Hudson has been counted on in the past to provide large plural- ities for the Democratic candi- date. But Kenny, at 76 an aging but powerful figure who has played important roles in nation- al campaigns, has a long-standing feud with Meyner. 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THEY'RE ON THE WAY! N The University of Michigan Men's Glee (lub and The Ohio State University Men's Glee Club William F. Buckley. Jr. Editor of the National Review, and the author of six books, including The Unmaking of a Mayor and Up From Liberalism, he promises to be one of the most talented and entertaining speakers to visit the University in years. Buckley will face a panel of three distinguished members of the University community, Prof. Beverly Pooley (Law), Prof. Frithjof Burgman (Philosophy), and Prof. Steven Tonsor (History), each of whom hold quite different views from Buckley. His speech will center on civil disorders, campus unrest, and the democratic process. diii',,tire ig .;?1: *111L . 4l k' V 1 V-1 IE w0 I J 11 I I I i mm um - m 1m 9 ..r - m.:.: