Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, June 13, 1968 Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY ThusdI Junrf 96 i records A These scabby looking men tried to pt tlown the Beatles, not realizing it didn't have',to be done Let'istry to1live with Sergeant Pepper 'Connoisseur': They try harder By R. A. PERRY note, put tie piece back to- technique shines in "Feux d'a Recently in this .clumn I gether again. He leaves little to tifice," it is the music and n spoke of Columbia as the be- chance and therefore, unlike merely the technique that in hemoth of the recording indus- some pianists, who, confident presses. try, monthly pouring out discs of their technique, approach a The Romanticism he espouse of both high and hasty quality. work like a skier a steep slope, here is that of the dreamer, no he never presses hard upon :he the revolutionary, and whi On the other end of the pro- music. the records are beautiful to li duction scale sits small, but Often, his tempos are slower ten to, a touch of impetuosi proudly, the Connoisseur So- than one expects, yet never out and greater dynamic shadin ciety label. Only in business a of caution or academics. ' would not have been out 0 few years,eConnoisseur Society Needless to say, Moravec's order. has centered its activity around technique is impeccable; each In a way, Beethoven remain the sarod of Ali Akbar Khan, hand does not merely know Moravec's forte, for the pian the guitar of Manitas de Plata, what the other is doing, but the ist's introspective inclinati and the piano of Ivan Moravec. two work together in complete and integrity find suitable phi Both Ali Akbar Khan and compassion. osophic content, and the wa Manitas de Plata are known to Four of Ivan Moravec's re- in which he organically deve rank as the highest artists of citals on Connoisseur Society ops the argument without th their instruments (and if you are highly recommended, only atrical sham enables himt haven't heard the fleet-fingered one with reservations. His De- reach, car--ing along the li Spaniard, you've missed a truly bussy recital, along with iBou- tener, a truly transportive mu exhilarating musical experi- lez's recent recording of La sical experience. ence), but Ivan Moravec re- Mer, should help to dispel the Both the "Moonlight" ar mains a much lesser known Impressionism label that has "Pathetique" sonatas (CS 1566 performer. for so long clouded up an ap- are splenddly played, but ti Perhaps this is so because preciation of the incisive ori- "Appasionata" s o n a t a (C Moravec, trained in Prague, ginality and constantly evolv- 2000) rises even above thes does not "perform," in the the- ing structures of this composer. especially in the plastic shap atrical sense, as do many pian- "Clair de lune," emerges not ing of the variations of the an ists; nor does he appear fre- as a swash of hazy light, but as dante movement. Both th Equently in the recital hall or many-faceted pinpoints of firt- power and the poetry in then on records. Somewhat like the fracted sound. While Moravec'- readings are authentic. Italian pianist Michelan-eli, he remains aloof and his own man. His fame, however, shall no doubt increase, for he must rank as one of the most moving TONIGHT at and sensitive pianists playing today. Moravec's- integrity as an artist certainly is apparent in his recordings, where he totally 3 WY r eschews melodrama, the put-on passion, the facade of grand singing ndian classica a feeling. The recital does not be- Folk music accompanying himself 1421 Hill St. come an opportunity for thea- on the Tampoura. 8:34 .1. tre, but remains what it should be: a search for and a com- FRIDAY - munion with the sentiment and spirit that informs the music. -,Traditional Night at the Ark Listen, for instance, to his rendition of Debussy's "Claire de lune," or the "Children's' with Barry O'Niel-singing Canadibn, English, and Corner Suite" (CS, 1866) and Irish ballads, playing guifar, concertina and dulcimer. then to any other version you may own. How habitual the second version will somehow-- --- --- -- sound, while not one note will emerge as perfunctory under H ELD x EASTR1N TMOATRN.-FR*Q :25 Moravec's hands. OVER ENU U II2ISAT.-SUN. It sounds as if Moravec has WEEK~b U~ 2:25-4:10 takenseaon piece apart note byWEEK 375 No. MAPLE RD. -7694300 7:00-9 note, and then, with careful-_____________________________ feeling for the inevitable right- NOTICEH! STARTING JUNE 15th ness of the succession of each CONTINUOUS SHOWINGS DAILY ir- ot 1- es lot le is it ng of ins n- on 0- ay el- te- to is- ndt 6) he S se ,p- n- he use : 1,ir By LITTLE SHERRI FUNN Beatle Expert Last week marked the end of one year of rock music's attempt Jo live with "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." It has been a full 52 weeks since The Beatles dealt rock the blow that nearly destroyed it, and although "Sgt. Pepper" has fallen to the 43rd position on Billboard's album charts, it still unfortunate- ly, remains as one of the domi- nant influences on today's scene. I want to make perfectly clear at the outset that I was never disturbed by the album itself, but rather by the reaction it pro- voked. "Sgt. Pepper" was as much a part of my "summer of love" as it was part of everybody else's, along with "Light, My Fire" and "Fly Me Straight, Fly Me High." I, too, remember with what de- light I dissected each and every track of "Sgt. Pepper," all the way from "Is that really grass on the cover?" to "Did you know there were 42, 43, or 44 musicians on A Day in the Life?" I remember being totally knocked out by the bass on "A Little Help From My Friends" and the initials of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds." I re- member discussing "Fixing a Hole" as the 'sleeper of the cen- tury.' I remember the first time I read that it was tape manipula- tion of various harmonica sounds that produced "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite." I remember skipping "Within You, Without You" a million times while playing the album because it was a special track, one only to be played by itself, away from "When I'm 64" although I loved that song too, mostly for Paul's gentle humor. I remember prac- ticing the precise moment to hol- ler "RITA!" along with Paul. And, of course, I felt that "A Day in the Life" said it all. "Sgt Pepper" is a great album, possibly one of the best. It was the first album to be a "whole something, a total album, an al- bum on which every track was a part of every other track. It was a milestone, but it paradoxically destroyed a- great deal of the pro- gress rock had made.' In the wake of "Sgt. Pepper" many people began to take rock seriously, a disastrous consequence for an art form deeply imbued with a vitality that springs from its ability to NOT take itself seri- ously. People began in earnest to apply labels to all sorts of rock forms. It was not good enough anymoretto like antalbum just be- cause you liked it. Now you had to categorize, discuss, and reason out your affection for a group. It was no longer the gut reaction, the reaction that built the rock in- dustry that counted. "Life Magazine" would have put The Beatles on its cover if it hadn't been for the Six Day War. "Newysweek" devoted a page to "Sgt. Pepper." The album was re- As many people have observed,! viewed in The New York Times. "Sgt. Pepper" walked the terribly The final blow landed when.Time thin line between good and pre- got the word, as they inevitably tension. The Beatles managed to will, and put The Beatles on their bring their pretension off but cover. most groups failed to get that Everybody jumped on the won- message. They heard instead that derful bandwagon that The Beat- they had to crap up their arrange- les had made so accessible. ments, crap up their covers, and I find it impossible to believe crap up their honesty in a never- that all of the people who had ending search for an album com- dismissed rock as stupid suddenly parable on all levels to "Sgt. Pep- realized its place as the true musi- per." As a result we have been, cal reflection of what goes on in flooded with an absolutely in- the world today. I'm convinced credible number of technically instead that secretly they always brilliant but creatively sterile rec- had had a favorable gut reaction ords, records that sold' millions, to rock and that they were just upon millions of copies, thanks to a mite too pompous to give into it heavy promotion and an accept- and say, "Jeez, this stuff is all ance by the trend-setters, little right." But The Beatles dressed else. it all up in a total package and It has taken a full year and sold it to them lock, stock, and several disastrous attempts by, mellotron. many groups to realize that they So what did we have. A lot of have to work on their own musical people talking about rock and thing, that they can never do a writing about rock, and, worst of "Sgt. Pepper." Not that they all, criticising rock with not the mightn't do something better least bit of perspective or under- either. It just has to be different standing. Sure, it's nicerthat so for every group. many people got into rock, but The major album that saved they did it on utterly false pre-_Themajoralbumthat__aved_ mises and they could only be ultimately disappointed in rock. Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan, 420 Miaynard St., Ann They had no sense of their own Arbor, Michigan, 48104. innocence regarding it. * excep ndaydur4.regular Not that I care that much about academic school year. what these neophytes were think- Fail and winter subscription rate: ing, but I am very interested in '4.50 per term by carrier ($5 by mail); the adverse effects they had on .$8OOfor regular academic school year rock from destruction was "Magic- al Mystery Tour." It wasn't much of an album and a lot of people realized it. They also realized that The Beatles weren't superhuman and that "Sgt. Pepper" was a one- shot outburst, a climax of Beatle development up to that time. Nothing more, nothing less. But now, finally after a full year of being sYiackled by "Sgt. Pep- per," rock is re-discovering itself. How incredibly refreshing it is to hear songs like "Jumpin' Jack Flash," "Pictures of Matchstick Men," and "Friends" instead of the post-Pepper stuff. Bob Dylan, as usual, was the leader of this new "honesty" phase in rock with "John Wesley Har- ding," and he's getting strong sup- por# from such unlikely places as the so-called Rock Revolution, a movement dedicated to bringing back the oldies, possibly the most honest music ever recorded, "The present day composer refuses to die," Zappa is fond of saying. And nobody, not even The Beatles or the media, has been quite able to kill him off. f i t I U CINEMA GUILD JUARIEZ I groups. ., * { s "lr r + t, .} s- ..^,yrr'r r rr:r 4 r , : ?'rr " " yr.:" '"' .,{ v f a .... . 5:+vi.. X. ' .' r.",t }G S'd .?r .' s' } i', wt. r' :" }{.?: .# , 'rh: .+ i 7tr S :^: ti{{vr"'f4 ,''?::.C.i :'vX . }. }r.r .. .t.{;ri:4: . r .,., - 4 1,I)% m a l l). 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