w Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY records Satie: Meditated pranks By R. A. PERRY In seeking the roots of modern artists such as Cage, Dine, Kien-' holz, Kaprow, and Stockhausen, our culture historians have un- earthed the fascinating works of such forward-looking composers as Satie and Charles Ives. The re- cent popularity of the music of Erik Satie proves that the age of Dada and Surrealism still haunts us. The fascination with Ives lies for the most part in the curious amalgam of old and new, tonality: and atonal experimentation. Sa- tie, on the other hand, offers his-f torical interest in that he may have been the first true neoclas- sicist and the first surrealist of music. yet his music so oddly- and that is his magic-does not sound dated, but rests either in an eternal stillness or in a gaity that is never merely topical. As one historian, Roger Shattuck, puts it Satie's "pranks seem to originate from a serious, deeply pondered behavior." In our dizzily centrifugal times, Satie may also appeal to us be- cause he never espoused or set himself to establish any musical tradition. He disavowed (and sug- gested Debussy do the same) not merely Wagnerian influence, but all academic formalism. "People of a certain age," he said, "al- ways talk about their 'experience.' One ought to be sure they've real- A look at.. 'Here We Oo Round The MulberrydBush' by Fred LaBour Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush, currently running at the Campus, concerns itself with the stage of Everyman's life when he wants little more than to go to bed with some girl, any girl, any place, any time. All of Everyman's friends are seemingly caught up in and frantically pursuing the fruits of the sexual revolution but he is left on the sidelines, quite far away from all of the action. He is prone to daydreaming the erotic, yet innocent, dreams of a young man nurtured by a culture that features supersonic, well- packaged, short-skirted sex. Everyman, played by Jamie McGregor playedby Barry Evans, is led by his sexual craving (not a madman's insane, perverted craving you understand, but rather a young man's acceptable craving) into half a dozen very, very amusing adventures. As one seduction attempt after another fails, however, it becomes evident that there is one girl that stands above the others in his mind. Mary (played by Judy Geeson, the girl in To Sir with Love with the big lips) is the pivot point for the maturity of the film as well as Jamie. If she had been painted into the princess-type, shining-pure "Isn't the rest of the world crass?" role, the audience would have left quickly and silently, passively throwing up in the gutters along South University. But she was left believable, and consequently the film comes off.I Jamie and Mary go away for a weekend, she takes off her clothes by a lake, ("Gasp," said the lady behind me) Janie takes off his clothes, they make 'love, Jamie has stars in his eyes, thinking "This one is different; I love her." But Mary is not oriented towards any type of permanent relationship, and she tells Jamie that maybe someday soon they can do it again, lit- erally, but that in the meantime she has other friends, equally important to her and who the hell are you anyway to tell me what to do. It is at this point that the film again comes close to founder- ing. The inherent chaotic quality of the film seems to come to the fore just before it ends, and the possibility pops up that it may have been a stupid, however clever, movie. But the last scene rescues it in an incredibly beautiful exuberant scene, with Jamie looking at a girl and thinking about "the kind of girl I'd like to marry.", And so he has made it around the Mulberry Bush, and he has, seen something of what is true about man-woman relationships, and he is beginning to feel what it is to be a man. Clive Donner's deft direction of the film fits the story su- perbly. He paces the film just fast enough to hold interest, but long enough to fully explore each scene. Donner elicits an excel- lent performance by Evans and a host of amazingly good sup- porting players. The only weak link is Miss Geeson, but then she would be any film's weak link. Jamie's daydream sequences are done very well. Kept down to a manageable length, and the result is a valuable and tech- nically fascinating contribution to the film. Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush has solved a problem that seems to be increasingly difficult for the film-makers of today: how to film humor. On the one hand we get Bedazzled with its painful rib poking "Get it?" style and on the other is the Yours, Mine and Ours slapstick, wholesome, doubletake routine. Mulberry Bush is, simply and clearly, amusing. ly had any worthwhile expe- riences." No doubt a lot of wise hippies are buying the Satie al- bums. And again, if the uncrafts- manlike proclivities of our paint- ers send us back for precedents, we find Satie crying out, "Long live the Amateurs. All great art- ists are amateurs." He meant it, just as Mortan Feldman meant it when he said that now that things are so easy, there is so much to do. If our era is a time which seeks to eradicate the sense of history and which shudders at the thought of the events that must occur in the next decades, the music of Satie panders to our stance. It does not, in Virgil Thomson's words,,- "invoke the history of music," nor does it, as does the music of Schoenberg, strike out for some newrealm; Satie slows down, and at best, transcends musical time. The slow pieces of this Mont- martre pianist, works such as Six Gnossienes, the Pieces Froides, or the most famed Trois Gymnope- dies remind one of Marcel Mar- ceau pantomiming walking. Go- ing nowhere and seeking noth- ing, the notes enclose space in the most serene and airy fashion. Here lies neoclassic coolness and the utmost lyrical purity. "Do you know how to clean sounds?" Satie asked. "It is a rather dirty process." In contrast to these pristine works are the ebullient musical collages, full of premeditated wrong notes and extramusical in- fluences, whichproceed like a ball bouncing down the steps of Sacre Coeur. These piano pieces contain much of the French color and gaity of Satie's contem- porary, Toulouse-Lautrec, but, unlike the painter, they teach nothing but the exhiliration of the ride. Little of Satie's small output, has been recorded. Besides some of the ballet music, the major! contribution to Satie's disco- graphy has been the recently ex- panding piano series by Aldo Cic- colini on the Angel label. Cic- colini's newest recording, Angel S-36485, includes the early and. important Trois Sarabandes and a large portion of the later works of the 1910-15 period. As usual, they are very well-played-idio- matic, zestful, and meditative where need be. Games arnie pay's New CORE head Roy Innis Innis to head CORE in McKissick, absence NEW YORK OP)-Floyd B. Mc- Kissick, national director of the Congress of Racial Equality, (CORE) is taking a leave of ab- sence for medical reasons and his post will be temporarily held th 3: le a hi He said that at a meeting of he council in Cleveland on May 1, McKissick submitted a formal etter of resignation which was xcepted, but the council asked im to stay on at least through he convention and for a transi- onal period until a new national irector had been elected. Warren sends letter Sun to LBJ on retirement SAN FRANCISCO (k) - Chief has served as chief justice since C Justice Earl Warren said yester- 1953. ,330 day he had sent a letter to Pres- Gov. Ronald Reagan, a fellow ident Johnson about his retire- California Republican, has voiced ment plans. criticism of Warren's resignation However, he said, "as a matter so as to permit a Johnson ap- of courtesy:.. the contents should pointment.I dr come from him (Johnson)." Yesterday Warren refused to wr "Thmake any discuss Reagan or any other po- Er "Te President should maeaylitical issues by announcement about the letter, i . bP whenever it may be," Warren told During his stay in California, M an airport news conference on his Warren said he planned to see r arrival from Washington. as many of my children as pos- Ph There has been speculation since sible." He planned to attend a A A the end of last week that Warren reunion with seven of the eight had submitted his resignation and ing graduates of his old Kern Ov would step down in time for John- County high school class at a son to name his successor. Bakersfield r Asked about a possible succes- sor, Warren smiled and said: "We're not going to get into poli- M I ,S E R( tics, gentlemen." He indicated that he would be FAMILY RESTAURANT C doing some house hunting while TRASUE CRI! M in California, though he did not # CHICKGERS " bet specify a particular city. * CONEY ISLANDS b " JUMBOYS re However, when asked when he SMILING of would be returning, Warren said SPEEDYSRVICE laI "it may be.soon." CARRYOUT SPECIALISTS NO WAITING - PLENTY Warren, who was accompanied of PARKING e by his wife, told newsmen his INSIDE SEATING ORf years on the court "have been the OPEN 11 A R DALY most satisfying I can imagine." Speaking of his long-range 662-0022e - plans, Warren said "unquestion- 3325 WASHTENAW RD. ably, when I retire, I'll spend a ANN ARBOR J great deal of my time in Cali- 2 BLKS. W. of ARBORLAND JOJi fornia." Asked about the significance of his retirement, Warren replied, Aix' REre T s "age - my age." Warren is 77 and FOH VILL6E N 375 No. MAPLE RD.-7694300 JMMER IVE IN A Jack Lemm .o and Board Only Mattfi $13.00are per week The hours work, wn and run housesCo MEN Michigan, 315 N. State -.say Nakamura, 807 S. State no mor, Owen, 1017 Oakland Pickerill, 923 S. Forest . University e or contact ATIVE COUNCILIctwA 668-68721ft " by Roy Innis, CORE announced to yesterday. ti There have been reports of in- ternal difficulties in CORE, buts- Wilfred T.mUssery, CORE na- tional chairman who made the announcement, said reports that Innis would replace McKissick after the national convention in Columbus, Ohio, next week wereE "presumptuous." Ussery said CORE's national actio scoucil, the decision-making body, has taken no action on the directorship. Innis, 34, now associate na- tional director, is a militant black natianalist like MeKissick but considered less vehement in! his opposition to cooperation be- tween blacks and whites in the civil rights movement. Ussery said that McKissick submitted his resignation to the National Action Council in Balti- more several weeks ago for per- sonal reasons, but that no actl~pn was taken, on the resignation. THIS SI EAT OR L CO. 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