Page Two THE MICHI AN DAILY Page To THE ICHIGASDAIL music And now., the May Festival! - r Columbia president cancels all classes ' . a 4th WEEK By R. A. PERRY At a time when musical, es- - tivals spring up like potential slogans and artists spend their summers flying from Tangle- wood to Dubrovnik, it is sur- prising and gratifying to be reminded that the "May Festi- val" sponsored by the Univer- sity Musical Society this year celebrated its 75th Anniversary. There has been no special theme to Ann Arbor's music festival, no focus on one composer or one epoch, and consequently programming has often un- imaginatively stuck to the standard works, but adiin- istrators Charles Sink and Gale Rector strive to make quality the keynote of their presentations. The May Festival is no local, small-time operation. Nearly every great musician who con- certized in America has played to the Ann Arbor audience. In 1940, for instance, Artur Schna- bel, Joseph Szigeti, Giovanni Martinelli, Emanuel Feuer- mann, and Lily Pons all per- formed' in one May Festival series. Such a cast of greats, nothing short of fantastic, Re ents en ties with IDA (Continued from Page 1) the requirements for certification of the student in a professional or technical field after graduation preclude violations of civil law or when the student's continuation in the University wold pose a "clear and present danger to him- self or other iembers of the community," the U n i v e r s i t y should axer ise regulatory p5owers. sOn classified research, the Re- gents qualified their approval of the Elderfield Report by stating that the report's recommended policy is not applicable "when the nation is engaged in a declared war" The report specifies that the University may accept classified research contracts if sponsor and recipient of the' grant can be made public and the project dos not develop ways to "destroy hu- man life." The Regents directed the vice president for research to report Son the implementation of the new policy. The Regents also passed a reso- lution urging the executive .offi- cers of the University to "encour- age students, faculty, staff, alum- ni and friends to provide funds for &n endowment for a Martin Luther King faculty chair." A faculty fund drive had been previously initiated by Prof. Dem- ing Brown of the Slavic languages department to raise funds for a King chair. The Regents said, "If sufficient funds are not raised' by Septem- ber 1, 1968, to support a chair, contributions received will be transferred .to the Martin Luther K ng Scholarship Fund." makes up for any war-horse, programming. This year's May Festival, which took place from April 20 to April 23 in Hill Aud., no- where matched the 1940 series,f Or even last year's concerts, which brought Rostropovich, Vishnevskya, and' Van Cliburn to Ann Arbor, but if offered sufficient aural splendoi to gratify the music-lover and enough outstanding perform- ances to compensate for the very bad moments that also' occrred. For the thirty-third con- secutive season, the' Philadel- phia Orchestra, under the ba- ton of that effervescent munch- kin Eugene Ormandy, provided the foundation for and exe- cuted the major part of the' five concerts' offerings. Soloists included pianists Claude Frank and Anthony Di Bonaventura, sopranos Eileen Farrell and Judith Raskin, con- tralto Jean Sanders, tenor Leo- - polddSimoneau, and baritonq Theodor Uppman. Thor John- son guest-conducted two con- certs, and the University Choral t Society tried their best. Last year .the Philadelphia Orchestra was sloppy and truly seemed on vacation, but this year there was a sincere fervor and attentiveness to their work. The Philadelphia Orchestra is often denigrated in this decade which lauds most highly the ultra-precision of the Cleveland ensemble, or the striving for historically authentic styles that marks many of the new baroque chamber groups. And it is true that Ormandy often tackles Bach works that- are best done in Munich, Or Haydn symphonies more finely turned in Cleveland, but in works which do not require any au- thentic angst or special class- ical grace, the Philafdelphia excels. They are essentially a group Iof colorists and for that reason their all-Russian cpncert was beautiful indeed. The Russians have always emulated the French not only in literature and fashion but also in music; and though it may be an over- simplification, Rachmani off may be seen as a Russian De- bussy. His third symphony, a brooding work with open, long themes, is constantly alive and transforming" itself from_ with- in.' By contrast, the Shostako- vich Fifth Symphony, while a, more tightly constructed work, has 'had much of Rachmani- noff's (and Tchaikovsky's) Russian color bleached out of it. Whereas Rachmaninoff's developmental sections do oc- > casionally 'meander in a mind- less peripatetic way, Shostako- vich's "business" tends to find itself in bleak, barren corners where the, only salvation is td' return to the monumental. Both symphonies explore .the To- mantic landscapes of the mind, and they received stirring, powerful renditions, in which the Philadelphia string achiev- ed their famed singing sheen that one often missed in their other concerts. I can think of no other orchestra that could achieve the richly laden palette of sounds that illuminated these Russian symphonies. Does anyone really listen to the music in Brahms; or better yet, is. there really anything to listen to? Mahler summed it up by saying that "only in the rarest cases does Brahms know what to dd with his frequently lovely themes." His inventive- ness was truly small, his use of pedal point and unison writing unbearably tedious, especially when heard as often as one does in tod'ay's concert halls. The First Symphony was played' beautifully by the orchestra, but when lovely themes are crowned only by mounting grandilo- quence and heart-on-sleeve gemutlich, who cares? I might as well get the other piece of bad news out of_ the way, and it concerns Brahms, too. Led by a discerning hand and sung with some mind to the definition of the inter- weaving choral voices, the Brahms' Requiem can produce the lovely effect akin to falling asleep in a snowstorm. Led by the well-meaning but perfunc- tory hand of-Thor Johnson and sung with total blah by the University Choral Society, the piece can make you want to leave early, which many people did. Last year, of the University Chorus, I wrote "producing a broad wash of monochromatic. sound, they were neither off or on the note, but somewhere equidista'nt around it." Well, they still have not found the mark. They still lack definition, direction, style, lift, penetra- tion, and force, but perhaps most serious is their lack of definition. It is truly impossible to tell when the altos or basses enter; even when watching their mouths opening you can detect no sound, at least from the first balcony. The young pianist Claude Frank made some embarrass- ing mistakes in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 18, but he also. produced one of the loveliest, most plastically-shaped piano performances I have heard in a while. The influence of his mentor Schnable was apparent in the intelligent and always deeply felt way in which he molded the musical line. His splendid technique in trills and arpeggio runs always served this plastic end. He likewise made the silence between notes eloquent and meaningful. Exhibiting his usual rhyth- mic and melodic ingenuity, Bar- tok's second piano concerto re- ceived , an accomplished and flashy performance, not with- out attention to the occasional moments of introspection, from Anthony di Bonaventura. If anything, di Bonaventura was too gentle. The Kate Smith of opera, Eileen Farrell, sang an una- bashedly mundane group of Puccini and Verdi arias in an awesomely powerful and clear- toned voice that made one wish she were presenting the Wes- endonck lieder she used to do so well. Compared to Miss Farrell's clarion call, the soprano voice of Judith Raskin sounded min- iscule, but it was more finely controlled andtexpressively used than Miss Farrell's. In an odd way that was her problem, for Miss Raskin too often sacri- fices line for expression; this was certainly true in Mozart's Exsultate, Jubilate, her singing of which did not approach the joyfulness and tonal beauty of Erna Berger's Angel recording. In any case, Miss Raskin is best heard on records and not in a large hall such as Hill Aud. (Continued from Page 1) cratic Society chairman Mark Rudd said, "Even the jocks, the same guys who last week were yelling 'SDS must go!' today were running around screaming 'Kirk must go!' and 'Cops must go!' SDS and a black students' group organized the protest against the gym construction last week and were later joined by white and black non-students.I As many as 200 faculty mem- bers had voiced support of the proposed strike.dAn ad hoc com- mittee of 400 faculty members met yesterday afternoon but reached no decision after a large majority of those present walked out. The "rump caucus" of about 125 remaining faculty members had voted to join the strike. The administration - requested police action, the subsequent call for a general strike, and the spon- taneous demonstrations and stu- dent and faculty meetings arising out of the events yesterday ap- pears to have plunged the campus into confusion. Few of the partici- pants and observers entirely un- derstood the situation or could predict with any "certainty what will happen at the university in the next few days. The strike plans, announced early yesterday morning by stu- dent council president Dan Pel- legrin, appeared to have had widespread student support. The Associated Press reported that groups roamed the Manhattan campus calling for Kirk's ouster. Earlier, in a rare convening of the entire faculty of the Morning- side Heights campus, the assem- bled faculty members voted for a one-day inquiry by students and faculty members. The faculty didt not support the strike. Journalism Prof. Howard Wood emerged from one closed session to report that a majority favored an effort to go "as fast as we could toward the resumption of orderly processes." Rudd said many faculty mem- bers were angered at Kirk's deci- sion to request police to evict stu- dents from the five buildings. "I don't think Kirk can last," he said. "The faculty is completely against him." 'Most of the 628 arrested have been released either on recogni- zance or on up to $100 bond. Meetings of students, including SDS and an ad hoc student strike coordinating committee are slated for this morning. SANDY DENN:S -KEIR DULLEA - ANNE HEYWOOD AS ELLEN MARCH (ir/ide ll contle Palid D. H. LAWRENCE ,Suggested for mature audiences --symbol of Ihe male Screenplay by LEWIS JOHN CARLINO and HOWARD KOCH Produced by RAYMOND STROSS Directed by MARK RYDELL Color by Deluxe--from CLARIDGE PICTURES Q~TATIE Dial NO 2-6264 1:15-3:15-5:15-7:15-9,20 Starts TOMORROW! BEDOUBLE Ends Thursday Program Information-5-6290 ENDS THURSDAY The Story of a girl called Sora and the key she gave to a different man each month. Did you hear A UNIVERSAL PICTUIRETECHNICOLOR PLUS #I A JERRY GERSHWIN-ELLIOTT KASTNER PRODUCTION _i , iW o« "as £ I SN DIECNCANTHONY NEWIETHEODORE BIKEL TECHNICOLOR" FROM WARM~ER BROS.-SEEN ARTS I I NATION~t. GENERAL CORPORATION 5th GREAT WEEK FOX EASTERN THEATRES FOXAILL GE 375 No. MAPLE RD."769.13OO Mon.-Fri. 7:00-9:20 * FRIDAY SAT.-3:00-5:00-7:00-9:20 SUN.-1:00-3:00-5:00-7:00-9:20 CVonderltlo1 eU'u'Onlby 'Rhke Cthe~flme qlb qo Around'It! WINNER TWO ACADEMY AWARDS BEST ACTRESS--KATHARINE HEPBURN BEST SCREEN PLAY Jr , I Stanley Kramer production Spencert Sidney TRACY PIER HEPBURN guess who's Coming to diner TECHNICOLOR' I I a rw w 761-9700 Vth Forum STARTS TOMORROW 7:00 & 9:05 "A MOST EXTRAORDINARY FILM!"-NEWYORK, FRENCH a. COLONEL... to tortureo ONE OF THE MANRT WOMEN.. who stopped at nothing to win! THE ALGERIAN . 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