MPPM" THE MICHIGAN DAILY Friday, May 10, 1968 Friday May 1. 196 I . ummer concert series: Beat the reruns DIAL 5th 8-6416W E SAN~l)Y IENN ,IS 'KEIR L)ULLIAL AIN'I I FIV'())I ) i:i \ \t{4.11 I{ I By R. A. PERRY Ann Arbor's entertainment schedule has begun its sum- mer eclipse, but Gail Rector, manager of the University Mu- sical Society, has booked four pianists whose concerts should make any music lover pleased to be in town. Opening the summer series, which will take place in the air conditioned and intimate Rack- ham Auditorium, will be the exciting Spanish pianist, Alicia de Larrocha. Miss de Larrocha's recent Epic recordings of the piano music of Granados have been repeated sell-outs and have left music critics wallowing In ec- static panegyrics to her impec- cable technical ability and ex- quisite rhythmic shadings, both so important to the Spanish /repertoire that she has made her specialty. That Miss de Larrocha is Di- rector of the Marshall Academy in Barcelona, the school which perpetuates the "Granados tra- dition," helps to explain her authority in the works of Span- ish masters such as Albeniz, Turina, de Falla, and Grana- dos. New York Times critic Har- old Schonberg has stated that she "has a Toscanini-like ap- proach to playing the piano, in her insistence that every strand -melody, bass, inner voices- comes through." Her unerring technique, however, only serves the passion of the music and the communication of passion to the listener. Her Rackham concert June 27 should be a most interesting, one, as she will be playing not only pieces by de Falla, but also the K. 333 sonata of Mo- zart, and works by Couperin, Schumann, and Rachmaninoff. The second' featured pianist will be the internationally ac- claimed Vladimir Ashkenazy. Ashkenazy has won the Chopin Competition in Warsaw, the Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels, and the Tchaikov- sky Competition in Moscow. Although this Soviet artist's technique is also beyond ques- tion, heais known, mainly for his poetic and sensitive renderings of the Romantics, especially Schubejt and Chopin. He is a master of subtle coloration, but he can provide power and forcefulness when such is called for. Mr. Ashkenazy has scheduled forf his July 10th appearance the "Moonlight" =and "Wald- stein" sonatas by Beethoven, as well as twelve Etudes by Chopin. The young Israeli pianist, David Bar-Illan, who will per- form in Rackham July 16, has not yet won the renown that accompanies Ashkenazy and de Larrocha. A graduate of both the Juil- lard and Mannes Schools of Music, Bar-Illan has been, how- ever, steadily building an inter- national reputation. He first appeared with the Israeli Phil- harmonic under Mitropoulos, and then made his American debut with the New York Phil- harmonic. Bar-Illan's Ann Arbor recital promises to be a most diverse one. It will include works by Debussy, Rameau, Chopin, Ben- Haim, and Beethoven, and will be climaxed by a performance of Liszt's "Dante Sonata." The phenomenon of Jorge Bolet, the fourth artist on the summer series, is a curious one. Bolet, who has been compared to Horowitz and Liszt himself, has won a greater reputation in Europe than he has in the States. His recording for the movie biography of Franz Liszt, "Song Without End", may have won him some fans, but it might also have earned him the un- warranted stigma of a popular- izer. Yet his pianistic technique has made him something of, a myth: one critic in Berlin wrote that "Bolet is one of the last great representatives of the old tradition of piano-playing which goes back to Liszt him- self." Bolet has made fewer record- ings than the pianists who will precede him in the Ann Arbor series, and his program has yet been unannounced. Tickets for the concerts are available from the University Musical Society in Burton Tow- er. A series ticket costs as little as $6.00, which makes each con- cert come out costing less than a third-rerun at a local movie theatre. 0 A look at...' r FEATURES Program Information: Dial NO 2-6264 'The Battle of Algiers" l (S by Daniel Okrent Vladimir Ashkenizy !i .1 The eyes of a small French boy, licking an ice cream cone in a streetside cafe moments before a plastic bomb demolishes the building and everything in it; a ragged garbage collector, hunched on a curb and chased away by the venomous abuse of nearby French colonials; a female terrorist, nervously waiting to pass an army checkpoint as an explosive ticks in her purse; the clean, honest lechery of a French soldier at the checkpoint. These are the battles and thle bullets,. the mottoes and the issues, the clutching agony of The Battle of Algiers (the film) and the Battle of Algiers (the revolution). It is a whole made up of individual expression and action, a massive affair particularized in sQlo terms. Director Gillo Pontecorvo, who earnestly set out to recreate the peoples' revolution in Algeria that has since become the guid- ing light and form of all similar revolutions since, astutely dis- plays the truth of any popular uprising. By masterfully recreating the revolution through a subtle focus on individuals within the mob, he catches the true spirit of the affair. The expression of the mass iq a manifestation of that of each individual. This approach, of course, is nothing new--wars and revolu- tions, portrayed in a film, have always been displayed as personal experience for a handful of characters. The whole genre of World War II and Korean War action films always had an Audie Murphy or Jimmy Stewart or John Wayne through which and to which the effects of the war were interpreted. But Pontecorvo does his individualizing in anonymous terms. There are leading characters who serve as vehicles for the tense tight, narrative; but the real be-all of the two-year segment of the battle 'that is featured is shown in the nameless, unidentifiable side characters: the one-shot terrorists who murder with a weapon concealed in a handbag; the terrified bystanders who witness the invasion of Algiers' Arab quarter; the young French soldiers who torture terrorists with expressionless, placid eyes, not savage or 6adistic, simply passive, doing a job. The resulting image is remarkable. Pontecorvo's painstaking reconstruction of massive rioting (the credits boast that no news- reel footage was used at any point of the film) shows an excruciat- ingly close attention to the detail etched in each person's face without becoming possessed and obsessed in the process. These people emote like few I have seen before in a film. It should be mentioned, too, that those "main" characters - the three or four who develop specific personalities and maintain them as they participate in the length of the film-are humans, not heroes. Particularly worth note are Ali-la-Pointe, the last of the NILF General Staff to be captured, and Lt. Col. Philippe Mathieu, leader of the French forces sent to squash the rebellion. Dial 5-6290 I PUL N B just bugs the Establishment as COOL HaND EHKE TECHNICOLOR® PANAVISIONO n ANP AUDREY HEPBURN ALAN ARKIN- RICHARD CRENNA T rv, WIT UNTIL 2 I . ISAVA AS RIPTORN wrl'soL MADID' 41 HINGLK AU AMS.,dICARDO MONTABA pe. djwb e e PANAISION Mrtore Audiences AIKA? 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