Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesday, June 4, 1969 PaeTITH 1HGA AL Wedne,,sd...ayr. n . 1969 I records Picketer Sour grapes: Nonesuch 's By R. A. PERRY Contributing Editor When other companies shied away from the unproven, Nonesuch Records served the cause of contemporary music with vigor, imagination, and ,devotion. A new Nonesuch release, however, may set the cause back a few years, or at least providd fodder for the scoffing philistines; they have just issued for all of you frustrated musical Mr. Wizards out there a disc entitled HPSCHD. HPSCHD is not, for once, a Daily typographical error, but the largest code name that the computer can give the word harpsichord. HPSCHD, "for harp- sichords and computer-generated sound tapes" incorporates an overlay and scrambling of 51 sound tapes with three "live harpsichord solos, the chefs of this concoction being none other than Zen- mycologist-dialdiddler John Cage and his sidekick Lejaren Hillier. One must admire the compositional complexity that Cage and Hillier con- jured up. They used "a "computer- derived numerical system borrowed from the digital principal of I-ching" to order their system; the 51 tapes contain music "'in equal-tempered scales of, success- ively, face to 56 tones in the octave, each tone deviating over a field of 129." Yet, no matter how sophisticated were the mathematical determinations of the herbs plopped into the recipe, the result still sounds like hash, or, if I mix my metaphors, like a 1942 crystal radio picking up a dust storm. To avoid embarrassment (i.e. to sell their offal), Cage and Hillier devised a devious way to pas the blame onto you, the listener. In each Nonesuch album Chamber CI for entireS Th e University's Chamber foI-mance Choir has been invited to j be- Symphony come the first American chorus Square. in residence for the entire Spo- In addi leto Festival in Spoleto, Italy- certs are Under the direction of its Perugia. founder, - president, composer The Cha Gian Carlo Menotti, this sum- the direct mer's Spoleto Festival will be Hilbish of the twelfth annual Italian- founded th American festival to be held in The Ch the small town located some 60 perfornied miles. northeast of Rome. The material. festival will e held from June ~cluded wo 27 to July 13. ers sucha In Italy, the choir will ap- Bach and pear with t l e internationally music on known conductor Thomas Sch- including ippers in a performance of Ros- oenberg, sini's opera 'L'Italiana in Ale- and Lutos gri.- The grow They will also work with Mr. several pi Schippers on July 13 when the porary pie festival concludes with a per- and Ross you/' will discover your own private, unique, computer issued "program for listenere output" (mine was No. 203, a rare low number worth at least ten 1953 Captain Marvel comic books) endearing- ly' called "Knobs."-This computer sheet is the same size-even has all the funny holes running down both sides-as those endlessly folding papers that you see real engineering s t u d e n ts flipping through. This program sheet, "Knobs," pro- vide volume setting and treble and bass settings that you are supposed to dial throughout HPSCIID. How often are, you asked to change settings? Would you believe every five seconds? Taking my reviewer's duties as a scared trust, I sat, one eye on the second hand and one eye on "Knobs," and manipulated 240 dial settings, resulting in a splitting headache, six terrified cats, and one harassed wife. How the dial changes af- fected the shape of the sound I really couldn't say, because I was too worried about missing the next dial change to listen to the effects. You can, of course, forget about "Knobs" and take your HPSCHD, and your static, pure. The idea of allowing the listener a certain share in the making of the music indeed intrigues. In a sense, Marshall McLuhan predicted this Nonesuch album when he wrote (in The Emperor's New Clothes): "When music becomes enyiron- mental by electric means, it becomes more and more the concern of the private individual . . . the pre-elec- tric music of the concert hall was a corporate ritual for the group rather than for the individual ... festiva The same means which per universal and centralized th stat in effect encourage a p thermostat for individual man tion. The age of the mass auc is thus far more individualistic the preceding age of the pt Yet Cage and Hillier's effor point ,toward this paradox; th not resolved it by creating any m valid experience that the individ help to make. Their music has ni ning of its own and is not gener the conscience or sensibility of t posers; the sounds have sign neither in formal internal integ in associative external relations anything, HPSCHD gains mea prophecy by setting up the listex blind (and deaf!) slave to coi generated commands. Actually, h HPSCHD does not probe into'th but rather represents a com package, and the only way a liste become more individualized in a an' terms is when, freed from t cert hall stares, he flicks the switch of his $200 pre-ampli "off." ** * Sour grapes may also be hurle gently perhaps, at a new pair of ber music performances issued v "Music from Marlboro" tradema lumbia MS 7266 offers Rudolf with the Budapest Quartet as the-Schumann Piano Quintet a kin with Michael Tree and Myror planning similar maneuvers on orn Trio. "Music from Marlboro" meant, years ago, chamber performan 'HPSCHD' mit a dolent of the idyllic setting in which ermo- they occurred; today the tag may be rivate associated with hypertonic perform- ipula- ances more interested in selling than dience exploring music. When controlled, ani- c than mation can effect convincing enthusiasm ublic." and appropriate ardor, as in their recent rts only Trout Quintet recording (MS 6467), but ey have when it verges on the aggressive, the ausically results are displeasing. dual can Serkin is no man to dally, and the o mean- Schumann Quintet gets off to a hurried rated by start that immediately sets the aggres- he com- sive tone; the second movement march iificance lacks solemnity, and in the fourth move- rity nor ment the power of Schumann's romantic ships. If vigor is again overstated. Serkin pre- ning as dominates to the detriment of voice ner as a balance (much string detail is blurred cmputer- over) and the Budapest, beyond their however, prime (and indeed now disbanded), can e future no loner control tonal quality sufficient- imercial 1 h t od nerican ly. The entire performance sounds harsh McLuh- and anxious, and can in on way measure he con- up to the old, pensive Casals Festival power recording (ML 4701) that can still be fier to found. The Brahms Horn Trio fares some- what better, but again the general sen- f ,more sibility is one of aggression and not of with the rusticity. Brahms originally wrote for ark. Co- the valveless Waldhorn, and Myron Serkin Bloom loses all sense of that mellow saulting sound (a true desiderata for this work) nd Ser in his hard attacks and overly-virile n Bloom a fryye Brahms phrasing. Michael Tree, of the Guarneri Quartet, sounds the most sensible, but several Angel S-36472 or the deleted Mercury ces re- SR-90210 remain preferrable. charges (Continued from Page 1) says Kominski told him he could stay there without paying rent. The tenants say now that Koz- minski is .selling 425 and 517 S. Division and another building at 410 Benjamin. 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He later allegedly threw a snow shovel at the apartment and unscrewed the light bulb in the hallway and smashed it. B r u g h says he hid behind the door to avoid being hit. The tenants also claim Kozmin- ski has turned off their gas, elec- tricity, heat, or water, and in some instances all four. Some of the tenants w er e notified by Kozminski that he was no longer paying their gas or elec- tricity bills.ga He told them he would have to assume that re- sponsibility. The leases say Koz-, minski will pay utilities. Kozminski refused to comment1 on the allegations, and told the Daily eporter to leave his bar- bershop when asked for a state-' ment.a The Tenants Union has tenta- tive plans to picket the offices of Charter Realty and Apartments Limited on Friday. Both are plain- tiffs in the conspiracy suit against; the Tenant's Union. The Michigan Daily, edited and man- aged by students of the University of Michigan, News phone:?64-0552. 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Halpern, David Winter, N. J. Hicks, and Another two signers were from C. N. Lee, in addition to Reade, the pharmacy school: T. R. Tep- and visiting professor Bomshik hyl and David Longone, who is Chang. Three professors in bio- also a dhemistry professor. logical chemistry, Prasnata Dtta, In addition, several staff mem- _ibers of the Institute fnr Sria l y ' A L .4,. uci Vi ut iiSiuut r ocia Research signed the statement. The statement reads: "I support the right of, th°. 'Tenants Union to organizet ob- tain collective bargaining rights with the landlords. "The Ann Arbor Tenants' Un- ion has been working honestly and (Continued from Page 1) partment were consulted for t h e pamphlet. Pollard sees the booklet as a good attempt to reach the differ- ent levels of drug sophistication found among any group of stu- dents. "The pamphlet has enough information so people can discuss the subjects without wandering around in complete ignorance," he claims. 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Classes like Schwartz'4 seminar, "Drugs and Social Behavior," are a. good start." democratically to achieve decent living conditions. "I therefore _deplore the recent actions takefnbycertain landlords to obtain an injunction against the Tenants' Union by labelling their' activities a conspiracy. This action is an unjustifiable attempt to undermine the tenants legiti- mate right to organize." "As chairman of the Ann Arbor Housing Commission," Weeks said, "I am concerned that ten- ants receive their due and t hat their rights be recognized whether they live in public or private hous- ing. I am, interested in any legal mechanism that can help to bring this about." On Friday, Circuit Court Judge William Ager will hear argument on motions to grant dismissal and summary judgment on a suit brought by seven landlords against the rent strike. The landlords are asking for an in junction to halt, the rent strike and are seeking $10,000 in individ- ual damages, $300,000 in exem- plary damages and recovery of more than $100,000 of unpaid rent being held in escrow. The landlords have also brought a conspiracy suit against 12 of the 91 defendants in the case. They have charged the 12 with conspiring to violate existing and future leases and to obtain libelous articles in The Daily. The Tenants' Union has filed a ,countersuit against the landlords charging them with violating leases and anti-trust statutes and asking for one million dollars in damages. hoir to perform Spoleto Festival' of Beethoven's Ninth in the Cathedral tion, several solo con- planned in Rome and amber Choir is under ion of Prof. Thomas the music school, who [he group in 1964., oir has studied a n d a g r e a t variety of Its repertoire has in- iks by early compos- as Gesualdo, Obrecht, i rahms, as well as contemporary lines, compositions by Sch- Webern, Stravinsky Iawsky. iup has also performed remieres of contem- ces by Leslie Bassett Lee Finney, Along with t h e 'Chamber Choir, the Spoleto Festival will present the American Ballet Players from t h e Brooklyn Academy of Music; a double bill of Menotti's "The Medium" with Muriel Grenspon, and Fal- la's puppet opera "El Retablo de Masse Petro;" and world pre- mieres of Edoardo Sanguineti's "L 'Orlando Furioso" and Naz- m Hikmet's "La Spada di Dam- In addition the first Italian staging of Bertolt Brecht's "A' Modest Man's Wedding" will be given. Poetry readings, a film series, and an art show are also on the festival program. The choir will perform all the works it will be presenting in Spoleto at a special concert at 8:30 p.m. onMonday; June 9, in Hill Aud. The concert will be open to the public free of charge. UMS sets summer piano concert series The sixth annual summer concert series of distinguished pianists: in recital at Rackham Lecture Hall has been scheduled for four July evenings by the University Musical Society. Opening the series on Tuesday, July 8, will be Alicia de Larrocha, a Spanish pianist who will perform works of Bach, Beethoven, Surinach and de Falla. American pianist Leonard Peinario will perform works of Haydn, Debussy, Prokofieff, Sshumann and Chopin on Thursday, July 17. On Wednesday, July 23, Alexis Weissenberg will perform Haydn, Debussy, Prokofieff, Schumann and Chopin on Thursday, was born in Bulgaria and has studied in Israel. 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