Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday, February 12,197Z Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday, February 12, 1972 TV Mvovie Agenda TONIGHT ABC-The Hound of the Bask- ervilles TOMORROW OBS-Ben-Hur, Part 1 ABC-Cleopatra, Part 1 MONDAY ABC-Cleopatra, Part 2 NBC-Operation Kid Brother CBS-A Patch of Blue TUESDAY ABC-Call Her Mom CBS-The Anniversary WEDNESDAY CBS-Twilight of Honor THURSDAY CBS-My Blood Runs Cold CBS-The Glass Bottom Boat Vsions of Spain By DONALD SOSIN Watching Alicia De Larrocha play the piano in last night's program presented by the Uni- versity Musical Society, I was struck by the concert's resemb- lance to a bullfight. This hap- pened midway through the third book of Iberia by Albeniz; the combination of Spanish artist playing Spanish music, in a flashy red dress, confronting an ominous black piano before thousands of spectators seemed to suggest cries of "Ole" and vis- ions of roses being tossed upon the stage. There were none, of course, but there were plenty of Bravos, and a "coup de grace" in the form of a delightful en- core. The middle two books of Iber- ia that we heard present enor- mous problems to the pianist. Albeniz' coloristic chords can sound like so much mud in the wrong hands. The rhythms and intricate crossing of lines de- mand absolute control over each nd note while giving the impression he that all is flowing and sponta- Oit neous. That is a great credit to 5, e Larrocha. Her playing con- tained amazing subtlety, and L' there was much to learn from in her ability to give clarity to the thickest textures of the flor- id, impressionistic sections. The individual movements that stand out are "Almeria," for its sheer delicacy and sinuous rhythm; the flowery "Triana," and "La- au- vapies," the closing piece, next ics to impossible, yet perfectly clear and in its conception and execution. an De Larrocha's tone is a joy. ter No wonder she dislikes record- hic ing: in an informal discussion at it the School of Music Thursday nay she spoke with distaste of en- ike gineers who cry, "More bass!" ece and turn up the knob. There is lds nothing to alter in her playing. te- She can get a big sound without ter ever becoming percussive, and works miracles as she brings out st" lines that one never knew ex- has isted. This held true in the first part of the program, which con- sisted of two Scarlatti sonatas, and Schumann's Kreisleriana. The second of the Scarlatti works seemed to rush at times, but never lacked in clarity. Schumann's lengthy Op. 16 is not for the casual listener. As with Albeniz, harmonic ideas and characteristic devices can begin to run together and be- come uninteresting-careful list- ening is mandatory. This as- sumes that the performance will be first-rate. And that it was. There was no lack of food for thought as DeLarrocha evoked tenderness, alternating with the fierce surges of Schumann's music. And when a section re- turned after the movement was seemingly over, it became all the more poignant in her hands; as though a quiet reflection on something long since gone. De Larrocha set herself a large task in programming Kreisler- iana and Ibera, but it was one that she proved totally capable of handling, and if there was a bullfight in Hill Auditorium last night, the bull was not so much conquered as tamed. Modupeola Alade Modupeola Alade, television producer and master of cere- monies on the Nigerian Broad- casting Corporation (NBC-TV), will arrive at the University campus tomorrow for a three- day visit. His tour of the United States is sponsored by the International Visitors Program of the U.S State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Af- fairs, with programming by the African-American Institute. Alade will meet with a discus- sion group at an African dinner tomorrow evening at the United Methodist Church, where he will discuss the role of the Christian Church in the African revolu- tion. On Tuesday he will be fea- tured at a jazz and rap session during an Ecumenical Campus Association luncheon at the International Center. Persons wishing to talk to Alade during his Ann Arbor visit should contact William S. La- Vine at the International Center's 'Foreign Visitor Office (764-2148). THE MARX BROTHER 'S will appear in a special film benefit at Cinema Guild on MONDAY at 7 & 9 p.m. in ARCHITEC- TURE AUDITORIUM for 75c in the film ANIMAL CRACKERS for pirgim *. Mickey Mouse joins Donald Duck, Goofy, Sleeping Beauty, ar legions of Walt Disney's other well-loved characters in ti musical extravaganza "Disney on Parade" which opens in Detr Tuesday at the Olympia Stadium. Tickets are priced at $6, $ and $5 and can be purchased at the Olympia and all major J.] Hudson and Sears stores. Iili Ilr Golden chords slowly realized By DAVID and LINDA SIGLIN David Bromberg, who has just released his first solo album David B r o m b e r g, Columbia (C31104; has become a very fa- miliar figure to Ann Arbor audi- °-ences over the past. year. His previous back-up work on albums by Jeff Walker, Paul Siebel, and Bob Dylan, to name a few, has :made his guitar style easily rec- ognizable. Suffice it to say if -you've heard his voice once, you =don'tforget it. He has appeared -at Hill Auditorium and played the Ark four times, once as Bob "Wbite's lead guitarist. Even .when his plane was late and he lhad to rush on stage at 10:00, ,." or when he was deathly ill and ,his golden voice was turning to flax before our very eyes, he never failed to stun his 'audience With his high energy and his 1brilliat guitar. Jim Kweskin will appear at the Ark on Feb. 14, due to scheduling difficulties, and not on Feb. 21. I "don't think there is a musi- n in the business today who doesn't wish David Bromberg the best possible luck and success. 'Ils ultimate humility and eag- erness to hear other people's music has made him a legend from the very traditional musi- clans to the most modern. So here comes his record, and everybody knows exactly what's going -to be on.it and just what it's going to sound like. And we're all wrong. I put the record . on and sit back only to hear David Bromberg run on the stage at World Control Studios and start this uptempo riff, and it -turns out to bekthe wrong song; the band breaks down and -Bromberg makes a crack about wouldn't it besgreat if it had been the right one. I sit up. Then it cuts into the first real song and the second, and I think the balance must be off on my set, etc., etc. After hearing the whole record I wonder if maybe Brom- At State and Liberty Progfotm Iformation 662-6264 HELD OVER- 4TH WEEK! Open 1 p.m. dily Shows at 1:15-3:10- 5 p.m.-7 p.m.-9 p.m. Feature 5 minutes later - "IT'S A SIZZLER!" -Barnard, Detroit News "ONE OF THE YEAR'S TEN BEST" -Time "Come on like gang-bust- ers and never let up .. . in a running battle of technological one - ups- manship , .. I doubt if you'll see anything quite as devastating." -Michigan Daily berg went crazy or senile or decided to chuck his career, so I listen to it again. And again, and again. It sounds better every- time; I begin to tune into what he is trying to do. There is no clear hit single. There is enough fast, clean gui- tar work to impress the most hardened mind; note especially the duet with Norman Blake on "The Boggy Road to Milledge- ville." There is one song that, no mat- ter how many times I hear it, I will disagree with its inclu- sion. "Pine Tree Woman" is too harsh, too grating,* the lyrics don't justify it lasting five min- utes, the bass is too loud, and several times David's strings go out of tune. There are several songs that appear weak on the first hearing. But if you get rid of the preconceived notion that Bromberg at his best is a clean sound, "Suffer to Sing the Blues" and the "Holdup" become great funk at its campiest. The sax is so humorously unexpected at times that it is reminiscent of Commander Cody's Andy Stein. The backup men on this album are exceptional. Steve Burgh on bass is always solid. Vissar Clements' fiddle playing on' "Lovesick Blues No. 3" is superb, and Will Scarlett's harp on "Delia" helps change it from a beautiful song to an unforget- tably haunting experience. Da- vid's guitar work on "Delia" and "Mississippi Blues" is sod clean and tasteful, his technique so effortless that the songs are communicated on a primary le- vel. And that is the essence of art. But the strongest songs on the album are the first and the last: "Last Song to Shelby Jean" and "Sammy's Song." These are Bromberg the songwriter at:his peak of maturity. "Last Song to Shelby Jean" is simply a be tiful piece of music. The lyr are direct and unpretentious a the vocal, and guitar about adolescent's sexual encoun with a prostitute. The grap quality of its narrative makes a song that many listeners mn find offensive. You'll either l the song or you won't. The pi( itself is very well written, ho together perfectly, and comple ly gets across what the wri intended. This is one of the best "fir albums I've ever heard. It l wide variety, great guitar pI ing, some of the best bac in the business, is vocally expr sive, and it never gets bland boring. Most important, it gr in interest every time you h it. Editor's Note: D a v i d aj Linda Siglin are managers the Ark, local coffeehouse. Want to stablish Jstice 7 Seats Open for Central Student Judiciary All Campus Supreme Court Interviews: Sign-up at 3-L Michigan Union or call 764-9899 PETITIONING ENDS FEBRUARY 15 4 4 -Daily-Robert Wargo Alicia de Larrocha [u ay- kup res- or ows ear nd of Rent your Roommate with a Classified Ad this KPKMD S$1.50 8%$0 Q: What will 0u A pirgim do After the Petit ion Drive?, FIND OUT YOURSELF WHY EVERYONE'S TALKING ABOUT- A. TWO TH INGS- A DIFFERENT KIND OF COVE STORY NO ONE UNDER 18 ADMITTED UM SAT. & SUN. LIBERTY5.3 - - :0 10 ARBOR 5:30-7-8:30-10 '"" Weekdays 7-8:30-10 MacARTHUR MARGARET w dulcimer Ballads & songs from the United States NEXT WEEK- Mike Seeger O O PFPTH P1O FIFTH AVENU AT DOWNTOWN ANN INFORMIATION 761' 1. There will be an SGC election (recently changed to) March 21. At the same time, students will vote "yes" or "no" on whether to have PIRGIM. At the same time, students will elect PIRGIM directors for the state student board, which will hire staff over the summer and. allocate project monies. 2. There will be projects for PIRGIM volunteers-to work on. Right now PIRGIM people-petitioners,.office staff, team captains, are suggesting pro- jects for PIRGIM energies, Want some action in the areas of environmental quality, racial and sexual discriminatiorn, consumer offairs, community housing and health care, and the functioning of public and private institutions? Call pirgim at 763-2176 with your ideas, or come I STUDENT SERVICES POLICY BOARD open discussion on 1451 _ Hill $MET Z 1 [SE to the office, Room 112 Law Library I TV & Stereo Rentals $10.00 per month 1O DEPOSIT FREE DELIVERY, PICK UP AND SERVICE CALL: NEJAC TV RENTALS 662-5671 1 ACTION FOR A CHANGE S A' Counseling Services '72 Budget I m TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15 the ann arbor filn o-operative SPECIAL RETURN ENGAGEMENT FOR VALENTINE'S DAY! -I 4:00 Third Floor-Michigan Union "All you need is Love, Love. Love is all you need .. . SHOWS AT 1:15-3:45-6:15-8:50 DIAL 5-6290 FEATURE AT 1 :30-4:00-6:30-7:00 Animated Beatles in George Dunning's YELLOW I su ARINE All they wanted was their chance to be men ... and he gave it to them! Design by Heinz Edelman. ELEVEN SONGS! I "Yellow Submarine gave me a new cinematic experience . . . I've seen it twice and expect to see it many more times; for it's impossible to comprehend'it on one or two viewings . .. I think it may come to occupy in the realm of movies the place that Alice in Wonderland and Gulliver's Travels hold in literoture. Yellow Submarine is definitely for the old as well as the young, and for all age- groups in between . .. The first time I saw it I wasn't sure it had a story-line so engrosed was I by the multiplicities with which I wbs stimulated, visually and sonically, on disparate cultural levels (philosophical, sociological, historical, mythological, psychiatric). The visuals are crudely drawn, but this makes no difference, for they are imaginative in the best sense of that abused word. They de- rive from Heironymus Bosch, from Salvador Dali and surrealism, f r o m pop art, and, contemporary comic strips, science fiction and modness in general. The visuals are puns and allusions that relateto almost as many aspects of human experience as do the puns in Finnegan's Wake. So many are "throwaway" lines that it's impossible to r e oc t fast enough to catch them all, not to mention pondering them . . . No music ever married visuals more happily. And no feature-length cartoon ever engrossed eye and ear more harmoniously ... the story is less important than the gags, puns, phantasies, and allusions about humarvexperience-past, pres- ent, and future ... Please see Yellow Submarine more than once."-Henry Hart, Editor, in FILMS IN REVIEW, December 1968 (Publication of the Nat. Board of Motion Pictures, Inc.) I * .. 0 I'