Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tuesday, February 15, 1972 Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tribute to Schubert The first vocal recital for the Power Center will be held this Thursday featuring the baritone of the Metropolitan Opera Com- pany, Hermann Prey. Prey will sing a collection of 18 Schcbert songs, among those Schwanengesang, in recognition of the 175th anniversary of the composer's birth. Born in Berlin Prey began his career by winning the Meister- singer Competition sponsored by the U.S. Armed Forces in Ger- many in 1952. He later appeared with Eugene Ormandy, the Wash- ington National Symphony, the Hamburg Opera, and the Vienna State Opera. Tickets, priced at $6, 5, 4, and 3, are available at the Burton Memorial Tower or at the Power Center box office beginning at 6:30 Thursday. At State and Liberty TATE Program Information 662-6264 Open~ 1 P.M. Daily 5 P.M.-7 P.M.-9 P.M. "IT'S A SIZZLER" -Detroit News "ONE OF THE YEAR'S TEN BEST" -Time "Come on like gangbust- ers . . . I doubt if you'll see anything quite as devostating.y -Michigan Daily r aF }L i "ryv: {j P .U: r " fi ?Y~tt n Interested in the future of Curriculum? or Interested in developing your own individual academic program? Then, Come to on informal discussion on curriculum and teaching at the LSA CO FFEE HOUR TODAY!-3:30-4:30 2549 LSA Building Hot Chocolate and Doughnuts Express your opinion to the curriculum dean CHAR- LES WITKE (and others involved in curriculum planning) and explore the real possibilities in LSA. $ . ; 1 ., _. w. A -Daily-Sara Krulwich It'et bitter here' DIAL 665-6290 By ROB BIER the EN Can a 33-year-old singer/song- It had writer find fame after years of nowher honest toil and still remain than m honest? Sometimes. And Satur- Warn day night at Hill Auditorium, opened Gordon Lightfoot gave a sellout strel o crowd glimpses from both sides muggin of the door which leads to fame. a step- On the "outside" he was the sort of unassuming "minstrel of the the son dawn," singing his ballads of and ag wandering and of bittersweet ing-sin love with -the intensity and feel- a whil ing- they require. "Inside" the got abs door. Lightfoot looked the hip "As folksinger, with his Dylanesque And so beard, see-through lace shirt, long I, denim. bells and white leather generat boots. He strutted around the Cohen stage "like Arnold Palmer when got th he makes a long putt -as one you're concertgoer put it-mugging, gig- started gling and exchanging mysterious We' looks with his sidemen. said. " Throughout his two sets, Light- five y foot stepped back and forth wife is through that door. It was discon- her $20 certing. at first, but one began her." gradually to sense that all this jointed was. not s i m p 1 e buffoonery. intro b Something :was out of whack, mike. and it seemed to be hurting. "it . -Things remained strangely life- and sw less; despite the noisey applause, Side," through the first half of the set. streets Then -came : "Don Quixote," a how g new song, somewhat in the fash- bad it ion of his earlier "Finders Keep- The ers," :but with a more powerful numbi melody and a veritable flood of broket one-liners describing people of all silly ar sorts. The au( Finally he seemed to be en- Ligh joying a song, and the next one, bars of "On Susan's Floor," was even logy,' better. A sad/happy reminisence again, of times and people, he simply tried closed his eyes and sang. No again, grotesque faces. No v a c a n t memb stares. Fina After the set was over, the Young thing which struck me most was perb j the labored apology he gave for triology accepting $2,000 to do a gig at this ti 'ACT rally two years ago. seemed to spring from e, but had more feeling ost of the songs he did. med up at last, Lightfoot the second set with "Min- f the Dawn" and more ng. On the line, "just like 'n-fetchit here," a broken half-laugh almost stopped ng. Another wistful ballad ain, he was simply sing- mply. Things were nice for e, and then the weirdness solutely thick. you might know, I'm 33. ometimes I wonder how can continue to bridge the Lions. But as Leonard says, 'As long as you've he gleam in your' eye, all right.' " Then, he in on hi sestranged wife. re getting a divorce," he It's been going on for five ears now. Wherever my now-in her Porsche or 00,000 mansion-this is to The delivery was flat, dis- ; no hype. And as the began, he stepped to the gets bitter here," he said, Wang into "Try to See My a song of knocking around and bars; remembering od it had been and how became. effect was stunning, if not, ng, but a few more songs that up. Then, he told a nd slightly off-color story. idience tittered, uneasy. bMoot began the opening >f "Canadian Railroad Tri- and stopped. Started and broke it off. Then he "Changes" and halted joking, "Jeez. I don't re- er that." lly, he sang. "Come In Stranger" and did a su- rob. Then he started the y again, and kept it going me. Later, Lightfoot said that after that "ridiculous story, I found in all honesty that I couldn't go into the trilogy." But the time for honesty had come at long last. With its visions of virgin wilderness and man's (no women on the roadgangs) struggle against it, this song meant something to him. The applause was wild, and he came back for two encores, Dylan'sb"North CountryeFair" and his own first big one, "Early Morning Rain." 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