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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Friday, September 24, 1971
Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Friday, September 24, 1971
Going Baroque
with Ars Musica
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By DAVE FRIEDO
How about a little Telemann,
Bach or Vivaldi chamber music?
Or if you are a real devotee you
may be interested in some of
their contemporaries such as
Sammartini, Quantz or Marais.
In any case, if you enjoy Baroque
chamber music or would like to
get to know it, the performances
this year of Ars Musica will -in-
terest you.
Ars Musica, w h i c h simply
means "art music," is the brain-
child of Lyndon Lawless, 26, a
1967 graduate of the School of
Music. In the fall of 1970 he
formed the 15-member chamber
ensemble, which performed eight
regular concerts its first year.
most of which were in the Ann
Arbor area. Ars Musica also per-
formed two small concerts-one
at the Alley and one this past
summer at the Art Fair.
Five Ann Arbor concerts are
planned for the coming season
and are scheduled to be held
at St. Clare's Episcopal Church.
2309 Packard. The first concert
will be at 8 p.m., Sunday'
Oct. 10.
Lawless, who has very deii-.
nite and creative ideas on per-
forming Baroque chamber music
and trying to gain audience in-
terest, plans to keep the con-
certs to a comfortable one and a
half hours of music. He has gone
to great expense and currently
is spending all his time on build-
ing the group, acquiring music,
studying performance practices,
and doing his own publicity. The
theme for the posters this year
is "Go Baroque."
"I had to learn how to do my
own art work," Lawless said. "I
didn't know anything about silk-
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screening until I had to start
thinking about how to make pos-
ters."
Lawless s t a r t e d from the
ground up. One of the main. in-
struments in a Baroque ensem-
ble is the harpsichord; so Law-
less went out and bought a
harpsichord kit, put it together
and then taught himself how to
play it. (His main instrument in
college was the clarinet.) The
results of his efforts is a Iresh
approach to the performance
and enjoyment of Baroque cham-
ber nusic.
Lawless, who is a soft-spoken
and sports a goatee, explained
his philosophy behind the f'r-
mation of Ars Musica:
"My idea is to provide a re-
laxed, human, spontaneous type
of affair rather than the slick,
pompous atmosphere of most
concerts. My goal is to try to
get the audience closer to the
music. Before the concerts, for
example, the musicians mingle
with the audience. And during
the concert we try to get the
people to sit as close as possible
to the musicians. Being close,
the people can then see what is
happening - the facial expres-
sions, and the interactions be-
tween the performers."
-Daily-Jim Judkis
'Guitar Player'
Bocther's
lines invite
All the music on this year's
concert schedule ranges from
1664 to 1773, and another of Lav -
less' goals is to try to perform
the music the way in which it
was intended.
"We are going to try co re-
capture a lost tradition of per-
formance. Many of the embell-
ishments, for example, which_
were intended to be played are
not notated in the music because
it was natural for the perform-
ers of the time to fill them in.
Today, most groups don't do this
because they are steeped in a
19th century style of performance
practice."
Ars Musica rehearses in Law-
less' basement and the musicians
who range in age from 19 to 26
are paid a token amount. The
group is patterned after Con-
centus Musicus Vienna, a very
successful European B a r o q u e
ensemble which will be coming
to Ann Arbor on Nov. 6. But
even though Ars Musica may not
be ready to record for Tele-
funken, as does their European
counterpart, these musicians of
Ann Arbor - students and ama-
teurs -were received last year
with the enthusiasm of capacity
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audiences and encouraging re-
viewers.
As a final note, one thing has
changed since last year and
that's the price of admission.
Ironically, by charging $1.75, it
is Ars Musica itself which will,
you might say, try to keep from
"going broke."
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imaginative viewers
By CYNTHIA THOMAS
The upstairs gallery at Bor-
ders Book Shop, located at 518
East William, offers several ab-
sorbing pen and ink drawings by
Swiss artist Roland Bucher. Al-
though many incorporate flat
water color and collage, line
dominates over any element of
his mixed media.
The fairly small drawings
break up the surface in a cubis-
tic manner, and bring to mind
Salvador Dali's habit of hiding
figures and objects from the
once-over-lightly viewer. For
example, only after close study
can the twenty faces in "The
Highwayman" be f o u n d; -
throughout all the drawings are
curious combinations of the na-
tural world demanding careful
scrutiny.
"Guitar Player," in pen and
ink, minces up guitar and play-
er as they take on each other's
characteristics: fingers remind
one of carved wooden pipes;
Art fair set
On the first Sunday of every
month, S t u d e n t Government
Council, University Activities
Center, and the Office of Spe-
cial Services and Programs will
sponsor an art fair. From April
to September the fair will be
held on East University Ave..
and from October to March, the
fair will be located in the Mich-
igan Union Ballroom.
The fair is open to all Uni-
versity and Ann Arbor artists
interested in selling or display-
ing their crafts. Because of the
costs involved in putting on the
fair, all artists will be charged
a fee of $2 for their table.
In addition to the artists el-
ing or displaying their crafts,
the sponsors plan to provide a
variety of entertainment at the
fair. Because of space limita-
tion, only the first 50 artists can
be accepted, so be sure to re-
turn the registration form to
Room 240, Michigan Union as
soon 'as possible.
Artists, entertainers, workers,
and anyone wishing to sell food
are all needed. Interested per-
sons should contact Vic Gutman,
Room 238, Michigan Union, or
call 764-7409.
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fingernails look like clarinet
reeds; parts of the guitar be-
come humanoid.
Another drawing, "945", uses
the checkerboard motif found in
much of Bucher's work. While it
was pure pattern in "Guitar
Player," it becomes a linoleum
floor in this one. 945 refers to
the number on the door of a
room which is. easily recognized
as a prison cell.
A small likeness of Rodin's
"Thinker" sits on a low table,
surrounded by visions of thehun-
fulfilled dreams which haunt
him in his incarceration: a dis-
jointed nude woman, a tobacco
pipe, a fork, and a beef steak.
The complexity of meaning is
matched by a complexity of
form. Underneath the profuse
surface textures and lines, large
blocks of tone, shaped like tri-
angles and trapezoids, add over-
all unity.
The subtlety of these tonal
blocks, whether in color or
shades of gray, provides effective
contrastnwith the power of Bu-
cher's lines.
The enigmatic quality of his
work persuades 'the viewer to
explore its depth and gain a
calm sense of satisfaction.
For the student body:
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