THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Friday, February S, 1971
THE MICHIGAN DAILY Friday, February 5, 1971
records
Back-up vocalists
stars of blah record
By FARGO BERMAN
Occasionally a backup vocal
group called the Blackberries
comes on sounding as yummy as
an egg cream on a summer (or
winter) day. Those few moments
are the only reprieve on the
tiresome new Fever Tree album
For Sale (Ampex 10113). Side
one is a bunch of short cuts
performed proficiently and with
all the ingenuity and excitement
of Muzak, if that dentist office
drivel included second rate rock.
Side two is more worthless, a
thirteen minute repetitious ren-
dering of "Hey Joe."
Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac
fame makes a serious attempt at
music on The End of the Game
(Reprise 6436) with several hits
and misses. The bulk of Green's
electric guitar work on this non-
vocal release involves slurring
together single notes with the
aid of a wah-wah pedal. The
first track, "Bottoms Up," is
formula "live at the Poobah
Ballroom" rock jam, but most
of' the album is free form jazz,
including piano and organ, God-
frey Maclean providing fine jazz
percussion, and Alex Dmochow-
ski doing some good electric
bass. Green is a subtle musician
and generally tries to make eachj
sound and nuance count toward
the entire piece at hand. Game
requires close, patient listening
and is not quite rewarding
enough to deserve such atten-
slightly new because some of
those old Fleetwood Mac echoy
British blues sounds linger on
herein.
Phew. The misses occur on
Miles Davis' Bitches Brew (Co-
lumbia GP 26) but who cares.
So you float down to sixth heav-
en for a few moments. Yes,
there's even those classic non-
informative liner notes saying
how you can not say anything
about the music except wow'
and the notes are right. A stun-
ning double album with Davis
on cosmic t ru mp et, Wayne
Shorter on sax, Harvey Brooks
on Fender bass, Chick Corea on
electric piano and more and
more and so many of those "is"
moments.Check out the cover
in the record store. The music
inside is much the same.
The Evil Eye (1961)
Stephane Audran in the center
of a love triangle and destroyed
by the work of a camera's evil
eye-the look that kills.
Also a beer festival. Subjective
unfolding of guilt. A film cen-
tral in the contest of the total
work of this great director.
r Presents
THE ALVIN -AlLEY
AMERICAN DANCE THEATRE
Direct from six sold-out weeks in Moscow, Leningrad,
Kiev, Zaporozhe, Donetsk and Boroshilobgrad
Friday, February 12, 8:30
IN HILL AUDITORIUM
Lecture-Demonstration Thursday, February 11. Tickets: $1.00
PROGRAM: TOCCATA (Music: Lao Shiffrin; and Dizzy Gillespie); THE
JOURNEY (Music: Charles Ives) ; ARCHIPELAGO (Music: Boucourechliev;
BLUES SUITE (Music: Traditional); and REVELATIONS (Music: Tradi-
tional) .
TICKETS: $6.00-$5.50-$5.00-$4.00-$3.00-$2.00
at
UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY, BURTON TOWER, ANN ARBOR
Office Hours: Mon. thru Fri., 9 to 4:30; Sat., 9 to 12 (Telephone 665-3717)
(Also at Auditorium box office 11x hours before performance time)
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-Daily-Jin Judkis
Play
becomes'
Ann
4rbor dance
troupe
Perhaps you could attend this
evening. Get there by eight and
at least make up for past mis-
takes_ Andi jst in case ou are
DON'T MISS!
TONIGHT-SUN.!
2:30 & 8:00!
By LAURIE HARRIS
I set out for Canterbury House
last night. A freezing rain had
clogged the streets and, daintily
I picked my way through the still
solid flows of ice and chunky
water. I missed. A cold rush set
up my ankle and into my calf.
Canterbury was only half a block
ahead.
I entered their alleyway. After
all, I was a reviewer and they
had told me Martin in Heaven,
by Peter Griffith, was to be put
on at eight and nine p.m. It was
nine o'clock when I opened the
door.
A mysterious wavering of bod-
ies steeped in shadow greeted my
dampened eyes. I had been ex-
pecting something strange, but
not this strange. As a matter of
fact, at nine o'clock I had been
expecting a bunch of people wait-
ing for a play to begins not al-
ready engrossed in the action.
But, alas, I had been misin-
formed. This was the U of M
Dance Troupe scheduled for 9:15
and starting much earlier. Mar-
tin in Heaven must have fallen.
What I can tell you is this:
the dance troupe is exceptional-
much better than anything I had
been expecting in Ann Arbor. In
a series of five or six short com-
positions the group built up and
relaxed tension according to their
planned desire.,
"Duet', a short piece with mu-
sic and choreography by John
Cwiakala, was an intriguing ar-
rangement between body and;
sound. Cwiakala would bend at
the waist then slowly turn his
torso as though it were a screw
entering the woodwork. In a mas-
tery of control the two portions of
his body became separate and yet
worked together for a final syn-
thesis.
raded before her-ghosts of a
hair-curler, sleepy eyed evening
delaying her quest into morning.
I first glance into the mirror ...
it can't really be me! And then
testing out the audience unseen
glassy surface like a child's 'first
encounter with a mirror. How far
can you stretch before you dis-
appear? And the joy of discover-
ing it was still her, even though
she couldn't see it in the elusive
glass.
T w o 'Internal Combustion'
pieces and 'Studies in Silence'
filled out the program that I was
fortunate enough to see. They
were studies in motion versus in-
ertia, humor and gaiety versus
frustration.
The group's ability was engros-
sing and the audience, small as
it was, because of the weather, I
presume, pushed and strained
and tugged their muscles along
with the performers.
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SPECIAL STUDENT DISCOUNT!
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tion.Among the field of jazz-
low on things to do over the next guitar jazz Green has too many
few weekends, the Ann Arbor competitors far in advance of
in himself. But even if he doesn't
Drama Festival is continuing i learn a few jazz chords in the
Canterbury House, whether Can- future, Green looks promising in
terbury House knows it or not. his slightly new direction. I say
s n
University of Michigan Film Society (ARM)
presents
LOLITA7
with Peter Sellers,
James Mason, Sue Lyon
8 & 10:30 p.m.-Friday-Saturday-Sunday
331 Thompson St. 761-9751
contribution $1
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662-8871
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friday 8, 10, 12 p.m.
alice lloyd hall-763-7095
50c-2 99c with this ad
Buck Rogers is at Alice's every
Wed. It's free, so come
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WHAT ARE CHABROL
FILMS LIKE ?
"In my next one," Chabrol says,
"I'll kill everyone, but it's no
big deal. They're living at the
beginning and dead at the end.
In between there's a story about
a man who breaks the Ten Com-
mandments one by one. CATH-
ERINE DENEUVE will star, and
of course ORSON WELLES will
play God."
-Interview with Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times, Jan. 24
CHABROL: Cinema Guild
Thurs.-Sun.
Diane Elliot's 'Funeral Break-
fast Blues' was a humorous con-
ception of it's title. Figures pa- I
The University of Michigan Bands
presents a
"POPS" CONCERT
featuring
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PETERNERO
AND HIS TRIO
with
The University of Michigan Symphony Band
Sunday. Feb. 14 34:30 P.M.
HILL AUDITORIUM
TICKETS: $2.00 $2.50 $3.00
General Sales Feb. 8-13 at Hill Box Office, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
MAIL ORDERS: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN BANDS
1024 Administration Bldg.
The University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
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