Wage Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tuesday, September 29, 1970 'age Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tuesday, September 29, 1970 music Symphony cultivates precision Writer Dos Passos succumbs at 74 us u r DIAL DOORS OPEN. 12:45 5-6290 SHOWS: AT: 1 -3-5-7-9 By A. R. KEILER On Sunday afternoon the De- troit Symphony Orchestra, with its permanent conductor Sixten Ehrling and soprano soloist Ju-. ith Raskin, inaugurated t h e nusical season at Hill Auditor- um. The hall vas not as full, nor the audience as enthusiastic, .s it could have been. The pro- gram was, in fact, although a trifle conventional for t h e s e days, a demanding and provo- ative one, including as it did an overture of Berlioz The Cor- iair, the Ravel Sheherazade for soloist and orchestra, and the Fourth Symphony of G u s ta v Mahler. Such a program called for the utmost virtuosity together with an appreciation of three highly individual orchestral palettes, This challenge was not met in ll respects equally well. The Detroit Symphony is not yet one of the handful of great American orchestras, but it is a very fine one indeed, and played in this concert better than I have heard them at any time in the past. On this occas- ion, there was some out of tune playing in the strings, espec- ially celli and first-violins, and the brass tended, on occasion, to bleat, especially in 16u d passages. But in general they have cultivated, under the lead- ership of Ehrling, .a great deal more precision, balance of or- chestral choirs, and warmth; and the orchestral bodies, es- pecially the strings, have gained more character and refinement. The orchestra does not yet have a sound distinctly its own, nor a sound carefully re- sponsive to the color and tex- ture of individual composers. Some of this, of course, is the result of Ehrling's leadership. He Dame Judith opens in role of 'Hamlet' SAN FRANCISCO (APj-Dame Judith Anderson, who played amlet's mother 34 years ago, ays she was fulfilling a life- ong ambition last night when he opened in the title role of amlet himself. "I'm doing it because it's the reatest play ever written, and he greatest part ever written." aid the 72-year-old grande ame of the American stage vho had her short brown hair ut even shorter for the role. The casting of a woman as hakespeare's Prince of Den- nark dates to 1777, when the elebrated Sarah Siddons ap- eared as Hamlet in England. ince then, a number of well- nown European and American ctresses have tackled the role. "I don't know why more ac- resses haven't played Hamlet," nderson said. "They'll play eter Pan and L'iglon. I sup- >ose , they're too busy doing air and Oh! Calcutta! Anderson, who played Ham- let's mother in 1936, does hope to make Hamlet both great and enobling. "I think Hamlet was a prince," she said. "I don't know how we will come out, but I know what is in my mind, and my heart and soul ... "Can it be convincing? That remains to be seen. I'm trying with all my heart and soul and I'm putting my whole life in the hands of Mr. Ball." She was referring to director William Ball of the American C o n s e r-v a t o r y Theater, San Francisco's resident repertory company.. Anderson will open before a subscriber's-only audience. The press opening for critics is this evening. After three weeks in San Francisco, the company goes on a 26-week cross-country tour. One city it won't play is Tucson, p Ariz., where the woman theater manager said last month that a woman playing a man's part is obscene. is a meticulous craftsman (sometimes too much so; he seems overly preoccupied w i t h the score during performance), who is concerned more with a careful shaping of the musical line than with orchestral texture and color. I missed therefore, a distince Berlioz "sound", and I did not sense much cultivation, say, of instrumental personifi- cation - some call it program- matic content - in the Mahler symphony The first part of the pro- gram was devoted largely to the to the Ravel songs, and here Raskin disappointed. She has a lovely, although small voice, ap- parently not capable of too much coloristic contrast. H e r diction, however, is nearly flaw- less, especially in French ; moreover, she is able to convey much of the particular yet very different expressiveness pecu- liar to the languages in which she is singing. She was, how- ever, ill at ease in the difficult declamatory style required in the Ravel. She tried too hard to s i n g beautifully in the conventional sense. What is wanted is some- thing akin to reading aloud. The soloist's part is not terribly melodic - the orchestra has.the good parts in this respect. There is phrase after phrase, in fact. that does not exceed the inter- val of a third or fourth, a n d very much of it is monotonic. Her performance was all rather unatmospheric. Ehrling's ac- companiments, however, were expert, with a careful dynamic frame which enhanced the de- licateness of the soloist's part. Ehrling gave a careful a n d engaging account of Mahler's Fourth Symphony, the m a j o r work on the program, and one could mention many felicities of phrasing and articulation. Mahler is a composer without any inhibitions. He does n o t fare well in the hands of a con- ductor with a similar musical personality. Ehrling's interpreta- tion was in no way excessive. He gave great attention to t h e score's counterpoint and built each movement carefully wi t h respect to line and climaxes. For once the climaxes came where Mahler wanted them. Ehrling could have made more of indi- vidual instrumental color and contrast. There was not enough urgency in his reading. T h e jingle-bell ritornello of the last movement, for example, should sound almost frenzied alongside the soloist's naivete. It sounded on this occasion merely tame, For her part, Raskin sang beau- tifully, with just the right inno- cense and directness demanded by the text. BALTIMORE, Md. (AP) -John Dos Passos, noted Amerncan au- thor of the trilogy U. S. A. and more than 30 other books, died this morning at his apartment at the age of 74. He had been troubled by a heart condition for several years, according to a friend. had been released only Satur- day from Good Samaritan Hos- pital. U. S. A. was written in a high- ly original style and formed a literary documentary of t h e early decades of this century. In the work, Dos Passos took the side of labor struggles and lib- eral goals. As he grew older, his views changed. Midcentury, a novel published in 1961, portrayed la- bor leaders and liberals in a less favorable light. By 1964, Dos Passos was endorsing Barry Goldwater's Republican candi- dacy for President. Born in Chicago, Dos Passos was graduated from Harvard College in 1916 and in 1919 published his first book, One Man's Initiation, reprinted in 1946 under the title First En- counter. He first gained wide attention in 1921 with his antiwar novel, Three Soldiers. -Associated Press II -Associated Press Spewk a little louder! Edgar Bargen whispers into Charlie McCarthy's ear as they practice an updated routine in which Effie Klinker will spout lines on Women's Liberation. WANTED! Chairman for ART PRINT LOAN Petitions-.-UAC offices 2nd floor Union "An Incredibly Likeable Film Pretty Heavy Stuff." MDaily OPEN 12:45 SHOWS AT 1-3-5- 7-9 P.M. At State and Liberty Sts. I LIZA MINELLI IN OTTO PREMINGER'S "H IGH EST RATING" -N.Y. Daily News DIAL 8-6416 4 I' Ends Wednesday Tonight At 7-9 P.M. 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