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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Sunday, October 11, 1970
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music
Contemporary concert disappointing
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The Composition Department
of the School of Music offered
the first series of contemporary
Directions Concerts last night at
Rackham Aud. Unfortunately,
the quality of the compositions
presented in this concert was
somewhat questionable a n d
most of the material lacked any
real musical interest.
The first composition present-
ed on the program, Divertimien-
to, by Peter Phillips sounded
like poorly crafted and concep-
tually vacuous Bartok.
The incongruity of physically
produced sounds-finger snap-
ping and instrument pounding
-with the musical material,
which was at least 20 years ear-
lier in concept was amazing.
I find it hard to believe any
composition of such negligable
quality would ever be presented
at a Rackham concert.
Before the concert, I had
looked forward to the perform-
ance of Nexus 16, by Loren Rush.
The structure of this piece is
interesting and I was fortunate
to get a glance at the percussion
score before the presentation.
The most interesting part of
this piece is the form. The con-
ductor, Sidney Hodkinson, in-
dicated particular increments of
time with a clock-like motion
of each extended arm.
The form was interesting, but
there was little to fill the struc-
ture-this piece had two distinct
possibilities:,
1. A content which could have
evolved from a textural blend,
a description in texture or,
2. The opportunity for the au-
dience to perceive individual
sounds.
Rush's piece failed miserably
on both accounts.
The separate sounds were not
distinct, and could not be per-
ceived as separate entities. On
the other hand, the lack of defi-
nition, which could be inter-
preted as an attempt at tex-
tural blend, never evolved and
one was left with the impression
that Rush attempted to blend
two musical forms that could
never be reconciled.
Requiems for the Party Girl
by R. Murray Shafer, is a piece
which rivals Phillip's for its
incongruity.
This piece strives for a par-
ticularly trite gendre of art
which combines post-Webern
serialism with a shallow attempt
at "camp." The soprano, Phyllis
Mailing, attempts vocal suicide
on stage. Shafer trys to blend
this "pop" gendre with a music
which seems essentially stag-
nant - separate phrases joined
by commas. This is another
piece ° which should have been
intercepted some time before
the program.
One comment on the general
structure of the Contemporary
Directions concerts. The con-
certs, in form, are far behind
the types of new expression of-
fered by the Composers.
Whether the performers care
to believe this or not, there is a
definite amount of energy, en-
ergy which could, be properly
channeled into the actual pro-
duction of music, which goes
into the presumptuous nature of
the performer - audience situa-
tion.
By appearance, the perform-
ers should be expected to attend
a funeral shortly after the,
presentation.
Fortunately, there were two
compositions of interest which
made it to this program. One
was the excellent Improvisa-
tions sur Mallarme by P i e r r e
Boulez.
Boulez really does understand
the nature of musical expres-
sion. His sounds are well-plac-
ed, in meaningful sequence, and
always in accord with the syntax
of his language.
The soprano, Phyllis Mail-
ing, was excellent and usually
precise in locating pitch. Some
sounds, particularly the vacuum-
like piano-celeste combinations,
were amazing, but somehow
Boulez is always capable of
maintaining the pace he sets at
the beginning of each piece. The
sounds are beautiful when sep-
arate, but everything works
togetherbin conceptual unity.
The final piece on the pro-
gram, Three Mosquitoes find
they are reunited after a con-
vention in Atlantic City, New
Jersey by Elliot Borishansky was
equal in quality and perform-
ance to the Boulez piece, and
considerably more contempor-
ary as well.
This piece is a theatre piece,
and the expression takes visual
as well as aural form.
Three mosquitoes, in the form
of trumpets, proceed on stage
and mix visual acrobatics with
a well-crafted and humorous
musical blend.
Shortly before the conclus-
ion, the trumpets assume their
normal functions, only to grind
out a trite and washed-out seg-
ment of tonality. Borishansky,
we get your point. Out of sight.
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Participants in both groups,
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