Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, October 29, 1970 Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, October 29, 1970 Electronic media: The free-form style music Boring musical Directions' By JONATHAN MILLER Even if the profit motive lies beneath virtually all use of the electronic media, radio and tele- vision, there are some good pro- grams to be seen and heard and some of them are unique to Ann Arbor. ' The type of highly individual- istic "free-form" approach to radio, which made its appear- ance on the West Coast only three years ago, has spread across the continent until there is now an "underground" radio station in nearly every large city in the United States. While often these stations are public service corporations and non-profit enterprises, run by University students, every now and again, as if by accident, a creative D-J finds his, way onto the ether to amuse, bemuse and stimulate an audience which actually listens to, and hears, a program in an esthetic level. One of those stations, where underground radio has man- aged to exist without play lists or a format of any kind, is WNRZ-FM stereo which boasts radio as an art form every night of the week from 9:00 p.m. to "five fifty four thirty," which means in the trade,5:54 and 30 seconds, a.m. While a possible diaority of students listei to stations such as WABX, play lists' and all, a small but fast 'gr wing corps of music lovers is tufing in to Lar- ry Monroe's radio program at 1:00 a.m. each day to listen to a positively bewildering experi- ence in radio. Larry's show is put together around whatever he feels like communicating, be it the state of the nation of the state of the music industry. Caustic and cynical in his dealings with the straight me- dia's approach to music broad- ..... .a : e::.: .ta : :y.:: :. : +a w DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN .: 1*## r?:iv:::"v;w . } } M r fSfm ::}5 :;i: iUC :::r:R .:''.:" %'::%'.:~ .v...v r.r"?.."::v casting Larry struggles, with in- ferior equipment and an inade- quate library to keep his show on the air, in the hope that enough people will listen in to prevent the p r o g r a m from floundering for lack of ratings. There should be no problem with ratings since Larry has, without any doubt at all, the finest program in South East Michigan for not so rocky rock'n'roll, progressive country and spoken word, blues and some jazz. Making extensive use of al- bums by the Firesign Theatre and Lenny Bruce upon which he hangs the rest of the program, his framework of top-class satire and high quality music, should make his show a must for a supposedly intelligent listening public, composed in the most part by students. With public service emphasis on telling people about the serv- ices available to the youth com- munity in the city and with radio news that is often artistic as well as newsy,rit would be thought that Larry was the most listened to phenomena this side of WABX, but not so-at least, not yet. Many students never even move their FM dials past 101, which is WXYZ, or below 99.5, which is WABX and it is with a certain type of bemused amaze- ment that anyone ever discovers a station on 102.9. Those that do move their dials up that far rarely move them back. Larry's program has become an avante guarde talking piece in campus society, and, for sure, more people are turning on all the time. The only problem is, will they turn on fast enough to save the show from death at the hands of just one more scream- ing D-J and top 40 mentality. 1 By JOE PEHRSON I'm beginning to tire of writing bad reviews of Contem- porary Directions concerts. It amazes me that some of what is currently considered "establish- ed"music is actually as trite as much of the music heard on these programs. Last night at Rackham Audi- torium, the second in a series of concerts in the Contemporary Music Festival was presented by the School of Music. It.seems really illogical and certainly an extension of un- favorable criticism to state that there was only one piece on the program that had any great amount of musical interest. This was the case. "Interpola- tion," by Haubenstock-Ramati, a work for flute accompanied by pre-recorded tapes of flute sound, was the only original and vibrant work on the pro- gram. Ramati has created a beauti- ful piece. Beginning with a flute solo, this work expands in space as the accompaniment, the pre-' recorded flute, is added. Ramati, unfortunately, is not particular- ly interested in emotional con- tent in his works but concen- trates instead on describing con- tours in what is essentially a cubical, and partially gestural, method of unfolding. Emotion was not really stated, but I felt an analogy to the cubical musical structure was stated in the physical design of the piece, the placement of the sound events. The soloist, Nelson Hauen- stein, formed one vertex of an equilateral triangle; the other points were formed by the tape, sounds. Ramati gave the im- pression of creating, in this mathematical p 1 a c e m e n t of sound, an analogy to his type of composition: essentially a math- enratical and cubical statement. This is a beautiful piece, and one of the very few which might be described as in the "gestural" tradition-a method of composi- tion in which separate and dis- tinct musical gestures are re- lated one with another. Ramati's piece really bothers to reconcile these separate elements. The Chudacoff work "Five Pieces for Piano" sounded quite well, but was decidedly unorigi- nal. The performance, by Dady Metha, in some respect compen- sated for a piece which falls somewhere in the serial-Schoen- berg- Stockhausen tradition (at practically the half-way point between these two composers) without really describing a style of its own. Alberto Ginastera might be defined as a "good" composer in what is currently considered the established contemporary tradi- tion. This is "good" music, but somehow seems to just barely make it above this line (a some- what arbitrary line-again, like everything else, this is point of view). One of the high points of the "Concerto Per Corde" was a re- conciliation of a semi-tone motif in the first movement, 'Varia- bioni per i solisti," with sections of refreshing slavic folk ele- ments (reminiscent of Bartok) near the end. Another was an interesting section of glissandi in the second movement, but aside from these rather separat- ed statements, the work had little interest. Conductor Theo Alcantara was a time machine. The last piece by Ginistera, "Bomarzo," I found downright offensive. This work is based on a sickengly romatic tale of the Duke of Bomarzo and, in the composer's own words: "I see Bomarzo not as a man or the Renaissance, but as a man of our time. We live nowadays in an age of anxiety, an age of sex, an age of violence . . ." Ho Hum. Ginastera lacks an under- standing of a process which might be seen as only an exten- sion of what has gone before, and not a complete revalation particular only to this time. He has decidedly overstated his point; I hope some people were impressed. Free Instructions Union Billiards 10 A.M.-NOON SAT. REDUCED RATES 9 A.M.-NOON MON.-SAT. 1 P.M,-6 P.M. SUNDAY LEN QUENON WAS BACKLASHED NOW LEN LASHES BACK Last Spring Len Quenon lost his bid for re-election to City Council. As a Councilman, Len served all segments of the community, includ- ing students and tenants. " Len introduced the resolution to ask for abolition of Michigan's constitutional limitations on stu- dents' voting rights, and fought for it at the State level . 0 Len was the key man in ruling damage deposits unconscionable, setting up landlord security escrow arrangements, and writing the new Housing Code. ISQUITE SIMPLY, THE BEST AMERICAN FILM I'VE SEEN THIS YEAR! ~-N' fltcalEby NRAMO2' P U~fRP D'RI1Ii%. I ODiII 2P.w ' fNN1N C PSLtis A MINE NICHOLS FILM ALAN ARKIN a 4 JOSEPH HELLER t :.::J MARTIN BALSAM.RICHAROENJAWN, ARIHURGARFUMQL; JACK GILFORO. BUCK HENRY;IBBNEWHART, ANTHONYPERKINS PAULANIshIISs SARTISETIJONVSHTI ORSONIWELUS ASORULE. SCREENPLAYBY BUCK HENRY PROOfaBtfY JOA N CALLEY MARTIN RANSOE IRIECTEDBYN MNICHMOIS ,ua sirm sat i oARes itleR tttnnsm :a0p' 5nws erO y r u IC4 I I u n ariuIwtr fu s a4It5Ielas DIAL 5-6290 SHOWS AT 1,3,5,7,9:10 .. I October 28-November 1 quirk auditorium for reservations: 487-1220 during box office hours (week- days 12:45-4:30 p.m.) AN EMU PLAYERS SERIES PRODUCTION THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE "THE BEN-HUR OF THE MOTORCYCLE PICTURES" IT'S-Saturday Review as C.C.Rydr' as his girl f laving, brawling and R bustin it up ColorbyMo elob- SAN AVCO IMSASSY-UAS1 STATE Theater At State & Liberty Sts. DIAL 662-6264 OPEN 12:45 Shows at 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 HALLOWEEN FESTIVAL WED., OCT. 28: The Cat People dir. JACQUES TOUTNER (1942) Girl believes she turns into a cat as a result of a curse. THURS., FRI., OCT. 29-30: The Day the Earth Stood Still dir. ROBERT WISE (1951) Michael Rennie tries to save Earthmen from themselves. SAT., SUN., OCT. 31-NOV. 1: The Mask of Fu Manchu This Sax Rohmer favorite replaces the unfortunately unavailable Psycho. COMEDIES FESTIVAL STARTING MONDAY 7 & 9:05 ARCHITECTURE 662-8871 75C AUDITORIUM A The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of the Univer- sity of Michigan. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTIEN f o r m to Room 3528 L. S. A. Bldg., before 2 p.m., of the day preceding pub- lication and by 2 p.m. Friday for Saturday and Sunday. Items ap- pear once only. Student organiza- tion notices are not accepted for publication. For more information, phone 764-9270. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29 j Day Calendar Postgraduate Medicine Conference: "Advances in Bedside Diagnosis, "Tows- ley Center, 9 a.m.; "Perspectives in In- fectious Diseases," M. Finland, M.D., Harvard -U., Towsley Center, 8:15 a.m. Physics Lunch Seminar: M. Misakian, "Final States in the Dissociative Exci- tation of Molecular Hydrogen, P&A Colloq. Rm., 12 noon. Library Science Lecture: "The Lib- rary's Responsibility for an Informed Electorate": Multi-purpose Rm, Under- grad. Library, 2 p.m. Engineering Iechanics Lecture: Dr. V. G. Korneev, Leningrad State Univ., "The Finite Element Method as a Method of Numerical Mathematics": 229 W. Engin., 4 p.m. Statistics Seminar: G. Mirham, U. of Pa., "A Generalized Density for Logari- thmic Variates," 2203 Angell Hall, 4 p.m. Speech Student Lab Theatre: "The (Continued on Page 8) ORGANIZATION NOTICES American Field Service meeting, Sun., Nov. 1, 7:00 p.m. 3C, Union. Christian Science Organization, To- day, 7:30 p.m., 3545 SAB. Regular meet- ing. All are welcome. * * * U of M Flyers' Second Annual Avia- tion Day", Oct. 31, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m., Rain date: Nov. 1, Cars leave Union every 15 minutes. Airplane Rides, everyone welcome! Creative Arts Festival Mass Meeting, Tues., Nov. 3, Union Ballroom 8:00 p.m. SOPH SHOW '70's production of CAN-CANopn next Thursday night at 8 P.M You can get your opening night tickets TODAY or tomorrow in the FISHBOWL for $2.25. Join The Daily Today! man is the king of beasts... Len's defeat came in the after- math of a scurrilous advertising campaign by the Republican Party accusing Democrats of being per- missive to "rioters" and "revolu- tionists." Len was smeared. Now Len is back for more-this time at the County level. County, unlike City government administers welfare and controls the Sheriff's budget. While Len does not believe in giving away the entire 'public treasury to welfare recipients or handcuffing the Sheriff, he does hope to bring about some needed improvements in both areas. You can help. PULL THE LEVER FOR LEN For County Commissioner X ERNEST L. QUENON 4 General ticket sales start Nov. 2 in the Mendelssohn box office MAYL I EMU University Activities Board presents I AwastA" =00 TRAFFIC and TEAGARDEN & VAN WINKLE NOVEMBER 8-8:30 P.M. at Bowen Fieldhouse Ypsilanti, Mich. TICKETS: $3.00, $3.50, $4.00, $4.50 AVAILABLE MON., OCTOBER 26, at: Little Things, Ann Arbor EMU McKenny Union, Ypsilanti Ned's Bookstore, Ypsilanti J.L. Hudson, Detroit _ 11 max von sydow liv ullmann bibi andersson erland josephson director of photography seennykvist produced bysvensk fiimindustri-cinematograph COLOR by DeLuxet R Pa <- ; v ii DIAL 8-6416 5=1WO I i. .___ -. ._ -._ _.__ __-- _ -- . f ARM American Revolutionary Media presents Jean-Luc Godard's A Woman is a Woman with Anna Karina Jean-Paul Belmondo in COLOR BERLIN FESTIVAL PRIZE WINNER "Pungently detailed, disarmingly original. Godard makes his joy in his work contagious."-Time Oct. 29 Thursday & Friday Oct. 30 7:30, 9:15, 11:00 p.m. contribution $1.00 330_MAYNARD/btwnWilliam & Liberty 11 11 IF; All are welcome to the Baratin Cof- fee Hour every Thurs., 3-5 Frieze 3050. Open invitation to people interested in French Language and Culture. China Cinema. A Chinese language action film with English subtitles plus second feature: "Night at the Peking Opera" Oct. 31, Sat. 8 p.m., Nat. Sci. Aud. Chinese Students Association pro- gram In conjunction with Center for Chinese Studies, admission charge. Jazz Classical Pop Rock Folk @MWestern Opera I IN University of Michigan School of Music presents 1970 Festival of Contemporary Music THIRD CONCERT FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 8:00 P.M. Hill Auditorium Guest composer: Alberto Ginastera Ives: Psalm 54 Ginastera: Two Chorales from the opera Bomadzo Schoenberg: Veroundenheit, De Profundis Wouldn't it be nice to get away from it a ll for just a little while? Wouldn't it be great to really enjoy yourself for a change? TRY IT. THE MICHIGAN-ILLINOIS --I i 9 i R I IliI ____ "MANIC HILARITY! IF YOU DON'T LAUGH.. . YOU MAY START SCREAMING!" -DETROIT NEWS Top Names Top Label LP Albums at DISCOUNT PRICES AT III - lh JOINT GLEE CLUB CONCERT Friday, November 6-8:00 P.M. I II HIM11 U Y%$i'i!": ::$'? . EE 'UUi A * U El I'': '''E...IU ' . r.:: .} 1