Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sotturdoy, December 5, 1970 Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturdoyr December 5, 1970 music- A summer tradition in winter .:":By LAURIE HARRIS I sometimes wonder if peo- ple know what a benefit con- cert is. To me, it means per- forming artists are coming grat- is (flight and accomodations are the only things paid for) so that the proceeds f r o m that concert may assist some finan- cially needy organization. This Sunday seems to be the day that the benefit concert of all benefit concerts is going to hit the Ann Arbor area - the benefit for the Ann Arbor Blues Festival. The list of performers isa pretty formidable one, in- cluding Junior Wells and Buddy Guy, Dave Alexander, Otis Rush, More incredible ARTS, Page 6 Luther Allison and Johnny Win- ter. Most of the players are rep- resentative of the City Blues out of Chicago. Junior Wells, who has appeared in both of the p a s t festivals is a legendary harmonica player and recently, he and Buddy Guy, his guitar player, cut an album with Eric Clapton as producer.,These two are the epitome of the Chicago Blues as it is played today on the Southside of the city. D a e Alexander, a piano player, was so well received this Spast summer at the festival that he stuck around town and play- ed two more gigs. Otis Rush is probably the greatest living blues guitar player after B. B. King today. He has b e en a mainstay on the West Side of ;Chicago for fifteen years play- {ing blues, jazz and soul. Besides being a fine musician, he has -Daily-David Baker witten .I can't quit you baby," records Ravaging the TVictor Vault' with a loss of about thirty thou- sand dollars. And of course, the late announcement of the seem- ingly more attractive Goose Lake Festival drew many ex- pected attendants from the Blues Festival to the commer- cial reknown of Russ Gibbs. The need for expanded health, latrine and water facilities cut into the Blues Festival budget to the amount of about 25 thousand dollars. And an ex- orbitant fee was required for adequate policing of just beyond the festival grounds-none with- in. In this manner mounting fi- nancial fingers pared away at the festival's budget . and they weren't even trying to make money; they just wanted to break even. The Blues Festival will not repeat next year if the commun- ity does not support Sunday's benefit concert. According to Dan Burke of the Canterbury House, one of the sponsors, they do not need to make up all the deficit. only a large proportion of it. The rest can be supple- mented by contributions which the Blues Festival Committee is willingly accepting. Tickets are on sale now at Discount Records, t h e Union Lobby and Students Interna- tional. They range in price from $3.50 to $5.50 and it seems well worth it to help support a sum- mer tradition even though its winter. 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His jam with Johnny Winter, the acclaimed albino blues gui- tarist from Texas, this pas summer was one of the hits of the entire festival and they re- turn this Sunday with, perhaps, another collaboration. Just sit back and think about it. It's a bit of everything fiom this past summer's festival with the repetition weeded out. Of course the Events Building isn't quite an open park, and a star- lit evening will not be casting it's natural light over the au- dience. But in the middle of a thirty degree week, it doesn't seem likely that even the most avid of blues fans would rest their cushiony bottom on the now frozen grass of summer. The Blues Festival is in dire need of the community's assis- tance. An average of eight thou- sand people per day filled the summer festival's gates and each paid only ten dollars for three days filled with incredible mu- sic. And that ten dollars per head was not enough to cover the expenses that magnified continually through the festi- val's preparation stages. Buffetted between the city's and the University's bureaucrat- ic annals, the festival ended up Dec. 4, 5-Friday & Saturday Henderson Room 227 S. Inga contribution $1.00 8:00 & 10:00 p.m. MICHIGAN LEAGUE ills near Hill Aud. r I HEY YOU The Michigan Daily, edited and man- a tec by students at the University of Micnigan. News phone: 764-0552. Second Class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Mich- igan, 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor Michigan 48104. Published daly Tues- day through Sunday morning Univer- sity year. Subscription rates: $10 by carrier, $10 by mat Summer Session published- Tuesday through Saturday morning. Subscrip- tion rates: $5. by carrier, $5 by mail. C?- By JOHN HARVITH More champagne for the dis- criminating classical r e c o r d collector at cold d u c k prices, but this time of a different la- bel and vintage. For this review inaugurates what promises to be a most fruitful relationship be- tween Daily readers and Vic- trola RCA's budget ($2.93) la- bel. Victrola, originally famous (ca. WWI) as the trade name for the Victor Talking Machine Company's hand-cranked acous- tical record-player, n o w is RCA's prime. outlet for re-re- leasing historic discs in its fam- ed "Victor Vault." The Victor Company had been the m o s t ambitious and successful clas- sical recording firm in the U.S. from about 1903 to 1929, amas- sing recordings of virtually all the great singers and instru- mentalists of that "Golden Age" in music. When RCA subsequent ly boughtout Victor (1929), it ac- quired legal rights' to the mas- ters of these recordings a n d continued to record on its own, but relied increasinglys on its European affiliates to supply the bulk of its catalogue in the 1930's. As a result, most of the great conductors as well as vo- calists a n d instrumentalists then appeared under the aegis of the domestic RCA Victor la- bel - Toscanini, Koussevitzky and Stokowski in domestically recorded discs; Bruno Walter, Furtwaengler and Beecham in European-mastered, domestical- ly pressed records. By a cruel twist of corporate fate, many of t h e best-selling European re- cordings of t h e 1930's which first appeared in the U.S. on RCA Victor, are now capturing the domestic classical market on Angel's budget label, Sera- phim. In a counter-marketing move, RCA has finally decided to reissue the legendary Victor material, as well as its own do- mestic recordings ca. 1930/55, which it has kept under lock and key for the last decade (not withstanding the fact that a goodly amount of the old Vic- tor material had been briefly offered by RCA in the late '50's on its now-atrophied ($1.98) Camden label, and that small doses had been made available on its full-priced LM and LCT series). This has resulted in an unprecedented flood of reissues so rich in musical value that the average collector is left in a quandary as to what to buy, while the greedy old record col- lector (i.e. this reviewer) cries for more. In the midst of this perfectly idyllic state of affairs it is my solemn, delicious duty as the honest, though admited- ly biased record reviewer to make recommendations. T h i s initial examination of these his- torical Victrolas, which RCA dubs "Immortal Performances" (a foil to Angel's "Great Re- cordings of the Century") will limit itself to recent vocal re- issues. Galli-Curci: Golden-Age Col- oratura (VIC-1518) restores to domestic circulation recordings hitherto unavailable on LP by the giant among this century's coloratura sopranos. Though slight in physical stature and build and not possessing a voice of glass-shattering dimensions, Galli-Curci towered above her colleagues by virtue of the per- fectly controlled vocal techni- que which she marshalled at the height of her powers. Her small voice had clarity and car- rying power (li k e Bori's and Schipa's) which maintained its absolute poise through all the See IDYLLIC, Page 6 BLACK THEATRE WHO'S GOT HIS OWN YOU GOT BOOKS YOU WANNA SELL? LITTLE EXTRA CASH WOULD BE SWELL HUNH? WUDDA COINCIDENCE! WE WANNA BUY.' THE UNIVERSITY CELLAR STARTS BUYING BACK BOOKS . MONDAY, DEC. 7 4 * Thru Sat. 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