Wednesday, September 18, 1974
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Amram u
By TONY CECERE residence, played the Mariposa
Last weekend The Ark explod- and Philadelphia Folk Festi-
ed with the creativity of Da- vals, composed film scores and
vid Amram, a musician whose worked lowlife bars and grilles.
talents refuse to succumb to But wherever he plays, Am-
stereotypes. ram drives home this message:
Amram, a person of seeming- "There are no more walls in
ly limitless versatility and en- music. There never have been
ergy, performs equally well on for musicians and listeners
french horn, guitar, piano, re- whose minds and hearts are
corder, kazoo, Pakistani flute, oven to music as a totality .. .
indian claypot drums, tin whis- Music is being liberated andI
tIe, Clarke and Bombay flutes. brought back to the people,
He also sings well and, if he which is where it comes from."
wants a special effect, will play Amram's concerts consisted
his cheek, or two of his flutes of some songs from his album
at once! Subway Night (RCA LSP-4820),
Amram is well-known in di-b with many new songs and sev-
vergent musical circles as a eral blues style improvisations
professional hornist,. conductor that involved the "Ad Hoc Fan-
and composer of songs and so- tissimo Celestial French Horn
natas, a musician whose tal- Improvisatory Choir of Ann Ar-
ents know no boundaries. bor" (a group, named by Am-
He has played the Fillmore : ram, of several frustrated
East and the National Sym- School of Music jazz-hornists
phony, been the New York Phil- who dropped by to jam).
harmonic's first composer-in- The two other stars of the
Orks
weekend were Charles Chin,
acoustic guitar and banjo, and
Tony Markellis, electric bass.
The beat spirit of Jack Kero-
uac and company was in ' the
air; Amram's lyrics rolled like
a river of syllables, almost scat
singing but always coherent, as
in The Fabulous Fifties, a bit-
tersweet song that gently put
down Rock n' Roll nostalgia:
his
magic
A rs
Musica
date set
i
If you want to hear about
1952
Those fabulous forgotten
days of na-na-na-shoo-bee-
do
Remember when you grease
your hair
That Nixon greased his
too
Some of the tunes used free
word associations, with audi-
ence contributions, resulting in
a blues song concerning "Seven
lebanese elephants Hannibal and
other gargoyles." There were
always unique colors and sounds
involved, from Chin's playing
the guitar with a toothbrush
through Amram's virtuosic ka-
zoo technique to Markellis' sen-
sitive and very subtle grace
notes on bass.
Fortunately, Amram's tech-
nique was used for an obvious
and unesoteric purpose: the
whole mood conveyed by these
songs was "laid back". The
soft atmosphere of The Ark
worked magic on the players
and the audience.
As Amram said, "We could
really hear ourselves. We're
used to playing in New York
City, where you have to fight
M h harrl-sxhav liae sr
Ars Musica will give its first
concert on the University cam-
pus in almost four years on Sun-
day, September 22 at 8 p.m. in
the Residential College Auditor-
ium. The group of old music
specialists plays its regular Ann
Arbor concerts to sold-out au-
diences at St. Clare's Episcopal
Church on Parkard Road about
one mile south of the campus.?
The group's musical director,
Lyndon Lawless, says that the
Residential College spot in East
Quad was chosen for this cam-
pus concert because it is ideal
for the type of intimate and in-
formal concert Ars Music plans1
to give.
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Amram is dedicated to the cup of sliced fresh peaches
ida that music is "a moun- (peeled), a cup of milk and a
tain with many sides." His cup of finely cracked ice. This
songs are "hopefully some more will provide 2 large, 3 mediumAE
stones on the mountain," and or 4 small servings. 0*
many of them touch on theI
pathos of the musician's life,tas p° '
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?INGMAR BERGMAN'S 1952
SECRETS OF WOME
Bergman's first comic venture deals with three sister-in-laws who exchange
secrets about their marriages and affairs. It's a saucy film of sophisticated
humor that Bergman makes one of his most charming with his wit and tact
With Anita Bjork and Maj-Britt Nilsson.
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