Thursdoy, September 26, 1 974
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HE MOTOWN record people have been getting a lot of mileage
out of old recordings by some of their now-defunct acts. In
the past six months, record shops have been stocking three-
record sets of past hits by groups like Diana Ross and the
Supreme-, Smokey Robinson. and the Miracles, Gladys Knight
and the Pips, and others.
The latest addition to this collage of memorabilia is Anthol-
gy: Four Tops. Like several old Motor City groups, the Four
Tops have switched labels and styles to accommodate the changes
in their own music.
But of all the old acts that huddled down on Grand Boule-
vard, the Four Tops were always my favorite and -this collection
shows why. They were the unheralded studs in a stable of
champions, the consistent hit-makers. So what if everything
sounded the same, it all sounded good.
. The first two sides contain glimpses of the past like "Reach
Out, I'll Be There," "It's the Same Old Song," "I Can't Help
Myself," and "Baby, I Need Your Lovin'." All are classics in
the music business, all are easy to listen to over and over. All
are worth the price of the other four sides.
Judgement: great group, good album.
-Chuck Bloom
That gruesome harpsichord is back. No, not the Baroque
melody usually heard; this is thick, horror movie sound.
And that is why Elliott Carter's Sonata for Flute, Oboe,
Cello and Harpsichord is so exciting (Nonesuch H-71234).
The lightness of tone in the harpsichord has an ethereal
radiance that the piano by its massiveness is too clumsy to re-
val. The instrument has mass, but a mass in sound that lets
more light through, melding rather than overpowering other
instruments.
The work floats and hits the earth, only to rush upwards
again. Carter achieves airiness through "chattering" instrumen-
tation: dialogues brimming with life.
Earthiness is voiced in the harpsichord's grouchiness in try-R
ing to keep the wind instruments earthbound, while they vacil-
late as angels do between the worlds of spirit and man.
--Michele Breger
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Page Five
British duo set for
e
A lot of rock music has been^
imported to these shoras from
England since the Beatles in
1964, but so has a lot of folk
music; steeped in centuries of.
the folk tradition. Two of the;
most talented exponents of this
musical treasure trove are JohnF
Roberts and Tony Barrand. t
These two slightly zany Eng-'
lishmen come -to the Arx this
weekend for two days of vaude-
ville, British Isles style.
In the tradition of the Eng-
lish music hall, the duo per-
form sea shanties, ballads, and
bawdy songs in a manner that
would charm the most rabid
Irish Republican. They p 1 a y,
a variety of instruments, includ-
ing concertina, banjo, guitar,
John and Tony met here in
the U.S., where they dis;over d
that Americans expected them
to know English songs. Deter-
mined to live up to this Amer-
ican-held stereotype, +he :wo
began collecting songs and sing-
ing them at festivals and galh-
erings across the country. They
have delighted audiences at the
annual Philadelphia and Mari-
posa Folk Festivals.
John and Tony will appear
Friday and Saturday at '8-30
p.m. They will also perform a
special Children's Concert on
Saturday at 2 p.m.
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Chagall and the four seasons
Renowned artist Marc Chagall comments on the mosaic in the background that he designed for the First National Plaza in
Chicago. About the mosaic's theme of the four seasons, he says, "In my mind the fourt seasons represent human life, both
physical and spiritual, at its different stages." The work will be unveiled publicly tomorrow.
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When Smokey Robinson split with his longtime companions, land (A') - "Art is dead," said:
Osk ar Kokoschka' and lit an-
the Miracles, it was thought to be the end for both parties. But, other cigarette, ignoring the
alas, Smokey is going strong as a solo act and the Miracles have gestured plea from his wife to
returned in°grand style with their new release Do It Baby. slow down on smoking.
The original trio remains as it did fack in 1958, but a new "Pictorial art is completely
ead singer and a new dimension has been added by the folks dead," he 'reported. "Literature
At Motown and Tamla Records. also has suffered strongly. And
The new singer is young Bill Griffin, who resembles Smokey music? Just listen to a modern
in both looks and sound. The new dimension is evident by the concert. Everything has becomeI
outstanding title track "Do It, Baby," which is enjoying great experiment. In art you need
popularity on the top 40 stations around the area. ideas, not experiments."
Griffin has made the Miracles a very mellow soulful group- To some, such views from one
very much into the sound that the Motown people are now pro- of the most celebrated and trail-
ducing. blazing artists of the 20th cen-
Judgement: Griffin makes it go, so do it, baby. tury alive might smack of con-
-Chuck Bloom servatism. But Kokoschka in-
ciL ho Ihne dnn lIir t trv to
faces
like to live at least 2 years. I
would like to be the last one
sittig on a tree so I can watch.
I know that I would be doomed
as well. But I would like to
know how the end will come.
I am an explorer."
The gloomy words from the
painter-poet, who is now 88,
contrasted with his seeming
vigor and with the vivid colors
with which he described a tem-
pestuous life in his memoirs
-he prefers to call them "life
impressions." They will be pub-!
lished next month.
Kokoschka, one of the found-
ers of modern expressionist
painting, was interviewed in
the book-lined living room of
his villa on the outskirts of
Villeneuve, a peaceful vine-a
growing town on Lake, Geneva
overlooked by the Vaudois Alps.
Paintings by "OK" surround
the visitor. Two more were on
easels in the adjoining studio.
A glass door opened to an
idyllic garden with a cherry
tree, roses, lavender. But he
stresses that he is not depen-
dent on this environment.
"The world to which I have
a relationship reaches as far
as I can see or walk. If it is
taken away from me, I take
possession of something else. I
never cry over a loss. I have
always been a nomad."
The Austrian-born son of a
Prague goldsmith, Kokoschka
has indeed been on the move
for much of his life. He left
Vienna, starting point of his
career, after his bold and
slashing style of painting and an
explosively erotic play he had
written touched off a scandal.
Thearupture of a passionate
love affair with Alma Mahler,
widow of composer Gustav
doom
Mahler, sent him rushing to the
Austrian - Russian front as a
World War I volunteer cavalry
man. A Russian bullet narrow-
lv missed his brain and a bayo-
net pierced his chest.
PERSONA
Inamor Bergman's f i n e s t
f i I m examines the inter-
chanae of the psyches of
two women.
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D0 VIRTUOSOS try harder? I am often frustrated by soloists
who stop striving in their performances because they know
they're the greatest, anyway.
Jaqueline Du Pre, however, plays cello with blood and guts.
Hrahms' F Major Cello Sonata op. 99 (Angel 36544) is a standard
favorite, but fortunately she does not view it as standard but
as a work she can clothe herself in, something she can mould
to herself.
The final note rings with stamina: the bow scrapes the string,
digging to achieve the deepest intensity.
--Michele Breger
sists nenas no aesir rOtr
stay what he feels is a natural
process.
"I face thefacts and I ac-
cept them," he explained. To
Kokoschka these "facts" are
just added evidence that man
is doomed.
"This is my situation: I would
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UAC-FUTURE WORLDS PRESENTS:
THURSDAY-Sept. 26-Rackham Aud.-TONITE
7 p.m.-Time-Life Film: "MEN, WHALES & DOLPHINS"
8 p.m.-SEMINAR PANEL DISCUSSION-