Tuesday, April 8, 1975
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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Tuesday, April 8, 1975 THE MICHiGAN DAILY
Bodacious Boston S
displays awesome
By TONY CECERE
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa,
Muisic Director. Festival Chorus, Donald Biry-
ant, Conductor. Saturday, April 5, 1975, at
8:00 pm in Hill Auditorium.
Program:
Lenore No. 3 Overture........... Beethoven
,The Cloud Messenger .........Loren Rush
Daphnis and Chloe ..... ........Ravel
Last Saturday night Hill Auditorium was
illuminated by the brilliance of the Boston
Symphony Orchestra under the baton of
Maestro Seiji Ozawa, in a concert that
featured both traditional and new works.
The program opened with the famous
Lenore No. 3 Overture, from Beethoven's
only opera, "Fidelio". Immediately one
could sense a glow of alertness and vital-
ity from the orchestra; they seemed to
mirror Maestro Ozawa's direction, react-
ing spontaneously to subtle changes in
dynamics and tempo.
All of the woodwind solos in the Adagio
introduction rose to the fore with a grace-
ful, singing quality. However, the great-
ness of this ensemble revealed itself in the
Allegro section of the piece: the precision
of the violins was downright frightening!
All of the melodic line could be heard
with a crystallized clarity.
Trumpet soloist Armando Ghitalla must
be commended for his performance of the
legendary offstage trumpet-calls. He
played with remarkable style, holding the
last note of each chord for an eternity and
fading perfectly into the distance.
The Boston musicians performed The
Cloud Messenger equally brilliantly. This
relatively new opus by West-Coast com-
poser Loren Rush combined progressive
jazz-rock instruments such as electric
bass and set drums with other more tra-
ditional orchestral voices. The work is
highly diversified, breaking the orches-
tra up into as many as ninety-nine individ-
milly defined parts.
The composer, in his program notes,
states that the title of the work, "is some-
what more evocative than descriptive."
Evocative is perhaps the best word for a
work like this, where many different musi-
cal ideas are stitched together in a color-
ful, impressionistic sound tapestry.
After intermission the BSO joined forces
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dreamlike character of the Ravel score.
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with skill and ease. Doriot Anthony Dwy- ;
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Daily Photo by KEN FINK
Maestro Seii Otraza
THIS WEEK:
Academy Award selections
provide perplexing challenge
JEAN RENOIR'S 1937
GRAND ILLUSION
(AT 7)
The qrand French director strips war of its finery, shows
it in the context of the fall of the aristocratic class and the
rise of the middle. class and shares its struggles of souls
with us. With Erich von Stroheim.,
BUSBY BERKELEY'S 1935
GOLDDIGGERS OF '35
(AT 9:05)
Out of the depression came these aoldmines-the Holly-
)wood musicals of the '30's and Berkeley was the' very
best. This one features the famous "lullaby of Broadway"
number.
inma neC Guild *OH*SHOWSOld Arch.
By DAVID BLOMQUIST
Trying to successfully p r e d i c t the
Academy Awards, Hollywood's annual
self-indulgent extravagana, is almost like
attempting to call the Kentucky Derby
when the track is wet and four of the
jockeys have phlebitis of the right kree.
Last year, this writer somehow suc-
cessfully tapped Best Picture and Best
Supporting Actor on the way to garner-
ing an overall .667 batting average at
the Oscar-picking game. S o m e w h a t
masochistically, then, we hereby put our
record on the line in the second annual
e d i t i o n of the Guaranteed Academy
Award Selections.
BEST PICTURE: Chinatown. Roman
Polanski's drama of corruption in 1930s
Los Angeles seems to have attracted
most of the Hollywood critical attention,
and is definitely the favorite here. Fran-
cis Ford Coppola's Cannes festival win-
ner The Conversation is a possible dark
horse, however. The Godfather II seems
only a remote possibility, and. Lenny
and The Towering Inferno loom even
farther behind.
BEST ACTOR: Jack Nicholson, China-
town. This is Nicholson's year for the
big one, after crushing defeats with
The Last Detail and Five Easy Pieces.
Art Carny, up for Harry and Tonto,
might gather the sentiment crowd. Al
Pacino (Goldfather II), Albert Finney
(Murder on th Orient Express), and
Du.stin Hoffman (Lenny) seem out of
the race.
BEST ACTRESS: Ellen Burstyn, Alice
Doesn't Live Here Anymore. This may
well be the most elusive category of
the night, with Faye Dunaway (China-
town), Valerie Perrine ( Lenny), and
Gena Rowlands (Woman Under the In-
fluence) providing strong competition.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Ingrid
Bergman, Murder on the Orient Ex-,
press. The supporting statues have in
recent years become the means of hon-
oring the profession's acknowledged
"greats"-from Helen Hayes for Airport
through John Houseman last
Paper Chase. Madeline Kahn
Saddles) might be competition,
year for
(Blazing
however.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Fred
Astaire, The Towering Inferno. Again,
sentiment wins the statue. Jeff Bridges
(Thunderbolt and Lightfoot) and a trio
from Godfather II-Robert DeNiro, Mi-
chael V. Gazzo, and Lee Strasberg-
face an uphill battle.
BEST DIRECTOR: Francis Ford Cop-
pola, Godfather II. This Oscar almost
traditionally represents a cumulative
recognition, and this time around Cop-
pola has impressive credentials-both
ends of the Godfather epic plus the chill-
ing Conversation. Polanski (Chinatown)
has never been a Hollywood favorite,
and Francis Truffaut (Day for Night)
has already received an award for his
work.
In any case, the annual ceremonies
get underway tonight at 9:00 on chan-
nel 4 (NBC). Win or lose, right or wrong,
it's always a flamboyant spectacle.
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Oscar award nominees for best
styn, top left; Faye Dunaway,
AP Photo
actress include: Ellen Bur-
top right.
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"The revolution till not be televised!"
Gil Scott-Heron performed his razor-sharp repetoire of music and monologue at the Union
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