Wednesday, October 10, 1973 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five Wen. aOcoe ,1-7 H ICIA AL -aae Five Saindor By ROY CHERNUS No qi There are few enough musical raised & events anywhere which warrant ity ont the description "historical." This valeso Friday's lecture on 20th century ter 30 yE composer Bela, Bartok by his son of the m and subsequent recital of some juiices of Bartok's works as part of a Bartok piano concert by UM piano pro- ed cons fessor Gyorgy Sandor promises musical to be such an event. and em illuminates Bartok 's Jestion could possibly be as to Bartok Jr.'s author- the human and personal of his father's work af- ears' intimate knowledge man. And no musical pre-' will be espoused, f o r Jr. is a successful retir- truction engineer with no but profound spiritual notional affinity for the Bartok legacy. In Gyorgy Sandor we have a rare musical contact with Bac- tok as well as a seasoned con- cert artist in his own right. His numerous recordings encompass a diverse selection of piano mu- sic, although his crowning achievements are definitive ren- ditions of Bartok's and Proko- fiev's complete solo piano works. I recently spoke with Sandor about his lifelong friend, musi- cal mentor, and Hungarian com- patriot, Bela Bartok. As he re- counted much of twentieth cen- tury musical history in Bartok's tragic life, Sandor's normal pois- ed manner became animated and expressive - as if he were re- lating today's events. Sandor stumbled upon Bartok in Budapest in 1931 by pure ac- cident while waiting to begin studies with Erno Dohnanyi. As Sandor puts it, "I never went near Dohnanyi again," after his first lessons with Bartok which continued for four years. Bartok considered Sandor his foremost interpreter, for he en- trusted premieres of the Dance Suite (1945) and the Piano Con- certo No. 3 (1946) to Sandor. Bartok's masterpieces were vio- lently rejected during his life- time by all -but a few experts like Serge Koussevitsky. C r i t i c Virgil Thomson described t h e Third Piano Concerto as a work which "may perhaps last one or two seasons." But the misunder- standing of Bartok's works ran far deeper than this. In America he was accused of writing totally inaccessible, ugly music while in other countries like Australia he was seen as selling out and con- forming to popular American musical tastes purely for money! Nothing could be further from the truth for Bartok died in 1945 penniless after long bouts of ill- ness. The wartime United States sim- ply couldn't absorb so much new music from immigrant compos- ers like Hindemith, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky. Neither could the public fathom Bartok's pushing music to its tonal limits through the free use of all twelve tones around harmonic centers. Sandor asserted, "Bartok's mu- sic was never atonal although he was well aware of those devel- opments in Europe (e.g., Schoen- berg). Bartok always chose his notes carefully, not using t h e random selections of the atonal idiom." "The presence of some sort of tonal center or gravity is essen- tial no matter how obscured it may be. Tension, relaxation, a sense of progression can only be produced in music through de- music parture and returning to t h e tonal center. The atonal idiom is losing popularity at this time. You can't express much in it." Bartok's extensive use of au- thentic central European and Turkish folk music in modes dif- ferent from Western major-min- or scales added to the unique, exotic sound of his music. What Sandor emphasized, how- ever, was that Bartok's vital, dynamic musical essence wasn't in the obviously innovative com- plex peasant dance rhythms and structures he derived; but ra- ther in the "conventional" pas- sages. Bartok brought a vital plastic- ity to the interpretation of all music, making it breathe with proper emphasis and longer time on the more important notes. He endowed music with as much freedom as he wished for Hun- gary itself. ARTS "AJOY! STUNNING! BEAUTIFUL!" -N Y TIMES -SATURDAY REVIEW -PLAYBOY PARAMOUNT PICTI RF.S Prtte. A INE Fitt Fk4,CO ZEFFIRELLI . ROMEO 'JULIET TECHNICOLOR BACK TO THRILL YOU AGAIN! Open Daily at 12:45 Shows at 1 p.m.-3:30-6:10-8:45 COMING-James Coburn is "HARRY IN YOUR POCKET" SYMPHON IE PASTORALE Jean DELANNOY adapts Andre GIDE'S novella, SYMPHONIE PASTORALE, with considerable faith- fulness to the story of a minister who adopts a blind orphan girl. By refusing to recognize his emo- tions about her, the minister creates tragedy for his wife, son and the girl. Short: "Queen Victoria in Ireland" THURS.: BERGMAN'S THE MAGNICIAN ARCHITECTURE AUD. CINEMA GUILD Tonihtat and 9:05 Adm, $1 OCT. 12-27 "FOLLOWING an exhibition of drawings and images by DONALD DAVIDSON 1971 M.F.A. graduate from UM OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY EVENING OCT. 12-7-10 P.M. UNION GALLERY 1ST FLOOR, MICHIGAN UNION GALLERY HOURS: Tues.-Sat. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. aO i> C>assfi>eds> > esOuo< ->o< tso- Daily CMassif ieds Get Results Bonaparte s Retreat to offer olk music By BOB SEIDENSTEIN Bonaparte's Retreat is not on- ly the title of a fine old-time fid- dle tune, but is also the name of a new coffeehouse in Ann Ar- bor which will emphasize tradi- tional folk music. "We hope to stimulate interest in a different type of music," says Dick Tarrier, who, along with Martha Burns and Jack Werner, is organizing the ven- ture. The coffeehouse is set to open this Saturday at 8:30. It will re- side at the Guild House, 802 E. Monroe, every Saturday night. Banjoist Dan Gellert, of Elk- hart, Indiana, will perform this week. Gellert recently played at the National Folk Festival near Washington. He is a former win- ner of the Philadelphia Folk Fes- tival banjo contest. Upcdming musicians include the Oakridge Ramblers, who play Irish and New England dance tunes, and J. P. Jenks of Kalamazoo, possibly the only banjoist in the world who in- cludes' the Swan Lake ballet in his repertoire. Even a barber- shop quartet may be in the off- ing. The performers, generally, will be people who have played pro- fessionally on occasion, but do not try to "make their living that way," says Tarrier.: The music will be mostly "old and non-commercial: learned in an oral sort says organizer Burns. the kind of way," CUTL(URE CA-\LEW-\R UPCOMING CONCERT TIP-Arlo Guthrie will perform at EMU Saturday Oct. 27 at Bowen Fieldhouse. DRAMA-U-Players present Shaw's "St. Joan" in Power Cen- ter at 8 tonight. FILM-Cinema Guild presents Delannay's Symphonie Pass- torale in Arch. Aud. at 7, 9:05 tonight. A. A. Film Co-op is showing Cukor's My Fair Lady in 'Aud. A, Angell at 6:30, 9:30 tonight. Art Film Series B - Monet and Seurat, Aud. 3, MLB, tonight at 7, 9. SCHOOL OF MUSIC-Dady Mehta, Piano, SM Recital Hall at 8 tonight Tarrier maintained that Bona- parte's Retreat wasnot in coi- petition with the established Ark coffeehouse. He claimsthat fi- nancial considerations are forc- ing the Ark to feature more well- known performers and less tra- ditional music. 'Linda Siglin of the Ark wel- comed the new coffeehouse ex- clairing, "The more music the better!" She said that the Ark was presenting both traditional and contemporary folk music, and that financial pressures are just causing the Ark to present "more" music. Bonaparte's Retreat will oper- ate in a low-keyed atmosphere with free coffee and "lots of rai- sins." 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