THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five «... Vienna Choir Boys master the high C's WABX AIR WAVES: Who' to release new album By BETH NISSEN A doting audience soaked up the clean charm and msi. of the Vienna Choir Boys Monday night at Power Center. The first third of the program introduced the audience tr the boys' musical style with two La- tin a cappella numbers and a deftly harmonized performance of Haydn's Alleluja. Antonia Vi- valdi's Laudamus Te was lilting- ly soloed by the choir's ,ie a d soprano. The Jealous Primadonna, a hu- morous operetta, comprised the second portion of the program. The boys waltzed on stage in sa- tin Louis XIVish dresses a n d suits, complete with powdered wigs. Spoken lines were delivered in weinerschnitzal-accented Eng- lish and songs were sung in Ger- man. With the aid of the choir- boys' well-rehearsed and clever stage gestures and the program notes, the audience was able to, follow the story and become fur- ther enamored with the lead so- prano and a chuby, bespectacled alto playing the aging, jealous primadonna. The final section of the pro- gram featured a rather washed- out delivery of Schubert's fam- ous Die Nachtigall and a solo Onti By DOUG MULLKOFF I didn't always have a downed out attitude about Detroit. As a matter of fact, I always tried to like it. Out in the suburbs, ev- erybody was down on Detroit; it just had no mass appeal. But I've always had some sort of ro- mantic love for the city - some- thing that I realize seems hard to imagine. But when I was a kid, Detroit really was a gas. In high school, I'd try to drag a few friends downtown to dig on the happenings. We had a,-choice, or kind of a choice. We could see Weather Report in Ypsi, at the Bowen Fieldhouse (which isn't my fav- orite concert hall) or we could see them a day earlier at the by the second-string I e a d so- prano. Three Austrian Folksongs were performed with more spirit than any other offering of the evening, followed by a lively foot- tapping Tritsch-Tratsch Polka The boys' voices were angelU- cally unpolluted and upper range, but overall blending was poor. The lead first soprano's glass- shattering voice was obvious in everything sung. Descant voices are perhaps more difficul: to con- trol; it may be too much to ask an 11-year-old to be a master of the high C's and blend with his friends as well. The boys themselves were al- most of more interest than their music. The choir has been per- forming since the time of .Coper- nicus and Columbus. The twenty boys, most of them about 12 years old, stand at attention in their sailor suits, with t n e i r hands behind their backs, and open their mouths in easy unison to release steeple-high notes. It's almost impossible not to look up and down the rows of wedl scrub- bed faces frm so far away and smile maternally as they all bow in unison at songs' end. The and- ience mentally fondled the boys, clucked over them, and pinched their cheeks. Daily Photo by ALISON RUTTAN For $24 worth of trinkets and Kod chrome . . . You too can have a souvenir memento plate complete with glitter commemorating the 1974 Ann Arbor Film Festival, through Sunday at Architecture Auditorium. Fie Detroit concert scene By WABX A $2,700,000 settlement has been reached with Terry Knight and the Grand Funk Railroad. The settlement includes $1,100,- 000 cash and interests held by G.F.R. Enterprises. The legal battle has been staged for over two years concerning the legal rights to the Grand Funk name . . . Terry Knight walks away with the cash, and the group keeps the name. The newest Who album will probably be called High Num- bers. Selections on the album will include songs performed by the group before they were called the Who. The group was pre- viously named High Numbers and their repertoire was a com- bination of rhythm and blues and surfer music. The Roxy Theatre in Los An- geles will be converted into an English Pub for the grand in- troduction of The Butts Band. The Butts Band includes former Doors members Robbie Krieger and John Densmore plus Jess Roden, Roy Davies and Phillip Chen. Seals and Croftswere in for a surprise after they're concert Gig at Kent State University ... While they were performing, someone boarded the group's pri- vate plane and stole $1200 in cash, some personal items, and a number of blank, signed, checks. Police are still investi- gating. Keith Richard, from The Roll- ing Stones, has been denied en- try .into France. Richard was convicted for illegal possession of drugs last year. Also busted at the same time, were Bobby Keys, and Anita Pallenburg -. - all three were fined, given sus- pended sentences and banned from France for two years. A New York T.V. sportscaster had to apologize on the air twice last week after the station re- ceived more than 900 complaints. Dick Schaap made the statement that the stud horse secretariat and Riva Ridge "were the most famous pair of stablemates since Joseph and Mary." Schaap said he made his comparison between CINEMA GUILD Presents the 12th an Arbors Film Festival -TONIGHT- 7, 9, 11, (each different) $1-ARCH. AUD. info. 662-8871 the two horses and Joseph and Mary as a form of light amuse- ment, and didn't mean to insult the public. Elvis Presley is being billed as "The Second Major Superstar Concert Tour of 1974." Elvis opens in Tulsa on March 1st with a fast swing through the South for 24 shows in 20 days. The tour ends with 3 show in Mem- phis. Dr. John from New Orleans has been jamming with a varied group of entertainers . . . John Lennon and Elton John joined with Dr. John at the Troubador . . , and last week Steve Miller and Johnny Winter joined them on stage. A number of concert tours are beginning soon . . . 10 C.C. from England will do the night club circuit on the East Coast . . - Melissa Manchester begins an Eastern night club and concert tour . . . Johnny Winter will soon be working his second na- tional tour ,since his comeback Chicago will start their 1974 tour of the East and South. The T.V. networks have started to cash in on the importance of rock music. One T.V. network is planning a full - scale outdoor rock festival April 6th, at On- tario Motor Speedway in Cali- fornia. Deep Purple will head- line with other feature perform- ances by Black Sabbath, Seals and Crofts, Black Oak Arkansas, the Eagles, and Earth, Wind and Fire. There are presently no plans to broadcast the event. The "Glitter of the Week Award" goes to Grand Funk for their next album ... the album will be titled "Shinin' On", and reportedly will be jacketed in a 3D graphic cover with special glasses included to appreciate the affect, a label that glows in the dark . . . and enclosed will be a 3D poster . . . the album is being produced by Todd Rund- gren. The energy crisis will take its toll on the groups touring in the U. S. Several groups have can- celled because of the energy crisis already. Summer tours no longer scheduled include Steely Dan, Joe Walsh, Dawn, Chi Col- trane, and Joni Mitchell. Short Notes: Bob Dylan was offered $2,000,000 for movie rights to his concert tour, but refused . . . Elvis Presley will do an Easter special on NBC-TV . Sergio Meades was hired as a consultant for an anthology of South American music for the Smithsonian Institution . Cheech & Chong have made a 4- minute cartoon of "Basketball Jones" to be released soon ... . Chicago will do a T.V. special this summer . . . John Denver will write and sing the theme song for a new Disney movie Bears and I . . . Chick Churchill of Ten Years After has installed a complete weather station on his roof,. Attention Advertisers far total campus saturation over air call 763-3501 650 AM- The Rock of Ann Arbor the Eastown, except they only let in half of the people, even though it is twice the size. And they looked like the same peo- ple too. All downed out and ob- livious to anything but rock and roll! But what were they doing here? Why did all of these rock and roll people come downtown to see a progressive jazz band, and Brian Auger? Without even hearing any music yet, we all felt a wierdness about this au- dience; they just didn't seem to fit. Weather Report came on, and started makin' me move. For some still undeciphered spiritual reason, jazz has always made me move. That mystical haze that the )music had put me cony, which overlooked the main lobby, and began pelting inno- cent victims with little ice cubes. One guy, his bald head giving us a perfect target, accepted four bullseyes, before he rea- .lized that he was being attacked from above. Here I was, doing all of those things I wanted to do when I was eight years old, without parental restraint. That may seem ironic, but the whole place is ironic. The vel- vet tapestries and curtains hung down to the backs of frazzled quallude heads, and the men's smoking lounge, with an impres- sively carpeted outer room and finely painted mosaics, revealed no more than than a urine-cov- ered john, with lines of people "Here I was, doing all the things I wanted to do when I was eight years old, without parental restraint. That may seem ironic, but the whole place is ironic." 'i" :. Yr9' i" 4".."ti4 :h.'r JJ.. r .M ., :,;/,..r ." ;r --------- have been the only ones who found this show to be on the biz- zare side. But I was wrong. After the band (who call them- selves White Witch, and were introduced as the most cosmicly attuned rock and roll band in the w o r I d) finished their first screeching and gutty-feedback song, the whole audience let out with a roar of boos. I must confess that I do think that it is rude, and an awfully bogue thing to do to a perform- er, but I felt that I had an obli- gation to let the band know how wierd they were. I had a hard time even trying to feel sorry for them. But their show was entertaining. For each song they played, the boos got louder, and more and more garbage was fly- ing toward the stage, until the lead singers strutting got faster and faster to avoid getting hit. After the echoing of the boo- ing began reverberating across the auditorium, the performer had the gall to ask to play an- other one, and was answered with a loud no . . . a clear con- census. But he came on anyway, and tried to bribe the audience into listening, by dedicating the next song to all of the reefer smokers. The reefer smokers didn't want to hear it. After the act we wondered if the band was back stagersplit- ting up, I couldn't seeta better way of telling them that that was the thing to do, then by our discrete method. I mean they couldn't even make it in Detroit, where they were dressed like their audience. My hopes to have a quick beer after the concert were quelled when I looked at my watch as Brian Auger came on, and no- ticed that it was quarter to two. My God, I've been here since 8:30! Auger and his Oblivion Express were great, with the least amount of confusion main- ly because everyone was so worn out that they were nod- ding left and right (ZZZZZ), and those who were awake were try- ing to figure out who the band on stage was, and which record was their hit. Feeling content and at ease for the first time, my friends and I, and our new acquaintances from Ypsi lay back. But not for long. This dude who was all dressed up looking like a stand in for Stin Ra himself started yelling from the aisle beside us, to his friends half w .y down the row ... "HEY WILLIE!! HEY WIL- LIE!! WILLIE, LE'S GO GIT FLIPPER!! COME ON, LE'S GO GIT FLIPPER!!! Willie, to my dismay, took a hit of Jim Beam from his pint, and acted like- he hadn't heard Sun Ra. The situation repeated itself, until finally (presumably) Sun Ra went to find Flipper himself. As we left the palace, I kept trying to tell myself that it's a cool city, Detroit's really an okay place. It isn't a bad town, I just keep on having negative experiences here. My peaceful drifting of the mind was sodden- ly interrupted by an old wino w h o apparently needed a drink... "Hey . . . come here kid you got a buck for me!! come here!! want to buy a watch?? How 'bout a lady for the night?? you want ta buy a diamond ring?? . . . hey, come here bud- dy . . TONIGHT at 7 & 9 p.m.! OUR MOST POPULAR FILM IS BACK AGAIN, AFTER ALL! Wild raffish comedy and a real de- light! A Scottish private in World War I releases the inmates from a mental asylum in a French town that is sit'fing on a time bomb left by the Germans. The sanity of insanity-or vice-versa? with Genevieve Buiold. I BATES, PI-ILIPPE DE BROCA COLOR."y DELUXE TECHISCOPC If you likie this movie be sure to DEVIL BY THE TAlL by the same rector-March 27th! French, with English subtitles. see di- new and exciting Michigan Pal- ace! And it's downtown too! It took us twenty minutes to find a parking place, and we tried to get the car as close to the street light as possible. After sliding past the local spare change dudes, we quickly went through the front door. The characters standing around watching us reminded me of those guys who are always sleeping in the doorway to the Fox Theatre, just down the street. When he walked in, my mind and body suddenly had a jolting De ja-vu rush. I hadn't been in the Michigan Theatre since I was eight years old, seeing Ben Hur with my parents. My God! what are all of these heavies do- ing here? All sleeked out, sit- ting alongside these marble pil- lars, and crystal chandeliers? The people looked like they'd blown a week's pay on trying to flip you out by their freeked out clothing. Guys wearing irides- cent hawaiian print shirts, and girls with full length gowns with mink trim and ten inch plat- forms strutting around the main floor, checking each other out, and leaving themselves open to be checked. This was all awfully strange to us - not new, but forgotten. De- troit always seemed to produce the "Rock and roll glamour peo- ple," and we'd seen them at De- troit concerts before, but it had been kind of wiped from my, memory. For the first time since I walked into my parents gour- met club, have a felt really out of place with my hiking boots and bluejeans. I actually felt like they were lookingat me.th We found a seat in the third balcony, and Nance pointed out how this place looked just like People! Music! Food! BACH CLUB Julia DECKER, soprano Laura SHTLER, flute Beth GILBERT, piano VIVALDI: Motetto BACH: Arias for flute & soprano MOZART: Exsultate, Jubilate! in was suddenly broken. The dis- turbance came from the row above me. "There anymore snopps?" .. . hey . . . there anymore snopps? Hey Jim . . . is there anymore snopps. . . HEY JIM. . . GIVE MY THE BOTTLE OF. SNOPPS!! "What?" "I WANT SOME SNOPPS! ! "NO MAN...THER'S ONLY TWO MORE SIPS ... HEY ... THAT JOINT'S ONLY FOR US, DON'T START PASSING IT AROUND!! What followed blew me away. The band was getting into some really tight jams peaking out at low and high volume levels; but when the music got quiet, some geeks in the audience would start yelling out such idiocies as "kick out the jams", or "rock and roll!" I felt embarrassed. The guy sitting next to me, looking thoroughly disgusted, said that this was the last time that he was giving Detroit a chance. Weather Report was getting near the end of their set, bring- ing the Weather Report Suite to a finale, with only a cymbal and a high organ note playing, when some all-knowing rocker yelled out "HEY!-you guys must be in the wrong town!" With that, the final insult, the band left the stage. The intermission proved to be a highlight of the evening. After mingling some more, we perch- ed ourselves on a third floor bal- lined up behind every stall to make their contribution. The kind of people walking around were the reasons parents have for tell- ing their kids not to take drugs. They are enough to make kids quit drugs. Anyway, we ran out of ice- cubes, and the next band had started playing - some local group to play before Auger. When we reentered the hall, we were amazed to see the stage lit up with strange neon, irrodes- cent and black lights; and some idiot with everything but a boa constrictor in his hands jumping around and screaming "YEA!" I looked at my friend, and we started to laugh. The guy who hates Detroit was rolling in his seat in disbelief. This was quite an act! I asked the guy where he was from, and he said Ypsi- lanti. I thought that must be why he and my two friends and I must 25% off prepaid Cambridge Univer- sity Book orders (few excep- tions)., I Deadline March 23rd. DAVID'S BOOKS 209 S.. STATE 663-8441 Auditorium A, Angell Hall I COMING NEXT TUESDAY-McCABE AND MRS. MILLER NEXT WEDNESDAY-FRITZ THE CAT. Rated X. I1 a s , I I 603 E. 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