THE MICHIGAN DAILY .Page Five THE MICHIGAN DAiLY Page Five ndergrad Art Show opens U' Collegium Musicum recreates Maximilian court By BOB SCHETTER The Undergraduate Art Show, which open-, ed Thursday night at the Rackham Galleries and continues through March is a joyous, mixed bag of ideas and media goodies. The show is "an experiment" sponsored, produced and presented solely by University art students. Not that the art is any more experimental than in other years, but as chairman Wendy Yuthers explained, "Under- grad shows are successes or failures depend- ing on the organization (of steering commit- tees) and are usually competitive. This year- no prize money will be awarded." A high de- gree of organization was evident as I sur- veyed the meticulously selected and hung works. The show will highlight appearances by ar- tist Larry Rivers and Bill Burback, Curator of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Rivers, a well-known ex-jazz saxophonist and artist, revolutionized art with his mon- tage-like iconography. He visited the show Friday and led discussion groups with stu- dents at Dominick's for lunch and later at the Architecture library over tea and cook- ies. Burbeck will attend the exhibit on March 29th and - 30th. At that time he will lead photography workshops at the A and D school, which will be open to all Univer- sity students. The function of both "judges" is to criti- que the exhibit and help students with what- ever problems they are having in relation to their work. Their comments will be video- taped and played on monitors f1r viewing during the exhibit hours. The show itself is a menagerie of colors and forms, offering work of very high quality to almost every available taste. Yu- thers says, "The work here speaks of all the things we are and eat - including the car- rots." There does, however, seem to be a pre- ponderence of tongue-in-cheek work There's a giant super-burger that bites back by John Angell, a sperm-like object that crawls by Kathe Rogers, a table of filing cards with each card containing a miniature painting by R. J. George, and a series of textile pieces by Lence Lewlou where you must peek un- der covers to see the work. For the voy- eours, a series of photos will tell you how to eat a woman - cooked. Even the more solemn pieces are fanci- fully named. Jeremy Long calls his sen- suous blue and green oil painting, "Flasher.! There are other paintings which are equally well known and just as outrageously named. One of the show's finer points is its. free quality. Here, unlike in most museums, you can play with and touch the art, discovering qualities that one would otherwise miss. You might even try making up your own titles for the, work. It's fun and is an easy way to discover new artistic dimensions. Two of the exhibit's drawbacks are poor lighting and dirty gallery walls. Rackham has not kept up its galleries, and they are now falling into disrepair. Such circum- stances greatly detract from the present show. It has been pointed out that the Uni- versity seems to continually short-change its student art community. The problems of the present show would then, according to this view, not be atypical. Although not all the work presented is top-notch, there is sufficient material here to more than fill an enjoyable afternoon. No not denigrate the work because it is "only student work". Contemplate. And most im- portantly, have fun! By LYN MERRILL' The court of Maximilian I, Holy Ro- man Emperor, was vividly recreated Thursday night as the University of Michigan Collegium Musicum brought period costumes and music to' the stage. The presentation, ably directed and joined in by Dr. Thomas Taylor of the Music History department, was both impressive and delightful. The early music ensemble performed to a nearly packed Rackham Auditorium. The presentation, part of the Thom- as Acquinus Festival, is based on The Emperor Maximilian I and Music by Louise Cuyler. Collegium music consists of both voices and a variety of early instru- ments, ranging from the large bass viol to the small high pitched recorders. In Thursday night's performance most of the players doubled in ,voice and on instruments. Though sung in German, occasional English dialogue helped keep the audience informed. The versatile cast sung, danced, and played its way through various early 16th century ensembles. Choral music included the impressive Seven Last Words of Christ Upon the Cross, and a humorous rendition of a madri- gal-like hunting song. The blending voices created a pleasantly archaic sensation in the velvet silence of Rack- ham Auditorium. The instrumental portion was equal- ly enjoyable. Though hampered by a broken string and the constant retun- ing necessary, the- ensemble recovered quickly to bring off a strong ending. The performances on the harpsi- chord were especially skillful. The plaintive twang of the keyboard min- gled with voice, dance and costume to recreate the court life of Maximilian. Taylor has directed the Collegium for the past five years. The group is actually a talented class of both gradu- ate and undergraduate students. In- terest in this type of music is steadily increasing, said Taylor, as evidenced by the large and growing audiences at concerts. The Collegium ensemble has per- formed on tour in Indiana and Ohio. Their next performance will be in Al- bion on April 5. They will present a NET television special sometime in the near future. Thursday: Vulgarity and visuals "Centrifuge" Mary Zawacki (Etching) Ch uch WOr4Aip en'ice4 By BRUCE SHLAIN Sitting in last night on the shows at 7 and 11, I luckily had the foresight to skip out of the middle show in order to witness Campy Russel's job on Notre Dame. And so, reminded by h:s performance about what fo~rn and technique can do for you if you have some guts, I returned to the Festival with renewed spirits. I say "renewed" because one film at the 7:00 p.m. show, Scream Bloody Mary, reached a kind of hiatus in the realm of vul- garity. It concerned the marriage of two rather unintelligent greas- ers (the woman in this film can be unflinchingly referred to as such) who have not come . to terms with the sexual im;lica- tions of being husband and wife. And so, at the wedding party, the bride is having these awful fantasies about what is going to transpire when hubby demands his due in bed, all in an atmos- phere of leering drunkenness. Of course, she has a fit of delirium and shoots her new husband with a rifle. Very subtle. Still, we would be denying something vital in us if we pre- tended that one of the great oc- casional joys in life was none other than the desire to be grossed out, e.g. Pink Flamingos. And if this secret desire is one of your basic traits, you pro- bably would have enjoyed The Citizen's Band by Jon Lapidese. The setting is Warsaw 1944, and the Gestapo sirens can be heard outside the parlor. The grand- mother, mother, and youngster excuse themselves, talking in Po- lish with English subtitle w, and go down a trap door to tune in to Independent Radio for Free Men. They sit tensely around the box, until the voice comes in, spouting out a series of Polack jokes that puts the oppressed family in absolute stitches. The awareness of the tragic impli- cations of such jokes either makes them, for the first time, really funny, or it makes them horribly anti-semitic. Who's to say? One man's meat may not be another man's poison, but it could very well make him down- right vomit. The visuals at the Festiva! are always interesting, mast of which having an initial theme or premise that they proceed to beat into the ground with minute variations. Two short studies in abstract sexuality, Flesh Flows, and The Pirate, were alts-nately humorous and mystical, and a bit pornographic, although nothing to challenge the eroticism of a good Betty Boop cartoon. The best special-effects fiin I've seen in a while was screen- ed last night, Jordan Belson's Light, which should be shown on Sunday as one of the winners. But probably the most interest- ing offering last night was a 30-minute film by Kris Paterson called Latter Day Lunch, in which cosmic-wheeler Donov, n sits around a table on some gras- sy knoll with about a dozen other "beautiful people" whose reflec- tor sunglasses mirror the large spread of crab and champagne in front of them. The premise is the same one that everyone thinks of ii Ann Arbor: to juxtapose shots of Vict- nam atrocities with scenes on the Diag and thereby produce a heavy political commentary. Well, the approach in this one is equally immatur'e, with ma- chine-gun bullets heard in the background, almost drowning out the voices. But the film is made inta some- thing by the dialogue, as pover- ty, schizophrenia, suicide, a n d "getting a buzz" are discussed with a high seriousnes that is alternately laughable and depres- sing, depressing insofar as it is glaringly obvious how far a certain kind of bourgeoise "rais- ed consciousness" can take you towards imbecility with flowers in the hair. mandy finishes side one, devoted to the Chinese worms, with Sousa's Stars and Stripes For- ever. Not that it isn't performed well, but the placement of this brash, patriotic song with the Chinese works goes to show where many of our heads are at. Here, Sousa's song is slanderous to the Chinese people. And so, I feel the Chinese are justified in condemning Western music if neo-Crusade attitudes, similar to those found on this album, persist. FIRST UNITED METHODIST ! CHURCH and WESLEY FOUNDA- TION-State, at Huron and Wash.! Sermon by Dr. Donald B. Strobe: "What To Do 'Til the Excorist Comes," Exercises in Excorism. 8:30-9:30 a.m.-Communion Serv- UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHAPEL (Lutheran Church-- , Missouri Synod)! 1511 Washtenaw Ave. Alfred T. Scheips,;Pastor Sunday Morning Services at 9:15 and at 10:30. Sundav Morning Bible Study at BETHEL A.M.E. CHURCH l John A. Woods, Pastor9 900 Plum St. Ann Arbor, Mich. 48104 Church Phone-NO 3-3800 Services: Sunday School-9:00 a.m. Morning Worship-10:30 a.m. 1 CAMPUS CHAPEL 1236 Washtenaw Court The Rev. Don Postema 10:00 a.m.-Coffee. Yellow River Concerto: By BOB SCHETTER Eugene Ormandy and the Ph il- adelphia Orchestra have finally released a definitive recording df their Red China tour, and The Yellow River Concerto (RCA ARL-0415) is an extremely well executed flop. Neither content nor context work here. Consisting mainly of The Yellow River Concerto and Respighi's Pines of Rome, the album is an exercise in bad taste passing for art. I have never been too fond of The Pines, it is always seem- ed poorly written, relying heav- ily on lush orchestral trappings and the audiences imagination for unification of the piece It always seems like a bad movie soundtrack. The Chinese work falls short for much the same reasons. But what I find inexcusable is the deliberate selection-of Pines for its'obvious oriental flavorings and orchestrations. It is po'iJizal patronization: the "let's make good friends by playing t h e r music" approach. This seems as ludicrous to me as Sammy Davis Jr. singing' "Summertime" for President Nixon. The Chinese composition is the lesser of the two evils. Taken from a much shorter work by Hsien Hsing-hai glorifying t h e Red Chinese of WWII, it was composed by a group of Chinese composers. The Chinese govern-, ment explicitly asked Ocnandy to perform this piece. The Yellow River Concerto consists of five tone poems, each purportedly describing part of the Communist war campaign. A certain ingenuity and joy of composition are found in them, which are lacking in similar sec- tions of Pines. But as in The Pines, the piece relies too heav- ily on the audiences' imagination to hold it together. The music simply comes nowhere near to describing the character of the Chinese people nor the labours they endured. In fact, one par- ticular tone poem sounded like the score from a Max Sennett comedy. Really! The non-continuity of the over- all piece is by far the most de- structive aspect of the Chinese work. Structural unification seems non-existent. Maybe this explains how the piece was com- posed - each composer addng his own section. A-compositional method like this would hint at a Dada-type joke which we Amer- icans took seriously' in our read- iness to "share cultures." But the tour was hailed by the Chinese government and their big wigs. According to the a.- bum notes, "the biggest official blessing was the attendance of Mme. Mao at the Sept. 16 con; cert." Further, the Peking Peo- ple's Daily originally reviewed the concert as "brilliant in varia- tions of color and tone." Why then the recent attacks on Western music? The same Peo- ple's Daily has termed Respg- hi's Pines of Rome and Beethov- .en's Moonlight Sonata "weird and bizarre" and has /:ondemned them as "bourgeois works of music." The highly polished and lush orchestral sound of the Philadel- phia orchestra bespeRks of its elitist origins, designed for the entertainment and leisure of the wealthy. Function, as in the folk traditions, and central to Chinese revolutionary thought was disre- garded for music for its own sake. Being considerabiy differ- ent from traditional Chinese mu- sic, it is quite posible that a great deal of curiosity arose from the concerts. To make matters worse, "' - DFORD as ASON" 9:30 and 11:00 a.m. - Worship 9 Services. Wednesday Evening Worship at 9:00-12:30 a.m.-Nursery Care. 10:00. 9:30 and 11:00 a.m. - Church School (thru grade 5). 9:30-10:30 a.m. - Church School CANTERBURY HOUSE (thru grade 8). 218 N. Division 10:30-11:00 a.m.-Coffee - Conver- 8:00 a.m.-Holy Eucharist. sation - Fellowship. 10:00 a.m.-Morning Prayer and! Broadcast on WNRS (1290) AM Sermon. and WNRZ (103) FM from 11:00- 12:00 noon - Canterbury. Housej 12:00 noon. Eucharist. 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