Sunday, February 25, 1973
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STUDENTS!
Interested in Religion?
THE PROGRAM ON STUDIES IN RELIGION
invites you to attend an
INFORMAL RECEPTION
Mon., Feb. 26th 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Room B108 MLB
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The Residential College Players Present:
2 ONE-ACT PLAYS
THE LESSON by IONESCO
AND
SOMETHING UNSPOKEN by WILLIAMS
8:00 p.m.
Feb. 23-25
EAST QUAD AUD.
$1.00 Donation
SEMINAR ON BANGLADESH
TUESDAY, FEB. 27, 7:30 P.M.
AT THE
ECUMENICAL CAMPUS CENTER LOUNGE
921 CHURCH STREET
A PANEL WILL DISCUSS:
The Current Economic Situation in Bangladesh
DISCUSSANT: RASHIDUR FARUQUEE
The Role of a Student During and After
the Liberation Struggle
DISCUSSANT: EKRUMEL HAQUE
Bangladesh and Its Relation with
Other Nations on the Sub-Continent
DISCUSSANT: VASANT JOSHI
SPONSORED BY: The Ecumenical Campus Center; Bangladesh
Students Association; Committee for Concerned Asian Scholars;
Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies.
By JAN BENEDETTI
Words are a curse.
In TennesseeWilliams' Some-
thing Unspoken and Eugene Ion-
esco's The Lesson, the characters
are destroyed by problems of
communication.
But, in their current produc-
tion of these two plays, the Res-
idential College Players fortun-
ately communicate supremely
well with the audience.
The Lesson is especially guar-
anteed to keep you awake, think-
ing and glad that you trudged
through the snow to the Ea s t
Quad Auditorium.
In Williams' slight one-act,
Cornelia Scott and her secretary-
companion of 15 years, Grace
Lancaster, are strangers living
together in the same house.
Grace came to work for Cornelia
after her husband died. There
is "something unspoken' between
them. Cornelia insists that she
wants to be friends with Grace
and bring all their feelings out
into the open. But Grace resists
and keeps her affection locked in-
side with her hostility toward
Cornelia.
In the role of Grace, Beth Ron-
tal, with her quivering voice and
fragile manner, is fine. As the
stronger Cornelia, Anne Sol-
mon suggests all the frustration
stifled under the hard surface
of the character.
William's play is based on si-
lence. The two womenwithhold
words and so deliberately block
meaningful communication.
Their life together ! is desolate
and lonely because they refuse
to expres their feelings in lang-
uage. They chatter about banal
subjects while they keep import-
ant matters buried.
Though these characters chose
not to communicate with lang-
uage, Williams is assuming that
they should speak, that words are
worthwhile.
Ionesco snickers at that assump-
tion. He crams The Lesson with
words, but in his brand of the
Theatre of the Absurd, words are
bled dry of meaning through re-
petition and over-use.
In The Lesson, language s
used as a weapon. A mad profes-
sor gives a lesson to a young,
pretty student. Words gush out
in his over-powering pseudo-in-
tellectual ramblings.
Ionesco reveals the destructive
force of language when the pro-
fessor finaly kills his student with
words. The girl, we later learn,
is his 40th victim of the day.
Ionesco's play is the happy ob-
ject of a refreshing, energetic
and very funny production.
Warner Paul Zorn is the aca-
demic Jack the Riper who knifes
his students after stupefying
them with his teaching. Zorn
bobs up and down like a puppet
on strings, fondling and ogling
his student. In his rambunctious
performance, Zorn careens bliss-
fully through Ionesco's hodge-
podge of cliches, jargon and non-
sense.
Diane Dowling, as the profes-
sor'sunfortunate victim, is the
picture of pink-cheeked innocence
as she mulls over subtraction
problems.
With her red slash of a mouth
stretched into a Cheshire c a t
grin, Suzanne Gordon as the
maid, chugs nicely around the
stage like an overgrown child
imitating a train.;
Director Margret Humphries
maintains the delicate pacing of
the play, breaking up Zorn's
hysteria with Dowling's high-
pitched cuteness.
By DONALD SOSIN
CLAUDIO ARRAU, pianist;
Fri., Feb. 23, 8,:30 p.m. Hill
Auditorium. Choral Union Ser-
ies of the University Musical
Society
Beethoven-Sonata quasi u n a
fantasia in E-flat, Op. 27, No.
1; Liszt-Sonata in B minor;
Schumann-Carnaval, Op. 9.
Claudio Arrau's program in
Hill Auditorium Friday evening
was a mixture of sparkling, in-
sightful playing,. awkward, chop-
py phrases, that combined to
create a puzzling performance.
At 70, Arrau is faced, like all
less than satisfying
great artists, with the problem
of continuing to find new mean-
ing in music of very long ac-
quaintance. He has wrestled
with an abundance of music of
all periods for years, and his
brilliant career speaks for the
victory of the music. Arrau has
said that he considers himself a
vehicle for the composer's,
thoughts, and that through long
study of a composer's complete
piano music, he comes to under-
stand each individual work more
clearly.
But it seemed Friday that Ar-
rau was getting the upper hand,
and taking chances with the
music that did not always pay
off.
Regretfully, I was late in ar-
riving and the Liszt was in pro-
gress as I entered the hall. What
struck me was the toned-down
dynamics - younger, brasher
pianists often bang their way
through the one movement son-
ata - that gave the work a
rather restrained quality. (Sev-
eral pianists with whom I spoke
Page Three
at intermission, all sitting in dif-
ferent locations, remarked that
they had also found the Beethov-
en almost inaudible at times.)
This, coupled with Arrau's pro-
pensity for letting a phkase die
away almost completely before
begining the next one made for
a heavy, soporific performance.
Robert Schumann's Carnaval
was more fairly treated. Despite
some sloppiness in the opening
section, and a number of places
that went out of control, such as
the "Valse Allemande" and the
"Promenade," there was a sen-
sitivity to rhythmic nuance that
added charm and exhuberance to
these pieces. "Coquette" con-
tained some beautifully turned
phrases, and "Pantolon et Co-
lumbine," which whizzed by in
sixteenth-notes, was, remarkably
clear in texture. Some seams be-
tween movements were blurred,
as Arrau paused for a fraction
of a second before going on; this
air of continuity was in keeping
with the unity of the pieces, all
based on a four-note motif.
Still, there were enough mo-
ments deserving of a double-take
to leave one less than satisfied.
There was no question that;Ar
rau was deeply involved with the
music he was making: I found
it hard to share that involve-
ment.
-'U' Dancers.proven
number one in town
Daily Photo by DENNY G
Soulful struttin'
Dancers swung to the music at last night's UAC-Black Affairs-sponsored "Walk Together Soulf
ple: Take Three," which included
t.vh
tonight
a show at Bursle y Hall.
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9 I Dream of Jeannie
50 Star Trek
56 :Movie
"The Rules of the Game"
(1939)
6:30 4 NBC News
9 Beverly Hillbillies
7:00 2 TV 2 Reports
4 George Pierrot
7 Parent Game
9 Tom Jones
50 Lawrence Welk
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"Highlights of Ringling
Bros. Barnum and Bailey
Circus."
7 Police Surgeon
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7 FBI
9 Beachcombers
50 Mancini Generation
56 An American Family
8:30 2 Mannix
4 Country Music Hit Parade
9 Bandwagon
50 Johnny Mann's Stand Up
and Cheer
9:00 7 Movie
"Paint Your Wagon" (1969)
9 Purple Playhouse
50Golddiggers
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4 Jack Lemmon-Get Happy
50 Detroit Today
10:00 9 Weekend
50 Lou Gordon
10:30 2 Evil Touch
4 Profiles in Black
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11:30 2 Movie
4 Big Valley
9 Movie
"Valley of Mystery" (1967)
50 For My People
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7 ABS News
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"Red Garters." (1954)
1:30 2 Movie
"Oh, Susanna." (1951)
2:45 7 News
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50 Merv Griffin
9:00 2 Here's Lucy
4 Movie
"The Stranger"
7 Movie
"Murder's Row" (1966
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"The Last Challenge"
4 Johnny Carson
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"The Night Stalker" (
50 Movie
"Uncertain Glory." (19
12:00 9 Movie
"Hellfighters" (1969)
1:00 4 7 News
1:30 2 Movie
"Cloak and Dagger" (1
3:00 2 TV High School
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By MELINDA MIHAY
Last night's dance concert
proves the University Dancers to
be the number one dance com-
pany in Ann Arbor. The selection
for the concert covers a consid-
erable spectrum of modern
dance, ranging from pieces by
student choreoghaphers to mas-
terpieces by major artists.
The program opens with a
dance entitled "Scooch" by stu-
dent choregrapher Eva Jablon-
AINER owski. Her work with isolated
movement, tension and relaxa-
tion produces a light and comic
ul Peo- patchwork of country-style Rag-
work. The dancers create a
patchwork of country-style Rag-
gedy-Ann dolls swinging to the
zanny tunes of New Orleans jazz.
"Aubade" is a very serene and
powerful dance. As the program
states," it is a dance of begin-
ning and as such reflects the
doubts and exhilarations about
all things new." Choreographed
originally by Lucius Hoving and
reproduced under the direction of
Gay Delanghe this dance sub-
tly touches the audience's emo-
tions. The structure of this work
explores space, time and direc-
tion, producing a powerful ener-
gy flow - the relationship be-
(1967) tween the points of space the
dancer occupies. Danced by the
company's best technicians, this
1972) performance reflects the exper-
944) tise of it's creator
Deserving of acclaim is Alvin
McDuffie for his dancing and
choregraphy of "Maurice sings
2946) 'The Blackbottom Blues' ", which
was received with a standing
ovation. It is a potently dramatic
work which conveys the tribula-
tions and laments of a Black
man. McDuffie's controlled use of
the contraction and slow tense
movement gives a very melan-
choly tune to the dance. He iu-
corporates a solid use of thea-
trical style, including a mono-
logue, props and set, which
seems slightly reminiscent of AI-
vin Ailey. Both ensemble work
and general design of the dance
was good, but it was Alvin's
dancing that gave it life-pain
pulsated from his heart.
Liz Bergman's "Bullshot" leav-
es a most bewildering and com-
ic impression. One wonders what
event transpired in the changing
collage of styles. A pitifully in-
secure Zorro chased by a seduc-
tive harem dancer? Followed by
Margot Fonteyn in disguise?
Then a schizophrenic turn over
to mod go-'go dancers and the
arrival of the Hell's Angels who
all flip out at a Christian reviv-
al to watch the groovy light
show? One wonders.
"Always," by student choreo-
grapher Susan Schell, is a fs-
cinating conceptual piece based
on a play by Clifton Storm. She
keeps her dancers confined to a
defined space, forcing them to
explore their maximum personal
movement, It is an intimate
piece with dramatic intent that
captures social interplay.
The concept ends with. Doris
Humphrey's triumphant master-
piece "Passacaglia." This piece
was first performed in 1938 and
is presently revonstructed from
Labonotation (system of record-
ing dance) under the direction of
Linda Levy. This dance is a very
forceful and inspiring work which
speaks of the religious glory
Humphrey felt. The University
Dancers brought this piece to it's
brilliance and ended the concert
to a climax.
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Accommodations Between
March 1 and March 16, 1973
All students presently residing in the residence halls who wish toI
return to the residence halls should participate in the reapplica-
tion process. Materials on the procedure relating to priorities and
methods to be utilized in selecting rooms for the 1973-74 aca-
demic year will be made available to students before the Spri.ng
Recess.
... this week in preview
The University Musical Society brings the Philidor Trio
playing Baroque music at Rackham, 2:30; University Dancers
give a children's matinee at Power Center at 2:30; The Music
School presents the University Symphony Band with George
Cavendar conducting at Hill, 3 p.m.; The Residential College
Players perform William's Something Unspoken and Ionesco's
The Lesson in the RC Aud. at 8; Cinema Guild shows Kosint-
sev's Hamlet in the Arch. Aud. at 7 and 9:05; Cinema II pre-
sents Makiewicz' Guys and Dolls in Aud. A at 7 and 9:30; U of
M Folkdancers sponsor a Turkish Dance Workshop at 1:30 in
the Women's old athletic building.
The Philidor Trio give a discussion - demonstration at
Rackham Assembly Hall at 10 a.m.; University Musical So-
ciety sponsors Saeko Ichinohe and her Japanese dance com-
pany at Rackham at 8:30; The Music School presents a com-
poser's forum in its recital hall at 8; The UAC-Creative Arts
Festival shows Snow's The Central Region in the Arch. Aud.
at 7 with a discussion with the filmmaker afterward; Michael
McClure's play The Beard is performed in the RC Aud. at 8:30.
7uedaj
Anais Nin, fiction writer, speaks at Rackham at 8; The
University Varsity Band plays at Hill Aud. at 8; UAC Crea-
tive Arts Festival shows Sexual Meditation Series and Act of
Seeing With One's Own Eyes in Nat. Sci. Aud. at 8:30 followed
with discussion by the filmmaker, Stan Brakage.
W eq'ne 4a
SAT./SUN. Time Change 7 & 9:30
HAMLET
Directed by prize-winning (Cannes) Grigori Kozinstev.
Russian translation by Boris Pasternak with English
subtitles. -Should be very exciting: ". . .A vast
Medieval melodrama . . . intense and graphic
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