t :)aae'Twc THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesday, September 20, 1972 TwcTHE IC~iAN DiLY ednsday Sepembe.20.197 Attention prospective syncronized Swimmers Michifish practices SEPT. 20, 27; OCT. 4-7 p.m. MARGARET BELL POOL s' poetry and prose 11 Daily Photo by ROLFE TESSEM Ready for Rudolph BrodsOky By BRUCE SHLAIN his voic The University's new poet-in- English residence, Iosif Brodsky, said by pect the many to be the Soviet Union's. boring a finest living poet, gave she long- but this awaited first reading of his case. poetry here last night at Rack- For ham Auditorium. Russian The usual intimate 'and relaxed commen atmosphere of the readings was S. Eliot noticeably absent, for it was not aggerat only Brodsky's University debut, seemed but the first time he has read in a beaut the United States. Coupled with that qu the fact that most of his poetry seldom has not yet been published in remind English, the affair took on more of his li swank than usual. And with the what w: swank comes t e n s i o n, bright the cot lights, and even w h i r r i n g always cameras. Hardly a conducive it was 1 setting for the medium. showing In addition to the aforemen- ing, pe tioned obstacles, Brodsky's pro- demons ficiency in English only allowed that his him to read the poems in his unifying native language. Prof. Donald Thet Hall, sporting a beard and with ject-wis reads Organist to accompany Valeni no's Son of Shiel' e in fine timbre, did the renditions. One would ex- e Russian versions to be and difficult to sit through, s was certainly not the when Bordsky read the version of the first poem, -morating the death of T. t, the effect was (no ex- ion) mesmerizing. He to half-sing the words in tiful cadence, in a voice ivered with emotion but faltered. One had to be ed of the uprooted nature ife these last few weeks, Kith being expelled from untry that he says "will be my home." Perhaps the uprootedness that was g in his impassioned read- rhaps it was his way of trating the importance s poetry has assumed in g his life somehow., tone of the reading sub- e was generally quite By DONALD SOSIN There aren't many theater or- gans left in America. During the height .of their popularity, in the late 1920's, there were thousands of them - Wurlitzer ,produced about" 2,700, some companies even more. Now there are only twenty-five or so instruments left in' playable condition, and one of them is on Liberty St. in the Michiga.n Theater. It 'was used for concerts and to accompany silent films for several years after its installa- tion in 1928, but the arrival of talkies cut short its usefulness, and it fell into a state of disre- pair. Recently, the Motor City Theater Organ Society has been at work restoring it, and the re- sults can be, heard at 8 tonight as Lyn Larsen accompanies the classic Rudolf Valentino film, Son 'of the Sheik. Tickets, at $3.00, are available at the Michigan theatre box of- Kaleidoscope questions and answers in the world of art . .- .. .. " fice. Larsen is a 27-year-old Califor- nian who has toured this country and Australia playing movie shows and concerts for about five years. Talking with him yes- terday at the theater, I asked whether he used original 1920's music for the film. "No,.about 85 per cent of the music is my own. Occasionally I get ideas from old pieces, espe- cially the French organ compos- ers, and I have always used a theme of Franck's for Mary Phil- bin in Phantom of the Opera, but generally the themes are mine. "Do I write the music down? No, I'm so forgetful that I would lose it everywhere. So I memorize it. Not every note, of course, but the basic content changes verylittle from show- ing to showing." "And you can remember all the individual themes for each film? How many films have you scored?" Problems with musical instru- ments, photography, painting, macrame, food preparation, etc. KALEIDOSCOPE to the rescue. The Daily Arts page plans to initiate this new column as a ,service to answer your questions about problems in the world of art. Inquiries may concern any aspect of artistic technique, equipment care, or local cultural events. If you have a question that you would like answered, write: KALEIDOSCOPE, c/o Arts Edi- tor, The Michigan Daily. here TAKE A, TRIP THIS FALL At HURON RIVER CANOE RENTAL FEATURING 2 AND 4 HOUR RIVER TRIPS 4325 JACKSON AVE. Phone 662-1270 "About 30," Larsen replied. Most of the silent films in Ann Arbor are shown at Cinema Guild with piano music. I asked Larsen about the difference be- tweensaccompaniments on the two instruments. Piano music was originally just music during the film, while the organists actually accompa- nied the events on the screen." The same is done today with piano accompaniments, too. "I can play two measures of a theme and you'll know pretty much what's going on even if you're eyes are closed." IHe sat down at the organ and played some ominous chords that conjured up an image of the villain entering, switched to a romantic melody, and finished up with a Sunday-afternoon stroll-through-the-park tune. The variety of differents effects' was enormous, and there is no doubt that the advantages to organ accompaniment are many. (Son of the Sheik will be shown at Cinema Guild in November with piano music for those who wish to compare.) The show tonight will include, rin addition to the feature at- traction, a sing-along anda solo on the Barton organ. Larsen says it is in excellent condition, and judging from the brief ek-- cerpts I heard, the performance should be most impressive. somber except for one humorous poem sprinkled with German. Other than that, most of the lines were stark and cold; in "Still Life," perhaps the most moving of the night's offerings, he spoke of all talk as ". . . a barren thing, a writing on the wind." Such lines were part of a general introspectionthat bor- dered at times on misanthropy ("People are not my thing"). Brodsky seemed generally gen- uninely surprised by the warm reception, joking that Russian was a very strange language, and that he had decided that the overflow crowd has "come to hear the noise." t~ton modern Coatin TONIGHT ONLY AT 8:00 P.M. Lyn Larsen IN PERSON at the Giant Barton Organ ON SCREEN Rudolph Valentino in the 1926 film "SON OF THE SHEIK" MAKE RESERVATIONS NOW THE U-M PROFESSIONAL THEATRE PROGRAM USHER APPLICATION FOR THE PLAY-OF-THE-MONTH SERIES NAME ADDRESS PHONE _ U-M ID NO. I wish to usher for (indicate choice of series, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th) t Series A_ (Sat. Eves.) Series B_ (Sun. Eves.) Series C_ .. Series D (Sat. Mats.) (Sun, Mats.) 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