Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, September 24, 1972 PageTwo HE ICHIAN LAIL G :. Blues, humor at Ark Big bands are coming! Freddy Martin, Bob Crosby, Margaret Whiting and Frankie Carle (left to right) gather at piano during a rehearsal for their nation-wide tour of "Big Band Cavalcade," which will 1 troit at the Masonic Auditorium Oct. 12. By DIANE LEVICK Crazy teen-age summers, trips across the sea by phonograph, and true love between a sodium and a chloride atom. Kate Mc- Garrigle sang her songs at the Ark this weekend, offering a strange mixture of varied humor and seriousness. She opened Friday night with "Annie, What's Going To Be- come of You?," an effective ren- dering of the, woman-who's-seen- better-days theme. Her guitar ac- companiment was just a simple pattern - picked bass and brush strokes - but her voice, smooth and flowing, was what made her entire performance enchanting. Those whohwere fortunate to see her at the Ark last season with Smoke Dawson realized that McGarrigel gives her best when in the spotlight alone. Dawson, who played bagpipes and did most of the talking, overpowered her. Alone, her artistry shines AP Photo through. Friday night McGarrigle, form- erly of Montreal and now living round the in Boston, intermingled b lu e s be in De- with humor pieces. Her second song of the evening, "Empty Bar- rel Blues," an old Weavers tune, didn't quite turn the audience on. McGarrigle seemed a bit unsure of herself on the guitar break in the middle. ("David Bromberg I'm not.") But when she pounded out ano- ther old blues number on t he piano, "Send Me To the Electric Chair," her real musical talent broke through. And the audience clapped heartily and hooted in ap- preciation. As McGarrigle admitted later, she's only used guitar in her act for a few months, but she's had six years of piano lessons. Her piano accompaniments reflect much more creativity and varia- tion. And variation characterized her lyrics. Who would ever think of writing a love song about an in- nocent little chlorine atom in the have been sea with a valence of minus one liner, not and a sodium atom "with enough or fifteen electrons in his shell plus that en's comic extra one?" The heart-rending urprisingly proposition scene: that ends Sodium cried what a gas, be Most sim- my bride, himper - And I'll change your name from chlorine to chloride. Finally, McGarrigle bids us, "Think of the love you eat when you salt your meat." Not all McGarrigle's humor is so blatant. It's difficult to tell in some of her work what is cyn- icism, what's tongue-in-cheek, or what's deadpan serious. A song she wrote about her "crazy teen- age summer" two years ago in Saratoga, "the decadence capi- tal of the world," drew q u i e t laughs. Yet, as a 26 year-old, was she nostalgically or cynically looking back - or both? Another autobiographical piece, "Tell My Sister To Tell My Moth- er I'm Coming Home Alone," de- finitely entered the depressing vein. "That was an actual fact that happened to me. I was liv- ing in England for awhile. It's a very heavy song - I hesitate to do it," McGarrigle explained during a break between sets. Possiby the only song McGarri- gle performed that sounded a bit trite was "The Heart Is Like a Wheel," written by her sister. The similes just didn't inspire much emotion, but the tune was pleasant. DIAL 668-6416 WINNER 1972 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL JURY PRIZE AWARD Only Amerkan Film to be so Honored SUNDAY AFTERNOON Rafael Fruehbeck lie Burgos CONDUCTS IN HILL AUDITORIUM Tickets available at: YMUSICAL 8OCIETlY BURTON TOWER, ANN ARBOR MON. THRU FRI. 9-4:30, SAT. 9-12 PHONE 665-3717 NOTICE: Rush tickets, $1.00 each, available at Hill Auditorium box office, Saturday morning 1 :30-12:00; no choice of seat location, limit 2 per person. w in- ... i ... .... *..........n.... .....4. ..r.. , .. .... ++,. d..,.,..................... ,. .. ... ..}..:.4 .. .'_iv. . ::...'":.I.:... v .t. ' . . . .,.i .. "!. w:... .d < v"',"t~}.'.r'" r.... . . ....!". .:-: :r}"Sx :. . '}.}}rr".....'.: . . n..r.,. "}:-i"::...-:.. . . .~ .. .. . .. ...:9}}.... Y<-.. ..:. . . . ,":::. ,..; ..v:r d!...i4i}::: ...i:::::;: Looking for Something More ? REPORTERS { w }PHOTOGRAPHERSti 4 and a 4 ADVERTISING PERSONNEL f ...4.. are needed to- launch the{ Ml. MC hi nan Student News. The News is a campus publication covering student '? life, student organizations and University events.} Interested? Comfe to our MASS- MEETING- 7:30 p.mn.-Tuesday Sept. 26 SGC OFFICES-3 rd floor-Michigan Union :r..< *4.AA. or call: 763-3241 for info 4 ..,' fa,, .,. ..+:c"" {} . }. "r,:'t .^. ":..;r ... 3 .r .: .k}; r r.r.."....J.,.,., n;..;s ;:.". i::