Wednesday, November 1, 1972
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Ross Lee
Finne
the man
and his music
By DONALD SOSIN
What can I say about my mu-
sic? I just don't know what to
say," muses Prof. Ross Lee Fin-
ney, the University' s Composer-
in-Residence.
A source of inspiration for
composition students since he
assumed his position in 1948,
Finney will retire at the end of
this semester. "This doesn't
mean I will stop working," he
says, "I simply won't be teach-
ing."
"I'll compose what I want to
compose-almost everything for
the past 20 years has been com-
missioned - and keep my home
in Ann Arbor, my apartment in
Greenwich Village, and my sum-
mer place on Chappaquidick Is-
land."
Finney will be honored tonight
at the second concert of the
Contemporary Music Festival;
the program, at 8 p.m. in Hill
Auditorium, will feature"The Re-
morseless Rush of Time, for
chorus and thirteen instruments,
and the world premiere of his
Second Concerto for Piano and
Orchestra.
Finney brought to the Univer-
sity a background that included
studies with Nadia Boulanger
and Alban Berg, and 20 years of
teaching experience at Smith
College. He has received num-
erous awards (including the Pu-
litzer Prize in 1937) and is a
member of the National Insti-
tute of Arts and Letters. His mu-
sic has been widely and success-
fully performed by major or-
chestras and soloists both here
and abroad.
Despite the composer's claim
that he has nothing to say about
his music, he is currently con-
ducting a lively seminar in Bur-
ton Tower where he speaks
about his life and his music dis-
armingly and jovially, with the
remarkable understanding and
insight that has made him a
widely - respected and much-
loved teacher.
"When I came here," Finney
says, "there was a course in
composition, but no department.
There was, however, a very
lively group of composers here
- veterans such as Leslie Bas-
sett (now chairman of the Com-
position Department) and Ed
Chudacoff (member of the The-
ory faculty) so there was no
problem attracting composers."
"One of my main concerns was
that students were unable to hear
anything they wrote. So I organ-
ized the Composers Forums; and
we went to town to get good per-
formances and tapes. We began
to have orchestral readings. We
wanted to make the composers a
part of the creative life of the
University."
"Inter-arts activities sprang
up, and reached a peak with the
ONCE group in the early 60's.
Last year student composers
worked with filmmakers and
dancers under George Wilson's
direction.
"Have the students changed a
lot since I came here? Oh, of
course, he said. "In the early
50's they were eager, very tal-
ented, incredibly hardworking.
People like George Crumb, Wil-
son, Bassett."
"In the late 50's they were
very well-educated, but belliger-
ent and rebellious. They blew
their tops. They hated the con-
cert stage and the American
symphony orchestra, and activi-
ties like the ONCE concerts re-
sulted."
"Then came what I would call,
for lack of a better term, the
hippie period. There was rebel-
liousness, but the individuals in-
volved had no training. We got
English students who thought it
was glamorous to be a compos-
er but had no talent and no tech-
nique. There is a problem when
you have these individuals who
need help (probably psychiatric
help); it was very difficult to
teach them."
"They tried to bombard me
ARTS-.
with four-letter words, as though
I'd never heard of them. And
they brought pieces written on
cards to be shuffled. What could
you teach them?".
"Still," he reflects, "out of this
period came some of our finest
people - William Albright, Rus-
sell Peck; that phase had an
impact on the older group."
"Today's students are more
understanding of the need for
technique, and more clever
about getting along in the institu-
tion. The student population is
enlivening; that's one reason I
don't want to move out of Ann
Arbor. Young people bring the
real world into the environ-
ment."
"The music on tonight's con-
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By DONALD SOSIN
Guarneri Quartet; Rackham Lecture
Hall, Sun., Oct. 29, 2:30 p.m.
Chamber Arts Series of University
Musical Society.
Beethoven-Quartets in A Major,
Op. 18, No. 5; in E minor, Op. 59,
No. 2; in F Major, Op. 135.
There could have been no bet-
ter way to mark the opening of
the Tenth Annual Chamber Arts
Series than with an all-Beethoven
concert by the Guarneri Quartet.
String quartets are the meat and
potatoes of chamber music, and
Beethoven's sixteen quartets
(plus the Grosse Fugue) repre-
sent the greatest all-around
achievement in the genre. And
the Guarneri Quartet is probably
the finest group of its kind in the
world today.
Other ensembles, notably the
Czechs-the Prague, Smetana
and Janacek Quartets-are out-
standing in many ways; the
Amadeus Quartet has a large
following; the Concord, String
Quartet gives outstanding inter-
pretations of many contemporary
works; the Cleveland Quartet is
another young group that has
great vitality and may develop
into an ensemble of wide reputa-
tion.
But Arnold Steinhardt, John
Dalley, Michael Tree and David
Soyer have a unique command of
all periods of string literature,
and each performance brings
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listeners increasing insight into
their collective genius.
The Quartet seems to have
mellowed since its last visit to
Ann Arbor 20 months ago. None
of the vigor has been lost, but
there is a more .relaxed ap-
proach, a suppleness in phrasing
that is as engaging in its own
way as the feeling of breath-
lessness that marked earlier per-
formances.
In Op. 18, No. 5, for example,
the rather slow tempo in the
menuetto might have sounded
torpid in less-disciplined hands,
but each note had immense en-
ergy that was somehow con-
tained, producing a relaxed, yet
dynamic flow of sound.
That this is tremendously dif-
ficult cannot be overemphasized.
It is hard enough to get an in-
dividual musician to exhibit such
control. When the problems are
quadrupled, and still overcome,
the mind boggles at the thought
of how much painstaking work
has gone into preparation.
Similar feats of energy control
occurred throughout. The An-
dante in the same quartet, a set
of variations, were remarkable.
Soyer's minute fluctuations in
rhythm at the opening of the
first variation contrasted with
Dalley's steady, flowing, six-
teenth-notes in the next. The
penultimate triumphant bouncy
variation, which suddenly shifts
into an unexpected key, had ex-
citing changes of mood.,
I mention these particular
points because one should listen
for them in a performance. With
music of such depth, familiarity
can only breed new levels of un-
derstanding, and the better one
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By CHUCK BLOOM
Chuck Berry, in the same
terms as he describes sex, is a
gas! He put on one hell of a
concert Friday at Eastern Mich-
igan University's Bowen Field-
house.
Berry was known during the
1950's as the poet laureate of rock
and roll, but for the Ypsilanti
audience he showed that he was
also truly one of the finest gui-
tarists of our times. Iwonder
why he wasn't in Ann Arbor for
Homecoming when the theme
was "Those were the days . ."
meaning of course, the 50's.
All through the two-hour set,
Berry stood hunched over his red
Gibson. A tall man, Berry seem-
ed an imposing figure on stage.
Unlike other guitarists who rape
rather than play, Berry demon-
strated subtle moves which re-
sulted in true rock and roll
sounds.
Opening the concert was an-
other 50's act: The Drifters. They
aren't the original (most of them
have passed on to that great doo-
wap in the sky) but they sound-
ed like the originals.
Their problems revolved around
Bowen's obnoxious lighting and
bad sound system. It got so bad
that lead singer Charlie Thomas
stopped the show to tell the rain-
bow-happy lightperson to quit
making a light show out of his
performance.
Another major problem was
their numbers, which included
a lot of little-known songs that
only hard-core "oldies freaks"
w o u l d appreciate. Well-known
oldies like "Up on the Roof" and
"On Broadway" were received
well but a fine number like "True
Love" went over like a lead
balloon.
Finally out came the King, as
greasy as ever. The crowd came
to its feet and remained that
way for the next 45 minutes.
Berry gave a long guitar in-
tro and then promptly went into
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"Roll Over Beethoven" and
"Sweet Little 16," two of his
many hits.
He also did one of the finest
versions of "School Days" I've
ever heard.
Left out were all his usual wild
gyrations on stage. In their place
was a display of talent, both on
guitar and piano. During a long
instrumental, he generously dis-
played the talents of his backup
band, the Woolies (a fine one-
hit Detroit group).
Having amused himself long
enough, he went to old standards
like "Carol" and "Little
Queenie."
But Chuck Berry is a man of
diverse music. So he sat the
crowd down and played 30 min-
utes of straight blues, again dis-
playing his fine guitar work.
The crowd even got in the ac-
tion as he had the Fieldhouse
singing with him on "Jamacian
Farewell" and "Ramblin' Rose."
Then he digressed. He became
raunchy, which is as good a term
as any to use. A note of explan-
ation first. In 1964, Berry was
jailed for violations of the Mann
Act; transportating minors across
state lines for sexual purposes.
So one can imagine what is on
Berry's mind.
He proceeded to sing "South
of Her Border," a song with
blatant overtones, and "Reelin'
and Rockin'," a version, differ-
ent from the original, which was
even more blatant. The crowd
ate it up.
He did a 16-minute version of
his current hit "Ding-A-Ling."
As stupid as this song is, it
served as a fine set-up for the
finale "Johnny B. Goode."
As the concert ended, the
crowd rushed the stage and sur-
rounded Berry, making him ob-
livious to the rest of the audi-
ence. When he finished, all any-
one saw was the guitar, waving
in triumph. That is the way- it
should have been.
Arts Editor's note: A true 50's
enthusiast chuck "Tor" Bloom is
a member of Jimmy and the Javel-
ins who appeared with Chastity
and the Belts at this year's Home-
coming Sock Hop.
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56 A Public Affair/Election '72
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CU.LTURE CALEI'WAR
McGOVERN MUSIC-Phil Ochs arrives in town tonight to
do a benefit performance for our Democratic presiden-
tial candidate in Power Center at 8:30. Tickets sold at the
door.
CLASSICAL MUSIC-The Music School presents the Con-
temporary Music Festival tonight at 8 in Hill Aud. The
program will include performances by the Michigan
Chamber Choir, Thomas Hilbish, conductor; the Univer-
sity Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Sydney Hodkinson, con-
ductor; University Symphony Orchestra, Theo Alcan-
tara, conductor; and William Doppman, piano. The pro-
gram will feature the world premiere of Ross Lee Fin-
ney's Second Piano Concerto.
DRAMA TIP-PTP presents The New Phoenix Repertory
Company at the Power Center this Saturday and Sun-
day. The company's engagement will open with Moliere's
Don Juan with performances at 3 and 8; Sunday, the
company will present O'Neill's The Great God Brown at
3 and 8.
DRAMA-The Student Lab Theatre will present Mozart's
Bastien and Batienne and Grass' Max at the Frieze Arena
this afternoon at 4:10.
FILMS-Psych, 171 Film Series shows Silent Snow, Secret
Snow, Dream of Wild Horses and Occurrence at Owl
Creek Bridge this afternoon at 4 in the UGLI Multi-pur-
pose Room. The AA Film Co-op presents Millhouse to-
night at 7, 8:45 in Aud. A. Cinema Guild repeats Fellini's
Juliet of the Spirits in the Arch, Aud. at 7, 9:30.
ART-Ann Arbor Women Painters present their 21st annual
exhibition in Rackham Gallery; Union Gallery open to-
day from noon until 5; exhibition of works by George
Bayliss in the Exhibition Hall of the College of Arch. &
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Symphony
Orchestra
'more than a lab'
By TONY CECERE
It is ten-thirty on a truly medi-
ocre Michigan day, and out on
North Campus something signi-
ficant is happening.
The rehearsal hall at the School
of Music is filled with people
sitting in a modernized semi-
circle. Maestro Theo Alcantara
lifts his baton and eases it down
slowly, deliberately. The baton
is met by the soft rumble of
the contrabassoon playing a very
low C and in the Trumpet section,
Mike Bowman raises his horn to
his mouth and the rest of his
section follows suit. Then the
three notes that are famous to
enrolled in the course repeat it
every semester for two credits a
term, six hours a week, with
the intention of attaining enough
proficiency to leave school and
earn money doing exactly what is
done in USO.
Unfortunately, orchestra is not
something you can just enroll in.
It is only open to students in the
School of Music, and even then
you must still pass an audition,
as there are always more players
than there are positions.
Of course, the principal activity
of the USO is giving concerts,
one of which is scheduled tonight
at 8 in Hill Auditorium-the
School of Music's Contemporary
Music Festival, featuring the
University Symphony and piano
soloist William Doppman in a
performance of Rose Lee Fin-
ney's Second Piano Concerto.
It is interesting, to watch the
members of the orchestra in
rehearsal. There is a tension
that binds the players together.
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