The Michigan Daily-Thursday, November 3, 1977-Page 5 ARTS ARCADE. . . a weekly roundup Architecture falls flat MILWAUKEE - Lloyd Wright, son of the late Frank Lloyd Wright, sum- med up his view of modern urban archi- tecture in one word: "Lousy." "We're making tombstones for ghet- tos," the 87-year-old Wright said. "If you build high rises, you go to Heaven. If you don't, you go to hell.' Wright, who said his work had been influenced by his father's principle of organic architecture, was architect for the Hollywood Bowl in 1926, and his other works included designs for the Wayfarer Chapel in Palo Verde, Calif., various shopping centers and homes. The Los Angeles architect commen- ted Friday in an interview while atten- ding a conference called "An American Mississippi and all the other places left behind. The players laugh at the monotony of the auto assembly line. Reformed alcoholics sing the praises of Jesus. "The Original Bluegrass Opera of Detroit," a production consisting of five musician-actors and a slide-show, is an anthem for thousands of Southerners who came to Detroit after World War II' to find work - a song of praise for anyone who ever left his home to find a better life. " 'Detroit' is another way of saying 'a job' to many folks, a ticket to better times," said author Bud McKirgan. "A man can ride that bus to the Motor City and build cars until he has a little nest egg. Then he can take that hard cash and go back home, buy the little farm or Cosmic conducting LOS ANGELES - Inspired by the success of the science-fiction epic movie "Star Wars," the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra has scheduled a concert of symphonic space music. The concert, to be held Nov. 20 at the Hollywood Bowl, will be conducted by Zubin Mehta, and will feature a laser light show and other psychedelic effec- ts, officials said Friday. The program was designed to attract the younger audience overflowing thea- ters to see the record-setting futuristic film, "Star Wars," said Philharmonic spokeswoman Norma Flynn. Composer of the movie score, John Williams, has written an arrangement for the orchestra entitled "Suits from Star Wars," which Mehta will conduct. The arrangement is being made avail- able to symphony orchestras through- out the nation, said Ms. Flynn, who prefers that designation. Mehta also will lead the Philharmonic in excerpts from "The Planets" by Gustav Holst and "Zarathustra: Theme from 2001" by Richard Strauss. " King Swings again NEW YORK - Benny Goodman gave a little party to announce that he'll give a concert in Carnegie Hall in January to commemorate thefirst jazz concert held there 40 years ago. Goodman also headed that concert - which proved a smashing success - on Jan. 16, 1938. The anniVersary concert will be Jan. 17, 1978, because Carnegie already is booked for the 16th. He said he'll try to get some of the soloists who played with him in Carnegie in 1938 to appear again in 1978. The King of Swing on Tuesday quoted himself talking to his wife, "I said, 'I don't know about 40 years. But I sup- pose it would be optimistic, really, to wait 50 years.' She said. 'Not optimistic -unrealistic.' ' Liza sizzles NEW YORK - Liza Minnelli dazzles and "The Act" sizzles. After all sorts of dire rumors about production and emotional woes on cross-country tryout, the star and her show opened Saturday night at Broad- way's Majestic Theater. Whatever repairs were needed - there are a few patchmarks still visible - have taken splendidly, and the result is blockbuster entertainment. It supposedly takes place in a Las Vegas night club where a Hollywood starlet is making her comeback bow. -The plot is so thin that it becomes in- visible at times, but does craftily blur to and fro between real-life Minnelli and her fictional persona, Michelle Craig. Minnelli is on stage almost every minute, with relentless energy and mesmerizing charm, singing and dan- cing through a dozen songs and as many glittering costume changes. John Kander's score and Fred Ebb's lyrics provide her with a range of themes and tempos shaped to display every facet of a finely disciplines ar- tistry. Besides belting ballads or The Alechinsky show is the first of the Pittsburgh International Series recen- tly established on a biennial basis by* the A. W. Mellon Educational and Char- itable Trust. It replaces the Pittsburgh International Exhibition, a pioneer survey show of the work of many artists established in 1896 and discontinued in 1970 when the survey show had become common to many American museums. The new series concept of one-man shows is a feather in the cap of Leon Arkus, genial director of the Museum of Art. He predicts the series will "provide Pittsburgh with continuing ar- tistic nourishment through a program of exciting art shows that will also at- tract art lovers from all over the coun- try." Surprise conductor NEW YORK - Symphony conductor George Solti, severely injured in a fall, relinquished his baton to his female assistant and listened, proudly as she directed the orchestra through one of Gustav Mahler's most difficult compo- sitions to a standing ovation in Carnegie Hall. Solti, who suffered a sprained wrist and strained back, neck and shoulder muscles in a fall in Chicago on Friday,; turned over his Chicago Symphony Or- chestra and Mahler's Eighth Symphony to Margaret Hillis. The symphony is 80 minutes long and: is almost totally choral or vocal- ensemble music. Hillis is director of the orchestra's chorus and has often con- ducted the two ensembles in the choral- orchestral repertory. So finding herself in front of the group was not exactly new. Hillis did not try to imitate Solti's in- terpretation of Mahler, but followed her own style. The Arts Arcade was compiled by Wendy Goodman, Renee Schicus- ky, Mike Taylor and Tim Yagle, from the wires of AP and UPI. HORSELESS CARRIAGE PRODUCTION FELT ITS OATS America' first automobile company was incorporated September 21, 1895 when The Duryea Motor Wagon Com- pany began its operations in Maine. Examples of Duryea's early cars are on exhibit in the extensive Transporta- tion section of Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan. Liza Minnelli mellowing sentimental blues, Minnelli also remembers to act in the intermit- tent plot. First hearings are deceptive guides, but such numbers as the satiric "Hol- lywood, California," swinging "City Lights" and gentle "My Own Space" are special delights. Carrying the main dramatic load, such as it is, Barry Nelson portrays the movie maker who loves, leaves and returns when our heroine learns to be self-reliant. George Furth thought up the book, which could use a bit more cutting. The physical production is an eye- boggling array of costumes by Halston, smart lighting by Tharon Musser and clever backwall scenic abstracts by Tony Walton. Although reliable report is that other hands were called in during final preparation of the show, Martin Scorsese gets sole program credit as the director. "The Act" totals up as suavely polished diversion, crafted perfectly to the irresistible talents of a champion performer. Top art PITTSBURGH - In one giant step - the award of a $50,000 art prize and a magnificent retrospective exhibition of the winner's work - the Carnegie In- stitute's Museum of Art has regained its role on the international art scene for the first time since 1970. The Andrew W. Mellon prize, the world's richest for painting and sculp- ture, was awarded Thursday night to Pierre Alechinsky, a Belgian-born painter who has been active in Paris since 1948. A showing of 169 paintings, drawings and watercolors,'represen- ting the bulk of the artist's output, opened to the public today in the gleam- ing white splendor of the museum's modern painting galleries. THE CENTER FOR JAPANESE STUDIES Presents The Honorable Fumihiko Togo Ambassador of Japan to the United States on "Japan-United States Relations: Current Economic issues" FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4 4:00 p.m., Room 200, Lane Hall (OPEN TO THE PUBLIC) Invite the bunch... Mix a great, big bucket full of *pe m.. s e upech Serves 32... tastes like a super cocktail! Greatest drink ever invented! Mix a batch in advance, add ice and 7UP at the last minute... serve the crowd right out of the bucket! Smooth 'n delicious. Wow! r ;. -AP Photo Puff the Magic Dragon New York-A 14-foot high, smoke spouting dragon, one of the charac- ters in the new Disney film "Pete's Dragon" ambles up the promenade at the Rockefeller Plaza. 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She suffered bruises and sprains when the elephant, flustered by a prankster, knocked her in the chest with its trunk and sent her tumbling backward. A Dee-troit blues DETROIT - It's foot-stomping, ban- jo-picking good times, shouting the glories of the union movement in the auto industry. It's slow-sung laments of lost dreams and sweethearts and being stuck in "Dee-troit" where the only bit of home is the tiny bluegrass bar on which the owner keeps jars of dirt from Alabama, gas station and live the good life from then on. "Course, I know it doesn't work that way. About the first thing you have to do is buy a car, and that means car payments. And while you're sitting around in Detroit dreaming of the hills back home, you might as well watch a little TV. More payments. Pretty soon, you're stuck." McKirgan, a magazine writer, wrote the songs and narration in 1975 as a series of vignettes for 15 actors and musicians. 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