THE MICHIGAN DAILY A ts Etert inm ent Tuesday, October 28, 1975 aV l ll a Beach Boys: Venerab but the magic has fac ~'-'~ ' ~'w ~'W'' W W CHARLES LAUGHTON as 1939 The Hunchback of Notre Dame (AT 7:00) The classic version of the Victor Hugo novel about Quasi- modo and his love for a beautiful girl (MAUREEN O'SUL- BUDD BOETTICHER'S 1958 led "BuchananRides Alone (AT 9:05)t s were only A91 is sent some A great low-budget summary of the Western genre star- a frenzy by ring RANDOLPH SCOTT. ested for the CINEI"AGLD BOTH SHOWS OLD ARCH. C, LovIVwas FOR $2.00 AUD g, Love was elf, treating thinly veiled By BILL TURQUE the tanned, strapping boys of an an endless summer. Years of in- a li Seeing the Beach Boys is like tense touring have taken their of visiting the Statue of Liberty. toll, and road fatigue seemed to = con Enamored with the sheer fame be corroding their shows. The ent and tradition of it all, people airy vocal harmonies were just ) tend to overlook the chipping not quite as tight as they used his paint, or the monument's paled to be, with newcomer Billy the surface, tarnished by decades in Hinsche (yes, trivia junkies, he con the foul city air. I is formerly of Dino, Desi and bar Such was the case Sunday Billy) the chief offender, nearly hur evening, when nearly 6,000 sending "California Girls" down T oldies but moldies aficionados the tubes with his off-key sing- of literally packed themselves into ing. '60s EMU's Bowen Field House for Love, who comprises about like a last, fleeting taste of summer. the only visual flash the group Sur And, by almost any standard, has, seemed several light years siv they were not disappointed. removed from the entire affair, sur Carl and Dennis Wilson, Mike reciting most of the lyrics like fro Love, Al Jardine and a couple some solemn liturgical chant to E of new faces breezed through a be endured, not relished. sat 75 minute set featuring nearly Al Jardine was almost som- er, all of their vintage hits. nambulant, while Carl Wilson! Yet from the time lead singer -- - Mike Love sauntered to center- stage announcing that "We've come on the Sloop John B," to the last high pitched strains of "Fun, Fun, Fun," there was theCAMPUS C inescapable feeling that some- thing was missing. The gleeful1 abandon of youth had given waybo to a plodding listlessness sug- jn ro gesting the onslaught of middle age, baroque ens d brother Denni ittle better. Denn the women into ming out bare ch core. When not singing usual snide s eaudience with a ntempt, and displaying an em- rassingly adolescent sense of mor. 'he Beach Boys played little their material from the late s and early '70s, from albums e Wild Money, Sunflower and rf's Up, relying almost exclu- ely on their tried and true rfing era music with selections m Pet Sounds. Earlv in the concert peoplej politely through "The Trad-I " " Sail on Sailor" and Cali- (Continued on Page 5) TONIGHT AT 7 & 9 TONIGHT AT 7 & 9 OPEN 6:45 Daily Photo by PAULINE LUBENS BEACH BOYS LEADER Mike Love reaches for "The Warmth of The Sun" during the group's nostalgic concert Sunday at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti. Toledo Symphony, Forrester demonstrate vocal virtuosit :ONCERT professional se m ble OPEN AT 6:45 a . (T ULT1MATE EXPERIENCE FOR EVERYONE! -Plus- MICKEY MOUSE in "Mickey's Good Deed" HIS CIA CODE NAME IS CONDOR. IN THE NEXT SEVENTY-TWO HOURS ALMOST EVERYONE HE TRUSTS WILL TRY TO KILL HIM. I TEcHNIcOLOR /A PARAMOUNT RELEASE By TOM GODELL voice, the orchestra was kept great deal of trouble with the The Toledo Symphony once eto an extremely low dynamic first and fifth songs. again demonstrated its import- level through the piece. However, just as I was about ance to the musical life of this Also, as if afraid of destroy- to write the brass off as i ost (U region in its second concert of ing the lyric flow of the soloists cause, along came the fortissimo or the new season Friday night. line, the accompaniment lacked opening of Leos Janacek's Sin- la While we may be fortunate contrast within or between sec- fonietta in the timpani and fr enough to have many great tions of the piece. The result brass. Here they played fcr the w virtuosos perform in Ann Arbor was a performance that was first time with power and clar- ol on a regular basis, where else somewhat less interesting and ity. This orchestra is capable. but in Toledo can we hear such moving than it could have been. of producing amazing sonority ta artists as Canadian contralto But the spotlight was on Mau- a n d tremendous excitement ol Maureen Forrester play with a reen Forrester and the lyric, when it wants to. ec major symphony? and the audience loved it. While this work is among the After intermission the concert masterworks of our 'ime, its I tw The concert began with a lack- resumed with songs from Des difficulties can sometimes lose 12 luster performance of Wagner's Knaben Wunderhorn, a setting the audience. Fornet's iat rpre- d Prelude to Die Meistersinger. of German folk poetry oy Gustav tation, powerfully conrraAing at Perhaps this work is overly Mahler. This music may not lyric beauty with barbaric dy- po familiar, but conductor Serge represent Mahler at lis itmost namism, never allowed tVis to ,m1 Fronet's interpretation did not profound or serious, but it cer-1 happen, and the reception by the er help. The relatively slow tempo tainly is his most delig,'tful. In audience was tremendous. ist and choppy phrasing robbed the fact, when composing moumen- work of any dramatic force or tal symphonies in his later flow. years, it was from this cellec- Forrester was then featured tion that he liberally borrowed in Hector Berlioz's Les Nuits material. D'ete. Unlike so many female While this is delightful music vocalists, Forrester does not for the listener, it is far from, cackle like a chicken, but rather easy to perform properly. Once makes the human voice sound again, Forrester brougnt her as lovely as it possibly can. Her beautiful, lyric voice to these ability to express e m o t i o n songs, and never failed tj make, through her voice is simply them "sing." amazing. As in the Berlioz, the orches- r,FING This is not to say that her trafailed to display a similar DO E performance was humorlessI level of virtuosity, particularly! perfrmace as umoles'{ the brass section, which had a, however. Indeed, the light mo- ments of the Berlioz were ex- oc;oco> pressed beautifully. She .mpha-EP sized lyric phrfasing. Even in ORETAlRIT staccato passages this lyric ENtout quality was never forgotten.J ,C Sadly, the orchestral accom- EXHIBIT and SALE paniment did not live up to - these high standards. A ; if wed., oct. 29 afraid of drowning out .he solo i a.m. -6 p.m. Indeed, these are no -)nger OASTAL CRUISES B E L G R A D E, Yugoslavia UPI) - The Dalmation coast, "Coast of a Thousand Is-y nds," is probably best seen om the sea, and what better ay than from the deck of an d three-masted sailing ship? Yugoslav tour companies have ken over a number of these d boats, refitted them and quipped them with diesel mo- rs and now offer one-week or o-week holidays for around -15 persons, cruising up and own the coast. Stops are made smaller fishing villages and rts on some of the more re- ote islands, which are not oth- wise easily accessible to tour- ts. featuring Michael Lynn& Richard Lalli recorde~r & flute baritone voice in chamber works by Telemann, Corelli, Rameau, vanEyck, Schein, Morel Pendlelon Arts Info. enter LAST TIMES TONIGHT "Rhinoceros" 7:00 and 9:00 STARTS TOMORROW In 1525 the world was rocked by a powerful explosion. His name was Luther. r: STACY ^a KEACII. SIN JOHN OSBONES ~21- ~ S.STATE ST MON.-SAT. 10 A.M.-6 P.M. FRI. TILL 9 P.M. I//\PORTED AND STIC CLOTHN G" I ,t © }} ri //! 1 , }. ' , r More Arts on Page 7 UNION GALLERY first floor mich. union orr byvmarsonHd balt TONIGHT! TUESDAY, OCT. 28 LOVE AND ANARCHY (Linda Wertmuller, 1973) Giancarlo Giannini plays an anarchist who stays at a Roman brothel while waiting to assassinate Mussolini. Moriangela Melato gives an hyster- ically funny performance as his contact. Vivid picture of Italy in the Thirties. Wertmuller, who used to work for Fellini and who also di- rected THE SEDUCTION OF MIMI, makes this movie fast and funny. "Extravagant and oper- atic"-THE NEW YORKER. Italian with Eng- lish subtitles. in AUD. A, ANGELL HALL at 7 & 9 p.m. $1.25 WEDS., THURS.: KUBRICK MINI-FESTIVAL THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PROFESSIONAL THEATRE PROGRAM PRESENTS jjaftwe7 I * 4 .s0-{ - MON.-SAT. 7:00 and 9:00 SUN. 5:00, 7:00 and 9:00 IRI THE SUNS PRESENTS FRIDAY at the NOVEMBER 7 MICHIAND F I