Page 8-Friday, October 9, 1981-The Michigan Doily V V V HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION Cincinnati . New York . Los Angeles . Jerusalem OFFERS PROGRAMS IN HIGHER JEWISH EDUCATION Leading Toj Careers in the Jewish Community Rabbinic Education Jewish Communal Service Cantorial A representative will be on campus at Hillel on Fri., Oct . 23 to meet with interested individuals. appointments. Call 663-3336 for Crisler looims By Howard Witt T WAS a rainy spring night in 1979 when Ann Arbor last got a glimpse of Dan Fogelberg. And what a magical glimpse it was: Fogelberg, alone with his piano and his guitar, on an otherwise barren stage in the acoustical Elysium of Hill Audi- torium. He had been ill with a bad cold and was visibly wrung out even before.he struck his first chord; many in the audience had final exams the next day and were visibly preoccupied. But then Dan Fogelberg began to sing. And as mawkish as this might sound, suddenly nothing else mattered. He sang of lost loves and missed con- nections and misunderstandings-the stuff of human melancholy he captures so well in his music. And there were many moist eyes when he finished some new song no one had ever heard before: "Same Old Lang Syne." On Sunday night, Ann Arbor will again get a glimpse of Dan Fogelberg. And he will undoubtedly repeat "Same Old Lang Syne," now that it has finally been released on his newest album, The Innocent Age, and has become a hit. But there is cause for great concern this time around. The lyrical artistry of this most beautiful of songs will not caress the intimate walls of Hill Auditorium; it will instead bounce back and forth off the cold concrete of Crisler Arena. And Dan Fogelberg will not be life-size and alone on a gentle hardwood stage; he will be a tiny dot amid amps and speakers and drums and syn- thesizers on a yawning expanse of tem- porary platforms. This is going to be a vastly different Dan Fogelberg concert. One hopes it will not be a disaster. The Innocent Age points up in vivid detail just how Dan Fogelberg works best and how he fails worst, and the album therefore presages what is likely to go especially wrong at Crisler Arena on October 11. I I .......... E XP L01R THE MANY AVENUES OF THE FUTURE E I Campus Interviews-Wednesday, October 14, 1981 Tennessee Gas Transmission, a leading interstate gas pipeline system, will be interviewing on your campus very soon. We are seeking ambitious new graduates who are looking for high-growth opportunities and who are interested in pursuing a career as a Computer Programmer/Systems Analyst. Your degree should be in: COMPUTER SCIENCE ~ MATHEMATICS PHYSICS Check with your placement office to schedule interviews with our representatives for the date(s) listed above. Quite simply, Fogelberg excels at songs about human emotion. He writes best about what's closest to him, and indeed, his earlier albums (Souvenirs, Captured Angel, Netherlands) greatly concern his own relationships and feelings. But we don't mind-what might come off as conceited, gushing dreck from some other artist is genuinely communicated emotion when, Fogelberg does it. A song, for instance, like "Leader of the Band," an ode of thanks and ap- preciation .to Fogelberg's father, ex- presses beautifully that ineffable love any person feels upon first truly realizing the tremendous debt owed to a parent. Fogelberg's touching combination of achingly poetic lyrics and euphonious, almost ballad-like music is always agreeable-and often haunting. The title track of The Innocent Age precisely embodies this spellbinding style. The song is economic-Fogelberg's voice is the principal instrument. It summons sad- ness, hesitance, and worry, yet.at the same time remains hopeful. And it sticks in your mind endlessly. Or "Nexus," "The Lion's Share," "Hard to Say," and of course, "Same Old Lang Syne"-all feature. meaningful lyrics and Fogelberg's smooth voice as the ascendant in- strument. Intimate songs like these hearken back to the old, true Dan Fogelberg of "Dancing Shoes" days. But then there are the songs that fail miserably, like "Lost in the Sun" or "Times. Like These." Both surrender crafted lyrics to the insipid, and simple, moving music to the cacophonous. These cuts seem almost gratuitous-as if Fogelberg included them because he had a lot of musicians and a lot of fancy equipment around and felt he ought to use them. What they are is noise. In "Lost in the Sun," Fogelberg's voice loses out .to screeching guitars. Worse, the song'is about sorrow and loneliness-themes that don't adapt too well to a disconcer- ting rock form. "Times Like These" is even more disappointing because its message is totally unintelligible. It is so obscure as to be meaningless, and does not do justice to Fogelberg the (usually) artful lyricist. All this is not to say that Dan Fogelberg must never come near rock. He has done so successfully on Phoenix, with "Face the Fire." There he com- bined political statement with vigorous* instrumentation and produced ,an eminently listenable song. We may well hear "Face the Fire", during Fogelberg's Crisler concert. But with a band of six and all their assorted equipment that he is bringing with him, we will probably also hear "Lost in the Sun," which will be especially un- bearable as its discord echo'es and redoubles through the cavernous basketball arena. And "The Innocent Age," which might have sounded so ethereal in fill Auditorium, will inevitably be corrup- ted-and lost in the 13,000 seats .of Crisler Arena. U TENCO Tennessee GasTransmission A Tenneco Company P.O. 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