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The Michigan Daily Tuesday, December 11, 1984 Page 6
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By Andy Weine
Saturday night at Hill Auditorium,
Pat Metheny belted out an elec-
tric, hair-raising show that can be
summed up as... amazing? shim-
mering? terrific? All adjectives fall
short of relating the brilliance of
Metheny and his band, but here, I'll
give it a go anyhow..
Lets start before the beginning. The
stage of Hill Auditorium may be able to
accomodate some couple hundred
faculty, honors convocators, and antsy
graduates, but it can barely hold all of
Metheny's instruments, synthesizers,
sound engineering, keyboards, drums,
and various rhythmics, which teemed
the stage almost to toppling over into
the front row's laps. The band - and
especially Lyle Mays, Metheny's co-
writer and keyboard and synth
master-deftly utilized the high-tech to
deliver a wide variety of music grasped
by very few music stars, from driving
jazz/rock fusion (heavy on the jazz) to
jazzy lullabies to 21st centry spacey
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,ny tra
synth sounds... Aah, the list goes on for
these musicians who refuse to obey the
oppressive rules of any specific genre.
Lest the massive machinery turn off
any purists out there, be aware that the
Metheny troopers do not stricly belong
to the tinselly high-tech musical baby-
boom that sparkles popular charts, for
these are musicians whose talent run
deeper than their circuits. Each band
member demonstrated this in amazing
solos. Drummer Paul Wertico thun-
dered and slammed (and eventually
toppled part of) his mountainous drum
set without rooting himself in the
typically blase heavy rock beat.
Pedro Aznar maintained the ex-
citement with his arms wildly shaking
various rhythmics to a subtly Latin
beat; bass guitarist Steve Rodby soloed
impressively; and Lyle Mays' hands
alternately leaped five or six keyboards
to create classical and cosmic sounds.
And unforgettable was Metheny him-
self, whose solo flights were sometimes
tense and taught to a shattering climax
and sometimes delightfully wandering
in a directionless path that was as
rscends musical boundries
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meditative as a mantra.
Metheny opened with "Forward
March," an interesting off-key perver-
sion of a band march, which he thought
was appropriate because he "heard
ya'll were a big football school." Like
other tunes he later played, the march
demonstrated his willingness to ex-
periment in the avante-garde,
Stockhausen-Anderson-like territory
beyond the comfortable borders of
major-minor tonality and regular beat.
More in the jazzy realm were some of
Metheny's trademark tunes, such as
"Phase Dance," "Tell It All", "Yolan-
da You'll Learn," and "First Circle,"
which was rendered with perfection
only a hair off the recorded version.
Metheny's synthesized guitar soared in
these songs with a spirited, soulful
quality reminiscent of apocalyptic Pink
Floyd instrumentals. Equally en-
thralling were the semi-
improvisational vocals of Pedro Aznar,
an Argentine musician. His vocals are a
new and somewhat experimental ad-
See PAT, Page 7
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Detroit
By Neil Galanter
A FTER LYNN HARRELI
on stage with his cell
looks almost like a small t(
coupled with his powerful bi
well built physique, he began
mance of the Elgar Cellot
Saturday night with the Detr
phony that encompassed ev
and anything but toying or
around.
Harrell played full of rock
tensity full bodied lyricism a
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His playing in all the movem
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also plays with great poignancy and
delicacy as he demonstrated in the ten-
der slow movement'of his piece.
L walked Harrell only had a few small
o, which technical slips thoughout the entire
oy when piece, but this fact takes a back seat in
urly and relation to his playing as a whole,
a perfor- becuase what really counts is that
Concerto Harrell PLAYS the cello, SINGS with
'oit Sym- the cello, moves with it and interacts
'erything with it. And his marvelous interaction
kidding transforms itself into a magnetic
charisma in which he not only
-solid in- penetrates the music but also his
and such audience. He graced us also with an en-
at after- core and although it was quite a short
ick one's encore, it still was enough to give off
nce. that booming, friendly charismatic
ents was Harrell charm. Incidentally, Harrell
'chnique, was the principal cellist of the
and that Cleveland Orchestra under George
t, but he Szell from the age of twenty until he left
the orchestra in 1971 to pursue his solo
career.
S After Intermission there was a single
work on the program. The orchestra's
newly appointed conductor and music
director Gunther Herbig was on the
Sts podium for a highly robust performan-
ce of the massive Symphony No. 7 in
8-9329 E Major of Anton Bruckner. It is quite
ironic that Bruckner, who is most
2733 commonly known as a "symphonist"
for his gigantic gargantuan sym-
phonies, actually came alive rather late
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to symphony composition. He devoted
most of his youth to the writing of,
choral music, both sacred and secular; 1
however, but the time that Bruckner Y
had begun his first large symphonic.
work, he already had that extraor-
dinarily compositional technique which
further led him to compose some of the
most well build symphonies, both struc-
turally and musically.
The orchestra performed the piece
quite well, Herbig leading thenr
heroically and in turn producing
vigorous full bodied playing. The string
section was in excellent shape this
time, performing to its fullest capacity,
and of course aided by the usual splen
did playing of concertmaster Gordon
Staples, and principal cellist Italo
Babini. Babini's playing always is
noticeable due to his lush, lavish and
always piquant tone color. The only
real problem in the Bruckner was that
the flute section at times did not seem
to be playing right on top of the tones,,
and thus it produced somewhat flaccid
results.
Herbig is and has already proved
himself to be a conductor who is not
only a persuasive interpreter, but also a
conductor whois in constant comman
at the podium, and that command iS
constantly strengthening the DSO;
which is in turn leading the DSO on iti
way up the ladder considerably.
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