4 ARTS The Michigan Daily Tuesday, December 11, 1984 Page 6 Methc 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 - - ,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 I 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 4 4 "THE GOOD WAR" An Oral History of World War Two STUDS TERKEL "I remember every hour, every minute . . . For all the memoirs, all the histories, no one has come close to Studs Terkel's achievement: in capturing those minutes, those hours. These fascinating accounts of the lives of ordinary Americans during World War Two are made all the more gripping by Terkel's genius for finding the unexpected and the revealing. .. 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Harrell played full of rock tensity full bodied lyricism a smoothly polished played th wards one could not help but I lips and savor his performa His playing in all the movem marked with extraordinary te and not only does he comm dominance over his instrumen HAIRSTYLISTS For Men, Women and Children at Dascola Styli Liberty off State - 664 Maple Village - 761- Symphony 01 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 "JYNY gave me the chance to find out first-hand exactly whati artist in New York City-without ever having to starve!" -Theatre Illinois. "If two years ago you would have told me that today, b be walking down Madison Avenue window shopping, I would h But I'm here and loving New York." -Communications student fror practical experience and business contacts I received from myi able. It gave me a type of education I couldn't have gotten anywh from Minneapolis, Minnesota. o rI Ches ra 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. it's like being a starving e student from Mt. Prospect, etween classes, I would have said 'You're crazy.' m Boulder, Colorado. "The internship were invalu- ere else." -Theatre student )road 1985-86 in New York!' 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