ARTS The Michigan Daily Sunday, January 13, 1985 Page 5 Pianist Ashkenazy returns to Hill collection of prizes in competitions in- great abundance, are no less im- Chopin we will hear The Ballade No. 4, cluding the first prize at The Queen pressive. He has covered all the con- Impromptu No. 3 and the Scherzo No. 4 By Neil Galan ter Elizabeth Competition in Brussels in certi of Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Bar- in E Major. The Corelli Variations are 1956. This victory is actually what tok and Prokofiev, as well as all 32 heard in concert much less frequently Once again here in Ann Arbor, we will brought him to immediate attention in Beethoven Piano Sonatas, and presen- than many of Rachmaninoff's other have the chance to hear one of today's the music world and he has not suffered tly he is well into his project of recr- piano works, and the Chopin group that top leading classical musicians. The or been the result of any neglect in dialh e pin wrs of Chi Ashkenazy will perform is also made up Russian born pianist Vladimir musical circles since then. theseactivities keeping him constantly of lesser played masterpieces. This Ashkenazy will present a piano recital Recently, in addition to his active buse it is hard to imagine how he should make the concert at Hill Auditorium on Tuesday evening piano solo career. Ashkenazy has found busy, i shr oiaiehwh hud mk h ocr ThecocetHill fems are g room to add conducting to his long list of balances and budgets his time so well, even more exciting and worth- at 8:30 p.m. The concert will feature accomplishments. While on tour he has But, he does it, and does do it well, while, although it really does not need works both by Chopin and Rach- worked most closely with The Philhar- because he is one of the most well roun- much plugging, because any maninoff. monia Orchestra of London, conducting ded and well versed musicians around Ashkenazy experience is time well Ashkenazy has been a major fixture many concerts with them both in Lon- today. In addition to his great success spent. onanist sinea ienon fcert sien thea don and in other European cities as well as a pianist and conductor he is also a The very few tickets that are left may Second International Tchaikovsky as Japan. With the orchestra, he has be purchased at Burton Tower, in the Y happy family man, married, with five office of the University Musical Society Competition in his native Moscow in also released a series of many fine children. The Ashkenazy's now live in durg ni ersines hor of 1962. Since then, he has gone on to recordings which inlude the major Luzern, Switzerland, but after Mr. 9:00 - 4:30. Student Rush tickets which make a countless number of tours, per- symphonies of Tchaikovsky, Sibelius Ashkenazy left the Soviet Union in 1963, are priced at $5, will be available on the forming in all the great musical centers and Beethoven, and combining his he spent time living in London and then day of the concert from 4:00-4:30 p.m. of the world. Ashkenazy began his skills as pianist and conductor they in Reykjavik, Iceland, where he met at the Hill Auditorium box office. For studies at the piano at a very young age have also recorded several of the and married his wife. more information on ticket availability and studied at Moscow's Central Music Mozart Piano Concerti with Ashkenazy The concert at Hill Auditorium on and prices, interested parties may call School with Anaida Sumbatian, one of as soloist, conducting from the Tuesday will include: Rachmaninoff's The University Musical Society at 665- Vladimir Ashkenazy, no slouch at a grand piano, will be returning to Hill Russia's leading piano pedagogues. keyboard. Variations on a Theme by Corelli and 3717. Auditorium Tuesday night. While he was still in his teens, he won a His piano recordings, which are in Six Etudes-Tableaux from Opus 39. By Records Code of Honor-Beware The Savage Jaw Subterranean Records Code of Honor's newest record, Beware the Savage Jaw, convincingly expands the group's hitherto more thrash-skate-punk appeal. Remarkably, in this attempt to reach out to a wider audience, this San Fran- cisco band manages to stick to its anar- chistic political guns. "Not If I Can Help It" is the album's most powerful song. It capitalizes on a power-packed Led Zeppelin-like opening, proceeds with a Byrds-soun- ding multi-guitar style, and through rapid and consistent tempo transitions, it finally works itself out into a more or less rock and roll jam. And Code of Honor's message of personal freedom remains intact throughout. Code of Honor is closely linked with another Bay area band, the now defunct. Sick Pleasure. Not only did these twin bands snare an LP in '82, they also shared three-quarters of their person- nel on that record-guitarist Michael Fox, bassist Dave Chavez, and drum- mer Sal Paradise being the majority faction from the two groups. (That dual LP represents one shizophrenic group-my copy of the LP has the labels reversed. Truly a bewilderment for me until the 2nd or 3rd time that I listened to it). Disney classic remains warm and magical The best work on that back-to-back LP was the Code's "Attempted Con- trol". Jonithin Christ, lead singer/songwriter of the group exudes a firm yet passionate voice. Backed by relentless bass and guitar work, enhan- ced with appropriate "treatments", lead and background vocals taunt each other again and again. Outta nowhere "Attempted Control" surprises with the line California is our Home (you know this group loves Madness's "Our House") sung in the nicest family-next- door voices imaginable. The best material on Beware the Savage Jaw continues in the group's tradition of power and exploration. While it is not surprising that hardcore bands are finally beginning to sound different from each other, it's shocking at first to hear Henry Rollins reading poetry, the Minutemen devoting whole tracks to classical guitar, and Code of Honor opening side 1 with a grand or- chestral sweep. On some songs Jonithin literally wails away. Some songs clearly seem Pink Floyd inspired. Still others are like Buffalo Springfield meets Wire. "This Day" is another of the album's highlights, complete with raunchy fuzz guitar phase shifting. Code of Honor gives everything a chance. Beware the Savage Jaw is almost a child's version of Crass. It's a nice album. -Jeff Yenchek Books - Satisfaction-The Rolling Stones Photographs of Gered Mankowitz -Gered Mankowitz (St. Mar- tin's Press) A book of only marginal interest to Stones archivists and obsessive fans. Gered Mankowitz is a London photographer who, when he was only 18 years old in 1965, lucked into an assignment shooting Stones album cover December's Children and then subsequently their breakthrough tour of the States later that year. The bulk of the photos are actually pretty uninteresting, grainy (because they wouldn't let Mankowitz use a flash) and rather static, and are laid out in a boring yearbook style format ByByronL. Bull The term magical gets tagged onto a lot of films these days, but Disney Studio's Pinnocchio, at forty five years old, has perhaps the strongest claim to that label as any film of recent memory. The older it gets, the richer its nostalgic glow. More so than any other Disney feature, even Fantasia, Pinnocchio is the prototypical Disney product, an art by committee project (over a dozen writers and directors put their talents into it) that still manages to exude genuine heart and sentimen- tality by the bushel. With a balanced blend of almost surreal fantasy, slapstick, and unabashed sentimentality, this is most obvious formulated Disney concoction, down to its predictable narrative, streamlined to the bone, with all the emphasis on visual and aural em- bellishments. For all its factory efficiency though, and Disney Studios was nothing if not a model factory, the end result is, for all its contrived sentiment, still woun- drously enchanting, due to Walt Disney's innate sense of showmanship and storytelling. Inspired loosely on the classic tale by Collodi (a work that is actually oddly convoluted and gratuitously grisly), the elements are refashioned in the classic Disney form, an inherently good but naive protagonist (parentless, of cour- se), raging behemouths for villains, and a death/resurrection climax carefully calculated to tinkle ones heart strings. The character designs, their whim- sical visualizations and vocal charac- terizations, particularly in the diminutive straight man Jiminy Cricket and the monstrously bloated heavy Stromboli, are among the most memorable Disney characters. In an obsessive desire to top the suc- cess of his first feature Snow White, Disney spared no expense and poured all of burgeoning studio's resources into Pinocchio, taxing his staff to the limit in search of ultimate perfection. The result is his triumph, Disney's breakthrough film whose unique style and technical innovations set the studio far beyond its contemporaries. The lush detailing and texture (the SAT. & SUN. FIRST MATINEE ONLY $2.00 HE'S NOT JUST ANOTHER OUT-OF-TOWNER! JOHN SAYLES BEST FILM YET! F, , I SUN. 1:00, 3:00, 8:30 MON., TUES. 8:30 DIRECTED BY JONATHAN DEMME THE TALKING HEADS studio used over one million cells pain- stakingly colored and shaded in over fifteen hundred shades) make the film much more like a painting come to life, instead of the usually flat coloring book look endemic of animated films. The imaginative use of Disney's then newly invented multiplane animation stand gave the backgrounds a startling sense of depth. As production costs rose, and made such lavish ex- travagances become prohibitively ex- pensive, Disney began to take short cuts and tried to compensate with gimmicks, like 70 mm, but he could never top this. Anything the studio has done since, particularly within the last twenty years, pales pitifully by com- parison. Pinocchio is a vintage wine that only gets better with age. The Good Fairy appears on the scene to save Pinocchio from crass exploitation at the hands of the insidious Stromboli. The ultimate gem of Walt Disney's productions, Pinocchio is currently running at the Wayside Theatre. Photography Classes Rental Darkroom F-STOP 663- 7867 that gets a little stifling after a few pages. And since Mankowitz was too sloppy to bother keeping notes of where he was shooting photos (he claims he often didn't even know what city he was in), the photos have little historical value. Of the lot, there are few curios of passing interest, one of small town con- cert that was canceled part way through when the local sheriff jumped up on stage and literally pulled the plug (because the girls in the audience were getting out of hand). This is the sort of purely crass com- mercial publishing venture that will doubtless end up on the sale table within a year, a book not worthy of more than a cursory glance. Byron L. 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