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The Michigan Daily

Thursday, April 11, 1985

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'Love

Tractor' jams at Joe's

By Dennis Harvey
H OW SAD! How truly sad it was to
look around the hallowed hall of
Joe's Star Lounge, to take in the sight of
the curiously patterned ceiling and
Saturn lamps and everybody's fave
waitress Kathy etc. and think: never
again! Or, at least, not after this
weekend. The Star Lounge had (has!
has!) the kind of dive ambiance people
like Tom Waits have forged entire
careers writing about, and like a pair of
ancient sneakers that have seen more
than their share of creative abuse, one
is loath to do the necessary thing and
bid adieu to it. Boo hoo, sob, choke,
sputter, etc.
The excuse for all this sentimental
trauma was Love Tractor's date on
Tuesday night. This was the quin-
tessential night out at Joe's - an ex-
cellent out-of-town band elicits the kind
of cheerfully communal crowd reaction
that's the next best thing to playing on
your own home turf.
Love Tractor is a four-piece (oc-
casionally augmented by a couple of
their roadies) from that very hap-
pening place, Atlanta, Georgia. Love

Tractor is perhaps the purest ex-
pression of what's going on overall
down there, if not necessarily the ab-
solute best of the lot. They record for
the consistently swell db/Landslide
label, they were doing what could pass
as a neo-60's group long before paisley
power became the trend and the con-
cept of pretention in any form has never
entered their heads.
With their largely instrumental
catalog (though they're moving toward
more songs), they sound somewhat like
the Ventures, with a little of the surfin'
monotony excised and a lot of com-
positional imagination tossed in. What
can you say about a band that writes a
tune called "Fun to be Happy"? Only:
oh boy.
At Joe's, Love Tractor played a solid
two hours of their instrumentals (like

the classic "Seventeen Days,"which is
logically enough available on-three- of
the four records they've put out so far),
none-instrumentals (like the spacily
pretty almost-Western "Neon Lights")
and finally a rash of covers that a more
calculated-looking or -sounding band
could never get away with. OK, "Are
you Experienced?" is in universally
acceptable taste, but it takes nerve to
do Parliament's "Flashlight," the
Stones' "Shattered," and somebody's
"Disco Interno." And it takes near-
genius to make me like "Girls Just
Wanna Have Fun.'

The band's vocals - initially mixed
defensively low - are weak enough to
justify their instrumental emphasis,
but they got better (and louder) as the
evening wore on. Lacking any great
stage charisma they tell the occasional
monumentally bad joke to confirm that
this band has nothing to do with
packaging or that mysterious thing,
"image."
The general atmosphere was a shade
wilder and more dance-crazed than
usual, and as a final major concert at
Joe's it was exactly what anybody
could have reasonably asked for.

Harvard
this summer

Daily Photo by BRAD MILLS
Atlanta's Love Tractor played to an enthusiastic crowd at Joe's on Tuesday
night.

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By Neil Galan ter
E HAS A REAL sense of drive! It's always exciting at
Ha frenzied pace, but minus any confusion. Agitation, in-
volvement, intensity, bravura, decisiveness: all are amidst
pianist Jerome Rose's playing, and all were evidenced Sun-
day afternoon in the School of Music Recital Hall as
Professor Rose concluded his one-year appointment as
visiting professor at the School of Music.
Rose chose a program of Beethoven, Schubert, and Liszt
for his recital, each demonstrating his formidable talents at
the keyboard. The Schubert Wanderer Fantasy moved with
steam and vim; throughout Rose energized the keyboard in
every way possible. Especially enjoyable were his tremolos
in the slow section. They were like little spurts of "quiet ex-
plosions" and they painted a most unique character for the
Adagio.
After intermission Liszt's Sonata in B Minor was staged.
There was never a dull moment in this monster piece and
Rose shaped, technically and musically, groups of nuances
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laudable. Octaves, leaps, runs, chords, et al, were executed
as if they were the simplest of things. His Liszt sonata was an
enjoyable variety-bag of music and firey passion for the
listener.
Sunday's recital marked the conclusion of Rose's one year
as a visiting professor here. Rose, a professor of piano at

Bowling Green University, is also a recording artist, a live
performer, and will be the artistic director of the June, 1986
Liszt Centennial Celebration in Washington D.C. He is con-
sidered a specialist in the piano music of Liszt and has made
over a dozen albums of Liszt's piano music alone. His
discography includes music of other Romantic masters such
as Schubert, Schumann, and Weber and there is also a disc of
Beethoven Sonatas. This group, over 18 albums, has all been
released on the Box/Turnabout and Candide Labels.
Rose got an early start as a musician. At the age of fifteen
he became the disciple of the Viennese pedagogue Adolf
Baller, and at this same time Rose made his debut with the
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under the direction of
the late Arthur Fiedler. Shortly thereafter at the young age
of seventeen Rose accepted an invitation from the reknowned
concert pianist Rudolf Serkin to study and perform at the
Marlboro School of Music in Vermont. He subsequently
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Mannes College of Music and the Julliard School in New
York.
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We are very fortunate to have had Professor Rose with us
in Ann Arbor this past year and his consummate artistry was
enjoyed immensely.

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'Extremities' stages social issue

By Kathleen Haviland
T HE PERFORMANCE Network's
production of Mastrosimone's Ex-
tremities couldn't have come at a more
appropriate time. In fact, Extremities
director Pauline Gagnon, a University
doctoral candidate, planned for the
play to be shown in April in order to
coincide with Rape Prevention Month
and the Take Back the Night March.
The play, which has actually been
banned in some towns, shatters the
common myths about *rape. The plot
revolves around the attempted rape of
a woman by a stranger in her own apar-
tent, and the effects the violation has
on her. Extremities exposes the fact
that rape is not about sex, but about
control and power and that most rapes
are not impulsive, middle-of-the-night
attacks, but well-planned assaults on a
woman, often at midday in the
"security" of her own home.
Director Pauline Gagnon points out
that Extremities is not espousing a
solution to the problem of rape, rather
it is pointing out the problems of
society's view of rape. Gagnon has been
S in contact a number of times with the
playwright, William Mastrosimone, to
discuss the artistic and thematic aspec-
ts of the play in order .to capture the
essence and ramifications of the
playwright's work. She insists that Ex-
tremities is.". .. not an 'issue' play per
se, but a drama; it portrays real people
in real situations thereby making; the

problem of rape tangible and im-
mediate."
In order to further rape awareness,
Gagnon has arranged for a number of
special events to occur after each of the
play's Sunday showings (April 14, 21,
and 28). On the first Sunday all
proceeds from the play will go to
benefit both S.A.F.E. House (a shelter
for battered women) and the Assault
Crisis Center. A group of lawyers will
be present on the second Sunday to
lead an open forum on the legal issues
of rape. And on the third Sunday, a
number of speakers, including Senator
Lana Pollack, will again be leading an
open forum on the problem of rape.
Extremities will be showing at the
Performance Network Thursdays
through Sundays from April 11 to the 28.

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