ARTS The Michigan Daily Friday, April 18, 1986 Page 9 'Madison St. Jam brings Spring to A 2 By Alan Paul OR TEN years, the guys at West , Quad's Rumsey House have given the University the annual Madison Street jam. This year's free concert, featuring the music of local faves Map of the World, the Watusies, the Rhythm Corp, and Cadillas Kidz, will be tomorrow. The show, which kicks off at noon, will be on Madison Street between South and West Quads. "It's basically a campus bash for anyone who wants to come," organizer Bill Wickett said. "We want to treat people to a good time before finals. There's a lot of tension around here right now and this is a good chance for students to blow off a little steam before it all comes down on them." The concert will be held at the Nectarine Ballroom in the event of rain. Excellence from Sweden By Alan Paul W hile there have never been many women film directors, in- terestingly, many of the top women in the industry are Swedish. This weekend, at Angell Hall Auditorium A, Ann Arborites will have the oppor- tunity to view the film of some of Sweden's (and the world's) top female directors at the Second Swedish Film Festival. Women in Sweden work in all aspects of film production, and established their own organization in 1976. The Swedish Women's Film Organization (SKFF) functions as a networking and professional development group for women in Swedish film, regularly holding festivals, seminars, and workshops. The festival kicks off tonight at 7:30 with director Agneta Elers- Jarleman's documentary Beyond Sorrow, Beyond Pain. SKFF member Elers-Jarleman will discuss the work of women filmmakers and other aspects of contemporary Swedish film in a talk following the screening of her film. Beyond Sorrow, Beyond Pain is a film about five years in the lives of the director and her boyfriend Jean, who was also a filmmaker until a car ac- cident left him blind and mute. After regaining consciousness, Jean, con- sidered a hopeless case, was moved to a hospital for the bed-ridden. "I understood that I had to decide how I would behave towards him," Elers-Jarleman said. "If you visit a dying patient in the hospital you can either go to help" him over to the other side or go to try and grasp his will to live. I knew that Jean wanted to live. He has an enormous will to life and I believe he wanted to fight." "To love, you must be weak, and this is a menacing trait in our society," Elers-Jarleman said. It promises to be a powerful, moving film. The festival continues through Sunday with the following schedule: Saturday, April 19 1-5 p.m.; Mai Zetterling's 1964 Loving Couples, a film which depicts the lives of three hospitalized expectant mothers. Near and Far Away (1976) by Marriane Ahrne is about a young female hospital attendant who, af- ter becoming involved with a mute patient, is confronted by two doc- tor's very different views of him. 8 p.m.: In Gunnel Lindblom -s 1981 Sally and Freedom, a married woman longs for independence and a break with her nuclear family. She commences a new relationship, only to find many similar difficulties. Sunday, April 19, 1 p.m.: Broken Sky, Ingrid Thulin's 1982 film, focuses on a 13-year-old working class girl who leaves home during the Big War to explore the world. All films are in Swedish with English subtitles. Agenta-Elers-Jareman's superb direction is displayed at this weekend's Swedish Film Festival. 'Lyle May at Mendelssohn: no R. S. V.P. By Marc Taras U ntil recently, Lyle Mays has been best known as the brilliant keyboard support for the Pat Metheny Group. He has established a well- /deserved reputation as a sensitive sideman and thoughtful soloist. His current three-week tour and con- current LP release are his first outings as a leader. The LP, ap- propriately entitled Lyle Mays has been released on Geffen records through the production company he has just formed with his long time buddy Metheny. The tour, which' spotlights Mays in a wonderful trio setting will be arriving in Ann Arbor Sunday night at 8:00 pm in beautiful Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre of the Michigan League. Mays will be in fine company. His trio includes his old college chum Marc Johnson on acoustic bass, and the dynamic Peter Erskine on traps and electronic drums. Johnson and Erskine are a polished rhythm section and have been touring together in Johnson's band Bass Desires. Er- skine is a volcanic drummer who did a memorable stint with Weather Report which led to numerous other sessions. During a telephone conversation this week, Mays reflected upon his music, his band, and breaking down precon- ceptions. Although Lyle prefers to play ,acoustic piano to the Fender Rhodes electric model ("The acoustic piano is a superior instrument"), he will be including some electronics in this tour. The MIDI is a sophisticated computer system which interfaces his electronics and essentially "connnec- ts the synthesizers to each other" allowing an amazing range of polyhonic effects. He has been ex- panding his use of synthesizers since Oberheim introduced their prototype polyphonic machine. When I asked him what drew his atten- tion to the electric sounds in the first place he answered, surprisingly (un- surprisingly), "The Beatles. Pat and I both grew up listening to a lot of pop radio." He is also fast to acknowledge a love of bebop and traditional jazz, citing Bill Evans as the foremost in- fluence he has felt in defining his own lyrical piano stylings. The message he has for Ann Arbor audiences is "To approach the con- cert without preconceptions." There seems to be good reason for this. Ac- cording to Mays, the rehearsal process with this band has been largely a matter of getting used to playing with each other. "We have fun. Sometimes we just play standar- ds." I was thrilled all the more when he teased, "You should hear us play 'Stella By Starlight'!" Well, I asked, any chance that we willhear it? "Oh yeah. Definitely! We'll be doing a lot THE DAILY CLASSIFIEDS ARE A GREAT WAY TO GET FAST RESULTS CALL 764-0557 of different things." Chances are that we won't be get- ting a three-piece dilution of the Metheny Group soft-touch fusion sound. It'll be Lyle's compositions for trio and so much more! Electric. Acoustic. Solo spots. As I look for- ward to Sunday's gig at the Men- delssohn Theatre I am trying to follow Lyle's own suggestion and rid myself of preconceptions - but damn! Now I really want to hear these cats stretch out on "Stella By Starlight"! We shall see -and hear! 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