0 ARTS Te Michigan Daily Friday, January 27, 1989 Page 8 MAAP to analyze Strange Interlude BY MARK SHAIMAN W HILE plays are meant to be performed, they are also works of literature and should be read and analyzed as such. This weekend, the Michigan Association of the Advancement of Psychoanalysis will be hosting a reading of Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude, which will be followed by much discussion. Interlude is a compelling psychological drama about a woman's struggle for fulfillment and power. It startled its audiences back in the '20s when it premiered, partly because of its content and partly because of its seven-hour length. The reading will be an abbreviated version and performed by a cast of professionals, who have appeared at the Attic Theater in Detroit under the direction of Walter Hill. Evangeline Spindler, President-Elect of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Society and a faculty member here, at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Insti- tute, and Wayne State, will introduce the evening along with Alvin Spin- dler, Faculty Supervisor of the Psychiatry Department's Long-Term Psycho- therapy Clinic at the University, who will also present an interpretation of the play after the reading. Benedict Nightingale, author, former drama critic, and current Professor of English and of Theater and Drama at the University will respond to Spin- dler's presentation. The performance of STRANGE INTERLUDE will be held tomorrow night starting at 7 p.m. at Rackham Ampitheatre (4th floor). Tickets will be available at the door. BY LIAM FLAHERTY THE Art Ensemble of Chicago has been a rare constellation in recent years. Its five members - Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors Maghostut, and Famoudou Don Moye - have all taken divergent paths. Some wear lab coats, others tribal masks, but when they haul their arsenal of mu- sical equipment on stage, they come to play. The dissonance and delight, the multifarious rhythms that have car- ried this essential group through three decades, still beat unceasingly. On stage, their personalities are in- tegrated but not subsumed. In a land of many groups, they are a true en- semble; they breathe a collective breath. The Art Ensemble's first rum- blings began in the early '60s, when Chicagoans Mitchell (reeds) and Maghostut (bass) were playing for Muhal Richard Abrams, the father of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicans. Imbued with that group's free thinking and coop- erative spirit, Mitchell and Maghos- tut hooked up with reedman Jarman and trumpeter Bowie. It wasn't until 1967 that they began playing under their current banner. Chafing under America's general contempt for any originality that doesn't emerge from a corporate planning board, the Ensemble landed in Europe. It was in Paris, in 1971, that percussionist Moye joined the group, establishing a link that went far beyond a time keeper. Moye brought an interest in non-Western rhythms (primarily African), as well as a backbeat which could propel bop, funk and the most distant of their free interplanetary composi- tions. The Ensemble returned to the States shortly afterwards, acclaimed and now undeniable. After absorbing countless sounds over so many years, it would be impossible to predict what they may play on any given night. They surely will have an abundance of means to choose from; the full range of saxophones, clarinets, flutes, horns, shells, whistles and most anything else that can be blown on a public stage. Virtually any percussion instrument existing will be present, as well as "homemade instruments," meaning S, o s World Ca,,,/,, Ljf res le WHAT H APPENED? You don't know... .? * 0 the DAILYdoes! Read the Daily and find out. -n b The members of the Art Ensemble of Chicago have fol- lowed a number of different paths over the last few years, but tnis weekend, they've all led back to Ann Arbor. Ads Coupons Cartoons etc. 3 anything a sound can be wrought from. As Lester Bowie has suc- cinctly stated: "all's fair in love and war, and music's both." Their sound has been consolidated without any stagnation. They keep each other honest, and the differences are celebrated as much as the similarities. It may go from Mitchell's guttural roars on the baritone to Bowie's sassy licks on the trumpet, perhaps separated by an atavistic percussion jam, with some mime and improvisation spliced throughout. Theirs is "Great Black Music: Ancient to the Future," proclaimed loudly and unwaveringly, a plangent call spilt out on reeds and horns, and drummed into our collective heart. The Art Ensemble drags the ghost out of the machine, dressing it in ancestral paint and pushing it out to dance behind polyrhythms and be- yond. And tonight Ann Arbor is damn lucky to be at the point of harmonic convergence, where ancient and future intersect, and the present can happen but once. THE ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO will perform tonight at8 p.m. at the Michigan Theater. Tick- ets are $16.50. eeflpse presents "FRIDAY, FEB.10 S8:00 PM POWER CENTER M 4 . . ALL PSI CHI MEMBERS Don't forget about our HAPPY HOUR Today at 4:00 p.m. at CHARLEY'S for all the nachos you can eat! Dayshift Positions Available Now Starting Pay $5.00/Hour Apply in Person at McDonald's Next to Nickels McDonald's Arcade * 337 Maynard U® 995-2476 The University of Michigan SCHOOL OF MUSIC *I Charge by phone 763-TKTS. 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