Page 8-The Michigan Daily- Thursday, October 10, 1991
Rostropovich conducts
National Symphony Orchestra
by Roger Hsia
Renowned cellist Mstislav Ros-
tropovich will weave magic, not
with his bow but with a baton,
when the National Symphony
Orchestra takes the stage at Hill
Auditorium on Saturday. As the or-
chestra's music director, Rostropo-
vich will conduct in a rich program
that features his student, Wendy
Warner, as the soloist in the
concert's centerpiece - Schumann's
Cello Concerto in A minor. The
group will also perform the well-
known Rossini Overture to La gazza
ladra ("The Thieving Magpie") and
Beethoven's splendidly popular
Symphony No.3 ("Eroica").
No compliment can be paid to
Rostropovich that hasn't already
been uttered. Widely considered to be
the world's premier cellist, with a
staggering list of recordings and
awards to his credit, Rostropovich
will mark his 15th year as conductor
of the NSO, the Washington, D.C.-
based orchestra. In that time, the or-
clestra has toured through North
Amierica, Europe and Asia.
Among Rostropovich's
highlhights with the orchestra was his
triumphant return to the Soviet
Uron in 1990, from where he had
been exiled sincel974. Recognized
as one of our nation's foremost
symphony orchestras, the NSO
performs regularly at the John F.
Kennedy Center for the Performing
Arts in Washington, D.C.
Warner is an emerging force in
the music world today. She came to
the climax of her achievements when
she won first prize in the Fourth
International Rostropovich
Competition in Paris, where she was
one of the youngest contestants. All
eyes and ears will focus on her dur-
As most people know,
Beethoven himself
was hardly short of
emotion when he
composed his Heroic
Symphony. He
dedicated the work to
one of his great
heroes, Napolean
Bonaparte
ing the Schumann Cello Concerto in
A Minor, a piece characteristic of the
Romantic movement because of the
favoritism shown to the cello during
this period. It is interesting to note
that Rostropovich himself has per-
formed as a soloist on this work on
numerous occasions, and has even
recorded the piece with several major
record labels.
The orchestra adjusts its musical
palette when it plays Rossini's glit-
tering La gazza ladra. The piece is
based upon a melodrama by two
French playwrights in which a thiev-
ing magpie causes a young girl to be
wrongly accused and executed for
stealing a silver spoon. For the
Italian opera, Rossini altered the
tragic ending, but not without mov-
ing his audiences to tears in anticipa-
tion of the girl's death.
As most people know, Beethoven
himself was hardly short of emotion
when he composed his Heroic
Symphony. He dedicated the work to
one of his great heroes, Napolean
Bonaparte. Viewed as a liberator, the
young Bonaparte led France's revolu-
tionary armies against its enemies,
but he overstepped the bounds of
propriety, in Beethoven's mind,
when he crowned himself Emperor.
The symphony, no longer
dedicated to the military genius,
honors only the memory of a great
man. The work itself sings
heroically as few pieces in all of
music do. In the finale, Beethoven
employs the Prometheus theme,
rejoicing in the demi-god who defied
Zeus and stole fire to bring warmth
and enlightenment to man. The piece
excites in its variation, moving from
a funeral march to a joyous scherzo
in the third movement to the
triumphant finale.
THE NATIONAL SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA will perform
Saturday at 8 p.m. at Hill
Auditorium. Tickets range from $18
to $45 and are available from the
University Musical Society. Call
763-TKTS for more info.
Jethro Tull
Caifish Rising
Chrysalis
When the new Jethro Tull album, Catfish Rising,
was finally released, I was extremely excited to hear
it. I mean, after listening to old classics such as
"Aqualung," "Thick as a Brick" and "Locomotive
Breath," I figured that I must be in store for at least
some awesome new flute playing from the British rock
combo. However, after spending a couple of days lis-
tening to the CD over and over again, I found one word
that sums up the album perfectly: disappointing.
The music on Jethro Tull's new release is clearly an
atypical Jethro Tull. There aren't any great flute-
playing solos or fast tempo drum beats - nothing like
what we would expect from one of the world's most
unique and distinctive rock 'n' roll bands.
The music has more of a rough, organic approach
than the band's last few releases, but they should've
stayed with the original plan. Singer/songwriter/mul-
ti-instrumentalist Ian Anderson seems mostly to
blame. Throughout the entire album, Anderson's
vocals are louder and rougher than on the previous
albums - his voice overplays the music.
The album does have its moments. The lame song
"This Is Not Love," the first single, has a pretty good;
electric guitar rhythm to it. It also has about ten sec-
The music has more of a rough,
organic approach than the band's
last few releases, but they
should've stayed with the originalE
plan
onds of fast-moving flute playing, which is surely a,
bonus. In addition, the song "Rocks on the Road" is *
probably the most similar to anything that we would
expect from Jethro Tull. This acoustic guitar song is
perhaps the best on the album, which isn't saying much
at all.
- Kenny Beli
The Broken Pitcher
A courtroom satire about tipping the scales of justice
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The U-M School of Music
by Heinrich von Kleist
University Players
Trueblood Theatre
t. 10 -12,17 - 19 at 8 PM;
Oct. 13, 20 at 2 PM
dent seating $6 with ID.
Tickets on sale at the
League Ticket Office
in the Michigan League.
Celebrating 75 years
of U-M theatre
Ricochers John Lithgow and Denzel Washington settle their differences the manliest way there is: arm-
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unattainable broad appeal, then both
Black and white audience members
end up losing out.
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The Rt. Rev. John Shelby Spong,
Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of
Newark, author of Living in Sin?A
Bishop Rethinks Human Sexuality;
and Rescuing the Bible from
Fundamentalism, visits U-M/Ann
Arbor Oct. 14-16. The following
events are open to all students,
faculty and staff:
Mon.,!OQtL1 4
12 noon Gathering for students, faculty, staff. Brief remarks,
Q&A. League, Rooms 4 & 5
4 pm Seminar discussion: "The Authority of Scripture"
League, Rooms 4 & 5
8 pm Talk at Canterbury House: "Sex and the Church''
218 N. Division St. (Co-sponsors, Canterbury
Gay/Lesbian Open House)
Tues..QOct.15,.8 pm: "Questioning the Authority of the Past"
Public Lecture at Rackham Amphitheatre
W edOct. 16.4-6 pm: Book signing at Shaman Drum
Bookstore, 313S. State St.
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KIDDER, PEABODY & CO.
Incorporated
Compton CDs seems a bit iron1:
and middle-class white college sdie s
dents praising militant Black pods,
seems a bit fake, even hypocriticgl;
but what the hell, there's no harm ii'
trying to understand, is there? An'
the way I see it, yeah, a film lik,"
Ricochet is, on one level, 1harmless,*
brain-dead fun; but it's also ex-;
ploiting cinema's long overdue in-I-
terest in a Black point of view, and:
that's a shame.
RICOCHET is playing at Showcase
and Fox Village.
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to the same edge Jim had fallen off:
or dove off, and (I) started jumpini
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give way so I could fall in and jiin;
him."
DANNY SUGERMAN will speak
and read from WONDERLAND
AVENUE Sunday at 7 p.m. in'
Rackham Auditorium. There is no
admission charge, and free pizzas
will be provided to those who come:
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Canterbury House/The Episcopal Church at U-M
218 N. Division Street, 665.0606
(Sunday Service: 5 pm Eucharist at St. Andrew's;
6 pm supper at House)
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