lr4mia ?moo 4me JEttiIte A Cultured Weekend The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co. presents its newest work tonight and tomorrow night at the Power Center. "Still/Here" delves into the painful topics of terminal illness and facing mortality, as it encourages the celebration of life. Call 764-2538 for ticket info. The Contemporary Directions ensemble salutes the work of Polish composer Henryk Gorecki. The concert is free at Rackham, beginning at 8 p.m. tonight. Page 8 Friday, March 24. 199,. mafn'h M17, The Cleveland Quartet goes out with a bang By Emily Lambert James Dunham, "but basically what it you," he commented. "I was in the ing quartet every two years. "It leaves Daily Arts Writer comes down to is personal lives and right place at the right time as a stu- something meaningful to continue Robert Marsh of the Chicago Sun- being gone so much ... We gave our- dent." after the quartet ends," Dunham said. - Times said it best: "Critics are sup- selves 18 months to set the finish in Dunham has been playing cham- With the abundance of chamber 4: IF, posed to avoid superlatives, so I shall not call the Cleveland Quartet the best in the business, although I cannot CLEVELAND QUARTET When: Sunday at 4 p.m. Where: Rackham Auditorium Tickets: $32, $30, $26, $20 Call 764-2538 for information. name a finer group." This sentiment has prevailed for 26 years, during which this multi-award winning en- semble has earned a prestigious inter- national reputation. So why then, when they appear to have the world at their feet, have its musicians decided to call it quits? "Well, it's a very complicated and long story," said the group's violist, order." Cleveland, the site of the group's formation, will appropriately be the location of its final concert when the quartet comes full circle at the end of 1995. Violinist William Preucil will leave in April to become concertmas- ter of the Cleveland Orchestra. Dunham looks forward to stretching his boundaries beyond the realm of chamber music. "I don't have anything lined up in particular but I'm hoping to be more active in things besides string quartet play- ing, which I've been doing for al- most 25 years." Before he joined the Cleveland ranks in 1987, Dunham played in the Sequoia string quartet, which he formed with several of his faculty members at the California Institute of the Arts when he was still a stu- dent. "Sometimes these things find ber music professionally long enough to be able to reflect on how the scene has changed, or how it hasn't. Audiences, he said, are just as passionate about the music as ever. What differs is the sheer num- ber of musicians in the field. "Thirty years ago there were a handful of groups that were doing all of the playing. Since that time there has just been a blossoming of active professional chamber groups." Dunham should know. He and his colleagues are recognized as master teachers as well as players, and have guided the careers of many young quartets and soloists. "We're very strong believers in young musicians, and of young people in every area. There's a lot of vitality and talent." To prove this, the quartet is creat- ing an endowment that will create income to be distributed to a promis- groups, is there a shortfall of audi- ence members? "It's not a huge audi- ence but it never has been and it's not designed for that anyway," Dunham commented. Though he doesn't be- lieve the artform is dying out, Dunham recognized the importance of encour- aging people of all ages and interests to be exposed to classical music. "That's why we love coming to cam- puses like yours and talking to people like you," he told me, "just to make sure that people understand that it is not the elitist form it's often per- ceived to be." Sunday's concert will include works by Schubert, Turina and Dvorak. The quartet will be joined by renowned klezmer clarinetist Giora Feidman in "The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind," newly composed by Osvaldo Golijov and commis- sioned in part by the University Mu- sical Society. The foresighted quartet members are deeply committed to the perfor- mance of new music. At the same time they both specialize in the pre- sentation of works centuries old and act as musical gurus, teaching and encouraging promising players. Though the future will not include the Cleveland Quartet for much longer, the quartet will have left a legacy for others to further. Said Dunham, "We love what it is we do and anybody who loves what they do wants to make sure it keeps happening ... they best music talks to your heart." Feel Widespread Panic as it fills the Michigan Theater w By Aaron Ruppert For the Daily Over the past eight years, Wide- spread Panic has developed from oneof the most promising new American rock bands into one of the country's greatest live bands, as anyone who caught them on the 1992 or 1993 H.O.R.D.E. tour can attest. "We had aTV and a band. That's all we needed," said singer-guitarist John Bell of the group's time spent hanging around the University of Georgia in their early days. Widespread has fol- lowed an obscure path since Bell and guitarist Michael Houser met in col- lege, starting the band with bassistDave Schools and drummer Todd Nance, then enlisting percussionist Domingo S. OrtizandkeyboardistJohn Hermann. It was February of 1987 when the band got their first real gig at some club in Athens, Georgia. WIDESPREAD PANIC Where: Michigan Theater Tickets: $15,50 and $12.50 in advance' Doors open at 7:30 p.m. When asked about how the band managed to maintain their integrity through the here-today, gone-tomor- row music of the '80s, Bell recounted the group's philosophy. "I think that in all decades there's Here's Widespread Panic filling their rusty old car. In fact, everywhere they go, widespread panic follows. Maybe it's because there's just so darn many of them, or maybe it's because they're so darn cool. At any rate, check out their jam-based Southern-fried rock. It's yummy. always been some good stuff cookin' along with a lot of the media-main- stream garbage. And then there's us, who I think are kind of typical of the musical communication that's been going down through the ages. People want to get together, listen to each other and play off each other. We represent the notion behind trying new stuff and trusting the other guys in the band, you know, follow, lead, follow, run-around Widespread Panic has gained much of its recent success due to their latest album, "Ain't Life Grand." MTV picked up the album's first single, "Can't Get High," and radio stations nationwide eagerly wel- comed it. Bell couldn't say exactly why the band is beginning to break through after eight years of touring without a Top 40 hit until now. "We're doing what we've always been do- ing. I feel good about the progression of our albums because every one has been more of a group effort. We push the songs in the studio as far as the inspiration will take us. Still, it's just a snapshot. That's what an album is. The songs continue to grow as we play them." "Mostly we're pretty true to the notion ofspontaneity," said Bell, whose group juggles upwards of 100 songs on tour, playing most of them over the courseof fourorfive shows. "It's alittle presumptuous to make a set list, be-, cause we don't know what's going to be appropriate for the moment," he ex- plained. When questioned about the current profusion of 'neo-hippie' bands, Bell professed his appreciation for their music. "So much of the integrity that we were taught from growing up with 0 the Rolling Stones and the Beatles has bred this group of bands, including Phish, Blues Traveler, Dave Matthews Band, Soul Hat, you name it. They understand the notion of staying true to their music or philosophy, whatever it is. A lot of these bands are really not posers; they're working the music," Bell insisted. "For us, it's most important now to stay cool and be yourself on stage," Bell concluded, "so that when people come to the shows out.of curiosity we do the right thing andjustgive 'em what we've been doing all along. 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