8 - The Michigan Daily Summer Weekly - Wednesday, May 6,1992
'Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving
pleasure to thousands - and all you can do is scratch it.'
- Sir Thomas Beecham to a lady cellist
Neeme's rite of spring:
The 99th May Festival promises bundles of lusty fun
by Michael John Wilson The DSO's app
"Every time you come to a concert with its veritable rel
with Neeme Jarvi, it's an event," says ton of music direc
Derek Francis, first violinist in the De- While moving back
troitSymphonyOrchestra.Jirvi,Francis restored Orchestra I
and the rest of the DSO are perfectly has also started to r
suited for the University Musical several CDs, includ
Society's biggest event of the year. the release featuring w
99th Annual May Festival. Barber, on the Billt
For nearly a century the UMS's after a recent appea
spring ritual has hosted the world's Hall, the New York
greatest orchestras for a four-day resi- DSO a "first rate" o
dency.Inonly thelasttwoyearstheLos According to Ft
Angeles Philharmonic under Andre more fun to be a pa
Previn and the Gewandhaus Leipzig under "Neeme." "A
under Kurt Masur have visited Hill Neeme out of disres
Auditorium. Until now, however, the us, 'Don't call me
Detroit Symphony Orchestra has never Neeme.' He's really
been a May Fest guest. the orchestra just lo
says. "They really w
It'sagreatthing togs
Welcome Students knowing that you'r
somebody you enjoy.
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earance coincides Orchestra until Beecham's death in
birth under the ba- 1961. In certain ways, Jarvi reminds
tor Neeme Jarvi. him of Beecham. "Neither were one of
to the beautifully those conductors who want to rehearse
Hall, the orchestra every single note till it falls into place,"
ecord again, with Francis says. "Some conductors want
ding a brand new to get everything in its place and once
'orks of Ives and they know where itis, you expect every
board charts. And performance togothat way.Butneither
rance at Carnegie Beecham nor Jlrvi are like that..."
Times labeled the "(Beecham and Jarvi) don't like to
rchestra. play to music too much because they
rancis, it's simply know it takes away from the freshness.
it of the orchestra Theyknow instinctively thatifyouplay
and I don't call him something too many times, you take
spect ... he said to away from thespontaneity ... Youhave
Maestro, call me to keep the music alive, and that's what
very friendly and he's so great at doing ... Jarvi is likely
ves him," Francis to take totally different tempos on the
ant to play for him. second time we play a concert. But he
)toworkevery day promotes such enthusiasm that every-
going to play for body wants to play for him. And the
.Everybodyisvery audience loves him too."
ifficulties with the Jirvi's enthusiasm will find its per-
'ernorEngler'sarts fectvehicleinthe finalworktobeheard
Saturdaynightat the May Festival: Carl
n of the DSO (and Orff'sCarminaBurana.Firstperformed
niversity), Francis in 1937, Orff's crowd-pleasing, large
runderSirThomas scale cantata takes its texts from a col-
Dyal Philharmonic lection of Latin medieval poems writ-
ten by monks. But the subject of the
texts is hardly sacred; lines like "May
the godspermitthe plan I havein mind:
to undo the bonds of her virginity"
- represent the lusty, youthful, spring-
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"It's the sort of piece that Neeme
loves to do," says Francis. "The chorus
really enjoys him. They're not used to
making music in that way, where ev-
erything is fun. He tries to get them
really involved - not just doing what
they've learned to do precisely, but to
get really involved - which is what
makes a performance. Just a hundred
people in the chorus all producing their
notes at the right time and with a nice
sound doesn't necessarily produce a
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Neeme does so well. He gets perfor-
mances out of people."
Jarvi's interests extend into more
obscure composers as well. His first
CD with the DSO contained a sym-
phony by Amy Beach, an American
composer whom not even Francis had
heardof. Thursday night Jarvi willcon-
duct a performance of a brand new
work, the Concerto for Orchestra by
University professor Leslie Bassett.
Francis says, "Sometimes the very
modern pieces in that type of style are
not very interesting. Sometimes you're
askedtotapthe back of your instrument
with a bow, or (produce other) various
sound effects - so it's not the sort of
music-making that you're used to ...
But it really is a very attractive piece."
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