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It is no wonder then that such a short course of knowledge, interpreation and inspiration is eagerly greeted by this group of enthusiasts and furnishes topics for thought all during the winter. } 1' } "s Music Drama BEETHOVEN:Sonatat in D Minor, Op. 31, No. 2: play by Walter Gie- seking: on Columbia Records No. 674996"67997. : k -I it ii 1 ' .o d For Your INoon-day, Lunch i ~ll smoke 4 NIGHT EDITO J. CaleI Kent ORS One afternoon research scienists of the General Electric company explained the progress and me- chanical development of television. and went much further to point out the direction that electrical de- velopment is taking. This demonstration pointed out to laymen that many of the old laws of physics had been discarded, notably the ancient ether wave theory and a new one forced on scientists by modern discovery. That electrical energy may be transmitted by radio is another contemplation of the researchers. 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JOhNSON.....................Assistant Manager Department Managers ig .......................................Vernon Bishop ng Contracts .......,.....................Rebert Callahan 'g Scrv ice........ ............... '""foil C Vedder MS.. .. ................................ lliam T. Brown a .....................................Harry R. Begley ...... ..........Richard Stratemeir Business Manager ......................Ann W . Verner ronsonl . Burley ;lark Finn Becker Jaue (Cie2e !e Field Fisehgn unto Assistants Jo~m Keysee Ar1iur ".vKohn )alles Lowe Bernard E. Schnacke Anne lMarsha Katharine Jackson Dorothy Layin Virginia Cefomb Carolin Mosher Ile lAen Olsen Hlelen Sehineede Grafton W. Sharp Donald Johnson Dow Lyon Bernar4 H. Good May S feered Minnie Seng Helen Spencer Kathryn Stork flare liner Diary Elizahoth Watts TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1931 NIGHT EDITrOR-GEORGE A. STAUTER / 11 Scores F OR the greater part of the past football season, discussions focused on several of the nation's bigger and, better teams. Their mark on the grid- iron was not being judged by the exhibitions they put on, but by calling into being records of the year before. Except for a few scattered games re- maining to be played, the season has closed, mole- skins have been placed in mothballs, and the great game of finding out if Harvard is as good as Harv- ard is on. To review briefly the x932 conglomeration. Notre Datne,' the outstanding team of 193o, and apparently headed in the same direction, was toss- ed on the scrap heap by Southern California, 16-14. A week later, the Irish moved into New York. Another defeat followed, 12-o, administered by an inspired Army eleven that had been beaten twice and tied once. Pittsburgh, laying claim to the east- ern title, was bowled over by Notre Dame, 25-12. The Panthers came back and rained passes all over the field to whip the Cadets, 26-o. Then they' routed Nebraska, 40-0, the same team that held Northwestern to a two touchdown margin, 19-7. Michigan, after suffering an early season defeat at the hands of Ohio State, 20,7, came back to win its remaining Big ,Ten games and, in ani extraordin- ary session, as it were, trounce Wisconsin, 16-o, to gain a three-way tie with Purdue and North- western for the Western Conference title after the Boilermakers completely checked the Wildcats to win, 7-o. These are but a few of the many. ways in which comparative scores cannot be taken as -a criterion of pre-game performance. They do help, we will admit; but beneath all this, there runs something more difficult to understand; it cannot be taken as a criterion, fors it does not always make itself manifest. That one thing isemotion. It is this undertone that throws scores to the four winds, and causes the so-called experts to become fud- dled. An illustration of this was evidenced in three particular contests this season. Notre Dame, although defeated, lost to the Army, which, on the basis of returns, was an admittedly inferior team. The Irish were favored to defeat Southern Cali- fornia, but lost. Northwestern, on the face of everything, should have won over Purdue. What happened is now history. In most instances, these defeated teams gave their opponents but a passing thought. The game, they contended, was not too difficult; one must always attach some seriousness even to the weakest of opponents. But passing thought is not enough to defeat even a mediocre team. And before they realized what was hap- pening, they were out, with no way to get back. It all goes to show that skill, presumably the mrost mechanical thing that a human being can learn, has an emotional undertone too. Unless you care you are not likely to show much of it. And, if' not, your opponents will, and you will be asking yourself, What's it all about? In political science and history, the Japanese sit- uation in Manchuria had brought to it the trained analysis of men who were as familiar with the coun- tries ask one .is with his home .county. That Japan is in Manchuria to stay was the opinion of Professor Joseph Hayden. The Russian movement was discussed by no less authority than Junius Wood, of the Chicago Daily News, who has represented his paper in the Red Republic for years. Mr. Wood is sympathetic with the people he has lved among, but his address amply indicated his own feeling that their present attempts were abortive and would have to lead to a different plan. Better interpretation of foreign news so that American readers could understand it was urged by Dr. Hutchinson of the Christian Century, a man who lived and published papers in China. He said that every foreign dispatch should be accompanied with an explanation of any obscure points. Crime was well discussed and was a major topic with authorities' like Police Commissioner Watkins of Detroit, Professor Wood of the Sociology depart- ment of Michigan and others. Politics was brought in when Professor Reed sailed into the public delay in forcing a modern type of government into the state's horse and buggy admin trative arrangement. He urged abolishment of township government and consolidation of school districts and counties. Editors took a whirl at the legal profession when a moment's discussion was allowed on the crime sit- uation, many of them declaring that not until this profession which is responsible for the courts and court procedure, cleaned up the technical legal pro- cesses, could any remedy be expected.' Conservation got attention when Harold Titus, conservation commissioner and author, interested the grpup in a presentation of the problems under solution in that department. Thus quickly are brought to the readers' minds, what editors do when they take a short course to refresh their minds on their public responsibilities. Not a single newspaper reader -but could have en- joyed the whole affair. And then to wind up with, a typical Michigan football game where the most brilliant defensive play many folks ever remember witnessing, completely humbled a mighty eleven of giants from the North and Michigan took care of the Little .Brown Jug for another year. It was a genuine Michigan game with the time-tested Michigan technique of never takingl a chance after getting in the lead, was found sound.t This technique does not provide a brilliant game but it wins. Renewal of friendships and gaining of new con- tacts ar by-products of such gatherings which leave{ an indubitable impress on the mind and influence the future with an optimistic hue. Strange to say whilet the business situation was dragged in, there was noj direct analysis attempted and the general opinion1 seemed to be that it was an old story of the/past, forgotten, and that the upturn was here.j Our efficient Ann Arbor cops have broken up a desperate gang of eight-year-old racketeers. All right,t men, let's get together and wipe out the cigarete-t bumming mobs next. e CAMPUS OINON Letters published in this column should not be construed as expressing the editorial opinion of The Daily. Anonymous communications will be disregarded. The names of communicants will, however, be regarded as confiden.tial upon re- quest. Contributors are asked to be brief, con- fining themselves to less than 300 words if, possible.] Shortly before the apearance of Opus 31, Beethoven, according to Czerny, said to Krumpholz: "I am not at all satisfied with my work so far, and from to-day I mean to make a fresh start." If it helps one to think in periods, this statement may be taken as the announcement of his second period beginning with that crucial and amazingly fertile year, 1803, which was climaxed by the Eroica. Of the three pianoforte sonatas in Opus 31, the D Minor, now issued in a splendid performance and a splendid recording by Gieseking and Columbia, contains most evi- dence of "a fresh start." It has an easily perceptible relation to the famour Heiligenstadt Testament, written in 1802, which certain cri- tics of Beethoven have seen as con- taining, for all its blundering, in- articulate magniloquence, a verbal index to the spiritual content of all Beethoven's great music. Certain peculiarities of the first movement are responsible for the Sonata's popular names ('Drama- tic' or 'Recitatif' Sonata). Its in- troduction presents a sharp opposi- tion between a single broken chord which slowly reveals itself (an ef- fort at calm, profound statement) and an unsteady, violently agitated, uncertain figure. The opposition is repeated; but this time the agita- tion mounts until it has transform- ed the slow broken chord: the members of which now appear in1 powerful, assertive statement as the main theme of the Allegro. Im- mediately, however, there is a slight figure which makes a weak, plain- tive comment on this new power: suggesting that the original, largo meaning, w h ic h those intervals were striving for, has not complete- ly disappeared into this power. This is the case. Twice the introductory Largo reappears in the movement, the second time more figured, and the third time developing into an article recitatif (which has the quality of a severe decree, difficult to acceept but accepted). The movement is an excellent example of what one would mean by the dramatic mode of musical thought. The Adagio presents a less in- dulged, less insistent, less superfi- cial sorrow tat the Largo of the. D Major, Op. 10, recently heard here. The first section is broken and not fluent (bewilderment, pos- :ibly at the bitter senselessness of his deafness); the second section (not at all integrated with the first, but given possibly as an approxi- mation to an ideal resolution) pre- sents a typical, crystallised Mbzar- tean adagio theme (its meaning possibly related to the "Patience- that's the word, she it is I must take for my guide" of the Heiligen- stadt Testament). There is a Czerny story that the rhythm of the Finale was "suggest- ed by the beat of a galloping horse." If this is true, it illustrates nicely how irrelevant and useless these bits of information are. A typical Beethoven movement, it is built wholly out of two strictly rhythmic figures. The movement is full of that fund of agitated, insistent en- ergy always associated with Bee- thoven. Marx suprisingly suggests that it is frequently misplayed "as a Vienna Waltz or as an Etude." Any comments I would make on Gieseking's playing would seem in- discriminate enthusiasm to those who have not yet heard the records.1 His performance is so certain and so solid that it impresses one im- mediately as an "absolute" perfor- mance of this sonata: a judgement which is, I think, corroborated by careful examination of it. Unless Columbia has a new secret in pianoforte recording, it seems only Rachmaninoff is comparable to Gieseking in ability to adapt him- self to the record-medium. LABORATORY SUPPLIES CHEMICALS DRUG SPECIALTIES SUNDRIES 200-202 E. LIBERTY ST. ESTABLIS ED I843 BETSY ROSS SHOP 13-15 Nickels Arcade We Deliver Dial 5931 II; lH Visit h , *. . . _.. . . Kick! EBERBACH pretty sib. the top are pipe smokers. 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The professor shows such decided apprecia- tion of the scientific mind that it is a pity he wastes his time in the department of literature. Of course the real issue is whether one can quan- titptively list the different types of minds, which, incidentally, are much more than legion. F. U. WHAT'S GOING ON InTr~TnVQ"A V Phone 23123 BEETHOVEN: Leonore Overture No. 3: played by Willem Mengel- berg and the Concertgebouw Or- chestra of Amsterdam: On Colum- bia records 67987-67988. Though Willem Mengelberg did- n't prove permanently satisfactory at New York's podiunm, one should remember that he remains one of the most versatile of contemporary conductors. Columbia gives him monthly assignments with the re- markable orchestra he has develop- ed at Amsterdam; and Victor is still issuing some of his readings with the Philharmonic. 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