SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1953
T HE MICHIGAN DAILY
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RECENT RELEASES DISCUSSED: M
New Recordings Made
f eethovenMozart
By HARVEY GROSS is equally superb in his new ver-'
There are works of art which so sions of Mozart's 35th (Haffner)
strain the medium they are cast in and 40th symphonies.
that they become, for bloodthirsty Those nurtured on a too strict
critics and scholars keen on defi- diet of Toscanini may object to
nition, unkillable, unnameable I Walter's Viennese approach to Mo-
monsters. zart. But De Gustibus . . . said
ISRAELI SETTING:
Hopwo0od rNovel
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KETTI SHALOM, by James
klnrnl R~n rn d ind 'K
attempted to slip into Palestine rabbi with a reputation as a con-
Such a monster is Beethoven's
Hammerklavier Sonata. It has
been declared unplayable on the
piano: its ideas seem to require
expression on some other instru-
ment.
UNDER THE pressure of this
need, Felix Weingartner trans-
cribed the Hammerklavier for or-
chestra. Yet this transcription-
recently reissued on a Columbia
LP-seems to me only an inter-
esting experiment, and discovers
nothing about the music.
Rather it makes the Hammer-
klavier sound almost tame; one
misses the tension and struggle
which make Beethoven's music
the exciting experience it is.
And in the Hammerklavier the
tension and struggle are generated,
at least partly, by its character-
istic difficulties: the complexity of
its texture, the immense technical
effort required for its execution,
and the depth of its musical ideas.
In the transcription these are
smoothed out, and the intensity is
dissipated. The recording is less
than fair.
COIUMBIA HAS issued two new
sets of Mozart arias conducted by
Bruno Walter, and featuring, res-
pectively, Eleanor Steber and
George London. London is one of
our finest young voices, and this
record does full justice to his voice
and his musicianship.
Especially impressive is his
handling of the- three concert
arias, "Mente ti lascio, o figlia,"
"Per questa bella mano," and
"Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo."
Less impressive is Eleanor Steb-
er's voice; in comparison with
the earlier records made for
Victor, her voice has lost its
firmness and seems to have
deepened.
There is an unpleasing tremolo,
and a noticeable strain in the up-
per register. Walter's conducting
on both records is superb, and' it
'U Station
Carries New
Programs
University FM station WUOM
has initiated several new program
series on its fall schedule.
One new series, "Patterns in
Jazz," is aimed at remedying the
lack of radio presentation of the
best in American jazz music.
IN THE COURSE of a thirteen
week period, recorded music from
the early twenties to the present
day will be played along with com-
mentaries tracing the develop-
ment of the jazz idiom. "Patterns
in Jazz" can be heard at 10:15
p.m. Wednesdays.
Another original series-They
Fought Alone for the Freedom to
Learn-is a thirteen-program pro-
ject broadcast at 9:30 p.m. Mon-
days. Presenting sketches of noted
men who have struggled for the
privilege of learning, each pro-
gram is accompanied by a com-
mentary by a University authority.
Local Art Exhibits'
Continue Display
Two local art exhibits which
opened last week will continue
throughout the month providing a
varied collection of contemporary
painting, drawing and ceramic
work.
The 31st annual Ann Arbor Art-
ists Association show may be view-
ed from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily
except Sundays in the Rackham
Galleries.
A comprehensive exhibit of re-
cent works of Zubel Kachadoorian
i§ the second point of interest and
k, is on display from 10 a.m. to 5
p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays
F t the Forsythe Gallery, 1101 Mar-
tin Pl.
Mrs. O'Leary as she kissed the cow.
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TOSCANINI has recently done r
a new series of Beethoven sym-
phonies for Victor with the NBC
Orchestra. I have been listening
for more than a week to his new '
Seventh and find in it the usual
Toscanini excellences: the drive,
the intensity, the understanding.
But the sound on the record
is a disgrace: flab, without any
dynamic sublety, and harsh to
an almost uncomfortable de-
gree. The recording was obvi- DANCE CLASS Geraldine
ously made in the notorious Stu- creative dance.
dio 8H.
I have also listened to the Tos-
canini Otello. This is a complete
triumph in every way and should
even convince those die-hards for
whom Italian opera (of the nine-
teenth century) is something less
than mentionable. It is pointless
to point out specific merit in this
performance; the Maestro's hand
maintains a level which never By NAN SWINE ART
drops. "Moving everything from
For those unable to afford one bottom of your toes to the to
of the complete performances of your head" is the way Geral(
Moussorgsky's Boris Godounoff, I Miller, dancing teacher, defi
recommend Victor's single LP of dancing to the group of child
highlights from the opera. This re- attending yesterday's sessions
cording has many virtues: it uses classes in creative dancing atI
Moussorgsky's original score, the Theater.
fidelity is high enough to make This year's initial sessions w
your nose bleed, and the bass Ni- held in a room, frehly pair
cola Rossi-Lemeny tears Slavic and with a floor newly saded
passion to tatters. pecially for the occasion by m
EIGHT PERFORMANCES:
N. Y City e0
Plans Week e r' *
The famed New York City Op-
era Company will open a gala De-
troit festival Tuesday, Nov. 10 with,
"Madame Butterfly" starring Licia
Albanese in the role for which she
has gained world-wide fame.
The opera week will continue
Wednesday, Nov. 11, with "Rigo-
letto" featuring the Metropolitan
Opera star Leonard Warren.
GIAN-CARLO Menotti's "The .
Counsul" will be the sole "modern"
opera presented by the opera com-
pany.
It will be shown Friday, Nov.
13 with Patricia Neway and oth-.
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f, :ik
~TA.UIviuraoex, nanuom douse, .U past the British blockade in 1947.
A Hopwood Prize Novel. Ketti is taken to Atherton, a
The publication of Hopwood prison camp seething with plotsI
Prize-winning novels, while by no and counter-plots and an elab-
means unusual or rare, is never- orate hierarchy of prisoner-lea-
theless an event worthy of notice ders, and which is put under a
in these parts. new commandant, the Irish Cap-
tain O'May, who had gained a
Ketti Shalom received a major reputation as a troubleshooter
award in 1950, the same year in among the guerillas in Greece.
which Mr. Murdock also won a With the delicate state of affairs
major award for his play The Sha- in the Holy Land at that time-
dow and the Rock, which was Arabs, Jews and British all strugg-
produced in Ann Arbor last year. ling to attain or keep supremacy-;
* * * O'May is instructed to be as firm as
THIS NOVEL is the story of a possible, but to maintain peace in
particularly gifted young woman, the camp at any cost.
K e t t i Shalom (Hebrew for Within the camp itself the lead-
"peace"), who is among a group of ing faction is headed by Ahab Ab-I
Jewish refugees arrested when they salom, a seventy-three year oldi
p~ 1 . LVw 1La GiLal I, es (ca
AHAB'S ONLY barrier is Ketti, for even among his own people he
for he learns that his ideas of the would be shunned as a potential
ne~W Israel are not Ketti's at all- carrier of the disease. And in his
and she has the power of the peo- momentary weakness Ketti as-
ple behind her. She immediately sumes full leadership. She restores
perceives that his dream state is hes fith ofdthehpe.ple, andtape
actually a dream of glory for him- the faithzof the people, and ap-
self; that "it stands on the necks parently works a miracle.
of these little people, and they Mr. Murdock has created an ex-
must want to sacrifice for it, or it citing and moving novel, and car-
will come down. There is a weak- ried it through to an overpowering,
ness in it: it has no heart." Ketti almost tragic climax.
finally agrees to a bargain: she --Tom Arp
stant threat to authority. It was
his dream to establish the new Is-
rael as a moral temple of the world
based on the ancient Hebraic cul-
ture; to reach this end he had to
free himself of the camp.
* * *
svill help Ahab if he will give his
people the help they need, give
them faith-a thing which he has
completely neglected in his desire
for personal power.
At this point the situation tight-
ens, for typhus breaks out in the
ra"m Nnw Ahh brn t
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-Daily-Dick Gaskiu . ,''.l.~
Miller directs a class of children in
n cCUSSevening drecimers
a-
S - .. . for dancing dates . . . matched separates,
bers of the Arts Theater staff who dyed alike. Scoop-neck sweater in jersey-8.95,
the have worked long hours to get the
p of room ready. in cashmere-25.00 . . . flaring felt skirt,
ned M1RS. MiLLER began each class iced with rhinestones-25.00 . . . '
ren by having the children sit on the
of floor and get acquainted by in misses sizes in red, white, black. .
Arts troductions and repetition of
names. The children were then di-
here rected into basic rhythms by do
ated ing stretching and relaxing move
es- ments to music.
em-
It wasn't long before the class
wasdoing-more than stretching.
Th e children had become tree s.
tranks swaying in the breeze or
_attmn leaves dancing in the
wind. As one of Mrs. Miller's
students said in answer to her
question, "You can ma.ke a dance - ..
about anything."
The classes are designed as an
r, additional feature to the regular
children's theater program. Chil-
drenfrom five to the teens parti-
citate in the Saturday morning
el sses which will last until the
first part of January. The children
are divided into five classes ac
cording to age. Each of the five j
classes meets every Saturday.
The teacher of these classes,
Mrs. Miller, a graduate of the
university, has studied dance at
Wayne University, Connecticut MAIN AT LIBRrY ANN ARBoR
College for Women and in New
York with Jose Limon. Only the Finest Quably at Priges that are Pair
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She has taught dancing for.....h...........:
American Association of Univer- -- -- -- - --- -
sity Women, at Wayne University,
in Ferndale and at the University.'
Mrs. Miller has worked with the
Modern Dance Club, the Inter-
Ai'ts Union and has done chore-.
og'aphy for two Aits Theater pro.-
ductions.
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er members of the original
Broadway cast.
The festival will continue Sat-
urday afternoon with the English
version of "Die Fledermaus" which
gained wide acclaim in New York
City.
Critics and audiences alike hail-
ed Rossini's "La ,Cenerentola"
(Cinderella) when it first appear-
ed in the spring in New York and
Detroit audiences will see it Sat-
urday night.
On Sunday, the 15th, another
opera "doublebill" will feature
Richard Tucker as Don Jose in
"Carmen" at the afternoon mat-
inee, and the great Mozart opera
"Don Giovanni" in the evening
performance.
Featured in the Mozart opera
are George Gaynes, Walter Cassel
and Anne McKnight, the new star
whose Aida last year brought much
favorable comment from Detroit
audiences.
The final opera will be "La
Boheme" which will be present-
ed Monday evening, the 16th.
Ann Ayars, Eva Likova, David
Poleri and Thomas Tipton will
star jn the classic opera.
Tickets for any performance,
priced from $4.80 to $1.20, may be
purchased by sending mail orders
to the Detroit Opera Association,
3163 Guardian Bldg., in Detroit.
READ AND USE
DAILY CLASSIFIEDS
RICHARD TLCER
. . to star in "Carmen"
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