f SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1954 'THE MCHIGAN DAILY MAGAZINE PAGE-PAGE THREE SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1954 THE MICHIGAN DAILY MAGAZINE PAGE-PAGE THREE . 'NANOOK OF THE NORTH': Groups Plan Pianist Courtland Discusses Music Inter-Arts Flaherty Film Festiva .r " f I itI I Z.Iated String Music European, American Appreciation Union.Plans dihttion of the possibilities of theoitacid Xr,-mm-1 n-___- ---- - O ra n z a n By BECKY CONRAD "Films of Life" and their origi- nator, the late Robert Flaherty, will be featured during the Flaher- ty Festival, scheduled for Feb. 22 and 25 and March 1 and 3 in Rackham Lecture Hall. Priced at $2 tickets for the four film series will go on sale from 1 to 4:30 p.m. tomorrow through Friday and from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday in the lobby of the Ad- ministratlon Bldg. - With films furnished by the Flaherty Foundation in New York, the Festival will be sponsored by the English department and the Gothic Film Society. * *ci . EXPLORING the world through his camera, Flaherty -produced such works of movie art as: "Na- nook of the North" and "The Land," to be shown Feb. 22; "Moana" and "Industrial Britain," Feb. 25; "Man of Aran." March 1; and "Louisiana Story," March 3. In conjunction with the Fes- tival University radio stations will air a British Broadcasting Company memorial program "Portrait of Robert Flaherty." at 2 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 28. In the program, moviemen Orson Welles and John Huston pay tribute to the man who "used film as a painter uses his brush." A display of Flaherty photo- graphs consisting of movie stills is currently on exhibit until Sun- day, March 7 in Alumni Memorial Hall. * * * A NATIVE of Iron Mountain, Flaherty received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the University at the June, 1950, commencement. The noted film- maker died in July, 1951. Founded last year, the Foun- dation encourages and supports the making of films in the Flah- erty tradition and attempts to develop an audience for these movies. According to Frances Flaherty, the producer's wife, "Freedom of expression in the film medium has been achieved by very few film- makers." But in some of her hus- band's movies, he "Gave a new in- film as an art form." She explained the camera to him "was an instrument for cap- turing life in motion." Flaherty films fall into neither the fictional nor the documentary category, since in both these cat- egories the 'film is preconceived. The producer did not preconceive, he explored with the camera let- ting the material tell its own story. Tibetan Ar Samples of Tibetan art which include charm boxes, prayer wheels and three sided daggers are =now on display in the rotunda of the Museum of Art,. Alumni Memorial Hall. In their religious ceremonies, Tibetan sorcerers stabbed demons of the air with magic daggers, one of which is shown. The three sided blade stands for the virtues of charity, chastity and patience which are said to destroy the vices of hatred, sloth and lust. Heads of three protector deities form the hilt top. SEVERAL BRASS and, copper charm boxes, set with inlays of turquoise and choral are also on display. These boxes are carried by Tibetans on their journeys and also rest on home altars. The charms they contain are used in warding off misfortune. In the exhibition is a brass prayer wheel. Prayers are writ- ten on paper and placed inside the cylinder which rotates on an axle on conch shell bearings. One revolution of the wheel rep- resents one repetition of all prayers. Several examples of the most characteristic aspect of Tibetan pictorial art, the painted banner, is in the exhibition. These banners show an Indian influence which, according to Mrs.' Kamer Aga- Oglu, curator of the Orient divi- sion of the anthropology museum, who arranged the exhibit, is due to the Indian artistic traditions which came to Tibet in the seventh century A.D. GENERALLY reproduced by means of transfers, the banners are printed in black and red ink, giving,the outline but not the col- oring. Ugually printed from metal, or wood plates, the transfers are applied on a piece of cotton or canvas. The draftsman then goes over the outline with a needle, leaving a dotted impression on the can- vas delineated with red or black ink. Colors then are applied as in tempera painting. r esLI V nere BY RONA FRIEDMAN (Editor's Note: This story about noted pianist Jane Court- By DON HARRIS land A varied and interesting selec- i is based on a recent inter- tion of contemporary musicwill "It always shocked the Euro- be highlighted next week-end wassokd hIuo ben tihGghledStinxQre-t peans and seemed incongruous to when the Griller String Quartet them that h and Reginald Kell Players appear chami atranwoman nd laso at Rackham Lecture Hall in the American could have talent" re- 14th annual Chamber Music Fes- markedJane Courtlanddhremem- tival sponsored by the University bering the skeptical glances she Musical Society. always received before she sat In addition to the usual stan- down to play the piano as a stu- dard works of chamber music lit- dent in Europe. erature, four compositions by mod- de "h Eoe.I ch ern composers will be heard, be- there I knew nothingecould daunt gining with a performance of me," she added. Ernst Bloch's Quartet No. 2 by + + the Griller Quartet on Friday eve- AND NOTHING has. The petite, ning. blonde's 36 years are filled with Bloch, who was born in 1880 success and are characterized 'by in Switzerland, has had a long a direct approach to every problem. and fruitful career in music. While playing for a radio station Many of . his works, such as in Europe she was asked to do a "Schelomo" a rhapsody for cello weekly 15-minute program of con- and orchestra and his Concerto temporary American music. Hav- for Violin and Orchestra, have ing been away from home too long reached a regular status in to be familiar with the latest mod- concert repertories. Since com- ern music, she composed her own. ing to the U.S. in 1916 he has numbered many of our most successful composers, men like Segy To ISC Roger Sessions, Quincy Porter, and Douglas Moore, as his pu- c pils. Concerning Bloch's Quartet uua d No. 2, which was composed in 1945, Roger Sessions has writ- African sculpture and its rela- ten; "a work of ripe maturity tion to modern art will be discuss- and artistic wisdom, and in ed by Ladislas Segy, director of the some sense a more complete syn- New York City Segy Gallery, at thesis than ever before of all the 4:13 p.m. Thursday in Auditorium elements of Bloch's musical na- B. Angell Hall. oure" Segy will speak in connection On Sunday afternoon the Grill- with the exhibition of 38 pieces of er Quartet will perform the Quar- African sculpture currently on dis- tet No. 2 by Edmund Rubbra, a play at the Mueum of Art. British composer little known in A student of African art for this country but of considerable26yasSeyhscqida note in the British Isles erbe 26 years, Segy has acquired a woe instaepupilisofthes. Rubbra, wealth of knowledge on the sub-. who as pu il f th ce ebr ted ject as he has collected, exhibit- English composer Ralph Vaughan1 e1 and popularized the sculpture Williams, is primarily known for1 of the tribes. his symphonies, of which the fifth . has been recorded. The Griller After painting for 18 years in Quartet has also recorded his Paris, Segy came' to America in Quartet No. 2 on London Records. 1936 and since that time has had The Reginald Kell Players,Ieight one-man shows. Segy has who take the stage on Saturday evening, will play Bela Bartok'sy Pat ra CIa "Contrasts" for violin, piano, and clarinet, and also the Suite Helen oterala, Grad., will pre- (1937) of Darius Milhaud. Both e pnoreralaGd.30lprm- these composers are well known sent a piano recital at 8:30 p;m. to Ann Arbor audiences, but tomorrow in Rackham Assembly neither of, these two works have Hall. been r eIncluded on her program will benperformed here recently, be Bach's "Partita in E Minor," Milhaud is, of course, the gi.- Finney's "Sonata No. 4 in E Ma- ant of French music, now Pro. inoey Schubert's "Sonata in A fessor of Music at Mills College Minor Op. 164" and Chopin'sA in California He is a prolifici "Fantasy in F Minor, Op. 49." composer who has. written for The program is open to the pub- almost every medium, lichfree of charge.n h Bela Bartok, the Hungarian >r hg composer who since his death in I r . 1945 has risen to be one of the." leading creative forces in music today, wrote the "Contrasts" for violin, piano, and clarinet in 1938. It was commissioned by Joseph Szigeti and Benny Goodman, who have also recorded the work with the composer at the piano. .. Works by Haydn, Mozart, Bee- thoven, Brahms, and Bach will " make up the rest of the programs on this year's festival. All per- formances will be in Rackham Lecture Hall, Friday and Saturday at 8:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Tickets may be purchased at 1 Pilot training begins at the office of the University Musi- ! Aviation Cadets get 3n cal Society in Burton Tower. I - In her apartment located on 7th Avenue and 55th Street, the heart of the music world in New York, Miss Courtland who is the wife of Dr. Philip Bond, leads a. busy life. She concertizes. teaches 'pri- vately, and is chairman of the music faculty at the American Theater Wing School. "It's funny," she commented, in this country teachers are con- sidered "frustrated performers" and musicians tend to spec- ialize, while in Europe the great performers did everything; teaching, participating in or- chestras, chamber groups and playing as soloists. After studying at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago. she began her professional career, t I FOLLOWING a concert tour through Europe, she went to the Royal Academy in Budapest for, post graduate work, where she studied composition with Bela Bar- tok and Zoltan Kodaly and during1 the next five years concertized throughout Europe. "Europeans, at the time wereI prejudiced against American musicians, so it wasn't until I won the International Liszt Prize that they really sat up and took notice," she commented. "But it was my final big con- cert in Europe in 1937 financed by the Ministry of Education in Budapest that was the real proof. Then they insisted that I must have some Hungarian blood." ,. . . r , .i u at 10, playing with the Chicago "Then the American passport Symphony. Awarded a Julliard began to lose. its meaning due to scholarship at 11, she came East the imminent threat of European to study with Carl Friedburg and war so I accepted a contract with eventually set the record as the NBC and returned to the States." youngest graduate, winning the "It was at a concert for war $1,000 Loeb Prize among other relief that Miss Courtland met her awards. husband-who is a professional sing- er as well as a doctor and together they did many USO shows. i sS Af riican"EVEN THOUGH the American audience has become more apprec- M ode rn ,A rt iative ,a European audience is still a more cultivated and understand- ing one." This is because music is written and lectured extensively studied there in most cases as a on aspects of African art and has cultural achievement rather than published 15 essays on the subject, a means of earning a living as it written in five languages. is most often here," she explained. is mion -epangu ge s or "Therefore they trust and apprec- His motion - picture short iate what they hear and are not "Buma: African Sculpture Speaks" the slaves of critics. will be shown with his lecture. "One important switch, though," -- she continued, "is that today, the Cor posers e best training is in the United -States and many Europeans now For Csh Awards come here for their professional education." Univrsiy cmposrs re ow, "Still the opportunities for eligible to enter the 1954 Studenti performing are the best in Eur- Composers Radio Awards, open to ope. This is especially true for writers of both instrumental and opera, since there is only one big vocal music. opera company in the United States. Also, though the coun- Prof. Ross Lee Finney and Dean tries in Europe are smaller, each Earl V. Moore of the music school city has its artistic life, so that are on .the permanent national there are more places to per- standing committee for the con- form, Then the tastes vary so test which will announce national that lack of success in one place winners of the 1953 awards by does not mean lack of oppor- June 1, tunity in another. While here all First prize will be $2,000, sec- artists are dependent on New ond prize $1,500 and third prize York reviews." $1,000, while six $500 awards will Considering the old question also be made. All awards will -be whether making a career of some- applied to tuition and subsistence. thing one loves makes it lose some Official rules and entry blanks of its 'beauty, Miss Courtland re- may be obtained from director plied: "There are those to whom Russell Sanjek, SCRA Project, music is a business and those to fifth floor, 580 Fifth Avenue, New whom it is a life work. To me it York 19. grows the more I know it." With tentative plans for an In- ter-Arts Festival to be held this March, the Inter-Arts Union will hold a revival meeting Saturday, according to Anne Stevenson. '54. temporary chairman of the group. Urging students to attend the meeting which will be held at 2 p.m. in the League, Miss Steven- son said that all students are wel- come "even if they feel they have little creative talent." FOUNDED six years ago, the group was started by students who felt the arts on campus were too diverse and did not have sufficient coordination. They aimed to' en- courage student efforts with the goal of producing such works at an annual festival. Because of this aim, there has been emphasis placed on the performing arts- drania, poetry, opera and the dance. With the demise of Arts Thea- ter which was an outgrowth of the Union, the group feels it has an increasing obligation accord- ing to Miss Stevenson. In past festivals, the Union in conjunction with the Festival has produced T. S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral," Andre Obey's "Rape of Lucretius" and Jean- Paul Sartre's "No Exit." LAST YEAR the group gave Karl Magnuson's "Adam and Eve and The Devil" and presented stu- dent poetry sessions, composers' forums and productions of the ballet and modern dance clubs. Saturday's meeting will discuss plans for a March Festival and also the organizational details of electing officers and writing a constitution. Concert Planned By Badura-Skoda Paul Badura-Skoda, one of the outstanding young pianists of post- war Europe, will present the sev- enth concert of the Choral Union Series at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday in Hill Auditorium. His program will include Bach's "Partita No. 2 in C Minor," Beeth- oven's -"Sonata in C Minor, Op. 13," Bartok's "Suite, Op. 14" and Brahms' "Sonata in F Minor, Op. 5." 'Tickets may be purchased for $1.50, $2, $2.50 and $3 in the Uni- versity Musical Society offices in Burton Tower. 'Caine Mutiny' Drama Reviewed f By HARRY STRAUSS Taken by Herman Wouk from his Pulitzer Prize winning war novel, "The Caine Mutiny," this courtroom drama is certainly one of the most pentrating and dis- turbing of recent years. The entire action of the play takes place within a few hours, and except for a brief final scene, within the same courtroom. And so the audience faces for the first time that which took some' 400 pages to describe in the novel. These pages have been minimized well to' make the story complete and are only passed upon briefly in conversation to bridge the gap leading to the courtmartial. * * * WE MEET Lt. Maryk, simple and uneducated, on trial for mu- tiny; we meet Barney Greenwald, his lawer, who does not hesitate to tell Maryk that he would ra- ther be prosecuting than def end- ing; and we meet Kueeg, captain of the Caine, petty tyrant and dic- tator,;whomthe defense contends was mentally ill at the height of a typhoon when Maryk assumed the ship's command.. These are the three protagonists. During the first half of the play we also encounter the assorted men who sympathize or are neu- tral to, Maryk for assorted reasons or excuses. The play is not study in good and evil 'as is Melville's "Billy Budd." But it does force a fun- damental question, and as Greenwald queries, "wouldn't the Japs and Germans be shak-; ing hands on the Mississippi if it weren't for men like Queeg?" Whether or not Wouk had only one meaning in mind is difficult to ascertain. Certainly one inter- pretation is that in times of emer- gency we must look at the most ominous portents on the horizonI and not those inconsequental lit- tle things that may be closer to home; for it is these larger thingsa that may destroy all else. IN THE BRIEF final scene, a quite-drunk Greenwald tells of his admiration for Queeg whom he has 'a defeated and of his loathing for Keefer, the real "mutineer" who gave poor Maryk the reasons and causes for action. Herein the Jewish lawyer speaks of the soap that his mother might have been had not Queeg and oth- ers like him been prepared to stand in the enemy's way. It is the common, non-intellect who is the first and holding obstacle of the eneny, and not the intellect who stands behind a naive, gullible person and persuades him that the enemy is far away, but a more real enemy is proximal and just as dangerous. This moral of obeying and re- specting authority is certainly not to be meant as political columnist Arthur. Schlesinger, Jr. took it as "the greatest dan- ger society faces .. . a powerful evidence of the unconscious un- dertow ,of our times." In truth, blind acquiescence to the au- thoritarian can be dangerous in peacetime, but the place-of the mutiny-a critical battle area- --and the time of the courtmar- tial-a critical war-alters this picture. There is and can be no excuse, other than psychological, for the petty tyrant in peace or in war: but there is again little room for the reformer in times of war. The reformer and do-gooder has his accepted and needed place in a democracy if it does not endanger the security of the nation, in which ,case his silence can lead to the 'downfall of democracy. "The Caine Mutiny Courtmar- tial" is a superb theater piece; the action is swift and 'the dialogue direct. It does not preach reform, it "preaches nothing," but makes clear the value of careful thought before action, doing so skillfully with the audience or reading in mind. It is a play that should be seen and read in times of quiet or .of turmoil. t i ; 1 t ., ,; t] ,] :j OPENING WEDNESDAY: Police Aid Lends Authentic Touch to Detective Storv' College Men!. Fly with the Finest in the Air Force QUALIFIED APPLICANTS WIN WINGS AS AIR FORCE LIEUTENANTS, EARN OVER $5,000 A YEAR! Authenticity is the motto for the Student Players in their pro- duction of Sidney Kingsley's "De- tective Story" to be presented at 8 p.m., February 17-20 at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theater. The problems of knowing the correct methods and procedures of a station house had to be carefully worked on by the cast. To help them, the assistance of the local Police' Department was enlisted. The Traffic Court and the-Detec- tive Bureau helped them to obtain the necessary guns, black jacks and handcuffs for the production. * * * THE STUDENTS were shown how to use black. jacks, called per- suaders in the play. These sticks are of heavy leather and are filled with shot. The weapon is heavy and very deadly, when used cor- rectly. Guns presented another prob- lem. But again the police came through with broken weapons and authentic-looking toy guns. The cast will also use some pri- vately-owned revolvers. The cast members learned that the police do not use holsters for their guns in the summer as they are too heavy and warm. Revolvers are kept in the hip pocket of the uniform. The Department also loaned handcuffs to the players and dem- onstrated how to correctly hand- cuff a prisoner and also how to accurately book a suspect. * * .* WITH THIS help, equipment, and information, this production should have as near-correct pro- oedure as possible., Ted Heusel directs the play and is assisted by James Broadhead, '54, producer; Susan Goldberg, '56, props; and Arno Schniewind, G. NR; set designer. Mail orders for tickets are now being accepted at $1.20-90c: The box office will open on February 15. Lackland Air Force Base, where months of officer indoctrination. GUADALAJARA SUMMER SCHOOL The accredited bilingual summer school sponsored by the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara and mem- bers of the Stanford University fac- ulty will be offered in Guadalajara, Mexico, June 27 - August. 7, 1954. Offerings include art, creative writ- ing, folklore, geography, history, language and literature courses. $225 covers six-weeks tuition, board and room. Write Prof. Juan B. 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