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Charles M unch
coming fo city

ee French conductor
tinst a Ties Munch will makehis
Pence in Vancouver at

A rational Festival this
Phonic iN performances of sym-
He ie choral masterpieces,
Mpho Conduct the opening night
nation MY (July 1) and “Dam-
of Faust” (July 5 and 7),

is
aes Y conductors have capti-

their audiences, but few
have enjoyed Munch’s
flair for winning the
applause of his. own
Orchestra, Sum-
moned in 1950 to suc-
ceed Serge Kousse-
Vitsky, aging aristo-
crat of the Boston
Symphony Orchestra,

he Won
Sicians
Ming t

the esteem of his mu-
at their first meeting by
hem to “relax”,

M :

he himself was anything but
m his conducting, Oc-

A. Y criticized as flamboy-
Used more than his baton,
chorar ne performance of a
Con dicts he once was noted
chestrs four elements of the
his body with as many parts of

q
8 pnassectation with the Boston
5 an. for 13 years proved a
teny, ae ar success, During his
ry ood longest uninter-
Phony? adership in the sym-
history — the orchestra

made four extended tours: a
transcontinental tour of the
United States and three abroad
through Europe, the Soviet Union
and the Far East in 1952, 1956
and 1960.
* OK OK

Munch was born inStrasbourg,
Alsace-Lorraine, Sept, 26, 1891,
His father was a professor of

-music at the Strasbourg Con-
servatory and an organist, His-

boyhood was filled with music,
including some pleasant mo-
ments with a young man named
Albert Schwitzer, who married
Munch’s sister and went on to
become a world famous figure,

World War I interrupted
Munch’s budding career, Since
Alsace was German, he was
drafted into the German army,
Four years later, after being
gassed and wounded as a Ser-
geant of artillery, he was de-
mobilized,

As conductor of the Paris

Conservatoire Orchestra, Paris’
oldest symphony orchestra, from
1938 to 1946, his fame grew. He
conducted throughout World War
II, managing to scrupulously (and
often ingeniously ) avoid Nazi
offers to conduct, Every franc of

his proceeds from concerts dur-—

ing the occupation went to the
French underground,

The festival opens on Wednes-

day, July 1 and runs through till .

Saturday, August 1,

AU UC Groups Give

Rare Musieal Banquet

Tis stevenenko Male Chorus
hestra Ukrainian Mandolin Or-
AvUG) (both of the Toronto
top ‘ Provided an evening long
Whe, erished and remembered
Eliza €y appeared in the Queen
Ries Theatre last Thursday,

the above performers
themselves amateurs,

sy tain Certainly nothing ama-

Spout the evening, From
the, 28 rendition of GodSave

} tothe en (and what a rendition!)

opeine strains of ‘O Can-

baa Unbelievably high pro-

quality was maintained,

Desns4.
its ied Missing about one third
Us plement, the male chor-
extremely effective, Bal-

€,
a sone: shading, ripples and
-Srdep 6 of nuances were the
Sh the day, It’s really a

n't ee whole ensemble could-
. e the trip, but such are
Capjt alities of life under our
alist system;
@

r
tiny some effort should

WORTH

READING

ease. 7 By Cheddi Jagan.
ney review by the leader:
3 vernment which is strug-
LONI Win independence for its
Bley * Facts and figures are
Menge Plots and open inte-
es, PY British and U.S, in-
O undermine the unity

e
People around their gov-

-)
“nent

vio a reading for all those

Vee Y following the rising
Ihde, °Rt of Latin America for
€nce and progress,

be made to obtain federal funds

for a similar tour when 1967 rolls

around andwe celebrate Canada’s
centennial, (Incidentally, should
this prove possible, Vancouver
would be well advised to put in
its order early for this outstand-
ing group of artists).

The orchestra: was every bit
as effective as the chorus, and

soloists Natalya Hawrylets, John:

Bokla, Merse Mochoruk, Jerry
Prociw and Peter Rapinchuk were
not to be outdone either, In fact,
to make any objective criticisms
at all, on would have to simply
ignore the fact this is not a pro-
fessional troupe - which this re-

viewer is not prepared to do,

Conductor Eugene Dolny is de-
serving of the highest praise for
taking a group of workers and
moulding them into what is un-
doubtedly one of the finest en-
sembles in the country, ' They
have a few high calibre voices -
true - but, by and large they are
people who toil for their bread
and sing and perform as ahobby,

Dolny’s style of conducting has
undergone many improvements,
too, since we first saw him onthe
other side of a baton - some 17
years ago, Although he stilldies
a thousand deaths before a show,
once he walks on stage he is
composed and in complete con-
trol, And the amazing response
he gets from his singers and

musicians amply demonstrates’ ~

this,

t
In closing, a tip of the hat to.
all concerned, This was positive-
ly the finest performance by an

amateur group these ears have »

ever heard,
—J. Shack

AL [Pn | F

Dylan’s roots are in past

. .. but eyes on the future

here is a one man revolution
walking around, His name
is Bob Dylan, He is 22 years old,

He has already been called a
genius, We are willing to put
our neck way out and say this
is absolutely true, He is a gen-
uine genius, full of a passion-
ate protest with his feet planted
squarely in the great tradition
of ballas singers from the year
one on,

More - he may very possibly
become one of our most impor-

tant poets,

Right now his songs are being
heard by only a fraction of the
young people in the U.S, They
are, essentially, the same young
people who are carrying on their
own revolutions in civil rights,
peace, on the left,

Also, those seriously interest-
ed in folk music, the admirees
of that extraordinary young wom-
an, Joan Baez, In short, a di-
verse collection from the college
communities,
*

But Dylan has the potential to
move out and reach all the kids,
the kids who packed theSan Fran-
cisco Cow Palace (18,000 of them)
to hear Chubby Checker, the un-
employed kids, the Beatle fans,

Dylan filled the Berkeley Com-
munity Theatre to bursting (some
time ago) with his first concert
in the Bay Area, He came, Says
Ralph Gleason, jazz critic on The
san Francisco Chronicle, ‘“‘...
all by himself, with no props but
a guitar and harmonica, without
a press agent and with nothing
going for him but his songs and
the strongest underground repu-
tation of any poet of our time,’’

In time, this reputation will
begin to filter out to the rest of
the world, One of his songs —

‘Blowing in the Wind’’ - has al-:

ready been through the rock and
roll radio circuit, It wasn’t sung
by Dylan - and this makes a dif-
ference - but the seeds have been

planted,
*

Why Dylan out of all the folk-
singers in the great folk music
renaissance? Why Dylan, to make
the breakthrough from the kids
who are already concerned tothe

kids who haven’t yet found a

voice?

* He is simple, What he says
can be understood by anybody.
His songs are his own, They
are new.

* He cuts through allthe phony
issues to bedrock without self
pity of politicking,

Woody Guthrie

* He looks and sounds as
though he came straight from the
dust bowl. He didn’t, Heiscom-
pletely contemporary with roots
reaching back to Guthrie and
Hudie Ledbetter, His style is
still derivative but the melodies
and the poetry are his own,

The style, hillbilly, country,
western, is in any event, thor-
oughly tangled by now with the
roots of jazz and a powerful in-
fluence of rock and roll as well
as ‘*pure’’ folk music,

We could argue, if we had space
enough and time, about the in-
evitable problems of press agen-
try and commercial push as the
only means of reaching the pub-
lic, Enough for now to predict
(dangerous game for critics) that
Dylan can overcome the racket
if anybody can, :

Dylan plays competently with

a solid country beat, In time his
instrumental work will no doubt
come closer to the beauty of his
melodies and his words,

At the moment - it’sthe words,
the songs; ‘‘Hard Rain,’’ a pro-
phetic ballad about war, starva-
tion, oppression with incred.le,
simple imagery, Several h:iuri-

ous talking blues, love songs from
ironic to tender,
Medgar Evers’ murder which
says with great, if somewhat as-
tonishing honesty, ‘‘ Pity the Poor
White, he’s only a pawn in their
game,’’ A song about Davy
Moore, boxer,

Dylan has an irreverent humor
to go with his honesty and pas-
sion, It’s an old, old kind of
American humor - dry, a little
exaggerated, sometimes ironic,

The kind of humor that grows
out of a variety of tough reali-
ties and got lost someplace in all
the bad years since 1945 just as
passion and honesty got lost too,
or commercialized or sent to jail
or whatever,

Lost, at least, until the stud-
ents began sitting-in and picket-
ing and generally dissenting
again,

And for those who remember
other times, other protests, Dy-
lan will prove, we hope, a pro-
foundly moving experience,

—Nancy Scott
(People’s World)

A song about.

oe

Modern Vigilante

I sometimes fancy, as I spy,
That I excel the FBI,
Right now I’m making little lists,
Of folks I think are Communists,
I have no proof on anyone,
And yet, the lists are lots of fun,
And friends of foreign aid, I think,
Must be set down as rather pink,

A little pinker, not far off,
_I list perforce the college prof,
And pinker yet the student crowd
That lauds the Bill of Rights, out loud,

U,N, supporters, as I’ve said,
Are always ipso facto red,

And redder still on my red lists,
Are all the integrationists,

Just for good measure, in my labors,
Tadd a few of my close neighbors,
Thus I rejoice that loyalty
Resides alone in you and me,

Although before my work is through
You may, good friend, be listed too,

—By unknown author, in The American Atheist

June 19, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 9.

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