Ivan Duz, professor of
Philology at the University of
Odessa, presents Vancouver
alderman Bruce Eriksen with a
gift at a reception hosted by
the Canada-USSR Association
Feb. 27. Duz was one of four
Ukrainian scholars visiting
Vancouver, including Igor
Dzeverin, director of the Kiev
Institute of Literature; Petro
Konanenko, a. professor of
languages; and Boris Olynyk,
Poet laureate of the Ukarine.

ere as part of an academic
®xchange program, the group
Spent considerable time at
UBC where the also spoke to
Students on disarmament
'Ssues. They also met with city
Council and discussed future
®xchanges with the city of
Odessa.

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Astanding ovation and two cur-
tain calls went to veteran topical
Singer Tom Paxton at the Queen

beth Playhouse in Vancouver
Sunday,

The American singer-songwriter

Whose career spans more than 20

years moved the audience of
Several hundred from laughter to
hushed silence and back again in
the time-honored tradition that has
become his hallmark, providing a
Successful kickoff for the first of

year’s concerts from Ash
Street Productions.

€ concert was billed as ‘“Tom
Paxton sings for Peace,” and was
used to promote the upcoming
walk for peace on Apr. 23, spon-
Sored by the End the Arms Race

committee. Last year Ash Street Tom

drew 3,000 to hear Pete Seeger sing
for disarmament.

Paxton proved to be a fitting
Choice for this year’s concert, and
Not only because of his years of ser-
Vice writing and singing against un-
Popular wars and social injustice.
Paxton also can be said to be one of

er’s ‘children,’ part of a
Movement of topical singers of the
Post-war generation that helped a
8TOwing anti-war protest change
Public opinion in the Sixties and
beyond.

Paxton (I) called out local singers Charlotte Diamond and Doug

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Stewart for encore at concert for peace Sunday.

Perhaps more than any of his
contemporaries — Bob Dylan, or
the late Phil Ochs — Paxton has the
ability to move audiences through
warmth and humor in the Seeger
mode.

Paxton himself paid tribute to
Seeger when he encouraged the au-
dience to join in singing along. Be |
know if Pete was here,:he’d have
you divided up into groups singing
harmony, and you’d be doing a

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verse in Swahili,’ he said, to ap-
preciative laughter.

“¥ can see Pete’s been here —
you're already trained,” he quip-
ped, after people joined in singing
one of Paxton’s well-known tunes.

Standards such as “‘Last thing
on my mind,” “Rambling boy”
and ‘‘I can’t help but wonder where
I’m bound’ were performed for
the benefit of all those who knew
Paxton the singer from his earlier
days. But Paxton has not allowed
himself to rest on his earlier laurels,
and Sunday’s concert provided a
forum for many later songs, in-
cluding some that are to be released
on upcoming albums.

His newer material ranged from
a witty treatment of one man’s
neurotic impulse to solve the
Rubik’s Cube through a biting
satire on Nancy Reagan’s defence
of personal firearms to a celebra-
tion of a new “bomb” which,
when dropped, turns ‘‘tanks”’ into
butter’? and ‘‘grenades into
flowers.”

Paxton also showed his serious
side, with evocative melodies such
as ‘Whose garden was this?”
about the aftermath of a nuclear
holacaust.

Paxton has undergone several

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changes since his introduction to
the Greenwhich Village folk music
scene in 1963. His first albums were
marked by strong statements of
protest against corporate profiteer-
ing and the Vietnam War, in-
terspersed with humorous observa-
tions on American society’s many
pitfalls. Later albums were more
introspective, and Paxton’s career
and stature waned during the mid
Seventies.

He has become known again in
the Eighties, singing at many
benefits for the nuclear freeze
movement and other peace ac-
tivities in the United States, but he
disclaims formal connection with
any organization.

“1’m not involved in the peace
movement in a day-to-day way —
I’m primarily a songwriter and an
entertainer. But obviously, I sup-
port it in a big way,” Paxton told
the Tribune in a brief interview
after the concert.

In recent years some of Paxton’s
work has shown traces of a kind of
mysticism. One recent composition
sung at Sunday’s concert praises a
rest retreat for victims of the strife
in Northern Ireland as a mecca to
which one can find a resolution to
personal problems. In this ap-
proach Paxton effectively equates
warfare with personal rather than
political discord, a notion reinforc-
ed by the line, ‘‘let there be peace,
and let it begin with me.”’

But the Tom Paxton of the
Eighties has also penned songs such
as “I’m changing my name to
Chrysler’ a satiric comment on
government subsidies to private
corporations. And his perfor-
mances at peace benefits show him
to be a fitting spokesman for the
cause of disarmament.

Paxton’s set was preceded by the
duet of Charlotte Diamond and
Doug Stewart, two members of the
Ash Street company who played a

‘tight set of quiet songs with close-
knit harmonies. They joined Pax-
ton on his first encore, singing a
moving. rendition of ‘‘Strangest
dream.”’

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