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Kirkpatrick, Boatwrights REVUE Points Up
Give Concert __ Creative Mediocrity
by John Davison by Pauline Dubkin ’63
_ eas ae id Hust, meric College The Bryn Mawr-Haverford Revue is one of the best
On Thursday, April’5,-a ‘large Goodhart Hall audi- | testimonies I can think of to the truth of the often-
ence heard John’Kirkpatrick, pianist, Helen-Boatwright, | made statement that the standard for creative work
_. Soprano, and “Howard Boatwright, violinist, give a con-"| at these colleges is far below that for academic produc-
a .....cert.of music by Mozart and Charles Ives. The.concert | tion, For,even_keeping in mind the fetters that lack
~———=""was sponsored by the Friends of Musit of hs | of time and opportunity place on creativity, I —
College. ‘It was an occasion dominated by ‘the Ives | Bryn Mawr’s and Haverford’s literary output as collect-
music, which was. the better chosen and the better pex- | ed in the Revue, which should contain the best. of it
‘formed. The Mozart pieces were all clustered together | mediocre, |
in the first half of the*program, presumably so that Very little of the work in the Revue is bad Bagdad
a those who wished to avoid ‘the Ives could leave at inter- hope, embarrassingly bad.. We are too ‘sophisticated.
mission." Happily, few did, and those who remained | for that; but this very sophistication leads, I think,
were well rewarded. to the most consistent fault in this writing; too. much
a Mr. “Kirkpatrick” opened” “by playmngtie™ ‘little~G | of it is mamnered, labored, unspontaneous, ‘eonseiously
major piano sohata of Mozart with sprightly precision” “earthy” and “symbolical,” without any evidence bedi
and elegance, but without sufficient lyricism, Down- | the technical ability needed to make such writing “live. :
beats were too heavily accented, and the beauty of Mo- | Like Salinger’s Esmé, these writers are interested in
zart’s long lines was lost through: an’ overdramatic | squalor, both physical and psychological, but an Esmé-
reading. The same virtues and faults marked the per- | like naiveté shines through agairist their will.
formance by Mr. Boatwright and Mr. Kirkpatrick of It is, among other things, the absence of these
the E minor violin and piario sonata. Clarity and sen- | qualities that makes the good pieces so salient. Jane
sitivity were there, but an apparent fear of over-roman- | Hess’ story; “The Butchering,” is the best of these.
-__ticizing Mozart led to a frequent failure to achieve Its author writes simply, imaginatively, and without
.- he-natural,-singing- quality. that-i is..essential_to_proper.|.pretension, and shows a fine eye for detail and a fine ear
performanee of his music. for the nuances of language. “The Butchering” is the:
~+ Mrs: Boatwright’s~fine-voice’ sinaieiiit the-requi- | -most-nearly. professional: work in the Revue. Hedy Fair-
site quality, however, to the other two Mozart num- |* banks’ Arts Night play, The Rise and Fall, is here
bers, with Mr. Kirkpatrick and Mr. Boatwright show- | 1, and while it does not come off quite so well in the
ing. themselves admirable accompanists, as they did reading as in the viewing, partly because many of the
also in the Ives. The first Mozart vocal piece was | comic stage directions are left out, it is almost as fun-
a late, Masonic cantata that, though pleasant, seemed | DY; satiric, and intentionally absurd as it -was on the
a not quite successful blend of recitative and aria: a | Stage. ——
piece deservedly little known. The aria from the early | __ The first piece in the neve is another play, Paul
_ Jl Re Pastore, on the other-hand, was a happy conclu- | Sinclair and Andy Miller’s new laugh frolic’, Man
_ sion for the Mozart group; all its unpretentious beauty | Overboard, I find. it necessary to oer gee on
~->-was~ brought outin~a° first-rate performance -in-whieh the heavy-handed footnote that is typical o > e Piece:
a the sounds” of voice; bi and piano~ were: exquisitely~ iF lageraising ceremony. .. There are some who will fin
‘balanced. it Freudian.” There are those who will find the play
ies aeieak potion of “ae sacaiaes SoA wa ‘Freudian, or satiric, or touching,.or. scatological. I. find
it boring.
“Emerson”, the first movement of Ives’s four-move-
ment Coricord, ér Second Piano Sonata,: (It was a = . a et Bs soe Retne oe this, be
pity that we could not have heard the whole sonata. improved by 8 y
f poems that should be good are spoiled by a sophomoric
_Actually, those’ who attended Mr. Kirkpatrick’s after- :
ee rT ~phrase or two. Harry Saint’s two poems, for-example,
noon workshop were able to hear “Hawthorne and é : ei
would be very good indeed if they utilized more con-
“The Alcotts”, and David Hemmingway is to play : : : oie:
crete imagery, instead of abstractions,-to bring the
“Thoreau” at Haverford in May.) Mr. Kirkpatrick is :
images of the poems into clearer focis. In this respect
“Were saerretee ne Concord -Sonate~performances, -and “and others, I admired Jane Rose’s-poem “The Perfor-
deserves to be. He is able, in his playing of. this knot- pesos fai Tain’ partial do ae ik “wie: wbnnt
ty, overwhelming masterpiece, to bring to bear all the something This view, I know, is somewhat passé,
; : : : " , > ; (
naar a = : ee o_o but I contend that poems like “The Ruins” and “Sacred
= ee 7 ena asian hanna are —r Vertigo” (which. utilize that most awkward of devices
: . ’ ? ; ney * * ‘“ so
thoughts, feelings, references, and relationships, and -the verbless: sentence), and SWOEBE like “When Dom
thi ld ie ie und er-Mr. Kirkpatrick’s a ile inique and the Sun were Shining” lose a great deal by
fitgeta se é Y . their lack of the-old, square virtues. of OGHSENUIEY com-
nunicability, and intelligibilit
The first group of songs was scat mainly from. Baa Fee G a “Tiger, Tiger” = the
among meeps and Sint of Ivers | hens cumple i he Revue of oietly moving
; » D€-"| work that is made to seem puerile e use of many
cause one does not often find performers like Mrs. Boat- hackneyed devices. In poe “ - . a stack of rs
—— nnannseb anton moni pi ensi dinners and a mason jar of Skippy: peanut butter 98¢
eee : = raul ? qt.”-is supposed-to-convey: ‘something: squalid, bourgeois,
eee of the easier songs are eerie i Wide currency. and somehow earthy, There is a female equivalent to
General William Booth Enters Into Heayen ag €8- | this kind of writing, which is usually more “poetic” but
pecially fine, with its curious pean -between deep | ti) makes me think of a child who is pleased with
sympathy and. brilliant —o The second ae - himself for having “said a dirty word in front of a
three songs, with = = sid ay lier chia von grown-up. I find this quality in'some of Bonnie Kevles’
elo one of een Bak ar heal | Sn the Bayt of 5. Ma dl Fore and in Jone
‘ ? Robbins’ “7 “AM.” ‘
Ives’s musical analog of the cubist and collage tech- I-hope I do-not sound like a literary reacti onary.
niques in painting)’ whose humorous intent is unmis- I'am not. I am all in favor of experimental writing
~~ Boatwright performed well in this; his playing er ee "tie fg. possible. ‘exneps:
’ tion of Jack Kerouac. I think the Revue is to be com-
and Mrs. Boatwright’s- singing have the Special. virtue ana for printing some very good w ork ee as a
of a pleasing accuracy of pitch. He did splendidly with ing--a-chance-on- the-not-s0-good,—- I-am-glad-that-it
the Second Violin Sonata as well. re like os | included somé pieces of music; I wish that some essays,
mien yea cpg cae id niet Gets andl preferably literary’ criticism, had also been included.
eu I wish, most of all, for just one issue of the Revue
ga of —— pg = aoe oe that has no page-long sentences, two-word poems, snic-
tbe current in the Danbury, Connecticut, of Ives's boy- | jeringly disguised Freudian symbolism, and~ pseudo-
On8. Hemingway tough guys. It might be possible. ©
" Ives’s works, so far prebably the finest musical ex- ee y sd P -
_ pression’ of American thought, are full ‘of fascinating | the impulse to discipline and intensify, to put; down
1... dualities and tensions—between-the bewilderingly. com=. | spiritual roots. ‘This “rich microcosm. came. to.life in
plex and the simple and«straightforward, between the | sound thanks to the.»devoted and accomplished musi-
abstract nature of music and the desire to portray spe+ cianship of Mr. Kirkpatrick and the Boatwrights, and
cific places and events and moods, between the wander- | we have good cause to be grateful to them and to. the
ing, expansive nature of the American imagination and _ Friends of Music for a memorable evening.
BRYN MAWR COLLEGE INN ‘|| . AKOUE~
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LUNCHEON 2. 3, Eanael 9 w/a fre apoio oe -8 % oo: 9 12:00- 2:00 PM. sons, ‘such a study group would. en-
ence ih TERNOON FER SC PTT EEE FONE mar os “to” explore the complex tt
DINNER Bie 0 Be8 9.080 8 SEES eens ne ne oan PM. ‘ramifications of the’ issues of war
SUNDAY ig (-- RP PLATTERS FROM a : “J }and peace. Only such a program of
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. OPEN '7 DAYS WEEKLY | ed research can hope to move to-
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TELEPHONE a LOMBAERT ST. AND MORRIS AVE: “Ti tricate and challenging problems
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Sue Weisberg 65

“Any solution: to the nuclear
problem will probably seem as im-
possible at first*blush as the bomb
itself did. Why, you might even
say that the first test of such a
solution will be the difficulty of
recognizing its feasibility,” ‘hese

are the words of Mr. Stephen

James, an advertsing copywriter
who lives in the Bronx and has
proposed -a- very-..simple- and -novel
plan for easing Cold War tension.
Bizarrely. known as the Peace
Hostage plan, Mr. James’»idea has
attracted attention. in the State

The Village Voice Voice





Selections Reveal
Bohemian Culture

by Pauline Dubkin ’63
This lively and’ enjoyable book is
a collection of articles from the Vil-
lage Voice, the Greenwich Village
newspaper. The Village, as+every-

&

one knows, is a colorful place; its
| newspaper,... and. . this. -booky reflect

that-color...They..also_ reflect..some-
thing else, that’ belies the common
opinion that»the Village is not to be
taken seriously, that it is. an abode
solely of beatniks, drunks, perverts,
and -Uptowners pretending to be
beat: A deep and serious concern.
for human actions, especially as ma-
nifested in politics and in art, emer
ges-from the book, --. «+

his- best. political. satires.---There-are
serious examinations of Hipsterism,
jazz, Method acting, Madison Ave-
nue, and, over: and over again, the,
whole question of. bohemia.
almost the keynote of the book, bo-
hemians asking what is bohemia,
beatniks wondering what it isto
be beat, and why: there are a few
silly articles defying Kerouac, Gins-

‘berg and Corso, but they are in the

minority, . There is also a thread
of nostalgia for the “old Village” | «
running through the book. Articles
about the Village in the 20’s and
30’s,-are among the most fascinat-
ing.

More important, though, than the
individual articles is ‘the image of

“{the’ Village in the last -few years

that emerges. This ‘pook is largely,
I feel, a document about “sub-cul-
tures”, There is ‘the sub-culture of
the beat, or what was called around,
1955 “Hip”; Mailer and . Kerouac

rargue-for-it is a-“philosophy, of: the.

future,” others damn«it a8 phony,
some, like Rexroth, say- it’s a pass-
ing fad, and the whole phenomenon
as it exists, or doesn’t exist, in New
York,: California, and England is ex-
amined by just about everybody.
There is the sub-culture of the jazz
world, and in. one -of the most
thoughtful articles in the book Sey-
mour Krim debates the white man’s
fight to appropriate something that,
like jazz, belongs basically to the
Negro. Several provocative articles
deal with the homosexual sub-cul-
ture, and with the sad and sordid
society “of the drug addict. There
are also the -Pacifists, who seem to
be constantly getting arrested for
their failure to comply with’ the Civil
Defense drills in New York, and, of
course, the serious writers, artists,
and= musicians, ~ without~ whom the
Village, for all its color, would be
little more than ‘an :East-coast Dis-
neyland.. '

Everyone will have his favorite
articles in The Village Voice Reader
and everyone will occasionally be an-
noyed and exasperated. But it’s
werth ‘the “exasperation. Read it.:





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tions for travel abroad this
‘summer are advised to begin
series now; since some of these
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plete.. : .







_Jules.Feiffer.is here with some_of |
‘problems which are sure ‘to arise.

This is |,

: ” 'Warebranet = to Avert War
~Dostulates: Hostage Exchange Dian

Department and the White House.
In. essence, it consists of an ex-
change of American and Russian
citizens of similar oecupations for
a period of six months to two years.

tives of high government officials,
the. theory. being that, if world
leaders had a personal contact in’
a potential target area in the U.S.
or the U.S.S.R., they might. think
twice before initiating nuclear war,
Mr. James adds that the word
“hostage” may be a misnomer.
‘Presumably, the exchanges would
not, like real “hostages” - be-
slaughtered. outright, if war was
declared. They would merely run a
great risk of death»by atomic ‘\war-
fare. Mr. James used the term _
“peace hostage” mainly for pub-

ticity. value.

Mr. James has anticipated the _
cries of “impractical” and “naive”

|which seem likely to greet his plan.

“Each of the host nations would
be required to institute vast language
and job-training programs in order
to place visiting hostages in posi-
tions~-corresponding-to-the-—ones-

{they held-in~-native-lands,”~he-ad=—--—~

mits. However, he cites the mobil- -
ization of the United States army
during the Second World War
which involved massive problems
in -logistics and organizations -as a
precedent. One must. note, never-
theless, that Mr. James has given
no very specific proposals for or-~
ganizing the “vast language and
job-training programs,” ‘nor for
overcoming the environmental

Just because Mr. James recognizes
the problems does not mean they
will disappear. d
Siiperior Skepticism

A harebrained scheme? I . origi-

nally viewed this plan‘ with an!

attitude of ‘superior skepticism, '
but, like McGeorge Bundy who was.

called away from a dinner-party ‘
to listen. to Mr. James explain his _
plan oyer, the the phone, my first
ee reaction was
swept a y by the charm and.sim-
plicity of the Peace Hostage idea.
After all, what’s rational about nu-
clear~war, anyway.? Who says it
requires a completely “rational”
solution? And I haven’t noticed
any: great answers to. the Cold
War problems coming out of Gene-
va, recently. Maybe, it’s time for
the eommon man, frightened by

the atomic bomb, frustrated .with
the negotiations. which never, seem
to get anywhere, to take over’ the
problem. After all, “Ask what. you,
can'do for your country . .”” cand
all that .

My hiiinie was doused, how- !
ever, by a-short' reservation to the
plan expressed by a government
advisor.. He. pointed out that’ mem-
bers of the Embassy staffs and
their families were, in fact, “hos-
tages;” yet, this certainly does not -
take the tension out ofthe Cold
War. Brought back to earth by this
comment, I was. forced, to concede
that it may take more than a cle-
ver idea from an advertising copy-
writer to stop, two conflicting. world
powers from their course of oppo-
sition. At best, it . will probably. :
take the experience of several
‘penerations: “Other: doubts came to

rmy mind—the questionable, moral-

ity ‘of holding any type of "hostages”

in peacetime and—more important—
the possibility that the government
officials might indulge in spyng.
Still—it’s ‘ good to know ,Somgone _-
is thinking, that someone ts alarm-

_|ed enough at. the possibility of des: -
tructionto..devote..the same. atten nc ccd

tion to it that is devoted to hun-

the, United States. :

If you. have -any ‘schemes for |
peace — hairbrained or otherwise —
you can’ write- to Mr.» James at
“Peace Hostages, P.O. Box 2737; - -
Grand (Central Station, New York, .



N. Y.” He’s interested.

Sg GROT EL NAAT PRE OS aT

The hostages would include rela-——- |

the possibility of annihilation by i

oo

“Hdreds of advertising campaigns, jn