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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1985- -THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR- PACE 29 Zealous concert has small audience Free umiTD AvmiflBiiiTv ijv fippoinTmEm oniv We'll cut your hair just the way you want it, any style, long or short, for men and women. Just call our training center for an appointment. INDIANAPOLISCASTLETON 845-4079 upcrcutr Shampoo home day of cut Minimum age 10 years. 1979 (Rev EMHA Corporation OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO restlessness. The finale, a scherzo, is a fleeting disposition that falls frequently into contemplation, and while it solves the symphonic challenge, it might have as easily and enjoyably incorporated a concerto grosso approach for the diversity it seems to lack in its heavy orchestral concepts.

Festival officials appear to be helpless to find an audience for this stimulating annual which in 19 years has brought most of the trend-setting U.S. composers onto this little western Indiana campus. And observers are beginning to wonder if the claim as a unique American forum for new music is boxing them into total isolation. How unfashionable dare a university be with only limited funds (about $30,000) and no visible public? Indeed, a virtually empty concert hall illuminated by the white-tie elegance of a symphony orchestra does appear to be a deserted luxury liner adrift at sea. Yet the ISO and maestro Curry, for the first time in the festival's history, will perform some of the new scores at 7:30 p.m.

Sunday in the Circle Theatre. project with the symphony. The works on Thursday's "program reflected a generally conservative attitude, nothing startlingly new. An overall view of these composers, mostly in their 30s, shows a uniform skill in handling orchestral effects and translating dark poetic passages into the big, expansive orchestral idiom of the neo-Romantics. The music was orchestrally voluptuous, aggressively rhythmic, routinely dissonant, conventionally formal and, in mood if not in texture, lugubrious.

Aside from the missing ingre-diant of joyfulness, these are qualities almost inherent in the festival's requisites for conventional orchestral scores with no fancy, expensive gimmicks or additional artistic forces. But such is the misplaced ill-repute of contemporary music hereabouts that only about 100 persons showed up to hear Thursday's concert, which could not have supplied these works a more impressive showcase under the tenacious zeal of conductor William Henry Curry. The literary device formed the genesis of much of this music. Underwood's thematic work, Jo- By THOMAS QOLDTHWAITE STAR STAFF WRITER Terre Haute, Ind. There were no world premieres of new 'music for this year's Contemporary Music Festival in Terre which concluded Thursday tiight, but in the daily rehearsals ind performances five guest com-posers saw their works performed jjy the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.

The public's interest, however, diminished dramatically in the four-day festival from a sold-out house of 1,700 in Tilson Music Hall Monday to barely more than 100 for Thursday evening's gala concert. The composers on campus at Indiana State University were Joseph Schwantner, the' 1979 Pulitzer Prize recipient who was the special guest; James Underwood, an Indiana University Music School graduate, Juilliard violinist-composer Thomas Ludwig and Tyler G. White, a composition gra-dute student at Cornell University. In addition, this year's festival included Eastman School of Music "professor Christopher Rouse, who has just assumed a year's residence in Indianapolis as an Exxon-sponsored Meet the Composer kyokua, Japanese generic term for an orchestral piece, is partly built on the old four-tone pattern of ACH (B flat. and natural) and a contrasting idea to which are attached several coda.

Tyler White's three-part essay, Triptych (1984) is derived from quotations by Pascal comforted, you must expect and employs various 17th-century musical devices. Schwantner's From a Dark Millennium is based on some of the composer's verse on primordial musings. It employs a partial orchestra of three sections, winds, percussion and piano, with some vocal chanting and even whistling, subsiding into a very tonal Minor dirge at the conclusion. Thomas Ludwig's Symphony No. 1 found its origins in an earlier elegy he wrote on the death of a friend in Cambodia.

According to the composer, it was seven years in the writing. The work, in three movements, is of Shostakovich dimensions and similar in form, showing a great dex- terity in scoring and solo instrumental coloring. It has a finely crafted Adagio, dark in hue and surging in lyrical FALL SPECIALS I FAMILY SPECIAL 10 GAMES ANYONE IN YOUR FAMILY OR GROUP MAY USE ONLY $10.00 0 0 0 0 1 I I I I I I 7437 COUPON ONE FREE GAME I a WITH ONE PAID GAME OR PLAY 3 GAMES FOR $3.75 PER PERSON COUPON EXP, 103185 CAST ACROSS FROM WASH. SO. 899-4536 luurun (Ar.

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