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7 The Sydney Morning Herald, Sat, July 15, t972 7 9 amors )mat rat jaeip By JENNY EARNS THE WORD from David Ahern is that people who come to his weekend of new Australian music can listen iv, i CHINA SEEN AS UNWAVERING BACKER OF Victor Zorza, the Washington-based international news analyst, asserted in his column on this page yesterday that China was pressing Hanoi to end the Vietnam war. He said that Peking, along with Moscow, had made it clear to Hanoi that, unless it accepted peace terms recommended by China and Russia, North Vietnam would be left on its own to fight the war, Today, a different view from Peking by HARRISON SALISBURY, of "The New York Times." fi -m ffj '-w' 1 Attack on the conventonaf: at rehearsal for "Numbers" (I to f) Geoffrey Collins, Roger Frampton and director David Ahern, with violin, transistor, saxophone, piano, flute and typewriter. national disputes by peaceful means. Within this context, China is prepared to explore with the US a solution of the difficult questions between them. This attitude underlay the agreement to receive President Nixon in Peking.

However, Peking does not foresee the possibility of any general change in governmental relations between the US and China so long as the Vietnam war continues and so long as tensions in East Asia persist and US forces remain on Taiwan. Even though no change is to be expected on a governmental level, China does anticipate an increase and broadening of peopie-to-people contacts. This does not mean that there will not be continuing contacts on a diplomatic level in Paris and also presumably periodic visits of the Kissinger type to Peking. These, however, will be more of an informational than of a diplomatic nature. An onslaught of the new music without fear of assaulted.

being "People are generally afraid of modern music because they are having a new experience," he said this week. Having a new experience, Ahern-and-friends style, can mean listening to 24 hours of non-stop music, or experiencing the different pitches emitted from a vacuum cleaner with a balloon attached to its hose. The new experiences have caused walkouts from his concerts or wild applause. They have also caused an angry assistant director from the Conservatorium to leap on the stage and lock up the grand piano to protect it from the pots, pans and pillows put inside it to give various effects. The coming onslaught on the conventional mind by Mr Ahern's AZ Music group is even more ambitious.

Beginning on Thursday night at the St. James Playhouse with new works by five Australian com- posers, it progresses to lectures on Saturday and Sunday at the Conservatorium and another concert on Saturday night at the Cellblock Theatre. The program is extensive, and even its director is not quite sure what every number -entails. David Ahern's Kings Cross flat is the centre of operations for the music weekend, and the telephone never stops ringing. Plagued by lack of money, as are most Australian arts, AZ Music is run from among this maze of wall posters, records, books and empty coffee cans.

The 24-year-old director, composer and critic hardly finds room to sit down. He is not familiar with some of the American num- bers to be inserted on the Saturday night, and what is going to happen is still a mystery. One of these is called "Mo-riscat(h)y," by the American Kathy Berberian, which calls for the pianist to squash an imaginary mosquito during the performance. Her other number, "Strip City," blurps, bashes, pings, ughs and whams its way through a vocal comic strip of exclamations and encounters which reads like a page out of Batman. Another example of the amalgamation of vision and sound in this music theatre will be a trombone special by the American Robert Moran.

"This piece features a trom- Anyone for chess? 1 -fnnium Electronic flash images which create the musical score for "Boit." 1 between the pictures should prove interesting! "Boit," translated by Gregory Scheimer to be the sound of water dropping into a bucket of water, calls on The Sunday Ensemble to react to an electronic flash similar to a camera flash. The voices will give short, long, high or low "boits" in' response to the size and colour of the flash in a darkened theatre. Rounding off the program of the Australian evening is a didgeridoo improvisation by a Northern Territory Aboriginal, David Blanasi. Faced with this program, the newcomer to new music could well ask why. "Why do anything?" answers David Ahern.

"Why not sit and contemplate your navel? We are musicians and this is what interests me making music that is relevant to our times. I think some of the music is genuinely revolutionary." Revolutionary; perhaps, but he does not think that this music is a look into the future. "Ultimately music will be totally electronic and piped into the home through television sets," he says. "Once they used to say that everything man could conceive would end up in a book. I think in our society everything will eventually end up on television.

"We are now in a transitional stage between live activity in 'concert halls and what is happening in the home. Music will be written for television, not stage." Is this a forewarning of The Last Concert Hall? furnished XT1! SUPPORT of North Vietnam is a cardinal principle of Chinese policy and will continue as long as the war goes on, and "the United States should have no illusions on this score. This assessment of Peking's policy was made repeatedly to me in many hours of discussions of China's international views by important Chinese officials, including the Prime Minister, Mr Chou En-lai. These are not the specific words of any one official but represent a clear synthesis of their views. On an overall basis the Chinese feel their course in world affairs is now clearly charted.

It is based on a conviction that while the danger of world war or superpower war still exists, it is possible to follow an independent course, opposed in general to both the US and the Soviet Union, strongly supporting non-aligned countries but equally strongly supporting the principle of settlement of inter LESSON CHESS IS easy! That is the view of Cecil Purdy and Gregory Koshnitsky, two Australians with a world reputation as chess players and teachers. What they mean is that you can easily learn to play the game well enough to enjoy it. Chess as a pastime, they say, gives lasting pleasure because of its unending variety; you never tire of it. But it can be more than a pastime. Chess helps to mould character.

It teaches equanimity in good or ill fortune despite the example of Bobby Fischer! Purdy and Koshnitsky dispel some of the well-worn myths about chess. A slow game? Nonsense average is a minute a move; and it can be thrilling to play. You have to be the "chess Nonsense again chess appeals to widely diverse minds. Cecil Purdy holds the rank of international master. He is a former world champion of correspondence chess and former champion of Australia and N.Z.

Koshnitsky is a world chess administrator and a former champion of Australia. The "Hera'd" series is based on their joint work, "Chess made easy." Here, then, is the world's most popular game. Object of the game As in ancient warfare, the Kings take part, and the object of the game is the "checkmate" of the enemy King. Capturing other pieces is usually a means to this end, but you sometimes win by sacrificing them! The King is exempt from the indignity of capture. The game ends on the previous move, that is, when the King's capture is inevitable.

Then it is "mate" (Persian death) or "checkmate" King's death). More on this later. The board consists of 64 squares. These are called "black" and but may be of any two colours. Always place the board so that each player's right-hand corner square is white, that is, the Jighter colour.

The'rows of squares are called Cross-lines are ertical lines are ham's "Numbers" for any number of instruments. Unlike most Australian music- premieres, Thursday's will be characterised by an absence of glitter and a lot of come-as-you-are. David Ahern says: "I am not interested in flashy concerts." He is also not interested in what he terms "safe modernity." Irving's "How to Play the Piano" is not as conventional as it seems. The score in front of the pianist consists of a series of pictures of finger positions on the keyboard, and the photographs have been "treated" so that the pianist reacts to each of them. Whatever the treatment is VIETNAM ating from Washington often with quasi-official support that seek to portray China as a possible "middleman" on Vietnam.

That is a matter the Chinese believe must and should be settled by the Americans and Vietnamese directly and, of course in their opinion, the sooner the better. The Chinese have given aid to Hanoi to the best of their ability in the past, they are continuing, this aid and will go on continuing it. If the US bombing and blockade increase Hanoi's needs, then China, ex-pectedly, will do its best to increase its help proportionately. This is seen here as the Gibraltar of China's policy and it is worth stressing repeatedly, since the 'suggestion so often emerges and re-emerges in Washington that by some magic means Henry A. Kissinger, Nixon's security adviser, is going to be able to change Peking's mind.

At the same time it is equally clear that China is not going to permit the Vietnam question to change the new thaw in US-China relations which emerged from the Nixon visit. The decision on Nixon took fully into account the fact that the Vietnam war was still on and might go on for an indefinite period. "New York Times" News Service through AAP ft is ft learners. In ancient times, a Pawn moved only one square always. The option of moving it two squares forward on its first move was introduced seven centuries ago to speed up the open- Now look at diagram (a).

The White Pawn has not yet moved, and therefore has the option of moving either one or two squares. If it moves one square, obviously the Black Pawn can capture it. But the "new" rule (about AD 1250), allowing it to move two squares, enabled it to evade capture see diagram (b). In this way it was found possible for the defending player to block up the board with Pawns, facilitating a draw and making a game tedious. To prevent this, the French chess authorities of the fifteenth century invented a very valuable rule.

They permitted the opponent in such a position to capture the White Pawn just as though it had moved only one square. The resultine position is shown in diagram (c). This is called taking "en passant" (in It is not compulsory, but if Black wishes to do it he must do it on the reply-move. He cannot make another move and take the Pawn later on. Only a Pawn can take in pass-ine, and only a Pawn can be taken.

(heck and male When a unit moves to a square from which it threatens to capture the enemy King, that unit is said to give check, and the King is "in check." You are not permitted to commit suicide in chess: the King must get out of check. It is customary for the checking player to announce "Check!" but if he omits to do so, the check is "on" just the same, and the opponent must get out of There are three possible ways of getting out of check: (1) Capturing the checking unit; (2) Moving the King to a square Where is no longer in check; (3) Interposing something between the King and the checking piece, Note: The third way is not available against a Knight. At this stage you know most but not all. of the moves enough to plav a crude kind of game. On Monday Purdy and Koshnitsky will tell you what happens to a pawn when it has marched to the opposite edge of the board (it doesn't just fall off); how to castle; more about check and mate.

CHESS SETS ChssJ et ere s-'silebls frorn most qamn stockirts. Socialists include Chs World, 449a Pitt St, SyJr.e: Typical prices: small set for Jl; Willie seti about $4 to a.iy figure; boarji extra. ONE The Pieces F.ach player has eight Pieces, which start on the back rank, posted behind the eight Pawns see main diagram. Each player has two Rooks (in the corners), two Knights (next to the Rooks), two Bishops (next to the Knights), and in the centre the King and Queen. Note that the Queen always starts od a square of ber own colour.

How the Pieces move The players move alternately, one unit at a time. White moves first. The first thing to know about the moves is that no unit, with the single exception of the Knight, can jump over another unit, either friend or The Rook moves forwards, backwards, or sideways, in one straight line that is, along rank or file, and as many squares as it likes provided nothing is in its way. The Bishop moves only along a diagonal, forwards or backwards, and as many squares as it likes, provided nothing is in its way. The Queen combines the powers of Rook and Bishop, that is, moves straight ahead, straight bark, sideways, or along a diagonal, and as many squares as it likes provided nothing is in the wav.

The King moves in any direction, like the Queen, but only one square. a I hah tS hVb Vl bmb Mr Chou tn-lai bitter memories of Geneva in 7954. Chinese officials have repeatedly warned against rumours and speculation suggesting that the US might in some fashion enlist their aid for settlement of the Vietnam war. What Chou regards as the bitter experience of the 1954 Geneva coi.ference precludes such action, plus the fact that China regards the cause of the Vietcong and North Vietnamese as just and support of it fundamental to its position of supporting liberation efforts. Therefore, injunction is made again and again by the Chinese not to place faith in hints, suggestions, rumours, implications and reports eman ft Thus the King can move to any square marked in the diagram.

There will be more about the King later. The Knight (symbolising cavalry) does not move in a but jumps, always the same distance (two squares) and always to a square of the opposite colour to the square it leaves. In the diagram the eight squares available to the central Knight are indicated. From a a Knight commands only two squares. How the Pieces capture A Piece can capture an enemv unit standing on any -square to which the Piece could move.

It captures by placing itself in the square occupied by the enemy unit; the captured unit is removed from Jhe board. Capture is not compulsory as in draughts. 1 i- i In the diagram above the Queen can capture any of the five Pawns, but not the Pieces standing beyond them, as this would involve jumping over the Pawns. In this diagram the Knight can take any Pawn; the Pieces in between make no difference, as the Knight's move is a jump. The Pawn's move We have seen that the Pieces move in all directions.

Pawns move only straight ahead, and one square at a time, except that on its first move each Pawn has the option of moving either one or two squares. Another difference is that the Pawn does not capture with its ordinary move. It captures diagonally forward. Thus in the diagram the white Pawn cannot take the unit immediately in front of it, but can take either of the other units. Note that in a diagram the White Pawns are always moving upward, Black Pawns downward.

The capture in passing The capture "en passant" (in passing) is a stumbling-block to nmmmm IBTlNBrH HBT Mill I mmm um bonist in a sack," said David Ahern. "Presumably at the beginning of the thing he is stuck in a bag and as he plays his trombone the slide's movements become visible and the sack starts to come alive." Thursday night's program will create the greatest interest. Five of the "emergent generation" of new music composers, as they are billed, will premiere their works. These are Robert Allworth's "A Different Time, A Different Place" for violin and piano; Peter Kenney's "For Three Electric Robert Irving's "How to Play the Gregory Scheimer's "Boit" for electronic flash and voices; and Barry Conyng- THE PLACE: THE ADDRESS: THE BUILDING: THE FEATURES: THE VIEWS: INVITATION: President Towers, a building of 1 8 luxurious apartments. 75-79 Darling Point Road.

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