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aspiring Examples In Era Of Campus Unrest And CMU Musicians Rate Cheers ammies Too many students these days prefer to act like Attila the Hun rather than read about him. With only slight encouragement from a bearded bully these yy-- 1 yp inrf students burn, riot, loot and destroy. Music 2 KELLY LEE CASS 4 portant transitional works of our time. For it completely breaks away from wild post-Webern writing. Mr.

Sciionberg notes it "tries to take music out of abstractionism and into something that has a direct contact with life and reality." Isn't Penderecki's philosophical journey akin to the wisdom we find in CMU and Tammic students? These students have not turned their backs on the well-springs of the past. They have found an abundance of inspiration and beauty in history. They have made this knowledge relevant to the And these students, as Mr. Penderecki does now, have kept a direct contact with life and reality. Sidney Harth, head of CMU music, will conduct the Penderecki work.

Soloists will be Robert Calvert and Chung-Jong Yang, both CMU students; and Miriam Kelly, Pittsburgh Lee Cass, of the CMU faculty, will be the Evangelist in the Passion. Donald Wilkins prepared the Oratorio. Paul Koch prepared the boy's choir from the Cathedral. to belong to a church to compose religious music. The only condition is that one is willing to confess one religious convictions." Mr.

Penderecki has done more than confess his religious convictions. He conveys a religious and musical message which has an immediacy and vitality which applies to modern man. In doing so he acknowledges his musical and philosophical debt to the past and the present. That music by this composer should have roots in the past comes as a surprise. His musical tribute "To the Victims of Hiroshima" was a shocker, filled with agonizing, aggressive modernism.

In listening to his recording of the Passion, the style, on the surface, sounds modern. But compared to much of today's way-out modern music the work is conservative. The roots of this Passion are strongly in the past, recalling Bach and Gregorian chant. There is even an Evangelist, in the Bach manner. Music critic Harold Schonberg who reviewed the work at its New York premiere recently, raised the interesting point that Penderecki's Passion may be one of the most im MIRIAM CHUNG-JONG YANG America for the State Department.

They have toured Europe twice on their own. They present 100 programs from coast-to-coast during vacation periods and on week ends. All of this has brought very practical results. The Tammies bought their own building, a split-level bus, expensive costumes and annually provide scholarships for 30 students. Now there is new cause to rejoice that the Tammies live in our midst.

They will tour Russia for the State Department this spring. And this past week the Tammies again showed the kind of spirit that cheers adults. In the ranks of the performing arts, jealousy of other groups often raises its ugly head. But not the Tammies. They have graciously sponsored the appearance of the Brigham Young University dancers here on April 9.

At CMU, the music department deserves tribute for undertaking the massive work, "Passion and Death of Our Lord Jesus Christ According to St. Luke," by Poland's Krzysztof This vandal- Ism has explod- ed in every cor- ner of our land, One wonders when and where it will all end. One searches for signs of san- ity in student ranks. 5 In Pittsburgh, one need search no further than Duquesne and 1 Carnegie-Mel- fy Ion universities. On the Bluff.

I By Carl Apone sary of Germany's Munster Cathedral, the work spread throughout Europe. Today it stands as one of the most important sacred works of our time. That such an important sacred work should originate in a Communist country has stirred interest. After all, communism is not normally hospitable to religion. When asked to explain this seeming contradiction, Mr.

Penderecki made this observation at a press conference: "I am a Roman Catholic. In my opinion, however, one does not have PenderecJci. This huge project also involves the Carnegie-Mellon College Community Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Oratorio Society, St. Paul's Cathedral Boy's Choir. The programs, both at 8:30 p.

and both free, will be presented on Saturday at Carnegie Music Hall, Oakland, and at the Calvary Episcopal Church, East End, on April 1. Both composer Penderecki and his composition are unusual. First performed in 1965 to mark the 700th anniver- the Tamburit- zans continue to be an inspiration. In their 32-year history their accomplishments seem as tall as the Gulf Building. They have toured Europe and South Pg.

14 See. 5 The Pittsburgh Titles For Bookshelf Escape Books Spotlight Hollywood And Houdini Vidal Springs Critical Essays It's spring. And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. Also the voices of a torrent of writers being published this week. Gore Vidal, of the acid tongue, has some comments on the state of our society.

The fiction list is led off by anotheh well-known name, novelist Martha Gelhorn who MCAP rOH a AivAiizcs ANO SfCURfD TTfcC yimK ail nr mm Gargan Tells Of His Battle With Cancer CONFESSIONS OF A 'HOLLYWOOD COLUMNIST, by Sheilah Graham, Morrow, 5.95. WHY ME, by William Gargan. Doubleday and $5.95. HOUDINI, by Milbourne Christopher. Crowell, By PETER GREGG Two books about the movies and one on legerdemain will reach the stands this month.

Two are bio-g a hical, and one autobiographical. For the most part these can be called non-books as books go. But here they are nevertheless. Miss Graham The first is Sheilah Gra- ham's "Confessions of a Hollywood Columnist." In it she eviscerates every film star who crosses her threshhold, from Sinatra to Streisand. If you like to read about the sordid side of our flick stars then get Graham's book and you'll see that many of the big llollywood purveyors of culture aren't exactly our best agents from heaven.

In fact, according to Sheilah Graham, most of them have the tusk of a rhinoceros, to ward off insecruity, we're told. Number two book from "show biz" is "Why by William Gargan. You might go for this one. It is, in many parts, a touching Irish actor's tale in and out of show business. But the i W4h i ft." I A' HARKNESS DANCERS Two dancers of the Harkness Ballet, Helgi Tomasson and Elisabeth Carroll, will be seen here in the Sylvia Pas De Deux, when the New York company appears at the Syria Mosque on Thursday.

The program is sponsored by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Tomasson is a native of Denmark. Miss Carroll was born in Paris and studied abroad before joining the American Ballet Theater, Joffrey Ballet, and then Harkness. Salted With Initials Viet War Fiction Whale Of A Story THE LION HEART, by Alan Clark.

Morrow, $5.95. By HENRY DAUBNER Vietnam, that bedraggled piece of real estate that has become bloodstained and bomb-cratered, is the scene of Alan Clark's incisive look into the inhumanities of war. But, it could have been anywhere depending on what once was married to Ernest Hemingway. NON-FICTION Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship, Gore Vi- dal, Little, Brown $5.95. A collection of essays previously printed in periodicals on the varied subjects which interest Books By Svlvia Sacht facile mind of novelist, playwright and conversationalist Gore Vidal.

His acid tone cannot hide a deep concern for the future of our society. My Father and Myself, J. R. Ackerley, Coward-McCann, $5. The author and his father had a pleasant, superficial relationship, but after dear old Dad passed away, Mr.

Acker-ley discovered that besides his mother and her three children, his father had another mistress and three secret This Week In Music Today Mt. Lebanon United Methodist Church, "Seven Last Words," W. Wagner directing, 5 p. m. Robert Lord, organist, Friclt Fine Arts Building, 3 p.

m. Duquesne U. faculty recital, Louis Pollak, piano, recital hall, 8:30 p. m. Third Presbyterian Church, 5th and Neqley Poulenc's "Seven Responses for Tenebrae," John Live- ly directing, 8:15 p.

m. Marvin Tartalc, piano, Frick Fine Arts Building, 8:30 p. m. Tuesday Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, choir and mixed chorus, Howard Ralston, director, chapel, 8:15 p. m.

Wednesday Fine Arts Quartet, Pitt Union Ballroom, 8 p. m. Alice Condodina and Dance International Poetry Forum, Carnegie Mir.ic Hall, 8:30 p. m. P.anist Detlef Kraus, piano, 8:40 p.

m. Thursday Harkness Ballet, Syria Mosque, 8:30 p. Friday University of Pittsburgh concert band. Robert Arthur, di. reefing, Music Hall, 8:15 p.

m. Fe'rsnte and Te'cher, duo-pianists, International Theater, Syria 8:30 p. Saturday "The Fusion According to St. Lute," Penderecki, with Carneg'e Mellon College Community orc'-eitra, choruses and soloists Sidney Harth, directing, Carnegie Music Hall, 8:30 p. m.

daughters. Mr. A. thought Dad was quite a boy 'after all. Why hadn't they had a more meaningful relationship? Oh, if only he had known Dad better.

Was it too much to hope that Dad, too, had been a homosexual? Spies, by Jack D. Hunter, Dutton, $5.50. Industrial espionage is almost as intriguing as the James Bond variety. This recounting is pleasant reading, if a bit thin. FICTION The Lowest Trees Have Tops, Martha Gelhorn, Dodd, Mead, $4.95.

San Ignacio del Tule is the Mexican village Martha Gelhorn is writing about. There lives a conglomeration of residents who are self-appointed private detectives observing the comings and goings of their tightly knit community. Mostly humorous, but largely biographical, the story can be equated with a series of vignettes loosely bound together by the commentary of Susanna, one of the residents. Entertaining, but not thought-provoking. "I Said the Demon," George Baxt, Random House, $4.50.

A 1 1 written, humorous book about a school teacher who writes books, and a detective who looks for missing persons and writes. A gently kookie book of mystery and romance. The Golden Wind, L. Sprague deCamp, Doubleday, $5.95. An historical adventure story of the days of ancient Greece.

Shipping and trading js tne background for this Der- sonal tale of the trials of Eudoxos of Kyzikos. Written as if the author had witnessed it all. The Girl in the Head, J. G. Farrell, Harper, $5.95.

Boris Slattery is aging, cynical, sad and turbulent. He is alienated from his wife, depressed by family and surroundings in an English seaside resort. Everything changes with the arrival of a young Swedish beauty named Inez. Contract Surgeon, Robert T. Crowley, Doubleday, $5.95.

A novel about the practice of medicine in a remote Appalachian hamlet through the eyes of the new hospital's chief of surgery. The author, a surgeon himself, doesn't forget the human relations needed to make his story warm. HOUDINI'S DEATH-DEFYINC ESCAPE from a padlocked, water-filled can drew thousands to his traveling vaudeville act. This theater poster, one of the 55 illustrations in "Houdini: The Untold Story," by Mil-bourne Christoper, Thomas Y. Crowell, is art of the author's collection of Houdini memorabilia, the largest private collection in the world.

Spy Tale Atomic Thriller ONE MINUTE TO ETERNITY, by Robert Weverka. Morrow, $5.50. By ROY E. KOHLER Robert Weverka has a pleasant formula for spinning a spy thriller that offers better-than-average light reading. There's hardly a moment that protagonist Philip Marin, a Pentagon agent, isn't dodging bullets, knives and other more frightening weapons.

The title's significance is that Red Chinese-Cuban conspirators have smuggled atomic weapons into the country. Marin stumbles onto the plot when recuperating from wounds received on another assignment. There has to be some inevitable comparisons with the James Bond novels. Mr. Marin is beset with nearly insurmountable problems.

Some of them are pretty women. And some of the beautiful girls meet their demise because of their attraction to the special agent. In fact, the novel begins with a bang actually an explosion rigged to occur when his girl friend dials room service for a bottle of champagne. Another beauty saves Marin only to be executed by Red Chinese officers. There is a good characterization of the master villain, Col.

Sabutai Khan. He is the culprit who plans annihilation of the U.S. and he's just about as fiendish as any you've met since Dr. Fu Manchu. In fact, the fast-moving tale has some aspects of the old Sax Rohmer thrillers as well as the "mod" violence of James Bond.

It's the kind of a novel you may not want to put down and something you might enjoy to vary any diet of heavy literature your conscience or your advisors may have prescribed. Theology Essays Topica BORDERLANDS OF THEOLOGY, by Donald M. MacKinnon. Lippincott, $5.95. By REV.

THOMAS J. HARVEY "Borderlands of Theology" by Professor Donald Mac Kinnon has been published at a time when almost everything in the area of Christian theology can be said to be on the The combined force of modern science, existentialism of Sartre and secularism has had such an impact on modern thinking that any theology written today must be articulated in relationship to these rather than to the traditional Christian formulae. In this sense, Professor MacKinnon's work may be described as on the border, but lacks the shocking radicalism that its title might lead one to expect. "Borderlands of Theology" is an anthology of essays written by the author over 20 years. The book is topical in seeking to give insights into the philosophy of the modern Christian religion and the ethical and political questions so vital to the continued existence of man in the nuclear and space age.

Because of the heaviness of philosophical language, "Borderlands Theology" would demand slow and painful reading for the layman. Nevertheless, those who make the challenge will not find their efforts unrewarded. Press, Sunday, March 23, 1969 believe, but Clark's illuminating glance on war is enough to bring back to many a dogface the hellish memories of the beastialities of war. The only pitfall I guess Vietnam it would be called a booby trap into which Clark falls is his use of initials. In his admittedly highly-successful attempt to bring to fiction the ring of pure truth, Clark has gone the way of the Pentagon and salted the book liberally with initials from VC to OP-which jolt the unwary reader from his track.

Once you get the hang of this thought-and catalog what each set of letters stands for you're in for a whale of a story. symphony in the initial release of Eugene Ormand and the Philadelphia Orchestra for RCA Victor. Victor complies, with the Sixth, or "Pathetique," (LSC-3058). It is a typical Ormandy-and-the-Philadclphia effort, big, vibrant, vital and moving. There even could be a flap about this one.

The recording was made in the Academy of Music, the home of the Philadelphia Orchestra, which has what Victor terms "an unae-sirablo reverberation time of 1.4 seconds." RCA engineers "rc-inforccd" the reverberation time, bringing it up to a desirable 2.2 seconds. Purists may start complaining right now, and audiophiles may listen in awe. It makes for gutsy Tchia- kovsky, Suez Canal Dream won can nuto wmi watch IV MASSJVC LOCKS. as' i kin "Houdini, The Untold Story" is the third show biz book. It's by Milbourne Christopher, a magician himself.

If you like a good escape artist story than read Mr. Christopher's book on Houdini. Is Realized Many men of vision had dreamed of joining the two seas but they were frustrated by the awesome magnitude of the undertaking. Yet the dream persisted and so did the men. They were men of ision, purpose and dramatic personalities.

They were themselves to become legends in the shadows of the ships passing through the canal. The ultimate success of the Suez Canal must rest forever with De Lesseps. He was a human dynamo who, through sheer force of personality, was able to accomplish within his lifetime what no other man before him had done bridge the past with the future. "Devastatingly informed" ROSCOE DRl'MMOND "A Bympnthctle but searching V. Shannon of The New York Timet At all booklorc $6.95 W.

W. NORTON CO. Tifih AvenueN.Y., N.Y, 10001 Mr f0m jgf BETWEEN TWO SEAS, by Lord Kinross. Morrow, $6.95. By DANIEL J.

HUGHES "Between Two Seas" presents the reader with a moving account of man's attempt to change the environment in which he has stagnated for millenniums. The construction of the Suez Canal joined the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea in a dramatic first effort to join physically the East with the West. Before the venture was to be completed, major obstacles in politics, economics and social change had to be overcome. Seldom in the history of man best in it is his story and battle with cancer and the magnificent contribution made and continues to make to help other larynegectomees manufacture new voices for themselves. has there been so successful an effort that involved the staggering technical problems and diverse political and social attitudes as those confronting Ferdinand de Lesseps in the construction of the Suez Canal.

Lord Kinross has written a number of books dealing with the Middle East and his intimate understanding of this part of the world has greatly enhanced his account of the construction of the Suez Canal which celebrates 100 years of existence in 1969. The author has brought considerable writing talent and an expert eye for descriptive detail in his account. individual, and gives the reader a better view of the man and the reason for his vote. How the vote goes is both revealing and somewhat unorthodox. So is the author, who docs not identify by name the family.

Since he is Australian, the reader assumes the events take place in Australia, also unidentified. li Whafs New In Classical Musk 'Short Symphony Comes Alive year the calendar proclaims at the time. It could have been Germany, 1915; Korea, 1952; France, 1917. Instead, it's 1966 and Southeast Asia that Clark's searching pen examines and the young British historian scores what undoubtedly will be one of the better novels to come out of that ravaged and divided nation. His story revolves around Jack Lane, a 35-year-old civilian dropout who enters the Army beneath a blanket of fuzzy patriotism and idealism.

His life as a lieutenant he's later promoted to captain-may be just a little too enlisted-mannish for most men to brood and boil, but while it has been more popular than the "Short Symphony," the latter is much more interesting, at least at the hands of the composer. Staying modern, Pierre Bou-lcz produces some fascinating Berg 1 Conducts Columbia, (MS-7179). Works Include the Chamber Concerto, Three Pieces for Orchestra and "Altcnbcrg" Licd-er, Halina Lukomska, soprano. They're all modern and not for the casual listener, but Boulez and Columbia's engineers have teamed up to produce some fine sonics, and Miss Lukomska's performance sparkles. Tchoifcoviy Symphony Tchaikovsky fans quite naturally xpectcd a Tchaikovsky 'Dynasty' Depicts Family Struggle DYNASTY, by Tony Morphett.

David McKay $6.50. By SAM SPATTER Tony Morphett's first book to be published in the U. S. is "Dynasty." He selected the right one. For this Australian writer has taken a single incident and around it woven a fast- Copland By WILLIAM ALLAN Aaron Copland's fine little "Short Symphony" comes alive with a new Columbia recording "Copland Conducts Copland," (MS-7223).

Composers are not always the best interpreters of their own works. Ernest Ansermct conducts Stravinsky better than Stravinsky himself, Copland gives the Short Symphony and its irregular rhythms its premiere recording, and while there is no other with which to compare, the little symphony comes off as a fascinating musical work. Ranly Played Work In the jacket notes the composer recalls how the work has rarely been played. It was first conducted In 1934 by Carlos Chavcz-and proved so difficult that a pair of giants-Leopold Stokowski and Serge Koussevitzky cancelled, planned performances. Since, it has been heard rarely.

Thus, the recording is a major milestone. Conductors will follow Copland's directing and probably improve upon it in due time. The composer says he is pleased with the recording. It is performed by the London Symphony and he says, "This orchestra seems to have a special affinity for my music." Good Communication It is obvious that conductor and orchestra were in good communication, for the performance is an integrated one. On the same disc is another short Copland work, the "Dance Symphony." The music comes from a Copland ballet, "Grohg," which is heard now as a sym-pfymy.

Its polytonal harmonics moving and powerful story of a tamiiy trapped in us own struggle for power. The story concerns seven men four from one family and how they built a newspaper into a news media enterprise which includes radio and television stations. For the focal point of his novel, Mr. Morphett focuses on a meeting of the seven being held to determine the role of the 68-year-old father. It seems the eldest son, now In his 40s, has waited long enough to assume control of the newspaper.

As each of the seven Is called on to vote, the author sweeps into the of the ROTO- PAGI 32.