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OBSERVER REVIEW ARTS SUNDAY 5 IAIIMW A surfeit of Solo-mio STEPHEN WALSH at the La Rochelle festival of contemporary music. PHILIP FRENCH on 30 Arthiiriana records in this respect, with the Dutch bass-clarinettist Harry Spamaay and the Italian flautist Roberto Fabricciani darting from concert to concert with unstinting zest and good humour. At one morning concert in the Hotel de Ville Fabricciani stood, flute poised, for three quarters of an hour, while the composer Claudy Malhcrbc solemnly discoursed about a five-minute flute piece of epoch-making insignificance, which he, Fabricciani, had rashly agreed to perform at the end. A concert later the same day consisted of three works for solo piccolo, one for flute, two for bass-clarinet, and one for solo soprano using' Sprcch-gesang. The best motive behind all this solipsistic activity is the composer's obsession with raw materials and the minutiae of technique and procedure (it would be invidious to discuss the possible other motives, which are anyway pretty obvious).

In any case the music rarely considers the listener as a sentient being at best he is treated like a fellow researcher into the nature of raw materials, techniques and 4 The result is when a composer does come along whose interest in solo writing centres on the larger issues of expression, or virtuosity as an element of design, his music COMPARED with its entirely rebuilt modern neighbour Royan, some miles down the French Atlantic coast, La Rochelle is a soothing and uninsistcm setting for a new music festival of that peculiarly intense kind which' the French favour. In its day (now unla-mentably over) the Royan Festival pursued modernity with a terrifying, humorless earnestness. La Rochelle is different. Here the ideological fervour of visitors from IRCAM and Do-naueschingen is calmly smoothed over by the friendly and dignified antiquity of one of France's most beautiful medieval ports. Admittedly La Rochelle hasn't continued the most humane and visionary of all Royan's innovations the handing-out of free meal -vouchers to music critics.

But then the festival has been going through a severe financial crisis and has had to exercise economies on even more important issues than the embonpoint of us long suffering hacks. Modern music festivals, have always, for instance, been enthusiastic about music for solo flute or clarinet, allegedly on aesthetic and technical grounds, though obviously in reality because it doesn't cost much to put on. But the 198) La Rochelle festival has broken all Williamson as Merlin. stress the Cold War angle, and play tip the American Way of Life, represented by baseball and (the modern child's equivalent of Mom's apple pie) the Big Mac. Homicidal sex-maniac movies and horror flicks about the mass murder of teenagers now appear weekly, this week's being respectively Ken Weiderhorn's Eyes of a Stranger (Warner, West End, X) and J.

Lee Thompson's Happy Birthday to Me (General Release, X). A moratorium, or if necessary a crematorium, should be declared on such celluloid offal. Corps doctor dispensing con-traceptives in the Third World, but a reactionary comedy about a bumptious American strip-cartoonist (Michael Crawford) escorting a beautiful Russian defector to safety across Europe. Concluding with a speedboat chase on the Mediterranean, this is in effect From Russia with Love for the children's nursery rather than the playboy's rompcr-room. The 1963 version of Fleming's novel turned the villains from SMERSH agents into apolitical SPECTRE operatives the Disney boys now paint the heavies Red, mass play a fantastically complicated port notaled on two staves instead of the usual one), but also to operate pedals controlling the amplification of various parts of the instrument, and to sing, or at least groan.

Elaborately wired up and plainly in imminent danger ol electrocution. Pierre Strauch looks like nothing so much a the latest victim of the mad scientist working away at his theory of world dominance by electro-telepathy in the vaults of a castle in the Black Forest. At the control panel sits the mad scientist himself with hit three assistants, who torment the subject, and at the same time reinforce his agonised thought Waves, by playing them back in various forms through tape-delay systems. As an image of man in the grip of a technological nightmare, the performance would be hard to beat. The music itself, however, makes its impact through means that arc neither graphic nor melodramatic.

The clement of automatic recurrence and logical accumulation which is built into the idea of tape-delay systems is enough to balance that familiar aspect of Ferneyhough's writing, which tends towards fragmentation and a random piiing-up of superfluous materials. So as the texture gets more complicated, it also gets stronger and more comprehensible. Admittedly this process is slow, and the resulting form rather static compared with the centrifugal violence of Lemma Icon Epigram or Time and Motion Study But I feel that closer familiarity With all this music would show that the difference is more superficial than it at first seems. "La Rochelle offered one other concert of real stature, presented by IRCAM and played by the excellent Ensemble Inter-Contemporain from Paris, conducted by Sylvain Cambrel irtg. This included a dazzling performance by Adrieruie Cscn-gery of Kurtag's superb Messages of the late.

R. V. a work I praised in these columns when Miss Csen-gery sang it in London in February also Tod Machover's Soft Morning, a superior and attractive example of that admittedly oversubscribed genre of voice and tape music based on Finncgan's finely sung by Jane Manning. shines out like a beacon of creativity in the gloom. This was unquestionably the effect of the various works by Brian Ferneyhough, which made up a substantial part of the festival at La Rochelle.

In other contexts one has felt the excessive detailing and obtuse practical difficulties of l-'erneyhough's music as crucial defects, obscuring its sense. But at La Rochelle, set against the vacuous lucubrations of the solo-mio flute school, they became its most precious virtues. The one new work was a typically fiendish piece of piano bravura called Lemma-Icon which its dedicatee, Massimiliano Damcrini, played on two separate occasions. We also heard an early piano work called the first two Time and Motion Studies (for bass-clarinet and cello respectively), and a not wholly satisfactory tape recording of the Second Quartet, in an earlier performance by the Arditti. These solo pieces, including the one for bass-clarinet, depart completely from the normal routine of such works.

Ferneyhough has explained that his interest in solo bravura lies not in the straightforward possibilities of the instrument (even granted extreme virtuosity), but rather in the measure of im possibility which can be dangled in front of the virtuoso's nose at such a distance that he loses all interest in self-expression and is forced to concentrate his entire attention on simply playing as much as possible of what's written. There's a faint reminiscence here of Stravinsky's aim to compose the element of interpretation out of his music once and for all. But where Stravinsky approached the problem by simplifying his expressive terms, Ferneyhough is more interested in complicating them, in the search for a kind of self-transcendence on the player's part a forced, as opposed to voluntary, disciplining of the natural impulse to make subjective use of objective musical facts. From the listener's point of view this has a number of obvious consequences. One comes to look on the player as a symbolic figure pursued by appalling dangers which he barely manages to outpace.

An extreme case is the second Time and Motion where the cellist has not only to cal aspects that in the past century have largely become the property of high culture. The conception-by-deception of Arthur, and the parallel events some 30 years later by which his nemesis, Mordred, is unwittingly sired by Arthur himself, are complex transactions, subtly presented and charged with an erotic power that involves us at a deep emotional level. Matching his style to his story's varied sources, Boor-man is eclectic in his choice of music and visual references. One notes the influence of Kurosawa on the smokey battle scenes, of glowing pre-Raphaelite paintings on the idyllic sequence where Lan-, celot accompanies Guinevere to her marriage, of Klimt and the glittering corruption of Viennese art nouveau when the court of Camelot enters its decadent phase. In a most interesting score by Trevor Jones, Wagnerian themes are deployed as key motifs Siegfried's funeral march, for instance, is identified with Arthur to suggest that his dreams contain the seeds of their own destruction.

But the film is held together by Boorman's singular eye he and his cameraman, Alex Thomson, are sensitive to the mood of season, to the endless ways light can fall in the forest. The remarkably varied Irish locations they use are moral arenas, never there simply to beguile. This eye is part of a controlling vision, which a strong cast, made up largely of character actors rather than stars, is there to serve. Chcrie Lunghi is a gentle Irish Guinevere Nigel Terry is an Arthur who matures persuasively. The only stars arc Helen Mirren as the evil Morgana and Nicol Williamson as Merlin they were once memorably teamed in This Merlin mediates between present and future, between reality and legend.

Bearded, dressed in black cloak and silver skull-cap, he is the conscious embodiment of the film's sense of thextragi-comic nature of human aspiration. He has the most important dialogueand generally the script steers a plain line between Hollywood fustian and fancy Fry but Williamson speaks it in a curious mixture of Celtic accents, and sometimes sounds as if the dragon's breath has got A FEW years ago the late Sean Kenny retrieved Gulliver's Travels from both nursery and study by putting all four voyages not just the sojourns in Lflliput and Brobdingnag on the stage of the Mermaid in a striking piece of total theatre. In a comparably bold, and rather more refined, way John Boorman's Excalibur (Warner West End, AA1 encompasses the whole of Malory's Morte Darthur from the acquisition of the numinous sword by Arthur's father Uther to the dying King's departure for Avalon. In so doing he repossesses the Arthurian legend on behalf of a truly popular cinema from the Monty Python team, who punctured it with self-protective ironies from Bresson and Rohmer, who desiccated ii with Gallic severities from MGM, who stretched it to fill the wide screen for the first Cinema-Scope movie shot in Britain and from Walt Disney, who turned T. H.

White's Sword in the Stone into a candied cartoon and prevented the Twain, from meeting anywhere by dropping a Connecticut Yankee astronaut into King Arthur's Court. There are themes and scenes from every Boorman movie here, for in Excalibur he faces head- on a body of potent mythology that has underlain his work since his debui with "Catch Us If You Can 16 years ago. Quests, encounters by rivers, dreams merging into reality, symbolic temptations, the concept of honour, man's divorce from nature, the conflict between free will and destiny they are all powerfully brought together in a magnificent film that rounds but the first phase of one of the most important careers in the history of British cinema. His film presents these legendary incidents with the magic -that has always captured the romantic imagination of children, and it manages to be both precise and timeless. There are battles and jousts (the one between Arthur and Lancelot beneath a 1 waterfall is a beautiful ethical parable), breath-taking moments as Excalibur is delivered from the Jake and taken back, the excitements of a boy being snatched from the crowd to be trained as king.

At the same time the. picture comprehends those metaphysical patterns and darker, mysti Bob Dylan and the message THERE used to be a theory, advanced in several novels and at least one big-budget film, that a vastly popular singer could be used by political or religious interests to sway mass opinion. The fans would listen to him, the argument went, and thus be putty in the hands of whoever giving him his orders. The recent history of Bob Dylan has knocked that idea on the head for good. His conversion to born-again Christianity has certainly not had the effect of turning his concerts into revival meetings.

Indeed there were muted rumblings of disaffection during his Earls Court performances last week. They didn't amount to much more than a general feeling of let-down and the odd incoherent yell, but, compared with the universal folk, rock, country and rwistr ing it to his expressive purposes." With black gospel music, he seems to have met his Waterloo. His whole style fits badly with the idiom he has neither the richness of voice nor the rhythmic flexibility to handle its generous proportions. Time and again at the concert he appeared to be at odds with the four-girl gospel choir who backed him. As their harmonies soared and dipped, he was left declaiming glumly.

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farm. 5 of the most comforuble and delightful conage apartments, clpse to Cald-beck. Splendidly situated cntoy Lakeland, the Solway coast, and he Border counties. CHTV. Free brucfjurt.

'lei. (O.m)-26510 and 2IS17. iTs.MSON DF3.K COUNTRY HOTEL." A A 3-star. Fully licensed, wluatcd in Nat Park on AS074 Bosmess-on-Windermere. A modern.

famlJy-iiwncd A run hotel. All rma ith private bsth. ur shotser cn suite. Col TV. Ouiuoor swimming pool, saunas, game room.

All dates including mini wcek- endi. Tel. 1X4)18 227. BASSENTHWAITE LAslfcT Onso Bridge Hotel. A small amli-ron lintel overlooking the lake.

Open views, full bfast. 4 course dinner At licensed bar. Bed. breakfast A dinner f.78.50 Incl VAT per person p.w. tel.

U5' MS 322. LAKE" Harwos-d Jloici, Grasmere. A small hotel offering personal attention A home conking. dais I). BAB 39.75 Incl VAT.

Phone 24. COL'NTHY HOUSE in 5 acres. 4 miles from ConiMon Waier. B. cs-cning meal.

Billiards tennis. Ideal uiurins centre. Details ring 0r29jjj5lu. LAKE IMnVncICT CXmlstoe. Supert coitage, lake frontage, from 100.

I.AKKS. Btiwncss village ccnurc. Windermere. Mats for 2n or 0s near Lake and shops. Incl.

3 new flats, col TV. 41a Quarry Klgts. 0227 ftS03. NOR77I LAKES. Keswick 12 miles.

CVmntrv house nrlcts petsooal service, f'mfurtahlc rooms, all with bath and Ceni. heating. Ltcellent food, table licence. available auyswrwd Irehy. Cumbria CA5 IEX.

lei Low Iret-V 4ii2. r. llisTS'l i tj.r uiuiku 7-: 1 ml Kcsssick. with river and lake I KCSSS1CS. WllW n.i fhrniicrh.i,iT the year Special offer Frf snd Sat ihrnugtiniu ihe summer Irom 35.50.

)w,) 721K Holiday Bats also svailhlr. FABUI.OUK IRKII FOOOGOUR. MF.T CHFlF'Cunniston take frontage. Hotel nil moms prlaTe balhcsdted Phouc Mclwyn un fwti64i25. NOT TOO LATE We can still offer high seeeon vacancies in a choice of nearly 600 cottages In 3 counties.

For our free full colour brochures telephone our D-A-Broehure service on Fakanham (0320) 4246 or write to ENGLISH COUNTRY COTTAGES (S03S) Fakenham, Norfolk CARRBRIDGE Some vacancies remain at the AA- miles frlim Aviemore. Super pine lodges, sleep 6. from tl-0 pel lodge per week. For details phone LOCHANHUIXY LODGES 047 984 234 HKREFOKIISHIKE. U'jles and Wye Valley.

3 dclmhtlul ciiltase- tonscrlcd Hum listed mill in piciurcsjuc hamleL Jenkins. Bill Mills. Ross-on-Wye. let Li-j 52.s or ltu 2U23. AMAZING AWARD WINNIMi bunsalosss inc.

full colour brochure. St Ives, lenby. Ievun. PnsielLs Holidays. 12 High Si.

Saundets-foot. Pembs UI3) 813232. CorrAGEb, HOUSES, XAIS. Over 1,100 properttcs of all tiles aU tj.K. Tayiinas Holiday Ontages.

14 Hub Sireet. Godalming, 'Surrey GU7 IbUi Tel. 0486S 28522. ANGLESEY, close sandy golf course. Well enuipped.

KCluded erattary emtage, sin- 45. Tel. 0407 COXNVi' AU. Holiday flats bouses, Hincs Estate Agency. Lope.

fi)726B7) 45h. Daily to 9 p.m. including Saturday Sunday. Yorkshire YORK FIELD IIIILSE HOTEL 2, hi George's Place, York Peaceful situation overlooking York racecourse, yet close to city centre. Beautifully furnished for vuur comfort and rt-laiation.

All rooms have private shosser or both. run central beau'oe. Bar, TV lounge, etc. BB from 12.50. Evening meal available.

For full colour brochure, please, ssrite or onone 10904) 39572 A KESBORf Oisy olde orIde cottage for 4. Harn.galc Jfo2JJ2. YORK MINSTER 1 minute walk. Vers oulel t-bedrnnm (tact and dounle Iseditu'ng rooms, fully oquipped. bathroom.

Colour t'Vs. Some weeks available July, August and September (rom 75-5 P.w, train. Grange Farm. Stape, Pickering (0751) 7235P. YORK.

Abbey House. Self-catcrintt apartments. Superior accommodation in a ouiet residential area In the heart or historic York. 50-t50 psv. Mrs Fusjej.

9 The Glades. Escrtck. York. Tel. or)t (09D4) 87401 or Setby 07S7) 702tlti.

YOtUL OTYi BB at The Dairy Giiest Hon, York (0904) 39367)23741. YORK. Self-catering holiday flats near dry wall. 0004 5M59. KETTLE WELL, Wbaifcdale.

and EM beautiful views. Langcliffe House, KctUcvsell 243. France Holland iff (0989) 34211 PGL Adventute Ltd, 306 Station Street, Ross-on-Wye HR97AH SKVPORTS. Hang Gliding School for expert professional- tuition by BHGA iccistercd instructors. 2 It 5 day courses based S.

Wales. For biocbure let Bagshot 10276 73226. INTRODUCTORY COURSES at Europe's leading hang school tram only 12.50. Brochure from Welsh Hang Gliding Centre. Crickhowell, South Wales.

Tel. 0873 S100I9 (24 hrs). SUPER ACTIVITY HOLIDAYS for 8-1 5s. Riding, canoeing, sailing, archery, flshins. camping, etc.

No expeence needed. Enthusiastic Qualified leaders. Kiccllcnl facilities. Wide choice of programmes. Send for colour brochure The Penlan Centre, St Glean.

Oyfed. WHlCS. 0W4 TJAIXS" DISCOVERY. Walking holK daw. to', the Yorkshire duly.

Leisurely nrrftan dhlin irnunirv inn. tion. Also Trans-Lakes and Daleswav. ochurc Iraics centre, jrassina- ici. maoj.wjji.

RIDING HOLIDAYS on Argyll coast CStaiC. special inclusive uu board, cupcrt tuition, beginners 5. experienced 110. Most dates. Write: Lunaa, Ardfern.

Argyll. Phone Barhreck tliwj iJ or w. TROUT. FISHING COURSES. Adolur.

hoys. Bingham, Coryion, Okcrmmntori. DARTMOOR A VENTURE' With John Katie Summer canoeing, caving, sailing, camping, trekking. Ages 13-13. 15-18.

Professionally ran outdoor pursuit -based oo moorland farmhouse. Small numbers. Expert Instruction. fIB from 80 p.w. Details Dartmoor I'tpedltinn Centre.

Rnwden. Widecombc. Devon. Tel (03642) 249. WEEKENDS AND MIDWEEK sponine breaks in Kith century converted buildings.

Good rood, tuition provided in golf, sitting and squash. Send for prochurc Gloucester Hoiel and Coun-tiy Club. Robinswood Hill. Gloucester. 0452) 25653: ACTIVITY HOLIDAYS FOR CHILD-REN.

families A clubs, Action packed weeks, wafer spnrts land activities. Comfortable centre, cood food, licensed Mar for adtiltv. evening entertainment. Coanland fntre (O). Nr Kincsbmlac.

FAMILY ACTIVITY holijavs in WcMt relet WalVink'. pons riding, archery, orienteering climbing. Centrally he.itL'd super food. For details contiict Souiiver Activity Hnls, Railing -Hope. Shrcus-1 bury, Shropshire.

Telephone U5WM 3J7. HI Mli.M we saw a sn-'fcc sn-imming and a kingfisher and Pete walked backward' nil this cim No. lie had a rop- dafi I fed the hurics. Yeah, the food great Bye Holiday adventures hi CASTLE HEAD" rin.n GR AN'GE-OVER-SAVn'i. CL'MBK 1 A Telephone IK4 S4 43O0.

ntVK TR IN1'f5 HOLS. yoca. t2X A A. 4 Swncrsct Kd AtftA YOU WANT ACrtON? kftLV GET THE BEST. XuT CO MINERVA FOR 7-ln-J ADVENTURE.

Quite can't fan beaten fa snrttjr ranga end variety in one hffathwlimfl week for 918 oar olds, -canoeing pony trekking go9 walking rode cinibing caving artery tfwwHna and 3 fvenowjnal bnrJi-uii progrmm -Might pHf iJrvoiiflC. j'i ro anrt mow rMJi; for bene? insmicirnn. tyttt rv, btwr fun, better romp fjfiv, brtt' valitP. Contact: Mtnntvj Outdoor Vnnttrs. Crown Hoitte.

3 trtntfon Road. High Wycombe. Bucks Trt: (03SJ 4-53B3 PLAS BRENIN NATIONAL CENTRE FOR MOUNTAINS ACTIVITIES A now experience single or multi-activity courses 1B81. Brochure available by return Capel Curlg, Gwynodd Betws Coed Phong 06904 280 CANADIAN CANOE TRAIL tiowb 33 miles the scenic River Wye. Instructed holidays (or family groups od individuals.

Outdoor Leisure. Glasbury. Hereford (04974) 4SJ. THE rACKHOKSE TRAII.S. 6-day tours on horseback, round the bamleis of central Wales.

Tours to suit boib experienced and novice riders. Baggage carried by accompanying packponies. Brochure: CTRF 2), Velindre-Beacon, i'owys. Tel: Glasbury (04174) 303. -SQUASH.

Courses, holidays, weekends. and play at Fiddlers Green Inn and Squash Ranch. Barnstaple. LVtron 0271 813250 UONT THINK ACTIVITY HOLIDAYS are Just for children. Eda)e Adventure Holidays, The Warren.

LdaJe. Derbys S30 2ZL. For food, ride, ctimb. walk, soil all in comfort. 0433 70256.

INTERNATIONAL TEENAGE Holiday Centre. Somerset. Reduced rales. 0963 70753. FINE ART RESTORATION.

Unique weekly holiday courses In the restora-lion of oi! namu'nEs and me cleaning prints ind watercolour. Demonstration and Instruction in tiding. Brochure from South East Centre, Old Brewery Yard. High NIrcer. Hastings, fcT.

Sussex. Telephone f0424) 4JU57. PEACEFUL residential studios In Suffolk countrside offering excellent facilities including etching and sculpture. Full nrovldcd. Tuition optional.

Hrochure Clock House. Rraiivard. Sasnumdham. IP1? 2H Jcl. 511.

OR TAINTING holidays at artist's (n auiel Lakeland. FiiM-class accommnda-lion. SAF for tiochure rn SutclilTe. Lowck. nr lilvcrton.

Cumbria IMVER WFY. Downriver trips bv Canadian Canoe. Hotel camping Weeks, And 4-dity trips. Brochure Welsh Trail Co. Lamp House srta Hereford Tcr (OJ97J) BOYS TROUT dihlrts Sum.

mcr. Binshutn. toil. Ulch-irnpiou. (0S2-2e'o) 281.

MENORCA 144 for 15 days air-inclusive. Children 2-11 100 Unbelievable value, with no snags or surcharges Villas tor 2-8 with maid service, all neer beaches. Normal price 200 p.p-Dep. from" Luton. Gatwick or Manchester 13th July.

Also LANZAROTE Dep. 1Blh July E175 per adult 15 per child ALGARVE Dep. 19th July 175 per adult 145 per child CORFUCRETE 13lh July 165 per adult 140 per child COSTA BHAVACOSTA BLANCA July 125 per adult 99 pet child Plus Villas dor motorists In Brittany and. France. Available en summer dates.

and Barclaycard accepted bv 'ai-phone'. Write rPjione starvillas 25 High Street. Chesterton Cambridge CB4 1HD Tel. 10223) 6962259661 ATOL 51 7B JETFARES Provide cMlcicnt. economic and luxury flishis to European resorts with 1.AKER AIRWAYS THE VILLA SCENE OlTer a' selection of apartments and 'tudio5 lor 5elf-catcrih? In SPAIN.

CANARIES GltEHCE TEL. 01-828 6382-3-4-5 14 Buckingham Palace Rd. Victoria. London SWIW OOP Azenu lor ATOL 03 GB MALTA. Hnliday villas and aparrmcnu lincludins peak season) from as little as 15 per person per week.

A wide choice. For leaflet write to IIMLA. '73 Mclitii Street. Valletta. Malta or telephone Valletta 2S039 or Teles Valum 253 (wc can advise sou on nistlu arranaemcnis if yuu wish).

BRITTANY VILLAS. Properties still -available. Children travel tree. Brlittrav Villas. 1U3 Hiith Street.

Uckficld, Sussex. Telephone (0S25) 5855. HOLIDAY VILLAS and Apartments tincliiilintr peak scjtn f'-tim as little as 15 per person per rtcclt. A wide shoicc. Kir leaflet write to EM LA, 173 Mclita Street, Malta or telephone Vallclta 2S03SJ or 62541 I clc Valtiat -53.

iVc Ljn adv-isc yon on fhsut arranucmciiLs if you wish)..