Kingsport Times-News from Kingsport, Tennessee • 15

OB -to Mm jUafc Xa 1 III I I 1 ll (-W i A Music? Of Course 9 A Co Flo Worms Paste-Pots And Dazzle-Dough Daring i i WV 1 A' a 5 By JOSEPH HAAS Chicago Daily Newi Service Wo cant understand why John Lennons anti-ChrWtUn remarks recently have caused so much controversy After all it should have been as apparent to everyone as it is to David Noebel that this is just another phase of the manifest Com- munist scheme to subvert our American way of life through music THE BEATLES are only a small part of the plot It has been under way for decades since liiose animalistic African rhythms invaded our pop music and before that In folk swig with its humanitarian sentiments Its an rtd story but the pace has been accelerated now through rock roll because as any fool can plainly see the scheduled take over Is only months away! Noebel an associate evangelist with Dr Billy James Hargis Christian Crusade thus lays It on the line in Rhythm Riots and Revolution ($1) It is every bit ss amazing and footnoted and appendlxed as his earlier eye-opener munlsm Hypnotism and the Beatles IT BEGAN IN 1841 when Kark Marx wrote in his Manifesto that "the Cotrammists disdain to corneal their views and alms Obviously anything done out in the open must be Communist-inspired (the devious and hidden by this kind of logic is Democratic) Pete Seeger is the mastermind according to the book the most open of them all in bis sympathies He has help writes Noebel from other Reds dupes "comsymps frontera or sympathizers: Doc Watson Woody Guthrie Joan Baez The Animals Moe Asch Irwin Silber Josh White Malvina Reynolds The Weavers the late Cisco Houston and on and on Through folk song they glorify such Communist objectives as peace and brotherhood and equality and they attack American ideals such as atomic holocaust starvation prejudice crime 4 WHEN THE FOLK FAD waned the commies leaped Into the pop field with rock roll folk-rock and even jazz Quite simply the purpose is pavlovian conditioning of our teenagers toward scientifically Induced artificial or experimental neurosis by music from the heart cf Africa designed to cause a reversion to savagery and used then to indte warriors to such frenzy (hat by nightfall neighbors were cooked in carnage pots! The purpose of course is to generate teen-age mental breakdowns that will produce a generation rtf young thats helplessly toppling from the bounds of the rigid frame around it Perhaps a statement that society is at loose ends? Struggling unsuccessfully to remain inside the bounds of tradition? THERE ARE a number of other equally provocative works among the rampant color and enigmatic forms that could possibly foretell promising art careers At least one has crane up with a distinctive way of signing his work Instead of the scrawled signature two handprints identify the painter indicating a very real urge perhaps for the artist to throw himself into his work The exhibit by students In pre-school Head Start Classes in Bluff City Orebank and Long Island continues this week in Mead Auditorium at Kingsport Public Library It is open during regular library hours A Review By PALMER WELLS Tlmes-News Staff Writer The current exhibit of art work at Kingsport Public Library may not start a headlong trend toward new art forms but it does contain some playful innovations past e-pot simplicity and Dazzle-Dough daring thats as fresh and lively as a four-year-old REMARKABLY free and expressive the show contains over 100 tempera paintings collages and three-dimensional objects that could just about out-op the most out-ofsight contemporary exhibit and certainly lends itself to the interpretation of spoofing the spoofiest of pop pot-pur-ri Of particular note is one large joint effort by several of the represented artists Ingenious in technique the painting is a staccato ballet of squiggles cleverly captured Sunday August 14 13C6 KINGSPORT UMES-NEWS 3-B people with neurotic tendencies loose morals and little desire or ability to defend themselves from those who would bury them And what about Negro folk music blues and contemporary freedom songs? Theyre part of the plot naturally BOB DYLAN? HE SAID I want my woman dirty looking as though Id just found her In some alley It triggers thef animal emotion" Patently a "Marxist minstrel Which brings us back to the Beatles Remember Noebel tells us that back in 1964 the Beatles press officer described the boys as anti-Christ and George McCartney said that none of us believe hi God Rings Starr even the peacemaker debunked that anti-Christ classification and said that the chaps were only anti-Pope and anti-Christian THIS WITH WHAT THEY have said recently must lead us to conclude with Noebel that the Beatle rebellion at the very least parallels the Communist rebellion against God Christ and Morality And to decide that this should lead us all to reassess Beatiism By the way OKA publications (an outgrowth of peoples songs Noebel reminds us and cited frequently by the House Committee on Un-American Acivitics) has issued some new books At the risk of being dubbed a comsymp may we recommend them: Russian Songs edited by Jerry Silverman (3295) with English and Russian lyrics piano arrangements and guitar chorda for 40 songs THE COFFEE HOUSE Songbook collected by Jay Edwards and Robert Kelley (3395) 164 songs with guitar chords music lyrics and an appendix on guitar techniques and tablature They All Played Ragtime" by Ruld Blesh and Harriet Janis (3445) the definitive history of ragtime including 13 never-before-published ragtime compositions and 26 pages of photographs "1101 Plus 5 Folksongs for Camp compiled by Mike Ccben (3395) with lyrics music and notes on the songs Paper Sack Art by dropping earthworms dipped in tempera onto paper SIMILARLY arresting are a series of collage caricatures which candidly evoke a sense of paper-sack conformity in the masses Underneath the synthetic superficial faces and pasty smiles they seem to satirically contend people are made of the same basic brown paper bag material Neither could you ignore the pungent commentary forcefully stated in Shelby Austins dangling architectural form Dangling Modification Tryouts Set For Guilds Production Open tryouts will be conducted Monday night at Kingsport Public Library for Kingsport Theatre Guilds first production of the 1966-67 season Dark of the Moon by How- ard Richardson and William Bemey Set In the Smoky Mountains the drama with folk music and singing has parts for 10 men and two teenage boys and 11 women and three young girls Several of the parts call for folk singers able to accompany themselves on guitar Set for production Sept 30 and Oct 1 the show will be directed by Palmer Wells and will be staged in arena style in Ross Robinson cafeteria Mondays tryouts will be held in the librarys Mead Auditorium from pm jr v- a A 4 1 3' a V-Vt ft 11 3 1 14 i iuiu ii ip ilnstM i v' tr v4 i 1 i ft '-e-w 'v 3t s4f i-i 3 A I if' avv 4sx-y 4 A A L- ty i d0 Set Of Limited Edition Books Given Library Earthworm Action Festival Over Barter Resuming Its Schedule i 4- fc VAJ- 4 iy 1 -f fA BEST SELLERS The French comedy Madwoman reopens Tuesday and will run through Aug 21 on the main stage At Barters Childrens Theatre Golden Sandals closes with a performance this afJ temoon and will be followed Tuesday by Winnie the Port) through Aug 20 Activities In the Virginia Highlands Festival also close this week with a musical program Portraits in Song Monday by Helen Ricci of New York and Charleston Va With the Barter Drama Festival behind Barter Theatre resumes the late summer schedule this week with Jean Glraijouxs comedy Madwoman of Chaillot The festival repertory schedule closes tonight with The Absence of A Cello on the niain stage and Marat-Sade at the Playhouse Opening again at the Playhouse Wednesday are two originals A Bird in the Hand and Conditioned Reflex They continue through Aug 21 wwf iir-T -r- graphed by the illustrator Each book is specially designed and printed by some of the worlds noted presses Less than 400 titles have been printed since the club was founded Each has been bound by master binders and a number of them feature textured fabrics velvet and leather binding Included in the collection are the classics of the worlds literature The Limited Edition books are the second large donation received by the library this year Earlier a Bristol man Gordon Aranheim contributed over 100 long-playing records to the librarys record A donation of 93 volumes of rare Limited Edition Club books has been made to the Kingsport Public Library by Harvey Brooks owner of Allandale Farms The gift the second by Brooks brings the librarys collection of the Limited Edition volumes to 138 titles They are on display in the library foyer The gift was made as a permanent memorial to Brooks wife Ruth who served as secretary to the Library Commission several years Each of the volumes In the Limited Edition club had only 1500 copies printed for members of the club Illustrations for each of the books are by well known artists and are auto 1 1 1 A Q'i Vfv i jffriieiiiwiniYwwi 1 a ir A 0 -'W SPECIAL BOOKS Cal Hendrix director of Kingsport Public Library views three of the 93 volumes of Limited Edition Club books donated to the library by Harvey Brooks Roussel Works Now On Record Youngsters Ready Final Offering from the Rogersville area They have joined the Kingsport area students in studying drama this summer under the City Recreation Department Performances of Tales From Outer Space are scheduled for 2:30 and I pm Friday August 28 and at 2:30 pm Saturday Aug 27 at the Civic Auditorium Tickets will be available at the door tha Lake Judi Muller Carolyn Sherman Carol Johnson Joan Quillen Johnny Bryant Buddy Brooks Linda Collins Betsey Powers Eddie Jones and David Hyder Additional cast members in the prologue and epllogut are Ruth Rogan Susan Austin Lianne Dressin Carolyn Clark and Rebecca Lee Among the cast members are four high school students Richard Singleton Barbara Howe and Susan HaJe A dance for the production has been choreographed by Betsey Powers and will be performed by Miss Powers Janie Sherman and Joan Barnette Joan Quillen will assist with directing Divided Kingdom The cast for this story which concerns a planet half dark and half light includes Mar Fiction Valley of the Dolls Jacqueline Susann TatPan James Clavell The Adventurers Harold Robbins The Double Image Helen Machines Tell No Man Adela Rogers St Johns The Source James A Michener The Detective Roderick Thorp The Embezzler Louis Au-chincloss I the King Frances Parkinson Keyes Non-Fiction How to Avoid Probate Norman Dacey The Last Battle Cornelius Ryan Papa Hemingway A Hotchner la Cold Blood Truman Capote Human Sexual Response William Howard Masters and Virginia Johnson Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relations Eric Berne Two Under the Indian Sun Jon and Rumer Gooden The Big Spenders Lucius Bertie The Proud Tower Barbara Tuchman The Last Hundred Days John Toland I 3 1 Iv bW A 1 A- A i '1 The final production of the 1966 summer childrens theatre series at Civic Auditorium Tales From Outer Space is being readied for its opening performance Aug 26 A departure from the fairy tale with music format of pest productions the upcoming offering Includes two original plays Nothing Ever Happens on Eleuthra written by Jane Wilson a Civic Playhouse performer and college student and The Divided Kingdom by Joan Hensley codirector of the Playhouse Miss Wilson will also direct the show she has written which tells of what happens to two American astronauts who make an unscheduled landing on a watery planet The cast Includes Card Gearhart Andrea Roller Steve Hyder Greg Stools Patty Freehoff iu-rA A 1 3 A 5 i ir w-a i A 1' 5 t' A A 1 A 4 NEW YORK (UPI) From one record you can learn all about the mature musical mind of Albert Roussel if youre interested His 3rd and 4th symphonies have been put onto that record by the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra Andre Cluytens conducting Poor Roussel He came too close on the heels of the French music innovators Debussy and Ravel to earn easily the audience his talents deserved And he compounded that handicap by not being ure in his artistic youth what he wanted to be die fowl of modernism or the fish of classicism The two symphonies of his mature years display his solution Very ordered almost architectural fundamentally But with overlays of modernism of verve of smartness And above all economical He never says in 27 bars which he could and does say In 4 An engaging terseness he has and all the morp engaging because It Is so unusual among composers Cluytens knows his Roussel and it is clear from his conducting that he had studied every effect before he undertook to bring it off French musicians have been trying for decades now to sell the non-French on their Roussel This record may put Roussel Over with us Soma American musicians are campaigning to sell the American composer Charles Ives to his own countrymen Last season Ives got on all sorts of symphonic programs and the recordings were frequent Leonard Bernsteins Contribution included his 3rd symphony subtitled The Camp-Meeting now recorded With the New York Philharmonic Columbia-3843 Folkilh-and cute After hearing considerable Ives you begin to feel his creative ima- Cllon was far from being dless Bernsteins record Contains considerable Ives In addition to the symphony it has Decoration Day Central Park in the Dark and The Unanswered Question Jstnysportd Wad (ompLlt BOOK SHOP MADWOMAN AT BARTER Nancy Reardon as The Madwoman of Chaillot Jean Glrad-ouxs wild comedy discusses the strange and wonderful world or life In the sewers of Paris with sewer man Nicholas Stamos The show opens Tuesday and continues through Aug 21 at Abingdon Va Works Of Lois Tracy To Be Shown At Wise Home GILES GOAT-BOY Joton Berth 198 A GENEROUS MAN Reynold Price 490 THE ANIT-DEATH LEAGUE KJngsKy AmLs BI5 HOW TO AVOID PROBATE One Of Ame rices Leedlnf Profession el Estete Plenntra Telia You Norman Dacey 495 1 PORTABLE TYPEWRITERS Be aheadCALL ahead A simple easy thrifty Telephone Call assures that you'll be warmly received i United Inter-Mountain Teiephcno Company CQOE3 An exhibit of the paintings of Wise Va artist Lois Tracy will be on display throughout the gardens end on the terraces of her home at Wise today (Sunday) from 3d pm Mr and Mrs Tracy will open their home and gardens to the public The Emma McCrary purple dome house acr06s the street will serve as rn overflow setting for the exhibit art critic lecturer and teacher Mrs Tracy has taught a number of painting classes In Kingsport efnd has bad her work shown here Her work will be shown jn a month-long exhibit at Virginia Polytechnic Institute during September and from there will go to Michigan Also active In art circles in Florida she will move most of her paintings there to be on exhibit in her private gallery which she and her husband Harry have erected on the grounds of their winter home In Englewood At the exhibit Sunday viewers may record a bid on iny painting on display In event of rain the exhibit will' be held 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