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S2SEE23 Th GAZETTE, Montreal, TV and -Radio' Leonard Cohen forms publishing company The Carpenters make their blah kind of music By' I L. Ion MocDonold not simplistic: a statement that men who spend their lives trapped In furnaces so their kids won't have to are not to be dismissed as flannel-mouthed hard-hats. Notes: 'Pleased as hell' Rod Dewar, at work in London for the BBC radio, has had one of his pieces chosen for the network's Pick of The Week program, which consists of highlights of a previous week's programming. Dewar writes: "I'm pleased as hell. It's already lead to some more work for another producer." The Radio Sales Bureau, in its annual booklet Digest of Basic Canadian Radio Facts, claims there are more than 23,100,000 radio sets in use in the country, 47 per cent being of the transistor class, while 28 per cent is taken up by car radios.

The RBS cites its own research as well as that of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics as sources in this connection. Brian Brenn has quit his job at CJAD, where he was a news announcer Serge Laprade has been appointed program director at CKLM, succeeding Jean Peloquin, who has resigned Dick Irvin is filling in for the vacationing Ned Conlon on CFCF radio this week. Irvin, who is sports director of the Marconi radio and television stations, admits "This is my first try at being a so-called disc jockey. It's a bit of an adjustment at first." Ron Reusch, a member of Irvin's staff, will substitute for Conlon next week CFCF's football broadcast, by the way, is only three quarters sold. At this point last year the show was sold out.

"I'm surprised," Irvin says. "You'd think that with fie Grey Cup champion, there'd be no problem. Perhaps, as some people suggest, it's the business slowdown." Karen Carpenter, who sings, and her brother Richard Carpenter, who plays the electric organ, comprise the heart of a pop music group, The Carpenters. So far, so neat. The last three Tuesdays, The Carpenters, who are very big in the not altogether unrelated worlds of bubble-gum rock and Las Vegas, have been trying out their act on an NBC summer series, Make Your Own Kind of Music.

Last night's program (Channel 5, 8 to 9) was typical of the series slick, inoffensive and devoid of musical character. For The Carpenters' kind of music is more or less descended from that of The Ray Conniff Singers and, in a opening medley, they succeeded in further attenuating, if that is possible, several songs of Burt Bacharach. Their guests chose to perform or were directed to perform at the same innocuous pace. MOTOWN Dusty Sringfield, having outgrown her guttural Mersey beginnings, turns out to be from Motown Diana Ross in whiteface. The New Doodletown Pipers, who used to sound a lot like the Young Americans, have taken to aping The Jackson Five.

And Al Hirt, the New Orleans trumpeteec, led the small studio audience through a Mitch Miller singalong. Had a viewer turned his brightener dial to dark out the picture, he would then have listened to an hour of Muzak on television. And this is disheartening that, even during summer, the more fibrous elements of rock music, and of folk-rock, remain conspicuously absent from television. FIRST TUESDAY'S MONTAGE But the music of Janis Joplin or, regrettably, the music of the late Janis Joplin was very much there in Bittersweet Legacy, an essay on NBC's First Tuesday that had to do with promoters dancing on her grave. Part of a larger two-hour piece, an American Montage a collection of articles from this season that treated with Die American condition Bittersweet Legacy dwelt, perhaps at too great length, on the exploitation of Joplin that has occurred since her death last October.

While this was, in a grim way, fairly riveting stuff, it wasn't nearly as useful or well done as the program's lead item concerning making ends meet if you are a steel-worker, black or white, in Gary, Indiana. This was simple, though i LONDON (CP) Canadian poet and folk-singer Leonard Cohen has formed a new publishing company with British pop music magnate Tony Stratton-Smith, head of Charisma Records and other companies. The first book that the new company, Charisma Books, plans to publish is a selection of works by Candian poet Irving Layton early next year. "Layton is one of the most moving poets I've ever read," said Stratton-Smith in an interview. "I find it appalling that he has not been published yet outside Canada." Charisma Books, formed last June, "resulted from a pleasant idea that Leonard Cohen and I had at a dinner party." Stratton Smith ex- A TOTAL SUCCESS starring: NIGHTLY 7.30-9.30 (fr 18yrs Ji is ysjjn(pi w-9w U- MmiuM 5l 8wK! Ani a I FAMILY in evening opera 13 plained.

"As partners in the firm, we plan to cater for only a few writers of quality who have been unable to get their manuscripts into print." Stratton-Smith, who met Montrealer Cohen at a pop festival in France last year. said that he will "make as much money available as it takes to make the company a success." Charisma Books will be distributed in Britain only. First printing A first printing of 250,000 has been run off of Herman Wouk's new book, Winds of War. all things to an women, i ANDREE FUMAND-SiiroiBienl-UsaCollings-cou FINAL At 1.30, 3.30, S.3S, WEEK I 7.35, 9.40 p.m. JOE DALLESANDRO in color SUNDA1M.3O-3.3O-S.30-7.30-9.3O at the opera Aug.

4, 1971 I u.m "CHRISTIAN 7 ry I taithlul I I 111; Ijrr-rifMrviH Clarice BY ADRIAN WALLER of The Gazette Pitted against the orchestra of her home town, Clarice Carson revealed last night an honest claim to perhaps be- coming one of the truly great Verdi sopranos. Not so much because her voice is especially large, but because it is extremely well placed and has within it a ring and a penetration that finds even her softest passages cutting 'through the orchestra. At any rate, it was Miss Carson's energy and powerful interpretation of some of the most lusty moments from two of Verdi's greatest operas climatic moments with such strong singing of Ritorna Vin-citor from Aida and the very difficult Tacea La Notte Pla-cida from II Trovatore. There were some duets with Quilico, too, but these served to demote the baritone and undermine the conductor. For me, Deslauriers was disappointing.

He opened the program with the snappy Hungarian March from Berlioz's Damnation of Faust, music he seemed to understand but with which he never excited. The moving Intermezzo from Puccini's Manon Lescaut lacked warmth and passion because the music never grew with the phrases and was played instead with a pedantic sameness. And The Dance of the Hours from Ponchielli's La Gioconda not only failed to embrace the "Warhol's finest IS minor masterpiece" TODAY magazine Elvin Jones, the drum master, sparkles at concert LAST PERFORMANCE NOW UNTIL AUGUST 10 In everyone's life there's a "SUMMER OF '42" also Paul Newman in "LEFT HANDED GUN" CD sonic spectrum written into the score, but missed the orgasms as well. The result was that it was one of the dullest renditions of the night. Despite audience reaction, it was quite prosaic.

But Clarice Carson had come home. Thank goodness. STARTS TONTf 2 COLOR HITS In everyone's life there's a SUMMER OF '42 ITTI I 22 PAUL NEWMAN 'COOL HAND LUKE' Jean-Louis PELLERIN By KEN WAXMAN (written for The Gazette) Elvin Jones is the drum master there's no argument about that. Certainly none of the people who saw him at Man and His World last night would disagree. But this realization comes after a little time.

At first, although you know it's Elvin's band, you hardly notice him. Of course, he's there in the background, dapper as ever in a form-fitting shirt and wide tie, playing his drums. But your attention is taken up by the two sax men who are somehow molding a cacophony of bird sounds and repetition into music. Then suddenly it hits you. The real action isn't up front, but back with Jones at the drums, where he's exploding and flowing like a rhythmic volcano, driving the band on and on in the process.

For the Elvin Jones band is a drummer's group and there's no getting away from it. Wtl lfcElvsiwT'jNES FILLES Jp lyfji'r1! II BIEN POUR TOUS rapports yy JM? 1 1 I I JftUt Complete Show at 1.00, 3.00 $3jL HJ I S.CJ, 7.00 9.00 P.M. i shines the Quilico voice. But they're not much above G. The reason is that Mr.

Quilico now tends to cover far too much and strangulate the finished product. This was even more evident in his version of the aria, II Balen from II Trova-tore which, largely through the fault of the conductor, Jean Deslauriers, was both too fast and without the soft legatos that Verdi bestowed upon the piece. Here we must return to Miss Carson who manages these legatos with a deftness that may ultimately mark her as a soprano able to handle virtually anything. (It's rather interesting to note that she's already sung Mimi and Violet- Jones combo. Besides some exhileraing unison work from the vibest leader and flautist Jean LeBrun, on an original composition called Canvas, the rest of the tunes seemed unrelieved Chamber Jazz professionally done, but scarcely exciting.

But if you're a drummer, a drum fanatic or just a plain Jazz fan, you must go to see Elvin Jones. He'll be at the Kiosque International at Man and His World tonight at 8. Mick Jagger to be dad LONDON (UPI) Rolling Stone Mick Jagger has confirmed what some people have suspected for weeks. He is going to be a father. The rock singer who arrived back in Britain from France, told newsmen his 23-year-old wife Bianca was expecting.

pregnant, man: That's all I've got to say," the 27-year-old singer said. Jagger and his Nicaragua-born bride were married in St. Tropez in May. British newspapers had speculated recently she was pregnant, but Jagger had previously declined to speak about it. The couple flew on to Ireland to visit friends.

Will co-star Barbra Streisand and boyfriend Ryan O'Neal have signed to co-star in a second movie, What's Up, Doc? which will be filmed during the summer. ta Poudriere comedy frothy, lots of tun. Adrian Waller Gazette THE SECRETARY BIRD by Wil'iom Douglas Home with Jean MacRoe Kenneth D-ght Joan Blickmen John R. fiaylist Mary Petrie directed by Jack Crisp. Tues.

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Kayo' Hotel, Suite 6-20 9n4 MMitrea! Trust, Place Ville-Wsrw Reset-rations: 526-0821 i 1 a in I Carson that kept An Evening at the Opera alive at Place des Arts. The remainder? The Montreal Symphony tends to limp a little without the calibre of a Franz-Paul Decker and Louis Quilico, another Montreal singer who has moved onto the international circuit, has become a rather pale shadow of the Quilico we knew five years back. Of course, he sings Verdi's Rigoletto with a depth not often equalled. But last night, when he appeared first to sing perhaps Rigoletto's most difficult aria, Cortigiani, Vil Razza Damnata, he displayed a lack of vocal consistency. There are still fine notes in Jones plays all parts of the drums and his one solo had the audience on their feet, cheering and screaming for more but this wasn't the only high spot.

Each member of his quartet is a soloist and as the music moved from soprano saxophonist Frank Foster to tenor saxophonist Joe Furrell to bassist Gene Perla" (who looked all of 17 years old) and back to Jones again, you could see the heads nodding to the sounds and hear the scattered ripples of applause as each man completed his solo. You could watch the band gradually come together and create something beautiful before, your eyes. At the end, the audience was so overcome' by the performance they refused to let the band leave, demanding and receiving repeated encores. Yvon Landrey's Quintet, who played the first part of the evening, were a pleasant and polished band but scarcely up to the standards of the 7.45 p.m. (CFCF) Baseball.

Pittsburgh at Montreal. 8.03 p.m. (CBM-AM) Concern. Transient Youth: a look at the transient youth situation across Canada with special attention to the end of the line: Vancouver. Interviews with youth and Vancouver mayor Tom Campbell, an avowed opponent of transient youth.

9.03 p.m. (CBM-AM) Ideas Network. Are Psychopaths Evil? David Rapsey has prepared a documentary which includes a re-enactment by staff members of a psychiatric hospital of typical psychopathic responses, and a discussion with Toronto psychiatrist Dr. J. Dukzsta.

9.30 p.m. (CKVL-FM) Symphonic Overtures. Rossini's Overture' to William Tell; Suppe's Poet and Peasant Overture; Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture; Felix Slatkia conducting the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra. 11.00 p.m. (CBF-FM) Little Concerts.

Sonatas in and in (Bach): Christian Larde, flute; Huguette Dreyfus, harpsichord; Jean Lamy, viola de gamba. 2.00 a.m. (CFQR) Music of ihe Western World. Continuation of the n.jsic of Mozart. 2.00 a.m.

(CKVL-FM) Chi-cage Symphony Orchestra. Seiji Ozawa conducting Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade and Borodin's Poloitsian Dances from Prince CLARICE CARSON an honest claim ta and, believe it or not, The Countess in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro.) Last night, she provided the ALSO th most Incredible experiment of love. The Love a 4th WEEK -nj Official Swedish Entry BERLIN FESTIVAL 1971 iOyrs fi AOUTS rat figf ITIiir.iiii'iiiiit--migTl''iM,'ifl COMPLETE SHOW 1.10, 4.30, 7.50 p.m. OLEAr.l. mm SWaXSH VERSON WH1SH SUa-TTTLES 125 S.CO 6.30 FRENCH SUB-TTLES; SSO 1 1 1 COLOR an evening CONCERTS POPULAIRES DESJARDINS Sponsored by Union regionale de Montreal des Caisses populates Desjardins Wednesday, August 4 at 8:30 POPULAR PRICES: $1.

$2. $3. $4. MONTREAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Franz-Paul Decker, Music Director Conductor JEAN DESLAURIERS Soloists Clarice Carson, soprano Louis Quilico, bass On the air APPEARING NIGHTLY DOC CIRCE AND HIS FANTASTIC REVUE EDGEWATER HOTEL 228 Lakeshore Pointe Claire, Que. Bullet alter the concerts: S1.50 Program Works by Berlioz, Verdi, These concerts are organized o.ii: Di.iiti in collaborate with Puccini, Ponchielii and La Regie-de la Place des Arts.

Kimsky-Korsakoff NOW IN ITS 7th WEEK Colorful Costumes Glamorous Chorus Line Wonderful Music Songs Claude CORBEIL Louise LECAVELIER in 3 GREAT PRODUCTION NUMBERS 3.00 p.m. (CBF-FM) World Festival. Works by Hindemith, Maxwell Davis, Benjamin Braitten, Tippett and Bartok. 6.30 p.m. CBM-AM) Rule and Revolution.

Women in Politics: British Columbia has elected more women to public office, provincially and federally, than any other province. This is a study of these women, past and present, and how their careers point up the status of women in politics. 6.30 p.m. (CBM-FM) Arthur Rubenstein, Master Pianist. Scherzo No.

2 in flat, Op. 31, Chopin; Piano Concerto No. 1 in first movement only, Beethoven; Erich Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra. 7.00 p.m. (CKVL-FM) Festival of Oight Classical Music.

Laszlo Tabor conducting the London Festival Orchestra in Grieg's Piano Concerto in Chopin's Etude No. 3 in The Cornish Rhapsody from Love Story; Strauss' The Nuns' Chorus from Casanova; Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in flat 7M p.m. (CBM-FM) Ideas. Victorian Science aid the Idea of Progress.

A discussion about the Victorian Age as an age of optimism in which the development of science and technology symbolized the fact that man and his civilization were progressing higher than ever before, especially in England. If jJ. I lllS- I li Ui 4 THE FESTIVAL LYR1QUE under the musical direction of Lionel Renaud at THEATRE de la LAGUNE Saturday, August 7 August 8 at 8:00 pjp. Admission: $2,00 Co-production of Kraft Food Limited Tickets on sale st the ticker office only I.