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4G DETROIT FREE PRESSSUNDAY. SEPT. 19, 1982 x' sound judgment on the record with our critics The chemistry is changing, but Fleetwood Mac thrives When Antal Dorati resigned as music director at the end of the 1 980-8 1 season, Israeli conductor Gary Bertini, left, was appointed interim music adviser for two seasons. Executive vice-president Oleg Lobanov said; no decision had been made on whether to extend Bertirii's music adviser's contract for another season, in the event no music director is found before then. jazz: Eclectic electrics get better and better Observations Billy Cobham's Glass Menagerie (ElektraMusician): You can always feel when a Billy Cobham album works.

It happened with "Spectrum," his first solo record, and it happened with "Cross- If the band would call it quits tomorrow, it would still be named in any list of rock trend setters. But the end of Fleetwood Mac is probably a way off. DSO scores financial win winds," "Magic" in w.Mi'i-' and "Shabazz." There was an agreeable click, then a satisfying, peaceful atmosphere. Two numbers into "Obervations it doesn't look like that will happen. "Jailbait" and "M.S.R." are fairly FLEETWOOD MAC, from Page 1G playing live does.

This should be a lot of fun." Since Buckingham and singer Stevie Nicks joined Christine and John McVie and Mick Fleetwood in 1 975 and moved the group from an obscure blues band status to pop superstardom, the band has always keyed on some type of emotion to be creative. When "Fleetwood Mac" came out, the band's personal lives were in great shape Buckingham and Nicks living together, the McVies married. AFTER 3.5 MILLION copies of that album made the once obscure Mac as famous as the hamburger with the same surname, the personal end fell apart. The couples split, and 1977's "Rumours" made its mark in pop history with all those millions of discs and a seemingly endless supply of angst-riddled singles. The double-album "Tusk," released in 1979, showcased the band's musical schism.

Buckingham recorded his songs alone in his home, while Nicks and Christine McVie guided their partners through their song contributions without much discussion. Something still clicked, though; "Tusk" sold more than seven million copies, and Buckingham, Nicks and Fleetwood went off to record solo albums. So no one was really ready for "Mirage," a pleasantly communal affair that shows Fleetwood Mac to be a band again, each songwriter borrowing ideas from the others for a mixture of the straighter pop approach of the first two albums and the experiments of "Tusk." "I think after doing the 'Tusk' album surprised a lot of people, sort of kept them guessing," Buckingham says. "They were wondering what we were going to do this time, 'Tusk II' instead of 'Rumours II'? We did something in between, a little more progressive than 'Rumours' but also with a small relationship to the 'Tusk' and my solo ('Law and Order') record. "THE 'TUSK' album was the result of a certain DSO, from Page 1G than 50 meetings of a strategic planning task force headed up by board chairman Walter McCarthy will be submitted to the full board next month "for their concurrence." He declined to elaborate on the plan.

Lobanov says he is extremely satisfied with the progress of the DSO's development campaign. "In the 1980-81 season the campaign brought in $1.8 million," he said. "This past season the total was $2.3 million. And the number of donors increased from 50 to 500. Considering the local economy, we are very pleased." WHEN ANTAL DORATI resigned as music director at the end of the 1980-81 season, Israeli conductor Gary Bertini was appointed interim music adviser for two seasons.

Since this is the final season of Bertini's appointment, it would seem to follow that the new music director will be named sometime this season. Lobanov said no decision had been made on whether to extend Bertini's music adviser's contract for another season, in the event no music director is found before then. Meanwhile, rumors are rife in the music community that the salary the DSO board is offering for a new music director is very high, though no orchestra official would talk about it. One conductor of a major East Coast orchestra, who asked to remain anonymous, joked that "with what they're offering, they could get Toscanini." ONE THING seems certain: DSO board and staff are gradually moving the orchestra toward sound financial management. Providing the caliber of the DSO's performances doesn't erode in the process, that can only be looked upon as a positive sign.

"If you study American orchestras," Lobanov said, "you find that perhaps 10 or so years ago there were really five that were solid institutions: the orchestras of Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Chicago and Cleveland. "Then over the last 10 years other orchestras have sort of stepped up to the plate and moved from the category of being Institutions in difficult financial straits to the category of being solid: Los Angeles, then Pittsburgh, then Minnesota, then San Francisco. "Now it's Detroit's turn at bat." and "Green Manalishi" established Mac as more than a blues combo, and in 1970 Green left to continue playing the blues. Christine McVie, already established as Christine Perfect, hopped aboard for "Kiln House" and the band began a roller coaster of personnel changes. Spencer defected to join the Children of God religious sect, and guitarist Bob Welch joined the band.

Eventually Kirwan left, and vocalist Dave Walker and guitarist Bob Weston floated through the roster. Come 1975, Welch was gone to form a hard rock trio calleu Paris, and Buckingham and Nicks, who had released an album as a duo, were called in for what has so far been the longest running lineup in Fleetwood Mac's history. And the rest, as they say, is history. If the band would call it quits tomorrow, it would still be named in any list of rock trend setters. But the end of Fleetwood Mac is probably some time off.

After the tour, Nicks, Buckingham and Christine McVie are planning to record solo projects, a pressure valve that promotes group harmony by remaining open. "Everyone has to compromise; that's what it is in a group like this," Buckingham says. But he adds: "You have to be serious about selling records. Hopefully you can do it with some degree of taste and some degree of artistry. I've got a nice house I want to keep, but at the same time, I don't want to be a whore." uu HARBOR cm -ti UVION STAQI XXX LJUTMC In WCHnANJ "DESIRE! DAWN' also CO-PUTURI "HIRLV DIAMOND of ropuav uomayKl aal S.1VV .71 Ji XOTIC FRIDAY AMATIUR SHOW howJNA 9MHJM oom EVERY TUESDAY 9 P.M.

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From there, the eclectic electrics only get better. Glass Menagerie charges through the latino-tinged "Chiquita Linda" and a melodic montage called "Observations and Reflections," and guitarist Dean grown and keyboardist Gil Goldstein perform vodals during an interpretation of Earth, Wind and Fire's "Take It to the Sky." Gary Graff briefly noted: Tha Best Quincy Jones A fair but predictable retrospective of Jones' performances and heavy-handed productions, concentrating heavily (seven of 10 songs) on tracks from "The Dude," "Body Heat" and "Sounds and Stuff Like That." At least Jones' penchant for thrusting voices high in the mix makes the compilation a worthy showcase for guests like Patti Austin, the late Minnie Riperton, Chaka Kahn and Ashford -and Simpson. classics: Grieg good; Schumann slack Schumann and Grieg Piano Concertos; Krys--tian Zimerman, pianist; Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert Karajan, conductor; (DG 3302-043); This recording marks the first collaboration between Zimerman "who makes his DSO debut under Gary Bertini next 'May) and Karajan. It's also the first time Karajan has recorded this repertoire since 1949. Zimerman is more successful with Grieg than with Schumann.

His technique is solid, his tone quality 'firm; he brings rhapsodic expansiveness to Grieg's lush score. I In the Schumann he tends to choose plodding -tempos and subscribe to a rather dry, academic 'approach, both of which stunt the. music. He also injects some of his own ideas about dynamic shifts and melodic delineation, most of which do not enhance the -proceedings. I Fashioning an individual interpretation of a work be laudatory, but Zimerman's individuality gets in the way of Schumann's musical message.

He comes -across as a young pianist trying to be different without much musical basis. John Guinn mOViCS: The baby boomers get their stuff Diner Original Movie Soundtrack (Elektra): Marvelously evocative and romantic collection of oldies. Those between the ages of 35 and 40 will particularly go bananas for songs like "Dream Lover" (Bobby Darin), "Come Go with Me" (The Del Vikings), 'Mr. Blue" (The Fleetwoods), "A Teenager in Love" (Dion and the Belmonts), the theme from "A Summer Place," "Dream Lover" (Bobby Darin) and 14 Mighty fine memory tunes for inhabitants of the demographic bulge. Mike Duffy process, the result of my songs being the radical departure and evolving into a different concept of recording, which was basically me at home recording all the instruments.

On the 'Mirage' album, that was something I didn't really want to impose on the group because I had done that on one album and though it succeeded on it was not enough of a community effort. Now I have a solo album and a solo deal. I can go ahead and pursue that process on my own without imposing it on the group." What also happened, more than likely, was that the members of the band particularly the songwriters learned to work with each other. Nicks was accepted as Fleetwood Mac's own siren, a songstress crafting simple love songs and fantasies. Buckingham continued his rhythmic experiments, and Christine McVie continued to write her hybrid blend of blues and rock, taking a few leads from Buckingham for the single, "Hold Me." "It's a chemistry," Buckingham says.

"You've got five people, five big egos. It goes beyond something you can accomplish on a constant level. There was a conscious choice to have much more of a group involvement on my songs and Christine's songs as well." "That's probably why the albums take so long to make, largely because there are probably too many chiefs," Christine says. "It's not just the band members there's also two engineeers to work with. We tend to go back and forth and take a long time to decide on the final product.

It's not push-and-shove in a bad way. That's part of the game, really; if you're going to do something you might as well make it the very best that you can and if we ourselves like it, that's the best we can do." IT TOOK a while for Fleetwood Mac to find this successful chemistry. The band first formed in 1967, when Fleetwood, McVie and guitarist Peter Green split from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers to form Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac. They found guitarists Danny Kirwan and Jeremy Spencer, and as a five-piece outfit they played driving, electric blues that won over the purists. Eventually, singles like "Albatross," "Oh Well" DOWNTOWN orai mm 12N0ON GAEL'S CHOP HOUSE 3020 Grand River Free Parking TE 30700 Nationally known (or serving 4-H Prize Blue Ribbon Steaki and Chops.

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