Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 15, 1965, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday. November 15, 1965 a review by Ken Winters the process reversed pm concert Smurda a flit auditorium. Or. In Rholer and lir mice pro rom of Short by or n a ill rear torts de Urnari Fialla of Uidl Janna Qulin Larrr Trale work Laud to the nativity put 63. Of Trahim and a variety of Fulk Kosct and by Ken Winters Roger Wagner and his musicians let me Down a Little this starting today 12 noon to 9 . Daily seventh annual exhibition and Sale 125 original Oil paintings by the Well known group of 17 european artists and colleagues represented by h. Darwin a wonderful and lasting Christmas gift in spite of increasing prices everywhere we Are still Able to maintain our same Low prices Lor this exhibition because we prefer to sell More paintings at popu Lar prices rather than very Lew at High prices. Therefore our selection this year is enormous. You will find Beautiful landscapes and seascapes interesting City scenes and portraits As Well As colourful Flowers and still lifts in traditional and contemporary styles. Price pict 29x41 prices include frames Rose room the Marlborough hotel Winnipeg last Day saturday nov. 20th free admission free catalogue to recover your old Chesterfield treat yourself to a Beautiful new Chesterfield and chair i direct to you puts hour of no longer Are you forced to judge on appearance alone at National you can see for your self the top Quality in Side your furniture. Factory direct to you Means unlimited Choice of styles designs fabrics or colors expertly made by skilled craftsmen. Yet it costs you less. Will Ilio do Iii to your it no extra Chi tit. Only i Luction Workmo Thip guaranty to. Your Trade is your Down payment it pay shipping Charcos a tract written Money Back Carantit free parking free thank you 618 Arlington 9 . To 9 . Phone 775-4426 visit. I still think or. Wagner s choir one of the Best choral us St Ruments on this continent a phenomenon of. Discipline preparedness vigor and personality. The last time i heard it How. Ever. I Felt that or. Wagner had entirely mastered the vulgar Streak in his musical nature so that while it was not completely i gone indeed one would not wish j it gone for All music needs a i foot on the common Earth it nevertheless was kept in its place. Saturday night i Felt it was not being kept in its place. It was much in evidence but by occasionally in its Best form. I have no wish to derogate Vul Garity. If for instance the great Johann Sebastian Bach had not had his feet firmly planted upon the same rough soil that supports other mortal men there would have been a Good Deal less remarkable in his touching the hand of god. It was Bach s close Contact with the tilings of this Earth that made the height of his reach awesome. But it was also the never relenting Persis tence of his reach that sanctified his cart Hinss made his Vul Garity respectable in the Genu Ine in mocking sense of that i justly deprecated word. The common touch is As Neces sary to or. Wagner As it is to any musician who Hopes to get his music out of his head and into someone else s. Music is physical As Well As spiritual emotional As Well As intellectual. But the Best musicians have always been those who can make us feel the blood coursing through the veins of strict High formal music and unearth the Gold in free informal common music. The performer at the top of his Art is the one who can make timelessness and immediacy the same thing who by the Range of his insight can take us bodily with him into the heavens of the High est music and awaken our Spir its to the astonishing Beauty that Flowers so unexpectedly in the soil of the humblest. Last time the Wagner sing ers were Here i Felt they were close to doing that. More than other groups of their kind they made old music live and new music Fine. This time with a few delightful exceptions they reversed the process. Their ancient music tended to be Admir Able and Fine but Remote their modern tended to be amusing and immediate but coarse. I Don t mean to suggest that anything was badly Sung. Exec timely there was virtually Noth ing to criticize. The voices of the choir arc marvellously blended and balanced and one is continually impressed by the ability of one or another of the choristers to convert himself into a distinguished and responsible and altogether accept Dale soloist when the music demands it. The ques Tion saturday was never one of execution. The arguable matters were All stylistic. To litre was no trouble when the music by its nature combined the spiritual and the temporal As in the Gollus Handl alleluia in which a Blaze of musical exal tation was Flung up by a division of the Wagner forces into three prompt and vigorous choirs and two obedient and skilful orches tras. Delightful too. Were the five Lovesong Waltzes from Brahms opus c5, which Sung in Good tune with warm feeling and sufficient finesse could hardly fail to please. The trouble came in the austere 16th and 17th Century music of Victoria Nanini de Lienus and Lassus on the one hand and in the Folk and popu Lar music on the other hand. The former was allowed to sound pure but Dusty the latter was cheap ened mainly through fancy or flashy Tricky or sugar Sweet arrangements for several of which or. Wagner was i am sorry to say personally responsible. You might think that a Musi Cian As thoroughly exposed As or. Wagner has been to the achievements of the world s most distinguished choral writers would be conditioned to avoid the worst Pitfalls of choral arrangement and would know How to treat songs like fryre Jacques a Clar de la Lune aloud Etc and Shenandoah the melodies arc quite wonderful and or. Wag Ner s singers Are quite wonderful and or. Wagner had Only to bring the two together simply to impress us. Win us and touch us deeply. Instead he had to spoil it All by being cute with his sound effects and obtuse with his harmonics Irvi All of the Folk music sounded made in Hollywood. But at least i some of the old music sounded Fine and fresh. I did enjoy the Afore mentioned alleluia the i glorious Monteverdi Madrigal. Senel partier de Voi and Janne Quin s irrepressible irresistible a Joly Jcu do Pousso Avant. In these or. Wagner unbent dug deep worked magnificently and conveyed life. The one Large work on the pro pram. Re Spighi s Laud to the nativity was not a Success but the blame for that i Felt. Lay mainly with a Spighi. The music of it. Like so much of re Spighi neither is nor in t modern. It i is astringent enough to miss be ing 1 o v e 1 y and sentimental enough to miss being Strong. A i tedious work. Bee population a swarm of bees at a Maxi mum Point has a population of about chinese Power declines Montreal Wil Liam Griffith director of a project on International communism at the Massachusetts Institute of technology and pro Fessor of soviet diplomacy at Tufts University said last week the United states position on Viet Nam is the key to a dra Matic decline of chinese communist influence All Over the world. Speaking at a session of the Mcgill University conference on world a Falls or. Griffith said China has lost face by not being Able to Back up the Viet Cong and North Viet Nam with Mili tary assistance and that its in fluence i has i taken a plunge throughout Asia and Africa. Or. Griffith said that in at tempting to gain influence among the emerging nations of the world peking has overestimated the Selling Power of communist ideology and under estimated the extent of Paro Chial National or religious sentiments. He said these senti ments have caused a significant reversal of left whig trends in countries like Algeria and indo Nesia. R. Another speaker at the meet ing or. John Kautsky proves shown Sor of political science at Washington University in St. Louis said the soviet Union has abandoned the concept of world wide communist revolution y lie said Moscow has itself willing time and again to co operate with countries which have clamped Down on its communist parties. One of the most dramatic examples of this is its co operation with the egyptian government under Nasser said or. Kautsky. 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