Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 2, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday february 2. 1976 15 Montreal symphony blows Horn Maclean and Maclean the earthy brother team of comic satirists from Glace Bay n.s., whose club act ran into trouble with the liquor licence Board of Ontario last year now doing a booming business without interference. Blair left and Gary look alike As they Clown around. Singer Robeson s life full of triumphs and controversies by Martin Bernheimer the los Angeles times 1 never heard him in per son Only on records and in films. Bui i will never 1 Orget the sound of Bat voice. Some called it a Bass and it was. Others called it a baritone. Equally Inie. It was huge warm dark vibrant even from top to Bot Tom and like 01 Man River his 01 iian River it just kept rolling. It was t just the voice however that made Paul Robeson a unique artist. The voice was just the t Ounda lion. Ilo Beson Sang Wilh agrees of emotional Fervour with honest y and intelligence that. Made even the simplest Folk song a thing of eloquence. He had everything Simayi nation taste resource Pas Sion. He. Could have Boon a Boris Godunov to rival Chaliapin. He might have brought de Grees of heroic pathos to Phi lip 11 in Don Carlo unmatched by mortal Verdi ans. Lie probably could have in a d e overwhelmingly h u m a n tragic figures of Wagner s bigger than la e gods villains and Kings. But Paul Robeson never Sang opera. When he was ready for it that still Lily w bite institution was not ready for him. Instead lie Sang in concerts gave Reci tals made movies acted in plays lectured wrote and fought. When Robeson died on Jan. 22, a few months Short of his 78lh birthday he was remembered internationally As More great Singer lie was a historical phenom Enon All Anie rican football hero son of a slave Rutgers valedictorian class of 19 poll. Lical activist civil rights Leader lawyer legend. His life it seemed had been a network of incredible triumphs and incredible con Iraq verses. In his late years he suffered from ill health and withdrew from Public involvements. He did not show up for his own 75th birthday party a massive birthday party at Carnegie Hall. But lie did Send a characteristic j. Message on tape i want you to know that i am the same Paul dedicated As Ever to the worldwide cause of humanity for free Domi peace and brotherhood. My heart is with the continuing struggles of my own peo ple for not Only equal rights but an equal share Robeson was a realist. His world was still a troubled world. But significantly he ended message with a quote from the song Oscar hammers Cin a n d Jerome Kern had written for him in show boat nearly a half Cen Tury earlier i keep laughing in Stead of crying i must keep fighting until i m dying and Man River lie just keeps rolling along Robeson s fight Lus per son a 1 fight never really ended. One might have thought that an enlightened modern society would have been Able to put the Man s achieve ments into proper perspective. One might have hoped that the grotesque political myopia of the mos and 50s could at last be regarded As period aberration. But some ghosts lingered. Robeson should have made Hie National football foun Dation Hall of Fame decades ago. He deserved the Honor strictly Lor his prowess As an athlete. Walter Camp who picked All american teams when Robeson was the third Black Ever to at Leml Rutgers called him the greatest defensive end to tread the Grid but the Noble patriots of the Hall of Fame withheld their Blessing even in 1975. They did t like Robeson s politics. It could t have mattered much to Robeson by then. He knew what he had Given the world and he knew what it had Given him. He was an american who loved his country enough to want to live Here and die Here. He would have been a Welcome guest treated with Honor in any number of foreign locales. Ultimately however he preferred to remain in the America that had alternately revered and reviled him. Had every right to be resentful bitter angry. That probably would have been too personal. It was t his Way. In 195g, the House commit tee on in american activities cited him for contempt of Congress. Robeson s Exchange with his accusers poignantly re created incidentally in the play Are you now or have you Ever been turned out to be an unequal match. Our official guardians of Public virtue had governmental Power on i heir Side Robeson had logic wit and decency on his. Robeson spent eight years fighting for his passport which the state department had revoked in retaliation for the Singer s identification with what it considered communist causes. He triumphed w i t h supreme court Aid in 1958 and moved temporarily to England. He considered the move an exer Cise of Freedom and resented anyone calling it self exile. In december 19g3, he re turned. He expressed no rancor to Ward his enemies. I be had a Long life Here America. I be had some difficulties yes i saw plenty of struggle when i played football sometimes i got knocked Down. And then i got up and sometimes i knocked the o t h e r Guy Down. But i always got up and kept going. I knew i was going to finish by Yardena Arak Montreal up this is one hell of a Good orches tra but it s the Best kept secret in the said Bass player Christy Slater of the Montreal symphony orches tra As slip ate a piece of cheese grabbed from a pass ing waiter s Iray. The backstage area of Salle Wilfred Pelletier in downtown place Des arts was an unusual place for a party but is. Slater her 90-Odd colleagues and an assortment of sym phony administrators friends and reporters seemed to be enjoying the wine and Sand Wiches at an informal open House held this week to launch a fund raising drive. On stage symphony officials and chief musicians posed for photographs around piano on which pianist armas Maiste set aside Beethoven and Mahler to rattle off some up Tempo jazz and a playfully garbled ver Sion of a Chopin Waltz. Musicians identified b y tags bearing their name and instrument were eager to talk of the symphony s complis ments and prospects As Well As their own activities is Slater who also teaches at the University of Montreal said a symphony has to play in other places be sides Montreal Toronto and Ottawa to establish itself internationally. This May the Montreal symphony is to tour Europe after playing at new York s Carnegie Hall she said adding we re going to blow the roof off although the symphony s reputation was recently enhanced by a series of con certs conducted by Zumm Mehta Israel s world famous Maestro is. Slater War much More enthusiastic about performing under Rafael Ruhbeck de Bourgos the or Chestra s own music director who is currently away on a tour. Working under or. Fruh Beck de Bourgos a native of Spain is the fruition of a musician s she said. Violinist Isaac Braunlein who described himself As the sole survivor of the original symphony founded by sir Wilfred Pellet our in 1935, said lie remembered the really hard times the group had when it started during the de pression years. Now we have reached a very very High he said proudly. He recalled recording the Faure requiem with the or Chestra under sir Wilfred Many years came to Montreal from Rumania in 1910 at the age of seven and he played music for silent movies in local theatres. Then came the he said somewhat wistfully. The theme of thu sym phony s fund raising drive to he held feb. 1-15, is a great City is entitled to a great the symphony plays two series of evening concerts and matinees at place Des arts As Well As free concerts top mount Hoyal and at Man and his world the site of expo g7. 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