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Friday, September 23, 1983The Daily Tar Heel5
series oes
ins
with pianist
Leon Bates
By JEFF GROVE
Arts Editor
The Carolina Concert Series will begin
its ambitious second season Sunday, when
pianist Leon Bates gives a recital at 4 p.m.
in Memorial Hall.
Bates, a musiqprofessor at the Universi
ty of Delaware, maintains an exhausting
concert schedule. In addition to playing in
the United States, he has appeared in
Europe and Africa.
For his Chapel Hill concert, Bates will
perform Maurice Ravel's Gaspard de la
nuit and Sonatina and Sergei
Rachmaninoff's Sonata No. 2 in B-flat
minor and excerpts from his "Etudes
Tableaux.
Bates, 33, was born in Philadelphia to
parents of no real musical background. He
began studying piano and violin when he
was six, and his keyboard instructors in
cluded Irene Beck and Natalie Hinderas.
He turned down the offer of a scholarship
to the Curtis Institute to study wjfh
Hinderas at Temple University. He has
won numerous piano competitions and ap
peared in many major concert halls, so
music critics are hailing the young per
former as one of today's most promising
soloists. Bates has recorded two albums
and will make a third this year.
'Einstein' enjoyable though flawed
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Leon Bates, a concert pianist and weightlifter, opens the Carolina Con
cert Series second season on Sunday in Memorial Hall.
In articles for music journals he demon
strates an extreme sensitivity to composers'
wishes yet has distinct opinions of his own.
In concert, he makes a physical impression
'as striking as his musical impression
because of his unique hobby body
building.
Lifting weights may have given Bates a
body like Arnold Schwarzenegger's, but
there are other advantages to this training
regimen, as he told Keyboard Classics
magazine this summer. "I'm not into
weight-training with the idea of enhancing
my playing," he said, "but I can feel a
direct result."
Bates said in the interview that lifting
weights gives him an endurance which
helps him survive concerts that would ex
haust other performers. "The one exercise
I don't do is the wrist curl (flexing the
wrists with weights)," he said, "because I
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However powerful he may appear, his
playing will still be the drawing card for
the concert. He is already on the rise to
fame; people who attend his concerts will
be able to say, "I remember when. . . ."
Individual tickets for Leon Bates' con
cert are $6.50 and are available at the
Carolina Union box office between noon
and 6 p.m. weekdays.
Season tickets for the Carolina Concert
series, which will also feature Carlos Mon
toya, the Deller Consort, the Gewandhaus
Bach Orchestra and Phillipe Entremont
with the New Orleans Philharmonic, will
be available until concert time Sunday.
Prices are $24.50 for students and senior
citizens and $29.50 for the public. For
more information, call 962-1449.
By STEVE CARR
Staff Writer
Physicists don't seem like they would have the kind of charisma
that would fuel a one-man play, so it is a tribute to the originality
of character actor Ed Metzger and his wife, Laya Gelff , that they
wrote such an entertaining and thought-provoking work as Albert
Einstein: The Practical Bohemian. Metzger performed the play
Wednesday in Memorial Hall.
Although the play deals with most of Einstein's life, it is really a
series of representative vignettes told by an elderly man looking
back on his past. The first act covers Einstein's early life in Ger
many, while the second reveals his life in the United States, after
he was exiled during Hitler's rise to power.
Review
One of the play's many strong points is its ability to make Ein
stein's theories viable to theatergoers, then to blend those theories
with a warm, funny and sensitive man and create a very perceptive
portrait of a human being. In one humorous scene, Einstein ex
plains his theory of relativity by comparing the subjective amount
of time that passes between sitting next to a pretty girl for one
minute and sitting on a hot stove for one minute. But the play is
not all scientific humor later on Einstein recalls the last conver
sation he had with his first son, and how there was never a
closeness between them.
For all the touching and funny scenes, there were still some
awkward moments and even a few flaws. Some of the mishaps
Lebanon
that occurred Wednesday night were purely technical. Memorial
Auditorium is a very poor theater; its squeaking seats and lack of
soundproofing were a real distraction from the intimacy which
Metzger commanded in his portrayal. Metzger also had to fight
off a few unintentional sound effects which culminated in an ob
noxious computerized burp from the sound system. But these an
noyances occurred at the beginning of the play and were largely
offset by the quality of the play itself.
Metzger' s speech and actions were very impressive, but his Ger
man accent sometimes slipped into something a little more
American. Still, his projection of humor and sadness was very
convincing.
While 4he play as a whole is quite successful, it does contain
some major holes in its seams. The point of view is sometimes
obscured, making it ambiguous as to whether Einstein is merely
recounting these events or actually living through them.
Perhaps the play's biggest flaw, unfortunately, comes at its
closing. Einstein is listening to his favorite Mozart piano concerto
over the radio when it is announced that the atomic bomb has
been dropped. The play ends by showing Einstein sitting in a chair
stunned and defeated by something he never intended to become
a part of. The scene has tremendous emotional impact, but it is
hardly sufficient in resolving a truly great man's life. If the play
indeed covers the span of his whole life, then it needs some sort of
epiphany to describe his last 10 years after the bomb was dropped.
If there were one last scene to show how Einstein specifically was
affected, it would easily add to the finality of his personal tragedy.
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and Palestinian positions, but American carrier
jets have been confined to reconnaissance flights "
so far.
Two other French soldiers were wounded by a
grenade Thursday, and the shelling which trig-,
gered the air attack also blew up an Italian am-.
munition dump. But no Italian casualties were
reported.
U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcats from the carrier
Eisenhower vmade reconnaissance passes over
Beirut and the nearby mountain battle area. But
the guns of the U.S. Navy task force off the
Beirut beaches were silent following barrages at
midnight and 3 a.m. in retaliation for the sec
ond night of shelling around the residences of
U.S. Ambassador Robert Dillon and President
Amin Gemayel in the eastern suburb of Baabda.
The United States has backed the Lebanese
army in its fight to hang on to Souk el-Gharb.
Loss of the city would be severe setback for the
embattled army and for the Gemayel govern
ment. The battleship New Jersey was to join the
U.S. armada Friday.
Some 2,000 Druse rallied near the seaside
ruins of the American Embassy in a Druse
neighborhood of west Beirut. Some of them
carried banners proclaiming "Druse are not
your enemies, don't make us your targets."
. A four-man delegation met with Robert
Pugh, Dillon's chief deputy, and presented an
appeal to "the mightiest nuclear power in the
world" not to "wage war against the smallest
religious community in the Arab world."
On the diplomatic front, Saudi Prince Bandar
bin Sultan and U.S. presidential envoy Robert
C. McFarlane flew from Saudi Arabia to
Damascus.
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