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Symphony mixes mischief and melancholy
by Kevin Barris
Staff Writer
The large crowd which packed
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treated to an excellent performance by
the North Carolina Symphony and
soloists Beverly Wolff and William
Brown.
From the Haydnesque opening of the
Schubert Symphony No. 1 in D Major
to the final sad tones of Mahler's Das
Lied von der Erde (Song of the Earth)
the concert was a tremendous musical
success.
Aesthetically it was somewhat less
pleasing, for the stage setting gave the
impression of an impromptu concert
given in an alley beside some warehouse.
Throughout the Schubert symphony the
audience in the right orchestra section
was assaulted by the glare of what might
have been an obnoxious porch light.
Opening with the cheerful
composition Schubert wrote at age 16,
the Symphony provided a bit of light
hearted fantasy to balance the
despairing tones of the Mahler piece to
follow.
The Symphony's romp through the
Schubert work was refreshing and
obviously enjoyed by the audience. The
piece itself is suggestive of a conflict
between work and play, with fun and
frolic winning out. The first and fourth
movements, both with tempo marked
allegro vivace, were the most vibrant.
In the first movement an opening
violin melody gave way to a second foot-
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tapping violin tune. The violins opened
the fourth movement with a melody of
mischief and, when the rest of the
orchestra joined, the chase Was on until
the exciting finale.
The orchestra displayed excellent
sensitivity- during the andante
movement. At times the harmony
provided by the violas and cellos was
breathtaking, which prevented the
Staff photo by Bill Russ
movement from becoming just another
dull andante.
The overall performance of the
Schubert symphony was highlighted by
the work of the strings. Except for an
occasional outburst by the brass,
conductor John Gosling had his troops
under control.
After intermission the porch light
went out and the orchestra and soloists
settled down to the serious work of the
night, the Mahler Das Lied von der
Erde.
In the opening, nightmarish Drinking
Song of Earth's Misery, tenor Brown
sets the tone:
When care draws near, the
gardens of the soul lie waste,
Joy and singing fade away and die.
Dark is life; dark is death!
The piece which Mahler considered
more a symphony than a choral work, is
so depressing that Mahler himself
worried, "Is it bearable?"
No one leapt from the balcony, but
the work was very emotional. Mezzo
sopranoWolff provided highlights with
her performances in the second
(Autumn Loneliness) and final
(Farewell) movements. Her tremendous
sensitivity brought out the quiet despair
in both Wolffs. Wolffs intonations in
the final, melancholy notes left little
doubt that Mahler was a depressed man
when he wrote it.
Orchestra and soloists usually mixed
well, although at times it was difficult to
hear Brown. Gosling kept the orchestra
under proper dynamic control to best
underline the soloists.
Although both Wolff and Brown gave
excellent performances, the real star of
the night was the North Carolina
Symphony. Showing why it has recently
been recognized as a major orchestra in
this country (and will soon give a
concert in Carnegie Hall), the
Symphony was superb.
Carolina Quarterly: a mass of white shaipes
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Carolina Quarterly Winter 1977
by Marianne Hansen
Staff Writer
The cover of the winter 1977 issue of the
Carolina Quarterly, a montage of snow flake
forms by James Bradner, might be
considered a graphic representation of the
volume's contents. There is a mass of white
shapes, but there are too many of them for
comfort, and they are hard to tell apart. One
snowflake stands out amidst the others,
intricate and unusual.
Most of the stories and poems are like the
cover design competent, but
undistinguished except for a single element.
Lipsitz's Neurotic Woman is a good
example full of clever lines that might have
been written by almost anyone about almost
anything, redeemed only by the sudden
picture of the woman's children:
"their heavy, demanding faces, their dead
weight of sandbags piled high to keep her
from flooding wildly over everything."
Gudnowska's 'You Ask Me, Wnuczka' is
marred by unresolved difficulties with a
shifting point of view, but is a fine example
of careful, thoughtful characterization.
Some of the works are simply bad. Among
these are ones by poets who write of matters
so intensely personal that the reader, who
isn't acquainted with them, cannot tell what
they're talking about. It may be interesting to
know that Gordon Ball's "knowledge of
history overwhelms (him)," in Yr 20th
liirihday or that Edgar Adcock, Jr. has an
intimate and enduring relationship with an
unspecified other in Anniversary Curtain
(assuming that the "I" of these poems is the
poet, and 1 suspect it is), but this does not tell
the reader much about the people in the
poems or exactly what's important about
them.
Other writers discuss experiences many
people have, such as a distressing malaise
following intense concentration on academic
matters (Stanton's After English
Examinations), or being or knowing an
adolescent female who was popular in high
school (Smith's excerpt from Black
Mountain Breakdown. Unfortunately, the
writers lack either the perception or the
literary skill to renew these experiences for
the reader. The result is boring.
There is, in spite of all this, some very good
work in the Quarterly. The stylistic freedom
of Shelnutt's prose piece Good stands out, as
does the lovely correlation between form and
content in Rabb's Reaping. Work Song by
Gingher, is a happy-ending fantasy full of
charming characters one wishes were true.
Ketchum's Lulu combines an affectionate
statement about a back-to-the-land couple
with an understated, pleasant exploration of
language: a cat who "jumped to sit fixing
his ears in the corn, hibbled in sunset."
Sander's Walking to Sleep is a marvelous
finale to the selection of prose fiction
sensitive and well-handled.
Like the snowfall of its cover, the winter
1977 issue of the Quarterly has good and bad
elements. While some pieces were vague and
indistinct, the beautiful execution of others
makes the issue worthwhile.
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