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Young keeps music simple By VALERIE VAN ARSDALE Staff Writer "Ladies and Gentlemen, Jesse Colin Young, the announcer said. Young strode on stage with a half-cowboy gait and greeted the audience with a hearty mountain-man wave. Picking up his guitar, he looked up and stated simply, "We'll be playing some songs tonight, and I hope they touch you in some way." And we were moved, Jesse-even if it was just to the point of appreciation for a performer who gives the best of himself. In giving the best of himself, he inspires the best in his fellow musicians. And that, in turn, inspires us, the audience, to understand the best in the music: the messages of love, understanding and joy that Young conveys. Thus, the concert Thursday night was not particularly exciting or powerful; the power of Young's music is its simplicity, its fluid, melodic qualities and his characteristic, warm voice. If the audience seemed lifeless for the first half of the set it is understandable, for many of the subtleties of the music were lost in that cavernous acoustic wasteland that is Carmichael Auditorium. As soon as we realized that there was not a thing to be done about the acoustics, the concert grew funkier and more intimate. The flowing flute introduction to "Songbird" drew pleased applause from the crowd. The remainder of Young's concert was several tunes from the new Love on the Wing album and an assorted batch of earlier material. The biggest surprise of the evening was the concert-closing "Get Together"; it was the most powerful moment of the performance Tuesday, April 26. 1977 The Daily Tar Heel 5 ( J' : . Fv mam 4t if -- i Jesse Colin Young performed before a small audience in Carmichael Auditorium Thursday night. His lilting, melodic style received two encores, culminating in a surprise rendition of "Get Together." Staff photo by Joseph Thomas. with Young's band creating an intimate Youngbloods' style in their rendition The band performed admirably under the echo-prone conditions (to say the least) of Carmichael. Young's sax and flute player, Jim Rothermel ("the man who plays everything else"), had a particularly good evening, playing the flute like he was born with it to his lips. Suzi Young, Jesse's wife. provided background vocals. Though not an exceptionally strong singer, she was an interesting symbol on stage, dressed in flowing white standing next to Jesse. And then there was Jesse smiling, singing, playing the guitar like he was the happiest man in the world. Listen to the music, he said, "it's my favorite way to get high, really." Lipsitz: poetry releases emotion Area Concerts Courtesy WXYC-FM Artists Dates Location Pink Floyd April 26 The Omni, Atlanta Jesse Colin Young April 26 Charlotte Park Center Loudon Wainwright April 27 Stewart Theatre, Raleigh Tom Jones April 29 Dorton Arena, Raleigh w Lynyrd Skynard April 29 Charlotte Coliseum Lynyrd Skynard April 30 Cumberland County Memorial Auditorium, Fayetteville Tom Chapin . April 30 Mars Hill, N.C. Neil Diamond May 2 Charlotte Coliseum Neil Diamond May 3 Greensboro Coliseum Greg Allman Band May 3 , Triad Arena, Greensboro Mike Cross May 5-7 The Pier, Raleigh Tom Chapin May 7 Davidson College The Kinks May 6 Fox Theatre, Atlanta The Spinners May 7 Charlotte Coliseum Utopia, with Todd Rundgren May 12-13 Warner Theatre, Washington, D.C. Lynrd Skynrd . May 13 Greensboro Coliseum Sea Level May 13 Charlotte, N.C. Starbuck May 14 Carowinds, Charlotte Boston May 14 Greensboro Coliseum Summer Concert Happenings Average White Band May 21 The Scope, Norfolk, Va. The Sylvers May 21 Charlotte Coliseum Led Zeppelin May 23 Greensboro Coliseum Chick Corea May 25 Chrysler Hall, Norfolk, Va. Fleetwood Mac May 25 Charlotte Coliseum Chick Corea May 26 Ovens Auditorium, Charlotte Rufus, featuring Chaka Khan May 31 Winston-Salem, N.C. The O'Jays ; June 4 Charlotte Coliseum The O'Jays June 5 Greensboro Coliseum The O'Jays June 9 Dorton Arena, Raleigh The. Four Seasons, featuring Frankie Valli July 5-7 Charlotte, N.C. Boz Scaggs July 18 Capital Center, Largo, Md. Yes, featuring the return of Rick Wakeman August 15 Hampton Roads, Va. Yes, featuring the return of Rick Wakeman August 16 Capital Center, Largo, Md. REFLECTIONS ON SAMSON by Lewis Lipsitz Kayak Books, Santa Cruz, California 1977. 42 pp. illus. $2.40 By MARIANNE HANSEN Staff Writer How does one explain a university political science professor who has just published his second book of poetry? This is the strange position Lewis Lipsitz occupies. He was a writer to begin with, he says, with interests in both poetry and politics going back to high school. His first book of poems was Cold Water, a collection he describes as "a young man's book" of "surrealistic and urban poems" which were heavily influenced by Spanish and Russian poets of the late 50s and early 60s. , Then there was a literary blank period it was 10 years between books which included several years in which Lipsitz actually forced himself to stop writing. book review Those years were not really nonproductive; single poems appeared in a number of magazines and textbooks, and other political works were published. Lipsitz returned to poetry for several reasons. He says he writes for the recognition he gets with other people reading and reacting to his poetry and because writing provides him with an emotional outlet. Many of the poems in his new book, Reflections on Samson, do appear to be attempts at emotional release. Some succeed as literature, some fail, with the differentiating factor being how much he reveals to the reader. At worst, Lipsitz refuses to share enough, and the poems become either confusing, with the reader unable to tell what events sparked the emotion the poems contain, or cold and distant, refusing to say anything important about how the poet views his own experience. This sort of poem is exemplified by "A Year" which handles, in a vague way, Dr. Lewis Lipsitz the "loss" of a year through misunderstanding and misuse of the period. Unfortunately that is all the reader knows. There is no way to get close to the poet. Some of the poems do not suffer from this defect. Occasionally Lipsitz draws on his own experience and is still able to make contact with the reader. The poem "On the Day My Father Would Have Been 62 Years Old," is clear, moving and artistically well handled. Technical proficiency also varies from poem to poem. Often the language is marvelous. It is careful and includes lovely images and new and personal pictures. Unfortunately the demonstration of this ability is not consistent. In the middle of reasonably good writing, one suddenly finds clumsy, or worse, obviously contrived constructions. Some of the lines are painfully self-conscious. In "The Neurotic Woman" one finds the lines, "Oh boring nature I wish I could Just punch your clock." While the carefully constructed and honest poems are excellent, Lipsitz is also very good at ironic and intellectual treatments, playing with words and discussing ideas (many of them stemming from his background in politics). "Heart" and "Nose" are good examples of these less personal poems, as "A Dull Tree" is of a lighter, more clever approach. Synthesis of personal experience and irony pops up occasionally and satisfyingly. "Mr. Love" is a poem about transition processes in immigrant families (Mr. Love has changed his name from Zaslovsky) which arose from a real incident involving Lipsitz's grandmother.) Reflections on Samson is a confusing book, uneven in quality, but containing occasional poems or lines which make wading through the lesser material worthwhile. As Lipsitz himself writes, the "In Memory of George Lewis, Great ' Jazzman": Alright There is a frailness in all our music Sometimes it it goes bad Sometimes we're broken and it's lost Sometimes we've held to it and it's there to break out walking back from the end. publications Continued from page V. (of subsidization), the only way to do it is strangle nonprinting groups or increase fees. "Next year it may be put to the voters." An increase in fees first must be approved by a two-thirds vote in a student referendum. Black Ink editors said CGC members should look at how an organization invests its allocation before granting a group more money. "A lot of publications expect a handout; they operate on the CGC allocation and LET US HELP YOU PLAN AHEAD TO BECOME A CPA CPA REVIEW CHARLOTTE 704-375-3051 A nothing else," said Allen Johnson, former Black Ink editor. "We took the money CGC gave us and increased it significantly." Black Ink staffers held fund-raising events to raise $3,000 to supplement their $4,200 appropriation last year. For the 1977-78 academic year, Black Ink received $6,000. The Yack was the only publication that requested less money than it received last year. The Yack asked for $2,000 less, but the Finance Committee still recommended a $3,000 cut in the Yack's budget request. CGC members restored $2,900 of that at the April 19 meeting. "The prolifereation of publications has hurt the Yack," he said. 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