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THE ARCUS ■jT PACE 3 BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC HAKES FIRST U S. RECORD SHOSTAKOVICH SEVENTH ' B y R o b e rt D. S c h a ffer There shall, no doubt, be considerable interest shown by Buffalpnians in the recentlyrreleased recording of Shostakovich’s Seventh, r r “Leningrad” Symphony' This recording, and the only one yet made by any commercial record company in the U nited States, has the unusual feature of b eing performed by our own Buffalo Philharm o nic O rchestra under the direction of its conductor, 'William Steinberg. Here are tlje vital statistics. The “Seventh” was played for the first tim e by the Buffalo Philharm o n ic during the past concert season. Early in the spring it was recorded by M usicraft Records in the home of the Phil harmonic, -Kleinhans Music Hall. The recording sessions lasted several days and were religiously supervised by Maestro Stein berg. The complete work, the longest of Shostakovich’s nine symphonies, takes up sixteen record sides. The records are packaged in an attractive, pi'actical, boxed album, w ith highly interesting comm entary on both the music and the performers. As for the recording itself, * after spending several hours listening to it, we can report a quite favorable response. The over-all job, however, is m arked by a characteristic spottiness; th a t is, there a re good spots, and sadly enough — bad spots. This refer \both- racord. the whole work, m u st be given credit for very distingiiished musicianship. The long work bears up well under the driving baton of Steinberg and it is he who m u st be given full credit for a stirr- Lectur^’Series At The Albright I?r. Andrew C. Ritchie direc tor of the A lbright A rt Gallery, a n n o u n c e that the art of Asia will be discussed in « series of evening le ^ r e s , free to the public.' The lecturer, Roger Squire, 'first spoke on W e d n e s' day evening, October . 8,' o n ^ “Indian Temples and Sculp tures”, and will speak again on October 15 «t 8 P. M. on “The A rts of Islam.” The lectures will be given on alternate W ednesday evenings thrw i^h October and November in the G allery’s Hemicycle. Since the building is-open until 10 P. M. on Wednesdays, lec ture guests will have an oppor tunity'^to view current exhibi tions before and after the talks. ^ Dr. K a therine B. Neilson, curator of education of the gallery, began a series of lec tures October 6, entitled AN CESTORS AND CONTEMP ORARIES: A P U R V E Y OF AMERICAN a TIT. The first, “Intrciduction; A rt for Amer- day interest in cartooriS, ftioga-;, zines, illustrations, and comic strips, with the artistic taste and standards of earlier gener ations. On October 20, the second lecture of Dr. Neilson’s series of six, “Pioneers and Patriots,” will highlight the beginnings of a r t in this country, covering American painting from its modest origin in the 17 th century, to the era of'W ashing ton, when Copley, Stuart and Trum b u ll w ere recording the imposing likenesses and victor ious campaigns of our fore fathers. This series of lectures will be given in the Gallery Hemicycle on alternate Mon day afternoons at 4 o’clock, for gallery members and their friends. ^ “ REEL” RUSSIAN COMPLICATIONS W ith drooling jaw s agape, the bloodhounds of the Red-baiters have invaded the entertainm e n t field baying “Communist!” All things Russian are now suspect. , T he rut-bound conservative expects the Communist ideology- to infiltrate the Democratic ranks even through the realm -of art. G ranted there have been attem p ts along this line, as witness the recent Ivan, The Terrible, but since w h en has a corruption of history caused the artistic failure of a sincere literary or theatrical work? Shakespeare enobled Marc Anthony; Marlowe subdued the bloodier aspects of Tamburlaine; the Russians endowed their Ivan with such a cloak of holiness and good-intentions that he was unrecognizable as an historic reproduction, that is, as the .m ilitary butchec. all three actually were. The audience is expected to bring some degree of intelligence w ith it to the theatre (or a t least was in the past). It should be capable of separating fact from fiction, and judging fiction on its own merits. Closely involved w ith the question of tolerance in the the atre is the advent of another RusMan film on A m erican shores, Russian Ballerina. At present, in NYC, it is arousing a great deal of critical comment, most of it laudatory, and most of if with stressing the fact that the film is “straight erttertainm ent, ho attem p ts to sell the Communist line. Unfortunately, the movie \im r ^ u c tio n ; a t i lo r \ ‘“ “ r l L i j i shown in many theatres outside of New York because leans, contrasted our present ^ .. d ? or icin- .a black m a rk ?iteinst °\y su'-h in ing itself and the performance^, The record surfaces varied from poor to very TOod. There, were only three sidM in our set that we would c lassi^ as ob jectionable.' A good treble con trol on your phonograph, how ever, would m aterially reduce any surface noise that might be present. Now and again, also, we not iced a wrong note, or a clinker, but on the whole the players were in top form. The french horns stood out as conbtributing some fine work. Shostakovich’s solos for flute, bassoon and oboe w ere handled particularly well by the respect ive Philharm o n ic musicians. And last, but not least, the per cussion section, which figures so very prom inantly throughout WANT ADS WANTED: Reliable person to take small boy from nursery school to 71 Woodlawn Avenue, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday noon. W rite MTs. B ar ton Bean, College Mail. ing, dynamic performance. He keeps the ^ensemble unusually taut, w im Pne or two except ions. The result seems to be a unity, a coherence, to his read ing of the score that less gifted conductors would find difficulty in achieving. The general orchestral tone and color is little less than ex traordinary for the Philharm o nic. The acoustics of Kleinhans Music Hall make the sound big and resonant. Many times we had little trouble indeed con vincing ourselves that we were listening to a superb musical ensemble. In conclusion, we could ’ only feel that this vvas the beginning of a long line of superb musical presentations by the Buffalo Philharm o nic O rchestra on re cords, and we are in complete agreem ent w ith those who say that no true record library will be w ithout a copy of this work. ■ (The album Is MusicrafkM83, retailing at $10.50 and it comes in autom atic sequence for drop record-changers.) WANTED; Ad solicitors for the ARGUS. We pay 10% com-' mission on all ads sold. See Eugene Denne or John Sommer. m\\m\VI JEWELERS Diamonds - Watches Jewelry Pens - Pencils Repairing 47 University Plaza BUFFALO, N. Y. AMherst 8381 Brown ^ (o r Sales, Inc. Sales NASH Service Showroom 2780 Delaware A v e .. Kenmore 17. N. Y. BANC! BANG! BANC! BANC! ~Dctr-;5L4o26 — Buffalo So ciety of A rtSfeHExhibitton Oct. 5 to 31 — 'VreSaHat-Ly m a n M emorial Show Oct. 11 to 30 — Social Life in the 1880’s (a photographic exhibit.) ©et. 12 to Nov. 2 — Signifi cant W ar \Scenes these w itch-hunting days. That the movie has no ideological basis is attested to by reviews from such journals as the Herald-Tribune and the World- Telegram. The stodgy big brother of them all, the New York Tim es, after the usual inspection found only that “the nature of artistic expression is a good bit more classical than it is In an average Hollywood job. ” And Variety, speaking forJtJ>e leery exhibitor, asserts that the film “can be exploited inTSgood box- office ■. . . on the strength of its ballet aspects,” predicting an enthusiastic reception from balletomanes. The film simply describes the life of a ballerina, and in the process Includes lengthy excerpts from “Sleeping Beauty and “Swan Lake,” the latter danced by the brilliant Galina Ulanova, The Corps de Ballet of the Leningrad State Theatre of Opera and Ballet is featured. Mr. Lloyd M. Mills, m anager ot the Midtown, is willing to bring fhe film to Buffalo. But he is understandably hesitant after the poor receipts accorded Ivan and The Stone Flower (another piece that demonstrated the Russians' ability to sepa rate politics and art ). Undoubtedly,- their weak reception was not merely the result of a lack of general interest in foreign films. If enough requests are sept to the Midtown that the film be shown, Mr. Mills will schedule it. On the other hand, silence will be interpreted as indifference. Those who considershow ing the film too hearty a gesture toward our one-time “allies” are invited to send in their comments, too. Their letters will be weighed in the balance. The answer, lies in the actual degree of our much-tou'ted liberality. VISIT THE AHHERST DINER Kenmbre near Main — Near Campus A Revolver and Rifle Club is being organized by the Vet^ Club. For those students who are interested in target pnqctice instruction in pistol and rifle target shooting \^ill be provid ed. Those interested may con tact Vets Club representatives in the lobby of Norton Ilhion. M atinee rates are now avail able for UB students at the Mid town Theater at all . times, an nounced m anager Lloyd M Mills recently. W ith the presen tation of a Norton Union earth a student is adm itted for 401 cents on week days and 50 cents on -jSatnjxiays, Sundays and holida^Sl^ The Lackawanna-University of Buffalo Club will liold its first annual dance Nov. 15 Memorial Hall. Peter Fernandez is general chairman. ANNOUNCING VETERANS’ WIVES’ CLUB TEA To Be Held In The West Room, Noiton Union On October 24. 1947 7:45 P.M. ALL ARE WELCOME WEDDING CQIEMONIES Beaiuifully Photographed In Bridal Albums Ralph Winter Rl. 5466 GOOD FOOD at PO P U L A R PRICES Meals 11:30 A.M.— 8:00 P.M. Short Orders Any Time S T A R T S TU E S D A Y , OCTOBER 14iht ANNOUNCING THE RE-OPENINC OF THE CAFE MASQUE ON NOVEMBER 1 1 T T E R M A N S \V ContV 11 ;30 A ? ^ .
