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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (July 20, 1978)
Music critic endorses ‘gut reaction ’ BY ANN KELLY Of the Emerald Music critic and author Alan Rich spoke last Tuesday morning at the University Music School. His presentation was concurrent with the Summer Festival of Music which is running through this weekend. Rich, critic for New York Magazine and former critic for the New York Herald Tribune, gave a lively, entertaining lecture to a large audience. He entitled his lec ture “Every Person a Critic,” with the significance that each person is critic to the particular music or theatre form which they attend. “The ideal of criticism is not to set the laws...what we try to do is set an example...an example of the way an art can be thought about,” Rich said. Speaking about the person as critic and criticism, he said the cri tic “is a person there to react to that particular concert.’’ He em phasized that criticism begins with reacting thoughtfully, intelligently and honestly to a concert. He finds that a “gut reaction” is honest and feels that it is a valid complement to the “intellectual baggage" that a critic carries. Rich lauded performers and encouraged communities to give them moral and financial support. He spoke for new music and art forms and emphasized their need of supportive audiences. “What goes on in the arts , any kind of art...begins with a distilla tion of personal experience...(the artist) uses that as a basis,” he said. Emerald photo The Summer Music Festival continues under the direction of Helmuth Rilling tonight with chamber music with the Los Angeles Music Offer ing. Tickets are $3.50, $5, and $7.50 for the performance scheduled tonight at 8:30 p.m. at Beall Concert Hall in the School of Music. “Music...is the art of the abstract...music is the most fas cinating of the arts.” Rich sti died music history and musicology at Harvard, the Uni versity of California at Berkeley, the Paris Conservatory and the Conservatory of the City of Vien na. His books are Careers and Opportunities in Music (1964) and Music: Mirror of the Arts (1969). Rich praised the opportunity that the Summer Festival of Music affords to the community of Eugene. He considered the com bination of fine talent, perfor mance, and education a great op portunity not often found — even in New York. This is the ninth annual Sum mer Festival of Music. Since they began in 1970, Helmuth Rilling, the distinguished European choral-orchestral conductor, has conducted the Festival perfor mances. Rilling resides in Stuttgart, Germany, where he conducts five choirs and the Bach-Collegium Orchestra. With his major choir, the Gaechinger Kantorei, and the Collegium Orchestra, he has made numerous international tours. He has also conducted workshops and festivals at many American colleges and univer sities. Summer Festival at the University is unique in providing professional soloists, along with an experienced orchestra and choir, for advanced conductors to direct in the cantata series. The afternoon cantatas begin at 3:30 and general admission is $1.50. There are still tickets for Thursday evening s Chamber per formance and Friday evening’s cantata solo. Box office hours at the School of Music are week days, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For further information call 686-3764. Accessibility (Continued from Page 1) consideration. “The more understanding we have, the quicker those barriers will be removed,” said Wilson. She adds that department rep resentatives seem eager to com ply once they understood the problem. Part of the mission of the task force was to educate depart are only partially accessible to the handicapped. Science labs were definitely ‘‘built for able-bodied students” according to Wilson, with all the lab benches at a certain height and safety regulations which do not take the handicapped into FLOAT THE WILD McKENZIE All day raft trips adults $20.00 10-13 yrs. $15.00 ask about group rates Lunch Included Call 689-7923 ^^^addlje^trips^ivailable!^^ merits and schools to be more aware of what might be a barrier to the handicapped and to suggest methods of accommodations. Willard said that the task force not only attempted to raise people’s awareness of the prob lem but to stress the individuality and capabilities of the handicap ped. They also recommended the re-evaluation of departmental academic requirements in terms of what is and is not available to the handicapped. “We re not suggesting reducing the standards or the quality of programs,” said Willard, “but where possible to consider alter natives” for handicapped stu dents. “We re trying to make it possi ble for them to compete," said Shirley Wilson, “to give them an equal chance.” DUFFY’S Live Music Friday & Saturday Robert Bailey with Limousine 9 pm-2 am $1.00 cover Ron Lloyd every Tues. & Wed. 9 pm-1 am $1.00 cover 13th & Alder \
