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.
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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
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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.”
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