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dity shows, plenty of American politicians
n the late 1960s, British singers saw
fear art more than terrorists. Government dis-
what happened when American blues
approval of the arts is nothing new, but in the
and folk artists went back to their roots.
Soviet Union, it could get you the gulag.
They decided to do the same thing, sparking
After Stalin deemed his great opera,
the Celtic music revival that continues
Lady MacBeth of Mtensk, in-
to this day. Such bands as
sufficiently populist, Dmitri
Fairport
Convention,
Shostakovich found him-
Steeleye Span, and their
self in a dilemma — how
many spinoffs even influ-
to write a piece that
enced rockers like Traffic
would win official ap-
and Jethro Tull.
proval without selling
Of those bands, al-
out his artistic approval.
though it never quite
Dubbed — not by the
made it big, especially in
composer — “an artist’s
America, Pentangle was
creative answer to justified
one of the best. It combined
criticism,” his Fifth Symphony
the superlative acoustic guitar
reflects the tensions of the time —
talents of jazz and folk-oriented
John Renbourn and the bluesier Jon Nakamatsu per- and the composer’s ingenuity in
forms Saint-Saëns’
hoodwinking the authorities.
Bert Jansch with the ravishingly
Piano Concerto No.
One of the most powerful or-
beautiful voice of Jacqui
2 – “a virtuoso
chestral
works of the 20th century,
McShee.
Romantic show-
McShee’s vocals floated over stopper” – with the the symphony concludes with a tri-
Eugene Symphony,
umphant theme that’s memorable
Renbourn’s rich fingerstyle gui-
Thursday, May 15.
enough to satisfy any lover of
tar lines, which blended folk,
Tchaikovsky or Beethoven — but
jazz, blues, and even Middle
the composer later insisted that the triumph is
Eastern styles. Three decades later, McShee
that of the bad guys, a forced rejoicing under
and Renbourn are reunited, appearing in
duress. The Eugene Symphony May 15
Eugene on Wednesday, May 21 at Café
concert also features a Verdi overture and one
Paradiso. Fans of folk, Celtic, guitar, and
of those virtuoso Romantic showstoppers,
voice shouldn’t miss this one.
Camille Saint Saens’ second piano concerto.
For a more recent Celtic fusion experi-
Another big, juicy piano concerto tops the
ence, on Thursday, May 22, you can hear
bill at the University Symphony concert
Four Shillings Short at Sam Bond’s
at the UO’s Beall Concert Hall on Sunday,
Garage. Deploying hammered dulcimer,
May 18, when UO Prof. Gregory Mason
mandolin, Medieval & Renaissance wood-
solos in Aram Khachaturian’s knucklebuster.
winds, tinwhistles, mandola, percussion,
The concert also features one of the 20th cen-
banjo, and vocals, the group’s signature
tury’s loveliest choral works: Leonard
sound is unexpected: a sitar, which somehow
Bernstein’s
exumberant
“Chichester
works more often than you’d expect. Fans of
Psalms.”
Celtic and Indian music: Check out this
Voices are in the spotlight at the UO this
group.
month: On Thursday, May 15 the UO Opera
As Attorney General Ashcroft’s taxpayer-
Ensemble
presents scenes from
financed robing of the statue of justice’s nu-
Starhawk
Eugene
May
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