Page 6 The Retriever Cultural Exchange Announced With Coppin State

The Drama Department an­ nounced last 1\ee~ a cultural exchange program "ith Coppin State C allege. On ~ l onday even­ ing. ~lay 6 at 8:00 the Coppin State College Choir" ill present a concert in the Lecture Hall at C\IBC'. The shty \Oice choir, under the direction of its founder, Henn . . Freeman. is in its ti e of tht' SE"'e , • tenth. anni,ersary year. It has and "Sat.an.' appeared before educational, ch­ On Wednt• flay ic. and rei igious groups through­ two plays ,,nd t•lectcd frn m out the cit;) and state in ad ­ will be presl'ntt'd. TH!! ·~ dition to performing on radio, F.HTY IS U1 IJEM E'll, te•e,ision and recordings. For Tenne see \\ lllinms, I fir t the ~lay 6 concert. the group the list. This play w111 I "il' present an all acapella pro­ rected by K~n Bnudrl • THE gram \\hich \\ill include a group SAN DBOX, by Ed~'>ard lbf' , I of madrigals, early and contem­ directed by C,ene Cjazz-soul style applause of the night. As !look­ Andres Skuja, Dr. Larry Las the drama of motion. " In the Ghetto" conveyed the ur­ of music that seems to be heard ed around, I noticed that all er, Miss Michelle Blackman, Dr. Bill Rothstein and Dr. Fr "Motherhood," "Uncle Sam gency and immediacy of modern so much today from groups like that applause was coming from a day I ife. "Catastrophic Happen­ Blood Sweat and Tears and other white, middle- class dropout Pincus. II ants You,'' "In the Ghetto," The theme will be continued and "Catastrophic Happenings' ings" was a flashy, welcome groups that are trying to in­ audience. And they were applaud­ this week with a fiJ m program were the high points of the even­ break fr om the high seriousness corporate horns and the old jazz ing a white group playing blues, in the conference room in the ing. "Motherhood' was a beau­ of the rest of the evening. Us­ big band sound into rock. The which are traditionally black rear of the I ibrary. The films tilul'y lyric and fluid pattern of ing start! ing I ighting effects, fea­ Express got off to a slow start, music. It seems that the blues will be shown tomorr ow fr om movement, danced by Betty Titts­ tur ing a strobe I ight, the seem­ but after two or three numbers have been taken over by white 1 to 3 p.m., Wednesday from "Orth, Linda Sasscer, Darlene ingly disor ganized Happenings finally started to get rolling, men. The Cream, Ten Years Af­ was chaos made fun. sparked by Buddy Miles' wailing ter, Butterfield' s Blues Band, 2 to 4 p.m., and Thursday from voic e and solid, dynamic rhy­ Janis Joplin, are all white mu­ 1 to 3 p.m. The three films The mu sic for the evening was thm. By the time they were done, SICians playing whitewashed will be Confrontation, Part I, a montage of sound effects, con­ the audience was I iterally dwnc­ black music for a white audience. Eldridge Cleaver and Paris-­ temporary twelve tone compo­ ing in the aisles and screaming And even the black Chicago­ lttay 1968. sitions, electronic music, and for more. based blues men, such as Muddy The Guerilla theatre has been Pop traditional classical selections. Country Joe and the Fish came waters and James Cotton and invited to present their political The colorful costumes were de­ on next and the concert really B.B. King play before predomin­ action Drama one day during the signed by the dancers and made got under way for me. I haven' t antly white audiences today. It "eek. They have not set a date by Marie Harmon and Linda Sor- Viewpoint heard the Fish in concert for seems that the blacks, especially for their performance. by Robe rl Goold a! most two years, but was de­ the militant blacks don' t want Miss Sue Kemp, Library re­ lighted last night to find that anything to do with the music presentative for the displays, Fhe of England's finest musi­ their live show is almost toP­ of their enslaved for-fathers, stated that the theme "as sug­ cians are called PENTANGLE. heavy with political overtones. even when black men play it. gested by various members of The group consists of virtuouso The Fish don't play " psychede­ A few years ago, during the folk the fa cui ty and student body. The guitarists John Renbourn and lic•· (that word ought to be struck music boom, there were long and display, >'ihich contains slogans Bert Jansch, Danny Thompson, from the language) music any­ serious arguments over whether from various organizations and a brilliant bassist, Terry Cox more. The only number that they the white man could sing and play copies of several underground on drums and the delicate voice played that even vaguely brought the blues. That question seems newspapers, is scheduled for an­ of Jacqui '.tc Shee. Their most that overworked genre to mind settled. Now I wonder whether other week and "ill remain lon­ recent effort called "SWEET was Section 43, a long, dreamy the black man can listen to the ger if enough interest is shown. CHILD" (2RS633-l) is a superb instrumental that they opened blues. double album containing a "live their set with. From then on The final group on the bill was concert" at Royal Festival Hall in it was pure politics, with a Frank Zappa and the Mothers of 111 London and nine studio record­ number of tongue-in- cheek com­ Invention. Zappa is a musical ing~. Jazz, blues and folk are ments about Baltimore's own iconoclast who carefully incor­ Jim Schwartz presented in a poignant and pre­ somewhat indecent decency rally. porates elements of symphonic cbe manner. Particularly effec­ Vietnam popped up a number of arranging and third stream jazz ti'" cuts are Bruton To"n ~ times in the songs, sometimes into his progressive rock. The traditional English song of love for in an absurd I ight (some things Mothers are a large group. fea­ nd murder) and Three Part are so serious that our only de­ turing horns, organ, and guitar Thmg "herein a counterpoint fense is to treat them as the as leads, and Zappa has plenty theme composed for three in­ absurdities they are) sometimes of resources to call upon when truments is impro' ised on the sentimentally (Daddy's been kill­ he wants to present sound paint­ SGA V. P. mode. ed in the war, he ' s not coming ings or just freaky sounds for home). Country Joe and the Fish, their own sake. He has a repu­ Lo from England comes a and other groups like them (the tation for being rude to his audi­ rather ta'ented "rock and roll MCS, for exam pi e) are playing ences (in Ne" York I watched blu s jazz quartet•· called Jet­ movement rock today. and are the him announce there would be hro Tull