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12 — Our IN THE MOUNTAlNS — SEPTEMBER 1997

BY SAL INGLIMA

The standard bearers of
the Beat movement took their
tandem leave of our century
right before it speeded to its
hasty close; Allen Ginsberg
and William S. Burroughs
jumping off hand in hand,
within six months of each other
into the non-time void.

The Beat movement
doesn't seem to fit quite right
as a stiff historical movement,
Ginsberg and Burroughs con-
stant ubiquity in the eye of the
media and other poets and art-
ists lives seem to ensure the
spirit of their age and unique
sensibility won't die with their
passing. A scanning of films,
albums, cd’s, music videos,
and magazine articles through-
out the last 25 years would re-
veal the enduring presence
and relevance of these two
founders of what will probably
be the last of the clearly recog-
nizable literary movements as
we move into what is surely,
with the Internet and TV’s
help, the post-literary age.

WHAT might be the
most accurate way to reflect on
the impact and import of this
duo would be to look at the ter-
rain and landscape before their
arrival. Ginsberg and

Burroughs alit on the surface _

of a lies-induced bourgeois
Eisenhowerian Middle-Ameri-

  

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of Rabelaisian
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blade.

Which is
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When would
out and how,
Lunch, without
Queer and junk
Odes? Rememb
ting squat and
singing
affectationless,
Concertina whil
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he Craftsbury Chamber
Players are to be ap
plauded for their "Sum—
mer Music Festival 1997" series
of six weekly programs, each
presented in three different
Vermont forums during the
months of July and August.
Attendance at four of these at
the UVM Recital Hall on the
Redstone Campus in
Burlington provided an op-
portunity to hear some seldom
performed works for smaller
ensembles.
Reperetory was carefully
chosen to represent all periods

of musical development from

the Golden Age Baroque
through this very minute, and,
by and large, was well played.
The mindset of the ensemble
player has to be very different
from that of the soloist, and
these musicians were very
clearly present to work to-
gether to serve the art, not any
individual.

Moments approaching -

greatness were achieved in the
third concert by the ensemble
playing Prokofief's Opus 39
Quintet (marred only by exces-
sive wind-business: where
does all that spit come from?)
and by Mary Anthony Cox, Pi-
ano; Marshall Coid, Violin; and
Peter Schoettler, Horn; in
Brahms's Trio, Opus 40.
Shoettler played this work on
a valveless instrument, as
specified by the composer, and
made it — top to bottom — with-
out cracking a single note.
Marshall Coid impressed
again in the fourth concert,
with his marvelously insouci—

ant reading of the Poulenc So-

nata for Violin and Piano. The
last concert included Phillip
Lasser's relatively new sonata
for Flute and-Piano, a thor-
oughly approachable and en-
gaging work, played admira-
bly (definitively, one supposes)
by the composer and Iames
Zellers, Flute.

Allen Fletcher Says...

Not so great moments in-
cluded Karel Husa's Evoca-
tions of Slovakia, which might
have been subtitled "Preludes
to Suicide on a Tuesday in late
February." Dark instrumental
colors and depressive, dour ex-
pression are to be tolerated for
only so long; and this work
was much too long — for me,
anyway. ’

Chamber music places
certain sorts of practical limi-
tations upon those who per-
form it. Smaller forces (one
player per part) get lost in big
spaces, playing has got to be
surgically accurate, and audi-
ences have to be extremely
well behaved. Craftsbury gets
high marks for the quality of
the playing and their audi-
ences get high marks for com-
portrnent. Unfortunately the
UVM Recital Hall is not a con-
genial acoustic environment
for this sort of music making.
(Whoever designed the hall
seems to have been aiming to-

ward a big, bright sound.) The
mark was missed.

There were genuinely
distressing moments in each of
the four concerts I heard,
which made me wonder
whether anyone had bothered
to listen from the hall during
the rehearsals. Most pro-
foundly were a phantom Horn
player in the Brahms Trio who
was just a tad behind and lurk-
ing in the fire exit; and the as-
tonishing balances of the clos-
ing work of the series — a
Borodin Quintet which was a
real pot—boiler — during which
the players were clearly work-
ing very hard, flailing away in
the best "this will really whip
‘em up" manner, but produc-
ing a very small and inconse-
quential sound. It was very
much like watching an old film
with a badly engineered
soundtrack.

The good points out-
weigh the bad, however, and I
can't wait until next summer.
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