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Page 18 PHOENIX January 3,1974Combo Festival a True FeastOf Non-Orchestra! Selections* %u25a0 %u25a0 -v.' 'BY ANTHONY COLEMANLast Saturday%u2019s Festival of Modern Combos at the Brooklyn Academy of Music was a great presentation of 20th century nonorchestral music.The performance of %u201cL%u2019Histoire Du Soldat%u201d , the Stravinsky work writeen for a travelling ensemble during World War 1 when money for orchestral performances was unavailable, was supreme. Brooklyn Philharmonia Director Lukas Foss%u2019 conducting, without extraneous theatrics, was beautifully precise and direct, andthe seven instrumentalists were excellent.Philharmonia Bassist Samuel Levitan and percussionist Richard Fitz of the Speculum Musicae worked fantastically together %u2014 there was great rapport. Wilmer Wise%u2019s trum pet playing was amazing, considering the usual staccato and soulless phrasing for that part. Robert Mann, Juilliard Quartet Violinist provided an attractively rough hued treatment, and Edwin Price on trombone and Dorian Woodwind Quintet players Jane Taylor on Bassoon and Jerry Kirkbride on Clarinet were alsowas b orn Out o f a Need for aReal NewspaperIn the Heights,Slope andSouth Brooklyn.4In Only 16 MonthsWe Have BecomeTHE Place to Advertiseand We Have AchievedPre-eminent Reputationfor Hard, Honest, ReportingAbout The Peopleand Events that Affectthe Residents ofAll Our Neighborhoods.If You%u2019re NotReading theYou%u2019re MissingSomething.Subscribe Today - 1 y e a r $5.or Send $5 for aOne Year Subscriptionto: 130 Ciinton StreetBrooklyn, N.Y. 11201excellent. Alan Rich%u2019s narrator, the Soldier by Robert Sherman and particularly the slightly Kissingerish sounding John Simon as the devil were campy and great fun.The Luciano Berio piece, %u201cOpus Number Zoo%u201d , played earlier, in the Music Hall of the Academy, was funny, with brilliant bubbly sounds. The Dorian Woodwind Quintet both played beautifully and spoke the words of the children%u2019s play. The Quintet including Karl Kraber, flute, Charles Kuskin, oboe, Barry Benjamin, French Horn, and Jerry Kirkbride and Jane Taylor, also played Conductor Foss%u2019 composition, %u201cCave of the Winds%u201d .The Foss piece, utilizing unorthodox techniques of woodwind playing especially in the use of %u201c harm onics%u201d was beautifully interpreted.Steve Reich, who began the night%u2019s musical events, played to about 1000 people who were sitting, standing and hanging from the ladders in the LePercq Space. It was a scene of students and students, believers and some elderly doubters, most of whom stayed for the hour and a half, at first watching the mechanics of Reich and his group, and then wrapped in the whirls of a near hypnotic experience. Reich%u2019s pieces, %u201c Music for Pieces of Wood,%u201d %u201cSix Pianos%u201d, %u201cMusic for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ%u201d and %u201cClapping Music%u201d basically follow the same compositional technique, but achieve an amazing amount of variation with their extreme stress on rhythmic, rath er than harm onic development and variation. The triumphant %u201cHistoire%u201d , the Foss and Berio pieces and the Steve Reich Combo were the highlights of the evening.The Hans Werner Henze %u201cEl Cimarron%u201d, the bigraphy of the runaway slave Esteban Montejo, in a Recital for Four Musicians was given its New York premiere on Saturday.While the text of the saga of theCeremonies at the recent St. Francis College homecominggame, marked the breaking of the 1000 point mark by DennisMcDermott of Cobble Hill, who actually broke this barrier duringhis firs t two years of play for the S t Francis Terriers in a gameagainst Navy early in 1973. The celebration was saved for thisyear's first home game, against Loyola of Montreal, a game whichSt. Francis won 93-72, Presentation was made by coach JackPrenderviile, who reports the Terrier star is now averaging 21points a game.104 year old Cuban ex-slave, written down by Miguel Barnet and translated and adapted by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, was great %u2014 particularly moving in selections about %u201cThe Forest%u201d, Henze%u2019s flute, guitar and percussion sounds were derivative of 20th century music from Schoenberg to theSEASONEDFIREWOODmixed northern hardwood25 or 40 g H * free deliverypound bajsjfto your homeC all S. A Z A D IA N a t S T 3 -4 04 7PURE CORN!(kssblyQ) p i belly%u00aetunes of the Venceremos Brigade %u2014 hip without tears. The players, Eberhard Blum on flute, Stuart Fox, guitar, Dennis Kahle percussion and Julius Eastm an baritone who sang as %u201cEl Cimmarron%u201d %u2014 all from the Center of the Creative and Performing Arts of the State University of New York at Buffalo %u2014 were great.At the evening%u2019s end three different combos worked the three Academy Halls. David Amram%u2019s Jazz Quintet, with Jerry Dodgian, alto-sax, Pepper Adams, baritonesax, Herb Buschler bass, A1 Harewood, drums, and Amram, Pakistani flute, French horn, guitar, bazooki and piano, played an ingratiating performance in the Music Hall, including the audience for a time, as %u201ca celestial chorus%u201d, and rapping about life and our times in between numbers. Sister Moon, the Feminist Rock Group played hits of the 60%u2019s with a blues influence. 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