6—The Daily Collegian Wednesday, October 19, 1977 Noted British critic views pieces of career By JACQUELINE LEAR Daily Collegian Staff Writer Philip Radcliffe, music and theatre critic for two London newspapers, The Daily Mail and The Sunday Times, says his tenet for writing is "One man in the arena is worth 100 critics." Students of theatre and journalism .p•01 . !:0,.; ! 0 : i :. •00. - : .io i t* . •:,. classical Music critics don't fiddle around or steal bows By SAM LEVY perfection does not disqualify us as Daily Collegian Staff Writer human beings. I wish to deviate for once from the As a member of the staff, I must keep solemnity of music reviews and devote score of the latest musical happenings. I these lines to some lighter fare. The must endure many performances, live purpose is, apparently, not easy to un- and recorded, some of which are good derstand to show to all concerned that while others are real clef-hangers. If I do music critics, and critics in general, are not write responsibly, I can get into not frustrated, conniving souls who some real treble and my tenor as a attack with the word what they cannot writer will be cut short. perform in the deed and who lack the That is the only way to reach first bass slightest trace of hUmor. as a music critic. If you do not know I have long been an exponent of the something, of chorus you must inchoir if pun. Many people are driven almost to you want your doubts and fears to be put the breaking point when I get started but to rest, for good measure. I am, nonetheless, proud of my trait. I I wish to address the many aspiring am not as proficient as I was once a-pun • musicians who are now learning to read time, but pun warfare is my best weap- music. You must C sharp if you do not on to show that our constant quest for want to B flat. You will have done We have a few openings in the vineyard. Come labor with us. The hours are long. The pay is low. 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KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA Aitoteay wmorwice atefit, gal 1977 initArrie4 gismr&l Mme Xleaff4zite , e.9 9 a64W2 Yee VfMtelt W i eWdbf(m , tVmNf4 , tAff,ea WELCOME, SISTERS! received pointers from the leading British critic, broadcaster and head of communications at the University of Manchester when he visited the University this past week. In an 'open session last Friday at the Playhouse Theatre he said he views his position simply as "a person who is MUSIC Nie 9foinzeil2 '9/9 Illustration by Valeria Ma rzenl getting paid for stating his opinion." In the case of some stage reviews, he said his favorable criticism did not prevent the production's from failing. He said that choosing a reviewer is a selective process. Usually, Radcliffe said, he can choose or refuse to cover. an event for his two employing newspapers. Radcliffe was a casual theatre and symphony-goer and college student at the University of Sheffield. He found one course in practical criticism par ticularly intriguing. "We had to read classical writings. Given extracts, we had to identify the author, the period of the piece and then criticize the writing." After Sheffield, Radcliffe served with the Royal Navy and the British Intelligence Corps during which time he was trained at Cambridge University as •a Russian interpreter. He said movie reviewing was his passion in those days. About 1983, Radcliffe traveled with and interviewed the Beatles. "I was supposed to do just about everything along with them but step onto the stage.' He said that neither he nor anyone knew back then about the Beatles future popularity. "The Beatles were happy just to be heard outside of Liverpool at that time," he said. Radcliffe worked (excepting some minor writing phases, in various capacities as a book reviewer for the Sunday Times Literary Supplement, a yourself a great ,D'd if you can A'd high C, with a lot of punch. In the area of yourself in reading music and learning German song, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau the B't. (G! I cannot think of anything is a leider. Many operagoers shy away for EorF. I guess I'm not a natural after from the major bass roles that they all. That is not a step in the right consider too deep for them. (That was a direction.) low blow.) The art of singing is a particular in- Symphony - orchestras are in terest of mine and I have many ob- strumental in delivering much pleasure. servations to make and opinions to I will not be long-winded and string up voice. any poor conductors. I do not want to get Ido get keyed up when I hear a singer feedback from the high brass or drum up sing flat or sharp. Ido not want to put in any criticism. a pitch for any favorite singer but Ido Phonograph records receive much want to recognize prominence in certain 'attention in my reviews. Just for the areas. record, there have been some really When a great tenor like Placido *groovy ones lately, though standards Domingo or Luciano Pavarotti involves have declined. 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The actor responded, 'Well, I feel as though I've been run over by a bus,' " Radcliffe recalled. At times, however good the intentions of the critic, they remain unim plemented ideals in the . face of a newspaper's mandates of article deadlines and limitations of space. The angle of presentation in theatrical works is an element to which Radcliffe keeps attuned. He illustrated his point by comparing his approach in critiquing Benjamin Britten's comic opera, "Albert Herring" for two newspapers The Sunday Times and the Daily Mail. He wrote in the Daily Mail: "I defy anyone, yes anyone with the slightest sense of humour to go to the opera any night in Chester this week and not have a good laugh." Radcliffe said he was interested in the study-abroad program which sends University students to the University of Manchester, where he has been a faculty member since 1969. He assisted in the development of "The Mass Media in Britain" course. This was Radcliffe's third visit to the campus. He was a guest lecturer in 1972 and 1975. ID) iik`ll:i :1 • Now Thra Monday elb ' Y s o Restaurants of the popularity of classical music thing" and it would be unfair to do tf• recordings. Record stores that never anything to cramp their stylus. stock classical albums the rest of the Fine tuning is of the utmost year suddenly are overflowing with portance in modern record playing-: oratorios and cantatas. Alongside the equipment. The tone of the many test: Loggins and Messina's there are reports shows this. Nobody likes wooden "Largo's" and "Messiah's" which the sound, especially of a singing voice. It stores then handel in great quantities. adversely affects the timber of the voice, A lot of what you hear on a record which goes against the grain of many., depends on the quality of the playback connoisseurs of fine recorded sound. equipment you own. Even in the In my countless ' hours of music beginning of the era of high fidelity, listening, I have encountered many;' there were still some phonographs with musicians of note. This is an account; - the notorious Two Ton Tone Arm. It is small in scale, of the more humorous' easy to turn the tables and to needle the side of the music critic. I hope it hag. manufacturers of this primitive convinced those of you who do not hold, equipment in our more sophisticated age us in high regard. A major point:, of quadraphonic sound. It must be elephants just produce ivory keys, not remembered they were just "doing their ivory towers. Colloquy, "The Wide World of Health." David Hufford,• Hershey Medical Center, on "Visions and Hallucinations: Fact or Fiction?" 11 a.m., HUB main lounge; Karl Stoedefalke and Elsworth Buskirk on "Assessment of Human Performance," 1 p.m., Room 121 Noll Lab; Jeremy Rifkin on "Who Should Play God?" 8 p.m., HUB ballroom. 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