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29 Friday, July IS, 1971 TRE fTNTTWATI FNOt'IRFR Senior Citizen Conductor eeniv uen 1 music mm By GATL STOCKHOLM Enquirer Mtisir Critic It's awe-inspiring to see at work on the podium a musician who once played violin and viola In orchestras led hy both Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. But a sight that is even more touching is to see the way the 89-year old conductor Richard Lert relates to the young artists who hold scholarships to this summer's Congress of Strings at the College-Conservatory of Music. There is a hnnd between them filled with such confidence, trust and mutual respect that I half expect the 18 year old players to leap up and give Lert an affectionate hug. You can almost feel the love on stage. The senior citizen conductor and his junior followers seem to take inspiration from their belief in each other.

The music making consistently reflects style; at the same time the music never lost its singing and elastic musicality. I especially liked the meaty and solid quality of Instrumental tone In Handel's Concerto Grosso in A Minor, Opus 6, No. 4 and the gallant breeziness and dynamic exaggeration in Mozart's Symphony No. 29 in A Major, K. 201.

The Mozart could have used a little more glow in the slow movement and a touch more of finesse in the minuet if the students intend to give the pros competition. But on the whole their playing is well on the way, and some obliging winds (volunteers from the summer session I suspect?) made it possible for us to delight one again in this sturdy effort by our friend Wolferl (or so he called himself) who penned it at age 18. Lert's clear conducting style, I would guess, may have been inherited from the great Hungarian conductor Arthur Nikisch (who led the Boston Symphony 1R89-183S and the Berlin Philharmonic dation. It was begun several years ago when It was feared our major symphony orchestras would face a shortage of qualified string players. This summer program is held in two sites nationally with the aim of steeping young players in orchestral repertory and preparing them to work with professional conductors.

LERT IS A legend in his own time. He is one of the few conductors who is able to communicate to others his understanding of the orchestra. Other experienced conductors have comparable abilities, but deal with music instinctively, without knowing quite how to impart their techniques toothers. In a program of Janacek, Handel and Mozart Thursday evening In Corbett Auditorium, Lert's eloquent gestures to the orchestra with his baton and left hand spoke volumes. He coaxed the young performers to give precise and unified attention to many details of dynamics and "THE TROUBLE with young conductors today," he once said, "is that they don't learn enough music and they don't go into the music they do learn deeply enough.

The conductor must have the mentality and the integrity to respect the score and to bring ideas to it. He must go into the depths of a work as he reads and studies it." Lert also insists that an orchestra is a democracy and that all members should actively contribute to the Interpretation. This concert indicated that he practices what he preaches. The next free Congress of Strings program presents music of Bach, Bizet and Hindemlth at 8 p.m. Thursday August 1 in Corbett Auditorium.

Richard Lert with the NEWMAN REDFORD I I3j -butch cassidyand 1 the sundance kid" AL RACINO I "SCRPICD 1181 1 i the positive results of this exceptional rapport. As most ClnrlnnaUanr know, the Congress of. Jazz At The Viking Yusef Lateef, Poetry And All, Is A Must See This Week you sat open-mouthed listening to a group of musicians, this Is your chance. By ROBERT UTH Written For The Enquirer I don't know why, but you can always tell when musicians are feeling good, and the product usually follows suit. That's what happened Tuesday night at the Viking Lounge.

The attraction was the great woodwind musician and composer, Yusef Lateef. toifr.nrsr NORTHLAND ICE CENTER 563-0001 ly-Paa SO and DAILY 10 5:10 M. 00. 1 1:00 P.M. Rtadmq Rd oil I-7S MUSICAL TONIGHT 8:30 A FUNNY THING PS HAPPENED Off THE WAVTH FoRuri 241-6550 5IIELTERIICUSE Cincinnati Playhouse ri.ll1J.1irj,i.nJf.r mum i Tomorrow Night 8 pm! Thomas Schippers conducts the famous Visconti production of Puccini's Manon Lescaut starring Nancy Shade and Harry Theyard direct from Italy's Spoleto Festival with special grant from Tht Corbttt Foundation Cincinnati Summer Opera at Music Hall Community Ticket Office.

W. 4th Ticket window at Music Hall open at 7 pni 621 -1919 Directed by JAMES THORNTON Music by JERRY ROCK tyncs by SHELDON HARNICK Book by Messrs. HARNICK BOCK "A comic treat in splendid, corr.py style." Jerry Stein Heath proved that he Intended to present more than a Buddy Rich exercise. Afterwards, I asked a drummer what he thought of Heath's performance. He replied, "He's a monster." Next, an unusual performance of "Stella By Starlight" nn unaccompanied bass, or, "How to turn a nightclub into a chamber I'oom." Cud-riingham's amazing sensitivity and technical skill turned what seemed like material for a graduation recital into one of the most exciting numbers of the evening.

More of the unusual-the program closed with poetry. This is hard to get away with at the Viking, but Cud-dingham's convincing reading, accompanied by Barron's keyboard work, drew respectful attention from the audience and whispers from the barmaids. Following the first show, Lateef talked a bit about his music. "I don't play Jazz, and I don't play Black music," said Lateef. "The terms 'Black' and 'jazz' are ambiguous.

Black is a color, and colors don't do anything." Lateef called his music "autophysiophysic" (self-physlcal-mind). "This music isn't confined to any culture or environment," he said. "It's polyethnic." Season1! Record $11, from 1895 to 1922, the year of his death). Lert studied with him in Darmstadt and also seems to have absorbed Ni-kisch's wide ranging musical sympathies and penetrating insight into compositions. Among Lert's other chums were Alban Berg, Bruno Walter, Furtwangler and Kleiher.

Lert's teaching abilities, however, were developed later when he came to the United States for the filming of his wife's book, "Grand Hotel." He spent 36 years as music director of the Pasadena Symphony in California and It was for those community orchestra players that he devised ways to teach an ensemble from scratch. Bob Cuddingham added that the emotional quality the music made it universal. "Not every man can respond intellectually," he said, "but all men have emotions." I asked Lateef why he combines music and poetry in his program. "Because you're looking at more than just musicians on that bandstand," he said. "You're looking at more than 140 years of experience and study." Yusef Lateef will appear at the Viking this week through Sunday.

If you can't remember the time Biography (c) New York Times Service A book on the musical theater career of Stephen Sondhelm titled "Sondhelm Co." and written by Craig Zadan Is set for November publication by MacMillan. The author, who co-produced the evening tribute to the composer-lyricist last spring at the Shubert theater, said the book had the "approval and co-operation" of Sondhelm and also will Include chapters on such topics as "books to musicals, orchestrations and the Broadway cast-album industry." SPECIAL PREVIEW NIGHTS: July 24, 25,26 ENDS JULY 21 "Here Lies Jeremy Troy" IT'S A LAUGH RIOT, starring i New York cist. Sessions TiS)pTailt' OPENING JULY 24 EVERYBODY LOVES 40. 1 05. J5.

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Three superior musicians are currently working witjh Lateef: Kenneth Barron, piano, Bob Cudding-ham, bass, and Albert Heath, percussion. The program opened with "Inside Atlantis," an uptempo piece in the minor mode composed by Barron. Filling his first sax solo with speed, versatility and Lateef previewed his work for the entire evening. Lateef began the second piece, "Nubian Lady," with a flute solo. Using rich, emotion-filled sounds (not sound effects), Lateef comfortably blended Western and Eastern music, making it seem like they belonged together.

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