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Donovan Philip Leitch -
'Now he's the Pied Piper'
By AUana Nash
Alternative Features Service
(Editor's   note:   Donovan ha
just finished writing the score fo
Franco ZeffereUl's new film, 'S
viewer Alanna Nash hitched from
Paris to the village of Rothen-
burg-ob-der-Tauber, Germany
to talk with him. Donovan was on
location there shooting 'The Pled
Piper" a movie he stars In, singing music he wrote especially for
We all watched him grow
a bejeaned, shy 13-year-old
lng to 'Catch the Wind* tc
seemingly self-assured,
shine Superman. Then he tol
he was mellow yellow, whei
if lam
esponslble for Ux
the Animals an
Herman's Hermits - decided h(
needed back-up. This resultei
In  some of the finest folk-rod
with hidden and overt reference:
van was heavily involved.
When Flower Power cami
along he was right there again
perched high on the petals fron
the   very  beginning,   asking the
Then he went Ihroi
period, producing pleas
pie, but depthless, alrr
tudlnous little whlmsle
san on the West Coast
his  'Barabajagal" albi
his American tours always drew
exceedingly well.
AS he sings In his last American-released album'OpenRoad*,
all that has changed. And tor
those who liked him as he was,
he says, 'Don't let the changes
get you uptight."
Cone are the drugs now. Gone
are the references to the Maha-
reshl. What remains, and what
still comes through Is his real
talent - the ability to Join beautiful melodies together as comfortably as folded hands . . .
A.N.: After the Beatles in 1964,
why did rock/pop music become
so Important lo the youth ot to-
rnjnla, and dylanmanla joined,
and all that and you understand
the problem. The "why" of It Is
be a couple generations on . . .
If you look at lt simply. It's all
nice   and  healthy now,
or skin or anything, so It's all
broken down  to one thing, one
. A.N.: Well, I'd like to know If
you think your music has gotten
more complex or simple".
D.: The music Is only the sound
of my changes, or me, you know,
so you're asking me whether I've
gotten more complex or simple.
I think I am getting the hang
ol It more, I think I'm growing
up and getting hold ot It ... I
entertainment   .   .   . solely. It's
lectual   lor   the musician  - the
musician's a very simple person,
plications for ourselves, thinking
Music   Is   our   business.  We
should Just play it simple, play
aether - the connections.
self  and   they   don't
else. They already use music to
bring cows on, to produce better
everyone has a specific note?
D.: Oh. yeah, I read that somewhere, and It's quite Interesting,
but I don't know II I want to go
Into it. you know. 1 thought, I'll
go Into It, andl started Imagining,
you know, what note manifests
grass? Wlyt note manifests metal? What note . . .?
In   the East they make It a
study: they know all about sound
yogi. I don't think I want to bother
-it's too complicated. Just be a
In   the   pagan   days,   the   musl-
ment.   It   helped   everybody   so
A.N.:   Do you think somebody
the followers t
D.:   No.   I   <
mean, If you ta
bllity,   you hav
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, not that I gained by being
to the person
t all In your
just a theory, so don't take anything I say for gospel.
But In songs you get pretty
near It because If you write songs,
you've got a littlebltofprophecy,
and a little measure, because
you tend to say things before they
come through the thought processes, you know you just make
music, and music comes out ol
I should like to work
video cassette. In the
Klucatlon. Imagine the
performance (In]
be depressing at
vVhat's your stor
D.: It's about
lleve   anybody   (
..1. n
is that ai
stoundlng - I thtnl
body's got an astounding past.
For people to say nothing hap-
body v
If had th
completely ordinary, and everybody else thought they were mad.
Once a,-aln. musicians should
only talk about music, that's all
;. You can stop and wind
ou miss something. You
fed  up or  want   to  know  about
And  there's a chance for the
is   already   In show business to
science   and   music  should  get
musician, the modern writer,
composing the year's music In
school. Say four or five composers get together and say, okay,
we're gonna compose the poems,
songs   for  nature  study,  geog-
Bulgarla. Arabia for the geography lesson, and for physical
education we'll have Santana and
get schools on the ball.
Lennon's 'Imagine' is one
of 1971's best albums
By Gnossos
Collegian Reviewer
IMAGINE John Lennon(AppleSW
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imagine all the people
John Lennon has moved beyond
the introspection of his first solo
album to create some fantastic
songs on varied themes.
•Imagine,* his new album, Is a
step beyond the harshness or his
llrst. Strings have been added to
mellow the sound, as well as
George Harrison's lyrical guitar.
Nicky Hopkins plays most ol the
piano, which exhibits Lennon's
songs to greater advantage than
his own heavy-handed playing.
On a John Lennon album, how-
e lyrt
d be c
sldered paramount In Importance. 'Imaglne's' lyrics are all
remarkably real and honest. They
evoke feelings as few other songs
can, and when combined with
Lennon's voice, produce one of
1971's best albums.
!vv
The Rubber Dubber Is using
this depressed period In the bootlegging scene to re-release some
or his old albums with picture
covers, and the latest, 'Real
Old Time Band* (#70-006), recorded last year at the Hollywood
Bowl, is definitely a major triumph   or   the bootlegger's  art.
The Band, I'm told, thinks that
this Is the best album they've
made yet, and I'll have lo agree.
It shows conclusively that all that
talk about the Band and country
music Is only wishful thinking —
the roots of their music, like It
or not. Is Motown.
Interpreted
Just as he wanted It Interpreted,
and I can think ot rew composers
who could conduct their own
words as well as he could.
Many people only know the
Stravinsky they learned about In
Music Appreciation -'TheRites
or Spring*, 'Petrouchka*. and
•Firebird". Those three works,
fine as they are, were only the
beginning or a career that spanned
most ot this century.
There  are   a couple or fine
. Q  i
11 the b>
,, and you only pay
SG.00 for a two-record set. The
sound quality's fine (the sound at
the concert wasn't quite as good,
so Rubber Dubber had to fix It
some In the studio) and the price
is right.
Just make sure you get the
genuine article with the Rubber
Dubber seal.
Rock Rlalto: Poor Commander
Cody. They signed, finally, with
a label — Paramount — and Just
as they were getting ready to
send the album to the company
everybody - irom the President
down — was fired by the parent
company and now they don't know
The Kinks, everybody's favorites, are no longer talking to
their record company, Reprise.
Seems somebody at the label
tried to convince Ray Davles to
fire the group and go out as a
solo act, a suggestion he resented
mightily. Rumor has them now
with RCA or Columbia ... or
Reprise, maybe ...
RCA Is looking good these days,
though. Well, they've got nothing
to lose. They've hired Jimmy
Miller (who produces the Stones)
and Richard Robinson (who produces the Flamln' Groovles) to
find new acts for them, and
they've done Just that. Not to
mention the fact they gave the
Airplane something like ten million dollars for the right to distribute their new Grunt label ...
Watch for a final album by -
believe It or not - the Yardblrds,
a live set recordedin New York.
Igor Stravinsky left behind him
a recorded legacy ol Just about
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records  —  one of tl
new - that will provide the Interested   listener   with   a wide
variety of Stravinsky's music.
There's one (Columbia CMS
6648) with the 'Dumbarton Oaks
Concerto", the 'Four Etudes for
Orchestra", the 'Suites for Small
Orchestra*, and several other
small orchestral pieces which go
from his earliest days (the Four
Etudes were composed for a
piano roll company when he needed bread, and prchestrated later,
when he'd become better known)
to the present (the Greeting Prelude, composed for the opening
of the Lincoln Center).
The new disc Is 'Stravinsky
Conducts Music for Chamber and
Jazz Ensembles' (Columbia M
30579), and II reflects some of
the composer's lighter side -
the dour 'Tango", the 'Ebody
Concerto', written originally for
Woody Herman's big band, and
the   'Ragtime*   tor   11   lnstru-
It also contains the 'Wind Octet', which marks the beginning
ot Stravinsky's fascination with
the music or the 18th century.
It's very Stravlnskyan, even It It
does  speak  with  Mozart's lan-
Not all the music on the album
Is Great Music, mainly because
I can't think or one composer who
only composed Great Music, but
It's a fine Introduction to the
roan who will doubtlessly be recognized as the greatest composer
of the first half of this century.
German Club
will present films
The Fresno State College German Club will present the German
film 'Spur elnes Madehelr* from  ■
3 to 5 p.m. today In College Union
313-14.
The recent film documents the
fate of a sensitive young girl, a
Religious center
will begin
fall programs
.- A lively schedule of fail se-
master programs wlU begin a
month under the sponsorship
the College Religious Center.
A 10-week Bible study class
will begin today at the religious
center. Class sessions will take
place from 4 to 5 p.m.
Today will also launch the
semester's first Noah's Ark, a
weekly coffee house program In
the religious center's Arakellan
Hall. Noah's Ark, occurring
weekly' from 9 p.m. to midnight,
features such forms of Uve entertainment as folk, rock and
Jazz concerts and poetry read-
Tomorrow the religious center will host its second set-acquainted picnic of the semester.
The evening of rood, singing, fun
and games will begin at 5:30 p.m.
at Fresno State College's O'Neill
Park.
A 50 cent fee will be charged
for admission to the picnic.
Agape, a celebration centered
around eating bread and fruit and
sharing with one another, will
begin next Wednesday. The weekly sessions will begin at 9 p.m.
at the religious center.
Urban Plunge, an opportunity
for students to explore the workings of the city of Fresno, will
be presented by the religious
center on Oct. 22 and 23. Beginning at 6 p.m. Friday, the program will Include sessions with
city and county officials, labor
leaders, minority groups and
business leaders.
Further Information concerning religious center offerings
may be obtained from theCollege
Religious Center, Shaw and Jackson avenues, telephone 222-3796.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN    .
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for expressing his Inner frustra-
Pevn'a other films, from 'The
Gun" to • Little Big
Man*, are mainly c<
town In the way of movies.
Let's take a look at the billings
In the fair Fresno. I wasn't about
to scare Jessica to death, since
that's no way to treat a lady.(He.
he.he, ho ho, get It7) Thought of
reviewing "The Brotherhood of
Satan,' but then what would the can expect rrom Lous Bunuel
guys In The Fresno Guide say? the genius whose Ingredients o
"hard-Una* Marxism, perversi
exuality and pure cinema resul
iortralt of a French bourgeois
•Belle de Jour," is all that one
•The Seven Minutes' by Russ
Meyer? These days the campus '
Is offering more than what Meyer
could ever come up with. I also
disregarded the shark opera and
was bewildered by the fact that
the Kiddle Klnema la showing
•Dracula- Has   Risen from the
Aside from the Russ Meyer
birds (we call them birds In
London), the campus had three
real works or cinema to offer:
•Bonnie and Clyde," *Mr. Hulot's
Holiday.' and 'Belle de Jour."
•Bonnie and Clyde,* directed
by Arthur Penn, suffered a 'great
deal of misunderstanding in Its
Initial screening In 1968. Most
critics were hung up on the'vio-
lent* aspect of the film and were
worried about the kids who would
go and brutalize their buddies
after seeing the film.
Only a few looked at the work
as a personal film by Arthur
Penn In which he develops his
favorite theme further. This
theme Is concerned with the man
who finds himself In the outer
brinks of society, the man who
doesn't fit. Being pressured under this situation, he finds violence as  that outward element
In w
the word brilliant.
Some one thousand people attended the two screenings of
•Bonnie and Clyde.* More surprising: waa the turnout at the
showing of • Belle de Jour,* as the
students Jammed Into Room 101
of the Industrial Arts Building
during the two performances. ■'
This la an encouraging sign of
students' Interest In true cinema
being on the rise.
On Wednesday 'The Maltese
Falcon,* directed by John Huston,
•rill be the offering at ia 101. The
show should not be missed by
the Humphrey Bogart fans. The
i starts at 9 p.m.
French tradition is
History Club topic
•Revolutionary 1
France* will be the topic of a
speech by Bill Felklns. The talk,
sponsored by the History Club,
will be held at 7:30 p.m. this
evening In the Cafeteria Collegiate Room.
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