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By Danny Powell
Staff Writer
If you need a challenging
book to read in the near
future, E.L. Doctorow's
"Loon Lake" is just what
you are looking for. It is a
challenging literary work
because the author seems to
lose his sense of direction
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road.
"Loon Lake" consists of
two types of writing: prose
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By Robert Brazell
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The South Carolina Chamtw
founded in 1978, is clearly on
performing groups in this sta
concert the orchestra uph
reputation by performing for
on this continent a work enti
Pecas Modis" by Brazilia
Osualdo Lacerda.
Originally written in 1975
piano, "Quatro Pecas Modis
Pieces)" was introduced to the
guest conducter Mark Cede
worked with Lacerda in Brazi
to get permission from the
premier the work in North Ai
had very little time to prepare
fact," said Cedel at the ]
"we're working with photoc
original manuscript."
"Quatro Pecas Modis" is
four movements, each based <
mode. The first movement is
mode, the second is based on
scale, the third on a Lydian r
fourth on a Mixolydian mode,
the composer these are mode
Brazilian musical lore. It is i
work which finds great beaut
plicity of rhythm and it's lush <
work worthy of serious listener
In the category of original
"Quatro Pecas Modis" falls i
too heavily influenced by I
American composer Aaron Co
not surprising since Lacerda
Copland, and the work's lack
does not make it any less plef
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and verse. In the process of
mixing the prose and verse
together, Doctorow not only
loses the reader, but also the
impact of what began as a
brilliant idea.
Doctorow cannot be
satisfied b^ merely mixing
tin thp nnvpl's wnrHinfl cn ho
also destroys the time
element of the novel,
keeping the reader in constant
confusion. The novel
shifts forward and backward
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in time to keep the reader
always off-balance. Like
going down an old country
road, the riding is smooth
until a pot hole is discovered,
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The novel's setting is the
Adirondack Mountains in the
Great Depression. The
leading character, if he can
be called that, is a hobo from
Paterson, N.J., who
discovers the private
railroad tracks leading to
the Loon Lake estate owned
by one of the elite wealthy
members of upper society.
There are characters
represented in the novel
from every angle of
American society. There is
the drunken poet who is
getting a free ride in life, a
beautiful, somewhat dumb
uionue, a quiei waimower, a
stereotypical gangster, a
world reknowned flyer and
the master of Loon Lake, the
symbol of absolute power.
Plus, there are many other
characters inserted to let the
novel capture the full
essence of real life.
If one dissected the novel,
putting all of the prose
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rformed by the orchestra.
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Johnson on violin. Consisting
ements, "La Primavera" is a
of Baroque concerto. Although
ly program music, the work is
:ription of a sonnet written as
an to the work itself. There is
Ling birds singing (handled
y Johnson), a storm which is
;ries of rapid scale passages in
id a "rustic dance" also played
s virtually no major problems
mance of this work. Attacks
ether, balance was good and
as remarkably good. Anyone
leard a string orchestra should
it to hear this one. They are the
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it palpable quality to a string
md that cannot be captured on
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piece, Paul Hindemith's
isik No. 3" was probably the|
For this work the orchestras
joined a small group of strings.
C. chamber concert will not be
chestra but a brass ensemble,
lay, among other works, an
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together in proper form and
all of the verse together in
logical form, Doctorow
would have as big a winner
as he did with "Ragtime" his
first best-selling novel.
Instead there is a collage of
writings that seemed to have
been thrown together with no
sense of reason.
At times the writings seem
to flow along like a smooth
river, with all of the real
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turmoil hidden beneath the
water. Then Doctorow, by
chance or purpose, throws in
some verse, like rapids on
the river, and when the
reader returns to the prose,
he is on another river,
another subject and time
space altogether.
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and ambiguous at
times, is also very good.
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a confusing and difficult
place it is we live in, he
really has given a practical
example in "Loon Lake "
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