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...East Germany''s other rulers. For more than five years, they have kept him in limbo. He is allowed to live in peace and runs something of an intellectual salon in his two-room flat. The unorthodox Marxist philosopher Robert Havemann visits regularly, and Folk Singer Joan Baez called on him in 1967. But Biermann is not permitted to publish his works, perform in public, or travel outside the German Democratic Republic. He is never mentioned in the East German press. "I am a nonexistent person," he told TIME Correspondent George Taber in East Berlin. "I have been...
Last Friday night Joan Baez and Eric von Schmidt sang folk songs in Agassiz Theatre, under the aegis of the Harvard Liberal Union. Young Liberals hoping to hear even one "song of social protest" were disappointed, for the program was arranged under the widely-held and peculiar assumption that everything sung by a folk singer (even essentially conservative songs like many of the ones that Miss Baez sings) partake in some way of the yeasty liberal mythos...
...event, Miss Baez sang with the casual magnificence that is well known to Cambridge audiences. She sings without ever forcing a note, jes' letting that cool voice float out of her slightly open mouth. Although the humorous songs in the Baez canon are superb, the quieter ones are even better, and Mary Hamilton, which Miss Baez sings softly with very little modulation in volume, was clearly the high point of the evening...
Some of the most delightful moments of the evening came in songs which Miss Baez and Mr. von Schmidt sang together. Mr. von Schmidt revealed himself as an adept at the harmonica and both singers played on a cylinder of paper which makes a sound doubtless rarely before heard in the civilized world...
...music itself is not very good. There were thirty-five acts at Woodstock, and there are only thirteen in this film. The choices made here remain inexplicable, hence you should go prepared to be bored. A few of the heavies: Joan Baez, Richie Havens, Santana, Sebastian, Joe Cocker, Ten Years After, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, each set more intolerably mediocre than the last and if you start with Baez doing "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," you can imagine where that takes you. Where are the Airplane, or the Dead, or even the Band...