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Last Friday night Joan Baez and Eric von Schmidt sang folk songs in Agassiz Theater, 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 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 sligtly 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...
Eric von Schmidt is somewhat furrier than Miss Baez, and he sings differently, too. He sings old Leadbelly songs, Negro blues stuff, with a slow heavy beat, and effectively repititious chord patterns. His songs are humorous and his guitar technique dazzling (a technique which includes the use of a Hayes-Bickford knife to produce at points an odd sort of tone) and his general savoir-faire entirely compensates for the fact that, like many male folk singers, his voice sounds much like Jack Benny's Rochester...
...singers, two poets, and the Summer Band will perform during the week. Folksingers Joan Baez and Oscar Brand will present the first event, a concert at 8:30 tonight in Sanders Theatre open to the public without charge...
Next Thursday, Aug. 4, Oscar Brand and Joan Baez will present a program of folksongs. Miss Baez' work was recently cited by Time magazine; Brand has been called "fresh, pert, earthy and alive...