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NY 100-25857 ngs ion re aie, . a yaa vr a a ce a a woe te bee - a | “ast person you would expect to hear taliding : about music in terms that might send. an wore. advanced musicologist back to his reference | books. ” ~ ag . a 2A St - | "Returning - to the concert efreuit’ after six years of Singing in churches and informal recitals, tne 59-year-old basso a will appear at the Oakland Auditortun Sunday afternoon. And after a lunch with Robeson | last week at the Whitcomb Hotel - and a conversation loaded with such technical terms 2 as ‘pentatonic scale! and tritone intervals’ .- (” - I could hardly help being convinced that “he is more interested in musicolopy than _ in politics. ey me ; ae -"'the last year and a half + has Che ares been a time of great discovery for me,‘ said Robeson, who speaks with the same intensity as he sings and sometimes soars into melody ‘to point an example. ‘It began when I~ T2270 ct 7 first listened really closely to Bartok and found how he had devised a method that... would harmonize the melodies of pentatonic Hungarian folk songs. All folk music is similar. ‘and I had been singing it all my life without realizing the technical base that makes a ot spiritual of the samefamily as a Russian folk song or an old English madrigal. Bartok, Debussy and Mussorgsky taught 1 me to hear eae 7 all over again. * - great music, are based on the melody of - ong . natural human speech.” In my concert Sunday " fad - oo ge he sery se “tactually, folk songs, and all. nga uy ’ oT