At California's Mills College last week, summer-school students filed on to a stage before a Picasso-like background of musical scales, picked up an assortment of bells, whistles and drums, and let go with everything they had. With ordered gusto they banged, rattled, beat, blew, stomped and rang their way through Henry Cowell's Pulse, John Cage's Second Construction, William Russell's Chicago Sketches, Lou Harrison's Canticle, Amadeo Roldan's Ritmicas V and VI. When they had finished, the audience gave percussive approval. Wrote Musicritic Alfred Frankenstein in San Francisco's Chronicle: ". . . Endlessly fascinating....
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