KFSG also differs from the run-of-the-mill Christian outlet by keeping its announcers quiet for the most part and playing mostly contemporary, upbeat music. A kindly professor once told a class of us that you could always locate the soliloquy fast by dropping a library copy of "Ulysses" on its spine; out of habit, the book would fall open to Molly I'm not sure he was serious, but I suspect he was correct. Like Adam, Abdallah can live in paradise-as long as he lights no more than four candles on a magic five-branched candelabrum. Domingo blasted his easy solos with the fervor of an artist equally at home with divas and Denvers. Next came a plate of antipasti crowned with an egg glowing a dense, deep red.

Proceeds from the "Christmas" record-which has sold more than 6 million copies worldwide-will be used to aid famine-stricken Ethiopians. "Since Previn and the Philharmonic haven't begun their relationship, we had no local quotes to draw from" Few were fooled, no doubt, since the source of the quote was clearly printed But many, no doubt, were a bit confused. The camera work, like the orchestra's performance, is not always the most polished, but the warm rapport the film makers, the musicians and the members of the community obviously share redeems the technical weaknesses. On Wednesday, music director David Atherton announced an intriguing first season of programming at the Fox, now being referred to as Symphony Hall. "It's tough being on the other side because you have to put out your best and it's a real challenge" At the major TV networks, even Valenti's foes concede his effectiveness. The number is (213) 930-2111, and the bells are constantly ringing.

After last week's announcement of the orchestra's impending bankruptcy should it not raise $2 million by Monday, the symphony announced a programming change for this week's concerts. Turner criticized CBS News for failing to reflect the broad range of political points of view, but refrained from labeling it with the liberal bias that some critics have charged. "I think that's only because of the (small) number of women involved in jazz in the past and I think it will happen-sooner than most of us think" Added Thom Mason, director of jazz studies at USC: "I'm still looking for a female Duke Ellington to emerge, and with all due respect to (band leader-composer) Toshiko Akiyoshi, that hasn't happened yet" But even though most association members agreed that acceptance for women instrumentalists has grown dramatically in the last decade, the news for women at the conference wasn't all good. Friends may also visit Saturday afternoon at Angelus Funeral Home, 3875 Crenshaw Blvd, she said "The one thing I admired about Langley was his belief in the music" Tanter said "One of the things I had to do was to be more versatile.

Add to these Brian Dennehy as Hackman's longtime steel mill crony and Ann-Margret as the new waitress at the local bar and you have a killer lineup (the Regent in Westwood These are strong, positive, uniquely American actors. "Get there first, with adequate credit, and decide promptly" Baker implores fellow buyers as he offers his "theory for the collection of contemporary art" in diary selections, reproduced in the exhibition catalogue and placards. Imagine me walking into that house with that churchy atmosphere. Beresford thought he could improve on that and so, armed with $24 million from Paramount, off he went to London and Rome to make the movie. Some of the smaller pleasures of this production include Keller's somewhat put-upon Le Beau, Carl Reggiardo's masculine elegance as Duke Senior Kristen Lowman's unabashedly calculating Phebe and a devastatingly funny few seconds of Hal Landon Jr's vicar Martext (though his Frederick seems more churlish than mean spirited. Sitting in an office backstage at New York City Center, he looks at his interviewer's tape recorder as if it will bite him "I am frightened, OK" he announces defiantly "This is a tough year.

"Not a week goes by" Reed says, "where we didn't have two outraged phone calls" Paul is a drive-time veteran who last worked at KFI. On this site once stood the palace of Empress Helena, mother of Constantine the Great, who ruled a Roman Empire newly converted to Christianity. 31, will become the first major traveling exhibition in the museum's 73-year-history. Bill Gorgensen's sets-a conventional compilation of steps, pillars, arches and painted clouds-settle for oddly Greek-looking window dressing. You get to work with the best actors in England, and the only pressure is to be good and stay within budget. Information contrary to ABC's charges was reported widely by Hawaiian newspapers and TV stations as well as national news media prior to the disputed broadcasts, McDonald noted in a telephone interview. And, for the first time in 10 years, this summer he will not be playing the viola at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival in New Mexico, but will devote his non-Hollywood Bowl weeks in August to the newly established San Diego Chamber Music Festival, of which he is artistic director.

Now I know how my friend felt after she dug up tons of TV footage for use in "Urban Cowboy" and then it wasn't used She moved to Zimbabwe. Many walk on, but few are seen. But financial constraints limited them to a "talking heads" format, which could not be sustained for 60 minutes. It's nice to see the Elton Johns, Linda Ronstadts, Billy Idols, Elvis Costellos and other major names performing in Orange County, but with fewer and fewer outlets where new acts can build followings, the county is leaning toward an unhealthy dependence on imported music. The second half had a better focus, though some of the sketches were flat and truncated, such as "Luncheon at the Beverly" (a parody of highbrow radio talk shows) and the Fryes (the Texas milieu that has proved as successful with the Groundlings as it had with "The Carol Burnett Show" on TV.

Limited edition prints (prices to be set) will go on sale at New York's Art Expo next April, proceeds going to a planned Lennon Museum near Lincoln Center. David Alden, the iconoclastic American director, ignored all the hallmarks of show-bizzy grand opera and staged the sprawling quasi-historical tragedy-using the familiar four-act Italian version-as if it were a stark, cruel, ultramodern, faintly Brechtian drama of ideas. We're given to understand that this protective badinage is supposed to mask tremulous, worthy souls underneath. And I look at the plays that have come out in the last 20 or 30 years in this country, and they're usually not about anything except for me, or us, you and me and my problems and my diet and my this and my that" Even the exceptions-the handful of radically political acting troupes found in America-lack the quality Bogart found in Europe "I find (their work) is very facile and it's kind of boring People get up on a soapbox and they say, 'U. S out of El Salvador'. Beardsley, who came West when her physicist husband took a job with a La Jolla research and development firm, brings six years' experience as executive director of Arts Alliance, the public arts agency for Jackson and Hinds County, Miss. Imagine what it was like being a West-Coast-type rocker when the Sex Pistols came out But music isn't about compromise. There are a couple of weak spots, and one real clinker"I've Got Me a Woman" songwriter Paul Kennerly's attempt at Dylanesque oblique imagery that's just empty wordplay.