Besides the Mark Taper Forum, two other California companies were selected for grants: La Jolla Playhouse, awarded $150,000 over three years, and the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company of San Francisco, given $5,000 for one year. You can play a drum and a man will kneel and pray, dance or just sigh and drop his head. Now, the basic traffic patterns have become the responsibility of an innocent named Bruce Donnell, and the basic visual distortions remain. I believe I was shown one Rothko that was only at $750, and of course I regret that I didn't buy it, but I think I made the right decision, because as long as I didn't like a painting, it wasn't a very sensible thing to buy" Born in Providence, R. I, Baker said that his early exposure to art stemmed from childhood travels through Europe and that his passion for modern art probably grew from his dislike of Victoriana.

Though producers declined to comment further on Duffy's reappearance, it might be seen as an antidote to sagging ratings. The unruly throng that patronized this quasiconcert, sponsored by the San Diego Opera in conjunction with Tibor Rudas, did not fill the Sports Arena. Variance of the prescribed format by altering the sitter's position and lighting is less important than the feeling that these are not court portraits but restrained character studies done by an authority on the subject. Some are are invited to read and anyone may send a sample of work requesting a reading, or write us a workshop proposal There are only 52 weeks in a year" Phillips adds "Every year deserving poets will be left out. I'd love to go on with that play, do another production, maybe in New York.

Despite the plans to cut the late news show from 60 to 30 minutes, no reduction in staffing is planned, a KTTV spokeswoman said. Here's a girl (would-be fiancee of the fickle "Man) who's in her 30s, smart. "Suddenly we had this major facility, a beautiful auditorium, and nothing to put in it but our little Civic Light Opera and our community orchestra" The orchestra grew in artistic stature, Lentzner acknowledges, and is now "an ensemble-an ongoing ensemble, not a pickup group as it used to be-we can be proud of. When the series began on CBS in 1979, it told the story of first-year law students, now heading toward graduation.

Here were cheap, dirty, unimaginative canvases that might have done duty-too much duty-in some provincial European house 40 years ago. The black swan's 32- fouette variation in "Swan Lake" has nothing on Mistoffelees' frisky display of pyrotechnics in "Cats" Torcellini, like many San Diego performers, began his training at the San Diego Junior Theater. When Mel Brown stepped out to play some piercing licks on his electric guitar, she turned to him with an acknowledging hand, as if indicating, "What else is there to say". Movement exercises are demonstrated sequentially and clearly by four dancers and are intercut with scenes from actual classes.

The most radical action at the five-day conference, however, was board approval of a new NPR business plan, set to commence in 1987. While I'm in Europe, I often find other work in Denmark or Switzerland or somewhere. Leonard Ingrande, conductor and founder of the Monteverde, pointed out that chamber music does not belong in a museum, saying, "A lot of things are written now for smaller groups because of budgetary reasons" So far the orchestra has sold 150 subscriptions for the 500-seat auditorium. Though this Austrian painter is big on death masks and umbilical cords, he does have a few other tricks up his sleeve; his work is often subtly erotic, and occasionally presents intriguing puzzles. "But all of us volunteers are just worn out"Considering the difficulties and reduced opportunities for jazz musicians discussed elsewhere at the conference, some wondered whether women are merely winning a larger slice of an ever-shrinking pie. The County Museum of Art maintains that the collection is rivaled only by that of the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad. .

Since that time his work has appeared in local and national publications. . It boasts a splendid, indeed definitive, cast headed by Irene Dunne as the lovely Magnolia, fated to fall for Allen Jones' dashing river-boat gambler, Gaylord Ravenal. Lee Holland, one of half a dozen former Iranian hostages who came to the party. But they were absolutely thrilled to do it"My question is this: Why Africa? When I was a kid, I had polio. Phil Collins was picked as best British male artist of the year and his album "No Jacket Required" was voted Britain's best LP. The Taft Gallery-with its three-level displays, spiral staircases, sculpture pond, fake marble surfaces, 34-extension telephone and mixed bag of modern and contemporary art-seemed more make-believe museum than gallery, but the designers got some things right, or nearly so. You know what I mean" In today's "Schoolbreak" story Zal plays Alfie, a level-headed, very intelligent girl who must cope with her sister's terminal illness and with her mother's (Millie Perkins) belief in evangelical faith healers.

But this was not completed until the very end of 1931, when sound had decisively edged out silents and after she and Kennedy had tried various other complicated salvage jobs and then gone their separate ways, professionally and romantically. LONDON — British Broadcasting Corp. "As it turned out, it was a very good thing she didn't" said Lansbury, whose humor is of the quiet, subtle variety, "because it precludes, in a sense, the need for car chases. The Jeff Lorber Fusion is due at the Wilshire Theatre March 30. . Why, then, hasn't he been back before now? "Well, ah, the business of music in North America" the 47-year-old pianist said in a telephone interview from his home in Toronto, "is, well, a Byzantine complex" Kuerti will return here Thursday night for a recital at Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena. Its title seemed a foregone conclusion, but she told them anyway"Hooray for Dollywood" Ron Cardwell, manager of the Green Valley restaurant, isn't a member of the county power elite, nor is he serving on a fund-raising committee He didn't go to the ground-breaking ceremony either. What was an authentic operatic luminary, a member of both the Metropolitan and New York City Operas in the 1970s and a longtime visitor to operatic venues in Europe and in regional America, doing singing in a bar? As Niska told The Times earlier this week, she considers that "Music is music, wherever you play it" Besides, she added, "This is fun" and follows a pattern she began, years ago, when, as a young operatic aspirant in the Merola Program at San Francisco Opera, she sang in numerous North Beach eating establishments.

Fatherly male anchor, gorgeous female co-anchor and all the other enticements to watch the news for all the wrong reasons. Nothing could be all bad Nothing except the news media, apparently. A German architect living in Cologne, the 66-year-old Boehm is the second European in a row to win the prestigious $100,000 prize sponsored by the Hyatt Foundation Last year's winner was Hans Hollein of Austria. Concurrently, Vivian Browne, a professor at Rutgers, shows large oils and acrylic-on-paper paintings. MOSCOW — A Rembrandt masterpiece damaged by an acid-throwing vandal has been saved from destruction and is being restored for eventual return to Leningrad's Hermitage Museum, a Soviet newspaper reported. Her recent docudramas continue a practice of using friends and family members as actors. Elvis is dead' "Right then I had this one real strong memory-I remembered I'd hugged my first wife at the Boy Scout hut in Moreland, Ga, when I was 13 an' Elvis was singing 'One Night With You' on the radio An' now I was 31.