Between a meeting with the Governor of New Jersey and a dress rehearsal of "Faust" in Newark, Jerome Hines pauses to talk about, among other things, his next operatic project, "Don Carlo" at Long Beach Opera Wait a minute. Other soloists, such as Mike Smith on soprano and alto saxes, show how much underexposed talent Chicago has to offer. . That's what we do" The current version of the Johnny Otis Show features six horn players, five rhythm players and three singers Otis plays piano and vibraphone and also sings. But they (Louisiana Tech University) had asked me to be in it, and I thought, 'Well, here's my chance' I'm still glad I tried it" Yet he cannot escape "Carousel" About two years ago, he toured in yet another revival of the 1945 classic in several East Coast cities.

The pageant, the tableaux spectacle of celebrated artworks, drew approximately 136,000 visitors last summer-a sellout attendance for the 19th straight year-and grossed $2. 5 million. A dirty sink is in the corner, next to a shelf with angry-looking provisions. Worse yet, such gritty realism makes its people, in their dreaminess, seem foolish rather than brave and gallant. About $37,500 of the city share was divided among 12 "cultural or artistic" organizations last year, including $7,200 each to the Laguna Art Museum and city Arts Commission, according to Councilman Neil Fitzpatrick, a member of the city's festival negotiating team. Hands manacled, a nasty bruise on his forehead, Love bottles his emotions.

At the 24-hour Cameo farther south on Broadway, bargain-priced movie tickets are $1. 75, but apparently not even "Naughty Schoolgirls" can compete with the lottery. Not least of the demonstrations last weekend was what a glorious instrument the clarinet is-and while we're at it, its cousin, the soprano saxophone (now virtually never heard outside traditional jazz. Johnny Mince, a big band alumnus whose career began in 1929 and who played with Ray Noble and Tommy Dorsey, was one of the weekend's stars, a wizard technician with a ceaseless flow of jazz ideas. In Squat's early work this kind of thinking gave rise to subtexts that were provocative but often too well-hidden for Western audiences. Coming pop releases: "Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers-Pack Up the Plantation" (MCA, $29. 95, shot locally at the Wiltern Theatre; "The Dream Academy" (Warner Music, $12. 98, a collection of four videos by the hot new British trio, Dream Academy, whose debut album is flashing up in the pop charts. Early interest indicates a show that will be popular but probably not keep pace with last summer's Impressionist crowd-pleaser, "A Day in the Country" "San Marco has more esoteric objects" he noted. Magic Sam retreated to local bars and sharpened his skills before Delmark gave him another shot in 1968 with "West Side Soul" "It's a landmark in the same way 'Kind of Blue' or 'In a Silent Way' are for Miles Davis in jazz" Long Ryder Griffin enthuses.

"We're now responsible for the overall marketing and imaging of the radio station" said Joan Hiser, promotions director for adult-contemporary (A/C) stations KFMB-AM (760) and KFMB-FM (B-100"The program director, through his choice of music, determines the direction the radio station takes. Leading the performances will be the American conductor Chris Nance, who led the U. S premiere of "Anna Karenina" in Los Angeles in 1983. Last June, South Coast Plaza officials offered to extend the use of the rent-free site to January, 1987. Following is a partial look at films screening today at Mann's Westwood Triplex. Vieira went to Ethiopia to report on the progress of USA for Africa and seemed to conclude that the aid is alleviating some of the hunger but not much of it and that she felt bad about that but couldn't do much about it and look at the dust out there and look at the flies on those faces and isn't it terrible that we can't do anything about it and start the music already. The retrospective look is at the County Museum of Art (to Feb 16, the present view at the Roy Boyd Gallery (to Dec 31.

For the first time, rock 'n' roll met charity on a grand scale. He's a bundle of energy, an almost-idiot optimist, infatuated with science and gadgetry. Social fears of seeming wimpy and being dateless and alone for ever. ) Understandably, most people assume Lean cast her in his film because he was impressed by her work in her first, award-winning film, "My Brilliant Career" Wrong. He gave a performance so sensitive, so aristocratic, so intelligent and so poetic that comparison with other tenors in the role, past and present, seems both foolish and futile.

It would have been impossible for most of these musicians to have brought the project to fruition without extensive empirical understanding of both the classical and jazz elements. The same was true of the quartet's solid brand of straight-ahead rock 'n' roll. Outside by the Concorde, meanwhile, 10 still photographers enclosed two British track stars who were posing with kilted pipers. This experience is accompanied by Jeffrey Rona's music (a free-floating composition of four tape loops of unequal length played continuously. Based on the Kelly controversy, it appears that a need exists for the public to be actively involved at some stage in the selection process of public art. " On "Forever Young" perhaps the most recorded of all Dylan's post'60s songs: "I wrote (it). First, he gives us a prologue, narrated, via tape, with crisp British inflections by his wife, Valda Setterfield.