If you're surprised by anything-even when the Ninja suddenly shows up in the jungles of Mexico-you're probably an easy mark. For example: Of his son, actor Rob Reiner, he said, "He's such an emotionally honest person that he doesn't conceal his feelings If he's up, he's high If he's down, you see it. Such small bands have, with the notable exception of the durable I Musici, fallen from favor, victims not only of the passing of the Baroque craze but as well of our growing infatuation with authentic performance practice. On more than one occasion, Magaloff has presented concert series devoted to a traversal of the Polish composer's music.

Don't forget the ballad either: "Jim" is a ringer in this set, though none the worse for it under Al Grey's plunger-muted control. The decision paid off and the album, "My Kind of Country" earned the Oklahoma-born singer the Country Music Assn's 1984 Female Vocalist of the Year award. But Hutchison said a strong reaction to the new band convinced the musicians to continue performing "to find out what we'd stumbled onto" The original members of the Daddyo's-Hutchison, Arguello and lead guitarist Gary Wilson-are joined by bassist Terry Adamo and drummer Mitchell James. It's a harmoniously dark, formally structured group of works, often setting themselves forth in symmetrical or gridded compositions and built on an assemblagist's sensibility. "Almanac" the latest attempt by NBC to develop a successful weekly news series, will air monthly through December, then become a weekly program in January. . Between these two eruptions of action rolls an undulating plain of genre scenes, panoramas and portraits. Aesthetic highs arrive in key paintings that reveal the inventiveness and virtuosity of the movement, such as Raffaello Sernesi's bold and sure reduction of "Rooftops in the Sunlight" and Silvestro Lega's "The Trellis" a consummate expression of communal warmth and rural dignity.

The Taper production will be the first English-language version of the play, with Sobol present for some of the rehearsals Davidson directs Wilson's "Burn This" (Jan 22-Feb 15) is "a hard one to describe" Davidson said. At a rally Wednesday outside the downtown offices of independent television station KBHK, the protesters said more than 80 stations across the country have refused to sell air time for a 30-minute special that, says its executive producer, "makes a strong case against military solutions" to the current political problems of Nicaragua and El Salvador. The hills are alive with "The Sound of Music" High in the Hills of Beverly, about an octave above a winding canyon road, Anna Maria Alberghetti once again has been getting ready to star in the Rodgers & Hammerstein classic. They're not yet in the realm of the business"The already rocky road to success for young classical musicians is about to get rockier. Even on a potentially slow night like Easter Sunday, nearly 200 people packed the tiny Howard Street Tavern in Omaha to sample one of the Harman band's incendiary performances that combine blues, soul, gospel, R&B and rock music. Every time his contorted figures crop up in an exhibition, I grumble, "Not that again" and drive off to see them. Several performances will be broadcast to the Coliseum in that way as well.

Argento is a Pulitzer Prize winner whose music hardly has the public forum it deserves. But Latino fans will find a deeper thrill in the eventual "Cantare Cantaras" video as they watch Hispanic heavyweights from several disparate musical styles working together. Very shortly thereafter I met Sakai" At a council committee meeting April 24, John J. "We should, I think, add six to eight chandeliers, in two rows, not for lighting, but for scattering the sound" He stresses that they would fit visually and aesthetically into Pavilion decor. In and around this are myriad plot complications, square-dancing, Waldman's sometimes awkward and repetitive score, and general inattention to the authentic gritty feel of the period. The organization out here apparently advertised anyway" Back to co-producer Harris: "Well, let's be fair.

"I did the production for the festival when I was artistic director there, and I thought it would be kind of fun to do the same thing under the same title here" Hilker said. So you're not just going out there a screaming meemie" (She stresses that one angry female can't turn the show into a militant tract, "because somebody will always balance you out) Although women used to dominate their audiences, the gender mix has gradually become more evenly divided. We're given neither the courtroom fireworks nor a clear picture of what ignited them. Bill Lundby's "Sailing Buicks" features a toilet with a porthole in the tank, which is filled with pretty blue water. One whole category of dishes are called "camp style; in ordinary English, that means grilled over mesquite They do steak, duck, chicken and brook trout in that manner. Songs like "I Believe in You" reflect the honesty and poetic grace of Dylan's finest work Available as an English import 1/2. It was elegant, expensive, an immediate hit-but nobody copied it But the arrival of the Spago-style has started an explosion Some even admit where the inspiration came from.