Other irons in the fire: Negotiations are in progress for a fall Los Angeles premiere of Davis' "Energy Trilogy" SAVED: After last week's distress call, the Institute of the American Musical, housing a superb collection of recordings and other materials that chronicle the history of the American stage and film musical, has received anonymous donations totaling $5O,000. At Monday Evening Concerts' second event in its California series Monday night in Bing Theater at the County Museum of Art, three of the five scheduled pieces received world premiere performances As played by the nine-member California E. A. R. Before the year is out, a deteriorating federal "safety net" matched by a rising number of bona-fide street people, could wind up putting a Nick Nolte in every swimming pool, if not a chicken in every pot. So we're a little concerned about how we're going to handle some of these future shows.

One reason was he avoided the fast-lane life style that attracted a lot of media attention in those days. Despite the overall good news, studio executives voiced concern about a growing glut of movies that may cut into profits for new releases. Your pipe dreams are small change next to his, and a lot less dangerous O'Neill's pipe-dreamer is named Hickey. Meanwhile, there is heady planning revolving around a 1987 Thanksgiving-weekend Saturday-night opening. Trained by Gentile da Fabriano, the patriarch was the father of painters Gentile and Giovanni Bellini and the father-in-law of Andrea Mantegna"Madonna and Child" is one of only two paintings by Jacopo Bellini in American museums. The original score was by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen and included "Love and Marriage" It was an RCA effort to promote the sale of color sets, and even in contrasty and faded black and white, it was thrilling to see.

Slight amplification was used for the soprano's cries and whispers, but the amplification could have been even stronger. "I can only say that it was soundly, roundly and immediately refused" he said. "The Go Masters" (Times-rated Mature because it's too intense for children) is propaganda that is at once respectable and entertaining. . But he stressed that Taylor had given the matter great consideration and "has come to some conclusions of great intelligence and sensitivity. A video does not give us time to suspend our awareness of Donald Sutherland, actor , and Bush is not a convincing boy.

This quartet, a prominent force in the new-music underground, approaches the instrument with a grain of assault, and on Friday at the Lingerie Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo spent most of their time hammering their guitar frets with hands and sticks and waving the guitars in front of their amps to enrich the din with some hearty feedback. "He always encouraged me to do that thing which I loved the most" And that, he says, was film making. Drummers interested in registration or other information should send a self-addressed stamped envelope to Drummers' Network, P. O Box 2711, Mission Viejo, CA, 92690. A trial is like an elevator that stops at every floor.

Now under construction in Costa Mesa's South Coast Plaza Town Center, the Orange County Center's 3,000-seat, multipurpose theater is to open Sept 29 with Zubin Mehta and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Now she's gained a foothold so that we can see what her comedy is dramatizing-human trivialization Her delivery is brighter now too, and better timed Gone are those stoned pauses punctuated by boring put-downs. In some ways, it's the show that "Sweeney Todd" would have been if Stephen Sondheim had told it with a wink instead of asking us to believe in it. Wearing fatigues, his movements tracked by a PBS affiliate crew from Minneapolis, Bridges is standing at an open phone in a Cleveland bus station. He directed his first English-language play in London in 1922, then immigrated to the United States to spend three years at the George Eastman Theater in Rochester, N. Y.

But Beckmann called them up as heroically scaled aspects of tragic Jungian mythology. I sometimes suspect that Broadway's second-favorite kind of show is an out-and-out bomb, all the better to heighten the tension at the next opening. More than 70 installments of the serial have been shown in Yugoslavia, and broadcasting authorities say more are planned for next year. Hurok organization on the '64 Kirov tour and said "to me, this was the greatest ballet company in the world. Spence sends an SOS for the executive head of the mining company (Norman Kaye, and the negotiations with the aborigines begin in earnest So does the heavy-handedness. "I did stage a 'Ring' in London that was predicated on a Marxist perspective of the mythology But I wasn't the first to see the 'Ring' that way Shaw did it long before me. Discussing her new work, "Untitled" for interactive voice and video, the singer noted: "I hope the visuals will be a nice complement to the vocal.