Eric Clapton was scheduled to present the award in London in a ceremony shown live on the U. S telecast via satellite. Built in 1936, the facility at 20th and Main streets is now 24,000 square feet. The ensemble was small, the audience was small, the music played was small. "I worked in a studio by the side of the swimming pool, and the guys from the service who came to clean it were unemployed actors discussing casting calls.

A small house on the left emits an orange glow through covered windows. "I wanted to turn the situation around as quickly as possible" He quickly gained not only the confidence of the chorale's singers, but of San Diego Symphony maestro David Atherton. Credit is due to Joan Crosby, whose "Aunt Sally" provides the proper vitriolic groundwork. Tonight, 27 1/2 years and numerous visits later, Haitink and the Concertgebouw Orchestra open the 1985-86 Ambassador Auditorium season. Furillo on NBC's "Hill Street Blues" and Coleman for playing a string of deceitful characters.

Anyone recognizing these two money men would have automatically assumed that they were discussing new ways to bolster Tunisia's sagging economy In fact, they were talking cinema. He has not yet clearly defined a mature artistic vision for himself, but he has obviously narrowed the field to the point that practiced viewers recognize a characteristic "Jay Johnson" look. (You stand in line to order, take a number, and they bring the food to your table) They do have a few dim sum, but even their signature dish is not especially good. These were the creations of Amy Pressman, formerly of Spago, who recently left for a restaurant in Dallas. On Friday, the County Museum of Art begins a major retrospective of the films of Stanley Kramer, leading off-entirely appropriately, it seems to me-with his "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" from 1967.

My maternal grandfather had grapes flown in from Persia, his laundry done in Paris. With a modest budget of $175,000, Michael Milenski of the Long Beach Opera presented an extraordinarily daring, extraordinarily poignant production of Verdi's daunting "Don Carlo-in San Jose. In an early scene, one of the four beautiful, aristocratic Makiokas is powdering her older sister's shoulders as they dress for the theater. "There were no accounting procedures, no records to speak of, no operating figures, " Allyn said Monday "I had to reconstruct them. "Naturally, none of us wish San Diego to remain provincial by beautifying and decorating itself using its own talents" the letter reads "We want to be open to outside artistic influences. In the process, Arledge gave up the ABC Sports presidency he'd held since 1968, with Sias naming an ABC veteran, Dennis Swanson, to head the money-losing division. Though they were veteran musicians, they had not performed together and had barely even rehearsed together.

If it's a rock concert, nobody quite gets cranked up until it takes on the dimensions of Live Aid-where the whole electronically plugged-in world becomes the audience via satellite. This seven-hour, three-part CBS miniseries-based on a Sidney Sheldon novel and beginning at 8 p. m. What you can't do with Harvest Time's invention is place the needle at the beginning of the record and have days of uninterrupted listening. Maybe we are consuming on such a colossal and frenzied scale out of general and unacknowledged fear Maybe not. The proposal comes while the festival is still deadlocked in lease-renewal negotiations with the City of Laguna Beach, which owns the festival's six-acre site At issue is lowering the city's share of festival revenues. So it all developed together" Noted Tepper, "One thing Bob kept us to as we were going along was parameters: knowing the concepts of set (minimalist, props (five stools, three jackets, four scarfs and two hats, interchanged among the cast) and context.

Monique Van de Ven, the beautiful and talented blond actress of Paul Verhoeven's "Turkish Delight" and "Keetje Tippel" stars in "Dreamland" as a young working-class wife whose postpartum depression leads her to an addiction to tranquilizers. His art broadcasts a repellent message about decadence and writhes in so much stringy pigment and so many conflicting motifs that you want to yell, "Stop" Pittman will not stop, nor should he, for his put-off methods add up to original, intriguingly troublesome art. Now, Dolby is out to work another wonder: to make traditional analog recordings sound every bit as good as the high-tech arrivistes on the market, the digital recorders and compact disc (CD) players. Although he has resumed performing occasionally, Dale is putting most of his time and energy into turning the old Woodstock Concert Theatre in Anaheim into a new Dick Dale club called Richie's.

Of ensembles, the lineup remains eclectic: Pianist Robert Taub will preside over a 70th birthday party for composer Milton Babbitt at the Doumani House (Robert Graham, 1982) in Venice, May 11; the Boston Symphony Players, Chanticleer, Trio Sonnerie and the Folger Consort will also appear during the season. Finally, Bonino is now booking, outside of her subscription season, a two-day chamber-music orgy on Catalina Island, June 7 and 8. He never resolves trails he enters-not a clever device but a failure in dramatic communication. When CSN decides to record and tour, those occasions, Crosby insisted, are improperly labeled reunions: "The media always says that and it's wrong. The fact that she even spotlighted them in a New Year's Eve show signifies that she's still being true to her roots.