Once aroused, Perahia settled into a poetic and discerning reading of Chopin's A-flat Ballade He continued in this Chopinesque vein in the Impromptu No. He paints a zaftig nude bathing in a pool beneath a roiling red sky with the fervor of a German Expressionist blissed-out on nature, but the figure has no sexual charge and the landscape has no Teutonic idealism. If Bischoff were cool like, say, the American Luminists, he might get by as a mirror of cosmic detachment and as a matter of fact his landscapes are his least problematical works. A CD offering only 32 minutes looks exactly like one that may carry twice as much; moreover, the store may overcharge you for the former, as there are no firm price regulations. With Christopher Plummer, Maggie Smith, Elke Sommer, Adolph Green, Sandor Szabo, Janos Kende, Rosetta Lenoire Running time: 1 hour, 40 minutes. "Trio a Deux" trivializes Beethoven's string convolutions to a degree, but it provides a deft, dapper duet for Renvall and the spiffy Spizzo. Sting's new album, "The Dream of the Blue Turtles" is in the Top 5.

"Morale is 1,000% up, and all the indications are very positive. "Maybe I'm doing things backwards by taking off just when I'm starting to get some exposure with this video" he said, laughing. In the concurrently held foundation's third annual GFA solo competition, first-place winner was Mary Akerman of Tallahassee, Fla. Each hourlong episode will contain up to three stories, some of them remakes from the original but most new The first show done uses stories by Arthur C Clarke, Stephen King and Ray Bradbury. This thorough but often dry account of rock 'n' roll's rebellious rise and subsequent decline into '60s pop is an uneven mix of the familiar and the fascinating, the sloppy and the sublime.

But the hollow calculation of their disposable pop-and the dramatic resurgence of purposeful and passionate American rock-shouldn't prevent you from checking the import bins. He usually avoids ponderous preaching and money pitches until the politics are out of the way. In concert halls, however, these works appear all too rarely. A musical "Festschrift" for the composer will be presented at 8 p. m by his students in Mandeville Center Recital Hall. Male vocalist: Lee Greenwood, Gary Morris, Kenny Rogers, Skaggs, George Strait.

But, for lush tone and gorgeous understatement, Wincenc reached her peak in the solo line of Debussy's "Syrinx" In the middle of this generous but not overburdened program, the Muir Quartet by itself gave as bold, pointed and unflappable a reading of Bartok's Quartet No 5 as one may be lucky enough to hear anywhere. The South portrayed in the series was not Mayberry, take it from me For nearly 20 years I lived in the neighborhood. So, I just said, 'This is Pippi's mother' Romy actually leaped into the woman's arms and started hugging and kissing her and saying, 'Thank you, thank you' "That afternoon, one of the others called and told me I had the rights. MORE 'MASK: Peter Bogdanovich's battle to get seven Bruce Spingstreen songs onto the disputed sound track of "Mask" has taken two new twists.

The singer took advantage of the occasion, and the lottery, to provide us with a memorable statement that may, or may not, bear tremendous socioeconomic significance: "This is really something, but to tell you the truth, nothing can compare to the thrill of going onstage and singing" We have learned, moreover, that the singer's husband, Giorgio Costa, plans to continue with his work as a master carpenter at the Metropolitan Opera. Deciding what the appropriate use of such commercials is-and whether there is an appropriate use at all-were questions that polarized the PBS membership at the start of its annual three-day meeting here Monday. In Seattle, Hodsoll's most telling argument on behalf of the importance of arts as a basic came from someone else. A standardized bargain: you're on your own to separate the wheat from the chaff. McDonald said he chose to do the play at UCI, in part, because the "existential disparity" between China of 1946 and Orange County of 1986 is "so incredibly dramatic" What is upset in "Fanshen" is the Old Order, with the peasants first bringing to judgment the collaborators and landlords who made their lives so miserable for so long, and then dividing up the spoils of land and possessions. "Disarming Images" has been crisscrossing the country for nearly a year (including a stop last fall at San Diego State University) and will continue traveling for another year. But we are trying to do everything within our power-collectively from the Irvine Meadows people to the concessionaires to Irvine police-to curb problems as best we can" LIVE ACTION: The Chick Corea Electric Band, the Wayne Shorter Quartet and Al DiMeola will play Irvine Meadows on June 13 Tickets go on sale Sunday.

But it drew only 24% the following week, 23% for the third episode and 22% for the fourth. Pierre's mixed-media sculpture-with its rough-hewn tree trunk impaled with nails, spikes, gold and silver-relies substantially on metaphorical allusion, investing natural forms (a tree, like a human, has a trunk and limbs) with anthropomorphic deceits based solely on linguistic association. "She believes in God at the end, talks to him and deals with her sister's death in a good way" the actress added. To make matters worse, his new car is a lemon, the family vacation to Hawaii a disaster and Jackson's most sociable visitor seems to be a swarthy, gangland thug who's eager to clear up a hefty gambling debt. "We were the first professional (resident) ballet company ever to last" he said "Ever".

When he managed to avoid fussy visual contradictions and inconsistencies, Nikolaus Lehnhoff focused the drama with telling characterizations and striking stage pictures. "I don't know if (Bud) Furillo is on his own now or not" she said. Stern also conducts intermittent foggy interviews in which he displays more a pride of peers than a pride of place. After hearing Thorogood sing the ballad enough times, Destroyers saxophonist Hank Carter and bassist Billy Blough figured out the chords, and the band began playing it informally at rehearsals and sound checks.

At that, a visit home reminds you that change is the rule of the game, and if you are fortunate the changes on balance come out positive rather than negative. Previn's arrival obviously represents an occasion of profound historical and cultural significance. They seem beautifully complementary-a notion, it develops, that also occurred to Holly's seismologist husband (Ted Danson, who started an affair with Sandy sometime back. "Before that, I was more or less half buying what my father's conservative politics were at that time" he said "That incident completely changed my life in a lot of ways I became very self-destructive because I sort of lost faith I started doing drugs because of that. "Jazz people can't seem to get together and work for their own survival" said jazz artist publicist and NARAS member Devra Hall.

The nice thing about being a storyteller like Tom T Hall is that life is always providing new stories to tell. MIAMI — Actor Jose Ferrer, whose career has spanned half a century of stage and screen roles, says he's stepping down as artistic director of the Coconut Grove Playhouse for "someone better qualified to take the reins" Ferrer took the post with the Playhouse in December, 1982, to help rejuvenate flagging interest in the theater's offerings. Anger, frustration, alienation, bitterness-all these tend to spill out of the music, especially in the quartets. And it is exasperating, since the bottom-line story, the work of Leonard Stern, is basically a provocative one and since Hackman and Dillon, (a briskly unlikely physical match) struggle honestly with their father-and-son estrangement assignment. The acting, in the main, is more appropriate than it is exciting, however, which means that, except for the out-and-out comic roles of Elbow and Pompey (excellently carved up by Don Sparks and Peter Van Norden, respectively, the play's potential for mystery is only peripherally engaged. Herms' rusty metal silhouette of the state of California will hang over the entrance to the Gallery Theatre. "The Elephant Man" and "Mask" unmasked prejudice and found the soul beneath the unique exterior TV is where the biggest progress is being made, though.

"The Academy finds the NAACP charge a little surprising" the motion picture academy said in a written statement. I couldn't understand why the audience showed up that Saturday night It was a very good show They laughed and cried And I understood. His competitors: Claudio Arrau (too late, Francois-Rene Duchable (who, Tilson Thomas and Julian Bream. The distant competition was led by "The River" which opened wide for the first weekend and drew a lukewarm $3 million. After a heavy dosage-lately of the latter-the upcoming movies at least suggest promise.

I knew I would have to get totally committed, start marching and screaming I didn't want to do that I'd rather scream in cartoons. They wear headbands and lots of scarves and tight pants and chaps, and sometimes you can see fishnet and underwear here and there, and they rat their hair and wear makeup. "An iron man pays for it later" notes John Madden, the CBS football commentator, who was Otto's coach at Oakland. Carl Weathers, producer, knows exactly what he wants from Carl Weathers, star. Jeff Shaffer's musical direction is satisfactory with the solo work, but his choruses frequently produce sharp notes as well as ragged harmonies and mushy enunciation The smoothly moving storybook set is by the Theatre Company "Oliver" continues through Oct. But except for mealtime medication to aid her digestion, she leads a normal, active life. Other theaters continued to bumble along on pure narcissism-a common synthetic fuel in Los Angeles And some theaters rose to the challenge If L. A.

Ruscha, born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1937, is nationally and internationally known as one of the outstanding artists who emerged in the 1960's. Hewitt's book traces the show's evolution and its cast changes. Bold turning leaps by Christopher Strauss, daring martial arts kick-jumps by Rob McWilliams, high-velocity running/rolling by Cynthia Marie Sigler, improbable frog hops and turns in deep plie by Edward Akio Taketa and a sprawling, flying display of contempt for normal conditions of balance by just about everyone. "If it's something I want to do, I do it" Still, if you listen closely, it's possible to detect a trace of chagrin-not about those lost years "I'd be bitter if I could never perform again" she points out, but about the plight of women pianists in this country. In all, 38 favorites of the head-banging throng contributed to Monday's and Tuesday's recording sessions at A&M Records Studios of the "Stars" single.

As she scurries around her tiny apartment, she thrusts her hands forward, eagerly anticipating each new chore Yet, she's also fastidious to a fault. The mingling of art and commerce is not a new idea, says developer Abby Sher, founder of the new Santa Monica Museum of Art. AT&T will support the two productions with its corporate muscle in a major advertising campaign, including one commercial filmed last week at the Mandell Weiss Center Sellars called such support from a corporation unique. In the three months since Safari Sam's opened, the club has devoted its music nights (Thursday through Saturday) to local bands such as Western Skies, Blue Trapeze and Abscess. The four half-hour elements are "Inday News" "All About Us" hosted by Ron Hendren, "It's a Great Life" hosted by the Stacks and "What's Hot! What's Not" hosted by Fred Willard and Melanie Chartoff.