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ARTS:First Rate AmericanIndian Show OpensBY JEANNETTE WALLSOpening ceremonies were Tuesday, Aug. 15, for a special exhibit of the Museum of the American Indian%u2019s finest pieces in its collection. %u201cEchoes of the Drums.%u201d which opened at the old U.S. Custom House in Lower Manhattan, include well over 500 Indian crafts and artifacts which together comprise the largest show of its kind.Tuesday%u2019s opening ceremonies included live entertainm ent provided by buck skin- and feather- clad musicians from the American Indian Community House, who will be providing ente rta in m e n t s p o ra d ic a lly throughout the show%u2019s two-and-ahalf month stay.The exhibit itself features 12-foot tall wooden sculptures, exotic masks, colorful costumes and head-dresses, fine Indian jewelry, large photos of Indian tribes from around early 1900, peace pipes, Chief Sitting Bull%u2019s drum and hundreds of other magnificentcoral and turquoise jewelry.The vast array of treasures isn%u2019t limited to artifacts from the North American Indians of the southwest, but include works from the aborigina peoples of all of North, South and Central America%u2014from the Eskimos of the Arctic to the peoples of Tierra del Fuego, an Indian culture that once existed on the southernmost tip of South America.The collection gathered by the Museum of the American Indian is the largest in the world; this exhibit is the cream of over 4 million items the museum holds in its collection. The inadequate space at the Museum of the American Indian%u2019s headquarters on 155th Street necessarily limits the number of exhibits that can be displayed to less than one-tenth of the Museum%u2019s total collection. The Museum is now trying to establish permanent headquarters at the Custom House and, according to the Museum%u2019s Public Relations people, the chances of doing so arevery good.%u2019%u2019Indian stone carvingsitems, most of which have never before been publicly displayed.Perhaps the most significant of the displays is a collection of original manuscripts and rare text by and about American Indians.The gift shop gallery is also outstanding, featuring handmade merchandise from the southwest, including woven kachina dolls, batik wall hangings and silver,But in case the American Indian Museum headquarters have to stay where they are, better get down to see the show while the seeing is good. %u201cEchoes of the Drums%u201d is open to the public, free, at the U.S. Custom House, Broadway and Battery Park, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 1 p.m. till 6 p.m. on Sunday, through October 31.. 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Two balloons swayed gently in the very slight breeze, and Sarah Caldwell began to lead the New York Philharmonic through Alexander Borodin%u2019s Symphony No. 2 in B minor. Most people arrived well in advance of the performance time to secure a more advantageous listening position. The less fortunate %u2014 thanks to the mammoth speaker system %u2014 were able to hear the strains of the orchestra even under the din of an occasional passing jet.Caldwell took a rather heavy handed approach to both the Borodin and Berlioz works. This, however, was to the advantage of the performance, staged in a less than ideal environment. There were segments of the Borodin Symphony that did not flow %u2014 as much as they were pushed %u2014 into each other, but for the most part,Deborah Rush [left] arid M eryl Streep in %u201c The Taming of the the Philharmonic performancewas polished and well balanced. The program concluded with the Berlioz %u201cSymphonie Fantasique,%u201d a piece inspired by the Irish actress Henrietta Smithson, which Berlioz wrote at the age of 24 as an expression of his love for her. As the story goes, they were married three years after the premiere of the work. The marriage was a failure, but the piece was, and continues to be, a triumph.Two fads will be combined into overcome the forces of evil from Caldwell brought the larghetto musical theater production outer space led by the wicked movement to a powerful conwhen the Everyman Company of Queen Hotenhot. This bright en-ciusion) which brought the Brooklyn will perform %u201c Disco tertainment, the original script of audience of over one hundred Comics,%u201d a musical patterned which is by Jonathan Ringkamp, thousand to a standing ovation, after the comic-book super heros directed by Ricardo E. Velez and The Philharmonic repeats this like Captain Marvel and Super- produced by Dolores Cregan with program on August 17 at 8:30 p.m. man. These characters have music and lyrics by Lanny Meyers, in Brooklyn%u2019s Prospect Park, virtually become part of American is being performed 25 times betfolk lore and the plot concerns a ween August 13 and Labor Day. New Tork Philharmonic indisc jockey for the Caterpillar Ride For a detailed schedule, call 857- Prospect Park, August 17, 8:30Shrew,%u201d Joseph Papp%u2019s production now playing at the DelacorteTheater in Central Park thru Sept. 3, directed by W ilfred Leach.Tues-Sun at 8 p.m . 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