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Edited by Jeannette E. W alls The Lively ArtsBrooklyn College TheatreBrooklyn College's School of Performing Arts, Department of Theater, is offering the Summer Ensemble Theater this July, with three plays slated: %u201c Tevye and His Daughters.\by Samuel Leiter; and \Kaufman. \\Sparkle Finley. The schedule is as follows: \' * 13-14. 2 and 8 pm; July 15, 8 pm; July 16, 3 pm. \Place\3 pm. \July 30. 3 pm.All three plays are available for $7.50, students and senior citizens, $5. Single ticket prices are $3 and $2. For ticket reservations and information, call 780-5291; for tickets, send stamped, self-addressed envelope and check payable to: BCBC Box Office, Room 154 Gershwin, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11210.Third World Art in the FallBrooklyn College will join forces this fall with the La Mama theater troupe and the United Nations in a project of seminars and workshops on Third World folk arts and crafts. The eight month program will involve the Brooklyn College School of Performing Arts, the La Mama Third World Institute of Theatre Arts Series and the United Nations International School, along with 30 experts from 30 emerging nations who will share their folk lore and knowledge of native arts and crafts. Workshops will cover dance, ethnic music and instruments, costumes, gesture and story telling. Countries included in the program include Nigeria. Liberia, Ghana, Thailand, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Korea, Sudan, Egypt, Columbia, Peru. Chile, Mexico, Pakistan, India and Jordan. Portions of the projects will be brought to city school children, neighborhood centers and senior citizen centers.Now--at Theater in the BackThe Caribbean American Repertory Theater%u2019s latest production, \of the Theater-in-the-Back series on July 15, a series of musical programs being offered in the parking lot area of The Brooklyn Museum. \ritual fantasy poem by Loivier Stephenson, conceived and directed by Arlene Quiyou. Two events are set for the Sunday, July 16 matinee, beginning at 2 p.m. The Of, By and For Youth Theater Group will offer the original musical \Rogers from the original book, music and lyrics are by Barbara Moncure. Choreography is by Abike Jo%u2019tayo. Immediately following will be the sounds of the Modern Jazz Four, featuring Walter Perkins. At 7:30 p.m. the Waldo Park Brass Players will take over the T-Back stage.The Theater-in-the-Back series programs, coordinated by the Brooklyn Arts and Culture Association are free to the public on Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 and 7:30 p.m. through August 27. Audiences sit on the hillside overlooking the Theater-in-the-Back Stage. The programs are free.U / i u u m a u x / u m on tf bridgefevers :%u25a0rnmmmmmmmLast Perform ancesof %u2018Land of O z%u2019Dorothy and her famous companions have been immortalized by the many musical versions of their adventures%u2014on Broadway it%u2019s \Brooklyn it's \of the beloved classic. The Penny Bridge players will be continuing their premiere of this musical %u201cfor children from four to 80\Stanton, who will direct, in collaboration with Thomas L. Dougherty and Jim West. The new sound is by Chuito Santiago, a young composer and performer whose Latin beat comes naturally from his Puerto Rican heritage. This is Santiago's first full theatrical score, though he has had an extensive musical career thus far, including the cutting of a record album at age 15. \performed at the Penny Bridge Players%u2019 new theater in the Undercroft of the Assumption Church, 59 Cranberry Street, between Henry and Hicks Streets. Performances are at 10:30 am and 1:30 pm. Don%u2019t miss this one. For reservations and group rates call 596-2677.New BAM Board MembersAt its recent annual meeting, the Board of Directors of the Brooklyn Academy of Music elected seven new members. Elected were: Neil Chrisman, a Brooklyn resident and senior vice-president of Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York; Charles M. Diller, director of the American Friends of the Israel Museum; Mallory Factor, president of Mallory Factor Associates, Inc.; Alan Gilman, Chairman of the board of Abraham and Strauss; Rita Hillman, vice-president of the Israel Museum; and Sidney Kantor, founder and president of the BAM Theater Company Board for the past two years. Other members of the Board of Directors include Mayor Edward Koch; Boro President Howard Golden; Kenneth S. Rosen, Chairman; Anthony Scotto, vice-chairman; and Harvey Lichtenstein, president and chief executive officer of BAM.D ance,D ance,D ance at A&SConstance Lacey and Mary Ellen Strom, professional dance instructors, will hold their \Workshop%u201d at downtown%u2019s Abraham and Strauss for a six week period every Monday through August 14. The workshop, which will focus on the basics of modern and jazz technique, will include placement, floor exercises andtructicr.. The jazz workshop will involve jazz warm-up exercises, followed by theatrical jazz combinations, rhythm, timing and stylizing. Jazz instructor Mary Ellen Strom, who has studied with the Martha Graham School of Dance and the American Ballet Theater, is currently a member of the \Company\member of Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance and the American Ballet Theater.There are two jazz sessions on Mondays with Constance Lacey, from noon to 1 pm and 6 to 7 pm., Modern Dance instruction with Mary Ellen Strom is from 1-1:50 pm and - 7-7:50 pm. Registration for the six week period is $20 or $4 for each class. Each class is limited to 15 students.Jazz Coming Up at St. A nn%u2019sSt. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church, at Montague and Clinton Streets in Brooklyn Heights will continue its series of mini concerts, Midsummer Noons, throughout July and possibly August. On July 5, more than 45 people came to listen to a program of harpsichord music performed by Sarah Brink. Brink, graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, was the recipient of a grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities for her preparation and publication of recently discovered songs by women composers of the 17th century.The July 12 concert will feature the George Brandon Jazz Quartet. Brandon studied trombone with Curtis Fuller and Grachan Moncur. Other members of the group include Bernard Judd, tenor saxophone and musette; Tom Charlap, bass; and Kevin Cook drums. On July 19, there will be a dramatic reading by Claire Roman, who has been a member of the theater since the age of 12. July 26 will feature a program of soprano and harpsichord music performed by Marie Grippo and Sarah Brink. This program will include songs written by 17th century women composers, offering a feminist point of view. Donations are welcome.Music on the BargeThe Fulton Ferry%u2019s Bargemusic%u2019s July Festival on the Barge still has three more performances remaining. On July 16 and 23, at 4 pm, Daniel Blumenthal, who has already appeared at the barge, will present solo sonatas for piano, including Chopin%u2019s B minor; Mozart%u2019s F major; and Tippett%u2019s second sonata; he will also join Barge member Dan Smiley to %u201cexplore some of the duo repertoire.%u201d On July 30, at 4 pm. Gail Dobish, soprano, Annie Lynn Bornstein, mezzo soprano, Lawrence Bakst, tenor, and Howard Bender, baritone, all of whom have appeared on New York opera stages, will be joined by pianist Robert Kopelson for a program of songs and arias by composers such as Handel, Prucell, Schubert, Berlioz, Debussy and Sullivan. Admission to the concerts is $5, half price for seniors and students. The Musicbarge is located at the Fulton Ferry Landing, right under the Brooklyn Bridge in Brooklyn.Auditions are being held on July 17 and 18 from 6-9:30 pm for local chamber musicians, including voice, who are interested in performing in the regularly scheduled Bargemusic concerts in August. To audition, call 624-4061.At the Galleriesi w t v t wi*U o A n t f o c t i n n r r t l n r cGroup Show at Work of ArtFor its final show of the season, The Work of Art Gallery, 87 Atlantic Avenue is holding its second group show through the end of July. The exhibit features a variety of works by members of the gallery, which has recently turned co-op. Some 22 pieces in a variety of media are on display, including oils, pastels, gauche, acrylic, and water colors, along with abstract sculptures. Susan Fishgold displays two very sensitive portraits, which show both tenderness and strength on the part of the artist. Sam Jungkuth displays three metal sculptures whose bold balances gave them an aesthetic strength.The Work of Art Gallery will close its doors through August and will reopen in September for a new season.%u2014J.E.W.Luba Lunda at Gallery 91Works by seven members of the Luba-Lunda Agency are now on display at Gallery 91, 91 Atlantic Avenue. The artwork, under the direction of Pat Gloster, is an excellent selection of paintings, etchings, prints and photographs.\Tim Wilkins, show both the beauty and insanity of the city with flowing lines that are dramatic in their wildness, yet somehow stable%u2014the work of someone who well understands the city, in contrast to the common blandness of most city scapes.Another artist who shows power and insight in his work is Norman Barr, whose oil on canvas portraits, done is slightly block impressionism, has the intensity of themanage not to clash.Cylindrical mechanical prints by Fredric F. Myers, as well as his canvas wall constructions, shaped much like the sun and clouds, are stunning and intriguing. Also on exhibit are stained glass works by Edmund Rucinski, photographs by Louis Draper, and studies of Africa through photography by Dorothy Gloster. The exhibit will be on display through July 16.%u2014J.E.W.THE COBBLE HILL TOWERS, a 100-year oldnational landmark at Warren and Hicks Streets, wasthe object of an urban design award, when the%u2018urban Design%u2019 magazine honored the Maitland/Strauss/Behr team for their Cobble Towersrenovation. The nine building $3.7 million projectwill restore what had become out-moded tenements.Page 20, PHOENIX, July 13,1978