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Brooklyn Philharmonia in ParksThe Brooklyn Philharmonia will present its fourth annual series of free Summer Parks Concerts in Brooklyn this year under the leadership of Conductor David Amram. The concerts will be Sunday. July 30, 7 pm, at Seaside Park Band Shell: Tuesday, August 1, 7:30 pm, at Starrett City Amphitheatre, and Wednesday, August 2, 7 pm, at Cadman Plaza War Memorial. The program will include: Mozart's Overture to \Mendelssohn%u2019s Symphony No. 4, \Concertino da Camera for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra, with Mitchell Weiss, saxophone; DeFalla's El Amor Brujo; and Amram's In Memory of Chano Pozo. These concerts are made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, The Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of New York, and grants from the Honorable Fred Richmond, Local 1814 l.L.A. AFL-CIO, and the Exxon Corporation.Magpie Puppets at HospitalGone forever is the traditional 'Punch and Judy%u2019 puppet show, A new breed of imaginative, creative puppets are surfacing, thanks to the ingenuity of Park Slope resident Maggie Whalen, creator of Magpie Puppets. Children at Methodist Hospital were enchanted by the likes of \Robin,%u201d (female) at a performance last Friday, July 14, in the hospital's children%u2019s wing.Maggie Whalen, the creator of the one-woman puppet theater. Magpie Puppets, was also the creator and director of Poor Peoples Puppets, a two-person troupe which operated its own storefront in the Lower East Side. W'halen makes all her puppets by hand, and also her own portable puppet stage.At last Friday%u2019s performance, the children clustered around the patchwork stage, and giggled when \the Pooh\intended to give to Eeyore for his birthday. Eeyore is the same lovable grouch that we remember him in A.A. M ilne's classic %u2018Eeyore's Birthday.%u2019 But W halen's interpretation of the Milne classic is geared to city kids: Chris Robin, the story%u2019s %u2018hero,%u2019 is a young black girl, with plenty of spunk. Whalen feels that all the world%u2019s heroes shouldn't be blonde and blue-eyed, and that women shouldn't be portrayed as being passive.Throughout the show, the puppets asked the children questions, with the intent of involving the children directly. Before the show, Whalen played her guitar and got the children%u2019s voices going%u2014sending their spirits soaring as well. And when she finished, there wasn%u2019t a sadMemorial, overlooking the Hill-and-Pond Japanese Garden. The Shakuhachi is an end blown flute, played by Ronnie Nyogetsu Seldin and Barry Weiss. Seldin, who is currently teaching in New York City, received his master certificate from the Kinko School in Kyoto. Weiss has been studying the Shakuhachi with Seldin for the past two, years. The Shamisen, a Japanese three-string long-necked lute, which originated in China and came to Japan in the mid-16th century, is played by Dr. Henry Burnett. Burnett, an assistant Professor of Music at Queens College, teaches Japanese music, and has been giving concerts and lectures for the past ten years. The programs are free. For further information, please contact Estelle Gerard, 622-4433.Penny Bridge%u2019s Aladdin OpensMaggie Whalen, creator of Magpie Puppets,brings %u2018friend%u2019 Madame Nixonia, the gypsy fortuneteller, to life.face in the room. Even the kids confined to wheelchairs thoroughly enjoyed the delightful experience of being asked questions straight from the puppets%u2019 mouths. The children in the audience might not have understood the significance of \teller, but they enjoyed the colorful antics of the overstuffed puppet.Whalen, a staff member at Pratt Institute, does all this in her \parties, on weekends and holidays. If you%u2019d like to delight your children (or yourself) call Magpie Puppets at 636-3759 days, 768-5166 late evenings.%u2014Joan HesterShakuhachi and Shamisen By PondThe Brooklyn Botanical Gardens%u2019 \series will continue Sunday, July 23 with a program of Shakuhachi and Shamisen (Japanese bamboo flute and three-string lute at 3 pm) at the Alfred T. WhiteIn children%u2019s theatre, everybody loves the villain%u2014he%u2019s , slippery, and a little bit scary. In \this week at the Penny Bridge Players, it%u2019s the wicked magicina, played by actor Jim West, a past master at make-believe for kids. West has recently returned to Brooklyn Heights from a successful midwest tour with the Fantasy Express, a children%u2019s theatre company based in southern Ohio. He joined the Penny Bridge Players this season as a member of the permanent company. He decorates sets, played the talkative parrot in the opening show, \bumbling wizard himself in \turning to villainy in this new musical version of \\through Friday at 10:30 am and 1:30 pm in the Penny Bridge Players%u2019 new theatre in the Undercroft of the Assumption Church on Cranberry St. Call 596-2677 for information, reservations and group rates.Music and Dance in Carroll ParkThis Friday and Saturday, July 21 and 22. the Carroll Gardens Music and Dance Festival will be held in Carroll Park. On Friday, from 7 to 10 pm, there will be a dance contest covering everything from the Fox Trot to the Hustle. Registration for the contest will take place on Thursday, July 20 in the park. There is a fee of $2, which will go towards prize money. Saturday will be devoted to music, with live bands playing from 10 am to 10 pm. Featured artists will include the Chazz Band, Fancy Colours, and other local groups. For information about the festival, call 596-2444 and ask for Steve.A t the Galleries4 %u201c RN%u201d ...that%u2019ll make it perfectly clear...%u2019 byHank Virgona.Virgona%u2019s SocialSatire at SummaA one-man show of satirical cartoons by Hank Virgona will be on display at the Summa Gallery , 152 Montague Street, through August 15. The exhibit includes more than 80 watercolors, etchings and drawings which illustrate \champagne reception for the artist on July 23 from 1:30-5:30 pm, when Virgona will be present to talk about his works and introduce his new book, \Works.%u201dThompson's Art:No ImageA one-woman show by Ro^ita Thompson is now being exhibited at the Atlantic Liberty Savings Bank, 186 Montague Street. The 16 pieces, all oil on canvas, are diverse in subject, as well as style. This seems to be Thompson%u2019s biggest failing%u2014she is a victim of over stimulation and seems to be unable to focus her concentration on one state of mind.Not that a show should be a redundant line up of the same subject, but Thompson, only 28 and not a full-time artist, is exhibiting still lives, landscapes, impressionistic realism, and geometric abstracts. The work is generally primitive, sometimes childlike, and at times, due to an absence of sufficient blending, resembles paint-bynumbers. Thompson%u2019s work is not bad by any means, it has great composition, color balance, and all her art shows potential. In fact, \with wooden-like figures resembling tiki dolls against a mustard-colored background with geometric shapes in the distance, is an all-around fine piece of art. But works like her flower arrangements, though quite pretty, are too cliche to be worth recognition unless done to perfection, which they aren%u2019t. A large canvas covered with geometric shapes, looks much like what a high school kid does with a compass when he first learns to maneuver it then colors in the forms. It is neither erratic enough to be curiously intriguing, nor sufficiently systematically arabesque to be admired for composition. Her landscapes are valiant attempts at National Geographic-type scenery, but they are sadly lacking in the depth or intensity that makes a good landscape take you to its location. In short, Rosita Thompson is a good artist who is still learning to paint.Her work will be at the Atlantic Liberty Savings Bank through the end of July, open to the public during the same hours of the bank, Monday through Thursday 9 am till 3 pm and on Friday until 6 pm.%u2014J.E.W.Courtly India at MuseumThe Brooklyn Museum will display \India.%u201d an exhibition of miniature paintings, beginning July 29 and running through September 17, The paintings, called Pahari, are from the Punjab Hill States in the foothills of the Himilaya Mountains, and were created between 1660 and 1830. None of them are larger than 11 inches and 15 inches. In addition to the exhibition, which is taken from the private collection of William G. Archer of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Brooklyn Museum will display 35 Pahari miniatures from its collection. Detail from a miniature painting of CourtlyIndia. 1Page 16, THE PHOENIX, July 20,1978