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VArts:Ten From Your Show Of Shows: The BrooklynMuseum Shows The Best Of A Decade%u2019s Local ArtBY JEANNETTE WALLSOne decade ago, a group of Bedford - Stuyvesant activists demanded of Brooklyn Museum directors that they allot more space to local artists. They were answered with an innovative and ambitious exhibition: %u201cThe Temporary Afro American.%u201dSome 4,000 artists and 89 exhibits later, the efforts of these artists have blossomed into what may be the foremost facility of its kind, a unifying cultural experience for the area%u2014the first gallery of, for and by the artists of the community.In its first 10 years, the Brooklyn Museum%u2019s Community Gallery has presented many other firsts. %u201c Art of the Elders of Brooklyn%u201d was the first show dedicated solely to senior citizens. %u201c Inside Outside%u201d was the first display of art from prison.Possibly %u2018an idea whose time had come,%u2019 the Community Gallery has been a prototype and inspiration for similar community projects throughout the country, including Newhouse Community Gallery, recently opened as part of the Snug Harbor Cultural Center on Staten Island.Now the gallery is taking a breather from celebrating artists%u2019 works to celebrate a birthday. %u201c The First Ten%u201d marks the 10th year by hosting ten artists, one from each of the gallery%u2019s exhibiting years.%u201c Each of the ten artists was chosen to represent the exhibition year in which the artist%u2019s work was shown,%u201d said Richard Waller, gallery coordinator. %u201cThese artists, symbolic of the thousands who have had the opportunity to show here, demonstrate the excellence and tremendous vitality of the creativity of our own community artists.%u201dSHOW OF SHOWS: Detail of Carl Hecker%u2019s %u201c Women Throwing Stones:Magnolia Tree%u2019%u2019 is on display at the Brooklyn Museum%u2019s CommunityGallery (Richard DiLiberto Photo).A total of 45 works%u2014from oil on masonite to gouach on paper, from birch plywood to hand-colored photographs%u2014 comprise the exhibit. Brooklyn residents when the works were completed, the ten representative artists remain Brooklyn residents. Two, Onnie Millar and Charles Bohannah, were, in fact, in the gallery%u2019s very first show.The anniversary show may climax a movement building since 1968, and reflect the area%u2019s varied ethnic, cultural and economic backgrounds. The Brooklyn Artists Registry, recently established by the gallery as a slide and biographical file of local artists, could become a reference point for the entire Brooklyn art community.%u201c With an awareness of the everchanging needs of the community, the gallery hopes to extend its enrichment to he borough,%u201d said Harriet Holden-Nash, gallery advisory committee chairwoman. %u201c Begun as an innovative experiment in opening up the museum to the creativity of its own local artist, the Community Gallery is now an important cultural force within the community and remains full of endless possibilities for the future.%u201d%u201cThe First Ten%u201d will exhibit through Dec. 10. Representing each year are: Charles Bohannah, 1968; Audrey Frank, 1969; Carl Hecker, 1970; Onnie Millar, 1971; Sabra Moore, 1972; Shozo Nagano, 1973; Harold Olegarz, 1974; Linda Smith, 1975; Gertude Sappin, 1976; and Laura Shechter, 1977.Church, Choir And Soloists Sing Vivaldi MassesBY C. FREDERIC JOHNMajor choral works by Vivaldi and Durufie, both based on a form of the Mass, will be featured at two Brooklyn Heights churches Sunday.Vivaldi%u2019s popular %u201c Gloria%u201d will be sung at Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims, 75 Hicks St., as part of an 11 a.m. Advent service. At 7:30 p.m., a choral concert including Durufle%u2019s %u201c Requiem%u201d will take place at Grace Church, 254 Hicks St.Vivaldi%u2019s %u201c Gloria%u201d is the Venetian composer%u2019s best known vocal composition. It involves a setting of the %u201cGloria%u201d text of the Mass, divided into movements for soloists, alone or in combination, and numerous choruses.Soloists at Plymouth include Janice Stinson, soprano, and Lois Rosebrooks, mezzo, both experienced performers who have specialized in oratorio, as opposed to operatic work. They will be joined by the church choir, and accompanied on the organ by the church music director, Arnold Ostlund, Jr.Ostlund will play his own reduction of the original orchestral accompaniment on an instrument that has just seen the addition of two new stops. (In an organ, a stop is a graduated set of pipes of the same kind and giving tones of the same quality.) These additions enable the organ to produce notes an octave lower than the lowest notes of a piano, with the tone qualities associated with the bassoon and trombone respectively. They lend, in Ostlund%u2019s words, %u201c a wonderful grandeur and fullness to the sound of the 1937 Aeolian-Skinner organ.%u201dDurufle%u2019s %u201c Requiem%u201d >s a setting of the Mass for the Dead composed in 1947. The movements all refer to the traditional plan chant, or Gregorian, melodies of the Mass.The French composer, still alive, studied wii'u Paul Dukas%u2014known oniy for nis \century, and has composed oniy a very few works (one count is nine, to Dukas%u2019 ten!). Although Durufie is known for his organworks, the vocal %u201c Requiem%u201d has become increasingly popular and has been recorded. It exists in three arrangements. The one to be used Sunday includes strings, trumpets, harp, timpani and organ.The evening concert at Grace Church will present contralto Del-Louise Moyer and baritone James Clarence Jones, with the Grace Choral Society and Orchestra under director and organist Bradley Hull. Both soloists have extensive operatic experience. Jones was involved with the Spoletto Festival in Charleston, S.C., last year, while Moyer has recently sung in a German opera company.Also on the program is a one-movementcantata attributed to Bach, for contralto, strings, and chime, and a motet by Herbert Howells, %u201c Take Him Earth for Cherishing.%u201d This latter work was commissioned from the contemporary British composer for the AmericanCanadian Memorial Service for John F. Kennedy in Washington. Written a cappella in eight parts, it will commemorate the 15th anniversary of the president%u2019s death.Sunday%u2019s concert is the second in the %u201c Music at Grace Church%u201d series. A surprisingly large number of these programs%u2014four out of six%u2014are dedicated to 20th century works. These include pieces by such %u201cclassical%u201d moderns asKodaly, Copland, and Messiaen, as well as more recent works, including one by Brooklyn Philharmonia director Lukas Foss.The church will also host two other Christmas events. On Dec. 17, at 4 p.m., the boys%u2019 and men%u2019s choirs will lead the traditional service of lessons and carols. And on Christmas Eve, a new children%u2019s play with music by Ostlund will be unveiled.The public is welcome to both programs. Grace Church charges $3 or a TDF voucher as general admission, $1.50 for students and senior citizens.Fenn Ballet Dances Fantasy At BAM BY JUDITH STUARTNew Yprkers had a little something extra to be thankful for this Thanksgiving as the Pennsylvania Ballet ushered in the holiday with a version of the French ballet %u201cCoppelia.%u201d The company performed at it%u2019s New York home, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Tuesday through Sunday, lead performers alternating with each performance.It is fitting that the Penn Ballet now calls New York its part-time home and does two seasons annually at BAM, for founder and director Barbara Weisberger hails from Brooklyn herself. As soon as her company was doing sufficiently well at home in Philadelphia, she planned the major step of bringing it to %u201cthe big city.%u201d Acknowledgement here means national acclaim as well.While skeptics doubted the chancy move, all qualms were relieved by the time ilit curtain feii on opening nignt. New Yorkers fell in love with the ballet troupe and the love affair constantly matures. They have had continuously fine audiences to support them each time they haveperformed here.%u201c Coppelia%u201d is the second full evening ballet staged by the Pennsylvanians. The seasonal favorite, %u201cNutcracker Suite,%u201d was their first. This opening was a premiere, and celebrated the company%u2019s 15th anniversary .%u201c Coppelia%u201d is the story of a mad inventor, Dr. Coppelius, who creates a lifelike doll, Coppellia. Her beauty catches the attention of a young, engaged couple. The girl wants her as a friend and the boy falls in love with her. It is a fairy tale told in dance.The sets and costumes created an ambience necessary to satisfy the neeos cT the ballet%u2014they fit the image of a child%u2019s fantasy. Weisberger said the company needs the involvement of such a total production, developing and sustaining continuity in stvle and formThe company performed well as a whole, some of the artists were outstanding in their roles. Megali Messac, a former star of the Hamburg State Opera Ballet, has joined the ballet this year as one of the leaddancers. Her dramatic qualities appear to run the gamut: as Swanhilda in %u201cCoppelia,%u201d she is at once the love-torn heroine and, particularly in Dr. Coppelius%u2019 workshop, a marvelous imp. Edward Meyers as Franz, David Kloss as Dr. Coppelius and Robin Preiss, who led the corps as a member of the village were all extraordinary.The guest artist, Stanley Holden, who for many years was a principal character dancer with the Royal Ballet of England, portrayed Dr. Coppelius on alternate nights. His performance is said to be legendary.r%u2019etrus Bosman staged the ballet. Another former Royal Ballet artist, Bosman is now artistic director for the Maryland Ballet. Penn Ballet%u2019s own artistic director, Benjamin Harkarvy, created new/%u2022*r%u00bb 11 -%u00bb *%u25a0%u00bb L* i * f/->The company will be back in February with what purports to be a wonderfully varied program, including %u201c Under the Sun%u201d by Margo Sappington.November 30,1978, THE PHOENIX, Page 15