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%u2022 t rM lArMIVPage Ten, PHOENIXBetter Blocks%u2014Federation%u2019s GoalA new federation to serve block associations in the Park Slope area will hold its first meeting January 9,8 p.m., at the YWCA on 9th St. To be called %u201cThe United Block Associations of Park Slope,%u201d the organization will be composed of block associations in the area bounded by Flatbush Ave., Plaza St., Prospect Park West, the Prospect Expressway and 3rd Ave.Representatives of block associations interested in participating are invited to attend the first meeting of the group. The goal of the meeting is to discuss and adopt the proposed constitution, to select a committee to nominated officers, and to name a committee to define the tasks of the organization.Planning for the UBA has been underway since May, when a community meeting overwhelmingly endorsed the concept of a block association federation. Since then, a block association workshop was held and a proposed constitution has been drafted. The constitution was written by a steering committee headed by Pirn Good body, former president of the Park Slope Civic Council.The goal of the steering committee is to be ready, with a constitution, a slate of candidates, and a set of tasks, for a kick-off meeting in March.For further information, contact Jim Dishun, 783-3261, or Dick Ninninger, 783-5939.Board Of Education To HoldOpen Hearings On BudgetA public hearing will be held by the Board of Education on the proposed Expense Budget submitted by the Chancellor for the fiscal year 1973-74, on Tuesday, Jan. 23, beginning at 10 a.m. and continuing until all scheduled speakers have been heard. The hearing will take place in the Hall of the Board at 110 Livingston St.A booklet with details of the Chancellor%u2019s 1973-74 request is nowavailable at Community School Board offices. Additional copies are available in Room 1214 at 110 Livingston St.Groups and individuals who wish to be heard should address their requests in writing to Mr. Harold Siegel, secretary, Board of Education, 110 Livingston St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11201, Room 1114. Requests must be received by Mr. Siegel%u2019s office by the close of business on Jan. 15, 1973.A Man and A Woman Shoe Boutique25% to 50% offon allshoes & clothes130 M ontague St.8 3 4 - 0 5 5 6PET ACCESSORIES%u00aeALL BREEDSEXPERTLY GROOMEDAIR CONDITIONED -%u2018 BOARDINGEXERCISED TWICE DAILY852-60765I0RE HOUR: MOH TUB 1HU8S. f %u00bb . %u00ab30 AM. 10 630 P M. SATURDAY 8 A M. (0 5 .30 P.M., CLOSED WED. I SUN89 P I N E A P P L E S T R E E TAmram Goes To SchoolContinued from Page 5have to be opened, or they%u2019ll break them down.%u201dThe ISFIF project, backed by Chairman of the District 23 School Board, Assemblyman Sam Wright, who placed District Music Coordinator George Greco (a jazz player too) in charge of the school arrangem ents, includes five monthly sessions in each of the four schools. The November appearance of the Amram Jazz Quartet was the starter. In December, a workshop setup which will be repeated in February and March, was begun. The three workshop sessions take place in the children%u2019s regular music classrooms with the Quartet and other Philharmonia musicians playing with the kids in their sections; demonstrating, giving tips, and chatting informally.The culminating session, in April, will be a concert in the schools with the kids in the program playing with the Philharmonia.At I.S. 175, one day in midDecember, about 30 students in Ian Kay%u2019s class were playing the Christmas repetoire. A conglomerate of 6th, 7th, 8th, grade kids with established musical ability, most of whom cannot afford their own instruments and therefore came in before the official school day to practice, were engrossed in the playing and in the raps with the musicians between songs.Flutist Hubert Lawes was pointing to the printed sheet, then demonstrating a technique to an eager girl, whose gum pressed on to the back of her hand, was no doubt being held over for chewing during her next, less engaging class. Atkinson, Amram, the others, alternately played and gave the needed pointers to students in their groups. At the end of the hour Amram reminded the kids of their date to witness the Philharmonia schooltime concert during the week of January 8.The school time concerts whichD a v id Am ramwill be viewed by 25,000 Brooklyn school children at the Brooklyn Academy during the two, one hour sessions on each of five consecutive days, follow Amram%u2019s %u201cNo More Walls%u2019 concept. %u201cThere%u2019ll be no kiddy music, no %u2018Pop Goes the Weasel,%u2019 not much talking on my part either,%u201d he says.Amram, will be playing about the forgotten rock innovators, like the Platters at a new Village night club as soon as the concerts are over, and will follow with a stint with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He will conduct and play, for the kids, works of composers of varied nationalities %u2014 %u201cnot just the Germans.%u201d He runs down the list: Mozart %u2014 Austria; Vivaldi %u2014 Italy; Prokofieff %u2014 Russia; Bartok %u2014 Hungary; Robert Starer %u2014 Israel; Rodrigo %u2014Spain; Milhaud %u2014 France; Ellington and Amram %u2014 America. %u201cI%u2019d like to do this program for older people,%u201d he says, %u201cTf they ever fund music for people above 8th grade.%u201dThough the in school program is new this year, the Academy youth concerts are a 10-year tradition, according to Maurice Edwards, Philharmonia manager. The 10- concert series is backed by a Board of Estimate grant, and was led, until Amram%u2019s appointment last year, by past Philharmonia Conductor Siegfried Landau. The Board of Education Music Bureau handles the invitations to Brooklyn Public School districts; insuring that different classes are invited each year. Sister Maureen Skelly coordinates invitations to the borough Catholic schools. The Philharmonia sends out advance programs when the attending classes are determined, so that teachers can discuss and play recordings of the music to be heard.Back at the schools, George Greco, (whom Amram praises as one of the really best music people anywhere,' along with musicianteachers Eddie Bonnemere and Larry Greenwich), appraises the pilot program as %u201cterrific%u201d so far. The kids, are already inspired, he says, and they would like the musicians to come more often. The teachers comments have also been very favorable, he adds.As far as Amram, a Villager, is concerned, the Brooklyn Academy is where it can all happen. %u201cEducators%u2014orchestras all over the country%u2014are looking at what we%u2019re doing. And %u201cManhattan is just another hick town with many backward thinking people who confuse the fine arts with the 19th Century White Russian ideal of social mobility.%u201d The Academy Opera House, he agrees with Lukas Foss and many others, has, along with Carnegie Hall, accoustics unexcelled. The Philharmonia personnel and associated committees, he feels, are composed of hard working people who really care about music. Noting that %u201ca fantastic number of musicians live in Brooklyn,%u201d including A1 Harewood, Lyle Atkinson, and Pepper Adams, Amram hopes that borough people become aware of what they are all attempting%u2014 %u201csharing the beauty and joy of music without performing in the nude and without violent episodes,%u201d %u2014 and hopes that residents become involved in their own backyard.%u201cAnyway, he adds, %u201cthere should be a center like the Academy in Queens, Staten Island, The Bronx. And all five boroughs should get together once a year and have a super marathon, jam, sing in, folk fest, to remind the people about music and the fantastic city. Manhattan would feel happier too %u2014 because it would no longer be an isolated hick town.%u201d------------------------------------------ ---------------\\Don't Miss aSingle IssueSubscribe Todayf Return This Coupon*iiiiiiiiiiTHE PHOENIX132 C linton S t., Brooklyn 11201fl%u00ab%u00abM 2m%u00abrr mjr Swhicipiiwn,NAME.ADDRESS,CITY. .ZIP.IIIIi%u25a0iii% o n e y e a r -o n l y $4 J