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Page 4, May 10, 1973, PHOENIXfCinema Gang%u2019/n fn A n im r it in nm %u25a0, - b w * i i i i i i i M i i v i iOn SaturdaysLocal officials and neighborhood workers check out Robert Fontana%u2019s Saturday Filmmaking Workshop at the South Congregational Church, President and Court Sts. From left to right, Buddy Scotto and Peter Drago of Carroll Gardens, State Senator Carol Bellamy, Bob Leone of the CIAO Day Care Center, Mara Bennici of the New York State Council of the Arts, State Assemblyman Michael Pesce, Republican leader Amy Romeo and young filmmaker Ruggero Ruggeri. (Photo by Bob Fontana.)PhilharmonicHonor Israel%u2019s AnniversaryThe final subscription concert of the 1972-73 season of the Brooklyn Philharmonia Orchestra will be Sat., May 19 at ti p.m. when a gala concert for Israel%u2019s 25th Anniversary, entitled %u201cMusic to the Psalms%u201d will be presented at the Opera House of the Brooklyn Academy of Music under the direction of Lukas Foss.Foss, who is conductor and musical advisor to the Philharmonia also serves in the same posts to the Jerusalem Broadcasting Orchestra, and has conceived the musical program .to present a %u201cmessage of hope, life, survival and redemption, brotherhood and affirmation of divinity, as embodied in the Psalm s.\A contingent of dignitaries from the Israeli Embassy will be in the audience.The musical program includes musical settings to the Psalms from the Renaissance through modern times, from Salomon Rossi to Bernstein and Stravinsky. Soloists and performing groups, in addition to the orchestra, include: Robert Weston, boy alto; PSul Ingraham, french horn; Paul Kwartin, cantor; Cantica Hebraica, Dennis Michno, director; the Dessoff Choirs, Jack Light, acting musical director; Brooklyn Philharmonia Choral Society, David Aurelius, director; and Abba Bogin and Kenneth Bowen, pianists.The program includes the following works: Traditional, Louis Lewandowski; Psalm 42 %u201cMaskil for Horn and Orchestra (American Premier) by Bcn-Zion Orgad; Psalms for chorus andMixed Voices with Two Pianos, Lukas Foss; Two Anthems, David Amram; Chichester Psalms for Mixed Choir and Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein; Psalms, Salomon Rossi; and Symphony of Psalms for Mixed Chorus and Orchestra, Stravinsky.This final concert of the Philharmonia%u2019s current season brings to a close what must be described as one of the most unique musical seasons for any concert group in town. The %u201cmarathon%u201d concept which has been pioneered and perfected by the Philharmonia, under the direction of Foss, has brought new life and new audiences to the Philharmonia, and new excitement to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, local musical observers acknowledge. This season. Philharmonia concerts have also been broadcast over WNYC-FM radio.Tickets for the %u201cPsalms%u201d con cert are available from $3 to $6, and are available at the Academy Box Office (Tel. ST 3-2434), 30 Lafayette Ave. Student tickets (with I.D.) are $2.BY CORR1NE COLEMANEvery Saturday for the past two seasons children from Carroll Gardens and nearby areas have been meeting at the South Congregational Church on Court and President Sts. to study animation and other techniques of filmmaking.Under the tutelage of Robert Fontana, a professional filmmaker who created the well-known Gowanus Canal movie for the early Gou'anus cleanup committee, the kids, known as %u201cThe Cinema Gang%u201d work with three cameras, 16 mil. projectors, animation tables and editing machines.At a recent session a group of local notables including State Representatives Carol Bellamy and Mike Pesce, Republican coleader Amy Romeo, Peter Drago and Buddy Scotto, surveyed the scene along with Mara Bennici of the New York State Council of the Arts, which funded the free series with $8500 last year %u2014 the largest grant for any film workshop in the state.One boy, about 10-years-old, was working on an Intergalactic sequence; superimposing plastic miniatures of Martians on background sheets; moving the figures just so after each camera shot. At the same time two young girls were collaborating on the crafting of a papier mache animal set to become a monster in their film. Fontana%u2019s Assistant, Irma Linda Mannetta, a graduate student in Columbia University%u2019s film program was moving around the room providing help when needed.Ruggero Ruggeri, at 13 one of the oldest members of the workshop, was sitting in front of an animation board used by Paramount Studios 20 years ago. Working on a %u201cBird in Flight%u201d scenario, he was centering and measuring his meticulously drafted doves. %u201cI always liked to draw and I used to make outdoor films,%u201d he said. %u201c Here 1 put the two together,%u201d Wanting to be perfectly accurate Ruggero took a few moments to decide that he has so far completed nine animated films.%u201cThe kids begin by taking pictures of each other, and then they are each given a basic book on animation,%u201d Fontana said. Most of them take to the program immediately he noted adding that most kick are ready for the experience by age seven or eight. %u201cThey learn how to look by looking and once understanding how images are made they learn how to communicate and extend their thinking in terms of time and space.%u201dThough the program focus thus far has been on animation, the filmmaker plans to take the kids out on the streets to work on live actioh film within the next few weeks. The group will also be renting video equipment with which the kids can shoot and play back immediately.%u201cThe Cinema Gang%u201d is an offshoot of the Carroll Gardens Theater Workshop which was operated during the summer of 1970, Buddy Scotto said. Funded with $15,000. the Theater group was able to buy the film equipment which then was handed down to the Film Workshop when Bob Fontana agreed to initiate it a year later. %u201cThe Cinema Gang%u201d has continued since that time and runs throughout the slimmer.An exhibit of the Gang%u2019s work will be included in the May 10 fair of the Arts and Business Council Inc. of New York City; a private organization that tries to interest big business corporations in funding such programs, Scotto said. He is also hoping to coordinate the film workshop with the prQgrqm qf the CIAO Day Care Center, which is slated to open within the month.No TourThe Community Planning Committee for Long Island College Hospital has announced that the Cobble Hill House Tour, which it had planned to sponsor on May 20 has been cancelled. At this time there are no plans to re-schedule the tour.D id n ' t t o T H i s y e A R ?TheN visit 5 0 U V L AK11 4 7 / n o M T a f e U L S t .MA 4 977a 5 TO 10 P. 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