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January 17,1974 PHOENIXPresbyterian HasFree Recitals ofHeights TalentThe new year brings a galaxy of Brooklyn Heights talent together in a program of hour-long Winter and Spring public Recitals on Sunday Evenings at First Presbyterian Church.The programs, which will begin at 7 p.m. begin the series on Jan. 20 with a piano recital by John Cobb, who%u2019s on the staff at St. Ann%u2019s School. Cobb won the International Van Cliburn Competition in 1969 and is shortly to be presented by the Metropolitan Museum in a May Mozart Recital. He will play works by Mozart, Beethoven, Busoni and Liszt. This first program will be a benefit for the Hot Lunch Program of First Presbyterian, and a voluntary contribution will be asked. All programs will be free.Following are others in this feast of music: Jan. 27th: Recital of German and Italian Baroque Music. The performing group includes Heights resident Janet Wagner Stinson, mezzo soprano, whose most recent appearances were at the Caramoor Festival and the Mostly Mozart Festival at the Philharmonic Hall; Walter Hilse, Professor of Music at Columbia University; James Hough, bassoon player with the M etropolitan Orchestra; and Andre Smith, who played withe the Metropolitan Opera for six years.LIU OffersCourses onSot. & Sun.On Saturdays and Sundays, as well as in the evening, a wide variety of new courses will be available for both credit and noncredit students during the Spring semester commencing January 31 at Long Island U niversity%u2019s downtown Brooklyn Center.Included are tennis, skiing, modern dance, yoga, causes and treatment of drug abuse problems, and a special three-weekend sem inar on Understanding Watergate. Also open to both credit and non-credit students are courses in nursing home administration, English as a second language, Spanish and cardiopulmonary physiology.For those who have not completed high school, non-credit courses have been designed in mathematics, English, science and social science to prepare students for the New York State High School Equivalency Examination leading to a General Equivalency Diploma (GED). In addition, College Preparatory courses are available for students who need further instruction in m athem atics, communications skills, and reading before entering college. Both the GED and College Preparatory programs are approved for veterans.The non-credit student will find many other special interest courses offered such as speed reading, photography, creative writing, radio broadcasting, speech improvement and karate. For the non-credit student who wants to improve his business skills, there are also courses in accounting, income tax, data processing, key punch, typing, stenography, and supervisory skills.For more information on either the credit or non-credit programs, write to: Evening and Weekend Programs, The Brooklyn Center, Long Island University, 385 Flatbush Ave. Ext., Brooklyn, 11201, or call 834-6020.Feb. 3rd, Racital by the Colombus Woodwind Quintet of works by Haydn, Vivaldi, Franz Danzi, Vincent Tersichetti and Paul Hindemith.Feb. 10th: Recital of European Renaissance and Baroque Music. The performing group is drawn from the music staff at the Juilliard School, Columbia University and Long Island University; whilst Heights resident Virginia Bitar, soprano, will sing a selection of songs by Purcell, following her appearance with the Brooklyn Philharmonia at the Brooklyn Academy in January of this year.March 3rd: Recital of Baroque Chamber Music by a new chamber music group formed from the Heights and Carroll Gardens. March 10th: %u201cSonata%u201d Recital by Jeanne Barnes, violin. Heights resident, she was soloist last year with the Heights Chamber Orchestra and for a recital at St. John%u2019s Episcopal Church, Fort Hamilton. She will be joined by Ronald Gianattosio, graduate of the Juilliard school, who gave a Master%u2019s Recital at Juilliard last May.March 17th: Solo Recital by Raymond Erickson, harpsichord, of the Goldberg Variations. A Heights resident who is Assistant Professor of Music at Queens College, he performed as soloist with the Heights Chamber Orchestra on January 9th this year for the Brandenburg Concertos No. 4 and No. 5.March 22-24th: Performances of %u201c Noyle%u2019s Fludde%u201d , Benjamin Britten%u2019s opera based on the Chester M iracle Play. Judith Parker Taylor, Music Director at First Presbyterian, will be Music Coordinator-Conductor; Ronald Banyay, on the staff at St. Ann%u2019s School, will be Music Director; the animal chorus and children soloists will be from the middle school of St. Ann%u2019s and from the Children%u2019s Choir at First Presbyterian directed by Dolly Moon. Tim Hughes, known to the Heights as Community Worker, but formerly Director of the Ipswich Theater Company in England, will direct.March 31st: Piano %u2019 Recital by David Lynbok. After Easter, the Spring Recitals will follow this impressive Program, beginning with the Waitzman Baroque Trio. Since playing twice in the Fall Program before large audiences, Daniel Waitzman was invited to be flute soloist with the Heights Chamber Orchestra for the Brandenburg Concertos on January 9th. His Trio will be followed by more, of the many talented musicians in the Heights.ManagementGraduatesTwenty-eight professionals from religious, philanthropic, fraternal, and voluntary units have completed 15-week courses on fiscal and public relations topics given by New York City Community College%u2019s newly-organized Institute of M anagement for Religious and Other Non-Profit Organizations. They will be awarded certificates at a ceremony Jan. 24 at 7:45 p.m. in the sixth-floor auditorium of the college%u2019s facility at 250 Livingston Street.The courses, in management fundamentals and new trends, will be offered again, starting Feb. 4. For information on registration call Dr. James A. Goldman at the college, 643-8150.William Tobey, Senior Vice President of A & S DepartmentStore, starting the ice races, one of the Winter Carnival eventssponsored by the Parks Department and supported by fundscontributed by A & &Winter Carnival HereBY JOHN BLACKMOREBrooklyn is a Winter Carnival, or well it might bewith the emergence of the white stuff after the pastfew light winters, and the Brooklyn Department ofRecreation has not been left with snow on its face.To celebrate the virtues of a season that is mostNew Yorkers%u2019 bane, the Recreation Departmenthas put together a winter activities package forJanuary and February. The activities include a\a pass, punt and kick contest; scrabble contest;senior citizen shuffleboard; senior citizen dancecontest; a snow sculpture competition; a tricyclerodeo; and sleigh-riding, drawing, table tennis andphotography contests.These events are currently taking place all overBrooklyn at 36 different recreation locations.Locally, the sites include the Brooklyn WarMemorial at Cadman Plaza, Carroll Park, ProspectPark, and Red Hook Stadium. Most of the eventsare scheduled on Saturdays and Sundays, whenrecreation personnel will be on hand. To find outthe exact date, time and place for any of the activities, consult Brooklyn's Happening at the backof this paper, or call Winter Carnival Information at768-2300, extensions 18, 19, 20.Group Forms To G et CourtThe recently-formed Committee For DowntownBrooklyn Tennis Courts is now preparing a letter toEdwin Weisl, the new Parks, Recreation & CulturalAdministrator, requesting that the PRCA institutea formal survey on the possibility of tennis courts inthe downtown Brooklyn area. The action of theC.D.B.T.C., which was formed at the suggestion ofAssemblyman Michael L. Pesce, received a boostwhen it was supported by the following resolutionon Jan. 8 by the Brooklyn Heights AssociationBoard:%u2018%u2018Recognizing the lack of availability of maintained public tennis courts in or near BrooklynHeights, and the great demand for this sportamong the residents of Brooklyn Heights, the BHAsupports th e principle of making tennis avaiiabie tothe public in or near the Heights. While reservingthe right to review any specific plan which may beproposed, the Association supports and endorsesthe formation of the Committee For DowntownBrooklyn Tennis Courts. It will welcome thepresentation of any specific plan which theCommittee may present for implementation of itsaims.\