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NOVEMBEROur New Monthly Guide To The Best Of What%u2019s Happening In The Arts in BrooklynMUSIC:PhilharmonicPlays Mystic%u2018Experience %u2019Ck J t i W in limbo due to the musicians%u2019 strike, the Brooklyn Philharmonic is scheduled to open itsseason performing WilliamBolcolmb%u2019s %u201c Songs of Innocenceand Experience,%u201d an illuminationon the poems o f William Blake,November 7-9, as part o f theBrooklyn Academy of Music%u2019s NextWave Festival. The epic song-cyclewill feature the Philharmonic, underconductor Lukas Foss, with rockand jazz musicians, three chorusesand nine soloists. With almost 200performers sounding off in thespirit of one o f the most mysticalpoets in the English language, itshould be very illuminating.The Philharmonic%u2019s next scheduled performances are November28-30. The orchestra will celebratethe 90th birthday of Virgil Thompson with his %u201c Pilgrims andPioneers.%u201d Alexander Toradze willbe the guest pianist for Liszt%u2019sPiano Concerto No. 2. The program also includes Dvorak%u2019s Symphony No. 9. %u201c From the New\------- T f U U U y U S m v V | / V * MDANCE:A n im a te dH o o fin gS tars A tN ext WavejL X escribed as %u201c a sophisticatedcartoon come to life,%u201d the dance ofDavid Gordon and his Pick UpCompany is joyfully intelligent,relevant and clever. Gordon enteredthe spotlight while performingPhillip Glass%u2019 ballet %u201c ThePhotographer,%u201d back in the virgindays of the Brooklyn Academy ofMusic%u2019s first Next Wave Festival in1983. His dancing and choreography have since spread far andwide, and they return to BAMNovember 19-22, when he willpremiere %u201cThe Seasons%u201d and otherworks featuring music from JohnCage and Hassidic klezmer bands.The Next Wave Festival is packedwith dance events this month.Molissa Fenley, who garnered the1986 Bessie award, will premieretwo works on November 5-8. MarkMorris, billed as %u201c the wunderkindof post-modern dance,%u201d willpremiere a work set to Pergolesi%u2019s%u201c Stabatmater%u201d on November 12-15.The stunning Eiko and Koma,who%u2019ve expanded upon the intensityof butoh dance to create a hauntingvocabulary of movement and imagery, bill bring their sand and surfon stage November 18-23.D avid GordonCompiled By David Laskin, Jared Cloud, and Elizabeth FosterThe Phoenix Newspaper %u2014 The Home-Town Weekly Of Brooklyn%u2019s Historic Brownstone NeighborhoodsO cto ber 30, 1986, T H E P H O E N IX , Page 17