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Philharmonia Tunes Up For Year Of ClassicsBY VIRGINIA CAREY ANDLINUS GELBERThe disjointed musical sounds y o u >1 near i s s u i n g f r o m i n ecaverns and vaults of the Brooklyn Academy of Music these days may well be the strains of the Brooklyn Philharmonia tuning up for its 26th season of recitals, concerts and performances. Under the able hands of conductor Lukas Foss, the Philharmonia is preparing this year to launch into a stuffed program of rediscoveries and revivals above and beyond the musical basics that the orchestra is famed for.Heading the bill of the Philharmonia%u2019s seven-part Major Concert Series is baritone Robert Merrill, who will open a year of operatic and musical greats on Oct. 26, 27 and 28 with a program of arias by Mozart and Verdi, including bits from %u2018%u2018Marriage of Figaro,%u201d %u2018%u2018Don Giovanni,%u201d %u201cLa Traviata%u201d and the suddenly-stylish %u201c Otello.%u201d Following through with a flourish on opera, Lukas Foss will conduct a battery of songster-stars in a rendition of H andel%u2019s %u2018%u2018The Messiah%u201d on December 14, 15, 16, closing the Philharmonia%u2019s duo of vocal works.From there, it%u2019s on to instrumentals, as the Philharmonia will play host to classical greats over the year like pianist Bella Davidovich, flutist Paula Robinson, in February, viola afficionado, ScottNickerenze, cellist Lyn Harrell in March, and finally Steven De Groote on piano in May; backed by t n c v a s i orchestra, e a c h SOiOiSt W illaccompany the Philharmonia in pieces by the cream of the classical crop like Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Hayden, Chopin, Vivaldi and Stravinsky.Beyond the basic concert fare,though, the Philharmonia has fleshed out its schedule with two Modem series will be to pick a brOud overview of 20th Century American music, examining each time period in chunks of 20 years. Started in November and appearing irregularly until midApril, some of the high points of the performances (each of whichspecial series and a one-time concert recital by piano virtuoso Lazar Berman on November 26.P I o i r i n r* L . , ^1 . . . U L *1 %u2022%u2018 * * * ; %u201c * b - a m v w i m m a i nconcert program will be four %u201c Meet the Modems%u201d sessions, conducted by Lukas Foss, and three Family concert shows, conducted by Antonia Brico and several, newer, younger conductors.BAM Plays Chamber GreatsBY VIRGINIA CAREYThe intimate atmosphere of the Lepercq Space is the perfect backdrop for the Chamber Music Series of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Under the direction of Scott Nickrenz, the series will feature ten monthly concerts from October 19th through May, 1980 with such internationally acclaimed groups as the Cleveland and Tokyo Quartets and soloists Paula Robi son on the flute including music director, Scott Nickrenz, himself on viola.Back in the United States from their annual international tours, the renowned Cleveland Quartet will lead off the series at BAM on October 19 at 8:30 pm with soloists Peter Salaff and Don Weilerstein on violins, Martha Strongin Katz, viola; and Paul Katz on cello, with guest artist, Paula Robison on fluteplaying works by Mozart, Debussy and Beethoven. Two more performances are scheduled for October 20 and 21.An allegro by Ravel will start out the November 2 program with Masuko Ushioda and Lynn Chang on violins, Scott Nickrenz, viola, Laurence Lesser, cello, Judith Mendenhall, flute and David Singer on clarinet, Nancy Allen on harp. The program will continue with music by Debussy, Dohnanyiu and Kirchner. The program-will be repeated on November 3 and 4.Julius Levine on bass along with Robert Routch and John Clark on horn will join up with the Tokyo Quartet in playing Mozart%u2019s Serenade in B flat, on November 16, 17 and 18.An all Bach program is scheduled for December 14, 15,and 16 for those who appreciate Baroque music. Benita Valen, soprano will perform with Ronal Roseman on oboe, Timothy Eddy, cello and Kenneth Cooper on harpischord.January will see performances by the Beaux Arts Trio, The Vermeer Quartet with a solo performance by founder Scott Nickrenz. Songs by Schuman, Stephen Foster and Brahms will be performed by Liederkreis in February. March will see The Aulos Ensemble and in April and May soloists will perform a variety of works by Beethoven, Rossini, Schubert, Honegger and Schumann.Brooklyn Academy of Music,%u201c Chamber Music Series.%u201d Tenmonthly programs. For information,call 636-4100.The intent of the Meet the Moderns series will be to highlight pieces by composers like Cnaries Ives, Duke Ellington, Leonard Bernstein and Scott Joplin) will be the after-recital discussions, led by Virgil Thompson, Aaron Copeland, William Schuman and Lukas Foss himself. Tickets for the Meet the Moderns series are $5.50 a piece, although a series ticket, good for four shows, can be bought for $15.The Family Concert program this year will be a crash course in the history of music: beginning with performance on October 20 entitled %u201c Music from Long Ago,%u201d looking at Elizabethan, Medieval and Renaissance composers, the series will move on to %u201c Music by Masters in their Teens,%u201d (Mozart, Strauss, Mendelssohn and the like; and end up with a show of %u201c Music by Living Composers.%u201d Tickets for the Family Series are again $5.50 each, with a subscription to all three performant^s selling for $10.Finally, the special solo performance by Lazar Berman on November 26 will run $12.50 per seat, although they will be reduced down to $10 for subscribers to any of the other concert programs. All programs will be held at BAM, 30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn, 11217. For more information on tickets or any performances, call the box office at 636-4100.Continuedtime Driver will present two world premiers called %u201c Prim er%u201d and %u201c Simulcast,%u201d the later a collaboration with special guest artist Peter Anastos, co-founder and former member of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo and currently resident choreographer of the Garden State Ballet.Diverse Dance Groups Perform At BAMDriver is an experimentalist, combining dance and other live events with the intention testing the extents and limitations of the human body, its dynamics and weightiness.Dan Wagoner and Dancers are representative of more conventional dance forms yet the energy and sauciness of the choreographyMuseum Heralds ShowsContinuedsculpture, graphics and crafts will be on display until October 21, and a group of photographs in the Corner Gallery next to the Community Gallery gives a glimpse of Clinton Hill artists working in their studios.If you%u2019ve ever wondered about the term %u201c a surgeon%u2019s craft,%u201d November will be your chance to see that physicians can produce finer lines than an appendectomy scar, when the Gallery presents %u201cDoctors as Artists.%u201d The show is-being presented in cooperation with the Medical Society of Kings County, and it will include the work of thirty physicians who are also sculptors, painters, and graphic artists. Dates for the show are October 28-December 2.In December and early January, twelve photographers will present work in which Brooklyn is a motivating source and subject matter. Also ir. December, the Corner Gallery will show you what artists and their friends in the holiday mail. %u201c Season%u2019s Greetings%u201d shows cards created by artists registered in the Community Gallery registry.Though January, 1980, is still distant, the annual juried exhibition, to be called %u201c Brooklyn %u201980,%u201d will show works entered by November 15 of this year, and artists can obtain information and entry forms now.Another annual event, %u201c Salute to Brooklyn%u2019s Creative Youth,%u201d will celebrate its twelfth year when it opens in early March of 1980. The show is sponsored by the Brooklyn Arts and Culture Association (BACA) which will be having its tenth anniversary. The exhibit is selected from artworks made by Brooklyn children in classrooms.Clinton Hill in the fall, Park Slope in the spring. Thirty-five Park Slope artists will show works in %u201c interiors and Exteriors%u201d in May. In June and July, the Fence Art Show winners of 1979 opens in the same day, June 8. Next summer, works by Brooklyn members of the American Society of Contemporary Artists will be shown.Just as the Gallery is busy all year, the services it provides to artists are constant. One of these is the Brooklyn Artists Registry, which gives artists in Brooklyn an opportunity to communicate through newsletters and a file of biographical information and slides. For information about the Gallery and the Registry, call Richard Waller at 638-5000. No one who has ever been involved with the Community Gallery will question the tremendous artistic resources of Brooklyn%u2019s neighborhoods. A Brooklyn Renaissance? No doubt about it.are consistently enjoyed by dance audiences. Wagoner will present two new works at BAM this year: %u201c A Play, with Images and Walls,%u201d set to poems of George Montgomery and music by Natalie Gilbert; and %u201c Seven Tears%u201d with music by John Dowland.Danny Grossman, director of the dance company bearing his name, was a long time member of the Paul Taylor Dance Company. His style is characterised by open, athletic movement. He brings four works to the Academy, one of which, still untitled, is a new work.NATIONAL DANCESConjunto Folklorico National de Cuba is making its New York premiere at BAM this winter. It represents Cuban folk idioms in song and dance accompanied by native musicians.Ballet Hispanico of New York bases its style in classical flamenco tradition as well as folk and ethnic Latin American forms. This year they will be joined by an Afro-Latin Jazz orchestra and will perform works by Geoffrey Holder, Alvin Ailey and Donald McKayle.In the spring, Laura Dean Dancers & Musicians return to the Opera House stage with more complex experiments for music and dance. A new evening length work titled %u201c Music,%u201d jointly commissioned by American Dance Festival and BAM, will be unveiled.This program represents the mix in dance today with perhaps the absence of a classical modern company. However, during theBrooklyn%u2019s Past IsRead And SungA dramatic and entertaining recollection of Brooklyn%u2019s authors, poets, and songwriters, will be presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on October 12, 13, and 14, as part of the Brooklyn Rediscovery program. The program, entitled %u201c Ballad of Brooklyn%u201d , has combined the sweep of Brooklyn%u2019s history with a mixture of discription, recollection, and numor oy autnors wno came rrom here, or just visited.%u2019The production, which has been in preparation since early this year, their has been written by Myma Lamb and directed by Margot Lewitin. Ayear other companies privately schedule a season at BAM so there are often additional choices for dance viewing. For example, and particularly for those theatre-goers who are interested in folk ensembles, October 13 and 14 marks the New York premier of the Aman Folk Ensemble, and international company with a program range including Croatian, Georgian, Roumanian, Hungarian, Tunisian, Scot Irish and other dances from all over the world.Tickest are available at the box office or bv mail. Many of the performances can be seen through a very reasonable subscription service. The schedule includes: Harry/Dance & Other Works bySenta Driver/LePercq Space/October 24-28, 1979. Dan Wagoner and Dancers. LePercq Space/November 8-11, 1979. Lucinda Childs Philip Glass & Sol Lewitt/Opera House/November 29-December 2, 1979. Danny Grossman Dance Company/LePercq Space/ December 6-9, 1979. Conjunto Folklorico National de Cuba/Opera House/ February 14-17, 1980. Ballet Hispanico of New York/Opera House/ March 20-23, 1980. Laura Dean Dancers and Musicians/Opera House/ may 15-18, 1980.The Pennsylvania Ballet will perform November 13-18, 1979 and in May 6-11, 1980. Both performances are scheduled for the Opera HouseThe American Pops: FromRags To Richessmall group of actors and musicians will be reading such works as Walt Whitman%u2019s %u201c Crossing Brooklyr Ferry%u201d , from Leaves of Grass, Richard Wright%u2019s %u201c I Have Seen Black Hands%u201d , and a selection from Frank Graham's The Brooklyn Dodgers. There will be folksongs, baseball songs, and popular songs and imaginative lighting and staging will heighten the production.%u00ab p ------------ - : t t r? _: n r u i u i u i a u c v o n m u v t t i . w i . *and Sat. Oct. 13 at 8 pm, and Sun. Oct. 14. at 3 pm. Tickets cost $5.00 and can be obtairted from the BAM, 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn 11217-LHThis season%u2019s music in the Helen Carey Playhouse will take Brooklyn Academy audiences through a history of American music starting with popular tunes of the 1890%u2018s, to Jazz, Ragtime, and the Big Band era of the Forties. And with tap dancing making a definite comehark. two davs in December are set aside to %u201c History%u2019s Hottest Hoofers%u201d who have worked the vaudeville, Appolo Theater and Broadway route, and even tapped around the world.William Bolcom and Joan Morris will start the %u201c Musical America%u201d series on October 22 with songs that delighted audiences at the turn of the century^some of them witty, some of them risque but all with a touch of homor.Jelly Roll Morton started it all when he invented Jazz and Bob Greene will recreate %u201c Dr. Jazz%u201d New Orleans world with a reincarnation of his Red Hot Peppers band and Jelly%u2019s arrangements on November 12.With shiny spats, top hats and velvet suits L.O. Sloan%u2019s Three Black and Three White Refined Jubilee Minstrels will present a minstrel show. The Wake, a tribute to Bert Williams will be featured on November 26 in a look at that part ot American Theater.Ragtime has always been associated with America's most happy and upbeat times, the Gay Nineties to the Roaring Twenties, and Max Morath will help us relive it withhis humorous musical tour on December 17 singing and playing his piano.The Nicholas Brothers, the Copacetics, The Hoofers and Leon Collins will appear on December 29 and 30 in a one-in-a-lifetime combination of the best in tap dancing with music by Dizzy Billespie and Joe Carroll.The innovative Copacetics with Honi Coles have never been equalled.Coles recently returned to the Broadway stage in Bubbling Brown Sugar and sonsulted for the BAM show. The Nicholas Brothers are probably the best known because they seemed to appear in every movie made in the Forties and Fifties. Leon Collins travelled around as a solo dancer with the Gene Krupa band. The Hoofers, a newer group, formed in 1966, have a unique style and extraordinary skill.From January through April 1980 the Big Band era will returnto Brooklyn with such greats as Benny Goodman and his Sextet, Lionel Hampton, the Glen Miller Orchestra and Harry James and his swinging Band to round out America's contribution to the music world.Pop Goes America, A Celebration of Popular Music in America at the Brooklyn Academy of Music starting October 22, 30 Lafayette Avenue, for ticket information 636-4100-IVSOctober 4,1979, The PHOENIX, Page 15