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PHOENIX 125 TH BIRTH DA YSALVTE TOBAM___________Supported by a Major Grant From Philip Morris Companies:The Next Wave Program For RAM%u2019s 125th SeasonThe 1986 Next Wave Festival will open the125th anniversary season of the BrooklynAcademy of Music, beginning October 7with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in %u201cRoaratorio%u201d and concluding in lateDecember with the Rome Section of %u201ctheCIVIL warS%u201d by Philip Glass and RobertWilson.Philip Morris Companies Inc. is theprimary corporate sponsor of the NextWave Festival, inaugurating a $500,000 twoyear grant for the Brooklyn Academy%u2019s 1986and 1987 Festivals. This grant is the largestsingle corporate contribution ever awardedto the Brooklyn Academy of Music or tocontemporary programming.In announcing the grant, Hamish Maxwell, Chairman and Chief Executive Officerof Philip Morris Companies Inc., says %u201ctheNext Wave Festival has gained a well deserved reputation for caring about daring.It has become a powerful cultural catalyst,uniting a wide spectrum of avant-garde artists in dynamic collaborations. With thisgrant we%u2019re backing BAM and we%u2019re backing new ideas. We%u2019re also backing thefuture of New York. Events like the NextWave Festival insure that New York willremain the most dynamic and creativeplace to live and work in the world.%u201dThe 1986 Next Wave Festival, BAM%u2019sfourth annual festival of contemporary performing arts, is international in scope, andwill commission, produce, and present newdance, music, theater, and performance artworks.These include: %u201cRoaratorio,%u201d a collaboration by Merce Cunningham and John Cage;choreographic premieres by America%u2019sMark Morris, David Gordon, Bill T. Jones,and Artie Zane, and Molissa Fenley;Japanese born artists Eiko & Koma,England%u2019s Michael Clark, and Belgium%u2019sAnne Teresa de Keersmaeker; andtheatrical productions by Ping Chong%u2019s FijiCompany.Also on the program are: ImpossibleTheater and John Schneider, and the FlyingKaramazov Brothers with the KamikazeGround Crew; %u201cSongs of Innocence and OfExperience,%u201d by William Bolcom performed by the Brooklyn Philharmonic and fourchoruses under Lukas Foss; new music programs performed by Jon Hassell, KronosQuartet, and John Zorn; plus the Americanpremiere of the Rome Section of %u201ctheCIVIL warS%u201d by Philip Glass and RobertWilson.The leadership for the 1986 Next WaveProducers Council includes Co-ChairmenMr. and Mrs. Amory Houghton III, AlexKatz, Roger Wallace, and Bette Midler;Honorary Chairman for the Next Wave F estival opening night benefit is Bianca Jagger. The Producers Council provides annualprivate patronage for BAM%u2019s Next WaveFestival and also organizes and sponsorsseminars, exhibitions, publications, and special events for this program throughout theyear.Philip Morris, the 1986 Next Wave sponsor, began its support of the arts in 1958.Since then the company%u2019s efforts havegrown into one of the more comprehensivecorporate cultural programs in the UnitedStates. Philip Morris gave its first grant toBAM in 1968. The company has continuously supported BAM since 1979. In 1981, PhilipMorris supported BAM%u2019s production ofPhilip Glass%u2019s %u201cSatyagraha,%u201d a major partof the first Next Wave Series, the predecessor of the current festival. Since that timethe company has provided grants to eachNext Wave Festival since its inception in1983.The Next Wave Production and TouringFund is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Robert W. Wilson, Mary Boone Gallery, the Pew Memorial Trust, AT&T, the William and FloraHewlett Foundation, WilliWear Ltd., theEducational Foundation of America, theHoward Gilman Foundation, the Best Prorlllrtfo I?rtiAn M/tnf fKn r ,r>rv\\nrto/\\r- I%u00ab%u00abAbraham & Straus/Federated DepartmentStores Foundation, Inc., the CIGNA Corporation, and the BAM Next Wave ProducersCouncil.Next Wave participants choreographer Arnie Zain, Flying Karamazov Brother Paul Mazid, musician John Hasell, Molissa Fenley and Bill T.Jones were joined at the announcement of BAM's 125th season by Bianca Jagger (in black). (Phoenix/Kirk Photo)THE NEXT WA VE1986 PERFORMANCES:MERCE C U N N IN G H A M DANCE COMPANY, %u201c ROA RA TO R IO %u201d , M erce Cunningham/John Cage, O ctober 7-12, OperaHouse.IM PO SSIB LE TH EA TER , %u201c SOCIALA M N E S IA ,%u201d O ctober 14-19, LepercqSpace.JO H N HASSELL, O ctober 18/CareyPlayhouse.M IC H A EL CLARK & C O M PA N Y, October 21-26, Lepercq Space.PING C H O N G %u2019S FIJI C O M PA N Y, %u201c THEANGELS OF SW ED EN B O R G ,%u201d October22-26, Carey Playhouse.A N N E TERESA de KEERSM AEKER,%u201c ROSAS D ANST ROSAS%u201d, October28-Novem ber 2, Lepercq Space.JO H N ZORN AND FR IEN DS, Novem ber1/Carey Playhouse.M OLISSA FENLEY AND DANCERS,Novem ber 5-8, Carey Playhouse.BROOKLYN PH ILH A R M O N IC , %u201c SONGSOF IN N O C E N C E A N D OF EXPERIENC E%u201d ,by W illiam Bolcom, Novem ber 7-9/OperaHouse.MARK M O RR IS DANCE GROUP,Novem ber 12-15, Opera House.KRONOS QUARTET, Novem ber 14-16,Lepercq SpaceEIKO A K OM A, %u201c N EW M O O NSTORIES%u201d , Novem ber 18-23, LepercqSpace.DAVID G O RD O N/PICK UP C O ,November 19-22, Opera House.TH E FLYING K ARAM O ZO V BROTHERSand the KAM IK AZE G RO U ND CREW ,%u201cTHE SO LD IER %u2019S TALE,%u201d Decem ber 2 7,Carey Playhouse.BILL T. JO N E S/A R N IE ZA N E & C O ,December 3-6, Opera House.%u201c the C IVIL warS: a tree is bestmeasured when it is dow n%u201d , Part V %u2014Rome Section, Philip Glass/RobertWilson, Decem ber 12-30, Opera House.%u2018Spoleto Comes to BAM 9 is the New Format for 13 th AnnualChamber Music Series; Starts With Tribute to Gian Carlo Menotti%u201cSpoleto Comes to BAM%u201d is the new format for BAM%u2019s 13th annual Chamber MusicSeries. Music Director%u2019s Scott Nickrenz willbe joined by Co-Director Paula Robison,who together are also chamber music directors of the Spoleto Festival. The highlight ofthe series will be the 75th birthday ofSpoleto Festival founder Gian Carlo Menotti, who will be part of the Dec. 13 program.Following is the BAM program:December 13: Gian Carlo Menotti, composer; Marvis Martin, soprano; KatherineCiesinski, mezzo-soprano; David Gordon,tenor; Raimon Bolipata, cello; Carter Brey,cello; Nancy Allen, harp; Jean-YvesThibaudet, piano; Charles Wadsworth,piano; Ridge String Quartet.A special retrospective program of GianCarlo Menotti%u2019s chamber music, hosted bythe composer on his 75th birthday, will include his Nocturne, Harp Quartet, Song Cycles I and II, and Cello Suite.January 17: Jaime I^aredo, violin; JeanYeves Thibaudet, piano; Ridge StringQuartet. The program includes: Chaussoa/Concert for String Quartet, Violin andPiano; Riley/Sunrise of the PlanetaryDream Collector; and Beethoven/Stringyuartet, up us /4.February 7: Yefim Bronfman, piano; andMeliora String Quartet. Program: Mozart/Hunt Quartet in B flat major, K. 458;Scott Nickrenz (Schaaf Photo)S nhnenhertr/riniiB 11 %u25a0 I .iw t/M m h ic tn W a lbfor solo piano; and Brahms/F minor PianoQuintet.February 28: Emerson String Quartet;Scott Nickrenz, viola; and Colin Carr, cello.Program: Boccherini/Cello Quintet in Cmajor; Shostakovitch/String Quartet No. 8;and Mendelssohn/Viola Quintet in A major.March 21: Paula Robison, flute; FrankMorelli, bassoon, and others. Program:Dvorak/Wind Serenade in D minor, Opus44; Gounod/Petit Symphony; Beethoven/Excerpts from Fidelio for wind octet;and Villa Lobos/Bacchianas Brazilieros forflute and bassoon, in commemoration of thecomposer%u2019s 100th birthday.April 18: Paula Robison, flute; DouglasBoyd, oboe; Frank Morelli, bassoon; Kenneth Cooper, harpsichord; and WendyYoung, harsichord. Program: Vivaldi/Pastorella; Handel/Flute Sonata in B minor;Telemann/Trio Sonata in C minor; Couperin/Musettes; Stravinsky/Eight Easy Pieces; Johnson/Carolina Shout;Johnson/Country Lanes and Swing; andJoplin/Peacherini Rag.May 7: Joseph Swensen, violin; ScottNickrenz, viola; Carter Brey, cello; andKathryn Selby, piano. Program: Beeihoven/Trio for Strings in C minor, Opus 9, No.3: Bartok/Sonata for Solo Violin: andSchumann/Piano Quartet in E flat major.For the past four seasons, BAM%u2019s Chamber Music Series has been broadcast overWNYC-FM and stations of the AmericanPublic Radio Network.June 12, 1986, TH E PH O EN IX, Page 29