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1 Religion Notes 2C People Theaters Deaths Want Ads Cash Word TY-Radio AC 5C 5-12C 12C 14C SECTION ROCHESTER, N. SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1972 No ressure, Concert But Afo March For Drums Mend Repli Rochester 12 -iMk a 0 tfpm II' ft I 1 1) I i -Xi i There will be no marching but lots of music in the Winter Tournament of Drums at the War Memorial tonight. The Rochester Crusaders, state drum and bugle corps senior champions, will celebrate their 25th anniversary with a new routine to. highlight the program. "We will have seven corps, performing in a unique manner," Vincent Bruni, promoter of the event, said yesterday.

"The groups will perform on stage in a concert format. There will be no marching, and the performers will be free to concentrate solely on their music." Other groups on the 7:30 o'clock program are the all-female Alpin Girls of Irondequoit, Greece Cadets, Squires of Watkins Glen, Grenadiers from Owego, Gauchos from Fulton and Black Knights of Oswego. From Bob Matthews. By THEODORE PRICE Walter Hendl, who resigned as musical adviser of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Thursday, says no one has placed any pressure upon him to resign. "I have never been under any pressure from any union member, any member of the Philharmonic, or from the University of Rochester," Hendl said yesterday.

He was thanked separately last night by the head of the Musicians Association and by the orchestra committee of the Philharmonic for his statement yesterday that the five musicians dismissed or put on probation should remain with the orchestra. The five-member orchestra committee, of which David Ri-chey is president, sent this telegram to Hendl last night: "On behalf of the members of the Rochester Philharmonic, we would like to thank you for your courageous statement in urging that the CMA rescind the unfair dismissals of the five musicians. "Though some will attempt to demean this act of conscience on your part, it will stand you in good stead when all the facts are brought into focus. The musicians of the Philharmonic have always recognized David Birney as Mercutio in Studio Arena's 'Romeo and We Done, Romeo In Review The Arts in and respected your musical ability, and it is our sincere hope that we shall be able to continue our relationship in the future, as it has provided Rochester with a high level of musical performance." Tony Dechario of the orchestra committee said "relationship" refers to future conducting by Hendl of the Philharmonic. Dechario, speaking for himself, said he felt the Civic Music Association "didn't give Hendl much room to move he could have been a valuable asset but I got the feeling they rarely consulted him." He called Hendl's statement backing the five musicians a pleasant surprise.

Earlier yesterday Mrs. Frederick J. Wilkens, board president of the Civic Music Association, asserted that "the tremendous' pressure encountered by Mr. Hendl from the musicians'1 union and the members of the orchestra in relation to the termination of four players was, undoubtedly, a key factor in his decision." Mrs. Wilkens also said: "This kind of union tactic to undermine the management of mmmmmmmm soloist last night when his Piece for Studio Orchestra and Soloist, commissioned by the Eastman School of Music for its 50th anniversary, was given its premiere before a packed Eastman Theater.

(Every ticket was gone early in the week.) With Rayburn Wright conducting the Eastman Studio Orchestra, and Nelson on alto sax, the new 14-minute piece eased its way into the world By ROBERT PLUTZIK BUFFALO In Shakespeare's century, audiences rose to their feet, yelled, threw things and indulged in bawdiness of their own as the actors dispatched ribald puns on stage. Such antics aren't In fashion any more people wear great civility into the theater and that civility, coupled with modern respect, awe and fear of the great bard's poetry, make audience laughter hard to come by. Such was the case at the Thursday opening of "Romeo the Philharmonic is reflected also in the 'charges' placed against conductor Samuel Jones." Joseph T. DeVitt, president of the Rochester Musicians Association, the labor union local, would make no comment on Mrs. Wilkens' allegation of union pressure.

But he did thank Hendl for saying yesterday that the five orchestra members dismissed or put on probation by Jones and the CMA should remain with the Philharmonic. "DeVitt cited Hendl's "moral courage and saying "Hendl knows and has worked with these men, and this qualifies him to make a sound judgment The Musicians Association has charged Jones with violation of several union rules, including improper procedure in dismissal of the musicians, and will hear his case Monday. Hendl said, "I have no comment whatsoever upon the Jones matter with the union." The 55-year-old director of the Eastman School of Music Please Turn Page on a sprawling orchestration (all 71 members of the large ensemble were meshed into Nelson's score) with spiky shifts in meter, windswept melodic strains and dense layers of improvisational lines. The impressions the "piece" makes are strong and positive in individual ways. Like the polyrhythms which set the initial tone of the piece and re- Please Turn Page York cast for the event (out-f-ide the major cities, merely doing a Shakespearian play is an event), building on this notable assembly the kind of straightforward presentation which audiences untutored in the Shakespearian quarto readily could understand.

Those for whom the poetic lines of the play are delicately imprinted in gold leaf on the Please turn to 5C Spassky in Check The president of the International Chess Federation said yesterday that world champion Boris Spassky must forfeit his title if he refuses to accept the site set for Ms match with Bobby Fischer. The statement by Dr. Max Euwe was reported from Moscow by the Yugoslav news agency Tan-jug- The Soviet world champion and the U.S. challenger failed earlier to agree on a match site and Euwe ruled the 24 games would be divided equally between Belgrade and Reykjavik, Iceland, i Spassky protested the decision, saying the climate of Belgrade is too hot. From UPI.

Ormandy to China? Senate Republican, Leader Hugh Scott wants the Philadelphia Orchestra to be the first group to make a cultural exchange visit to China. The Pennsylvania Republican, invited with Senate Leader Mike Mansfield to visit China, wrote President Nixon about the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy. He said it will be making a Far East tour in May and he hopes it can be the "first to perform in that country." From the AP. Lennons1 Custody John Lennon and his wife. Yoko, received temporary custody yesterday of Yoko's 8-year-old daughter by a previous marriage, but the little girl is missing.

Mrs. Lennon, in black beret and 'black and white checked skirt and vest, sobbed when the decision was announced by Judge Peter S. Solito of Houston's domestic relations court. She has been fighting for custody of the child for three years. "We're happy, but it's like when you survive an accident, Lennon said.

"You're still in pain. We still have to find the girl." The girl, Kyoko, was last seen in December with her father, Anthony D. Cox. They disappeared after Cox finished serving a five-day jail sentence he received for failing to allow Mrs. Lennon to visit Kyoko.

Cox, 34, an, independent film maker, and Mrs. Lennon were divorced in the Virgin Islands in 1969. Cox received custody of Kyoko in Solito's court last September after a two-day hearing in which a film featuring nude scenes of John Lennon was shown. Solito did not set a date for a hearing on permanent custody of Kyoko. Ed Murr, an attorney for Mrs.

Lennon, said authorities were ordered to search for Kyoko and deliver her to Harris County juvenile probation officials. Cox was ordered to appear before Solito next Thursday on contempt of court TV News for Deaf and Juliet" at Buffalo's Studio Arena Theater. The production, staged by Warren Enters, deserved more committed reception than it received. After the play, the actors felt the audience had let them down. They had not, however, failed any one in the house with' their exceptionally clear appraisal of this still-fertile work.

THE ARENA ASSEMBLED a highly professional New Rochester Community Service Council, Rochester School for the Deaf and the Rochester Council for the Hearing Impaired will assist and advise Channel 21 on program continuity and improvements through evaluation forms distributed in to local deaf people. Home viewers also will be able to rate the interpreters and suggest changes in the program format. ABC television commercial breaks will allow the interpreters, to report local social events, a deaf weather report and bulletins important to the non-hearing community. "We're going to start mod-" estly," said Haley. Fred L.

Wilson, administrative assistant to the dean at NTID and father of a 5-year-old deaf son, called the program an "almost singular event, even more significant because Channel 21 is consulting deaf people, which is long over Rayburn Wright conducted Eastman Studio Orchestra last night. soferic Prem iere due." "Finally we can stay home," said Jane Bolduc of the Community Service Council which serves the deaf community. Most deaf people watch little television, concentrating mainly on visually stimulating action dramas. The broadcast's interpret2 ers, using a combination of fingerspelling and signs will, says Rochester Community Services' Douglas Burke, "convey the thought" in each news item. "Sign has a way of passing from thought to thought without getting bogged down with language," he explained.

The longevity of "News for the Deaf" depends on how many of Rochester's 600 totally deaf citizens and the 10 per cent of the local population suffering from hearing loss, will watch. Haley says several other NET affiliates in New York State are "showing interest" in the program. i By ROBERTA PLUTZIK If you flick the television dial to Channel 21 beginning Monday, March 20 at 6:30 p.m., the ABC news will be delivered with a little help from the deaf. Nightly news for the deaf and hard-of-hearing in the Rochester area will be broadcast weekdays "for at least three or four months" according to Bill Haley, Channel 21 program director. It is the first daily national news program for the deaf in the U.S., Haley said." Originally developed, by the National Technical Institute for the Deaf and Rochester Institute of Technology's television center, "News for the Deaf" has been funded a $5,000 grant from the Teen League of Rochester.

RIT interpreters using man-uel' and oral interpretation of the national news will be on camera next to a broadcast of the ABC production. The EASTMAN JAZZ ENSEMBLE: Chuck Mangione, conductor; Eastman Studio-Orchestra, Ravburn Wridht, conductor! Oliver Nelson, alto sax and soprano sax; Ann and Marg McGlinn, vocalists. At Eastman Theater. PROGRAM: Man-Bione-LaBarbara: "Between Crosbv-Stiils-Reichenbach: "Wooden Markowitz: Fox Blues" (first performance); Mangione: "Pond with Carubia: "Interstate Baker-Foust: Piltzecker: Push: "Four Letter McGlinn-Tkazyik: "It's a Great Dav" (first performance); Reichnbach: "Hymn and Nelson: Piece for Studio Orchestra ond Soloist (first performance); Youno-Tkazyick: "Ohio." By THEODORE PRICE Oliver Nelson appeared in the duel role of composer and Israelites Two Anti- Who Are Churchmen (Stf Inside Religion by Lester Kinsolving BW 'ill Af lf If and excitedly assumed that Forrest, in his frequent travels to Arab countries, is offering them valuable and accurate ex-clusives despite the Toronto Telegram's report of his "pro-Arab, anti-Semitic and dishonest jouralism." BUT IN ADDITION TO HIS ELOQUENT CRIES OF AL-leged "Zionist persecution," Forrest regularly unearths that hoary ploy of alleging Zionist domination of the secular press in such writing as: "There are a lot of gutless editors, publishers and public officials about." This calibre of response has apparently awed his denomination's leaders even when the Rev. Donald Keating became so apalled at Forrest's editing that he, quit the United Church's ministry in disgust.

Yet the Rev. Mr. Forrest apparently feels so Invincible and established in his position that last January he rashly consented to a TV debate with the Rev. Dr. Franklin Littell, Professor of Religion at Philadelphia's Temple University and President of Christians Concerned For Israel.

Sample exchange: LITTELL: "You put out a special issue on Arab refugees in October of 1967?" FORREST: "Our compassion arises because the Christian Churches, for whose publications I was writing, asked me to make that survey they are concerned with humanity generally." LITTELL: "What was the date of the special issue you did on Jewish refugees?" FORREST: "I have never done a number on the Jewish refugees." LITTELL: "Really?" "Two or three of our member denominations are pro-Arab, and we have many retired missionaries who are pro-Arab," explained Mrs. Cynthia Wedel, President of the National Council of Churches (NCC), last January in Berkeley, Calif. "So a couple of times we have passed resolutions on the Middle East which I have been most unhappy about," added the brilliant and charming leader of the nation's largest Protestant organization (33 denominations, 42.5 million members). One month later, at its quarterly meeting in Charlotte, N.C., the General Board of the NCC began- what may be a significant turnabout which should provide a badly needed contribution to the cause of bettering Judeo-Christian relations. For the 200-member General Board finally buried a' resolution introduced last June by Dr.

Frank Maria, of Warner, New Hampshire. MARIA IS ONE OF THREE NCC DELEGATES FROM THE Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of New York and All North America (which until recently was known as the Syrian Orthodox Church). He has used his credentials and prestige as a member of the NCC General Board to secure media time and space throughout the U.S. in order to deliyer such preposterous pronouncements as: "Egypt was no threat to Israel in 1967" and "Israelis treat Christians and Moslems like Hitler treated the Jews." Maria's resolution proposed to the NCC was so strident as to be described by The Christian Century magazine (certainly no friend of Israel's) as: "one-sided and implicitly pro-Arab." NEITHER MARIA (WHO WAS ILL) NOR ANY OF HIS fellow Antiochians was present in Charlotte for the debate; 7 A A absence seemed appropriate. For, as this column previously reported (evoking Maria's written outrage), in 1969 the Antiochians contributed no financial support at all to the NCC's $20 million budget despite the denomination's (claimed) membership of 100,000.

Maria has a Canadian counterpart who has also been using his church post as a conduit for Arab propaganda. The Rev. A.C. Forrest of Toronto is editor of the United Church of Canada's newspaper, The Observer (circulation: 350,000) which is widely regarded as the Maple Leaf edition of The Arabian Nights. THE REV.

MR. FORREST HAS THEREFORE BEEN publicly saluted in Cairo by Secretary General Abdel Hassouna of the Arab League, who hailed him as the outstanding advocate of the Arab cause in North America. And Forrest has been able to sell his writings in the U.S. to what he calls "my Karl Karsch of Presbyterian Life, Martin Bailey of the United Church Herald and Henry McCorkle of The Episcopalian. These denominational house-organ editors have apparently ft ft John, Yoko Lennon in court.

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