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People Television Theaters Deaths Want Ads Comics 2C 8C 12C 12-18C 18, 19C ROCHESTER. N.Y., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21. 1979 In Review Violinist, audience honored Pageant protest Millard Taylor, violin; Maria Luisa Faini, piano; last night in Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music. Program: Sonata III, Jean Marie Leclair; Sonata in Major, Op. 78, Johannes Brahms; Sonata No.

1 in minor, Op. SO, Serge Prokofiev; Sonata No. 1 in minor. Op. 30, Ludwig van Beethoven.

By GEORGE MURPHY Music Critic Violinist Millard Taylor, who is retiring at the end of this academic year after 35 years as professor of violin at the Eastman School of Music, was honored during last night's concert with the University of Rochester's Alumni Citation to Faculty as "master musician, mentor, and distinguished alumnus." In turn, and with the most able cooperation of his pianist, Maria Luisa Faini, an" associate professor at Eastman, Taylor honored us with a recital noteworthy for subtle mobility and forceful technique, the latter tempered by a feeling of warm humanity. His tone was seldom less than beautiful and he was discriminating in the use of vibrato. The selection of the piece by Leclair was an imaginative bit of historical' spadework. Though Leclair wrote graceful sonatas of sparkling originality, he is all but forgotten in concert halls today. The fact that he was mysteriously murdered in Paris at the age of 67 adds a measure of intrigue to the historical perspective.

There were sinuous melodies in double-stops, wide leaps in phrasing, and a Tambourin marked "presto" that sounded like a hoe-down for white-tie-and-tails. In the Brahms sonata, the piano part came over as thin and transparent, the violin awarded the leading melody practically without letup. Taylor wisely adjusted his tone so that his natural advantage in dynamics did not work to the detriment of the piano's role. In the melodies of single line and double stops of the Adagio section, Taylor encountered some slight problems in pitch toward the end of the movement. The Prokofiev work, closely associated with the late David Oistrakh, is one of stark power, which Taylor conveyed with great impact.

At times, it is a technical tour de force; at other times, it has a rather chilling beauty. Overall, it impresses me as agitated, bombastic, and ugly. After the concert, the UR Alumni Association tendered Taylor a reception on the grand balcony of the Eastman Theater. Piwtos by Peter Wemoerger Alan Greerv at his maple sap evaporator a part of the mechanics involved in turning 40 gallons of sap into a gallon of syrup. Rich maple syrup rewards their work What's Cooking By JACKIE REDRUPP Food Writer The coffee can and milk bottle 'buckets' hanging on the maple trees at 989 Pittsford Mendon Road are just a small part of the mechanics involved in the production of maple syrup.

From the end of February to about mid-April Judi and Alan Green boil gallons of maple sap into pints of golden syrup. "It takes about 40 gallons of sap to make a gallon of maple syrup, but it's still a very rewarding experience," said Alan Green, as he worked over the billowing clouds of white steam coming from his sap evaporator. "I have nearly all my maples tapped this year, about twenty-five of them. And when we find a few tentative drops of sap in the buckets, then, no matter what the weatherman says, we know that spring isn't far away," he said. Until about four years ago.

Green was a professional photographer living However when the sap has almost reached the required density, Green skims off the foam and filters the syrup. Then he brings small quantities at a time into the house and completes the evaporating process. "To achieve a syrup of the right density, you have to determine the temperature of the boiling point of water in your particular area. Atmospheric conditions cause it to vary," said Green. "I find 9 degrees above the boiling point of my water to be the temperature at which a standard syrup results." ACCORDING TO GREEN, this is a good year for maple syrup.

He doesn't know what the theory is behind alternating freeze-and-thaw tempeatures, but the cold night and warm days we have been enjoying recently have resulted in a high yield of gleaming sap. "Maple syruping is a very fickle thing," he said. "When the weather is Turn to Page 8C NEW YORK- Seven angry beauty contestants filed complaints yester day against Miss Universe questioning the entry fees and judging standards in last week's Miss New York State competition.A Pittsford woman, Mary Friel.was crowned Miss New York. The women, none of whom were runners-up or finalists in the contest held March 15 at Kutsher's Country Club in Monticello, demanded the state attorney general investigate what the $500 sponsorship fee was used for and how the judges were chosen. "I don't know if it was rigged, but I have an inkling it was.

It was certainly a rip-off," said Linda Gestel, 26, of New York City. The women also said when they or their sponsors paid the $250 entrance fee for the regional con tests, they were not told they would have to pay an additional $500 to participate in the state contest. Harold Glasser, president of Miss Universe Inc. which sells franchises to the local and state contests and runs the Miss U.S.A. and Miss Uni verse contests, said his company had nothing to do with sponsorship fees at the local level.

He dismissed the women's charges as the complaints of losers, and said he'd heard no complaints against any of the five judges. Several women said they thought the contest was rigged because one contestant told them two days before the event that she was going to win She was later chosen a runner-up. UPI Is he 136 or 103? BARTOW, Fla. Charlie Smith was a slave freed by the Emanci pation Proclamation of 1863 and is at 136, the oldest American, ac cording to official national docu ments. Not so, claims the Guinness Book of World Records, which now says he's only about 103.

Smith is losing his place in the record book. The reason? A mar riage license. Smith has for years told colorful tales about being an African boy of 12 in 1854, and being lured aboard a slave ship by a promise of "fritter trees" with syrup. His past, traced back to a New Orleans slave registry, has satisfied the Social Security Administration as well as specialists at a Denver geriatric center, where Smith un derwent bone testing to corroborate his age. But it hasn't convinced Norris McWhirter, an Englishman who compiles the book.

McWhirter points to the 1910 marriage certificate where Smith gave his age as 35. AP Kennedys 'closer' NEW YORK Joan Kennedy began dealing successfully with her alcoholism only after she started "pursuing her own goals" rather than those of her husband or trying to live up to the Kennedy image, says Dr. Joyce Brothers. Mrs. Brothers said Mrs.

Kennedy's decision to take her own apartment in Boston and earn her masters degree in education at Lesley College in Cambridge, has brought her even closer to her husband, Sen. Edward Kennedy, and their three children. AP Boy for Olga Korbut MOSCOW Olga Korbut.the former darling among Soviet given birth to a 7-pound boy in Minsk, the Soviet Sports Federation said yesterday. The babv, who has not yet been named. was born March 10, a spokesman said.

Miss Korbut, 23, is married to Leonid Bortkevich, lead singer with the Byelorussian rock group, Pes-nyari. Miss Korbut, who won stardom at the 1972 Munich Olympics, retired from gymnastics to coach. AP Going South Many former Rochesterians are among thousands of Northern blacks headine south in a significant new trend in this country. For many, it means going home. Democrat and Chronicle reporter Michael Days traveled to Atlanta, Birmingham, and Sanford, Fla.

and interviewed former local residents. The results of Days' interviews occupies much of this Sunday's Up state magazine. It is interesting and important reading. Don miss T.ninn Smith' in TTPSTATF! This filmmaker's goal: To give people vision 1 "7 in downtown Rochester. Then he and his wife, Judi, did what many other people just talk about: they gave up city life.

Now they have a handful of sheep, a pig, and four horses on 68 picturesque acres just outside Mendon. Green emerges from the steam and shows a visitor the roaring log fire underneath the evaporating vat. He then pours raw sap into a trough and shows how it is released into the main vat to begin the evaporation process. "I bought the evaporator through Country Journal magazine and had it shipped in from Vermont," said Green. "It's not the best-looking piece of equipment, but it sure beats boiling the sap in pots and pans out here on a two-burner camping stove." "You can't do it in the house," he added.

"All this vapor is death to wallpaper and paintwork." has stepped over ethical boundaries by allowing some local advertising agencies and other groups to produce commercials in WXXI studios, using equipment bought with tax dollars. Just how much commercial work WXXI does is a point of apparent disagreement between the competing stations. Pearce says WXXI never solicits commercial work, but allows groups Pouring syrup over fresh snow buted with something they can afford. There'll be tons of junk, but that's true of any medium," he said. Leacock worries about television's shaping of people's concepts.

'I hope to start people seeing things," he said." I don't mean to be snooty but I don't think people really look. Go back about 100 years. Most of what people knew was from experience. It may have been a limited, but as magazines, radio, television, the means of communication increased, we came up with a set of cliches. We think we know things.

I thought I knew about law courts but what I knew was from Perry Mason and movies very likely made by people who didn't know anymore than I did. ONE LEACOCK FILM, "Happy Mother's Day" exists in two versions his and one made when ABC edited Leacock's footage. The ABC version, which has been described as "a half-hour baby food commercial" is didactic in presenting what people would have expected. Leacock's version includes some scenes at length to show the Turn to Page 2C Channel By JIM BORG Staff Writer For the second night in a row, WHEC-TV (Channel 10) has raised what news reporters called "ethical questions" about the production of private commercials at rival WXXI TV (Channel 21), Rochester's public television station. A TV feud? "We're raising legitimate questions," says Channel 10's news director, Warren Doremus.

"It'd be a mistake for anyone to take this as a spat." But WHEC reporters are just as Television Channel 10 continues to lead ratings By LISSA CRAIG Staff Writer WHEC, Channel 10, still leads the ratings for local TV news programming, according to the latest A.C. Nielsen figures. Channel 10's 6 p.m. news drew a 44 percent share of the viewing audience, up from a 42 percent share in November. WOKR, Channel 13, news had a 36 percent, up from 34 percent.

WROC, Channel 8, drew a 12 percent, down from 15 percent. At 11 p.m., Channel 10's news led with 42 percent, up 5 percent from November's ratings. Channel 13 had a 35 percent share, up from 32 percent in November. Monday Night Football" caused a four-day rating for WOKR in November as compared to a five-day rating for the other stations.) Channel 8 dropped to a 17 percent share from 22 percent. Turn Page 2C to use station facilities and equipment on some occasions often in emergencies and only when the work doesn't interfere with regular programming.

LAST NIGHT CHANNEL 10 in its 6 p.m. broadcast described Channel 21's commercial work as "exten--sive" and aired footage of two commercials on which it said work was done at Channel 21. The commercials were for Security Trust Co. and Max Pies Carpetings. Turn to Page 2C BY SALLY EAUCLAIRE Art Critic Richard Leacock hopes his films will "give people vision," and fight against "the formation of self-perpetuated cultural myths." Leacock, one of the foremost cinema verite filmmakers who surfaced in the 1960s, wishes to observe action, not influence it or in any way force it to conform to a preconceived notion.

But before he invented a portable, quiet sync-sound camera and recorder in 1960, documentary filming involved lights, cables and other paraphernalia that couldn't help but obtrude and undercut the truth of a situation. Leacock, 57, head of the film and video department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was in Rochester yesterday to talk about his films and technology at the Memorial Art Gallery. His visit was part of series sponsored by Portable Channel, an independent video production center which provides training, equipment and other services to media artists in the eight-county area surrounding Rochester. Leacock now films with the Super 8, a camera so small that he calls it "nice to take around with "No one in his right mind would drag along one of the those 16mm rigs unless he's paid. He calls such equipment "antedeluvian" and "unfriendly," The other advantage to the super 8 is that films can be made cheaply.

Recently he did "a nice little movie" which was shot, processed by "Mr. and transferred to video for a total cost of $70. Leacock hopes It would be of interest to a couple of thousand people around the country. Yet, until video discs or cassettes put film distribution on the same economic principle as books and records, most, people won't have that opportunity. "As it is, if you don't live in New York, you don't see anything.

The only thing I want to be able to do is reach people who are widely distri Photo by Jerry Lodriguss Filmmaker Richard Leacock at Portable Channel's facilities yesterday. 10 and Channel 21 argue 'ethics' Media mad.they say off the air, about Channel 21's "lack of cooperation" with news crews as they are concerned about the commercials. Responding yesterday, William Pearce, Channel 21's president and general manager, branded the coverage as "a scurrilous attack" and "manufactured news." Channel 10 broadcasts by reporter Ray Levato backed by Doremus have suggested that Channel 21 Hi.