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m'n i i SATURDAY, JULY 23,1988 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 5D REVIEWS SYDNEY OMARR JAZZ Leo: You Could Look At Yourself On Film Emotions Play Big Part In Spyro Gyra's Music solo album) and, to remind us where their music started, "Shaker Song." Comedians Boone and Pollard opened the show in a thoroughly undistinguished fashion. Boone laughed at her own jokes concerning scatology and even lesser themes, tasteless subjects that were hardly fit for opening a concert at a theater. Pollard fared better, reading off a list of all the things an old girlfriend wanted him to be in order to marry him, which of course was an impossible list. But in his first five minutes, he did three jokes that other comedians originated, and he gave no credit.

That's not a good omen. Beckenstein's alto, so the group's unique sound remains intact. Drummer Richie Morales was given plenty of room on his "The Archer," from the album. His extended solo on the song came just one selection after new bassist Oscar Cartaya showed what he could do, and the lengthy combination halted the straight-ahead creative energy during the second half of the show. The concert peaked just before the solos with a tune titled "Shanghai Gumbo," also off the new album.

It sounded just like the title, an almost Cajun rhythm layered with Eastern harmonies, and it was far more effective than the title indicates. Also included were "New Math" (an effort from Samuels' the group insists on tugging at the listener's heartstrings. Its music has developed and deepened since the days of its happy jazz hit "Morning Dance," but it refuses to reflect only its creators' intellects. Their approach is emotional, too, and maybe that's why this fusion group is one of the few that are still around and developing. The concert was mainly intended to highlight their newest album release, "Rites of Summer," so most of the music was from the record.

Group leader and saxophonist Jay Beckenstein used his soprano saxophone more than usual because its shrill sound is used extensively on the album. That instrument blends with the vibraphone playing of Dave Samuels just as well as does By John Burnes ALL MUSIC, and that includes fusion, gets itself into trouble when it becomes mere mind games. That's one of the reasons listening to the fusion ensemble Spyro Gyra can be such a pleasure: The group doesn't forget that being emotionally involving is what music making is all about. The septet performed an early evening concert Thursday night at the Westport Playhouse. Local comedians Mary Boone and Steve Pollard opened the show.

No matter what label you put on Spyro Gyra's music it's a hybrid of jazz, rock, rhythm and blues and any of several other influences, so iusion is the only label that suffices ART NOTE: Horoscopes have no basis in scientific fact and should be read for entertainment, not guidance. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Pressure exists to "cut costs." Emphasis on expansion, curiosity, ability to obtain facts. You'll be approached regarding investment paying higher-than-average dividends. Gemini involved. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Tendency exists to overlook details.

Key is to become familiar with rights and permissions, legal commitments. It is necessary to revise, review, possibly to relocate. Scorpio plays dominant role. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You'll have chance to work yourself out of what could be embarrassing situation. Express ideas, get thoughts on paper, submit written material.

Member of opposite sex may merely be flirting. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your advice is sought by family member whose marriage is threatened. Be diplomatic, but refuse to be obsequious. Major wish is fulfilled in surprising manner. Taurus, Libra persons figure prominently.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What you seek is close at hand, but temporarily hidden. You'll ultimately get credit now withheld. Streamline techniques, separate fact from fantasy. Scenario accents "film work." Pisces involved.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Clash of ideas featured, relative involved, legal battle will be won. Scenario highlights intensity, responsibility, awareness of deadline. You'll be concerned with automobile and other insurance rates.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Don't permit supposed loyalty to cause needless suffering. Applies to personal and professional activities. Know when to let go.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Stress independence, inventiveness, willingness to start anew. You'll learn where you stand in love relationship, you'll also know how to take greater charge of your own destiny. Leo is in picture.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Family "secret" is revealed despite initial emotional bruise, you'll benefit as result. Follow hunch, agree to reunion. Emphasis on teaching, learning, dining in gourmet style.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. my. What had been kept from you is now available. Pleasure principle emphasized, spotlight on popularity, social activity, travel.

Horizons expand, you'll have legitimate reason to celebrate. Gemini featured. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Money will be obtained, promotion is featured, prestige surges upward.

Stress confidence, know-how, acumen in connection with business, career. Break from tradition is necessary. Scorpio represented. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You'll encounter individual who claims to be lonely, depressed.

This is only partially true, you could be "set up" for loan. Examine motives, facts, don't fall victim to self-deception. On guard! IF JULY 23 is your birthday, current cycle emphasizes marital status, family, activities which bring you in front of public. You'll do exceptionally well in dealings with women. You could also succeed in connection with catering, restaurants, food.

There could also be an addition to family. Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius persons play important roles in your life. You understand showmanship, display, possess sense of drama. You make fresh start in August and could fall madly in love. Lathe-Turned Works Show Many Approaches To Form By Alexandra Bellos THE ART of lathe-turned objects is no longer solely associated with the production of bowls and spindles or other decorative additions to major work in furniture.

Artists now view the lathe as a tool to explore and enhance the natural beauty of wood and as a means to create objects that are functional, decorative or sculptural. "Works Off the Lathe" is an exhibition of turned objects at the Craft Alliance Gallery in University City. The show's curator is Albert LeCoff, director of the Wood Turning Center in Philadelphia. He has selected a group of objects that cover a wide range of issues and trends associated with lathe-turned works. Objects have been included for their techni cal brilliance, or because they illustrate specific techniques or the effects achieved by certain kinds of lathes.

But the most important organizing theme is LeCoff's desire to present objects with differing aesthetic approaches to form. Some of the most handsome objects in the exhibition are traditional in the sense that they are made from rare and exotic woods and are shaped like vessels. Giles Gilson's "Open Vase with Stripe" is made of padouk, a wonderfully rich, red wood. This classically tapered vase rests on a polished brass base. The viewer is captivated not only by the vessel's perfect proportions and immaculate surface, but by its wafer-thin walls.

Another impressive work is Ed Moulthrop's huge "Southern MARTHA CARR BOOKS Brave Men, Fast Ships Helped English Defeat Spain Sharing Magazines Is Way To Recycle Works Off the Lathe: Group Exhibition Place: Craft Alliance Address: 6640 Delmar Boulevard Duration: through Aug. 16 Hours: Tuesday-Friday, noon-5 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. 5 p.m. and no longer function as a vessel or a utilitarian object. Jon Brooks' whimsical 10-foot-tall ladder-back chairs are an example of this changing aesthetic.

The "chairs" do not have seats, and even if they did, they would be too fragile to sit on. Instead, the chairs are pieces of sculpture to be viewed in the round and to be appreciated for their flowing and incised forms. ent, as the authors skillfully demonstrate. This book is textually understated for the propaganda and pathos of the time are dealt with gently (thus Queen Elizabeth's famous speech at Tilbury is just barely mentioned, and the remarkable parallels with 1940 scarcely alluded to) and physically brilliant, with a plethora of magnificent color illustrations and a fine connection between the main story and the social, historical asides. Whether you want to understand exactly how the Spanish came to launch the invasion or just how their plans went awry, or whether you really want to know how sailors had dinner, this book will serve your purpose.

This is a significant anniversary; the book is not inferior to the occasion. Joseph Losos is a St. Louis investment adviser. ure remind us how nice to me is the voyage of a ship" on setting out, in overcoming difficulties and in solving problems. Hughes' own life is sketched in a fascinating six-page introduction.

For those seriously into the subject, the classic, 600-page anthology of sea poetry, "The Eternal Sea" (Coward-McCann, 1946), edited by W. M. Williamson, although out of print, is still available in some libraries if not in bookstores. Hughes' "Sea Psalms" meanwhile add a personal spiritual dimension to the lore and lure of the sea. Charles Guenther is a St.

Louis poet and translator. of 20,000 soldiers stationed in Flan ders to England. Because the Spanish navy was the largest in the world, the notable victor over the Turks 17 years earlier, and the Spanish army was renowned as the most effective fighting force in the world, the task of subduing England should not have been difficult. But it was not easy; it was in fact impossible. What saved England from defeat? Brave men, fast ships, devotion to freedom all of these perhaps, but what exactly turned the tables on the Spaniards? Garrett Mattingly, in his noted book on the Armada, emphasized the terror that the development of fire-ships, the torpedo boats of the 16 century, inspired among the Spaniards.

The very name of Federico Giam-belli, the brilliant deviser of mechanisms of pyro-warfare, demoralized the Spanish and caused them to flee Calais harbor on the 9th of August in 1588, thus ruining the plans of the Singing Psalms On The Sea Of Life Magnolia Bowl." Moulthrop has invented a set of hook-shaped tools that he places on his lathe and that allow him to carve out interior and exterior spaces. The technique produces large, curved bowls with broad turned lips. "Red Geyser" by Edward Bosley is made of redwood lace burl. As its name suggests, this object conveys the flow of molten lava or mud bubbling up from the surface of a calde-ra. In the center of the piece, a cone or bubble has burst open.

The feel of immediacy and sense of movement that he creates is astonishing. Other objects in the exhibition depart from a traditional stance and no longer have as their goal a dedication to preserving the surface qualities and patterns of wood. These objects are painted, incised Armada and rendering the fleet vul nerable to English naval tactics. Martin and Parker refine this thesis. They suggest that the English, perhaps especially Francis Drake, realized that the Spanish ships were not designed to be reloaded in battle, that the Spanish could not sustain long, close naval engagements unless they could board the enemy's ships.

So the English arranged to fight on that critical day, August 9, so as to maximize their capacity to operate at close range while holding sufficiently aloof so as to avoid being boarded. These critical decisions concerning naval tactics, perhaps implicit in the cultural distinctions between the English and Spanish, or perhaps merely the result of shrewd thinking at a critical juncture, certainly influenced the course of history. Now, 400 years later, the results of this battle, the preservation of a Protestant, Tudor England, are still appar Atlantic in boats of all sizes, and in 1978 he made a crossing from Finland to Bermuda. He now combines his experience as cleric and mariner into these 18 "Sea Psalms," each faced with an attractive color photo. The "Psalms" are strongly rhythmical, sometimes metrical and rhymed verses, and are perhaps more measured prose than poetry.

But the marine imagery and metaphors are consistent, and the arrangement is a logical narrative from a launching to "Mid-Passage" to "Journey's End." Above all, Hughes' messages of wisdom, humility, praise and gratitude and consolation in discouragement and fail General Cinema BARGAIN MATINEES $3.00 ALL SHOWS BEFORE 5 PM EVERYDAY SUPER BARGAIN HOUR ALL SHOWS BETWEEN DOLBY STEREO LINDBERGH OLD JAMESTOWN HOAO 741-01 19 BIG 1:00 3:05 5:10 7:15 9:20 PG DEAD POOL 1:30 3:30 5:30 7:30 9:30 HWY. 40 A CLARKSON ROAD 333-0155 LICENSE TO DRIVE 2:00 4:00 6:00 8:00 PG13 CADDYSHACK II 12:00 1:45 5:45 10:00 PG 0IE HARD 12:00 2:30 5:00 7:30 10:00 BIG 12:15 2:30 4:45 7:15 9:30 PG DEAD POOL 11:45 3:45 7:45 9:45 nv.Miiiviiti i LINDBERGH A ST. CHARLES ROCK ROAD 739-2010 COMING TO AMERICA 1:30 4:30 7:10 9:30 ARTHUR 1 12:15 2:30 4:45 7:00 9:15 PG DIE HARD 12:00 2:30 5:00 7:30 10:00 BIG 1:15 3:20 5:30 7:35 9:45 PG LINDBERGH A WATSON ROAD 964-4800 MIDNIGHT RUN 12:30 2:55 5:15 7:40 10:00 DEAD POOL 1:30 3:30 5:30 7:30 9:30 LICENSE TO DRIVE 1:00 3:00 5:00 7:00 9:00 PGI3 WILLOW 1:00 3:15 5:30 PG FUNNY FARM 7:45 9:45 PG S. LINDBERGH EAST Of LIMAY FERRY 417-0017 SAMt DA ADVANCt TICKtT SAltS DIE HARD 12:00 2:30 5:00 7:30 10:00 DEAD POOL 1:40 3:40 5:40 7:40 9:40 1 ARTHUR 1 1:00 3:10 5:20 7:35 9:50 PG BIG 1:00 3:00 5:00 7:00 9:00 PG DIE HAR0 1:30 4:30 7:00 9:301 CADOVSHACK 1:00 3:00 5:00 7:00 9:00 PG FUNNY FARM 1:15 5:15 9:15 PG PHANTASM 7:15 LICENSE TO DRIVE 1:15 3:15 5:15 7:15 9:15 PG13 Dear Martha: I have heard that there is a social group for young professional people in St. Louis.

I would like to join. Can you tell me who I can call for information? Thanks. The Single Professional Association members are required to have a college degree or equivalent professional credentials. All applicants are carefully screened, although there are no age restrictions. For more information, write to the SPA at P.O.

Box 23849, St. Louis, Mo. 63121 or call 454-0434. Dear Martha: We will be celebrating our 50th anniversary of the dedication of our church sanctuary and the church hall on Sept. 11.

We would like to extend a special invitation to those baptized, confirmed or married during the year 1938 at St. Stephen United Church of Christ (Evangelical and Reformed), 8500 Halls Ferry Road, St. Louis. I. DAVID THOMPSON Pastor Dear Martha: Awhile back you had the name of a group that would neuterspay dogs for a minimal fee for people who didn't have money to pay a regular vet's fee.

My daughter needs it. Would you print it again, please? Thanks. p.B. Animal Friends may be what you remember reading about. You can address your request to P.O.

Box 2225, St. Louis, Mo. 63109 or call 481-1833. MICHAEL 1 tm MB Dear Martha Carr: Do you know where slick-paper catalogs and magazines can be taken for recycling? I have inquired at several recycling companies and no one wants them, apparently because it costs too much to process them. If possible, I would like to see that they are recycled; it is such a waste to discard them, especially in the quantity that they are issued.

J.K. It is the clay on the paper the finish that makes them shiny that presents the high recycling cost. Other catalogs ones printed on newsprint are recyclable just as newspapers are. Perhaps you can pass your magazines and catalogs on in a timely fashion to other people who might enjoy reading or looking at them. Such places as waiting rooms in hospital clinics and health centers are always looking for reading material because much of it disappears with the patients and staff.

And of course, that is a valid kind of recycling. Family find: I am attempting to locate Leonard Cornelius Young, Barbara Young, Myrtle Young and Emma Marie Young. They were placed in the Children's Home Society of Missouri in St. Louis in 1938. They had been living in Gasconade County around Hermann, Mo.

Today they would be in their early to late 50s. J. HAWKINS P.O. Box 64 Villa Ridge, Mo. 63089 Joseph Gelmis.

NEWSDAY JAMIE LEE KEVIN WANDA CURTIS KLINE THE SPANISH ARMADA By Colin Martin and Geoffrey Parker 227 pages, Norton, $27.50 Reviewed by Joseph Losos FOUR HUNDRED years ago the Spanish resolved to rescue England from Protestant heresy and to prevent that potent troublemaker, Elizabeth Tudor, from continuing to disturb Europe. The king of Spain, Philip II, reasoned (almost surely correctly) that if England were conquered, or at the very least neutralized, the Dutch revolt could be crushed and the Habsburg empire would be greatly enhanced even as the Catholic church would be vindicated. To achieve this the Spanish launched a remarkable naval force so as to make possible the transport Some guys get all the brakes. 3RD WEEK Daily 2rOO 4r00 6rOO 90KKT NO TAI9 I IIUU Sat. 10:30 1:30 3il5 SlS7i15 9tl5 taf thow Sat.

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