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'Elijah' To Feature Met Baritone AJSS. A-12 Pittsburgh Press, April 21, 1981 xRocky Horror Show' Party Will Be Strictly Heaven-ly music will be presented at Beulah Church, 2500 McGrady Road, Churchill, at 8 p.m. on May 1. Taking part will be the Pittsburgh Chamber Singers and choirs from the host church. The Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, directed by Robert Page, will present Mendelssohn's oratorio "Elijah" at 8 p.m.

on May 3 in Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall Baritone John Reardon of the Metropolitan Opera will sing the title role. Other soloists are sopranos Barbara Laifer and Glynn Page, contralto Myrna Paris and tenor Jim Shrader. Reardon has appeared with Ihe Civic' Light Opera and was a frequent guest on WQED-TV's "Mister Rogers Neighborhood." Adult tickets are on sale at Kaufmann's; student tickets are on sale at the Pitt Student Union. OPERA BENEFIT When tenor Luciano Pavarotti appeared in recitals on Dec. 3, 1976, and May 4, 1978, at Carnegie Music Hall in FREE RECITAL The Rev.

Richard Burk, former organist at the Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, and flutist Wendy Webb of the Duquesne University music faculty will present a free recital at 2:30 p.m. May 17 in the First Trinity Lutheran Church, 535 N. Neville Oakland. I iau ctccirtN uiith ROBBIE KLINE FRIENDS MUSICIANS Oakland, tickets went quickly.

urn 1M-1MO Someplace Else Rt. si it struts Run Rd. tonight TANGENT No Covor Hoppy Hour -1Q mm nMt ii wbm Am DECADE Mfesr 323 Atwood st. U-2-Guest-Carsickness or A- W4. tHIy 'rn Kl 'Heart ot Oakland" But strangely, Pitts-burghers haven't shown the same enthusiasm for the upcoming recital by soprano Renata Scotto, even though she gave a magnificent performance in Pittsburgh Opera's "Madame Butterfly" at Syria Mosque in 1967, and is currently the reigning diva at the Metropolitan Opera and other world opera nouses.

Miss Scotto will present an all-Italian program at 8 p.m. Saturday in a benefit pro By ED BLANK Press Drama Editor Hennaa Hartman, manager of the Kings Court, will celebrate, the third anniversary of "Rocky Horror Picture Show's" midnight weekend engagement at his theater by hosting a party at Heaven, Downtown, April 29. Cathy Bitting and Bill Lee, "Rocky Horror" aficionados who met at its early-morning showings, will marry at the party. Hartman will give the bride away. Prizes will be awarded for best costumes at the May 1 and 2 "Rocky Horror" performances.

The one-minute trailer for "Heaven's Gate" running at some theaters is the one prepared for its release last December. Despite the fact the picture never opened (except for one disastrous week in New York last November, after which it was vanked for severe re-editing), it's still being billed as "coming for Christmas." Li fact, it opens here and across the country Friday. Sbeena Easton, whose first hit record in the United States, "Morning Train," is one of today's top three sellers, will Curtain Times BUHL PLANETARIUM "Bockyord A trooomy 2. MATTRESS FACTORY "Alphabetical GctturM," 8:30. (Tomorrow: Dark.) ST.

NICHOLAS CROATION CHURCH Iron Clod AgrMmtnt'f "Gift to America." 8. (Tomorrow: Dark.) SYRIA MOSQUE "Th King and 8. sing the title song in the next James Bond movie, "For Your Eyes Only," due here in June. The U.S. Catholic Conference is considerably more lenient than its ancestor, the Legion of Decency, in rating movies but continues to give much more insightful evaluations of films' audience suitability than the Motion Picture Producers Association of America (the PG, and group).

On the latest Catholic Conference roundup, no films were deemed A-l (morally unobjectionable for all ages), and only two were A-2 (unobjectionable for adults and adolescents): Jerry Lewis's "Hardly Working" and Disney's "Devil and Max Devlin." Rated A-3 (unobjectionable for adults): "Back Roads," "Modern Romance," "Thief," "Nighthawks" and three which haven't opened here yet, "Atlantic City," "Cutter and Bone" and "Lion of the Desert." Getting (objectionable in part for all) ratings: "All Night Long" (for "the story's blurred moral "The Final Conflict" and "The Postman Always Rings Twice" display of sex). Rated (condemned) are, like most schlock violence films, "The Funhouse" and "The Howling," plus "City of Women" women as sexual and "Sunday Lovers" nudity" in the Gene Wilder sequence). As recently as the mid-1960s, "Hardly Working" would have been a and most or all of the A-3's and B's would have been for such once-common reasons as "low moral tone" and "reflects the acceptability of extramarital "ROCKY HORROR Show" aficionados Bill Lee and Cathy Bitting will be married as the Kings Court Theater celebrates its third anniversary of running the cult movie with a party at Heaven, Downtown, April 29. 1 2200 I ARSON ST. S.

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