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G2 The Beacon Journal Sunday, May 15, 1983 if J. 1 Hf-r- i i. I oh ssiKCa- it COMING ATTRACTIONS MUSIC Mendelssohn works end season Christoph von Dohnanyi, the Geveland Orchestra's music director, has devoted a rather major portion of his symphonic career to the works of Felix Mendelssohn. He was one of the first German conductors after World War (when the 19th century composer's music was banned in Germany because Mendelssohn was Jewish) to champion Mendelssohn's symphonic output. He recorded all of the symphonies and many other Mendelssohn pieces.

To end the Cleveland Orchestra's season this week, Dohnanyi will lead a Mendelssohn program consisting of the Symphony No. 3 (Scottish and the oratorio Die erste Walpurgisnacht. Soloists in the oratorio will be mezzo-soprano Christine Cairns, tenor Jon Garrison, baritone Tom Krause and bass-baritone Jeffrey Wells. The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus also will participate. These pieces will be recorded next Sunday by Telarc Records, the Grammy Award-winning firm based in Geveland.

The concerts will be held at 8:30 p.m. Thursday through Sunday at Severance Hall, 11001 Euclid Cleveland. Tickets ranging from $13 to $28 are available by calling the Severance Hall ticket office at 231-1111. If you can't make it to Geveland this week to hear the Geveland Orchestra, maybe a trip to E.J. Thomas Hall tonight will work out.

The ensemble, led by Dohnanyi, will appear at 7:30 on the final concert of Tuesday Musical Gub's 100th anniversary season. On this program, the orchestra will play Mussorgsky's A Night on Bare Mountain (original version), Marcel Dick's String Symphony and Brahms' Symphony No. 3. Tickets at $11, $13 and $15 are on sale at the Thomas Hall box office (375-7570). Thomas Hall is at Center and Hill streets, Akron.

O'Connor, Reynolds at Carousel Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds go way back, back to 1951, as a matter of fact, when they starred with Gene Kelley in the classic MGM musical Singin' In the Rain. Donald and Debbie will be together again for a May 17-29 stint at the new Carousel Dinner Theatre, 1275 E. Waterloo Road, Akron. For tickets and show times, call 724-9855. THEATER Brecht play at Hiram College Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle opens Thursday at 8 p.m.

at the Hayden Auditorium at Hiram College. The play will be presented at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 2:30 p.m. next Sunday. Tickets are $3.50 general admission; $2, students; and $1.25 for children under 12.

The box office number is 569-5242. Weathervane's 'Tomfoolery' ready Tomfoolery, a satirical musical revue by Tom Lehrer, opens a five-week run at Weathervane Community Playhouse Thursday with an 8:30 p.m. curtain. The musical will be staged Thursdays through Sundays through June 19. The box office number is 836-2626.

Aurora gets 'Sound of Music' The Sound of Music opens at 7 tonight at the Aurora Community Theatre, Aurora Center for the Performing Arts, on East Pioneer Trail near Ohio 43 and Ohio 306. Tickets are $6 for adults and $4 for those 18 and younger. The musical will run weekends through next Sunday. For information and reservations, call 562-1818. 'Last Flapper' on Parma campus Piper Laurie opens at 8 p.m.

Tuesday in 77ie Last Flapper, a play about Zelda Fitzgerald, at the Cuyahoga Community College Western Campus, 11000 Pleasant Valley Road, Parma. The play, directed by Charles Nelson Reilly, will be staged through next Sunday. Tickets are $10, $11 and $12.50. The box office number is 621-2225. ART Festival of Flowers in Falls The Cuyahoga Valley Art Center, 2131 Front Cuyahoga Falls, is exhibiting its Festival of Flowers Regional Juried Painting Show through June 3.

Cincinnati native Ethel Todd George, painter and author of the book Painting Flowers With Watercolor, Juried the exhibit, which may be seen weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturdays from 1 to 4 p.m. For more information, call 928-8092. Japanese prints show at Oberlin Oberlin College's Allen Memorial Art Museum will exhibit "Highlights From the Ainsworth Collection of Japanese Woodblock Prints," a selection of more than 50 prints from a collection of more than 1,400, through June 12.

The Ainsworth Collection is said to be among the gems in the museum's holdings. Virtually all major genres of Japanese woodblock prints will be represented, including landscapes, seascapes and portraits of actors and courtesans. Admission to the museum, at North Main Street and Ohio 10 in Oberlin, is free. Hours are Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday 11 a.m.

to 8 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday 1 to 5 p.m. The museum is closed Monday. For information on group tours, call 775-8665. Print by Hlroshlge Is part of the Alnsworth collection of Japanese prints on exhibit at Ober-lln College through Jane 12.

Peppard plays Hemingway Papa, the play about Ernest Hemingway, opens Tuesday at 8 p.m. at the Geveland Play House, 8500 Euclid Ave. The one-man play, starring George Peppard, will be staged through May 29. The box office number is 795-7000. rive-time news gets edge on Moscow summit RADIO fTTI I Bob sp Dyer skipped to North Coast Cable.

WKDD has a new evening jock. Dave Nicholas, imported from the afternoon spot at Cleveland oldies station WNCX (98.5-FM), is holding down the fort weeknights from 6 to 10. The former resident, Rick Allen, has been sent to Siberia, otherwise known as the 2-to-6 a.m shift. Garrison Keillor's second farewell show, June 4, will be show in a closed-circuit broadcast at the Akron Civic Theatre. Tickets are free to members of Kent's WKSU (89.7-FM), but the limit is two per member, and it's first come, first served.

A $20, pre-show reception is planned at the downtown O'Neil's. For the hard-core fan of Prairie Home Companion, WKSU has obtained a small number of tickets to the show Itself at Radio City Music Hall in New York, and is offering a package deal for transportation and hotel. For information, call WKSU at WMJI (105.7-FM). The latter seems more determined than ever to make a run at WMMS, winner of 18 straight Geveland Arbitron ratings books. WMJI must be mortgaging the farm.

In the "Majic Million Dollar Prize Catalog Sweepstakes," a Brunswick woman recently won a $50,000 stock portfolio. Now that's a promotion. On Monday, Cleveland TV station WKYC (Channel 3) will kick off a five-part series on disc jockeys, to be aired during 11 p.m. newscasts. The features, put together by reporter Jim Hooley, will highlight Kid Leo of WMMS, Lynn Tolliver of WZAK, John Lanigan of WMJI, Gary Dee of WWWE and Nancy Alden of WDOK.

Fair warning: If you want to watch, you'll have to put up with WKYC anchorman Bob McBride. Akron rock station WKDD (96.5-FM) seems to be responding to national surveys that say listeners want more hard news and less happy talk. In the past, WKDD's "news" reports When the Ronnie Reagan-Mike Gorbachev summit starts May 29, radio will for once have a distinct news advantage over television. The daily meetings are expected to end about 4 p.m. Moscow time, which is 8 a.m.

for us and everyone else from New York to Indiana. Eight o'clock is the height of morning drive time, radio's version of prime time, when the medium has a captive audience of commuters. ABC is handling the pool coverage for eight radio networks. According to the New York Times, ADC's duties almost require logistical alchemy: The Soviets have only 11 telephone lines to the United States, so ABC has had to construct a whole communications system, including a telephone network. Maybe when it's all over someone can put ABC in touch with officials of Summit County, who have had a few phone problems of their own.

Bruce Drennan was his usual charming self the other night when he referred to blacks as "darkies." The WWWE (1100-AM) sports host attempted to con- have consisted mainly of trotting out goofy wire stories for the disc jockeys to joke about. Now the station is taking a straighter approach. It also has shortened its sportscasts and added a meteorologist. In the Geveland winter Arbitron book (Medina, Cuyahoga, Lake, Lorain and Geauga counties), WMMS claimed its 18th straight win with a 12.4 share of listeners. The top three places were unchanged, although second-place WQAL (104.1-FM) had its best share in ages, an 11.4.

The rest of the best: WZAK (8.0), WMJI and WGAR (7.1), WLTF (6.3) and WDOK (5.1). You can't accuse Geveland public radio WCPN (90.3-FM) of having a provincial outlook. The station's new news director is Anabelle Hitchcock Singh, formerly an ABC correspondent In New Delhi. Ms. Singh lived in Asia for six years while reporting for both the ABC television and radio networks.

She replaces Vivian Goodman, who trol the damage a few nights later by pointing out that he has also insulted Jews, Arabs, Indians, Asians, women and other groups. Nice job, Bruce. Some promotions are better than others. A couple of years ago, a Canton station touted a contest in which the winner would get a new car for one month. Then he or she had to give it back hardly the kind of promotion that would induce you to change your listening habits.

At the other end of the spectrum are the big-league games played by Geveland giants WMMS (100.7-FM) and RADSO Nothing saves 'Shadow on the Sun' TV PREVIEW Courtiy (Com) Cleveland 1350-WSLR-AM. Akron 1520-WKNT-AM, Kent EyLMnlng 94. 1-WHBC-fM, Canton 94 9-WOBNflvt. Medina 98 9 WKSfWM, Youngstown 104 1-WQAL-fM, Cleveland 13 10-WAH-AM. Alliance Jazz 90 3- WCmfM, Cleveland 107.3-WNVW-FM, Byna NcwtTafeSporti 100 t-WNIR-FM.

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1-WVNOfM. Mansfield 106 5-WLTF-fM, Cleveland 106 9-WROK-FM, Canton 107.9-WPHR-fM. Cleveland 1260-WBBG-AM Cleveland Urtwi Contemporary 93.1-WZAK-FM,Clweland 900-WBXT-AM, Canton 1490-WJMOAM, Cleveland 1500-WGFT-fM, Youngstown By Mark Dawidziak Bnacon Journal television writgr It's an almost Impossible feat, yet, somehow, the team responsible for Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun pulled it off. As inconceivable as it seems, screenwriter Allan Scott and Oscar-winning director Tony Richardson (Tom Jones) have turned a remarkable life into an unremarkable miniseries. You couldn't ask for a more intriguing and heroic subject.

So why is A Shadow on the Sun dull, dull, dull? The four-hour miniseries opens at a pace apparently set by a snail with a barbiturate problem. And it never catches fire. Mind you, we're talking about "the" Beryl Markham here. She cut her own fiercely independent way, living in Kenya for 79 of her 83 years. She was the first pilot to fly solo east to west across the Atlantic.

She was a champion trainer of race horses. An affair with Great Britain's Prince Henry, the Duke ment in this weary dramatization. Powers, who starred in the miniseries At Mother's Request and Mistral's Daughter, is equally effective playing Markham as a strong-willed young dreamer and a vodka-swilling Garboesque character of 77. Because the script gives little depth to the supporting characters, however, Powers can't do much to make this patchwork of scenes convincing. She's trying to converse with pale representatives of the genuine articles.

What makes this all the more disappointing is the presence of several talented performers: Broadway veteran Claire Bloom (Brideshead Revisited), Frederic Forrest the theater films Apocalypse Now and The Rose) and John Rubinstein (Harrison in CBS' Crazy Like a Fox). The miniseries is based on 77ie Beryl Markham Mystery, an article James Fox wrote for the October 1984 Lssue cf Vanity Fair. When Shadow on the Sun begins, writer Arthur Cane (Rubinstein playing a character inspired by Fox) has arrived in Kenya for an interview with the elderly Markham. CBS will air the miniseries at 9 tonight and Tuesday on WJW (Channel 8), WKBN (Channel 27) and Wheeling's WTRF (Channel 7). Starting with memories of her "gilded childhood," Markham relates her life and loves, triumphs and tragedies.

In addition to the lackluster direction, this miniseries suffers from dialogue that is too often hackneyed or corny. "I can't imagine you without Kenya," one suitor says as we complete the idea for him, "or Kenya without you." "We're survivors," Markham declares after a setback. "We'll survive." Heard that before? "Nobody who ever loved Africa can ever escape it," a friend tolls Markham. Perhaps not, but you can escape this miniseries with far greater ease just switch the channel when the yawning becomes too much for you. 98 Canton 103 3-WCRF-fM.

Cleveland 1049-WZLE-fM. Lorain of Gloucester, nearly caused a royal scandal. And Markham wrote a book, West With the Night, that made Ernest Hemingway say he was "completely ashamed of myself as a writer." Boring? Now how could such exciting raw material be fashioned into anything even remotely tedious? You'll be wondering the same thing should you make it through both parts of Shadow on the Sun. Rambling and monotonous, the miniseries assembles the facts of Markham's life in a manner that suggests a travelogue more than a drama. Although the views of African landscapes are breathtaking, such scenery can't compensate for unconvincing dialogue and flat characterizations.

Lost in all this inept execution is some fine work by Stefanie Powers (the series The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. and Hart to Hart). Her portrayal of the free-spirited Markham is the one shining ele H1GHUGHTS Today 7 The band OMD is Rick Dees' guest on The Weekly Top40on WKDD (96.5-FM). Noon: Rudy Calet answers listeners' questions about real estate on vVNIR (100.1-FM). 2 p.mj Akron surgeon Richard Kramer talks about hearth care on WNIR (100.

t-FM). 9 im: The Scottish harp duo Sileas Is heard on 779 Tnisfle and Shamrock on WKSU (89.7-FM). 8 p.nu: Zubin Mehta conducts the New York Philharmonic and soloist Andre Watts in three piano concertos on WCLV (95.5-FM). Monday 730 pjn' On the religious drama Unshackled! on WCUE 1 150-AM) a battered wife who displays a remarkable capacity tor forgiveness is finally set free by circumstances beyond her control Tuaaday 9 p.mj Sir Cohn Davis conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony in works by Mozart and Bertoz on Encores From Severance Hal on WCLV (95.5-FM). Wednesday 8 p.mj Witold Lutoslawski takes the baton as the Cleveland Orchestra performs his own works on WKSU (89 7-FM) Thursday 130 pm: The chief executive officer of Fairiawn's A.

Shulman William Zek-an, addresses the Akron Roundtable hve from the Tangier restaurant on WKSU (89 7-FM). Friday 9 pm: Robert Shaw leads the Atlanta Symphony, Chorus and soloists In music by Hindemith and Beethoven on WCLV (95.5-FM). Saturday 2 Christopher Keene conducts the Lyric Opera of Chicago's production of Satyagrana by Philip Glass on WCLV (95.5-fM). 3 pm; Good Evening With Noah Adams is heard Hve from St. Louis on WKSU (89.7-FM).

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