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C2 The Beacon Journal Sunday, June 7, 1987 Old announcers never die; they just read away net network. He is heard locally on WWWE (11 00-AM) heard and heard and heard. He's on three times a day for a total of 7 hours. Bob H5 Pf Dyer 'I' (1100-AM) until Pete Franklin's health improves and his job status is resolved. Bob Costas, Paul McGuire and Dick Vitale are the best-known.

Others include former Clevelanders Ken Coleman and Joe Castiglione, who now announce Red Sox games; Gib Shanley, who's still jobless in L.A.; ex-Akron announcer Lee Hamilton, a fixture in Phoenix; and former Cleveland Brown Dave Logan, who hosts a talk show in Denver. Beacon Journal baseball writer Sheldon Ocker recently reported that Shanley is the front-runner to succeed Pete if Pete doesn't return. Which leaves one other big question: Isn't AM radio having enough trouble without subjecting its audiences to people like Dick Vitale? tising campaigns in an effort to get more people to listen. Which means area radio executives are probably ready to slit their wrists if they've seen the results of a recent national survey on listening habits. Of the people who said they had listened to a new radio station within the past two months, the most common reason they tried the new station was "flipping around the dial." That beat the combined total of people answering "billboards," "television advertising" and "word of mouth." After channel-hopping, the next biggest reason someone samples a station, the poll said, is a friend's recommendation.

A Chicago research company did the asking, which involved 1,500 people between the ages of 18 and 44. The study also indicated that almost two-thirds of those people hadn't listened to a single new station within the last two months. Cleveland public radio station WCPN (90.3-FM) kicks off a fund-raiser Tuesday at 6 a.m. The station is trying a new approach a "mini-drive" that will continue for three days rather than the customary eight or nine. And, rather than constant begging, "mini-reports" amid the regular programming.

The only thing "un-mini" about the campaign is the big-bucks goal: Between this drive and another in the fall, WCPN hopes to ring up $180,000. You can often gauge the clout of a radio station by the number and quality of celebrity endorsements it airs. When you hear Bruce Springsteen on WMMS (100.7-FM) talking about his good buddy Leo, for example, you realize that WMMS is not just another run-of-the-mill radio station. That, of course, is the point. But sometimes timing and luck play a part.

A longtime country-music station in Nashville, pulled off the ultimate celebrity coup recently when one of its reporters attended a news conference in Washington, D.C., with President Reagan. WSM's Liz White reportedly approached the prez, handed him a slip of paper, and said, "My GM said I can't come home unless you read this aloud." Reagan, never one to question the information he disseminates, dove in as if it were just another of his cue cards: "I'm Ronald Reagan. Whenever I'm in Nashville, I listen to Radio 650, WSM, the blowtorch of the South." White House media officials went bonkers, of course, and later tried to talk WSM out of running the plug. WSM pointed out that no one had forced Reagan to read the lines. "The President's a big boy," said White.

More than a dozen regional and national sports broadcasting personalities have agreed to help fill in behind the Sportsline microphone on WWWE NBC Radio voice Bruce Williams recently signed a five-year contract to continue his call-in show on the Talk- Area radio stations spend millions of dollars on fancy promotions and adver CHANNELS UPDATES Today MONDAY Light Opera ensemble is not just for the pits 60 Joint Congressional IranContra Committee Hearings (Joined in progress) 10:00 a.m. Donahue (Oprah Winfrey switched to 4 p.m. and Donahue to 10 a.m.) Salute to Broadway with Neil Simon and members of the casts of Cafs and Les Miserables. 11:30 a.m. 11:30 Llvel Better Business Bureau; Marguerita Fossesca in the Kitchen.

12:30 p.m. tn Sonya Live In LA. Inside the Rajneesh cult; fear of making a commitment; debate on erotica art and literature. 7:30 a.m. OQJJTtf The Morning Program Connie Stevens; agoraphobia; author Frances Leighton (The Search lor the Real Nancy Reagan); carnivorous plants; rare dogs.

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Ohio Light Opera Where: College of Wooster's Freedlander Theatre When: Wednesday through Aug. 10 Cost: $12 and $13 Information: 263-2345 RADIO By Donald Rosenberg Beacon Journal music writer In the worlds of opera and operetta, what happens onstage usually upstages what happens in the pit. Audiences get so wrapped up in the robust voices, fancy scenery and luxurious costumes during a performance that they often forget that an orchestra is also a full-fledged participant in the artistic proceedings. Still, opera houses often pos- sess orchestras that are as gifted 9:00 a.m. 03 MD Sunday Morning The people ol Poland on the eve of the Pope's visit; Lincoln Center's fund-raising benefit for their operating arts companies; profile of author Sue Hub- bel; radio personality Garrison Keillor.

10:30 a.m. CffiQ Newsmaker Sunday Guest: National Security Adviser Frank Carlucci. From the Venice Economic Summit. 11:00 a.m. OTTj School's Out Weekend Four hours.

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Baker III, treasury secretary; Martin S. Feldstein, former chairman, Council of Economic Advisers; Robert D. Hormats, vice president, Goldman, Sachs Co. 1:00 p.m. OQWTJ7 Pro Basketball NBA Finals, Game Three: Los Angeles Lakers at Boston Celtics.

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Robert Novak Interview With Treasury Secretary James A. Baker III, from the Venice Economic Summit. 7:00 p.m. Q3 rWTSrj 60 Minutes A group that helps teen-age runaways; dangers of medical helicopter airlifts; profile of television talk-show host Oprah Winfrey. 9:00 p.m.

(33 OD The 41st Annual Tony Awards Host Angela Lansbury presides over festivities honoring excellence in American theater. John Lith-gow, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, James Earl Jones, Barbara Cook, Mary Martin and Bernadette Peters are among those scheduled to appear. From the Mark Hellinger Theater in New York. collectively as some singers are gifted individually. The Vienna State Opera's pit orchestra is none other than the Vienna Philharmonic, one of the world's Today 8 a.mj The band Cutting Crew Is the studio guest on Rick Dees' Weekly Top 40 on WKDD (96.5-FM).

9 a.mj The subject on Baroque Era on WKSU (89.7-FM) is music for wed- dings from 1608 to 1744, by Claudio Monteverdi, John Blow, Johan Roman and J.S. Bach. 4:05 p.nu Christoph von Dohnanyi conducts the Cleveland Orchestra in the last of this season's Severance Hall concerts, which includes music by Henze. Siberlius and Stravinsky, on WCLV (95.5-FM) 11 p.mj Larry Fast, Wendy Carlos and Philip Perkins are featured on New Sounds on WKSU (89.7-FM). Monday 6 p.m.: Gib Shanley is guest-host this week on Sportsline on WWWE (1100-AM).

Tuesday 6 a.m.: WCPN (90.3-FM) kicks off a three-day fund-raising campaign called WCPN Membership Derby. 1 p.mj Dr. Victor Vertes talks about weight disorders on WWWE Wednesday 9:30 a.mj Authorpoet James Dickey and romance novelist Janet Daily are among the guests on John Dayle's show on WWWE (1 100-AM) 8 p.m.: Music by Bartok and Siberlius is performed by the Cleveland Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Ashkena-zy, on WKSU (89.7-FM). 10 p.m.: The Julliard String Quartet performs music by Mozart, Babbitt and Dvorak on a Library ol Congress Concert on WCLV (95.5-FM). Thursday 8 p.m.: Alan Baiter conducts the Akron Symphony in works by Berlioz, Mac-Dowell, Milhaud.

Gershwin and Ravel on WKSU (89.7-FM) 9 p.m.: Charles Dutoit leads the Montreal Symphony in works by Mendelssohn, Debussy and Ravel on WCLV (95.5-FM). Saturday 1 p.mj The Chicago Lyric Opera performs Wagner's Parsifal on WCLV (95.5-FM) 3 p.m.: Leonard Slatkin conducts the Pittsburgh Symphony in music by Joseph Schwantner, Ravel and Gorschkov on WKSU (89.7-FM) the Ohio Light Opera festival to become known also for wonderful chamber music. It should be a full-blown mini-Blossom, so that there's really a variety of music." Assistant music director David Harris seconds-every motion of music director Thompson, and he comes to the issue from a unique standpoint: Harris will serve as the orchestra's principal clarinetist for his fourth season this summer. He's back with his wife, OLO veteran soprano Dawn Hess Harris, and their 3-year-old daughter Heather, who may make her OLO debut this season. "The orchestra players are very excited about doing certain chamber pieces," said Harris, 36, a former Kent State University faculty member who teaches at Louisiana State University.

It's possible that additional instrumentalists would be brought in to fill out the orchestra for big pieces Harris jokes that Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand could be done as the Symphony of 96 and that guest artists might be asked to participate. And Thompson, who is music director of the Southeastern Savoyards Opera Company in Atlanta, would like to see the OLO orchestra concerts made part of an operetta subscription series. "The good thing about this is the interest of the players," said Thompson. "It's been overwhelming. There's been a huge change in attitude in the orchestra." There will be no change, however, in the main reason for the Ohio Light Opera's existence, said Thompson.

"We'll try to come up with six to eight programs out of the pit (in the future) and keep things in perspective," he said. "Our No. 1 function is to play in the orchestra pit." Little Buttercup and Bluebeard, who'll be onstage in Wooster this summer (in separate works, of course), must be relieved to hear that. The expansion of the orchestra's activities is viewed as a major step by the Ohio Light Opera, which began its residency in Wooster in the summer of 1979 to the accompaniment of a piano hidden behind the scenery. The Ohio Light Opera orchestra, which will be in the Freedlander pit for 68 performances Wednesday through Aug.

10, has given concerts before. But knowing that instrumentalists need a change from the anonymity of pit-orchestra playing, Thompson approached Doc, as Stuart is called, about the possibility of enabling his musicians to do more performing on their own this season. Thompson received Stuart's blessings not only to add concerts to the orchestra's already grueling schedule, but to increase the size and quality of the ensemble. At this year's auditions, about a 100 musicians showed up, compared to about 50 last year. Only seven of last year's 28 instrumentalists were asked to return, and three additional full-time musicians a harpist, a violinist and a bass trombonist were hired.

Thompson has drawn his 31 musicians from many orchestras and conservatories around the country. "By going out and getting the quality of players we wanted, by changing the way the orchestra was perceived not as a pit orchestra we've developed a chamber orchestra that will be visible to the community as an ensemble that gives concerts separate from the operettas," said Thompson, 31, a native of North Carolina who's in his second season as the OLO's music director. "In future seasons, we'd like FIRESTONE RAMS URW LOCAL 7 1 27 SWEITZER AVE. BINGO Sunday A Monday Doors Open 4 E.I. 6:30 HARDCARDS 7'5 WILDBALLS WOLF LEDGES Every Wednesday Sunday 666 Wolf Ledges, Akron Doors Open 4:30 Bingo 6:30 '3500 GUARANTEED Spontored By True Religion Temple 40 Door Prizes Free Dabber 0014-4 Thompson great symphonic ensembles.

Under James Lev-ine, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra has become a superb group by any orchestral standard. Officials of the Ohio Light Op- era, which begins its ninth season this week at the College of Woos-ter's Freedlander Theatre, also believe that trombones and bassoons are as important as tenors -and baritones. Rather than treating their pit players like lowdown musical afterthoughts, artistic director James Stuart and music director J. Lynn Thompson are broadening the activities of the OLO orchestra to give the instru-" mentalists real chances to show their stuff. Last Sunday, the orchestra took its place on the Freedlander stage and offered a concert of chamber works to a packed house.

The orchestra players will "present chamber-music concerts June 19 and July 3 at the college's Lowry Center and a cham- ber-orchestra concert featuring winners of its concerto competi- tion July 19 at Freedlander The- atre. All concerts are free. Phone 233-0248 u. co9o-n EE3 Minor-League Baseball Springfield Cardinals at Kenosha Twins. 10:00 p.m.

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6:15 a.m. 6D Before Hours From the Economic Summit in Venice, Italy. 6:30 am EH The 700 Club Twenty years after Israel's Six-Day War. 7:00 a.m. 69 0 Good Morning America Charles Gibson reports from Venice, Italy; the Antinori wine family; David Brenner; White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker; Mount Everest climbers; industrialist Giovanni Angelli.

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To help our readers plan ahead, critics Bill O'Connor, Dorothy Shinn. Mark Faris and Donald Rosenberg give their best bets here every Sunday. A complete list of events runs in Thursday's Weekend section. SUNDAY MONDAY OPEN 5:45 OPEN 6:45 ALL PAPER PROGRAM M.nfi.M2t2NDrK6.'l MJ.HTMMSS.'S BUY 3 GET 1 FREE COPLEY COMMUNITY CTR. 1278 Suntot Copley (Waist of Circle) 666-2 1 63 ALL PAPia GAMES MONDAY and TUESDAY DOORS OPEN 4 P.M.

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0105-29 1 2 COVERALL REGULAR M300 GAMES GUARANTEED $100 REGARDLESS EACH OF ATTENDANCE SPECIALS FRAME $200 EACH Thursday, June 11 at Eddie Money with special guest lfW, ft I 1 Movies Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty create two memorable and zany characters in Ishtar, playing songwriters with no talent. They are losers convinced they need only turn the right combination to have their talents unlocked. The embodiment of all our overly inflated opinions of ourselves, they'll make you laugh. The Truth FREE GAME PROGRESSIVE E.B. 12 DISCOUNT COUPONS FREE COFFEE NON-SMOKING SECTION AIR CONDITIONING UC oosi-4i uimms Pavilion $14Lawn $12 O'Connor Monday, June 15 at The Kinks with special guest Joan Jett Art Don Harvey: "The City Works" can be seen at the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, 1 1427 Bellflower Road, through July 3.

Harvey is a professor of art at the University of Akron. The exhibit consists of photographs, wall reliefs and five sculptures, forged and molded constructions from industrial materials. umms WL1 (JU1 Pavilion $15Lawn $12 FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY JUNE 5 JUNE 6 JUNE 7 6 P.M.-? 6 P.M.-? 6 P.M. 'TIL MIDNIGHT Ms. Shinn AT UNI0NT0WN FIREHALL RT.

619 91 POKER BLACKJACK MONEY WHEEL INSTANT BINGO Wednesday, June 17 at John Denver Pavilion $11 SPONSORED BY CDBC MUST BE 18 A OVER ik MI-C3 Rock The Temptations have been around longer than most of their fans would probably care to remember. But the group, which was one of the cornerstones of the great Motown Records empire of the '60. can still shake it down. The quintet will be in the Sultan's Cabaret of Tangier for 3 and 10 p.m. shows Tuesday through Thursday.

Thursday, June 18 at RCADimensla presents Moody Blues Lawn $14 Faris NEW 1.00 Early Bird EVERY NIGHT Tickets on sale now al Blossom and Severance Hall. TICKETRON or by calling TELETRON at 524-0000. No bottles cans, cameras or alcoholic beverages permitted on the grounds. Call the Blossom Concert Hotline at 566-9330. Remember this summer tor a lifetime don't drink and drive.

he Blossom Parents I ent is open tor special attractions Visit the Blossom Restaurant prior to all concerts. Classical Two internationally renowned vocalists will participate in the Cleveland Institute of Music's Art Song Festival this week. Dutch soprano Elly Ameling will offer a recital Monday at 8 p.m., and Swedish baritone Hakan Hagegard will give a concert Thursday at 8 p.m. For tickets, call the institute at 791-5165. Wild Ball EVERY NIGHT $1400 Jackpot $1000 GUARANTEED Plus Package deals, door prizes and snack bar.

Sponsored by Hillel Academy of Akron License 0035-34 The night belongs to Mchelob" Blossom Music Center 1145W Steels Corners Rd Cuvahoqa Falls OH 44223 Rosenberg.