The Akron Beacon Journal from Akron, Ohio • Page 18

B2 The Beacon Journal Sunday, June 25, 1 989 I COMING ATTRACTIONS cannon and fireworks at Firestone Stadium) and Sousa's The Stars and Stripes Forever. Free. 'Don Giovanni' in Cleveland Lyric Opera Cleveland performs Mozart's Don Giovanni in English at 7 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday at the Cleveland Institute of Music, 11021 East Cleveland. Directed by Michael McConnell and conducted by Steven Larsen.

Tickets: $18 and $15.50, students, senior citizens and groups of 10 or more; $20 and $17.50, others (231-2910). Modified electric piano Keyboardist Richard Grayson plays improvisations and original works for electronically modified piano at 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Cleveland. Free. Concerts Akron Agora, 4193 State Road, Cuyahoga Falls.

Phone: 929-7123. Fabulous Thunderbirds, 9 p.m. Wednesday. Tickets: $14 and $13. Blossom Music Center, 1145 W.

Steels Corners Road, Cuyahoga Falls. Phone: 920-8040. Amy Grant, 8 p.m. Thursday. Tickets: $18.50 and $15.

Salem. Phone: 1-332-0044. Statler Brothers, 1 p.m. today. Tickets: $13 and $12.

'May Show' to open The Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East will open the 1989 May Show to the public on Wednesday. The exhibit in its 70th year is the major juried exhibit of works by artists and artisans of Ohio's Western Reserve and can be seen through Aug. 6. Cleveland art Also opening at the Cleveland Museum of Art Wednesday is Cleveland Art Comes of Age: 1919-1940, a companion exhibit to the May Show, one of the oldest and most respected of all local or regional juried exhibits. For more information, call 421-7340.

'Midyear Exhibition' The 53rd annual National Midyear Exhibition opens today at the Butler Institute of American Art, 524 Wick Youngstown. The exhibit, which can be seen through Aug. 20, features a juried section of 100 works In all paint media and an invitational section of paintings by established American masters. Cain Park, Lee Road and Superior Avenue, Cleveland Heights. Phone: 397-0697.

Oroboros, 8:45 p.m. Tuesday. Tickets: $4. Front Row Theatre, 6199 Wilson Mills Road, Highland Heights. Phone: 449-5000.

Larry Carlton-Stanley Jordon, 8 p.m. Thursday. Tickets: $17.75. Palace Theatre, 1511 Euclid Cleveland. Phone: 771-4444.

Dolly Parton, 7 30 p.m. Friday. Tickets: $32.50, $28.50 and $25.50. Peabody's DownUnder, 1059 Old River Road, Cleveland Flats. Phone: 241-2451.

Nitro, 9 p.m. Monday. Tickets: $5. Johnny Winter-Burnt River, 9 p.m. Tuesday.

Tickets: $13. The Tragically Hip, 9 p.m. Thursday. Tickets: $3. New Model Army, 9 p.m.

Friday. Tickets: $8. Saraya, 9 p.m. Saturday. Tickets: $9.

Phantasy Theatre, 11802 Detroit Lakewood. Phone: 228-6300. Robyn Hitchcock, 8 tonight. Tickets: $11. Hawkwind-My Dad Is Dead, 10 p.m.

Saturday. Tickets: $11.50. Ponderosa Park, 9362 Salem-Warren Road, five miles north of MUSIC Ohio Light Opera The Ohio Light Opera continues its 11th season this week at the College of Wooster's Freedlander Theatre: Jacques Offenbach's The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein at 2 today and Saturday and at 8 p.m. Thursday; Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates ot Penzance and Sullivan and Burnand's Cox and Box at 8 p.m. Tuesday and Saturday; Johann Strauss II's The Gypsy Baron at 2 p.m.

Wednesday; and Emmerich Kalman's Countess Maritza at 8 p.m. Friday. Tickets: $15 and $17 (263-2345). Freedlander Theatre is on University Street, Wooster. 'Picnic Pops' concerts The Akron Symphony Orchestra and music director Alan Baiter begin their series of "Picnic Pops" concerts at 8:30 tonight at Firestone Stadium, 1575 Firestone Parkway; 7:30 p.m.

Monday at Reservoir Park, 1735 Hillside Terrace; 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Perkins Square, West Exchange Street between Bowery and Locust streets; and at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Forest, Lodge Park, 260 Greenwood all in Akron. The program consists of Suppe's Poet and Peasant overture, 11 A is- I John Muriello in Gypsy Baron selections from Bizet's Carmen, Mozart's Toy Symphony, selections from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, a Beatles medley, excerpts from Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture (with RADIO WKDD wins at least a moral victory RADIO Dyer AduN Conttfnporafy 92.5-WDJOFM, Alliance 102. 1-WDOK-FM, Cleveland 570-WKBN-AM, Youngstcwn 600-WSOM-AM, Satem 930-WEOL-AM, Elyria 1040-WJTB, North Ridgevilte 1060-WRCW-AM.

Canton 1330-WELW-AM, Easttte 1330-WHOT-AM, Youngstown 1390-WFMJ-AM, Youngstown 1480-WHBC-AM, Canton 1520-WRQK-AM, Canton Big Bnd 80OCKLW-AM, Windsor, Ont 850-WRMR-AM, Cleveland 1340-WNCO-AM, Ashland 1380-WRKG-AM, Lorain Burinwt 1420-WHK-AM, Cleveland Reflgkm (Cont.) 104.9-WZLE-FM, Lorain 640-WHLO-AM, Akron 1000-WCCD-AM, Cleveland 1 150-WCUE-AM. Ojyahoga Falls 1260-WRDZ-AM Cleveland 1500-WGn-FM. Youngstown 1540-WABQ-AM, Cleveland Rock 92.3-WRQC-FM, Cleveland 93 7-WQIO-FM, Mount Vernon Akron New Phil 96.5- WKDD-FM, Akron 97.6- WONE-FM, Akron 100.7-WMMS-FM, Cleveland 101. 1-WHOT-FM. Youngstown 105.3-WYHT-FM, Mansfield 105.7-WMJI-FM, Cleveland 106.1-WVNO-FM, Mansfield 106.5-WLTF-FM.

Cleveland 106.9-WRQK-FM, Canton 107.9-WPHR-FM, Cleveland Urban Contemporary 93.1-WZAK-FM, Cleveland. 900-WBXT-AM, Canton 1490-WJMO-AM, Cleveland Country (Cont.) 105.1-WQXK-FM, Salem 990-WTIG-AM, Massilton 1140-WCLW-AM, Manstod 1220-WGAR-AM, Cleveland 1350-WSLR-AM, Akron Easy Uttering 94.1-WHBC-FM, Canton 98.9-WKBN-FM, Youngstown 104. 1-WQAL-FM, Cleveland 1310-WFAH-AM, Alliance ita 90 3-WCPN-FM, Cleveland 107.3-WNWV-FM, Elyrta tWMkSporti 100.1-WNIR-FM, Kent 1100-WWWE-AM, Cleveland 1240-WBBW-AM, Youngstown 1300-WEFf-AM, Cleveland 1590-WAKR-AM, Akron OWIw 98.5-WNCX-FM, Cleveland 960-WKVX-AM, Wooster 1520-WJMP-AM, Kent fMlglon 98. 1-WTOF-FM, Canton 103.3-WCRF-FM, Cleveland Of course, that is precisely what he said when he quit WKDD in January. Four days later, he turned up at WWWE.

This time, at least, Anthony went out in style, dumping weekday evening loudmouth Bruce Drennan in favor of Geoff Sinde-lar. It seems hard to believe now, but in the late 1960s, 75 percent of the radio listeners could be found on the AM dial. The FM band soon exploded, and by 1978, listenership was evenly split. By the mid-'80s, FM had become the location of choice for three out of four dial-pushers. The latest numbers won't make AM people feel any better: According to Statistical Research FM now controls 77 percent of the audience.

Former Cleveland radio per- sonality Don Imus, now at WFAN in New York (Pete Franklin's station), has signed a five-year contract for somewhere between $1.5 million and $2 million, according to trade publications. Obviously, anyone who says talk is cheap never worked in New York City. Baseball star-turned-progenitor Steve Garvey has taken a job as morning man on XTRA in San Diego, where he will launch a news-sports-entertainment talk show on Monday. Undoubtedly, he'll be forced to field a question or two about his suddenly legendary off-the-field record. Garvey's hiring has prompted radio pundits to suggest suitable shows for two other baseball stars: a Pete Rose sports hour called The La test Line and Wade Boggs' Pillow Talk.

897-WKSU-FM, Kent 95.5-WCLV-FM, Cleveland Country 99.5-WGAR-FM, Cleveland 101.3-WNCO-FM, Ashland 104.5-WQKT-FM, Wooster HIGHLIGHTS EVER YD A INCLUDING SATURDAY SUNDAY arefeatured on The Thistle and Shamrock on WKSU (89.7-FM). Wednesday 8 p.m.: Vladimir Ashkenazy leads the Cleveland Orchestra in music by Haydn, Stavinsky and Rachmaninoff on WKSU (89.7-FM). Thursday 9 p.ms The Billboard Classical Countdown, featuring selections from the current Billboard magazine chart of best-selling classical recordings, airs on WCLV Today 7 amj The group Simply Red joins Rick Dees on The Weekly Top 40 on WKDD (96.5-FM). 11 uiu Local gardening expert Conrad Piltz answers questions from listeners on WNIR (100.1-FM). 4 pmi Akron lawyer Tom Pitts fields legal questions on WNIR (100.1-FM).

8 pjtu The Atlanta Symphony, under the baton ot Yoel Levi, plays works by Strauss, Cantalobe, Ravel and Beetho-ven on WCLV (95.5-FM) fi p.rru Celtic flute and whistle playing ALL DAY CRUISE SAILING FROM SANDUSKY GOODTIME I 35-mile All Day Sightseeing Cruise to the LAKE ERIE ISLAND with liberal stopovers at both Put-In-Bay and Kelleys Island Adults: $19.50 Children: $9.50 Seniors $17.50 WKDD (96.5-FM) was celebrating last week, but doing it quietly. The Akron rock station has recaptured first place in the quarterly Birch ratings book. However, winning the Birch race is like winning a primary election: It beats losing, but it doesn't mean much unless you win the big one. The big one is still the Arbi-tron ratings book, which won't be out until next month. Arbitron, which relies on listener diaries rather than the phone interviews favored by Birch, remains more widely accepted among advertisers and agencies.

Still, many in the industry use Birch as a backup, for confirmation of Arbitron numbers or an arbiter for figures that look fishy. WMMS (100.7-FM) certainly would have enjoyed a third consecutive win in Akron's Birch, but had to settle for second, with 8.5 percent of the listeners, compared with 9.9 for WKDD. Third-place WONE (97.5-FM) is beginning to sound like a broken CD: It now has finished in the same position five straight times. Cleveland's WPHR (107.9) leaped from seventh place to fourth. Notice that the top four stations play rock music.

In a Beacon Journal survey made last year of markets similar in size to Akron, rock and black-oriented stations fared consistently better in the Birch ratings than in Arbitron. That, industry experts say, is because the type of people who listen to rock and black stations are less likely to take the time to fill out a diary. The rest of the springtime top 10: WNIR, WZAK and WAKR (tie), WLTF, WMJI and WGAR. Akron's newest station, WQMX (94.9-FM), had another dismal outing, placing 19th, with only 1.4 percent of the Summit and Portage listeners. Twenty-eight stations received enough votes to make it into the book.

In the important morning drive-time race, Matt Patrick of WKDD moved from fifth during the winter to first. He was followed by Adam and Bob of WAKR, then Jeff Kinzbach of WMMS. Daily 9:30 A.M. Free parking at Sandusky CHANNELS UPDATES TODAY In the age group treasured by advertisers 25 to 54 WMMS won, followed by WKDD and WMJI. Here's an example of the awesome power of talk-show host Stan Piatt: After receiving a postcard listing the new Beacon Journal telephone numbers, including the new fax number, the WNIR (100.1-FM) morning announcer went on the air and advised his listeners to bombard the newspaper's radio critic with faxes.

And just how many faxes rolled off the Beacon's machine? Two. Count 'em, two. And one of them was from Piatt himself. By the way, for those of you without the evil intent of a talk show host, the new direct phone line to the radio writer is 996-3580. The man who just bought Akron's WAKR and WONE, Philadelphia lawyer Ragan Henry, also has agreed to purchase a Texas station owned by preacher-voyeur Jimmy Swaggart.

That's WJOJ, an FM station near Houston. Henry will hand Swaggart $9 million. Wadsworth resident Nick Anthony has left his post as program director of WWWE (1100-AM) only five months after starting. He says he quit to devote all his effort to his growing consulting business. Between the consultancy and the WWWE job, he said, he was working the equivalent of two full-time jobs, and was also dealing with the long commute to Cleveland.

Bob Tayek, formerly of WEWS (Channel 5), has replaced him. Anthony said the day-to-day rigors of programming a station have become less and less Built for Ocean Travel 117 Feet Long 365 Passengers 1006 E. Strub Rd. Sandusky, OH 44870 1-800-446-3140 For Information and Reservations GOODTIME TRANSIT CRUSE 419-625-9692 $1 OFF ALL DAY CRUISE with this ad one coupon good for up to 4 people Bui Groups W4com-CHI For Rftservationa Call or writs (or BflOCHURE SPECIAL PACKAGE fm GROUPS series), Tempestt Bledsoe Cosby Show). Third annual awards, based on nationwide poll of children's favorites in movies, television, sports and music.

8:30 p.m. DeybyDayOEDEprian's college fraternity brother (George Wendt) visits. (TV Stereo) OBJ 9 8:00 p.m. America's Most Wanted CD Carl "Peanuts" Burns and Kimberly Edwards, who were found guilty in a Cleveland court of sexually abusing Edwards' 7-year-old daughter. They skipped town shortly before the jury returned its verdict.

10:00 p.m. Big Picture Show ffTV Summer movie edition. 10:30 p.m. Big Picture Show fiW Dennis Quaid: On Fire. Fabric Qp Fathers and child custody.

Midnight USA Today Director Spike Lee; comics and the movies; international white-water championships; collectibles; all-night radio for truckers. 1:30 a.m. Bill Dance Outdoors Depth control, speed control, tuning for crank bait. 3:00 a.m. TO Soccer: Colombia vs.

United States. 9:00 a.m. Sunday Morning EB IWTIrrl Efforts to stop ocean pollution; the Barnum Museum; pianist Saleem Aboud; art collection of industrialist Richard Manoogian; tribute to journalist I.F. Stone; windmills. 3:00 p.m.

Wimbledon '89 Preview 63 WE Martina Navratilova's preparation; Andre Agassi's decision not to play; grand slam winner Rod Laver; "ideal" doubles; changes in Soviet tennis. Hosts: Dick Enberg and Bud Collins. 9 4:30 p.m. Sport Sunday US World Boxing Organization light-heavyweight championship, Michael Moorer (14-0, 14 KOs) vs. Leslie Stewart (27-4, 18 KOs), from Atlantic City (Live); basketball, National Basketball Association draft preview (Tape).

7:00 p.m. Magical World of Disnay OQJfflMick- ey's 60th Birthday. Mickey disappears during the taping of his birthday special. LA. Law's Jill Eikenberry, Hooperman's John Ritter.

(TV Stereo) CJ 60 Minutes EH A Jewish lawyer represents Palestinians charged with terror-' ism against Israel; women nurses In Vietnam; British media mogul Robert Maxwell. 9 Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Co-hosts Wil Wheaton (Star Trek: The Next Generation fcUf GEORGIE SPECIALS XL Lf TUESDAY: PRIME RIB AO $850 SATURDAY: FILET MIGNON IM and SHRIMP Baked Potato. AfJ4 I cif jSEBSELBiBXH Madonna adds scent to new 4Like a Prayer' album By Mitel Gammon Cox News Sarvice This isn't Madonna's first fragrant impact. According to Ken Reddick, manager of the packag ing plant where the Like a Prayer York City's Fragrance Foundation. Scent acquired mass marketing prominence in the '80s, when perfumed inserts began accompa-.

nying magazine advertisements, she said. albums were infused with scent, Chanel No. 5 was applied to her earlier You Can Dance release. "It was Madonna's idea," said a publicist for Warner her record label. "She wanted to create a flavor of the '60s and the church.

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