The Akron Beacon Journal from Akron, Ohio • Page 102

H2 The Beacon Journal Sunday, April 2, 1989 COMING ATTRACTIONS Hall, Center and Hill streets, Akron. Tickets: $6, students and senior citizens; $8, others (375-6188). Mendelssohn and Strauss Principal guest conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy leads the Cleveland Orchestra at 8 p.m. Thursday and at 8:30 p.m. Saturday at Severance Hall, 11001 Euclid Cleveland.

On the program are Mendelssohn's Fair Melusine overture, Schubert's Symphony No. 3 and Richard Strauss' Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life). Tickets: $14 to $29. (800) 686-1141. MUSIC 'Pearl' in Cleveland Cleveland Opera performs Georges Bizet's Les Pecheurs de Perles (The Pearl Fishers) at 2 today at the State Theatre, 1519 Euclid Cleveland.

Tickets: $15 to $35. Call (800) 492-6048. Colorado foursome The Colorado Quartet performs works by Haydn, Shostakovich and Schubert at 4 today at the Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Geveland. With cellist Shauna Rolston. Free.

Haydn at Canton The Canton Symphony Orchestra and Chorus perform under the baton of music director Gerhardt Zimmerman at 7:30 tonight and at 8 p.m. Monday at McKinley High's Umstattd Hall, 2323 17th St. N.W., Canton. The to the memory of the late chorus director, Jeffrey H. Brandes, consists of Haydn's Mass No.

7 (In Time of War) and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10. Tickets: $9, $11, $14 and $16 (452-2094). Akron Choir recital The University of Akron Concert Choir, led by Edward Maclary, performs at 8 p.m. Tuesday at Akron U's Guzzetta Recital Hall.

Works by Debussy, Britten, Barber and Brahms. With pianist Elizabeth Merritt. Free. Pianist, wind quintet Noted American conductor Dennis Russell Davies appears as pianist with the Stuttgart Wind Quintet at 8 p.m. Tuesday at Fairmount Temple Auditorium, 23737 Fairmount Shaker Heights.

The quintet, on its first North American tour, performs Mozart's Quintet for Piano and Winds, Bouliane's Jeux de societe, Hindemith's Kleine Kammermusik and Poulenc's Sextuor for Piano and Winds. Tickets: $4, students; $11, others (531-7094). Guitarist at Akron Guitarist William Carter, assistant professor of music at Pennsylvania State University, performs early music and 19th century works at 8 p.m. Thursday at Akron U's Guzzetta Recital THEATER 'Dolls' at Quaker Nesting Dolls, a play based on the life of a woman who overcame a multiple-personality disorder, will be presented at 8:30 p.m. Friday in the Quaker Square Hilton Main Ballroom.

The play is sponsored by the Akron General Medical Center's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Tickets are $4 and $6. For information, call 384-6525. Music documentary Faith Journey A Musical Memory of Martin, a musical-theater documentary on the life of Martin Luther King will be presented at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the John S.

Knight Auditorium on the University of Akron campus. Tickets are $6 general admission and $4 for students. The musical is sponsored by the university's Black Cultural Center. Cast your vote on whodunit A murder mystery in which the audience votes on the outcome, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, will be staged at 8 p.m. Tuesday at E.J.

Thomas Performing Arts Hall, Center and Hill streets, Akron. Tickets are $17 and $22. The box-office number is 375-7570. 'Somewhere' in Barberton In a Room Somewhere, a play for children that takes a look at how youngsters are influenced by adults, opens Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Magical Theatre Company's Park Theater, 565 W.

Tuscarawas Barberton. The play will be staged at 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through April 23. For ticket information, call 848-3708. 'Bovver Boys' in Cleveland The Bower Boys opens at 8 p.m.

Tuesday at the Geveland Play House's Brooks Theatre, 8500 Euclid Ave. The play will be staged at 8 p.m. Tuesdays through Thursdays, 8:30 p.m. Fridays, 4:30 and 8:30 p.m. Saturdays, and 2:30 p.m.

Sundays through April 30. Gospel musical The gospel musical Don't Get God Started opens at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the State Theatre in Geveland's Playhouse Square, 1519 Euclid Ave. The musical will be staged at 8 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday; 3 and 7:30 p.m.

next Sunday; and a 2 p.m. matinee Saturday. Ticket prices range from $9.30 to $21.50. The box office number is (800) 492-9696. HART Cuyahoga Valley photos The Akron Art Museum, 70 E.

Market will open to the public an exhibit, The Cuyahoga Valley: Photographs by Robert Glenn Ketchum, on Saturday with a gala opening reception in honor of the artist from 5 to 8 p.m. Tickets are $17.50 per person for museum members ($20 for non-members). The museum commissioned Ketchum to do the series in 1986. The results, 48 large-scale, Cibachrome photographs of the recreation area, can be seen through June 11. Concurrent with that exhibit is Ansel Adams: A Selection of Classic Images, 23 black-and-white photographs by the F-64 master drawn primarily from the collection of Mr.

and Mrs. Richard W. Gessner of Massillon. For more information, call the museum at 376-9185. Retrospective at Butler Today from noon to 4 p.m.

The Butler Institute of American Art, 524 Wick Youngstown, will open The Huey Lee Smith Retrospective Exhibition. Smith, a Geveland-born black artist whose work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Carnegie Institute of Art, is having his first retrospective. A gallery talk on the artist will be held 1 p.m. May 7 by area artist and art educator Al Bright. The show can be seen through May 18.

For more information, call the museum at 743-1711. Toledo exhibit Expressions of Belief: Masterpieces of African, Oceanic and Indonesian Art from the Museum voor Volkenkunde, Rotterdam will open today in Toledo for a six-week stay at the Toledo Museum of Art. The exhibit of more than 100 excellent examples of tribal art can be seen through May 14. For more information, call the museum at (419) 255-8000. Concerts Agora, 4900 Euclid Geveland.

Phone: 431-0110 Celtic Front, 9 p.m. Saturday. Tickets: $9 Coliseum, 2923 Streetsboro Road, Richfield. Phone: 867-8910 R.E.M.Indigo Girls, 8 p.m. Thursday.

Tickets: $18.50 Front Row Theatre, 6199 Wilson Mills Road, Highland Heights. Phone: 449-5000 Gallagher, 7:30 tonight. Tickets: $17.75 Ronnie MilsapPatty Loveless, 8 p.m. Friday. Tickets: $17.75 Palace Theatre, 1511 Euclid Geveland.

Phone: 771-4444. Bangles, 7:30 p.m. Monday. Tickets: $15 John PrineDave Mason, 7:30 p.m. Thursday.

Tickets: $15 Peabody's DownUnder, 1059 Old River Road, Geveland Flats. Phone: 241-2451 Go BetweensA House, 9 p.m. Tuesday. Tickets: $8 DANCE Dance 'Essays' Ohio Ballet performs artistic director Heinz Poll's new Essays (set to music by David Sanborn) at performances at 8 p.m. Friday and at 2 and 8 p.m.

Saturday at E.J. Thomas Hall, Center and Hill streets, Akron. Also on the programs are Poll's Games (music by Mozart), Summer Night (music by Chopin) and Laura Dean's Patterns of Change (music by Philip Glass). Tickets: $9 to $18 (375-7570). WKDD tinkers with three important time slots comes the midday talk host.

And when it comes to country, you can't get much more contemporary than WGAR. RADIO I Bob Hd) Dyer native of Cincinnati who most recently headed KOY in Phoenix. In conjunction with that move, WGAR has hired perhaps the most well-known consultant in country radio, Rusty Walker, who specializes in contemporary Yet another area station has a new man calling the shots. Country entry WGAR (99.5-FM1220-AM) has inked programmer Denny Nugent (no relation to Ted), a WMJI (105.7-FM), known as Majic, calls its station basketball team the Majic Johnsons. BSE B.1 SEWEi I lA7l Mf ID) SMfE of Trapper Jack Elliott at WLTF (106.5-FM).

And, like many contemporary disc jockeys and comedians, he seems to have adopted some David Letterman mannerisms. Musically, Chase plans to deliver a package that is "not nearly as light at WLTF or as oldies-based as WMJI," his two main light-rock competitors. Like most of the rest of the broadcasting world, Chase says he is shooting for listeners age 25 to 54. Interim morning man Bill Miller, a holdover from WDBN (the easy-listening station that died in August when WQMX was born), has become a part-time fill-in. Miller is a nice guy who works hard, but in the Mix 95 morning slot he sounded like a veteran easy-listening jock on fast-forward.

Which is what he was. Chase and his family wife Cindy, who is finishing up as a teacher at a Montessori school in Houston, and 20-month-old daughter Sara have rented a 21-acre farm in Copley Township. The new morning man says it will take him two or three weeks to get the show where he wants it. Then, he vows, look out: "It's new and different. It's not dirty.

It's going to be real funny, it's going to be informative, but mostly it's going to be Akron." On April 10, loudmouth Gary Dee will vanish from the WWWE (1100-AM) midday spot. Before you start celebrating, read the next line: He's moving to afternoon drive-time. Although Dee's recent ratings haven't set any records, the station's afternoon numbers have been atrocious. WWWE has canned afternoon co-host Tom Bush and is moving his former partner, Bob Becker, to morning news host. Former morning voice Bob Fuller be- If it ain't broke, as Bert Lance so eloquently put it, you normally don't fix it.

But WKDD (96.5-FM) the top-rated Akron station for six 'consecutive ratings books has hauled out its tool chest. With the full support of General Manager Dick Lumenello, new Program Director Jeff Gark is revamping the station's three most important time slots. First, as was reported last week, Clark tinkered with the morning show by bringing back Matt Patrick sidekick Steve French. But that's nothing com- pared to what happens Monday. At 2 p.m., Dancin' Danny Wright will boogie into WKDD's afternoon drive-time spot.

The "previous tenant, Eric Cramer, has been sent packing because he was unwilling or unable to change his lounge-lizard delivery. (WKDD let him down softly, with three months' severance pay.) And, also as of Monday, programmer Gark is installing himself in the midday spot, formerly held by Doc Reno. The Doctor was asked to make his house calls at the morgue at least radio's equivalent, the a.m. shift. But he balked, and by Friday had negotiated his Jway out of his contract, Because of Reno's departure, lovernightweekend man J.R.

Richards who had been destined to join Cramer in the "job wanted" ads gets a reprieve. Although WKDD's numbers re-jmain strong, the station has gotten a bit stale, Lumenello said. "We need a little shot in the arm, "some additional visibility." He expects Wright to provide much of it. Wright, whose list of former Employers must surely have Reached three or four typed pages -by now, most recently was blown iut at WWWE (1000-AM), where Je had teamed up in the after- MANY OF OUR POPULAR NO-WAX, SELF-STICK DESIGNS ARE GREATLY REDUCED. noon with comedian Tom Bush.

However, Wright undoubtedly is still best known for his work at the late WGCL. After seven months of looking, Akron's WQMX (94.9-FM) has finally found its morning man. He's Brian Chase, who's also the new program director. With Chase's arrival last Monday, the "Mix 95" show became much more talk-filled which area listeners seem to want in the morning and now includes far more production elements. The airborne traffic reporter, for instance, gives her highway assessments with the Beatles' Drive My Car booming in the background.

The station ID's are bright and brassy, the on-air promos far more compelling. "We wanted to do a 'personality' morning show," Chase said a couple of days after taking to the airwaves, "but obviously, we didn't want to duplicate all the other morning shows." The differences? He won't gab for as long as the other jocks and "there won't be much blue humor. That's pretty prevalent now." Chase arrives from Houston, where he was morning man, program director and operations manager for a rock oldies station that ranked 11th in the nation's lOth-largest market. Despite tours of duty not only in Houston but Tulsa and New Orleans, Chase doesn't have even a hint of a Southern accent. He's a native of St.

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