The Philadelphia Inquirer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Page 39

fttb Inquirer SUNDAY September 16, 1990 ENTEKIMNMENT SECTION AND THE CULTURAL ARTS The orchestra begins its 91st season Tuesday, and Maestro Muti begins the end of his mission. But there is a new musical director-designate, Wolf gang Sawallisch, and guest conductors will be regarded as possible successors to the successor. V. Undertones of change I I By Daniel Webster Inquirer Music Critic Muti will conduct his first Puccini performance with the orchestra: "Tosca. verything changes and nothing changes as the Philadelphia Orchestra begins the season that will take it from an old decade to a new one.

mm i aaaaeriaiai Emmys: Who will capture the big ones? By Jonathan Storm Inquirer Stall Writer Television congratulates itself tonight with the annual three-hour Emmy orgy at 8 on Channel 29. It's the best awards show to watch on television (the industry would be pretty embarrassed if it weren't), even if Americans still seem to be more passionate about the Oscars. "Welcome to the '90s" is the theme of tonight's show, and Fox, which has used the Emmys as its showcase1 special for three years now, promises the usual thrills and chills in its live telecast from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in California. Veteran producer Martin Starger he invented the mini-series with QB VII in 1974 is in charge, and he promises to keep things up to date with fewer clips from old TV shows and a new approach to grouping the awards: by type of program (comedy, drama, variety) rather than by craft (directing, acting, writing). The big Emmys for best shows, actors and actresses will be presented last.

Awards for only 30 of the 76 prime-time Emmy categories will be awarded tonight. The others, in such obscure categories as "Single Camera Production Editing, Series," were given out last night. The hosts for this year's show are Jay Leno, Jane Pauley and Candice Bergen, who has a good chance to repeat as best actress in a comedy series. Presenters 'include everyone from James Earl Jones to the Simpsons, who will appear "live" through the wonders of technology even if the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, which gives out the Emmys, refuses to acknowledge that they're people and include their show among the other comedy series. To the academy, The Simpsons remains a cartoon show.

Winners are selected by members of the academy. Except for the three awards for outstanding comedy, drama and variety series and the three for top specials, all winners are selected by people who work in the same field. Actors vote for actors, hairstylists for hairstylists. Here's a brief rundown on what to (See EMMYS on 11-D) When it performs its traditional opening-night gala concert Tuesday, the orchestra will be starting its 91st season and music director Riccardo Muti his 11th. But although Muti's 10th season had the sense of a long, still-rising arc, his 11th is shadowed by his announced departure after the 1991-92 campaign.

His successor, Wolfgang Sawallisch, is already in the wings, and each of Muti's concerts, each innovation and premiere will bear the weight of historic importance his last performance of one composer or another, his final operatic series: The context will shift imperceptibly, inevitably, as Muti completes his 'mission of introducing American works, reviving important contemporary pieces overlooked here, honoring neglected composers, such as Cherubi-ni, Scriabin, Schubert and Varese. Although guest conductors formerly represented Muti's appraisal of available strength, they now will become auditioners, suitors for a prize to be awarded before the decade ends, when Sawallisch's successor is chosen. Nothing has changed; yet change will be seen in every orchestral event. Nothing has changed with the major ad iiirif ih trim it Carol Vaness will sing "Tosca" March 27 and 30 and April 5. i BILL KING Yo-Yo Ma is guest cellist with the orchestra Tuesday, opening night, in a program of Verdi, Saint-Saens and Brahms.

Riccardo Muti conducts. i i WW 4. iMtMM Kurt Masur will conduct tributes for the anniversary of Mozart's death. Index vance that Muti and the orchestra have been seeking. The proposed new concert hall, the symbol of progress for the city's cultural life and the orchestra's future, is still only a blueprint.

With no date for beginning, its completion date floats in the distance like a mirage as the hall awaits funding to bring it to reality. If the hall is static, the orchestra is not. Its season in the Academy of Music will be typically exploratory, and its Spring tour will take it to European cities, all but one closely identified with Mozart on his travels. In 1991, the world will mark the 200th anniversary of Mozart's death. The orchestra will play its commemoration from Jan.

24 to 29, when Sawallisch returns as guest conductor to lead the Symphony No. 41, the Divertimento in and the Horn Concerto No. 4 with David Wetherill. Elsewhere in the season, Muti will lead the Symphony No. 40 in a special televised concert Oct.

Kurt Masur will conduct Symphonies No. 29 and 38 and Piano Concerto No. with Emanuel Ax, Feb. 28 to March Christoph Eschenbach will conduct and be piano soloist in the Concerto No. 21, Nov.

29 to Dec. and Sir Neville Marriner will conduct the Mass in minor and Symphony No. 35, May 2 to 4. And Muti's final program before the tour, May 9 to 11, will include Mozart's Symphony No. 34.

In tandem with that long look back, the orchestra will look ahead by premiering the music of two women: Shulamit Ran, an Israeli composer working in Chicago, whose Symphony was commissioned by the orchestra, Oct. 19 to 23, and Augusta Read Thomas, an American in her 20s, whose Glass Moon will be heard Dec. 14 to 18. Daron Hagen's Symphony No. 1, Nov.

2 to 6, will also be premiered, as will Bernard Rands' Ceremonial for Orchestra, March 21 to 25, music to celebrate the centennial of Carnegie Hall in New York. Rands enters his second year as composer in residence with the orchestra. The orchestra will give its first performances of 15 other works, including Richard Wernick's Symphony No. 1, Sept. 27 to Oct.

Jacob Druckman's Brangle, Oct. 11 to 16; Shostako-(See ORCHESTRA on 12-D) Tha Philadelphia Inquirer AKIRA SUWA Music director-designate Wolfgang Sawallisch will conduct a commemoration in January of the 200th anniversary of the death of Mozart. Would-be successor Meryl Streep talks about her role in "Postcards From the Edge." At the movies. Page 2D. Last-minute changes by television stations update The Inquirer supplement TV Week, Page 11-D.

Going-out guide 8-D Radio 6-D Charles Dutoit will conduct three weeks of music. 10-D On movies 2-0 Recordings Neil Young goes his own! way with 'Ragged Glory' 'Fantasia' and its Phila. connection r. if jS.J.1 -J It was wonderful: This amazing, exciting adventure. It was a very difficult situation.

There were a lot of taxing moments. We got paid very well. We got almost nothing for it. We signed away our birthrights. I went right away to see it; I thought a lot of us would flock to see it.

I dont think anybody was awfully enthusiastic about it. I've never seen it. Philadelphia Orchestra members who made the soundtrack to "Fantasia" By Lesley Valdes Inquirer Music Critic Reminiscing about Fantasia Walt Disney and Leopold Stokowski's artful By Tom Moon Inquirer Popular-Music Critic In 1990, rock and roll boils down to an elaborate game of image management. Big, established acts sniff around for the smart marketing hook or the demographically astute social statement. Young bloods scramble to find any route to the top, and often abandon their originality by the side of the road.

Records from both camps are fine-tuned and fawned over until perfectly palatable and easily understood they fit snugly into the plan. Then there's Neil Young. He, too, is the subject of a marketing scheme one built around the rave reviews that have poured in for Ragged Glory, his new album and the first with Crazy Horse since Life, in 1987. In its review of the release, Rolling Stone crowned Young the king of rock and roll, an accolade his label, Reprise, is already trumpeting in its print ads. Young, 44, can't be unhappy with the notices he has received.

But the possibility of nabbing good quotes for an ad hardly served as his artistic motivation. Even the most cynical market research could not have hatched Ragged Glory, an album that runs contrary to every prevailing rock trend. Instead of political posturing, it is full of restless, philosophical love songs. Instead of polished perfection, it is distinguished by gloriously ragged guitar playing, raw rhythm-section kick, extended instrumental solos, and wavering vocals that risk sounding off-key and as a result sound refreshingly human. "Things have gone completely out ii uminiii i Walt Dianey Co.

Conductor Leopold Stokowski (left) with Walt Disney: Fifty years later, their joint effort is returning to theaters. Neil Young's latest album, "Ragged Glory," is his first with Crazy Horse since 1987. the window the way music is presented," Young said last month by phone, from a hotel near his Malibu ranch. "You've got people running around living Spinal Tap. People are making a fortune on this regurgitated stuff and calling it rock and roll.

They can shove their images. The only thing that matters is if it's really rocking. You can't fake that Young says he went "out of his way" to make sure the aptly titled Ragged Glory didn't fit any format. "We got down to the essence of it, playing music live in a room. It's not (See YOUNG on 11-D) 3 From the movie "Fantasia" Mickey Mouse as the Sorcerer's Apprentice in "Fantasia." original Philadelphia Orchestra soundtrack conducted by Stokowski, then the orchestra's co-conductor.

The restored film will be previewed Friday at 8 p.m. at the Oliie City Cinema to raise funds for the Curtis Institute of Music, is The new version will open Oct. 5 in selected cities, including Philadelphia, (See STOKOWSKI on 12-D) movie amalgam of cartoon imagery, Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky former members of the Philadelphia Orchestra sound like Maurice Chevalier and Hermione Gingold arguing in the duet from Gigt: "Ah, yes, I remember it well." Their memories are forgivably rusty. It has been 50 years, after all, since the movie's premiere an anniversary that the Walt Disney Co. celebrating with a restoration that includes a digital remastering of the The soundtrack for the movie was born in this city, and musicians here remember only too well its creation..