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LOS ANGELES TIMES Saturday, February i6, 1991 SD SATURDAY LETTERS jSjCStSSICAL MUSIC KENNETH HERMAN A Challenge to the Agendas of Troop-Tribute Organizers I';" Defending Newman's Song Sullivan to Take Early Retirement Times Theater Critic Dan Sullivan is taking early retirement after 22 years at The Times to write and teach in the Twin Cities, where he began his career as a critic in the early 1960s. Sullivan has been on a personal leave of absence since last year. He is finishing a biography of the American playwright William Inge, "Dark at the Top," to be published by William Morrow Inc. in 1993. Sullivan also will teach arts reviewing arid reporting at the University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

He will serve as an adviser to the Center for Arts Criticism in St. Paul. And he will continue his summertime teaching at the Eugene O'Neill Foundation's National Critics' Institute in Water-ford, Conn. Timing Is AlHmportant to Anne-Sophie Mutter According to violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, everything is a matter of timing. Choosing the right concerto to play, constructing a recital tour, taking a sabbatical.

Timing is a subject on which Mutter should be an expert, since timing and the Pates have been particularly beneficent to the 26-year-old classical music superstar. The native of Rheinfelden, Germany, started playing the violin at age 5 and won her first competition at age 6. At 13, she was discovered by the late Herbert von Karajan, with whom she subsequently performed and recorded frequently. She has amassed a discography of 15 recordings, including the staples of the violin concert repertory, and has already made her debut with most of the world's major orchestras. If she has accomplished in a few years what other aspiring performers only hope to do in a lifetime, Mutter cautiously keeps self-satisfaction at bay.

"Success is all relative, and a musician has to keep a cool head Re Chuck Philips' "Voices That Care" (Feb. 6), about the musical tribute to the armed forces in the Persian Gulf organized by David Foster and Linda Thompson Jenner: Philips writes that participants were asked to "check their political agendas at the door." Don't Foster and Jenner realize that by organizing the recording session they are declaring their political agendas? Jenner is quoted as saying that they simply want to show their gratitude to those "laying their lives on the line for our freedom." She does not explain how the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait threatens our freedom. Similarly, Foster eschews "causes" and claims he is only expressing his concern for "living, breathing individuals." The only way to ensure that they keep on living and breathing is to bring them home now! And the only person who can do that is George Bush. If Foster and Jenner are really interested in the welfare of the Americans in the Persian Gulf, I suggest they organize a recording session calling for immediate American withdrawal. TERESA HUDSON Bakersfield In response to Feb.

9 letter writer Llewellyn Moses, who was viciously critical of Randy Newman and his anti-war song, "Lines in the I would like to suggest that it is Moses who is out of line in referring to Newman as "anti-American." It is, instead, "anti-American" to deny another American his or her opinion. What if Saddam Hussein also believes as Moses does e.g., "My country right or ARTIE KANE Los Angeles '1900' Soundtrack Kevin Thomas' Feb. 1 review of the restored "1900" gives readers the impression that this version of Bernardo Bertolucci's film has been redubbed into English. In fact, "1900" was conceived as a joint EnglishItalian production using American, Italian and other actors speaking in their native tongues during shooting. Parts of each scene were then redubbed into Italian or English as required.

Please see LETTERS, F12 about himself and the development of a career. I force myself to keep a good balance between destructive self-criticism and maintaining the illusion that my music is something significant." This week, Mutter embarked on her third North American recital tour, which will bring her to San Diego's Civic Theatre on Thursday night. She spoke from her hotel in Boston, where she was preparing Bartok's Second Violin Concerto and the American premiere of Norbert-Eloi Moret's "En R'eve" with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Thursday's Civic Theatre performance will mark Mutter's first il JlfJ. JJJ.V .1 4.

INUIIL'J II. IJ.LJJJ "FUNNY AND -Larry Frascella, US MAGAZINE ROBERT DENlRO ROBIN WILLIAMS iimaiaEBiEnvMiiirai Anne-Sophie Mutter "It's a fun movie, and a wise one as and extremely enjoyable Tom jambs, 10s angeies daily news WAKENINGS Based On A True Storv PG-13 NOW SHOWING AT THESE SAN DIEGO THEATRES Mann UNIVERSITY TOWNE CENTER 4525 La Jolla Village Drive La Jolla 452-7766 Mann VALLEY CIRCLE 5040 Mission Center Rood Mission Valley 297-3931 recital appearance here, although she soloed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic on one of its Civic Theatre visits a couple of seasons ago. For her Thursday recital, Mutter has chosen all three Brahms Violin Sonatas. "It's not an easy program for the public. There's no quick fix in Brahms.

I thought an evening devoted to sonatas would make a serious statement." Mutter quickly added that the program is not easy for her and her accompanist, Lambert Orkis, either. When asked why she selected the serious all-Brahms program, she explained that she had brought more varied fare on her two previous U.S. recital tours and felt audiences were ready for heavier works. "The first one was kind of popular, with well-known selections such as Beethoven's 'Spring' Sonata arid Tartini's 'Devil's Trill' Sonata. The second was a little more daring and more exciting for me.

It included the Debussy Sonata and Witold Lutoslawski's Partita." Mutter's advocacy of music by contemporary composers such as Lutpslawski is unapologetic. She sees it as her duty as a musician to bring new music to the public's attention. "It's important for the public to get to know something besides the standard repertory. Even if an audience doesn't enjoy all of a contemporary work, if the music has a strong emotional content which the Lutoslawski clearly has there are little islands which they can enjoy even on a first hearing." When pressed on details concerning her planned sabbatical from performing, Mutter explained thatitwouldbejustan eight-month hiatus at the end of the 1991-92 concert season. "I decided to take that sabbatical period off five years ago.

After PiMJ'ears of concentrating on concerts and learning new works, it the right time. I wanted to avoid getting too one-sided as a 2-hJunan being. So I simply put it into my schedule." The sabbatical will give her time to "enjoy a normal life and read She will not, of course, put down her violin, but will use 3h? time to learn new repertory, especially pieces that have been "Syritten and dedicated to her. Mad right hr In Hi neighborhood. AMC WIEGAND PLAZA 6 220 North El Camlno Real Enclnltos 942-5544 Edwards CAROUSEL 1868 East Valley Pkwy.

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"TWO THUMBS UP FOR THIS ROUSING 'White Fang' is a great family film that is exciting and adventurous. It's more grip BEST SCREENPLAY (Wntlen Direcify fcx the Screen) 2J "Maybe it just laziness, she said coyly. Besides, it much too 3iaijgerous." "IF YOU LIKED 'PRETTY WOMAN', GIVE 'GREEN CARD' A TRY. ping than Dances With Wolves. RUN, DON'T WiLK, TO THE NEAREST THEATRE PLAYING lA" wiiimmiNij." Talmi on celeste.

San Diego Symphony music director Yoav Talmi will reveal another side of his musical personality next week when he joins several orchestra musicians in the Mozart Prelude Concerts at Copley Symphony Hall (Feb. 21-24). Talmi will make his debut on the celeste in a pair of Mozart works originally written for the now-obsolete glass armonica. ''I think it's important both for the players of the orchestra as well as for the public to see the orchestra's music director collaborate with orchestra members in performance. It adds collegial feelings when I play with members of the orchestra," Talmi explained.

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Symphony on disc. Music director Yoav Talmi has announced the repertory for the symphony's second classical recording, an all-Brahms disc to be recorded in January, 1992. (The orchestra's first disc with Pro Arte, the complete Third Symphony of Reinhold Gli'ere, will be made this May. In his search for unusual repertory the local orchestra is not quite ready to compete with the plethora of Brahms Symphony recordings on the market Talmi has selected three unusual Brahms transcriptions. The symphony will play Dvorak's transcription of "Five Hungarian Dances," Talmi's own transcription of the B-flat String Sextet, Op.

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The two singers will join in duets from Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro" and "Cosi Fan Tutte." Weaver will sing the song cycle "Four Songs by Langston Hughes" by Jean Berger, and McLaren will perform traditional spirituals. The program is part of West Coast Lyric Opera's regular recital series of promising local singers. MT DISNEY PICTURES. JACK LONDON'S "WHITE FANG" KLAUS MARIA BRANDAJJER ETHAN HAWKE MsX JACK LONDON SXSMIKE LOBELL ANDREW BERGMAN 'JEANNE ROSENBERGNICK THIEL DAVID FALLON POWELL RANDAL KLEISER SILVER SCREEN PARTNERS IV I AUC-TV, GOOD MOHNlNCi AMKRICA, Jotl Skjtl 2-WOK-TV, NEWVOHK, Pil Colllni 3 NEW WOMAN, Brurt Wllllimwo 4 ROIJJNfJ STONE, Vtler TVivm 5 -SNEAK PREVIEWS, Mkhitl Mtdxd fl KCBS-TV, Sim Kmrllui HIIIHIIUIIIHIIIIIII' I PG I PAflOfTAL GLHOAHCE SLffigSTlul 'SSllMlllllll HOLLYWOOD WHTL0SAKa5 UUXIWIDWHEAO Sochi BM Jay (714)337-0404 For the Record Mutter concert Violinist Anne-'Sophie Mutter's San Diego recital 4PAL0S routs Krihrtn Peninsula 9 5444456 tflJEHTEHUS AMCFUalO was incorrectly listed in Friday's edition. She will perform at 8 p.m.

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