Star Tribune from Minneapolis, Minnesota • Page 28

July 26, 1983 Minneapolis Star and Tribune 8C Ensemble states contrasting styles clearly A review accused Tchaikovsky of being too inward. His music is direct and emotional, at times fevered, almost hysterical an invitation for conductors to sentimentalize, to drain every drop of emotion from the music. Happily, Fishman had his musicians played down the sentiment in the Serenade, without denying it altogether. The opening statement was broadly and deliberately but not rhetorically stated, and the rest was taken with fairly brisk tempos that allowed for a light, transparent texture with no loss of vibrato from the strings. By Michael Anthony Staff Writer Before an enthusiastic, neareapacity audience, the Minneapolis Chamber Symphony under the direction of Jay Fishman played the fourth of its five-concert season at Willey Hall Sunday night.

The guest soloist, playing the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat Major, was Richard Zgodava. Both of the large works on the program, the Mozart and the Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings, are easy to listen to but difficult to play. Both are deceptively simple. The Tchaikovsky is very familiar to us; its waltz movement can often be heard in elevators.

The Mozart, completed eight months before the composer's death and often seen as his farewell to life, is less commonly heard. It is perhaps too inward in its feeling, too understated, not enough of a showy virtuoso vehicle to suit most pianists. No one, on the other hand, ever TO MM The waltz, delivered in straightforward fashion, was especially delightful. And though there were a few blurred articulations in the violin parts in the third and fourth movements, the music, over all, was clearly and cleanly stated. It's a work, obviously, that profits from performance by a small orchestra.

And while there was an occasional ensemble flaw in the Mozart as well, the performance remained a poised, thoughtful statement of the music from both orchestra and soloist Zgo-dava's seemless, even-weighted pas-sagework, his delicate use of expressive shadings, his tasteful ornamentation of the spare second-movement solo part (where, at the piano, Mozart himself surely would have ornamented the part), all made for a probing, elevated account of what is considered one of Mozart's most spiritual scores. The concert opened with Twin Cities composer Carol Barnett's feisty, well-written little "Overture To a Midnight Spectacle." COLEMAN: Improvements evident fisT (i-I rV i Nancy Nelson, left the station last winter to become an anchor at a station in Los Angeles. Xim 1 a At 3rd 1 OOWNIOWN I OOWNIOWN mmu oaf newscasts. As reported earlier, those being considered for anchor spots include Susan Peterson, a former WCCO-TV reporter now with NBC, and Paul Magers, an anchor at a San Diego station. He is the brother of former KSTP-TV anchor Ron Magers.

It's possible that new anchors might also be selected for the station's 10 p.m. news report, replacing coanchors John Bachman and Cora-Ann Mihalik. Kirby also announced that WTCN has reached a new three-year contract agreement with veteran reporter Bernie Grace, whom Kirby described as the best TV reporter in the Twin Cities. The station has canceled its local talk show, "What's New," hosted by Warren Martin. The show, which had been pushed all over the WTCN schedule, was last seen (or rather, ignored) at 2 a.m.

Martin's cohost, Continued from page 1C Franzgrote and Kirby, who both came from Gannett-owned station KBTV in Denver, which dominates that city's news market, said they are aware of the challenge they face here in trying to turn Channel 11 into a viable competitor with Channels 4 and 5. When Gannett took over, they said, they found news cars that were falling apart, cameras that didn't work in cold weather and a news department that was understaffed and under funded. "Channel 11 has really never been a news station," Franzgrote told the press club. "We've been fighting a couple of giants with a BB gun." But Gannett, he said, is committed to turning that around in the belief that "the station that is No. 1 in news in the community is also the No.

1 citizen and the most successful and most profitable station." Good news for all of you who missed the royal wedding. Next month's lavish wedding of WCCO-TV's Pat Miles may make Chuck and Di's wedding look like a quick trip to a justice of the peace. Preparations for Miles's Aug. 27th wedding to salesman David Cowley reportedly will be the subject of a feature article in the August issue of Paul magazine. Sources close to the throne say upwards of 400 people will attend the wedding at the Minneapolis Basilica and the reception at the Minnesota Club in St.

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NOW. THE LOWEST OF ALL BRANDS. Warning: The Surgeon General Has Determined That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Your Health. FT3Vmg 9rng i I -mm 5 "1 I it 1 ZlUSL -I Kirby drew laughs by recalling that Gannett lured him to the Twin Cities by telling him he was going to get "a helluva opportunity in a market where they have some of the best TV in the country. What I didn't know was that it was at the other two stations, where they have two giant anchors, Dave Moore and Stanley Hubbard (president of KSTP)." But Kirby added that the station is determined you can tell Stanley I said that "our newscasts are going to be as good as theirs by the end of the year.

Our first job is to Improve quality and we're going to put good TV news on the air and people can choose what they want to watch. Channels 4 and aren't going to be the only choices anymore." Those are big promises but there's some reason to hope they'll pan out. WTCN's news shows, in this critic's opinion, have definitely become sharper, more competitive and more Informative in recent months: But a certain roughness remains that sometimes seems amateurish. The other day, for example, Paul Douglas, the station's new weatherboy, delivered this gem while summing up a hot-weather forecast: "The good news is that we're all invited to a free outdoor barbecue. The bad news is that we're going to be the barbecue-ees." Oooh, that smarts.

Things may improve now that WTCN has shuffled its news management Chuck Biechlin, formerly news director, has been moved aside and made news manager in charge of the station's physical plant, budget and special projects. Running the day-today news operation now Is Nick Lawler, formerly the deputy news chief of ABC's Los Angeles news bureau. The station also is' continuing a search for news anchors to handle the chores of its expanded 4 i a I ill VVi Mll WE MAKE WET BASEMENTS SUSY TOO WITH -ft. NO tranchinfj Mhf NOpkimMflf fnw NO nMvlfif pflrti IIWWNl Beaver Tar 100 Nobody does it lower. Now you can protect your basement from water seepage.

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