Honolulu Star-Bulletin from Honolulu, Hawaii • 27

Thursday, September 3, 1987 Honolulu Star-Bulletirt B-J CAMPBELL: His recipe for set design different than designing for a stage production, antC your goals are different There's a distance betweenT3 the audience and the stage in a theatre, and in your home the TV performers are right on top of face to face. You'd better be friendly." NEWS: Stay tuned for more of it Cntinted from Page B-l more news. It takes mnnov am) Continued from Page B-l try to be reasonably sophisticated and restrained in design, and not beat people over the head. "Television is very intimate. The scale is a lot II i I a JTY PEN He writes Van-tastic7 songs tional hero, which had its premiere here in 1984.

It haS since been performed in the Philippines and in Europe. The Honolulu Brass commis sioned him last year to compose quintet for them, and "Divertiss ment for Brass Quintet" had its premiere in March at the Honolu-. lu Academy of Arts. He has re- cently completed "Symphonic-Variations," written for a full or chestra. "I hope Maestro Johanos will be interested in it, but I don't, push my work.

I wait until I am asked," Pena said. This same reticence extends tcC his work with the Cazimeros. In-them he recognizes enormous tal. ent but prefers to ignore their lack of technical knowledge of music. "One of them reads music but the other doesn't," he said.

3 "They have many they have beautiful melodies, and it is a challenge for me to arrange-for them without any instructions: except the tapes they ive me. -They are very good and I have to follow them, because they cant follow me." By Dean Sentul, Star-Bulletin KITV News Director Paul Udell says he has always wanted the additional newscasts. regarding music theory, and then you are asked to play for a judge. If you pass, you take three 3-hour written examinations, and if you pass them, you are then declared a licentiate of the London Royal Schools of Music," said Pena, adding that he passed everything on the first try. All of this was in preparation for a carefully thought out major move.

With his license, his compositions and his arrangements packed in his briefcase, and his double bass under his arm, Pena arrived in Honolulu as a tourist Lots of tourists travel with briefcases, but hardly anybody goes sightseeing with a bass fiddle. "I arrived here in 1969, and I auditioned for Maestro (Robert) LaMarchina and the Honolulu Symphony. He hired me, so I had to go to the immigration service and adjust my tourist status." Pena said. He became a U.S. citizen in 1977.

His compositions since then include "homage to Jose Rizal," the Philippines' most revered na- No. 1 network and "Wheel of Fortune," there are no plans afoot for change. "Sure, we've thought it for the past seven or eight years," shrugged Kent Baker, news director at KHON. "But we've been having such good success with our news as it is. It would require a major commitment of resources, too.

We're smarter to continue to do what we do well. It'll be an interesting fall watching what 4 and 9 are up to. "Besides, we have such huge numbers of people watching us that it carries over to Tom Brokaw and the NBC News, and we give 'Wheel of Fortune' a leg up also by giving them an enormous audience." He sounded pretty sure of Continued from Page B-l so I'm not free to reharmonize." Last week, the Starlight Pops concert featured Shari Lynn and Jimmy Borges singing songs by George Gershwin. This, Pena said, was easier to arrange. "They gave me the printed melody by Gershwin, and from there I was free to employ my own style.

I like to use chords that aren't expected to occur where they do. I like some elements of surprise by using counterpoint and rhythmic variations," Pena said. "Being a classical composer, I use classical devices in pop music. I think it enhances the performance as long as the instrumentation is kept in character. By that I mean that I wouldn't put a trumpet in a passage that is sad music because trumpets are for pompous, happy music.

You use a violin in a romantic or a sad passage." Much of this, Pena said, comes from the best teacher of all, experience. But most of it comes from the many books he read in his self-taught study of music. Now 66, Pena was introduced to music as a child growing up in a suburb of Manila, Philippines. His father played the violin, his mother studied voice. "I played the ukulele when I was young, and by the time I was 19, 1 was a professional musician.

I was playing guitar and doing arrangements for a dance band in Manila. At the same time I was playing double bass with the Manila Symphony Orchestra. Then I joined a Jazz group in Tokyo and later played in a dance band at the Hong Kong Hilton." While he lived in Hong Kong, Pena put all he knew about music together and took the examinations of the London Royal Schools of Music. The Royal Schools of Music take the exotic stand among music schools it isn't how long you've studied, but what you've learned that earns a diploma. "Americans do not understand this, although Europeans do.

The preliminary examination is oral, commitment, and the new owners (who arrived officially in April) believe in it When I met them I asked where does news stand, and they said Number One! As your news goes, so goes the image of your station. "Let's face it, we're with a network that's in the dumps right now. In the context of news, we can fight back. There are plenty of ABC stations out there Chicago that are number one in their market We can control our own destiny to some degree. "And it's not just dollars.

We bad to think of ways to redefine what news is, and we had to find the bodies to fill the slots. I can't promise you any blockbusters, because several of our new people have never done TV before. But it will be interesting." I At KGMB, they're practicing the new newscast this week. "We hit the air for the first time (Tuesday) and it went pretty well, I thought," Manke said. "It was in effect, a closed-circuit newscast within the station.

We taped it so we can look at it and make our modifications before we go on the air The news at 5 p.m. will have its own set, while that at 6 and 10 will still come from the newsroom. The 5 o'clock will basically be four segments. The first will be a reviews of the top stories of the day, usually local. It all depends on what happens that day.

We'll tease to stay tuned for more details in later newscasts. "The second part will be background on the news, perhaps even bringing in guests. There will be a conversation area away from the newsdesk. Later, we may have phone lines where people can call in questions to guests. "The third part will be light CHOKING Continued from B-l 3.

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To features and sports with Dash (Howard Dashevsky). These won't be scoreboard sports; our goal is to be non-traditional. "The fourth part will be full-on features, celebrities and stuff like that Then it's a bye-bye and lead to (Bob) Jones at 6. We're calling it "Live at Five" and it's really Linda's show. Not to downgrade Gary (Sprinkle), who's co-anchoring, but Linda's really busted her buns for the station.

This will give her the opportunity to get out there and do some different things." KGMB is also moving up the Saturday and Sunday newscasts to 5 p.m., and later this month dropping the game show following the news. Starting Monday, Sept. 14, KITV's shedule will go like this, basically. There will be a half -hour noon news hosted by Leesa Clark. At 5 p.m., Paul Udell will preside over a half -hour local, at 5:30 the network ABC News goes on, and then at 6 p.m.

Tina Shelton anchors another half-hour local news. At 10 p.m., another half-hour of local news wraps up. Udell said the local half-hours will "vary considerably in the way they present the news. "The six o'clock will be pretty traditional. Hard news.

Nina Berg-land will have a business report, I think. But 5 o'clock will be more informal, almost a debriefing of the reporters. A 'what does this type of news. Some of it will be wry, some whimsical. There will be some commentary, which I'll be doing.

"We wanna be the news station in town, and we're gonna be the news station in town." At KHON, riding high with a TV news ratings in dead heat Associated Press NEW YORK The evening news competition was a virtual dead heat last week, with NBC the winner at 10.0, followed by ABC at 9.9 and CBS at 9.8. A week earlier, NBC had exactly the same rating but beat ABC by a full point and CBS by 1.1. Each rating point represents one percent of the nation's 87.4 million homes with television sets. i.O; Kdilua 261 9103 i Steven Spielberg Dresenta MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 with PRIZES PRIZES PRIZES No Purchase See Display At All Participating Burger Kings 9S FT i i. 10PM I I PLUS St 1:15 P.M.

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