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Uphold yir vk. XV 5r rv en music foli -i sHi w. in a SAM'S PSALM, Sam Waters-ton, the current Hamlet about town (with the N.Y. Shakespeare Festival), will be guest narrator in a performance of Honegger's symphonic psalm, "King David," at the Church of Our Savior, 38th and Park Jan. 19 at 7:30.

The program also includees "Trois Psaumes" of Honegger, sung by baritone John Ostendorf, and the whole concert is accompanied by a chorus and orchestra directed by Johannes Somary. Admission is free. EIGHT DIAGONAL ALPHABETS by Brenda Miller is what youll see at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 75th Mad. through tomorrow. You can also view the drawings and diagrams used for these alphabets.

GUITAR AND GUDRUN. Guitarist Michael Newman plays works by Baroque and Spanish composers at the Spanish Institute, 684 Park Jan. 23 at 8. On Jan. 25 at 8:30, he'll play in Carnegie Recital Hall where he'll be joined by violinist Gudrun Schaumann, playing Paganin-ni's Sonatas for Violin and Guitar.

MAN AND MYTH. Poet Dylan Thomas spent several years in New York at the Chelsea Hotel on W. 23d SO -J a CABARET TALK. Lotsa action next week. Tomorrow, Count Basie brings his big, brassy and oh-so-danceable band in for a one-nighter at the Riverboat for a Jazz Interactions set.

He'll play for dancing or listening; either -way, it's sure to be a pleasure. On -Monday, Tony Wil-l'ams will open a three-day stint at the Bottom Line. Tuesday brings lots of goodies, starting- with the stylish Sylvia Sims, in for two weeks at the Cafe Car-lyle; Red Norvo brings his well-tempered virbaharp to Michael's Pub for four sa-maines. Composer Louis St. Louis will play and sing plenty of his own work during the week he'll have the stage at Reno and Michael Greer, a very funny fellow, starts a two-weeker at the Grand Finale.

Jane Olivor will join him the first week, Kathy Light the second. Wednesday had the Town Hall Interludes, an hour show beginning at 5:45, which features Barbara Carroll and trio plus trumpeter Richard Sudhalter (author of "Bix" a biography of Bix Bieder-becke); in the evening-, Ronny Whyte and Travis Hudson are at Brothers and Sisters Travis will be moonlighting from her role in "Very Good Eddie," just up the street. GUMPERT GUMS IT. Boston-born soprano Dorothy Gumpert, publicized as one who began the study of voice at an age when most people give it up, gives a recital of songs and arias at Carnegie Recital Hall tomorrow at 5:45. JUMPING JAVA.

Stephanie Woodward gives a lecture-demonstration on Javanese classical court dances this Monday at 8:30 in the American Theater Library, 219 W. 19 St. BICENTENNIAL BRASS. The Empire Brass Quintet of Boston University makes its N.Y. debut at Carnegie Recital Hall tomorrow at 3 with a Bicentennial-inspired program.

On the next evening at 8, the American Brass Quintet will perform a similar Don't risk 'Las Vegas" bef ry; 4 Comissiona: The twain parts this concerto like India's population "problem, seemed interminable. The concert opened with Ernest Bloch's negligible "Proclamation for Trumpet and Orchestra," and ended with Saint-Saens Third Symphony, whirh was far and away the best music on the program. The orchestra played exceedingly well, and Comissiona was particularly affecting in the lovely slow movement (as was Donald Sutherland's well-attuned registration on the Rodgers Organ), but otherwise the performance was curiously subdued. FORTHE 93nl 1 r. mows 110E.14thSLGR7486O FASCINATING MUSICAL!" Waffs, Pool HE MAGIC SHO "A RroaHitatrinit Muciral rR-TV FOR GROUP SALES ONLY CALL 757-92M CORT THEATRE 138 W.

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Too Lad, for the sitar has tremendous potentiality as a solo instrument in a Western framework. Its range of color and note could give a knowledgeable composer a field day in writing an exciting work, but Shankar, for all his expertise as a soloist, wasn't able to make these two schools jell into anything really nieaningful. The sitar plays and plays, anl most of the time the orchestra, barring a few swoops on the harps, just doodles. It's in four lenghty, generally slow movements, each of -which sounds too much like its neighbors. Shankar, of course, played Tiis own music presumably flawlessly, and Comissiona accompanied (if that's the word) with considerably more animation than Andre Previn did for the Angel recording, but for most of its three-quarter-hour playing time, ONE OF THE FUNNIEST PLAYS IN YEARS." Rex Red.

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Admission is free. TUBA SIX. J. Lesley Varn-er will be featured artist in the sixth of a series of 10 tuba recitals given in Carnegie Recital Hall tomorrow at 8:30. TRIO TREAT.

Guitarist Laurie Ttandolph, flutist Ann Randolph and pianist Bill Wolfram play free concert at the Donnell Library Center Jan. 26 at 7. Army knife and slipping into the last row. It's that kind of movie one that asks you to believe that the best way into the penthouse of a hotel is to climb a rope up the brightly-lighted front of the hotel at the shank of the evening. I left by the djor.

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At Flagship Theaters. "Las Vegas Lady," a caper picture about stealing money from a crook who won't be able to holler cop, sneaked into the area yesterday without any advance screenings. Your vigilant critic followed it. I did it by taking the train to Jamaica, walking back to Manhattan on the tracks, climbing the RCA building using my pocket alpinist's kit, swinging down to ihe Rivoli theater, removing the roof with my Swiss Isn't cw-uul fit program of American works. Oood knight! 3 3815 -rWOe.

tf4TtA Yep. That's Tony Curtis saving the kingdom's honor, while nearly murdering its language in an epic entitled For the answer. dI us a whole legion of lost scenes (with good reason) featuring Hollywood's inest, plus a no-frames- cut interview witn James uaan, February playboy. On newsstands now..