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Dayton Dally Newt and Journal Herald 3 Isaiah Jackson no busier than many other conductors Dec. 6, 1987 The Columbus orchestra, which was on strike last year, Is now so busy that both the orchestra and Badea are dropping the Lancaster Festival. Badea announced first he was too busy to handle the festival. Also, the Picnic with the Pops series Is so successful that it is being expanded to six concerts. Badea spends 16 weeks of the season in Columbus.

'-WJLI TY GREENLEESSTAFF PHOTOGRAPHER new Channel 1 6 complex Detroit cancellation The Texas orchestra isn't the only one with problems. The Detroit Symphony, for which Gunther Herbig Is music director, earlier this week canceled its 25-concert Christmas Festival: That brings to 57 the number of perfori mances down the drain since a work stoppage began Sept. 21. Herbig, who now makes a Detroit suburb his home, is keeping busy guest-conducting. He has been conducting concerts in Toronto and Vancouver while back in Detroit officials are "waiting, week to week," an official says.

The musicians were asked to take a pay cut of 1 1 percent and they refused. The Detroit orchestra, which has been operating on a budget of $14.5 million (as of the 1985-86 budget), has been receiving a $2.4 million appropriation from the state of Michigan. State legislators this week were looking into the use of the appropriations. The contract sought by the players, members of the Detroit Federation of Musicians, Local 5, would bring the musicians' salaries up to $1,060 per week in the final six months of a three-year pact. But management's offer was for $1,000 per week.

While money is a major issue in the Detroit dispute, a total of 30 issues must be considered, a spokesman for the union said in a phone call from Lansing where the legislature was in session. Other major issues, he said, include pension, affirmative action, vacation, travel and tour conditions. "Some of the differences are philosophical," a union member Indicated. By Betty Dietz Krebs ARTS EDITOR One of the questions that surfaced sotto voce from the start about music director Isaiah Jackson concerned his busy schedule. How much time would he be able to give the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra now that he also serves as music director of the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden? So far the young American conductor has managed to carve out a good working schedule between Dayton and London.

He's doing all but two of the nine subscription concerts here. Jackson is under a two-year contract with the Dayton orchestra. For the easy response to the question voiced by some, of course, it's simple enough to cite Gerard Schwarz, who serves six musical organizations. Or James Conlon who conducts at the Metropolitan and Is music director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic and the Cincinnati May Festival. Or Jesus Lo-pez-Cobos who, in addition to the Cincinnati orchestra, Is music director of the Berlin State Opera and artistic director of the Spanish National Orchestra.

What brings this up is the word from the state capital where Christian Badea is music director of the Columbus Symphony. He was just in New York to conduct the Metropolitan Opera's Tosca for Saturday's broadcast performance. Badea, for a time music director of the Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds, will leave soon for London where he will spend two months rehearsing and conducting Der Rosenkavalier. Then he comes back to North America and conducts Canadian National Opera in Toronto in performances of Ariadne aufNaxos. Texas trouble Rick Lester, development director of the Cincinnati Symphony before joining the Cleveland Orchestra, left two months ago to take over management of the San Antonio Symphony.

With the whole Texas economy in trouble because of the decline in oil prices, Lester admits it was like jumping Into a fire. Because of a labor dispute, the $4.5 million orchestra stopped operations. The board "realized last December that by Christmas of this year they would be bankrupt. So they invoked a trade agreement that stopped the operation." Lester says that a "small group in town decided the players had been treated unfairly and they would start a new organization, Orchestra San Antonio. They wanted to raise $1.5 million.

But they raised $177,000 and sold about $160,000 in subscriptions for a (large) hall." The musicians, according to Lester, were paid $97.80 for the first week and they have not been paid since. In any case, should the San Antonio Symphony be resuscitated, Lester doubts that "we would be able to field more than about 70 musicians." Part of the problem is that some have already left the city. schools, colleges environments. and workplace Wareham said the move downtown won't affect the need to conduct fund-raising drives, but the on-air auction will be easier to conduct in the new studios Instead of being shuttled around from site to site. Channel 16 has been invited to be part of the proposed performing arts center on the Victory Theatre block, and the Greater Dayton Public TV board of directors has endorsed the project.

Wareham said Channel 16 is still interested in moving into the arts center if it becomes feasible to do so, but he stressed the importance of getting downtown as soon as possible. "We had an immediate need," he said. "We maintain an interest in the arts complex and we'd like to see that develop. It could mean relocating In the arts complex or simply interconnecting electronically." He said the move downtown "brings non-broadcast telecommunication services to the heart of the city." He added, "We're excited about being part of the redevelopment of downtown Dayton and we feel we can contribute to that." The construction is being financed by a $300,000 loan from the city, which is leasing the space to Channel 16. Other funding will come from Channel 16's five-year, $4.1 million capital campaign that has garnered $3.4 million to date.

The campaigii opened in late 1984 to fund a new transmission installation, new production equipment and the downtown building. With the move, the station plans to make $1.15 million In improvements to the corner, bring in $2.5 million in new equipment and relocate another $1.4 million in equipment. Connie Sellecca admires stance of 'Downpayment' Channel 16 currently broadcasts only one locally produced Series (Doctor on Call), and local programs make up only about 2 percent of the station's broadcast schedule. By contrast, 8 percent of the schedule of WCET, the PBS affiliate In Cincinnati, Is local. "We'd like to bring back the high school quiz bowl concept we've put out some feelers already, but we don't have a studio big enough to do it," Wareham said.

Other ideas for new local programming Include a program about local businesses and a weekly public affairs program that would replace the defunct Focus program that had been produced by Wright State University. "It might be along the lines of the old Robert MacNeil Report or Nightline," Wareham said. Wareham feels more funds for local programming might be forthcoming when the larger studios "show our capability to do programs." A 40-by-60-foot teleconference center will provide the only two-way full motion interactive video teleconferencing capability in the city. "We'll have a transmission line with a fiber optic interconnect, and we'll have a direct connection with the Convention Center," Wareham said. "We can provide them with all the video technology we have for teleconferencing and we'll be able to uplink to the satellite.

"Let's say NCR was conducting a training program at the convention center and they wanted their Hong Kong office to participate. We would provide the technology. It really connects the Convention Center to the world kind of a global village." Plans are to develop a multiple channel service to distribute programs by super high frequency TV. Greater Dayton Public TV has a permit for eight channels of instructional television fixed service, four in Dayton and four in Oxford. They would be used to distribute instructional programming to DAYIDM OKRA David DiChiera, Artistic Director Jerry Wareham at the site of the Channel 16 CONTINUED FROM1 three years ago and cable penetration has enabled more viewers to pick up both stations.

Plans are eventually to boost Channel power, giving Dayton area viewers a clearer picture of the "station at Miami University. Wareham also hopes to persuade Via-cam and Continental Cablevision to add Channel. 4, to their basic service. Wareham said the split will enable each station to develop programs geared specifically to each community and will encourage more local production. Each station would emerge with a different personality.

According to the most likely scenario, Channel 16 will continue as a mainline public TV outlet offering a full schedule of PBS programs, while Chan- nel 14 will emphasize "television one can use programming that is useful to vievjAil focusing on learning, so-called howto programs, maybe some college rj3it stuff," Wareham said. "Publir television, at its very heart, has an educational mission," he added. "Twenty-five percent of the programming on Channel 16 is formal instruction, designed for and used In the class-room by teachers from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. every day.

With programs like Sesame Street, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and Square One TV, almost half our programming is educational in a formal sense or a very real sense. I guess I put things like Nova and Eyes on the Prize in an educational category too. "Historically, that's really the busi-i ness we're in. The other things, like opera and symphony to news and public affairs programming, don't make up that much of the schedule." l- The ability to produce local pro-' gramming has been hampered by lack of space as well as funds. A converted transmitter room at the operations cen-; ter, dubbed "a crackerbox" by one em-: ployee, passes for a studio.

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