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8B The Poducah Sun Thuraday, March 9, 1995 nnnazarnzainz Jents add Nashville touch to EddyvUl Symphony excels, and audience will remember marimba 1 7N 7V Symphony review t8 BY BOBBIE FOUST SUN STAFF WRITER EDDYVILLE, Ky. Ronnie Jent says his father, Bob, is bringing Nashville to Eddyville with the new 800-seat theater at the family-owned Nuttin Butt Fun Park. "We're wanting to bring (Nashville stars) here so people can see them," Ronnie Jent said. "If we went to Nashville tonight, we wouldn't be able to get in anywhere to see anything unless it was a bar. If it's a bar, it's going to be someone you don't know.

If you go to the TV shows or the Grand Ole Opry, you're not going to see the stars. So that's why we started doing this. We think we are in la good area to reach a lot of people who want to see country music performers." With 3 million people a year visiting the nearby West Kentucky Factory Outlet Mall, the family expects sellout crowds for name entertainers already booked. Jerry Reed, star of the "Smoky and the Bandit" movies, headlines Saturday with shows at 7 and 9 p.m. Twister Alley will perform March BOBBIE FOUSTThe Sun Tracy Jent stands in front of the lights In the Nuttin Butt Fun Music Theater.

Jent handles bookings for the new family-owned theater. 18, and Wade Hayes, a top radio and video performer, is booked for March 25. The theater also has its own sound and light show. "We have lights in the back that spread all over the room," Jent said. "We have a disco ball like everybody else has.

They'll enjoy just the light show." The theater opened in mid-February, but the first three shows were not advertised. "We've been getting our advertising out, getting our sound done," Jent said. r'So, we're ready for this weekend, which is Jerry Reed, and from then on, we plan on having our bigger acts." He said the theater will present shows during the week after school is out. "We are just going to see how it goes, since we are new at this." Tickets are available Monday through Saturday by calling the theater at 388-7500. Businesses can book the theater on weekdays for company parties or catered dinners.

The theater has a dance floor surrounded by tables. Shows will be scheduled all year. Theatej review the nervous interviewee, lob Mamet's lines back and forth like a couple of tennis pros. Neither man 1 drops the ball. In this case, the playwright does.

Things brighten with "Hotline," May's contribution to the entertainment. The author, best-known as one-half of the comedy team of Mike Nichols and Elaine May, knows New York. She writes with a savvy sense of the city's absurdities, and they translate into big laughs. In this playlet, May pits a neophyte suicide-hotline employee (Becker again) against a more-than-cranky woman determined to kill herself. Linda Lavin plays the tart-tongued misfit who is ready for a fight even when she's downing pills and trying to end it all.

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The triumph was the performance by a remarkable young Princeton girl, Kenna Miller, winner of the orchestra's 1995 Young Artists Competition. Her playing of the marimba solo, "Concertino," by the contemporary composer Paul Creston revealed a fine technique and a mastery of complex rhythms. We can expect to hear of many accomplishments for her. The brooding and the meditative absorption arose from the orchestra's rendition of the Fifth Symphony of that enigmatic contemporary composer Dimitri Shostakovich. Conductor Jordan Tang drew from the orchestra a straightforward, emotional rendition of a fascinating work.

Miss Miller, as the program notes make clear, is no single-talented young woman. She apparently excels in everything she tries. She is valedictorian of her class at Caldwell County High School, with a perfect 5.0 grade point average. She has been a Governor's Scholar and is listed in Who's Who Among American High School Students. Musically, of course, she has achieved every honor available to her.

The marimba, which she played to win her award, is not even her primary instrument. That instrument is the piano, with which she has won "superior" rating by the Kentucy Music Teachers Association, and she plans to major in piano in college. Oh yes, she also plays timpani. How does she also manage to find time to play on her school's soccer, swim, track, basketball and Softball teams? On her soccer team she earned Most Valuable Player honors. The Creston work is not a long one, but it takes real musicianship to bring it off.

In addition to its tricky rhythms, it displays some imaginative harmonies that make it an interesting piece to listen to. Miss Miller, clad in a classic white gown with a white tiara in her blonde hair, pulled it all off with no apparent nervousness and with plenty of aplomb. For it she received a deserved standing ovation from the nearly full auditorium. The Shostakovich work took up the entire second half of the concert. The orchestra, and Mr.

Tang, obviously found this a rich, fascinating piece of music, and its intensity was felt by the audience. The mood of the symphony filled the auditorium at Symphony Hall. The audience seemed transfixed by the passionate sounds coming from the stage. I heard no rustling of programs, shifting of feet or coughing during the performance. I find in my notes on the first movement this comment on a passage in which the treble instruments sing a wistful keening over an insistent, repeated "dum, dumdum" figure in the lower strings and brass: "Is this an expression of the dark, Russian soul struggling toward something it can sense but cannot achieve?" This tragic sense is brought out even more in the somber slow movement, the third.

It seems expressive of the sad history of that tragic land which, even after liberation from its Communist masters, continues to suffer from the aching problems of its new freedom. I found especially appealing a poignant duet passage for flute and harp ably performed by Elaine Harriss and Dorothy Mason. The finale was a vigorous, allegedly joyful march. I say ''allegedly" because that's the adjective often attached to it, but there's some question whether that's really what Shostakovich intended. Was it instead a conventional, upbeat, but ultimately meaningless piece of fluff designed to placate 'Joseph Stalin and the Soviet rulers of art? Or maybe even not just to placate but to fool the tyrants? Some recent scholarship holds that Shostakovich really chafed under the restrictions of the Soviet state, especially after his virtual ostracism following severe criticism by the eminent musical critic Stalin.

The abject kowtowing to politically correct Soviet artistic commisars was written, some new evidence suggests, not by Shostakovich himself but by state propagandists. Let's hope that this is true. It would reveal an artist who was devoted to his suffering people and who did what he had to do to survive and to express for them, occasionally, their centuries-old heritage of suffering. In addition, line dancing instruction and battle-of-the-bands events will be scheduled. Broadway tion gets more desperate, but May keeps the jokes coming, even as the story unravels.

Director Michael Blakemore saves the best and longest flay until last. It's Allen's "Central ark West," a black farce set in an upper-crust apartment decorated with style by designer Robin Wagner. Allen has written a scabrous, stinging comedy about adultery where the vituperation, heavily fueled by vodka, is alternately horrifying and hilarious. 5161 HlnkbyllH Rd, 444-0111 1 Bo One. Om At 4:00 PM.

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