The Boston Globe from Boston, Massachusetts • 68

Tower Records plans for iall Robin Wheeler: Banking on her foresight Boston store By Richard Dyer Globe Staff Tower Records, the nation's second-largest chain of retail record stores and most successful vendor of classical records, plans to open a Boston outlet late next fall at 360 Newbury St. Randi Swindel, the company's East Coast regional manager based in New York, confirmed a long-circulating rumor yesterday. "We are in the final stages of negotiating a lease for space in a building on the corner of Newbury Street and Massachusetts Avenue. I don't know whether every glitch in the lease has been worked out yet, but we expect to open there before the end of the year. It will be a huge store, at least 25,000 square feet, maybe more.

We don't know yet whether we will have a bargain annex because we're not exactly sure how much space we're going to have, but that decision is certainly a possibility." The downtown New York store has 34,000 square feet. i 1 I A. ''Ym semble, Ramon de los Reyes Spanish Dance Theater, New England Chamber Orchestra, Berkshire Ballet, Boston Premiere Ensemble and nearly a dozen more, from the jazz quartet Ribs to Studebaker Movement Theater Company (formerly Studebaker Mime), the multidisciplinary quartet. "I didn't set out to start a real business," Wheeler said. "And I'm really running it more or less on instinct.

But there's a tremendous need in this era for arts groups to have professional help. The old style was for promotion, business management, booking and so forth to be a part-time sideline for somebody in the group or connected to its founder. But that's a tremendous risk for any group the part-time person is often over-committed in other areas and can't devote the attention the job requires, or, frankly, is somebody who means well but doesn't know what he or she is doing. "One of the big factors In changing that tradition, was the formation of Art Works within the Massachusetts Cultural Alliance. I was very involved in that, and its importance really can't be overstated." Art Works is an organization of the smaller arts groups in the state; its focus is the development of business strategies and management skills for groups with annual budgets of less than $100,000.

"There now are a number of arts free-lancers and companies out there with specialties in promotion or publicity or booking," Wheeler said, "but really the only 'competition' for us in providing across-the-board expertise is. Aaron and Gorden Concert Manage- LIVES IM THE ARTS By Jeff McLaughlin Globe Staff "I worked my way up from the basement quite literally." said arts consultant Robin Wheeler with a flashing smile. "It was Rolf Smedvig's basement." Smedvig is the trumpeter and driving force of the Empire Brass Quintet, and Wheeler's first job in the arts was as a free-lance general factotum for the group when it was a moonlighting project for Boston Symphony Orchestra players. It's now a full-time and nourishing career for Smedvig and colleagues, who are under contract to prestigious Columbia Artists Management of New York, but in 1979 it was still a promising dream. "I had the foresight to see they were really going to go places," said Wheeler, 30, "and that working for them would be tremendous experience.

Well, they just took off like gangbusters, and I developed a whole range of skills. I did everything from scheduling rehearsals to promotion to fund-raising. Every one of those skills comes into play every day now." These days Wheeler is executive director of Performing Arts Consultants, the all-purpose arts management company she founded nearly four years ago after Empire Brass "went international." With offices on Huntington Avenue near Symphony Hall, the company "has grown spectacularly in the past year or so," Wheeler said, with a list of clients that covers the spectrum. Among the best known are Collage New Music En Di Bonaventura plays in many dimensions Robin Wheeler of Performing Arts Consultants looks out at Huntington Avenue from her office. GLOBE STAFF PHOTO BY JANET KNOTT MiKrni a KUMArNL-r! is a richly textured, convincing love story between two hplipvahlp rhiir'i'rorc" Michael Blowen, BOSTON GLOBE 'MURPHY'S ROMANCE is a really benevolent portrait of life and love in a small town in James Veniere, BOSTON HERALD Murphy's Tower Records opened its first shop in California in 1960, and its stores have become famous among collectors for the unrivaled range and depth of their domestic and imported stock in every category of music on disc, cassette, compact disc and in video.

The company is equally well known for its highly competitive pricing and aggressive marketing. The New York stores are open from 9 a.m. to midnight. 365 days a year, and Swindell says the Boston store will be, too. The building at 360 Newbury St.

is owned by Cohen Properties, which is renovating it primarily as a space for arts-related enterprises and adding two additional floors. E.U. Wurlitzer, the musical instrument dealer, currently occupies half the first floor, with offices on the sixth, and will remain there. Gene Joly, president of Wurlitzer, said yesterday Tower will occupy half the first floor (for- merly occupied by a number of grills and Pampalone Music), all of the second and part of the third. jor Scherzo was particularly telling.

But the great performance of the evening came after intermission with di Bonaventura 's performance of Schumann's "Carna-val." This was the most consistent playing of the evening, and the most daring. It boasted a clarity comparable to Solomon's famous recording not only in "Paga-nini" and in the difficult thumb-richocheting "Reconnaissance" but also in the "simpler" pieces like "Aveu," which was full of poignant inflection. But di Bonaventura's was a far more disturbing performance than Solomon's. These 20 pieces were not just "little scenes" or character pieces; each was an emanation of Florestan or Euse-bius, the "protagonists" of the piece that represent opposing dimensions of Schumann's personality; some of them represented the schizophrenic battle between the two. The piece was full of collisions of contrast, and every clash of harmony told.

The riddle of the "Sphynxes" the "clue" to the piece that is usually left unplayed, and that di Bonaventura delivered in shuddering tremolos was never resolved. The March at the end was no march of triumph, but an act of will trying to govern a personality exploding in all directions. This was "Carnaval" as psychodrama, and it was unforgettable. Even the dazzling fireworks of one of the pianist's Scarlatti encores could not shake its spell. Polaroid, ICA honor video on Sicily European multimedia artists Marina Abramovic and Ulay (Uwe F.

Laysiepen) yesterday were named joint winners of the second annual $10,000 Polaroid Video Art Award, announced by the Institute of Contemporary Art. They won for their 16-minute 1984 video "Terra degli dea madre" of the Mother The video, which examines Sic-Jly, is the second in a series of ethnographic meditations on various cultures. It was preceded by "Image in the Sun," taped in the ruined temple of Ayutaya in Thailand. Their next work, taped in the United States and focusing on computers and children, was done in part during a residency last month at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Abramovic, born in Yugoslavia, and Ulay, a native of West Germany, have collaborated in performance, installation, photography, video and film work since 1975.

They live in Amsterdam. Last year's Polaroid award-winner. Bill Viola, will be represented by a new 60-minute video at the ICA starting Feb. 19. The work, examining conscious and subconscious perception among various life forms, was sponsored by the Contemporary Art Television (CAT) Fund JAY CARR i 'i i 1 TIP FOR TOMORROW Soprano Nora Bostoph and pianist Fredericka King perform a concert of art songs by black American composers at the Blacksmith House, 56 Brattle Cambridge, at 8 p.m.

Tickets $3.50,. Telephone 547-6785. II Ir JUL Romance concerts or recitals, or collect records or whatever. But I started getting interested in dance on my own when I went to Winsor the private secondary school in Boston, and that interest really grew when I went on to Tufts. 1 was very involved in performing and choreography, but by the time I was a senior, I knew I was more comfortable and probably more able, period when I was backstage rather than on stage." Wheeler's company now has three full-time consultants in addition to Wheeler and two part-time.

It contracts out some specific jobs "with the idea that if the person does a solid job, he or she can then become a permanent part-timer." In the past year, Wheeler has added another facet to her arts involvement. "I'm teaching a course on Career Skills at the New England Conservatory. It's a new program, and a great idea. I'm astounded at the naivete of these young artists starting out. They think their careers are going to be handed to them! Wouldn't it be a great world if it was that easy?" New Edition to play Boston, Providence New Edition, the Boston-bred teen-agers who were the most successful black recording act in the country last year, have signed to play at the Providence Civic Center April 27 and at Boston's Wang Center June 4.

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REVIEW His affinity for the instrument is prodigious; seeing him play is like watching Fred Astaire dance. It all seems easy, although it is an ease that comes from years of disciplined practicing. What makes it possible is more than four decades of tireless work, but you could put in all that work and still not arrive at the same place. Some things are gifts of nature -including the kind of musical imagination that directs di Bona-ventura's technique. This was particularly evident in Monday night's recital to benefit the new-music group Alea III.

The pianist had been down with the flu and had to cancel one of the scheduled works on the program, Theodore Antoniou's "Entrada." And in the first half of the recital he split more notes than he usually does in the course of a season. (It still wasn't that many.) But the unexpected dimension of human error focused even greater attention on the dimension of human accomplishment -the beauty of legato in Beethoven's Rondo in the elegance of detail in the "Rage Over a Lost Penny." The lovely Chopin group a nocturne, mazurka, waltz and scherzo was remarkable for its demonstration of rubato, which, as di Bonaventura demonstrated, depends equally on absolute rigidity of rhythm and on subtle departures from it. The mastery of -rhythmic proportion in the E-Ma- MAYNARD FINE ARTS THEATRE 897-2100 "DOWN OUT IN BEVERLY HILLS" 7-9 "OUT OF AFRICA" 7 00 ONLY EAST MILTON CINEMA ALL SEATS $2.00 698-2335 "YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES" PG13 NEEDHAM MOVIES 3 444-6060 "CHORUS LINE" SHERLOCK" 7:45 pw iu i he miuHb 7:45 NEWTON CENTRE ACADEMY CINEMAS 332-7924 IH DEMtUlM I NfcWTON CENTRE "A CHORUS LINE" "HKiH I MflHfc UN ELM ST. PART 2" WEST NEWTON WEST NEWTON CINS. 1-4 1296 Wash.

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