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C2 THE BOSTON GLOBE SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1997 NAMES gf FACES BY SUSAN BICKELHAUPT AND MAUREEN-DEZELL Deejays at WMF and WBCN take aim at each other The jocks at WBCN-FM (104.1) and WAAF-FM (107.3) are up to their headphones in a down-'n'-dirty spittin' match, spurred by next month's release of Aeros-' mith's "Nine Lives" CD. WAAF deejays told listeners Thursday they were in possession of the embargoed album and were going to take it around to people's houses. They invited listeners to call in to hear cuts from the CD, then played parts of "Falling in Love (Is Hard on the Knees)," the first single (out next week) from the album. On air, they ripped into WBCN jocks Mark Psir-enteau and Nick Carter. WBCN riposted, then staged a "Nine Lives" listening party at Mama Kin Thursday night (Fans had to get by a metal detecting wand to prove they had no taping equipment.) "They WAAF were lying about saying they had the album," said Parenteau.

Introducing the disc Thursday at the club, he dissed 'AAF, saying, "They're juvenile. They hate gays, Jews, women." Later, in an interview, he called the WAAF jocks "trailer park trash, bottom feeders trying to hit the big guys." WAAF afternoon jock Opie, who calls' all the on-air jousting "fun radio," maintains 'BCN acts 'like they have this integ; rity and who do they run in the morning? The king of trailer park, Howard Stern. They're being pretty hypocritical. As soon as 10 o'clock comes they make believe he doesn't exist." "We do have the album," asserted WAAF program director Dave Douglas, who said they wouldn't play it until cleared by the label, Columbia. He added, "We do not hate any race or person based on their gender." JIM SULLIVAN II 1 4 KWWF week run," said McCollum.

"But we expect to earn $12 million in 24 weeks $500,000 a week on average at 85 percent capacity. The only shows that have run 24 weeks in Boston in recent history are and 'Les 'Today' at JFK Hearts were aflutter at the JFK Library and Museum yesterday when the "Today" show's hunky co-host Matt Lauer showed up at the Columbia Point complex to tape an upcoming special on presidential libraries. Lauer toured the museum and interviewed Sen. Ted Kennedy for a segment slated to air the week of Presidents' Day, Feb. 17.

'Real' jobs brewing A couple of "Real World" kids have landed jobs tending bar and working the door at the Back Bay Brewing Company. Work starts next week Meanwhile, the restaurant's marketing director, Kristin Toli, took the twosome to a Celtics game and drinks afterward the other night just to be sure things got off to a good start. Chet and Natalie punt The Boys Girls Clubs of Boston raised $600,000 at its Founders Award Dinner honoring Boston's three major TV stations WBZ, WCVB, and WHDH for their public and youth service campaigns. 'CVB's Chet Curtis used the occasion to announce that he and Natalie Jacobson were no longer anchors for Channel 5. Like Bill Parcells, they'd become consultants, he joked.

To their health Former US assistant attorney general for civil rights Deval Patrick, who just joined the Boston firm Day Berry and Larry Weber of the Weber Group in Cambridge will receive Healthy Lifestyles Awards tonight at the Roxbury Comprehensive Community Health Center's annual We Take Your Health to Heart gala at the Sheraton. The awrards are given yearly to people who make outstanding contributions to improving health in the Roxbury community. 'Saskiad': the next generation Lexington-born writer Brian Hall's new novel, "The Saskiad," is a coming-of-age tale about -11 y.yvl. GLOBE STAFF PHOTO JANET KNOTT "Annie star AfeW Carter had her hands full yesterday with flowers -and with 7-year-old Pauline Borde of Mattapan. Borde had an attack of shyness after presenting the flowers to Carter, who was at the ABCD Parent Child Center speaking to ABCD clients and young parents about her own life.

she is two years below the drinking age. "I could have hurt a lot of people, I know. But I i think somebody's over there watching, looking out for me," the Olympic gold medalist said, gesturing upward, during an interview with Oprah Winfrey that aired yesterday. Young and younger conduct at the Met There are two hearts beating on the podium of the Metropolitan Opera some nights. Simone Young, 35, is the first pregnant conductor in the 1 13-year history of the Met She is leading the company in 10 performances of "Cavalleria' Rusticana" and "I Pagliacci." Young, who lives1 in London with her husband and 8-year-old daughter, is 5V months pregnant Sarah Caldwell, now 72, is the only other woman to con-' duct at the Met She made her debut there in 1976.

-f. Names Faces can be reached by eke-, i1 tronic mail at namesgIobe.com. Material from wire services and other sources was used in this column. 12-year-old Saskia, who survives life in a crumbling commune by creating an elaborate fanta- sy world. The story was inspired by tales by Hall's wife, Pamela Moss, of the exotic plots and places she and a friend created as children growing up outside Washington, D.C.

While Hall was working on the novel the first of two books he's signed on to produce for Houghton Mifflin he and Moss had a baby, Madeline. These days, Moss is in the early stages of a study of the fantasy lives of children. Hall is working on a nonfiction account of their daughter's first three years; his second book for Houghton, it is tentatively titled "Biography of Madeline." Baiul: I wasn't drunk Oksana Baiul had four or five mixed drinks but insists she wasn't drunk when she drove at 100 miles per hour off a Connecticut road Jan. 12. "I'm Russian," she explained.

Baiul says she had four or five Long Island iced teas a mix of vodka, gin, triple sec, and Coca-Cola before getting behind the wheel. She suffered a concussion and needed 12 stitches in her scalp. A passenger broke a finger. Baiul's blood-alcohol level was above the legal limit, and at 19 Rumors aside, 'Rent' is still high occupancy There's nothing Bostonians like better than a bad story, so the thought around town this week that "Rent" is having trouble finding an audience raised local hopes that a Big Embarrassing Event is in the making. Sorry, folks, but it seems it ain't so.

Boston critics and audiences haven't fallen as hard for Jonathan Larson's heavily hyped musical as have their New York counterparts. But advance sales for Boston's "Rent" set Shubert box office records. The show has been SRO for at least one week of its run. And in January (a time of year when even Broadway mega-hits beg for business) "Rent" played to Shubert houses that averaged more than 85 percent capacity, according to "Rent" producer Kevin McCollum. Boston's Shubert Theatre has more seats (1,525) than the New York house and "there will be tickets available during the week for most of the 24- Andre Previn's all-American salute Don't Miss Your last Chance to have a Heart-to-Heart with Sister! "HILARIOUS!" BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Andre Previn, guest conductor At: Symphony Hall Thursday night (repeats tonight and Tuesday night) mm FINAL WEEKS! B.O.: 338-8606 or Tieketmatter 931-2787 The Theatre at The Church of All Nations Groups: 338-2000 'ltw)l((lslws, Info: 617-423-8632 ryfi III Tfemont 12 Bluet from The Win; Centarl ell Garter trumpet in the chorale, and Craig Nordstrom earned one he didn't get for the spiffy way his bass clarinet launched the Toccata.

It was quite a night for the clarinet section. The Copland Clarinet Concerto, written for Benny Goodman, requires qualities seldom found 4 in a single player atmospheric 8fin sitivity, a dancer's rhythm, and a willingness to wail. Principal clari, nettist William R. Hudgins more than met the triple challenge. The program closed with the BSO's first subscription perfor? mances of Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," a work the Pops has playe4 on numberless occasions.

Like the Copland Concerto, the rhapsody re quires classical chops and jazz feeling, and you usually get one or the other. Previn, of course, supplies both. It may have been a mistake conduct from the piano, because this meant taking the lid off so the playr ers could see him. Without a lid, even Previn's gorgeous Boesen-dorfer Imperial couldn't put this piece in our faces, and the sound went up instead of out. Neverthey less, Previn played with deliciously teasing rhythmic detail and some growly embroidery of the solo part, and he persuaded the orchestra to swing.

Not that players like the evening's third extraordinary clariT netist, Thomas Martin, and trumpeter Timothy Morrison needed mucji persuading. Reprinted from late editions of yesterday's Globe. By Richard Dyer GLOBE STAFF From the time of Andre Previn's podium debut in 1962, it was assumed, correctly, that he would con-Miicir duct American mu-. sic better than KG VI 6 anyone this side of Leonard Bernstein. It wasn't perversity that made Previn limit his activity in this area.

There wasn't much point in competing with Bernstein, and Previn, a man from Hollywood, knew as much as he needed to about type-casting -if he did too much American music too well, he knew he'd never be able to do anything else. So he pursued his other interests in English and French music. Now, of course, he can do what he wants, and he has the experience and the insight to do anything he wants very well indeed. Last summer at Tanglewood he led a beautiful Mahler Fourth and next week he offers us Shostakovich in Symphony Hall. And in this weekend's run of concerts he is giving us a superb all-American concert, built around tributes to William Schuman, who died in 1992 and Morton Gould, who died last year.

Gould is a pleasing figure who perplexingly never got his due (like Previn), although he had it all he could write music of broad popular as Miss Hannigan appeal marked by worksmanship connoisseurs could appreciate. The score he composed for Martha Graham's "Fall River Legend" dance about Lizzie Borden shows how well he wrote for the orchestra, how deftly he could tap into the whole range of American musical traditions. The Suite he arranged for concert performance is attractive, although it doesn't really feature any of the dark undertow that makes the work so compelling in the theater. Strangely, the BSO has never performed the Suite before; Previn led a delightful performance. Schuman's Third Symphony joins the Third Symphonies of Harris and Copland and the Fourth of Ives at the summit of American symphonic accomplishment to date.

The piece is as tightly constructed as any 12-tone masterpiece, and it takes the audience along with it because it treats form as character. It is also ingeniously and dazzlingly orchestrated, a Concerto for Orchestra before Bartok's. Previn secured a performance that was both lucid and emotionally powerful, and it was splendidly played. Charles Schlueter earned a solo bow for his haunting i (800) 447T40C Through 427 Oood Seats mil Tues, Wed, Thurs. 'Tuesday-Friday 8.

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