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Monday, March 2, 1992 C-5 SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER 1 1 'rWt 1 I I 6 ji I (a v'': v. i GRAHAM fromC-1 Grief, joy at Bill Graham benefit Pompili, Bill Graham Presents vice president of operations. "For 10 or 12 years, the company has been running itself. What we have lost probably is a lot of our souL Only time will tell what we've regained." Only now is the extent of the private, philanthropic side of Graham starting to surface. "Bill had supported the oral history project, personally," explained Pompili.

"Only after he left us did we find out, when we were able to go through his personal finance records." THE IRONY, however, is that Graham never made an oral history tape of his own. "He never talked about the Holocaust, period," Bays Pompili. Graham's oldest son, David, said, "Inherently, I think, it was very difficult for him. Subconsciously, he blocked it all out of his mind. He grew up speaking French and German, and he told me that when he was first living in New York, and had this German accent, he used to get beat up.

So he stopped speaking German and lost some of his memories." But Graham's experiences as a 9-year-old orphan fleeing the Nazis on foot over the Pyrenees to Barcelona, Madrid and Lisbon and then by boat to Casablanca, Dakar in Senegal, Bermuda and then the United States, were dragged out of him, word for painful word, by Graham's biographer, Robert Greenfield, himself the child of Holocaust survivors. Greenfield, a tall, spindly man with thinning hair, neatly trimmed beard, round glasses and booming voice, spoke at the tribute. Greenfield told of his grandfather, saying that he "would have loved Bill for his madness and for the mishegoss (craziness). (Bill) and my grandfather shared a collective unconscious. They knew that, somehow, from death and fear can come beauty and inspiration." IT WAS left to actor Danny Glover to read some of the simple thoughts that Greenfield had elicited from Graham.

"I have no recollection of my mother. I was two days old when my father died. I never saw him. He never saw me," Graham said in a volume which will be released on October 25, 1992, the first anniversary of Graham's death. While the spirit of Graham caromed around the cavernous alabaster precincts of Temple Emanu-El, other voices and melodies were heard.

Those of Carlos Santana, resplendent in a red kerchief headband, playing "I Love You Much Too Much," a favorite of Graham's based on a Yiddish folk song that he taught Santana in a recording session. Those of Paul Kantner, Mimi Farina and Eddie Money. Of Grace Slick, Ann Getty, Rep. Barbara Boxer, D-Greenbrae, and Ester Chichinsky, Graham's sister. Four players in search precedes it in that form, speaks a universal language that should cross international borders without any special visa.

Of course, Simpson writes in a conservative idiom, exploring relatively familiar terrain, rather than striking out into uncharted harmonic lands. So, the newest-of-the-new crowd finds it easy to neglect him. The 22-minute quartet, structured as four continuous movements, emerges a great cry of rage, the "War" complement to the 10th quartet, subtitled, "For Peace." Like his great contemporary, Sir Michael Tippett, Simpson spent World War II as a pacifist And in every bar of this work, one senses a composer guided by the philosophy that music really can change the world. Although Simpson shuns strict sonata form, the clarity of the writing yields a feeling of discovery on first hearing. The pulse relationships Simpson is prone to exploring lend a welcome inevitability.

Recurring downward intervals in unison mark the angry first movement. An unutterably poignant theme developed contrapun-tally heralds the second movement. The scherzo seems relatively con 0 1 from Bill Graham's autobiography at dressed as Hitler. Or that in Louisiana, but for the black vote, avowed anti-Semite and former Klan leader David Duke would be governor. Or that with the reunification of Germany, a neo-Nazi skinhead movement would be flourishing.

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3:45, 6:00, 8:15, 10:30 NO VIPS Carlos Santana performed a favorite song of Bill Graham's. Those of 14 other Holocaust survivors. Women like a feisty Mira Shelub, tiny and chic in a scarlet jacket and black blouse, who became one of the partisans of Vilna. Or Rita Kuhn, who never met Bill Graham but who would tell him, "Ich bin ein Berliner," and know that he, Berlin-born, would understand. Or the white-haired, patrician Rep.

Tom Lantos, D-Burlingame, the only man in the U.S. Congress to have survived the Holocaust IT IS inconceivable, in the wake of stories like these, that anyone would ever deny that the Holocaust existed. Yet, the revisionist of a crowd ventional by comparison, but the contrast with the finale, a threnody that never rises above a ppp marking, leaves us with a sound image of total desolation. The players have developed an expansive, almost symphonic sound, but the balance of forces generates a light texture and a forward motion. The spontaneity exhibited in the Simpson was only one of the manifold virtues of Sunday's performance.

And after a glut of Mozart the past year, one hopes that this felicitous Haydn reading will restore the composer to his rightful place in the active quartet repertoire. The Coull played the great "Quinten" (so-called for Haydn's deployment of fifths in the first movement) for charm, sensibility and drama. Only a bit of scrunched passage work in the finale marred the performance of the Beethoven, one of the most personal works of the 16 quartets. The Coull responded to the mixture of terse turbulence and muted lyricism with technical poise and genuine spirituality. The Coull Quartet will perform Mozart, Mendelssohn and Britten Friday at 8 p.m.

at Old First Church. For tickets, call (415) 474-1608. joined the collection of the National Air and Space Museum. The Smithsonian Institution is a complex of 15 museums and galleries plus the National Zoo all of which maintain collections. In addition, the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art and the Smithsonian Institution Libraries collect books, artists' materials and documents.

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fff Actor Danny Glover read passages historians would have us believe that the Holocaust was a Jewish plot to siphon off monies for Israel, as a letter to the editor of the Ohio State University Lantern recently claimed. And it is inconceivable that a child in a California town would be awarded a prize for oratory. i 1 Titles tnd Shawtlmes Subset To Change. Please Call Theaters. Listed Showtime For Today Only Unless Otherwise Indicated.

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The Coull, which will give a second concert Friday at Old First, was formed in 1974. Named after first violin Roger Coull, the quartet also includes second violin Philip Gallaway, viola David Curtis and cello John Todd. The group is currently resident at the University of Warwick. British music of the 20th century figures prominently in the repertoire. And no composer seems to matter more to the Coull than Robert Simpson, whose Quartet No.

11, written for these musicians in 1984, received its overdue local unveiling last weekend. Haydn's Quartet in Minor, Op. 75, No. 2 and Beethoven's Quartet No. 11 in Minor, Op.

95 the work on which Simpson modeled his own offering rounded out the concert. Simpson, who was born in 1921, has achieved an American reputation as a musicologist of distinction; his books on the symphonies of Carl Nielsen and Anton Bruckner are probably the finest written on those artists in English. But, in Simpson's native Albion, his skills as a composer in a variety of media are also celebrated. And like his countryman, the late Havergal Brian, he is promoted vociferously by important musicians and record companies. The Quartet No.

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