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f56 DAILY NEWS Friday, February 19, 1993 3 EXTRA ENTERTAINMENTS Ml TO GBYZ vfliu i 'OH 'Sd ATLANTIC CITY PHIL 0 A Two Euro-troubadours command top dollar THIS IS THE WEEKEND WHEN TWO VOICES from Europe hit the shore to serenade Yankee big spenders. One is pretty famous, and carries a big ego with it The other is not as famous, but some say he's better. Julio Iglesias brings his act to the Taj Mahal's Etess Arena for shows tonight, tomorrow night and Sunday night. We '64 opus set-a precedent for new black film By DAVID HINCKLEY don know how Iglesias feels about A.C., or what he'll sing, because "Mr. Iglesias doesn't speak to the press," a spokesman said.

But he isn't shy about commanding big prices: $35, $50 and $100. It's a little less steep (but not by much) for Peppino Di Capri. He's at the Sands tonight and tomorrow night at 50 bucks a pop. A singing legend throughout Europe, Di Capri seems to be following in Iglesias' pro footsteps. He's beginning to establish a rep in A.C.

and, as a consequence, his performances usually sell out. "The man's got a tremendous voice," said a regular. "He's going to be a big star." Elsewhere: Joan Rivers laughs preacher's daughter. it up at the Trump Castle and Jack Jones is at the Trump Plaza. Julio Iglesias BALL Y'S GRAND: Boardwalk Providence Ave.

(609) 340-7111. Opera House: "Superstars Live" for one night only, Sat. at 8 11. Tix: $15. Lounges: Gatsby's has "Superstars Live," 8:30 10:30 p.m.; 7 9 p.m.

Tix: $10. Restaurants: Caruso's (G), Oaks (G), Mr. Ming's (G), Cornucopia (M), Sweetheart's (E), Creamery (E). ALLY'S PARK PLACE. Boardwalk Park Place.

(609) 340-2709. Ballroom: Dark. Park Cabaret: "An Evening at La Cage." Shows: at 3.30 8:30, Sat. at 8 10:30, Sun. at 8 10 (dark Tix $16 midweek, $19 weekend.

Both are plus one drink. Lounge: Billy's Pub has Full House and Lepore, Michaels Hart. Restaurants: Sidewalk Cafe (E), Animations (E), Spa Cafe (E), Pickles (E), Jib's Oyster Bar (E), Lone Star (E), Prime Place (G), Ferrara (E). CAESARS. Boardwalk Missouri Ave.

(609) 348-4411. Circus Maximus: Dark. Lounges: Cleopatra's Barge has "Anita Mann's Let's Dance" and The Right Touch. Forum Lounge: entertainer LeEtte Trice. Venice Bar, pianistsinger Marcus Dagan and Cee Cee Whitaker.

Restaurants: Ambrosia (M), La Posh (G), Primavera (G), Hyakumi (G), Imperial (G), Cafe Roma (M), Oriental Palace (G), Pompeii (G), Boardwalk Cafe (E), Italian Festival (E), The Venice Bar (E). CLARIDGE. Boardwalk Indiana Ave. (609) 340-3700. Palace Theater: Dark.

Restaurants: Martino's (G), Twenties (G), Garden Room (M), Casino Grill (E). HARRAH'S ATLANTIC CITY. Brigantine Blvd. (northwest marina area). (609) 441-5165.

Broadway-by-the-Bay Theater. "The Little Shop of Horrors," through Feb. 28. Shows: Sun. Tues.

at 7 10:30 p.m.; Wed. Thurs. at 3 7 p.m.; Fri. at 4 8 p.m.; Sat. 8 11:30 p.m.

Tix are $15, plus tax. Lounges: Atrium Lounge, Artie Schroeck Linda November; Jimmy Hopper (through the 21st); Ken McBride. Also, Weekend Hoedown of country music and dancing from noon to 10 in the Atrium. Restaurants: The Meadows (G), Andreotti's (G), Reflections (M), Bay Wok (M), William Fisk Seafood Company, Steakhouse (G), The Deli (E), Upper Deck (M). MERV GRIFFIN'S RESORTS.

Boardwalk North Carolina Ave. (609) 344-6000. Superstar Theater "Love Kisses." Shows: Fri. at 8 p.m., Sat. at 8 11.

Tix: $20. Lounge: At Mr. Nelson Sardelli, Jennifer Heaney, Alex Glover, Just Us. Restaurants: Capnccio (G), Camelot (G), Le Palais (G), Beverly Hills Buffet (M), Cafe Casino (E), Celeb Deli (E), Oyster Bar (E). SANDS.

Boardwalk Illinois Ave. (609) 441-4444. Theater: Italian singer Peppino DiCapri. Shows: Fri. at 10 p.m.

and midnight; Sat. at 8 10 p.m. Tix: $50. Restaurants: Medici's (G), Brighton Steak House (G), Food Court (E), China Moon (G). SHOW BOA T.

Delaware Ave. Boardwalk. (609) 343-4000. Mississippi Pavilion: Dark. Mardi Gras Showroom: "Basin Street Follies." Shows: 8 Datty News Cntic-At- Large NOTHING BUT A MAN.

Abbey Lincoln, Ivan Dixon. Directed by Michael Roemer At Film Forum. 92 mins. Unrated THESE DAYS, ANY first-year film student with a home editing machine could probably turn out a slicker movie than "Nothing But a Man," a landmark 1964 look at how racism erodes the core of a man's existence. But after the first five minutes, the fact that "Nothing but a Man" has the look of an early black-and-white TV show enhances rather than dilutes its message.

Director Michael Roemer and his co-writer, Robert Young, strip down even the dialogue to its essence, rarely using a sentence when a phrase will do. The story focuses on Duff Anderson (Ivan Dixon), a man in his 20s who makes good ntoney working on a railroad gang but has no life to spend that money on. Then he meets Josie (Abbey Lincoln), a sheltered preacher daughter, and in each other they see their missing pieces. Marrying Josie and taking a job in town, however, forces Duff to reconfront the parts of the world he was avoiding: white punks who harass black people for fun and know they By BiU. BELL Daity News Staff Writer BN 1917, A PRECOCIOUS-ly talented 20-year-old Viennese music student, Julius Burger, composed a choral and organ piece entitled "Miserere." Now, all these years he's going to hear it performed publicly for the first time health permitting.

"Miserere" is one of the featured songs in a concert tomorrow by the 16-member New York Virtuoso Singers at St Peter's Lutheran Church, in midtown. Burger, who will turn 96 in three weeks, is recovering from a stroke and his presence is unsure, but present or not, it is his special night For years, almost the only people who heard his music, which he played on a beloved upright piano in his apartment, were his neighbors in Elmhurst, Queens. Many serious music lovers knew about him for other reasons he was the original conductor of the Broadway hit "Song of Norway," and for 22 years, until he retired in 1972, he was the prompter and assistant conductor for the Metro- at WB ABBEY LINCOLN plays a sheltered will not be punished; bosses who call him "boy" and fire him for telling workers to stick together. Like Josie, we watch as Duffs anger simmers and boils over at which point Duff has become one more victim of American racism. But Roemer and Young aren't just looking for a victim.

Racism is a fact, they argue, so the real issue is dealing with it and individuals who evade that responsibility weaken their families, their communities, their churches and themselves. If this message sounds familiar, it could be because "Nothing but a Man" is a direct ancestor of "new black films" like "Straight out of Brooklyn" and "Boyz the Hood," both of which deliver similar messages about the erosion of WWW Julius Berger A new career? politan Opera. Over the years, he quietly wrote his own music. Two of the songs he wrote in his native Vienna became popular in Europe, and in the United States, two or three pieces received respectful hearings. He waited 39 years to hear his "Variations on a Theme by Karl Philipp Emanuel Bach" performed in 1984 by the Indi fir.

rVU black manhood and its devastating effects. If "Nothing" has a weakness, it may lie in the male-centrism that turns Abbey Lincoln's Josie into a supporting player. Still, the film wouldn't work without her, because she provides the moral compass. "How come you don't hate their guts?" Duff asks her, after another encounter with white bullies. "I guess I'm not scared of 'em," she replies.

"They can't touch me inside." Dixon's Duff is not a warm character, and at times he is barely articulate. But he earns our respect, and when he tells Josie's father, "Us colored folks do a lotta churchgoing when it's the white folks that need it," he also becomes the messenger. Talking for today. ana Symphony Orchestra. Then one day, he went to see a New York lawyer, Ronald Pohl, on business, and told him about his life and music.

Pohl was impressed, and went to work to give Burger's music the exposure he thought it deserved. The payoff was a program performed two years ago by the Orchestra of St Luke's, at Alice Tully Hall. It won rave reviews. "Miserere" is one of four pieces that the audience will hear tomorrow for the first time. The others are "Keats on Love" by Brian Fennelly, "XVI" by Michael Gordon and "Four English Songs" by Kath-erine Hoover.

The Virtuoso Singers, who specialize in contemporary U.S. composers, also will introduce four other pieces "Ave Verum Corpus" by John Harbison, "The Chorus of Marvels" and "And So the Swans" by George Perle, and "Lullaby for a Newborn Baby Too Soon Gone" by Elaine Lebenbom. (The performance starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $12 $8 for seniors and students available at the door. For reservations, call 914-763-3453.) 10:30 p.m.

Tix: $15. Restaurants: Mississippi Steak and Seafood (G), Emperors Inn (G), Casa di Napoli (G), Deli on the Square (E), Snack Bar Pizzeria (E), Basin Street Cafe (E), 11th Frame Snack Bar (E), Showboat Bowling Center: Open 10 a.m. rental. TAJ MAHAL. Boardwalk Virginia lio Iglesias.

Shows: Fri. at 9 p.m.. Sat at 8 p.m.. Sun. at 7 p.m.

Tix: $35, $50, $100. Casbah Theater: "Jubilation," starring singer Paul Christopher, with a special guest Allen Valentine. Shows: Sat-Sun. at 7:30 10:30 p.m. Tix: $12.50.

Lounge: Kipling's Comer, pianist Linda Gentile, a protege of Liberace. Res taurants: Scheherazade (G), Dynasty (G), Sun Deck (E), Captain's Buffet (E). midnight, $2.50 per game, $1.25 shoe Ave. (609) 449-1000. Etess Arena: Ju Bombay Cafe (M), Rock Rolls (E), New Delhi (northwest marina area).

(609) 441- Deli (E), Sultan's Feast (M), Sinbad's (G), Marco Polo (G), Safan Steak House (G). TROPWORLD. Boardwalk Brighton Ave. (609) 340-4000. Showroom: Dark.

Lounges: At Sandbar, John Barillaro Jonathan Pruitt; at Comedy Stop, Mike Royce, Al Katz, Angel Salazar. At Red Lips Saloon: Cheers, Sat. Sun. Res taurants: Bon Pari (G). II Verdi (G), Regent Court (G), Jade Beach (M), Carousel Coffee Shop and Delicatessen (E), Pier 7 (G), A.C.

Station Steak House (M), Miss America Food Court (E). TRUMP CASTLE: Brigantine Blvd. 2000. Crystal Ballroom: Joan Rivers. Shows: Fri.

at 10 p.m., Sat. at 8 11 p.m. Tix: $30, plus tax and one beverage. King's Court Showroom: "Castle Magic" revue. Shows: at 4 7 p.m.

Tix: Sat. $17.50, plus tax and a one-beverage minimum; $9.95, plus tax at matinees and $15.50, plus tax and a one-beverage minimum in the evenings. Restaurants: Castle Steak House (G), Portofino (G), Imperial Court (G), Harbor View (G), Royal Buffet (E), Broadway Deli (E), Ciystal Cafe (E), Ice Cream Parlor (E). TRUMP PLAZA HOTEL: Boardwalk Mississippi Ave. 1-800-523- 2803.

Trump Theater: Jack Jones. Shows: Fri. at 9 p.m., Sat. at 8. Tix: $15.

Lounges: At Trump's Lounge, Benny Troy, Sam Butuera, and Jaimie Maria. Restaurants: New Yorker (E), Harvey's Deli (E), Ivana's (G), Max's Steak House (G), Broadway Buffet (E), Scoops (E), Roberto's (G), Fortune's (G), Cafe 21 (E), Oysters Trump (M). GUIDE: Gourmet (G), $12-plus for entrees; Moderate (M), Economical (E). less than $8..