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Thursday, Aug. 1, 1991 5D The Capital Times Media Afro art ..7 fit. 4 'h: i "VI V.I rf '77 2D. cuted shards of "dynamism" reminds us of how Coltrane's synthesis of complex precision and lung-bursting expression was a standard of black artistry that many musicians and artists emulated but few equaled. More distinctive is Joseph Holston's collage Coltrane portrait called simply "Jazz," Here is Coltrane's power in broad black shoulders, his deep introspection in a few shadowy streaks of a face, and his inner drive in the serpentine tenor sax.

Among the most stunning works here are prints of Paul Goodnight, whose African women in "Floral Arrangement of Senegal" reveal smiles as mysterious as Mona Lisa's and clothing as rich as Africa's flora. So far, Positive Images carries all out-of-town artists in primarily poster-style prints and greeting cards. But Thomas'says he will begin showing local artists soon painter Turbado Marabou in August and sculptor Frank Brown in September. Continued from Page ID viewers only to be dropped by Madison's largest cable provider, Telecommunications Inc. When asked recently about WSSM, TCI officials told McMedia the station had gone belly up, bankrupt and sold its equipment apparently unable to handle life after cable.

Although WSSM lost its share of TCI's 75,000 cable subscribers, it is still available as an over-the-air signal and on Jones Interc-able in Fitchburg. "For someone who's bankrupt," laughs Dobrowolski, "we're doing very well." Indeed, it could pose a real challenge to the recession-strapped local media, especially if Dobrowolski goes into classified ads on the new channel. Continued from Page ID Moving between self-assertion and assimilation is the deft act of jazz, that synthesis of European and African musical forms. Not coincidentally, jazz imagery is featured prominently at the new gallery and last month jazz was the display theme. Two artists here typify the strengths and weaknesses of jazz art, and contrasting studies of sax giant John Coltrane are illuminating.

Pierre-Jean Courraze's slick portraiture goes for jazzy treatment that is heroic but cliched. Surrounding shadowy images of Coltrane are a flurry of fragments resembling shattered glass, as if the musician is "breaking through." But the stylizing is formulaic in this artist's work, and all too familiar. Yet Courraze's precisely exe MSN-TVChannel 47 will Norman Rockwell's "Problems We All Live With" is part of the August display at Positive Images. not pick up for fall the randy new TV dating Vox Box Big names are best bet to sell books game "Studs," which is being described as an R-rated "Dating Game" with an attitude. The Fox-produced show is being tested in 16 cities including Salt Lake City, where the local station registers 30 protest calls per day, and in Los Angeles, where "Studs" is beating such established competitors as "Entertainment Tonight" and Van-na's "Wheel of Fortune." The show features two men who vie for the title of "King with Leonard Slatkin and the St.

Louis Symphony. If your taste runs to historic recordings, try pianist Alfred Brendel's set of late Beethoven sonatas and Diabelli variations, done for Vox in the 1960s. Want to fill in gaps in your collection? Try the three-CD set of Manuel Barrueco in "300 Years of Guitar Masterpieces." Or the box with chamber music by seven women composers. Or the collection of Gregorian chant. Or Gershwin's complete music for piano and orchestra with Madison "Keyboard Conversations" favorite Jeffrey Siegel.

song recitals. But when it comes to instrumental music, especially orchestral and keyboard music, the Vox Box is an excellent bet and it's catching on. "We're going nuts with them. They're selling incredibly well despite the downturn in the overall market," says a representative of the Moss Music Group in Hackensack, N.J., which has already released more than 40 sets. Given the catalog of back listings after deletion of poorer quality masters, about 350 three-LP sets will be put into a two-CD format the supply should last quite a while.

In fact, eight more sets including Mozart's divertimenti, Kurt Weill's opera suites and Grieg's orchestral music are due out this month. Review copies were provided by the Exclusive Company. Continued from Page ID osity that mark the Italian baroque of better known composers such as Vivaldi. Looking to sample chamber music? Try Schubert complete music for piano and strings set with the ever popular Trout Quintet, the two trios and several shorter pieces. Do you like the drama and sweep of orchestras and soloist in Romantic concertos? Try the complete Dvorak and Schumann sets with various soloists and conductors.

Or the complete Tchaikovsky set there are three piano concertos, not just the famous warhorse First with pianist Abby Simon. Or the complete Rachmaninoff concertos and symphonic music, done Cher TCI is unable to give totals on July's stormy weather and its off-again, on-again cable service. Curiously, despite the attention paid to opera these days, vocal releases are the weak point of the series so far. You'll find some choral music Haydn's "The Seasons" and "The Creation'' but no operas or NEW YORK (AP) Blockbuster novelists, celebrity memoirs, anything about presidents, and tie-ins with TV and movies remain hot topics for publishers who attended the recent American Booksellers Association convention. "Big names still are the center of selling fiction and non-fiction.

Big names mean big sales," said Al Marchiaoni, chairman of William Morrow Co. Among the goodies Morrow is promoting is an unauthorized biography of Cher called "Totally Uninhibited." Soon-to-be-published memoirs include contributions from newsman Dan Rather, movie star Ginger Rogers, retired basketball great Wilt Chamberlain, Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, and celebrity Zsa Zsa Gabor. "Americans have always loved gossip and always will," said David Gernert, editor-in-chief of Doubleday, which is publishing a posthumous autobiography by modern dance pioneer Martha Graham. Other well-known names on fall publishing lists include feminist Gloria Steinem, who has written "A Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem," and Paul Simon, whose song "At the Zoo" has been turned into an illustrated children's book. Blockbuster fiction writers whose romance, thriller, mystery 1 WISCONSIN'S WOOD FURNITURE SPECIALISTS and historical novels dominated 1990 best seller lists will be back for more in the fall.

Readers can expect new books from veterans Sidney Sheldon, Colleen McCullough, Ken Follett, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Stephen King and Judith Michael. A posthumously published Louis L' Amour book was released recently. While the recession has dampened the phenomenal sales some publishers saw in the 1980s, ABA President Bernie Rath said bookstore sales for the first three months of 1991 exceeded $1.7 billion, a 7.4 percent increase over the first quarter of last year. Presidents seem to help sell books. Kitty Kelley's tell-all tome, "Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography," is a favorite this year.

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13th. Stud" by going on blind dates with three women who detail their nocturnal adventures on the air while the men try to guess which woman said what about them. In the final round the women and studly dudes decide who wants another date and, if their desires match, the lucky couple gets $500 and a dream date. Not much of a plot, but it's the bare-chested men, leggy bimbos and off-handed comments like "I wanted to jump his bones" that make this show. Fox plans to get even racier this fall by lining up some interracial dates, but WMSN Program Director John Noonan says for now it's unlikely "Studs" will make it on the air locally.

"I haven't been approached to carry it," Noonan says. "We have our fall schedule figured out and there isn't any room." But there's always room for a hot show with big advertising revenues unless you think it's too much for the fair Madison, says McMedia over Noonan's tap dancing. "It would have to be something pretty dynamic to be in- eluded in our fall schedule," tie says. "I don't think there's a great deal of demand for that here." There's always a demand for sex and as anyone knows who's ever watched the parade of half-naked women selling anything from cars to deodorant soaps on TV sex also sells. Just give WMSN some tidy overnight ratings and they'll be panting over "Studs" just like their Los Angeles counterparts.

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