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2G April 221995. College Professor Dr. Bruce McKinney. Dr. McKinney is a graduate of the conducting programs of the Julliard School and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

Tickets for the April concert of the Kingsborough Orchestra are available at the Kingsborough Community College box office (368-5596). For further information about the activities of the orchestra, contact the Music Department at 368-5528. Kingsborough Orchestra's Spring Concert Is Sunday The Kingsborough Orchestra will present a varied program of classical favorites at its spring concert April 25th. The concert is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. that Sunday and will take place in the Performing Arts Center Auditorium of Kingsborough Community College which is located at the end of oriental Boulevard in Manhattan Beach.

The program will include The Royal Fireworks Music of George Frederick Handel, Claude Debussy's Rhapsody for Clarinet and Orchestra, Benjamin Britten's Soirees Musicales, which is based on melodies by the Italian Opera Composer Gioacchino Rossini and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 38 in Major, known to music lovers as the Prague Symphony. The Kingsborough Orchestra, a training orchestra, rehearses and performs at the College from September to June. It is comprised of professional musicians, talented music students, and qualified amateur musicians. The orchestra is directed by Kingsborough friends were last seen standing in BBG's Longwood Garden, and will be artfully restored by the Philip Mastridge, a local artist who is also one of the Library's Senior Special Officers.

The plants and shrubs will be installed by high school students who are involved with BBG's Children's Garden. These volunteer horticulturists will work under the supervision of BBG instructor Roy McGowan. Eventually two of the newly planted shrubs will be sculpted to form animal shaped topiary. Cleveland Orchestra To Close Season For "Friends Of Arts" Friends of the Arts' Great Performances series closes the 19921993 season with a concert by The Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy on Friday evening, May 7, 1993 at 8:30 p.m. at the Tilles Center in Greenvale, Long Island.

The concert is being sponsored by the Chrysler Corporation. Writing in Newsday, Tim Page said The Cleveland Orchestra is "in a class by itself." Page continued, "Surely, this is America's great orchestra in the early '90s." Vladimir Ashkenazy, the Principal Guest Conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra since 1987, is well known both as pianist and conductor in the major music centers of the world. On the program on May 7th are Anatoli Liadov's Kikimora, Opus 63, Prokofiev's Symphony No. 7 in c-sharp minor, Opus 131 and Antonin Dvorak's Symphony No. 8 in Major, Opus 88.

The performance is made possible by the generous support of the Chrysler Corporation. For further information on this concert or on the 19931994 Great Performance series, call Friends of the Arts at 516-922-0061. Central Library To Become A "Summer Wonderland" The entrance way outside of the Brooklyn Public Library's Central Library's Children's Room is being transformed into a colorful garden with an Alice in Wonderland theme, thanks to some very valuable assistance from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. When the Central Library decided to spruce up its exterior through the use of plantings, it turned to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden for help. Catherine Annese, Director of Community Horticulture for BBG enlisted the aid of garden design consultant Alane Joynes, who then donated the design for the collaborative beautification.

project. Joynes, a long-time Brooklyn resident, feels a strong affection for the Brooklyn Public Library's Children's Room. Joynes said she wanted to create a garden that says to the children, "You're special come and take a book and be in this fantasy garden." The more than 20 varieties of bulbs, annuals, perennials and shrubs being planted in the Library's Children's Garden were chosen for both their appearance and' fragrance. The garden will incorporate figures depicting characters from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. The large wooden cut outs of Alice and (Distinctive Catering for Any Occasion Weddings Anniversaries 'Birthdays Suoett Sv(teens Bariitzvahs Or Any Special Occasion gshtr Catering Available Let Our (Banquet Manager Arrange Everything 1931 ROCKAWAY PARKWAY BKLYN, NY 11236 718-444-4076 444-4111 On THE PIER i 7 r-eluws Willie oe bfrue 2200 Rockaway Parkway On Canarsie Pier For Reservations Call 71825 1 -55 1 7 Tree Valet Parking Major Credit Cards Accepted.