The Charlotte Observer from Charlotte, North Carolina • 26

6B SATURDAY SFPTFMHFR 29 2007 LOCAL STATE THF CHARIOTTF ORSFRVFR I www charlotte com Pianist rouses with pizazz ARNOLD PALMER Let Us Impress you Olga Kern's free spirit draws out the Romance of Rachmaninoff Escalades-0 for 60 mo Through Oct 1st Only! Includes Escalades where that accomplished little besides postponing the inevitable end of a phrase Sometimes the price of spontaneity The audience as in previous visits responded with a lustier-than-usual standing ovation What thrills an audience must challenge an orchestra though With all slowing down and speeding up a conductor and orchestra have to be all but clairvoyant to stick with her Alan Yamamoto and the Charlotte Symphony managed it more smoothly at some times than others The speeding up worked better than the slowing down which often involved quieting down too Then the fuzzy playing hardly registered But when the group snapped back into action as in the opening salvo it matched Kern with an impact of its own Earlier in the night it also put punch in Igor in Three a piece that according to Stravinsky has the turbulence of war in PREVIEW Charlotte Symphony The orchestra opens its season WHEN: 8 pm today WHERE: Belk Theater Blumenthal Performing Arts Center 130 Tryon St TICKETS: DETAILS: 704-972-2000 charlottesymphonyorg the background of its driving rhythms and walloping chords The gentler spots always have the spring and precision that arc basic Stravinsky ingredients But Yamamoto and company still put over the vivid play of colors They also brought out the extremes in Jennifer which describes mental image of a glass church in the sky When the orchestra murmured and glimmered the music sailed highest Olga Kern plavs the piano with a free spirit She relishes music lyrical drawing it in to a whisper when she feels the urge Come time for excitement she dives in headlong tossing things off with pizazz On her third trip to town -soloing Friday with the Charlotte Symphony the young Russian let herself loose on Sergei Rachmaninoffs Concerto No 2 She gave it the dreaminess and excitement that make Rachmaninoffs music Romantic with a capital Occasionally she w'ent a little overboard slowing in places Ask about 0 APR on other 07 Cadillacs Police radio calls show confusion after shooting $11991 2005 CADILLAC CTS $26994 $11994 2003 LEXUS GX470 $28994 $19994 2007 CADILLAC DTS 29K $29995 $17995 2004 MERCEDES S500 $33994 $19995 2005 CADILLAC ESCALADE 43K $34995 $22994 2005 CADILLAC STS 8K $36995 $22995 2007 CADILLAC ESCALADE EXT $49994 $21 995 2007 CADILLAC EXT $52994 OffiCerSromJB transcripts were released some with large excerpts blacked out Those speaking in the transcripts arc not identified me some Medic out here Get me Medic out here" says an officer ho arrives at the apartments A dispatcher says an ambulance is on the way the officer responds got going as fast as we the dispatcher says The transcripts show confusion at first over whether two or 1983 MERCEDES 380SL CONVERT 2004 BUICK RENDEZVOUS 2004 CADDY DEVILLE 2005 BUICK LACROSSE 21K 2004 CADILLAC CTS49K 2004 GMC YUKON XL SLT 2006 CADILLAC CTS 34K 2005 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE 21K jn Financing onapproved credit throujh firm GMAtJ 3n l-kliMlHliiawiflililiRilil Funds sought to fight cankerworms Open Sunday 12-5 Special End Of Month Saving? 2007 CADILLAC Well Equipped Luxury Package independence blvo 8004414653 CAROUNACADIIlACCOM LIKE NOTHING ELSE INDEPENDENCE MOfiCVDOatEDS INTRODUCING THE Lnip Lima JJiMiliD 412 three police officers had been shot They show officers from across the county rushing to the apartments Some asked for directions Others got there and were asking what they should do all units going out there Make sure you get there in one says an officer kill yourself getting advised in command so we can set up a says another got officers running around here not knowing where they need to They discuss landing a police helicopter and taking one of the officers to the hospital by air Instead officers closed roads $28 Million Proposal to Fight Cankerworm Banding of 5500 street trees this fall: $155000 Aerial spraying next April of 73000 acres: $2600000 Educational brochure development and printing: $10000 Grants to neighborhoods to help with tree banding: $40000 Midwood Country Club Heights and Derita McSwecn says that is significantly more territory than the most recent spraying in 1998 which was 5580 acres and kept the population down for about eight years In 1992 spraying covered 1300 acres McSwecn recalls no complaints following the two previous sprayings The product to be used a naturally occurring organism called Bacillus thuringiensis causes no harm to humans or other ani Spray ingromiB freeze just as trees releafed and the current drought McSwecn says 50 percent to 60 percent of trees in the hardest-hit neighborhoods now show stunted growth yellow-green foliage or sparse canopies He says another defoliation could kill weakened trees McSwecn says aerial sprays in Charlotte in 1992 and 1998 proved most effective means of decreasing fall can-kerworm Approval for spraying will not eliminate the need for sticky bands on tree trunks this autumn The bands trap cankerworms in the wingless moth stage on the trunks en route to the trectops where eggs arc laid through the winter The area designated for spraying is about 73000 acres approximately from Sedgefield then cast and north to the Derita and University areas It includes Dilworth Freedom Park Myers Park Eastover Cherry Fliza-beth Chantilly Cotswold Plaza- Work goes on at and blocked intersections between the apartments on Barrington Drive off Milton Road and Carolinas Medical Center nine miles away Officers also blocked intersections around the complex in hopes of containing the shooter in an officer says body up Stay in The public portions of the transcripts do not mention a suspect Dcmcatrius Montgomery 25 was taken into custody 40 minutes after the shootings He was later charged with two counts of first-degree murder He remains in Mecklenburg County jail awaiting trial without bond mals He says it is used by farmers to control caterpillars on food and bears one of the safest designations given by the state and federal governments News of recommendation on aerial spraying cheered people who have wrestled with the cankerworm problem urban forest is in decline and cankerworms are a big piece of the said neighborhood leader Dennis Frost of Country Club Heights in east Charlotte fear is the way going if the trees get stripped again they might just give up They are really That is also the view of certified arborist Patrick George of Ileartwood Tree Service He says the drought has made the problem worse as it continues to weaken trees frankly quite he says explaining that another infestation next spring could be just enough to kill them just love trees we need ner of hotel management firm Griffin Stafford said a drag racing team called this week to reserve a block of rooms doing is hedging their bets so not left out on the said Stafford whose Wingate Inn and Suburban Extended Stay hotels have a total of 194 rooms about a mile from the speedway Stafford who used to work for Speedway Motorsports said a drag strip would be good for business NHRA spokesman Jerry Ar-chambcault said any guess that the organization is holding the open date for Concord would be speculation But he said the organization has a strong relationship with Smith and his company The NHRA sanctions events at Speedway Motorsports-owned facilities at Bristol Motor Speedway Las Vegas Motor Speedway and Infineon Raceway in Sonoma Calif no doubt Bruton docs a great job He builds beautiful facilities for Archam-beault said -STAFF WRITER DAVID POOLE CONTRIBUTED drag strip site despite questions AH New Interior DVD Backup Camera 7 Passenger Seating More Power! Better Fuel Economy! strip Fie said the facility could start hosting events in April For meeting city staffers have drafted changes to an ordinance that would shut down work on the drag strip The ordinance allows Speedway Motorsports to build auto racing facilities on the property The proposed amendment would add the words Smith blasted City Council members this week after learning about the proposal saying he wished he had never had his speedway property annexed into Concord The council ought to get on board with his project Smith said City workers and council members said supported motorsports but they want details about how engineers could design the drag strip to deaden noise Speedway Motorsports spokesman Jerry Gappens said the facility would work to reduce noise but he did not provide details saying he wanted city officials to hear them first Doug Stafford managing part Concord from Monday after some residents charged that the drag strip would bring noise and polluting fumes to hundreds of nearby homes But Smith has already moved forward The National Hot Rod Association the organization that sanctions the top drag racing series has an race event scheduled for Sept 11-14 The location is listed as to be announced Several sources have told the Observer however that the date is definitely being held for a Concord event NIIRA officials have visited to look at the grounds and crews have marked off the site with stakes As of Friday Speedway Motor-sports still had not applied for city and county permits to start grading work on the drag strip though it has permission to do grading for other purposes on the property officials said But Smith said this week the construction work is for 'he drag.