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If- SATURDAY MARCH 4 1995 SECTION A PAGE 17 FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM Hi 1 ii- It If-m If IJrv PEOPLE ft i ft A I Virtuoso leads Early Music on enchanting time trip 1 CLASSICAL TV The Fort Worth Symphony's "Adventures in Music" concert which has played live to more than 40000 youngsters in Fort Worth and around the state will be featured on two local television shows Monday Conductor Ron Spigelman who writes and hosts the concerts will be featured in live segments of a performance at Fort Worth Country Day School on Good Morning Texas at 9 am on WFAAChannel 8 taped segments and interviews with young music-lovers will be shown on Scott Murray's Scoff's Kids at 5 pm KXASChannel 5 MOURNING STAR Michael Jackson attended the funeral Thursday of 22-month-old Craig Alan Fleming who drowned last week when his mother threw him and his brother Michael Robert 3 off a Long Beach Calif bridge into the Los Angeles River The pop star also made a donation to the Michael Fleming Fund in the dead boy's honor Michael Fleming was released Sunday from a hospital and is fully recovered HER MONEY'S SWEETER THAN HONEY f' -tfriiitti'h' fc-' i 8 returned for the Concerto in for Descant Recorder by Telemann's Ital- ian contemporary Giuseppe Sammar-tini On the higher lighter descant recorder Heywood combined a flawless command of passage work and 1 beautiful substantial tone quality with an instinctively expressive and communicative musicality The rest of the evening was devoted to two familiar works of JS Bach The Harpsichord Concerto in Minor was the root from which the virtuoso piano concerto eventually emerged: It was one of the first of Bach's works to re-enter the repertoire in the 19th century and in our own time continues to prove its dura- bility and adaptability Still last night's historically accu- rate performance with an ensemble of five accompanying strings playing with historically authentic lucidity and lightness was revelatory expos- ing a rich intertwining of contrapuntal voices that's often covered up in stan- -dard symphonic performances The ensemble and harpsichord soloist Lenora McCroskey performed with vibrant energy more accurate intonation and attack was wanted at times however particularly in the final Allegro By WAYNE LEE GAY FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM FORT WORTH Recorder virtuoso David Heywood once again provided the high points of a concert by Fort Worth Early Music last night at St Matthew's Lutheran Church in southwest Fort Worth Made up of professional musicians and devoted to authentic performance based on the latest scholarly research and the use of historical instruments and replicas Fort Worth Early Music continues to explore the infinite facets of the 150 years of the baroque era (with an occasional side trip into the late Renaissance) Last night the ensemble concentrated on the solo concerto of the late baroque Heywood opened on the alto recorder joined by Harriet Risk Woldt the group's founding co-director and resident cellist and gambist for Telemann's Concerto in A minor for Alto Recorder and Gamba Together with the small accompanying ensemble of strings and harpsichord they explored Telemann's score with a remarkable energy further highlighted by an almost operatic lyricism from Heywood Later in the concert Heywood Special to the Star-TelegramMICHAEL A DE AVERS David Heywood performs the alto recorder part of the Concerto in A minor for Alto Recorder and Gamba as part of the presentation by Fort Worth Early Music The IRS is after the R-E-S-P-E-C-T woman Court records show the IRS placed a $489525 lien on Aretha Franklin's home in Bloomfield Township Mich on Feb 14 because of unpaid taxes In 1993 the soul singer paid more than $225000 in back taxes to the IRS Franklin's home Channel 8 wins 'sweeps' but dominance weakens Aretha Franklin is valued for property taxes at more than $1 million There was no comment from the singer yesterday Her telephone numbers are unlisted EMPTY 'HOUSE' ABC is canceling Full House after eight successful seasons Warner Bros which produces the comedy and ABC were unable to reach a financial agreement to bring it back for the 1 995- since Channel 5 and Channel 8 began competing head to head At noon though Channel 8's newscast was victorious followed by Channel 4 then Channel 5 In less felicitous sweeps news for Channel 5 some viewers angry with the station's recent three-part series titled Exprimental Studies in which lead anchor Mike Snyder took a very critical look at the Grapevine-Colleyville school district's approach toward outcome-based education are filing a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission which grants broadcast licenses Outcome-based education is a non-traditional method of teaching that uses a less structured approach toward rating students' progress and advancing students to the next level Among those upset is Hayden Chas-teen a college professor and a candidate for the May 6 Grapevine-Colleyville school board elections The series "basically started out with an accusation and went downhill from there" Chasteen said "It was absolute ly totally one-sided Here was not even an attempt to give a secondary view Mike Snyder went into it with the attitude that this is all bad and it ended up that way" Chasteen and several other angry parents accuse Channel 5 news director Dave Overton who acknowledges that he is a critic of outcome-based education of assigning the series a personal vendetta Overton hotly rejects the accusation Overton said he had a personal stake in the series "only in the sense that we live in the Grapevine-Colleyville district and I have a personal stake 'as everyone does in the future of the chidren of this country" "I have quite a bit of experience wjth these people and I can understand why they would make unfounded allegations like that because that is their track record These people do not want the light shined on this topic" Overton says that lie was not direolly involved in the series and that he purposely distanced himself from its production February ratings Following are the Mon-day-though-Friday numbers for local stations Each ratings point represents 1 percent of the total available audience out there about 18200 households per point and each share point represents 1 percent of all the viewers who are actually watching TV at that time and were turned to that particular station 5 pm WFAA 126 rating 24 share KXAS 67 13 KDFW6412 6 pm WFAA 15:1 rating 25 share KXAS 73 12 KDFW66 11 10 pm WFAA 186 rating 27 share KXAS 15222 KDFWll918 By STEVEN COLE SMITH FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM The ratings-intensive February "sweeps" period which ended Wednesday night provided another win for the newscasts on WFAAChannel 8 although by a less decisive margin than in the November sweeps Ratings earned during the February May and November sweeps periods are used to set advertising rates for stations That's why you've been watching first-run series programming sensational news series and ambitious miniseries for the past month before programming settled back down to business-as-usual At 5 6 and 10 pm Channel 8's newscasts dominated with KXASChannel 5 in second KDFWChannel 4 in third Channel 5's ratings were the station's best during a sweeps period since 1987 and its 10 pm newscast topped Channel 8's seven days during the month Channel 5's 6 am newscast won its time period for the first time 96 season network spokesman Dan Doran said yesterday Full House has simply become too expensive for ABC he said The show is ranked 23rd for the season and has cracked the top 1 0 in the past Despite the cancellation the series starring Bob Saget as the widowed head of an extended family may not be finished Warner is shopping the show to another network said Warner spokeswoman Barbara Brogllattl "We think it has a lot more life" she said She declined to identify the network Full House is the longest-running prime-time program on ABC BANG AND PAIN REM indefinitely postponed its Monster world tour after drummer Bill Berry underwent surgery yesterday in Switzerland for a brain hemorrhage Warner Bros the band's record label said that the musician was expected to make a "full and speedy recovery" and that his body and brain functions "have not been impaired in any way" Berry 36 who got a severe headache 90 minutes into REM's Wednesday night concert in Lausanne is expected to be drumming within three weeks SPIELBERG'S REEL LIFE Steven Spielberg must be getting old Me i iiiiiuiiiiiii ivipiai CBS lost battle not to air arts speech during Grammys was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Film Institute an honor reserved for the industry's respected elders Spielberg 47 received the award at a black-tie affair Thursday that included appearances by Whoopl Goldberg George Lucas and Qulncy Jones Tom By RICHARD HUFF NEW YORK DAILY NEWS It was CBS vs Michael Greene at the Grammys on Wednesday night Michael Greene won and CBS was not happy about it Greene president of the National Academy of Recording Arts Sciences spent some five minutes during the music-awards telecast to urge viewers to call their congressional representatives to voice support for continued government funding for the arts The speech capped a day of disagreement and fruitless discussion between Greene and CBS which told him to can the sermon Not only that it even went so far as to remove the speech from the TelePrompTcr He pushed on anyway On Thursday CBS said it regretted the incident and vowed to work with NARAS to see that such an incident won't happened again During the extended speech Greene lashed out at talk of funding cuts for the arts and used the time to unveil a March 14 National Call-In Day for Arts and Culture lie asked viewers to call a toll-free number ((800) 225-2007) that would result in letters being sent to their representatives in Washington "We regret that the speech violated our policy" said a CBS spokeswoman "We do not take advocacy positions on controversial issues" Greene said the two sides argued over the issue all day Wednesday "CBS did what they could" he said "They took the phone number off the super screen and the speech off the TelePrompTer But in a momentary lapse of artistic patriotism it came out of my mouth" Greene said he felt it was his "institutional charge" as head of NARAS to make the speech "I regret the fact that our corporate charge came into conflict with CBS' standards and practices" Greene said CBS execs made it clear to him after he left the stage that they were very unhappy with his decision to go against them he said According to Greene some 30000 calls were made to the 800-numbcr and as a result J5000 telegrams were sent to congressional members Girsr-ss Hanks was the host Steven Spielberg Spielberg quipped that he "considered going to a makeup man and having some prosthetic old-age makeup put on" for the occasion BIRTHDAYS Actor Paula Prentiss is 56 Rock musician Chris Squire is 47 Actor Kay Lenz is 42 Fort Worth Sttr-Telegtim JOYCE MARSHALL Former Texas student Robert Earl Keen performs at a benefit Thursday-for the University of Texas Alumni Association of Fort Worth The show was at Witfi Rogerit uditorium which wasn 't quite packed at least partly because of bad i weather which prevented our reviewer from attending '3 COMPILED BY ROBERT HILPOT FROM STAFF AND WljflE REPORTS.