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r4urtf4 ft 7'f 1 t. Gracie Mansions By TJ. Collins and Karen Freifeld STAFF WRITERS Grade Mansion, as it appears today, actually was created under the administration of Mayor Edward I. Koch, who unveiled its $5.5 million, two-year renovation in November, 1984. The house built in 1799 as a private country residence for rich Manhattan merchant Archibald Grade was endowed during the Koch administration with new electrical wiring; heating and air-conditioning systems; a gourmet kitchen; three refrigerators; antique period furniture either purchased or on loan; and much, much more.

There are two things that Im proudest of, Koch said in an interview Sunday. The porch was put together without any nails same way it was built. The second is, we restored the foyer; its a flow that looks as though it were marble, but as I used to tell people .4 V. i 1 il many additions and renovations. And in the succession of mayors David Pu kins is the eighth to occupy the mamrinn each added his own ideas of how the building should be furnished.

But that changed under Koch, who announced formation of the Grade Mnnainn Con-servanqy in 1982. Everything in Gracie Mansion is of antique quality, Koch Whatever is done with Gracie Mansion should be of the highest place is a museum. I took them around, floor painted to look like marble is much more expensive thaninarble. For most of the buildings 191-year' existence, it has been anything but a mansion; its other incarnations indude a fortified military poet during the War of 1812, a dty warehouse, a refresh--ment stand, and a public comfort sta tion. Since 1942, it has been the mayors official residence.

Over the years, the building has seen Bernstein Retires From the of the St. Louis Symphony and a regular guest conductor with the New York Philharmonic, called Bernsteins retirement the dose of the most significant chapter of American conducting. He said, This is an extremely sad day. Fortunately we will have the memories of exquisite momenta he-gave us in the concert hall. Bernstein has been in declining health for the past two years, and there has been widespread speculation that he is gravely ill.

Early last summer, he bowed out of the opening-night concert Festival USA in Charles- Rpoleto Festival I of Japan, but had ito be flown home to New York for treatment. After a rest of several weeks, Bernstein led two concerts at the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, in August: one with the Boston Symphony, one with the Tanglewood students. But he canceled several rehearsals and seemed frail and exhausted at those he attended. During the last rehearsal, a microphone was brought in to help conserve his Strength. And he.

delegated more than a third of the BSO concert to an assistant. Immediately afterward, he canceled a six-city Euro- BERNSTEIN from Page 3 energies to composing, writing and teaching: I receive this most unfortunate news in utter shock," Zubin Mehta, the New York Philharmonics current music director, said yesterday in a statement. One of the finest features of my Music Directorship in both New York and Israel was to have Leonard Bernstein as laureate conductor with both orchestras, and I know that both these ensembles will miss him most fervently Leonard Slatkin, the music director I Bernsteins podium career began in 1943; when Artur Rodzinski engaged him to be the assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic. On Nov. 14, 1943, Bruno Walter was engaged to lead the Philharmonic in a nationally broadcast concert, but a stomach disorder forced him to fiinen Rodzin ski was at his country house three hours away, Bernstein was enlisted, although hed had no time to prepare or rehearse.

He led the concert to great applause, and found himself his achievement made newspapers throughout the country the following day. His association with the Philharmonic would last nearly a half-century, including more than a decade as its music director, from 1958-1969, during which time his televised Young Peoples Concerts made him a national ce-lebrity as welL What will apparently prove to have been Bernsteins last concert at Tanglewood on Aug. 19, 1990, with the Boston Symphony included the most extraordinary reading Ive ever heard of Beethovens Symphony No. 7. Bernstein tired, ill and shaken was ob- viously determined to make this the performance of a lifetime.

63 Busted in Building- FIGHT from Page 3 and fixtures. Mdses Harris, co-founder of the Black Bwmnmi? Survival Group; said, The only reason we ever leave our office is to get jobs for and Hispanics. Harris said he didnt know enough about the incident to comment. Foreman Alfredo Santorelli wM he supervises a crew of about 40 workers and that five or six of them are black. I dont know what these people want.

Workers said the protesters occupied the site, at 89th Avenue near Prince Street, for nearly two hours. 1 Police spokesman Det. Joseph McConville said two workers were treated for minor injuries. McConville said those arrested were awaiting arraignment last night- members of the Black Economic Survival Group had come to the construction site on a few earlier occasions to seek jobs for the workers, without causing violent incidents. Police said that there was at laaafc $30,000 in damage done to equipment Will Strawberry Fields Draw Crowds Forever? AGUS from Page 3 music of sensitivity and love, of joy and sharing Noel Cross, 30, was one of the superb guitarists who played the Beatles amp so wdl, and who took the dqy off to do it Ive been playing these songs since I was seven, he said.

Most of those at the be-in kgiked like we looked then, and I stood there with dosens of others, rockin' and rollin and singin and groovin to You Wont See Me and Hold Me Tight and Honey Pie and We Can Work It Out and I Call Your Name and Dont Let Me Down and If I Fell, and I Want to Hold Your Hand, and Please Please Me. It was symbolic that Yoko Ono wasn't there. She seemed imprisoned there in the Dakota. Even in their heyday, the Beatles could never be with the loving nation theyd invented. They were as much imprisoned by their celebrity then as Yoko is now.

So I stood in the bright sunshine, listening to the music of my own generation, and then I caught the look from a high schoolgirl: the parent look. Vaguely reepectfiil and altogether horrible; a look that said, What are you Jning hers? I told you. Pm now thd parents. Do I Imagine: Celebrating John Lennons 50th object to 2 live Crew the way my parents i objected to the Beatles? Is this the new wave Pm too old to appreciate? I don't think so, not unless hatred, violence and torture are to be construed as progress. I Jistened to the Beatles in the park on what would have been John Lennons 60th birthdqr yesterday and I knew that Lennon would have wanted to summon 2 live Crew and tell them somehow to stop hating; and that what they need is love.

I looked at the Sixties Be-In going on intheparkanditlookedjustlikeitdidin the Sixties. Happy people grooving to gorgeous music in the sun. We wen white yesterday in the park, as white as we were in the anti-war movemmt whoa we protested so that our white brothers, boyfriends, uncles, husbands didn't have to sawn. And meet of them didnt have to serve. Somewhere around the world in Vietnam, some white people; but an overwhelming percentage of black people, ended up getting killed, or getting addicted to drugs or coming home crippled or with post-traumatio-stress disorder.

Now, black people, of the age the children of the Vietnam generation would be, are calling themselves 2 Live Crew and Goto Boys and making sickening albums that are hate tracts with a beat. Was the Beatles music the mnw of abundance and plenty? And i tin mntiff of 2 live Crew the mum- of deprivation and injustice? If so, it echoes truly the actions of the anti-war nation that followed John Lennon. And in the way that hero. After all, they performed at the Star Club in Hamburg hi the early years; and the Germans ak pride in that. Monika Hillenbrand, now 43, painted to Michael, 16, her ton.

He knows all the words to all the Biwtlai songs, she said. All the words. And I wondered. Will a mother, in the year 2023; stand outside some store in Miami where a storeowner was convicted for selling an obscenity called As Nasty as They Wanna Be, recorded by a group called 2 live Crew, and will die boast, He knows all the words? I doubt it. I am now the age of my parents, the age my parents were whenl was in high school and listening to the Beatles when their early music arrived in America in 1963.

My parents hatd every minute. And I look now like the parents looked when I was a hippie in the anti-war movement, when I went to the places where John Lennon was loved, the love-ins and the be-ins, where his music was plqyed and his music adored and he was adored. There was such a be-in yesterday in Central Park, just across the street from the Dakota. Right under Ydko Ones windows, the lovers of the Beatles gathered again with guitars, wearing tie-dyed shirts and peace signs. The Sixties emerged from the past ukh Brigadoon, emerged at Strawberry Ffalda, th John Lennon section of Central Perk, the same way they do each year on Oct.

9. Under the gently leaves, total i sandupdergalh, Li broadcasts across the world, the hunting Ijmnnn gang Imagine was played, sending its hope for all the people living life in peace over 1,000 radio stations to an audience estimated at more than a billion people in 130 countries. The broadcast also witafad a tape of the former Beetle saying; Just think of your children. Do you want them to be killed or dont you? Thats the choice we have in front of us war or peace. Lennon, bom Oct 9, 1940, was shot dead by a gunman in front 'of the Dakota on the Upper West Side on Dec.

8, 1980. United Nations John Lennons widow, Yoko Ono, tearfiilly urged the world yesterday to remember her huawmd on his 50th hirthdqy by making his dreams of love and peace a reality. The dream we dream alone is only a dream but the dream we drum together is reality. Happy birthday, John, Ono said at the United Nations, her voice dinBng with emotion. I would like us to remember and celebrate his birthday as a day of love because he was a man of love and love is much needed at this time; Ono said.

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