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rlO Friends of the Arts Ends Tilles Concerts By Steve Parks STAFF WRITER After 25 years Friends of the Arts is giving up on its classical music concert-hall series staged at Tilles Center for the past 22 of those years But the Long Island arts group will expand its other concert offerings especially the popular outdoor summer series at Planting Fields Arboretum in Oyster Bay long-term dream has been to turn our summer season into Tanglewood on Long said executive director Teddy Bookman not there yet but where be concentrating our Bookman said that a study commissioned by Friends of the Arts determined that Tilles Center itself a presenter of performing arts programs on the Post Campus of Long Island University Brook-ville taller Center on the SUNY-Stony Brook campus as well as the Long Island Philharmonic and rating the centennial of George birth is Sea Cliff Chamber Players filling the need for planned for the summer of classical music that Long Islanders lacked when we The Friends of the Arts concert-hall series at Tilles started out twenty-five years Center has been declining for years both in the num- study shows that unique about us is her of subscription concerts down from 12 a decade our summer season in that beautifiil at ago to four and in the number of subscribers which Planting Fields said Bookman Friends of the has shrunk by 20 percent in the past five years Long Island Jazz Festival has been cited in a recent been a graying Bookman said poll on the jazz-oriented radio station CD- Elliott Sroka executive director of Tilles Center 101 FM as the No 2 festival of its kind in the coun- said he would have no difficulty filling the dates left try after the New Orleans Jazz Festival 11 open by the departure of the classical series plan Friends of the chamber-music series at Plant- to add to our dance and opera Sroka said ing Coe Hall will continue during the fall win- our classical series will have more orchestral events ter and spring months said Bookman and also than we had this season Classical mimic fans will not be doing more in a classical vein in the The lack for annual Beethoven Festival for instance will be broad-- Among the events remaining in the season at Tilles: ened this summer to include Mozart and Schubert and Orchestra Nationals de France Feb 8 Taaac Stem a concert of waltzes performed promenade-style will March 3 Cincinnati Symphony March 9 and Bourne- be added Also a major Gershwin festival commemo- mouth Symphony Orchestra April 12 PEOPLE Broadway Is Getting A Ford AP photo QUITE A SIGHT Pat sporting a new was at the American Music Awards to present the favorite hard rock metal award Boone is working on an album of heavy metal remakes "I had this idea to do a metal album and before I knew it I was so intrigued I decided to do And The Winners Are By Patrick Pacheco a Plymouth on Broadway Now a Ford Broadway showman Garth Drabinsky yesterday unveiled the new name for the first Broadway theater to be built in 20 years the Ford Center for the Performing Arts The 183 9-seat theater actually combines two existing 42nd Street theaters the Lyric and the Apollo that will have many of their original architectural elements restored as part of the construction Drabinsky the chief executive officer of Canadian-based arta-pro-duction company Livent which has a 75-year lease on the property said that the theater would open Dec 26 with a production of the new musical based on the Doctorow novel The ahow is a smash hit in Toronto For a meaningful amount payable for the next couple of the producer said the Ford Motor Company had purchased the right to attach its name and logo to the theater something Ford has dona with two Livent theaters in Canada (Young Henry Ford gets his own song in Reaction to the name itself was mixed from the Broadway community Alexander Cohen a longtime observer of Broadway said bad better than the Imperial' Royale and Majestic which sound like cigarette brands to me But if you ask me the real names are the Gershwin the Rodgers the people who had to do with DREW CAREY All in the Family Drew Carey is a comedian Drew Carey did stand-up Drew Carey has a sitcom Now Draw Carey has a multi-million-dollar book contract Just like Jerry Seinfeld Paul Reiser Tim Allen and Ellen DeGeneres not to mention Rosie and Jon Stewart who have talk shows instead of sitcoms The deal is with Hyperion which is owned by Disney which owns ABC which airs Drew Carey IN OTHER NEWS Royal Approval When Leonardo DlCaprlo stars as both the King of France and the prisoner in Man in the Iron which Starts filming in April John Mslkevlch Gerard Depar-dlea and Jeremy Irens will play the Three Musketeers Athos Porthos and Aram is respectively Queen Elizabeth no longer objects so Prince Charies may be seen in public with his longtime mistress Camilla Park-er-Bewles a British newspaper reports Aretha Franklin who already has a lifetime-achievement award from The Rhythm Blues Foundation will host its annual awards ceremony during Grammy Week Feb 27 at the New York Hilton Tickets to the 1997 edition of The Radio City Christmas Spectacular went on sale last week Hie show runs from Nov 6 through Jan 4 1998 Tickets priced from $25 to $57 are available at the Radio City box office Until Feb 2 phone orders are limited to American Express card members Luther Windrow has added two shows to his Westbury Music Fair gig Feb 28 and March 1 Have people told you you look like that guy on the Tomorrow at 1 pm at the Manhattan Mall 100 33rd St Princess Cruises will be looking for look-alikes to promote the launch of a to the original boat Your reward for showing up will be a chance to talk with Gevle MacLeod Capt Stubing Beck Owns the 67-year-old former host of should soon be back to his old self again after a bout of pneumonia doctors in Bakersfield Calif say Wtii '-V! vet Arlli) COMBINED NEWS SERVICES Toni Braxton who opens a concert run with Kenny tonight at Radio City Music Hall proclaimed American Music Awards "the year of the as she won or shared three titles including favorite female artist Two of the three favorite new artist awards went to women as well: Jewel for pop-rock and I Ann Rimes for country was the top new artist in In receiving her award Jewel thanked her fans: went from living in my car to this because you guys bought my album because you guys bought my album that Pm not stealing Mariah Carey who led the nominees with five repeated her Grammy performance last year by being shut out Winners were selected by national sampling of about 20000 listeners who chose from nominees compiled by music industry publications was the top album and she shared the award that went to the to soundtrack to which she was a contributor Alan is Morissette also was a multiple winner though she show up Morissette was named favorite pop-rock female artist and her Little won the pop-rock album trophy Other winners: -COWRIT: Garth Bracks male Shania Twain female Brooks Dunn group Clear (Georgs Strait album F0P-G0CE Eric Clapton male HooUe The Blow-fish group SOVL-UB: Keith Sweat male New Edition group FAVORITE ARTIST: Metaica hard rock heavy metal Smashing Pumpkins aNamative music Whitney Houston adult contemporary and Tupac Shakur rap hip-hop NEW Showtime is readying a pair of TV movies based on the 1960s CBS courtroom drama series with EG Marshall reprising his defense attorney role One of the films is being written by Reginald Rose now 76 who created the original show The original which aired from 1961 to 1965 starred on West 52nd Street Tick-Marshall and Robert Reed as a father- -eta are $10 call at 212-621-6600 I I (iLm IB W6 A and-son legal defense team Variety SITCOMS EXPLAINED Writers from Improvement Mary Tyler Moore and other TV comedies discuss the collaborative process of their art tonight from 6 to 8 pm at the Museum of Television Radio FLASHES Geoffrey Darby one of the original Nickelodeon and Nick at Nite pro-gramers has been named president of CBS Eye on People the new CBS Weatinghouse cable service-that launches March 31 Richard son president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting since 1992 is ing as of June 30 A VS A aftf ft VI JN s' VAJMrruxJMB 'MiWuvrnj i -twee DNVr i.