Newsday (Nassau Edition) from Hempstead, New York • 141

OX THE ISLE Two i TT kVlWU" i -V 1 a Study in Contrast By Leo Seligsohn There up on the stage of South Junior High School in Great Neck -Friday night was poet Allen Ginsberg closing the generation gap of all things in his fashion For in addition to his avant-garde poems his harmonium his Buddhist chant he brought his father Louis also a poet Together before an audience of nearly 600 they read from their works listening respectfully to each other mi offering their respective views on the world It was an evening of striking contrast Allen Ginsberg ambled onto the stage looking like this wandering Jew his face riding in a bed of beard (ms shoulder bearing the weight of a cloth bag containing his poems As he read them many jotted down in a composition notebook his voice was fiery resonant and infused with a tone of laughing exultation He reveled in the sound of his words ranging from the delicate touch of imagery to the exposing impact of obscenity The conservatively dressed father looking very much like the retired high school teacher that he is (ha toadies classes at Rutgers now) read quietly from bound volumes of his works displaying a gentle humor and common talent with his son far distilling impressions into vivid language But die re the similarity ends Where Ginsberg the younger dips his pen in sulphuric acid Ginsberg the elder dipe his pen in nectar writing in rhyming verse that makes up in charm what it lades In thunder His themes though often topical a College Girl at the are generally light And where the son shocks with four-letter words and poetry about his homosexuality the lather with outrageous puns all of which ha confined Friday to informal patter between his poema Allen Ginsberg in a prelude to his readings sang a Buddhist chan ao- company in himself on the harmonium and then paid a tribute to his friend and mentor Jack Kerouac who died last month Before reading from City Blues Ginsberg described the work as speech the rhythm of' the mind Hu first poem from his own work was a further tribute to -Kerouac called Gardens Ginsberg completed the evening singing poems by William Blake to the accompaniment of his harmonium Tanking at his audience of mostly miniskirted and hirsute teenagers Ginsberg guessed before his reading of the Kerouac work that most of the audience was not familiar -with the writer But after the program Diane Grumbach 15 of Roslyn said that was not true of herself or people she knew glad he did Kerouac" she said on to him" Gale Llchter 17 of Roslyn stopped the elder Ginsberg as he left the auditorium to tell him love your puns" She added later first while she enjoyed the evening she felt the surroundings were too formal "I think maybe we should all have been In a big room with everybody just sitting around Maybe he should have just had a big rap about religion" A comparison between the two Ginsbergs was made by David Wolf-son 17 of Great Neck think Allen Ginsberg's the greatest poet around he said stuff is all right but I think a lot of it is trite I thought the puns were really great though Allen Ginsberg as the audience filed out around 10:30 FM and he wrapped up his material admitted to a little disappointment ended too early I think There was just something lacking- I wanted to go on longer" What he was referring to perhaps was the lack of an exchange with his audience an event that In the past produced some fiery dialogue Louis Ginsberg Left Stmdv Photo hr Dick Talks to Son Allen Channel 21 Has a New Chief 4 SELECTED SIIOIIT SUBJECTS I Art Auction Exhibit To A id Child Guidance By Barbara Ddatiner Charles Robert Bell is the- new general manager of Ch 2L After a seven-month search the hoard of trustees of WLIW yesterday named the Roalyn man to the top post of Long fledgling public tele- vision station Bell will his duties Dec Bell is a staff director at ABC-TV where he has been at toe Mm of Talk" His varied career has included a stint as amfatant rational public relations director of the American Legion He has no expezi- ence in public broadcasting although he has worked at commercial outlets in New York produced educational records for youth in classrooms and was regional coordinator of Project Reach a local federally funded poverty program designed to tire cultural arts to the in the school systems He has also served as village trustee and mayor of Roslyn WLIW which will observe its first anniversary In January has been without a general manager since spring when William Pearce a longtime public television broad-: caster resigned to return to Rochester Pearce left- the post which he had held far only' four 'months' because the financial outiookcf Ch 21 was bleak and because the -com- munity showed few signs of being in- terested in supporting a Long Idand-ariented public television channel The limit far successor has been hindered by the same problems that triggered his departure Veteran public television broadcasters have turned down the job after fomHiarix-ing themselves with the deteriorating situation An annual come of 3280000 derived from Nassau County the State Educational Department and the StateUniversity of New York just meets housekeeping -expenses and is about $200000 shy of providing minimal local programming services The station has inadequate facilities and does not have its own studios or a remote unit for coverage of the community The- lack of money and facilities are among the immediate threats to Ch 21s future During the seven months without a general manager Ch 21 has been unable to mount a concerted fund- raising campaign and to conduct an engineering study to see how far its Mitchel Field transmitter readies 1 nomination was presented by toe personnel committee headed Iqr Richard demo dean of Adel-phi University to the board of trustees without endorsement His father-in-law Mead Stone a member of toe board and founder of the sponsor the Long Island Educational Television Council- ab- stained from the deliberations Bell conceded that Long-Island there are so many demands" on residents is tough place to raise funds" But the 52-year-old Bell who has two married daughters and a son who is a student at Rodim Junior SchooL'is optimistic about his "chances got to interest the community in the station and what the station can do and once we do that succeed" he said He described his new job as a two-fold challenge have to raise the funds necessary to make the sta- tkm vital for the people of Long Island (and) let them know about tiie station And as a programmer I will have to program what people are interested in out here The Long Island Rail Road for instance the budgets zoning what interests our communities I have to find out who is willing to work with us to meet the needs of Long lsland and -zqy experience in mastering industry support for Project Reach should help and their ftmiilina Every dollar raised by the association is matched by the state Replacement' The TJnenln Art Players a woodwind octet conducted by Arthur Weiaberg will replace the Quarteto Italiano tomorrow night in the second concert of the season for the Roslyn Music Group The Italian chamber group has cancelled its fall American tour Instead the IJncoln Art ensemble will offer a program of Mozart Beethoven and a 'first New York performance of a wind octet by Josef Myslivecek Tickets for this and the remaining two concerts in the Roslyn Music series may be obtained at toe door or by writing to Mr Dan Lichtenstein 72 Jayson Ave Great Neck The 8:45 PM performances are at the Wheatley School in Old Westbury Toast of Warsaw Wanda Wilko-mireka leading violinist will be presented in concert tonight in the Garden City High School auditorium by Island Concert Hall Inc Tickets are $5w For reservations call MA 1-4444 The North Shore Child Guidance Association will hold Its 12th annual arts festival Dec 13 and 14 at Roosevelt Cloud Casinoi The exhibit will open Dec 13 with an invitation-only champagne gala and will be open to the public from 10 AM to 6 FM Dec 14 Oils wateroolore graphics and sculpture from major New York (Sty galleries will be shown Among the artiste represented will be Childe Hassam Reginald Marsh Moaea and Raphael Soyer The sculpture exhibit will contain works by Archipenko Modigliani Calder Chadwick Zorach and others artiste whose work is part of tits permanent collections of the Whitney Guggenheim and Modem Art Museums A juried art competition open to all artists will be judged by Mm Marcia Tucker associate curator of the Whitney Museum There will be an auction of donated art The festival is the chief fund-raising activity of the North Shore Child Guidance Center a diagnostic remedial and preventive service available to emotionally disturbed children IVewsdayu wi'.