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The Day New London Conn Wednesday Dec 3 1986 C5 TL MmMMtfjMa SW gUB jkw syaWsiwiM Wz igwtf EafBriK ZJBM eamMgag8gh WaLCaHrAfaKz iy'iwk A WsTiv i 1 nrp cfc wyi i wfyZSsbe ssbk 4g 3iw caj mJ talk The Guarneri String Quartet Guameri String Quartet to play NEW LONDON The Guarneri String Quartet will perform at 8 pm riday in Palmer Auditorium at Con necticut College One of the premier quartets one which has had no changes in personnel dur ing its 21 year history the members include Arnold Steinhardt and John Dailey violins Michael Tree viola and David Soyer cello The 1986 87 sea son includes 100 recitals played throughout Europe and the United States Its appear ance in Palmer Auditorium is part of Connecticut Concert and Artist Series The program will include Quartet in flat ma jor Op 76 No 4 Quartet in A mi nor Op 29 No 1 and Debus Quartet in minor Op 10 Tickets priced at $15 $12 and $10 are available through the Palmer box office Box off ice hours are 9:30 am to 4:30 pm Monday through riday Cadet group set for annual show NEW LONDON More than 150 performers will appear in the Coast Guard Cadet Musical Activities Holiday Show to be presented at 8 pm Dec 7 in Leamy Hall Auditori um The show written by Dr Rob ert Newton acting director of Cadet Vocal Musical Activities features the cadet Islers Ice breakers Glee Club and Regi mental Band Appearing with the cadets will be the East Lyme High School Select Chorus di rected by Mary Ann Liniak Bodwell performing Daniel Pin orty dancers from the Imperial Academy of Dance in East Lyme will also perform routines chore ographed by Jill Holt A brass quintet from the Coast Guard Band will accompany the combined singing groups for the Herald Angels Three trumpeters will play and a new Hanukkah selection the will be sung by the Glee Club The cadet singing Islers will perform the traditional Santa Claus kick line and the vocal en sembles will close the show with The program is open to the public Information and reserva tions may be obtained by calling Cadet Musical Activities at 444 8471 Critics rom Page C4 tied compendium Re Cultural events endure in beleaguered Belfast By Matt Wolf BELAST Northern Ireland a rainy riday in Belfast and the city is tense with antici pation The following day dis turbances are expected as Cath olics and Protestants once again vent their sectarian spleen Violinist Kyung Wha Chung here for the 24th arts festi val is calm as she rides through the security barrier back to her hotel to change clothes for her concert is the she says philosoph ally can get in trouble crossing the Later that night dancer Lau rie Aoatangeio nere wiin cnica Joel Hall dancers says: feel safer here than I do in Chi Both newcomers to the city these women are expressing what local arts figures want the world to hear: in a community beset with sectarian strife cul ture nonetheless continues a couple of weeks of mad excitement Randall Shannon administrator of Ire Opera Theater Co said of the annual Belfast estival at University which began before the flared up in 1969 majority of people who just want to live their life are not going to be defeated by those out to destroy more than they are to said Shannon His Dub lin based troupe performed Ben jamin opera "Turn of the during the first weekend This year the festival is pre senting 265 performances of 106 events in 14 venues mostly in the calm neighborhood around University The festival expects to draw 2 percent to 3 percent more people than the 50000 who bought tickets last year Budgeted at $493500 the largest arts binge in the Brit ish Isles after the annual Edin burgh splurge in August the end of the day people do feel something else they ought to be doing however much they care about said Michael Barnes festival di rector since 1973 is a compartment of Soviet pianist Dmitri Alexeev mezzo soprano Dame Janet Baker and actor Jeremy Irons are appearing at this fes tival Also the Joel Hall Co the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig Royal land ers Ballet and the Takacs Quar tet from Hungary Royal Shakespeare Co performed two Shake spearean plays and Ab bey Theater did Tom MacIn Great demonstrating Britain and Ire land in a cultural harmony less easily arrived at politically have the most cordial re lationship with Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland whether bringing the RSC or the Barnes said all just fellow Northern Ireland has been torn by strife for 17 years and about 2500 people have been killed as a Catholic minority as serts itself against a Protestant majority Hoping to improve the situa tion Britain and Ireland signed an accord a year ago giving Ire land a consultative role in the governing of the province but the accord has left an enduring problem for the arts festival: It was signed Nov 15 1985 and its anniversary falls within the time of the festival The festival will compete each year with inevitable political un rest since the accord is unlikely to be scrapped and arts officials have no intention of changing the festival dates this year Nov 12 29 will not be stopped by a sec tionalized area of the communi ty making some kind of said Richard Digby Day a Welshman who in August be came artistic director of Bel Lyric Theater His theater is accustomed to adversity In October a revival of riedrich was performed four times under gas lamps during an electricity strike called to pro test the Anglo Irish accord The drama written in 1800 brings together Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots in a 16th century religious political tus sle Day sees its relevance to mod ern day Belfast has some thing to say very strongly about the Catholic Protestant divide and entrenched he said But while plays about North ern Ireland are seen often in London Belfast often opts for musical revivals and farces with titles such as and Two Make Two acclaimed Northern Irish plays Ron in the and Anne have yet to be seen in the city in which they take place have produced a conservatism in said Paul Hadfield lecturer in the ater studies at the University of Ulster and co editor of Theater Ireland magazine not really good box said Hadfield will work in London where they work Richard Digby Day thinks Bel fast has seen enough plays on the strife and he wants to show other things: need to be aware that there are problems elsewhere in the world that are also Mr £1 'Jr i SB3ju kAHK'A ffil a JA' A A 'z Music for holidays Members of the Wil liam Billings Institute of American Music from left Charles rink baritone and piano Barbara Billings soprano and Cantor Roger Weisberg John Ligos baritone will perform a concert of music for Christmas and Hanukkah at 9:45 am Tuesday at the New London Senior Citizens Center The per formance is open to the public free (Pushcart Press $1250) The excerpt from ten of is here though he at least is not singled out by name but as the anonymous critic for the New York Times Woolf and Mencken are not so fortunate Nor is Vol taire who called a and barbarous drama one would imagine this piece to be the work of a drunken sav a comment that suggests something was rotten in rance as well as Denmark If Henry James was maligned by Mencken perhaps it was sim ply poetic justice for his failure to appreciate Walt Whitman whose attitude in James described as because it pretends to persuade the soul while it slights the intel lect because it pretends to grat ify the feelings while it outrages the Because so many of these in famous words come from fa mous writers they may reflect not errors of judgment so much as expressions of professional jealousy Or as Saul Bellow charitably put it in a remark quoted by Anthony Brandt in his foreword seldom wish other writers Well if you want this opinion and sure you do this (necessarily) slender book is of little consequence unless you take a sadistic pleasure in seeing critics abused and made to look like fools and or knaves But if your own tastes lean to such questionable entertain ment then there are probably more unpleasant ways to spend an hour or two planned at Bushnell Hall HARTORD The Hartford Symphony Orchestra and the Hartford Chorale under the di rection of Michael Lankester will present at 8 pm Saturday at Bushnell Memorial Hall Soloists will include soprano Karli Gilbertson mezzo soprano Valic Marsh tenor Robert Towne and baritone Scott Neu mann Ms Gilbertson and Neu mann have appeared frequently in Connecticut Opera produc tions and Towne performs with the Boston Concert Opera Ms Marsh a graduate of the Hartt Conservatory performs at the Tanglewood and Chataqua sum mer festivals The program has been ar ranged through a grant from United Technologies Corpora tion Advance reservations are advised Tickets may be ob tained through the Bushnell box office and at all Ticketron outlets Music competition WEST HARTORD Stu dents of voice and brass woodwinds in grades 9 12 who live or study in the greater Hart ford area are eligible to compete for cash prizes totaling $900 to be awarded by the Musical Club of Hartford 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