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The Sunday Pantagraph, Aug. 3, 1980 D-3 N.Y. Philharmonic schedules season NEW YORK (UPI) The New York Philharmonic will open its 139th subscription series Sept. 25 with Music Passion story in musical loud, frisky, but reverent uirector ubin Mehta conducting Bartok's "Concerto for Orchestra" and Brahms' "Symphony No. 2." Mehta will conduct 16 weeks of the season, his third as music director.

Guest conductors will include Leonard Bernnstein, Daniel Barenbboim, James Conlon, Rafael Kubelik, Erich Leinsdorf and James Levine. Houston Grand Opera to open season HOUSTON (UPI) Houston Grand Opera's Silver Anniversary season will open Oct. 10 with a new production of Verdi's "II Trovatore." The season, running through May 1, will feature the world premiere of Carlyle Floyd's "Willie Stark," Mozart's "The Magic Flute" in a new English translation, a new English version of Bizet's "Carmen," Cilia's "Andrea Lecouvreur" and Verdi's "Un Ballo In Maschera." ft 5 I i t. i NEW YORK (AP) It's the wildest, loudest, friskiest portrayal ever of the passion story Jesus, his execution and resurrection but somehow it mostly comes off as rambunctiously reverent. "He rules!" the chorus blasts it out.

I tell There'll never be a man like When the power comes the Jesus power!" i And the audience is swept up into the compulsive sound and dancing fervor, clapping, whistling shrilly, stomping, standing and swaying and then shouting out its affirmation: "Yeah! Yeah!" That's after the robust resurrection scene in the current Broadway hit, "Your Arms Too Short to Box with God," a flashy, bouncing musical rendition of the Jesus story in song and dance. It begins on a gentle note, a choir softly singing the Beatitudes, "Blessed are the meek the merciful the poor the persecuted the But it quickly turns tempestuous as the preacher exhorts the audience: "Hey Lord! We're gonna have a good time!" He gets the audience clapping cadence and rooting for it. "Don't be afraid to raise your voice. The Lord said make a joyful Yeah, Lord, we're gonna have a good time. Say yeah!" "YEAH!" That's the sort of tent-revival enthusiasm built up repeatedly between audience and performers, a kind of high-powered reflection of the black-church style, done by a black cast.

It's "earthy, joyous, gutsy Gospel," says Vinnette Carroll, artistic director of the Urban Arts Corps and author-director of. the show, originally commissioned by the Italian government and first performed at the Spoletto Festival. It opened on Broadway in May after a year-long tour of 66 U.S. cities to wide critical acclaim. goes.

"He looks like no one you've ever seen He's called a trouble-mmaker because he disturbs the status quo." Back home in Nazareth, his mother Mary, does a troubled dance while big-voiced Jennifer-Yvette Holliday, sings, "Something is wrong in I can't dismiss that nagging Be careful, darling, who you walk with those who betray your trust." She goes there, and the tumultuous scenes unfold in that special romping, singing, zestful fashion, the arrest, the flogging, the trial and condemmnation, with the betrayer Judas doing a tormented, suicidal dance after the priests laugh off his efforts to return the bribe. "It's a too late Judas," they sing. "What's done is done." One interlude, the mockery of Jesus on the cross (Gill's arms outstretched at the lighted top of a dark mound) gets a little raucous, drawing some spectators into seemingly identifying, if strained, laughter with the mockers. "Come on down!" they hoot and sing. "Some Son of God turning water into Why don't you tell your pappy, Don't you trust your old man? Where's your big daddy?" But then the whole theater seems to shake with kettle-drum thunder, booming brass, bells, a swishing sound like wind, and the mockers cringe.

"God, can't you take a joke?" they quaver. The resurrection scene comes with frenzied dancing and joyous singing, "Can't no grave hold my body down!" They put a gold-embroidered royal robe on the shoulders of the loincloth-clad Jesus. "I love you Jesus," they sing. The second-act epilogue beats and whirls with rousing salutes to Gospel greats of the past, a panoramic crescendo building up to a rollicking finale, "The Saints Come Marching In!" So So LAKE VILLAGE MARINA Lake Bloomington New 3 Bedroom Cedar Chalets Swimming Boat Rentals Fishing Skiing Vinnefte Carroll "It's theater that stimulates, that pushes, pulls and sometimes almost pummels its audience into a catharsis of emotion," says Ms. Carroll, award-winning actress and writer-director whose works often contain strong religious elements.

One of the unusual features of the current show is the portrayal of Jesus by a black ballet dancer, Elijah Gill from Henderson, N.C., who with all his leaps and spins conveys immense dignity and power. He never speaks or sings a word, but masterfully displays the character through his dancing. "There's a stranger in town," the talk Tribuie Surrey, England Prima ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn unveiled this bronze statue of herself by sculptor Nathan David in Reigate, Surrey, her birthplace. The statue portrays Dame Margot in her favorite role as "Ondine," the water-sprite. The statue was financed by ballet lovers throughout Britain and across the world.

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