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The Pantagraph Thursday, September 26, 1996 Orchestras face the music Not every symphony is suffering, thanks to good management and imaginative marketing. The largest orchestras, such as Chicago and Boston, remain popular and well-endowed. In Dallas, performances have been sold out for seven years, since the city and private donors paid for an $84 million hall. Orchestra president Eugene Bonelli cites conservative management, aggressive marketing and a musical director who blends old. and pi Fred Sautter, a trumpet player in the Oregon Symphony.

Experts say the nation's orchestras are going to need more than cheaper labor and administrative cost-cutting to stay healthy. They say musicians need to reach out to new listeners and donors with innovative performances and educational programs that fill a void left by the public schools. Among the factors hurting orchestras: Ticket sales, usually the largest source of revenue, aren't keeping up with costs. Orchestra funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has dropped 16 percent since 1992 and will drop even further in the future. And corporate gifts are dropping.

'The arts by themselves are no longer a valid place for corporate money," said Ralph Craviso, a labor negotiator handling talks for the Philadelphia Orchestra. "There has to be something linked to the business, like a corporate promotion, or something linked to the community, where the corporation is viewed as a good neighbor." While a company such as American Express once gave general gifts for operating expenses, now it sponsors the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra, a group of 120 high school students who perform three concerts every year. HOROSCOPE Record label, street gang ties target of investigation NEW YORK (AP) The FBI was conducting an intense investigation into Death Row Records and its possible ties to a Los Angeles street gang when Tupac Shakur was shot and killed, the New York Post reported Wednesday. "The FBI isn't interested in the shooting. They're looking at the whole picture," an unidentified senior law enforcement source was quoted as saying.

"The FBI is looking at Death Row from the top to the bottom Death Row's connection to the Bloods," the source said, naming the gang notorious for its longstanding deadly feud with its crosstown neighbor, the Crips. Death Row Records, one of the most popular and the largest independent rap label in the country, is run by Marion "Suge" Knight, who allegedly has deep ties with the Bloods. Knight, 30, has never publicly admitted belonging to the Bloods, but sports a ring with the initials M.O.B., and there is speculation that it means "Members of the Bloods," the Post said. Knight, the founder, president and chief executive of the Los Angeles-based record company, was convicted of robbery and assault in 1994 and still faces five federal weapons charges, the newspaper said. He was wounded, though not seriously, in the Sept 7 drive-by attack on the Las Vegas strip that left Shakur on life support for nearly a week before he died.

The motive for the attack remains unknown. Knight, who was driving his car when it was hit by gunfire, and other witnesses from his caravan of at least 10! cars, gave detectives little help, authorities have said. Pitt: Being sex symbol isn't easy MENDOZA, Argentina (AP) Brad Pitt says his sex-symbol status is slowing him down. Dozens of teen-agers turned out Tuesday to catch a glimpse of Pitt, who's in this Andean province with director Jean-Jacques Anneaud to shoot scenes for his upcoming film, "Seven Years in Tibet" "People here are very sweet, but there are times when I need to concentrate," said Pitt, who starred in "Seven" and "Twelve Monkeys." "Being a sex symbol all the time hampers my work." Anneaud was more direct: "Please stop following him around." In "Seven Years in Tibet," Pitt plays a man who undergoes profound changes when he climbs the Himalayas and meets the Dalai Lama. CYRUS Your Birthday warned Cyrus against it "Jeannie a good friend of mine now and she said she felt very sorry for me and she would watch the parallels of my life with 'Achy Breaky' compared to what happened to her life as an artist with 'Harper Valley P.T.A.' Riley thought "Harper Valley P.T.A." would have a better chance if a change of pace was successful first Lewis also cast his vote for "Trail of Tears," and the single is now fighting its way up the charts.

And, in a change from the "Achy Breaky" days, Cyrus says he senses that people are now pulling for him to make it "Somehow I did evolve into the underdog," Cyrus said. "I went from the Dallas Cowboys to like Tampa Bay or something. "I got a heck of a hole to crawl out of, but it's actually good to be crawling. It's much more fun than being up there on top and everybody shooting at ya." PHILADELPHIA (AP) America's symphony orchestras are playing a plaintive tune these days. Orchestra musicians are striking from Philadelphia to Atlanta to Portland, Ore.

Baltimore's performers are playing for less money than they did a year ago. And the symphonies are silent in San Diego and Sacramento, after failed contract talks forced them into bankruptcy court. The reasons for the discord include an uninterested public, declining government funding and a changing corporate attitude toward the arts. "Playing excellent concerts," said Mary Plaine, a librarian for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, "just doesn't seem enough anymore." After watching their revenue drop and costs increase, orchestras have responded with tough labor deals this year. Sacramento asked for salary and benefit cuts.

Baltimore musicians accepted what one union leader called "the most concessionary contract ever." Portland wants to add performances and schedule more of them on weekends. "We have a major overdose here of corporate cutback mentality," said whoosh! Everything was gone! "I don't remember leaving the dining room. Somebody picked me up by the collar, and I was gone!" Perlman would welcome another long series run, like "Cheers." "You couldn't have a job better than that," she recalls fondly. "The people were so wonderful, and we had so much fun at the time. she said is different.

"You're not the kid, you're a grownup. You can't be goofy. That's OK, I'm ready for that." Comp. cases also accepted. From D1 there was a strong temptation to release "Harper Valley P.T.A." as the first single in an attempt to make it "Achy Breaky Heart Part II." "There was a time when we had 'Harper Valley' in the can," Cyrus said.

"We opened our shows with it and it is like "Achy Breaky" in that it's somewhat of a novelty lyrical song just with some real fun raucous music behind it that makes people dance and jam. "My fan club, they made a dance called The P.T.A. and early on in the beginning of the year I was really thinking that should be the first single and let's do a dance and da da da." Jeannie C. Riley, who kicked off her career with "Harper Valley P.T.A. in 1968 and never could follow it up, Rhea Perlman on her days as a waitress: 'I was waiting on a table that included David Rockefeller, all the way in the back.

I had this tray with a million plates on it. I made it all the way across the dining room up to the table, and I just went whoosh! Everything was reer, and I was really reluctant." Obviously she had more of a future acting than waiting tables. She remembers one restaurant job that lasted three days, working in the swanky Rainbow Room in Rockefeller Center. The job required her to carry big silver trays up three flights to the dining room. "I was waiting on a table that included David Rockefeller, all the way in the back," she recounts.

"I had this tray with a million plates on it I made it all the way across the dining room up to the table, and I just went new programs. Long-term health, arts expertly will also require giving something' back to the community, not touring the world and selling The St Louis Symphony woa Grammys and a worldwide repula-! tion, then watched a local property; tax referendum and endowment cam-; paign fail. In a survey, the explana--tion came back from a school intendent: "You want to play the music you want, when you want to, only in the room that suits your own acoustical needs. You expect us to pay upwards of $50 a ticket, then you tell us how to behave, and then you tell us that what we went through w'as-' good for us." The orchestra responded by nJerg-ing with a school of the arts and' ex-j panding its education program to reach more than 3,000 students. to resolve a domestic situation today-someone will still be uncooperative.

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