6-F THE PLAIN DEALER TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1995 Group turns 'Solomon' into real tribute By DONALD ROSENBERG PLAIN DEALER MUSIC CRITIC Handel's dramatic oratorio "Solomon" is a celebration of justice, prosperity and benevolence. With its dedication of a temple, "Solomon" is particularly apt to mark the anniversary of a house of worship. The Old Stone Singers paid tribute to their home Sunday by offering the Handel as part of Old Stone Church's 175th anniversary festivities. It was a grand undertaking that went far in revealing the beauties within this neglected score. The event may have been the first complete, "Solomon" in Cleveland, which is The oratorio has received few uncut performances since its London premiere in 1748, partly because it is a massive piece of some three hours' length requiring double chorus, soloists and orchestra.
In the 19th century, Victorian censors even deemed the oratorio's depiction of married love and Act II confrontation between two harlots too juicy for public consumption. MUSIC REVIEW Old Stone Singers While "Solomon" is bogged down by some formulaic writing, even from Handel's inspired perspective, the oratorio overflows with glorious ideas. The chorus, often divided into eight parts, provides the focus with stirring statements of praise and poignant commentary. Many of the arias and duets are affecting and luminous character explorations. Sunday's performance was most illuminating in choral terms.
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Sun. NEW TIMESINEW SHOWS NOW DAILY! For everything from the global economy to local interest, read Tuesday Business in The Plain Dealer. L' for the score and care for detail. There were moments when a shortage of rhythmic buoyancy slowed the motion, and the gaps between numbers suggested unfamiliarity with tempos between conductor and orchestra. Yet the essence of each number came through as Scharf and forces immersed themselves in Handel's drama.
Laura Talpas-Avdey's singing of the title role was noble and direct. She used her dusky mezzo to sensitive effect, connecting the long lines into meaningful phrases and shifting registers smoothly, aside from a bit of stress on high. As Solomon's queen, Coeli Ingold sounded pure and nimble, although her delicate soprano sometimes was overpowered even by a few instruments. The bold center of the work is the scene in which Solomon judges the case of two harlots who are fighting over a child. The real mother was sung by Lisa Rainsong, whose bright, agile soprano brought touching intensity to the woman's plight.
Carole Winehardt had plenty of fire as the second harlot. Allie Laurie applied his light tenor deftly to the priest Zadok's pronouncements, while Ray Liddle supplied majestic nuances to the baritonal lines of the Levite. As the Queen of Sheba, soprano Virginia Bruozis-Muliolis exuded vivacity, catapulting her duties with shining timbre and dramatic flair. Nathan Wesselowski revealed a fresh tenor in his brief lines as an attendant. Harpsichordist Margaret Scharf and members of the Ohio Chamber Orchestra played with stylish assurance throughout the performance, despite evidence of insufficient rehearsal.
Cellist Kent Collier did vivid work in the continuo, and concertmaster. Alcestis Perry was a model of flexibility and taste in her assignments alone and with colleagues. The oboes and bassoons brought clarity, point and regal inflection to their Handelian demands. Old Stone could hardly have come up with a more ambitious or dignified anniversary bash. Jones 'sets record straight' using script By FREDERIC M.
BIDDLE BOSTON GLOBE No guest could ever hope to get away with what Jenny Jones did on her show Friday. Seated before a camera and hermetically sealed from her screamy studio audience and any questions about the ugliest scandal in the history of talk shows, Jones read a doozy of a damage- control script. Eight days after Jonathan Schmitz allegedly blew away Scott COMMENTARY dure, Jones away any intimation of responsibility. Schmitz has reportedly told prosecutors he killed Amedure because he was deceived and humiliated in the March 6 taping of a "Jenny Jones" show that the show hadn't told him the "secret admirer" who would go public on the show was a man. But Jones herself said Friday that "because of the tremendous number of misstatements and allegations that have been made, I want to set the record straight.
"First, as much as we all regret what happened, the fact is that this tragedy is about the actions of one individual. He was a guest on that show. And he, like every other guest on that show, was told before he agreed to appear that he would be meeting a secret admirer, and it could be a person of the same sex or the opposite sex. "In fact, when I read his preinterview one of the questions was how would he react if his secret admirer were a man. There is no question he knew it could have been a man.
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Jeremy Piven, left, and Craig Bierko play modern-day dads on the new situation comedy "Pride Joy." Bierko says the show "just hit me; it's really sweet and I like the character." Actor in sitcom content playing the survival game By N.F. MENDOZA LOS ANGELES TIMES HOLLYWOOD It may not seem like it, but Craig Bierko is taking a well-deserved break. The 30-year-old actor who played investigative reporter B.J. Cooper on "Madman of the People," which recently got the ax from NBC has made a mad leap into a midseason replacement series. "Pride Joy" starts tonight, at 9:30, also on NBC Channel The new Touchstone Television sitcom takes a light look at starting a family in the '90s.
"This is the most fun I've had since I've been out here," says Bierko, a Westchester, N.Y., native who has lived in California for seven years. "For once, new is a relaxing experience. I had such a very unpleasant experience with and was always on edge. I can now take a break from all the anxiousness." Bierko, interviewed last winter, right before "Madman" was supposed to undergo changes, and more recently on the set of his newest show, says his Hollywood experience "has made me a real fatalist out of necessity. I now just say, 'Whatever will happen will When Bierko first talked about the changes "Madman" was to undergo, he seemed optimistic, despite frustrations about his character who had become, he says, "a mutant offspring of Ted Baxter, 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' anchor." Now, he says, "it was a very painful experience and those changes I told you about weren't what I thought they would be.
It was a very high-. profile failure." Failure is no stranger. Bierko's two, previous series "Sydney" and "The Powers That Be" as well as his own pilot, didn't make it. "Pride Joy," he says, "just hit me; it's really sweet and I like the character." He laughs about playing his third journalist in a row, saying, "I think it's purely coincidence." As for the life of an actor, he says, "Ouch! The rejection is unbearable, so if you don't know who you are, you won't be a happy person and you won't be a good actor." Separated from his family, with whom he "keeps up an intravenous hookup over the he's glad for friends like "Pride Joy" co-star Julie Warner He says she is "the closest person in the world to me. We know more about each other than we do anyone else.
She is absolutely my best friend for the last five years," he says and points out their great height difference makes "her look like a long-distance shot and I look like an extreme closeup. When we hug, she looks like an amulet on my chest." Bierko also points out the two are not romantically involved: "We've rarely been single at the same time and she's going to marry Jonathan Prince in June," so on-screen romantic clinches were initially difficult. "We couldn't get through our first kissing scene, because we were laughing so much. Now it makes so much sense and because of how well we know each other, it is like we're really married. The chemistry is there and it's believable." He says he's "not going to obsess like I have in the past" about whether "Pride will get picked up after its six-' week run.
"I've got a Powerbook with 37 screenplay ideas, and I'd like to develop projects, do a film, write, all of that," he says. "There's nothing I don't want to do. I have a great respect for the work." But acting is his first love. "If I end up being an actor doing background work in educational films, so be it. I just want to work.
I've been out there long enough to know to keep moving forward and don't sacrifice your ethics. I'm not one too proud to just keep working." Ballet names Hills as interim manager Alan R. Hills has been named interim general manager of Cleveland Ballet. He will fill in for general manager David Oakland, who is hospitalized with a severe case of pneumonia. "David Oakland's recovery will require an extended period of rest and respiratory therapy," ballet board president William Haffke said in a statement following a meeting last week with the company's dancers and staff.
"The ballet's trustee leadership feels that placing Alan Hills in charge of daily operations early on in this process will maintain the organization's strong operational process." Oakland is expected to be out of the ballet office for four to six weeks. When he returns, he will probably focus on special projects rather than resuming the full responsibilities of general manager, Hills said yesterday. Hills joined Cleveland Ballet in 1989 as director of sales. He was I AmeJenny blew FILE PHOTO Jenny Jones: "The show was lighthearted and the guests were clearly at ease through the entire taping." "The show was in no way confrontational. In fact, the show was lighthearted and the guests were clearly at ease through the entire taping.
One of the guests involved actually called us the next day and told us they all went out socially when they got home, and they had a good time together." So good a time that, according to authorities, Schmitz let Amedure have it point-blank with a 12-gauge shotgun, three days later. But don't mind that, for the moment. After all, Jones' speech essentially was an elaboration of the press release issued by Telepictures Productions, the Warner Inc. subsidiary that produces "Jenny Jones," the day after the March 9 murder. Friday's version was more than a week late, a TelePrompTer tidbit of St.
Patrick's Day blarney proofread by attorneys. But by saying it herself, Jones accomplished much more than her faceless corporate parent could. Now that Jones has spoken to her viewers, she has fulfilled her public duty, at least until she's asked to give evidence in the murder case. And since the show won't be aired now, and since has not yet furnished a copy of the entire show to authorities in Oakland County, where the murder was committed, Jones' public version of events gives her company. back control of the spin on the case.
That spin turned unexpectedly nasty when prosecutor Richard Thompson accused "Jenny Jones" of ambushing Schmitz, and added that what he had seen on a brief segment of the March 6 tape hadn't convinced him otherwise. Moreover, Jenny Jones Friday began to foreclose debate of the real issue, which is the manipulation of guests and their emotions by talk shows. Even if the producers of "Jenny Jones" were completely honest with Schmitz, "secret admirer" shows inherently prey on the possibility of rejection and humiliation, from the moment that the secretly admired walks out onto the show's set. That a guest's sexual identity might also be called into question on national television, by association with a same-sex secret admirer, raises those emotional stakes immeasurably. And despite Jones' insistence Friday that Schmitz was told his admirer might be a man or a woman, the secret crushes revealed on the show were in fact all same-sex.
crushes, Telepictures confirms. Although Jones has previously aired heterosexual "secret admirers" shows as well, in our hom*ophobic society the gay twist degrades hom*osexuality into a side show. It's a condiment sure to spice up the shows when viewers tire of their basic premise. For D. 00) promoted to company manager 1991 with responsibility for the company's production and tour.
ing operations. In 1993, he moved, into the newly created position of director of company with added responsibility for ar-, tistic budgets and contracts. "While we are all concerned with David Oakland's sudden and i- severe illness, Cleveland Ballet i9.3. extremely fortunate to have alt: competent senior staff," Hills said. "I will be work-? ing closely with them and our trustees to ensure that we suc; a cessfully complete this current.
season and move aggressively ward producing the 1995-96 sea-: son." Cleveland Ballet concludes 1 current season with performances of. "Romeo and Juliet? in Thursday through April 2 at the State Theatre and April 20-23 in San Jose, the company's, second home..
