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Spoleto reveal By Lehm&n Stiles Assistant Entertainment Editor South Carolinians have a unique opportunity to enjoy one of the world's greatest artistic events when the Spoleto Festival returns to Charleston this summer. Spoleto President Theodore Stern said that "the festival program is unique ? it is at tractive to anybody." Stern, a past president of the College of Charleston and a volunteer in the post of Spoleto president, was in Columbia recently promoting the festival. An improvement in the schedule this year is that "we're not competing with outselves," Stern said. For example, while this past year many of the modern dance performances were held at the same time, this year the schedule will permit dance lovers to see all of the performances. Popular attractions from this past year will continue this year and, according to Stern, will have twice as many performances. He cited the chamber music concerts as an example of this. There will be a number of free events this year, and some ticket prices are as low as $3. Stern Author John Gardner is visiting C< guest in USC's Spring Writers Series A r_: i _e v * ? ? m ciuse irienu 01 uat poei-in-n Gardner gives a free public readinj auditorium of the Business Administ "Gardner is the most prolific wr said William Price Fox, USC writerTagged a novelist, epic poet and \ ner wrote the novels Grendel, The Si Mountain and October Light and tl Medea. He has 19 books to his credit His work is acclaimed by critics f< purpose and moral vision. Gardner i _ ronaa am in Bridge; By David Baker Entertalnnwnt Editor I think I should preface this revie\ do not h^lonp to thf? Pnlm??ftn Allien anti-nuclear organization and that China Syndrome I didn't think of i being such a bad thing. The movie cl The China Syndrome is a tense, well-acted thriller that tells the ! catastrophe that takes place within nuclear power plant in Southern accident happens while a local telev headed by soft-news reporter Kimb Fonda), is there on location to filnr energy. That the crew's cameraman, (Michael Douglas), secretlv films th taking place is what very nearly s cover-up. The television station, ho^ air the film on the grounds that it di the accident was and they have no w that information. Adams is incensed Wells, trying to escape her in reporter, joins Adams in his quest really happened in the power plant, find a willing informant in Jack Gc mon), a plan* employee who fear: accident might happen, inducing an China Syndrome. In this event, the core would be exposed and heat up d Presidero s festival's emphasized the availability of h many Spoleto events to college p students, who are financially h limited as a rule. f< Also of interest to students might be the apprentice programs and fi the series of credit courses offered p during Spoleto. The festival offers tl a prime opportunity for students to y work with established artists, n "Imagine playing in an orchestra n led by Menotti," Stern said. "It's V the chance of a lifetime." " Gian Carlo Menotti, the operatic $J composer who brought the festival to Charleston from the hillside tl town of Spoleto, Italy, looks for fi three things as major points for the g festival. Quality is more important tl to Menotti than quantity, and t< exposing European music and e lovers and critics to young t< American artists is an important element. Menotti also emphasizes o premieres as a major part of the a events. p Menotti searched for eight years a before settling on Charleston as the v> _r ii? t t: ? -i ; 1 * sue ui uitr icsuvai, ciioosmg u r because "he wanted the town to be a part of the festival," as Stern put 41 it. f< "The city in itself is an art tl form," Stern said, and one can s Gardner api )lumbia today as the fifth or reshape the i. He will be ii isidence James Dickey, ween noon an g tonight at 8 p.m. in the honor. The put ration Building. Gardner's ^ iter in America today," Humanities a in-residence. English. U.. > TIL - ' 3v.iiuiat uy v;i mws, vjctiU- i lie wrilCn inlight Dialogues, Nickel Vonnegut Jr., le epic Poem Jason and James Alan IV Wolfe to Colun >r its consistent clarity of Pulitzer Pri looks for ways to confute celled his visi d Lemmon < L/^i n 5 v^nina temperature that through the earth to v by stating that I atmosphere as it goe ce or to any other It's a frightening until I saw The play, by Mike Gray nuclear power as Bridges, explores it langed my mind. The twists and turns well-written and through are certain story of a near- viewer on the edge ol the confines of a The cast is equall California. The sixth straight scre< 'ision news team, years. If she doesn'l >erly Wells (Jane are going to start tak ) a fp^tlirp nhnilt It is I ommnn'e rm - ? M. V AJV/JI 1111 1V/I 1 O pV the film together a Richard Adams movie's strong emot e accident as it is integrity and the sp< ipoils the plant's make his character >vever, refuses to pitiful all at once, oesn't show what The only major fai /ay of finding out cinematography. Ma many are underexpt lage as a fluff filled with colors so r to find out what the reds end and the f r\ ii? -i- f iiic^ cvciiiuciiiy ucspiie me aem xiell (Jack Lem- Bridges keeps the fill s that a similar song, "Somewhere event called the though it gives you th i plant's nuclear the opening credits v, to such a great completed and readie - ' ' * 'Yj'S/JS-4 . t Stern > put i is few ardly argue with the ap- m C ^ M ropriateness of the quaint, 3 m istoric port city as a locale for a M sstivalof the arts. F *7* W i According to Stern, rumors of \ ^ nancial problems that marred I lvxQ& revious festivals have no basis 1 Wf %l lis year. James T. Kearny, this 1 < ear's general manager, has a ^ laster's degree in business ad- % lr linistration from the prestigious % /harton School. He has planned a \ realistic" budget that includes \ ^ 50,000 for debt retirement. ^ Spoleto is supported partly irough the National Endowment ^ 3r the Arts, and state and local ^ overnments also cooperate with le festival's planners. According [) Stern, Spoleto brings an stimated $21-22 million in tourism > the area each year. For example, The Spoleto festival is the only tried out for the 1 ne of its kind in the world, Stern Festival Orchesti sserted, because it is com- of the festival rehensive; it represents all of the young, unknown rts in some form. The prestige in idea, said Stern rhich the festival is held is ternational expc evealed in the willingness of deserving of it. rtists to perform for low rates: Although the The people who appear in the tendance figures sstival do so for a much lower fee that 55 perce lan they would elsewhere," Stern audiences will aid. other than South years; Sfyrort ca fashionable fiction of exhaustion and despair. Series n the Campus Shop of the Russell House bet- Unf< d 1 p.m. today at. an autograph party in his book 1 >lic is invited. Dr. G /isit is sponsored by the USC College of Englis nd Social Sciences and the Department of App articl* ; Series has already brought novelist Kurt pieces poet Richard Wilbur, short shory author agrees IcPherson and New Journalism pioneer Tom She ibia. audito ze-winning novelist William Styron has can- spend] t to Columbia April 4 in the Spring Writers writin excellent /ndrome' j it would, theoretically, melt mM China, spewing radiation into the ^ prospect ana tne turn's screen- jjjjifc, , T. S. Cook and director James to its most chilling possibilities. 5 the script forces its characters to keep even the most cynical .. y good, with Fonda making her jn triumph in less than three t do something bad soon, people ing her for granted. rformance, however, that holds HHSHBh nd contributes thp mn<i? fn ?hn v': ;' ional punch. His natural screen H ^ ecial way that he has with lines seem admirable, disdainful and [ ^ ^ Lilt in the film is James Crabe's ny of his shots are overexposed, xsed and almost every frame is nurky that it's hard to tell where |J ?reens begin. ciency of good camerawork, ^ - ii uiuviug unsKiy, ana me ineme in Between" is appropriate, le feeling that it was tacked on to ||P ^ 'ell after the film itself had been *1 for release. Al ,.v#y///?vv?V.V^#V/.V/?V.V.V.VAWAW//*rf <51styE tglES-XOi 3,000 musicians said, "We [X) openings in the Carolinians fi a. The emphasis would urge ti is on primarily orders early.' talent, and the The addre , is to give in- formation an sure to artists Festival U.S Charleston, 2 projected at- miss the opj For this year show part of the nt of Spoleto arts festival be from places especially wl i Carolina, Stern back yards. ncels Itlicinocc in Rnrnna potior* /ft uv\/l< WMWItiVUU AAA M-J U1 vpv A k V breed Styron to cancel his appej eorge Geckle, chairman of the h and coordinator of the series, earing in Styron's place will be No : writer from New York. Well-kn , Ephron was scheduled to appear i to switch dates. will give a public reading Wedm rium of the Business Administr ng Tuesday, April 3, working g students in special workshop ses I m m i angry Jane Foi iVbVV/XvAv/. //v w re giving South rst choice of tickets. I hat they put in their ss to send for inH tiflfpts ic Qnnlotn I.A., P.O. Box 704, !9402. No one should xjrtunity of being a most comprehensive in the world ? ien it is in our own iing his forthcoming arance, according to USC Department of ra EDhron. a leadine own for her Esquire at USC April 9-10 but ?day, April 4, in the ation Building after with USC creative sions. N::.'x^ '-v.- \^P ida