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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
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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.
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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 <
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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
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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
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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
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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
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/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
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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.
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