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NEW YORK (AP) — The new
sound system at Lincoln Center
has Beverly Sills singing the blues.
Sills, a soprano and chairperson
of Lincoln Center, said she attend
ed a recent performance of the City
Opera’s “II Viaggio a Reims" and
could hear “a buzz, a sound in the
air which makes me know some
thing is there.”
The women’s voices, she said,
were “a little homogenous. There
was a lack of contrast."
“I’m not terrorized by this,” Sills
said. “But I didn’t enjoy it.”
The new system is made up of
two dozen microphones around the
stage and orchestra and more than
ICO speakers in the 2,700-seat
theater’s walls and under bal
conies. The system was installed
over the summer.
Sills, the opera’s former general
director, said that before the reno
vation, the theater’s acoustics
should be improved through struc
tural changes rather than with mi
crophones.
“No matter what else happens,
you’ve got to finish high school,"
the retired Gulf War general told a
group of 500 Tuesday at Pearl-
Cohn Comprehensive High School.
“And beyond that, we expect you to
go to college. Get all the education
you can.”
Powell, now working with a youth
group, spoke at a kickoff ceremony
for Project GRAD, a program to in
spire students to graduate from
high school and go to college.
“If you don’t finish high school,
you’re on your way to nowhere,”
Powell said.
Rudas, confirmed his company is in
talks for a Three Tenors perfor
mance in Sydney.
“It’s not opening ceremony, but
we have been approached to bring
the Three Tenors to Sydney during
the Olympics,” Rudas said. "We are
talking about it, it is not 100 per
cent. Unfortunately, this is the time
of the start of the opera season, if
we can find the right date, we would
like to come.”
Actor Rupert Graves
comments on career
Three Tenors want to
perform at Olympics
Powell urges youth
to demand education
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Colin
Powell urged a group of high school
freshmen to fight for their right to
an education.
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — Lu
ciano Pavarotti is looking for an
other trip Down
Under, and next
time he would like
to bring those oth
er guys along.
Pavarotti was in
Sydney to open the
newest Olympic
venue, the Super-
Dome.
He said yester
day he would like to return with Jose
Carreras and Placido Domingo for
a Three Tenors performance during
the Games next September.
“You want to invite me? I am very
available,” Pavarotti said.
Pavarotti’s producer, Tibor
PAVAROTTI
NEW YORK (AP) — Rupert Graves
owes it all to Tomato the clown.
Graves, the British star of Dream
ing of Joseph Lees, dropped out of
school at 15 and joined a circus.
Graves described the experi
ence.
“I put up rigging, cleaned up af
ter a show, put up posters, whatev
er they asked. And finally, I became
Tomato, the junior clown,” he said
in Tuesday's Daily News.
Graves, 36, started performing
as Tomato at vacation spots around
England and in children's plays.
The work led to bit parts in films,
and a casting person suggested he
try for a part in A Room With a View.
He got the part and said good
bye to clowning.
Graves said his new film, which
opened recently, is “an English
Gothic piece about rural madness.”
He plays an adventurer who has
Susan Egan speaks about new film Man of the Century
NEW YORK (AP) — Actress Susan Egan looks
like a hip chick, right down to her jet-black bob hair
do and her slick leather jacket. But there really is
a '20s flapper living inside this modern woman.
She just needs a little old-fashioned romance to
make her swoon.
Egan gets plenty of that in Man of the Century.
The film won the Audience Feature Award at the
1999 Slamdance Film Festival. It is being released
by Fine Line Features in major markets around the
country.
Although Man of the Century is set in present-day
New York, Egan’s suitor Johnny Twennies (Gibson Fra
zier) behaves like someone living in the Roaring
’20s. (His adventures are filmed in black and white.)
He sweeps Egan off her feet by taking her dancing,
sending her telegrams and popping into her office
with flowers.
He woes her with phrases like, “I went into this
thing with my eyes open, and now I’m seeing noth
ing but stars.”
And that’s just fine by Egan.
“I think all of us ... as much as we want to be
treated as equals ... we also want to be treated like
princesses,” the 29-year-old actress, whose char
acter runs a SoHo art gallery in the film, said.
She noted that swing dancing, supper clubs and
other similar elements of ’20s culture are coming
back in style.
“Men in black ties and tails are gorgeous,” she said.
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