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CLASSICAL MUSIC Friday, December 13, 1996 The Cincinnati Enquirer Young pianists compete for Horowitz prize "loGreil CLIFTON'S NEWEST BREW PUB Voted Clifton's Best Beer (by our staff) Pierre I5ellan Film Prize for outstanding musical direction. CThe film soundtrack is out on Sony Classical.) 'Hie movie, directed by the nephew of the late French president Francois Mitterrand, stars Shanghai soprano Ting I Iuang, who was discovered by Mr. Conlon. Endowed with an unusually light, lyrical coloratura, Miss Huang made her North American debut with May Festival in 1995. Hnkerton, the cad who loves and deserts Butterfly, is sung by tenor Richard Troxell, who debuts in Cincinnati OixTa'sstanext summer; Ning Liang is Suzuki; and Richard Cowan, who trained with Cincinnati Opera's Young American Artist Program, sings Sharpless.

For show times, call 381-3456. The competition will be open to the public: 10 a.m.-5:45 p.m. Monday and Tuesday in Corbett Auditorium, with winners in concert 8 p.m. Wednesday. Information: 556-2595.

BUTTERFLY ON FILM: Here's a holiday treat for opera lovers. Frederic Mitterrand's movie version of Puccini's Madama Butterfly opens at The Movies, 719 Race downtown, for a three-week run, Dec. 20-Jan. 2. Since its premiere in France in November 195)5, it has been hailed as the most beautiful opera movie since Ingmar Bergman's IJie Magic Flute.

The orchestral score performed by the Orchestre de Paris is conducted by Conlon, music director of Cincinnati May Festival. For his efforts, Mr. Conlon received the 1995 BY JANELLE GELFAND The Cincinnati Enquirer The American round of a new international piano competition, the I lorowitz Competition, begins Mon- day and Tuesday at the College-Conservatory of Music with pianists ages 7-23 from all over the country. The winners will travel to Kiev, Ukraine, April 2()-May 5 for the Second International competition for Young Pianists in Memory of Vladimir Horowitz. Sheila McKenna, director of the CCM IVep department, was a member of the organizing committee for the first contest last year.

The whole point was that Horowitz went to school in Kiev, and then made his career in America," she says. Voted Clifton's Best Looking Staff (again, by our staff) 10 Fresh Handcrafted Beers Including Voted Clifton's Best Food (by you know who) WIKl Blue vonoer Blueterry Ale 13 West Charlton (between Short Vine Jefferson in Clifton) Call us so we can fax you our new menu 861-7821 We Brew It. Elizabeth Nourse Les Bateaux Loguivy A Very Special Pops OLIDAY PANORAMA OF CINCINNATI ART XI thru Jan. 17th Dec. 13, Dec.

14, Sun Dec. IS, 8 pm Music Hall Erich Kunzel, conductor Nick Clooney, Studio doggers, special guests Celebrate with the Pops and SCPA, as they perform oil your favorite yuletide classics. An old-fashioned Christmas Coral Singoiong makes this a concert the whole family will enjoy! Specially-priced family matinees at 2pm Dec. i 15. Children under 12 only $3 all seats! Sponsor: COMAIR 'Matinee performances slightly shorter in length Wilbur Adam Frank Girardin Edmund Osthaus Elizabeth Alke Murgot Golol'f Edward Potthast Paul Ashbrook Reggie Grooms John Rellig Otto Bacher John Hauser Martin Rellig Tom Bacher Arthur Helwig Louis Rosenberg Robert Blum Glen Henshaw Carl Samson Francis F.

Brown Ida Holloway Michael Scott Cole Carothers Marston Hodgin Joseph H. Sharp Victor Casinelli E. T. Hurley Wm. McKendree Snyder Paul Chidlaw Harvey Joiner W.

L. Sonntag Ora Coltman Charles S. Kaelin William P. Teal Harry Davis T.C.Lindsay Rudolph Tschudi George Dinkel Carolyn A. Lord John Weis Orrin Draver Lewis H.

Meakin Bessie Wessel Robert Duncanson C. A. Meurer Herman Wessel John F. Earhart Franklin Morris Worthington Whittridge Louis 1. Endres Henry Mosler Diane Young William Eyden Frank Myers Carl Zimmerman Godfrey Frankenstein Elizabeth Nourse Carolyn Zimmerman CINCINNATI ART GALLERIES 635 MAIN ST.

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