European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 10, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse It s All in the family by Bob Thomas associated press he unique nature of the Phoenix family was recently related by Young actor River Phoenix. I was born in Oregon my sister rain was born in Texas my brother Joaquin Rafael alias cd was born in Puoplo Rico my other sister Liberty. Is a native of Venezuela my other sister summer was born in Florida my Molher in the Bronx n.y., my father in Fontana. he said. River who just turned 18, added since i was 10. To have bean based in los Angeles we moved frequently from Home to horns in los Angeles never owned a House. Sometimes we moved because our financial condition was weakening and we needed a More afro Dablo place. Sometimes we moved because to recently Gol a part which allowed us to get above the unpleasant Condi sons we were Arlynn and John Phoenix worked Odd jobs and lived the Freo spirited lifestyle of the 1960s. They were non Colmor miss and loved nature. Today they write and lecture on environmentalism and work As Farmers in Florida. Besides River. Leaf 13, is an actor. The other children also have done a Little acting. The Phoenix Amity offers an uncanny parallel to the Pope family in the current Warner Bros release running on empty which stars Christine Lahti Judd Hirsch and River both families Are environmental Ali visas and Nan . Bui there is an important i licence the Popes husband wife and two sons Are on the Lam. During the turbulent 1960s, the parents bombed a napalm Laboratory inadvertently blinding a janitor. The Popes have been on the Fri s most wanted list Ever since. We wore a Little different from the motives behind the Pope family and Why they Phoenix said. Obviously they were moving because they had to for according to family legend River began his per forming career at the age of five on the streets of Caracas singing with his sister Rainbow then three. When the family made the move to los Angeles he began gelling television work making his film debut in the 1985 explorers. His naturalness and dramatic intensity impressed critics and Young tans alike in stand by me tie Mosquito coast a night in the life of Jimmy Reardon and Little Nikita. Sidney Lumet who directed him in running on empty said Phoenix is in the transitional period Between child and adult actor he has a surprising technique that he has developed on his own he has never studied acting but hell make the adjustment to adulthood. He can play a couple More teen agers bul then who knows he s a very talented musician and writes Beautiful songs. He s one of Itose people who s so talented 1 Don t know where he s going to go. The world is open to Phoenix views his peripatetic childhood As an asset to him As an actor. I Mink it helps you become versatile in adapting to new situations new atmospheres new people just As you do when you go from film to film he said. It also gives you an insight on different Lorms of life and different in facing new schools and new neighbourhoods he added you Loam to blend in and to simulate what the others Are doing and apply that to your reality around them. By your doing so they will Lake you in. Without conforming and without compromising your individuality there is a Way of being Neutral and not running things the wrong Shivar Phoenix left end Martha Plimpton in a scene from the movie running on empty How does Hosoe his future in dims or does he just Lake one year at a Lime even one year at a Lime is too Long a Lime Span for me to foresee. I m very Happy Wilh what i m doing very aware and open to changes will accept them gladly when they come he said. By All Means i am not lied Down nor do t feel the need nor is my Security or my ego Riding on this career. If anything i would rather quit while i was ahead. I would t la1 to keep an old car plugging away if it s not working anymore. I d just gel into another business or use that Lime to travel. Well sea How it All happens. I think a lot of in is in How you Pace yourself nol spreading yourself Loo thin he said. Every bit of it is a learning process. If i m taking parts that Leach me to act out these cliche forms of writing and to live these Lille holds because they re commercially successful it strips you of any unique flavor that you might have within recovering Beethoven s unfinished symphony by Gregory Jensen United press internationals Ince As everyone knows Ludwig Van Beethoven wrote Only nine symphonies How come the London symphony orchestra under conductor Wyn Morris made a recording recently of Beethoven s tenth and How come the Royal Liverpool philharmonic under Walter Weller is giving the tenth symphony s first Ever Public performance in october is this All a joke far from ii says renowned Beethoven expert Barry Cooper and scholars who Are convinced that Cooper s five years of sleuthing have recovered what Beethoven was writing when he died 161 years ago. Ii is a fascinating tale which begins on Beethoven s deals bed in 1627. Tormented by pain and poverty the great composer asked the London philharmonic society to organize a Benefit performance for him. Instead the society sent 100 pounds $175 now but a great Deal More then to help Wilh Beethoven s comforts and the help came too late. But Beethoven was so grateful he promised by letter he would give London his tenth symphony to prove to those magnanimous englishmen How greatly i appreciate their sympathy for me in my sad sketches Lor the symphony he wrote Are already in my Beethoven died eight Days Laler and researchers found no new symphony in his desk or anywhere else Karl Holz Beethoven s Secretary insisted thai the composer had played him the new symphony s opening. But Wilh no physical evidence scholars for 150 years discounted Holz s tale. Until five years ago when Cooper found among Beethoven manuscripts in a West Berlin Library a set of sketches precisely Matching Holz s description of the music Beethoven played on the piano. All the experts had identified these sketches As an overture Beethoven never finished. But Cooper 39, a lecturer in music at Aberdeen University and author of several books on Beethoven found a note in the composer s handwriting on one Page of the notebook saying end of first the next Page referred to the new Cooper discussed his tenth symphony theory in an article in a scholarly journal. The week it wont to press the curator of Bonn s Beethoven Archive announced the discovery of additional sketches closely resembling those in Berlin. By combining the two Sels Cooper says i began to find whal Beethoven had in mind for the first Miniri Gunert to collected every scrap of Beethoven s notes none lasting More than 20 bars or a few seconds and Laid them end to end. Suddenly he had the shape of a symphonic first movement. Thai was hardly the end of it. Cooper turned in into proper music. I tried to keep very close to the sketches to reconstruct the movement As Boc Hoven envisaged it at that Lime he says. I had to fill in some harmonies and compose a few linking sections myself but i did nol invent any new themes. Those Are All Beethoven s. One is hesitant to do this sort of thing because i m nol Beethoven and therefore i cannot do Ilas Well As Beethoven. But everyone wants to hear the music. Only a few specialists who have studied Learned journals have any idea. So i m trying to make it Mora widely available to give a kind of artist s impression of what he had in music critics who have heard the result say it sounds More like Early Beethoven than something written Whan he was 56 and dying. Having listened to it for 15 hours at the recording session i can say in is extremely convincing said Alexander Waugh an executive of the company which is releasing the 19-Minule tenth on the Pickwick Label in Britain and Mca in the United states. It shows Beethoven kicking off in a now direction looking Back toward the romantic period of his fifth and sixth symphonies Waugh said. The recording was edited last night we were All up unlit 2 . Doing in and we re trying to Rush it out by the time of he world that performance by the inheritor of the society to which Beethoven pledged it is in London oct. 18, ii will be the first Public Chance to hear the tenth symphony Beethoven never finished. Monday. October 10. 1989 the stars and stripes Page 17
