
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, October 13, 1995                   TAG: 9510130020
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 1   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: stacy jones
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THE TIPOFF

THE LAST HURRAH: Say good-bye to Indian summer, that chill in the air means fall is officially here. Welcome the new season this Saturday and Sunday at Explore Park's Fall Foliage Festival. In addition to the natural beauty, points of interest include Curley Ennis narrating Appalachian folk tales, Dan Young demonstrating 19th-century basket-making, and presentations of other traditional practices like candle-dipping, soap-making and applebutter-making. The festival will take place in the living-history park at milepost 115 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Admission is $4 for adults, $2.50 for those ages 6-18 and free for children under 6. Call 427-1800.

UNDISCOVERED ART: It always feels good to brag that you discovered an artist, that you knew them when they were nothing. The Norfolk Southern Festival of New Works provides an opportunity to view three original plays - all by Virginians. The first two plays - ``Ned and Dan's History Emporium'' by Doug Grissom and ``Small Sacrifices'' by Tom Ziegler - are finalists in the Mill Mountain Theatre New Play Competition. The third work, ``Through the Picture Tube,'' is a musical by Ed Sala. All will be given script-in-hand productions in Mill Mountain's Theatre B. Child abuse is addressed in Ziegler's play tonight and Sunday. Grissom's drama, which runs Saturday, looks at relationships and society's injustices through two characters, Dan, a black ex-convict and Ned, a white redneck. Sala's comedy, which opens Tuesday and features music by Michael Hirsch, uses a dysfunctional family to examine the impact of television on our lives. Admission is $5. Call 342-5740 for showtimes.

AND IN THIS CORNER ... : The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra's search for a new conductor is taking on the characteristics of a prize fight. The five finalists will duke it out over the course of the symphony's season by each conducting one of the subscription concerts. Candidate No. 1 is David Wiley, currently an assistant conductor with the Indianapolis Symphony, who will start things off Monday with a program of Beethoven, Dvorak and Mumford. The concert's at 8 p.m. in the Roanoke Civic Center auditorium. Ringside seats range from $22 to $18. Nosebleed seats are $14. Call 343-9127.

ABSTRACT IMAGES: Remember the old saying, ``Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach''? Artist Andrew Forge, a professor in the School of Art at Yale University, is one of the exceptions. Forge's work is represented in the Corcoran Museum, the Yale Art Gallery and the Ministry of Works in London. His paintings - abstract fields of small color dots - will be featured in an exhibit opening Tuesday at Hollins College's Art Gallery. The exhibit runs through Nov. 12. Admission is free. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Friday, 1-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Call 362-6451.

by CNB