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Show B6 The Salt Lake Tribune Taking Pennies MayBe Pain, But It Could Engender Good Will Dear Ann: Your recent column concerning a sales clerk who re In the early 1980s, issociation newsletter meananyoneelsehas to Individual vendors have the right to specify terms of payment This meansthe Internal Revenue Service doesn't have to accept payment in penniesandyourlocal gas-station attendant doesn't have to acceptbills over $20. I would hope, however, that loeal businesses would keep their nor coins (pennies and nickels) are le tender at their nominal value for any amount not to exceed 25 cents in any one payment The article also mentioned a 1990 incident in which a restaurant owner in Portsmouth, N.H brought 382,648 pennies to the tax collector's office in a van. The taxpayer was miffed over what he described as a rude letter de manding payment of delinquent taxes, Most of the pennies werein $50 bags direct from the U.S Mint. Therest were in boxes anda pillow case. Loose were 12.648 MES. customers in mind when theydetermine what type of payment they will accept. Allowing a customerto pay for a sodain pennies will generate passion. Levin's playing commands attention as every note Dear Ann: | recently read a newspaperarticle that angered was, by all accounts, perfect in regards to notes and musical ideas me. His first movement cadenza roseto virtuoso heights as Levin ever again The editor Richard Dreyfuss Mr. Holland’s Pole. Opus NOW SHOWING! ks ComoeML Sm Sépmees"S) ne me FULL SOU Thea SNS bat a rover ‘wor aves > ea< =a Beaceshe Y' - “sf thesoftest deliveries, His playing before invoking the provisions of Title 31 Small coins arent the only problem. What about those businesses that say, “We will not ac cept bills over $20"? I understand Government scientists haveex humedthe body of Jesse James, they don’t want to create a security risk, but isn't this against the law? If they refuse payment be- who has buriedin his grave was really his After all the expense, time and trouble, guess what? The body service is was positively identified through DNAtesting as that of Jesse Ann. ask one ofyourat- torney friends what's legal and dolph, Mass been dead for 113 years They wanted to see if the body cause you only have a $50 bill does that mean the James. If Jesse James’ relatives had wanted his body exhumed, I say — A Reader in Ran- Dear Randolph: My staff con- Why not?” Let thempay for it. I Nichols, diree- can understandtheneedto record tor of public affairs at the U.S Mint. Here are the facts: history accurately, but I'm opposed to using tax dollars to do tacted Donald R. early this stuff. I say let themrest in 800s, pennies were not consid- peace. — Disgusted in New York In the late 1700s and Dear New York: wholeheartedly. ered legal tender, and merchants had the risht to refuse them. The Coinage cts of 1873 and 1879 tender for debts up to 25 I agree As for tax dollars being spent foolishly — who makesthesedecisions? Thepoliticians. And who elected them? Wedid made pennies and nickels legal cents Dimes. quarters and half-dollars SETTTESSTT TEESE EEE EEE eee Ee eee “OnE OF THE Best PICTURES Or chTHE Year!: ANC AGO TRIBUNE dominates the airways — evenin or state Department of Revenue what isn’t. The tax collector issued a receipt is certainly worth the goodwill it of the newsletter suggested checking with your city The taxpayerignored a request bythe city attorneynot to bring in truck to the bank to be counted demonstratedthat heis aclassical but said she didn't think it was pennies load the pennies and take them by and Saturday with the Utah Sym phony in Abravanel Hall clearly specialist of the caliber of Rudolf Serkin. Using Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2 as his vehicle Levin's venerable talent and technique wowedthe audience didn’t want to look at a penny very funny. The taxpayer said he free? Please the pennies and unloaded them anyway. City employeeshadto re- By Jeff pence an SPECIAL TO THE TRIBL Robert Levin is a eas pianist. His appearances Friday Underthe baton of Utah Symphony musicdirector Joseph Silverstein. both soloist and orchestra dishedupthis least performed of the composer's five piano con -ertos andinfusedit with meaty Free Bride's Pass or Discount Coupon - Regular Admission 94.00 - With Coupon st NC 3.00 - Children under 11 free - Brides Free with pass into the third movement — one of FEBRUARY 2 & Friday-3 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday-10 a.m. to 8 p.m. The Only Shopping You'll Have To Do vy EXHIBITS - over 100 beautiful displays y Elegant Fashion Shows Friday, 5:30 p.m. & 8 p.m Saturday, Noon, 3 p.m. & 6 p.m. w Prizes & Gifts - KISN 97 FM & SPORTS RADIO 570 AM Drawing for a FREE Wedding @ The Riverboat @ American Dream @ Tux Towne/Classique rections ° betty 8 Geary @ Danielle’s Bridal Salo ® Photography by George Mall) e Vide 0 memories Free Haircut & Style Drawings for Free Groceries Penney Smith's Much,Much Morel For more KISN:: JCPenney information or tickets call 485-0176 Enter the Salt Palace on the South TempleStreet side. Abravanel Hall audience didn't jump to its feet at the concerto’s atmospheric, painting a clear au- conclusion. When the tempos picked up momentum, the composition showed world-class. but only few seemed controlled energy and skilled Preceding the concerto, Levin took to the piano all by himself demonstrating his abilities as an prowess improviser on randomtunes submitted by the audience. Admitting that this musical sideshow was freakish, if not somewhat unusu- al,” BIG BULLY PS) 19 EYE submissions claiming they were not suitablefor his style of improvising. He even begged the orchestra for additional tunes. Levin confessed he was “up the creek without a paddle.” Finally he settled on two melodies for his demonstration, one by Donizetti togetherfor a rich programmatic monality of originality. The concert commencedwith a rough reading of Copland’s “El Salon Mexico” which eluded the orchestra. It hadall thepallidinsecurities that non-American or- in the style of Mozart. It was a couldn't get a handleonthingsis a mystery which he “improvised” a fantasy cute exhibition and it did perk the audience's attention. However Levin would have been wise to have eliminated this self-ingratiating portion of his program. Utah composer Marie Barker Nelson's “Hodeeyaada” was giv movements was preceded by in troductory and descriptive prose wonderfully read by Ann Decker Nelson’s work was ethereal and Yes, there were moments of glimmer, but we never got any tightness of ensemble. Individual solos — especially in the wood- winds — were outstanding, ineluding the boom-booms fromthe big bass drum Jeff Manookian, Intermoun tain ChamberOrchestra conduc: tor, is the Tribune's musiccritic American Music Awards: Reviving Old Careers, Honoring New Ones By Curt Schleier THE DETROV NEWS Two lagging careers might be on the line at ABC’s Monday night American Music Awards, where Lionel Richie and Neil Diamond But the award show will cele brate singers whose careers are in higher gear. For example, Boyz I] Men and Hootie and the Blowfish are, to borrow the words of Gloria Estefan. hot. hot, hot. Both have been nominated for five awards including artist of the year. Among other multiple nominees are Michael Jackson, Green Day and Pearl Jam The American Music Awards KTVX, ch. 4) was created by Dick Clark 23 years ago when ABC lost the Grammy Awards to another network and asked Clark to come up with a substitute Nominations. by a music-indus try trade publication, are made in eight musical cate yOries includ ing rock-pop, sowl-rhythm-and blues and country, with awards for best male, female and new art ist in many of these categories. There's also an overall award for artist of the year. Winners are se. lected through a national sample of 20,000 people Comedians Jeff Foxworthy and Sinbad will host this year’s cele to perform include Garth Brooks. BALTO (G) 7:45 BABE (G) 7:05 IT TAKES TWO (PG) 6: fed CR OLe (PG-13) 9: 'HROAT ISLAND ‘PG. 43) 9:05 DANGEROUS MINDS (R) 9:10 HAPPENING TODAY (airing Monday at 7 p.m. on bration, and other stars scheduled Kaysville 2 isankeywiie y: Nelson's opus receivedanenthusiastic ovation fromthe audience — the true test of a composition’s quality chestras portray when attempting the unique musical stylings of our country. Why this orchestra gram. Each of the work's three cal prey. This is probably why the Hodeeyaada” is a pastiche of orchestral etudes nicely quilted experience. The fragmentedideas held together well with a com- and the other by Wagner, with tional gifts. The concerto itself didn't have all the “bells and Mariah Carey and Smashing Pumpkins, There will also be the usual array of personalities pre- senting awards, including Tori (“Beverly Hills, 90210") Spelling. Pamela Bi atch”) Lee and Dennis ( NYPL ) Blue”) Franz. 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Ducane’ neu Levininitially rejectedall 11 thematic enits Utah premiere onthis pro- whistles” sufficient to mesmerize a crowd hungry for familiar musi ral picture of the music’s intent to realize it HEAT (A) STEREO DAILY At_1220 3 7.00 TOM AN D HUCK {),, THX STEREO DAILY AL240 220 4 Levin's playing was Beethoven's happiest composi- CHleDEOP! 3, 1996 (one couponper person) Salt Palace Exhibit Hall JC sparkledin this seemingly modest concerto, Cantabile lines sang true from one note to the next Levin infused refreshing bravura will introduce new recordings FETT ETSTTSETETET ETE TEE EEE EEE EIT tax collectors and others: irate customers paying with small coins The article cites Title 31 of the U.S. Code, which states that mi- these means the Federal Reserve System must honorthem. It does not though pennies are a nuisance mies are considered legal tender I had read an article in the Mas sachusetts Collectors and Trea sure 1996 were combinedinto oneprovision that says U.S. coins and currency are legal tender for all debts, regardless of the amount. This for a bottle of soda caught my at tention. You said that even concerning a problem faced by ) ws Pianist Robert Levin Turns on His Talents were legal tender up to $10. ANN LANDERS fuseda roll ofpennies in payment ENTERTAINMENT Monday, January 12 MONKEYS(R) TOY STORY (G) 5:00 7:00 9:00 * EYE FOR AN EYE (R) 5:10 7:25 9:30 “Space, Time, Utah Jewels of the Winter Sky. Through the 2s of Hubble Secret of the Cardboard Rock et DIGISTAR II: Romping Across the Universe,” “Laser Bil- ly Joel in 3-D,” “Laser Grunge in 3-D. Laser U2in 3-D. Laser Zeppelin in 3-D" and Floyd in 3-D." information Ca “Laser 8-2098 for “The sci-fi action a magus ULL Li Bt So njoymen ! 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