John Holloway

Johann Heinrich Schmelzer may have been the first Austrian Kapellmeister in Vienna in the 17th century, but he was not about to break with Italian compositional models. His six "Unarum Fidium" sonatas are generally forthright harmonically, with much reliance on ostinatos and ground basses. Schmelzer's expressive intentions are varied, but the works all sound much the same in Holloway's playing, abidingly sweet and lyrical even in the most rapid passage work.

IN an urban sprawl where the term "eclectic" brands the musical zeitgeist, from the studios of KCRW to the multi-genre live performances that pepper Southern California, a concert series centered on a progressive German record label would still have been a welcome addition.

IN an urban sprawl where the term "eclectic" brands the musical zeitgeist, from the studios of KCRW to the multi-genre live performances that pepper Southern California, a concert series centered on a progressive German record label would still have been a welcome addition.

Johann Heinrich Schmelzer may have been the first Austrian Kapellmeister in Vienna in the 17th century, but he was not about to break with Italian compositional models. His six "Unarum Fidium" sonatas are generally forthright harmonically, with much reliance on ostinatos and ground basses. Schmelzer's expressive intentions are varied, but the works all sound much the same in Holloway's playing, abidingly sweet and lyrical even in the most rapid passage work.

There are 8 million chemical compounds on Earth, yet even the most sophisticated coroner's lab tests for no more than a few hundred of them. So perhaps it should come as no surprise that when 300-pound Burbank mortician Timothy Waters died three years ago, medical examiners missed the real cause of death--poison. Waters was thought to have died from a heart attack on April 8, 1985.

A Ridgecrest woman convicted of starving her infant daughter to death received a state prison term today of 15 years to life. Tonnette Rae Lee, 29, was sentenced on a second-degree murder conviction in the Dec. 8, 1988, death of 2-month-old Janelle Lee. The Kern County Superior Court jury also convicted the child's father, James Lowell Lee, 38, but his sentencing was continued until April 16 by Judge Roger D. Randall. Deputy Dist. Atty. Terry P.

The Da Camera Society of Los Angeles will return to Orange County during its 1988-89 chamber music season with a "Springtime in Historic Orange County Mini-Festival," to take place March 19, producing director MaryAnn Bonino announced this week. The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet will play at the Santa Ana Courthouse, and an evening concert will feature Hispanic music by I Cantori at the Episcopal Church of the Messiah on Bush Street in Santa Ana.

Context is a major element in Andrew Parrott's ideas about programming. So when the much-recorded and celebrated Taverner Consort made its belated Los Angeles debut, Tuesday for Chamber Music in Historic Sites, it was with music from Monteverdi's "Selva morale e spirituale" couched in a mock vesper service.

Announcing the 1988-89 season of chamber music concerts by the Da Camera Society, producing director MaryAnn Bonino promised more than 50 events of chamber music, beginning Oct. 7, including a ninth season of Chamber Music in Historic Sites. Of the 31 concert locales, 17 will be new sites for the series, including private homes by Greene and Greene, Wallace Neff and Cedric Gibbons, plus landmark ballrooms, lobbies, private clubs and churches by John Parkinson, John C.

They may not be household names, but British violinist John Holloway, Dutch cellist Jaap ter Linden and Danish harpsichordist Lars Ulrik Mortensen do constitute an all-star trio in the Baroque period-performance field. Thus, they receive equal billing, although Holloway -- another of the lively scholars Britain seems to produce in bundles -- is their spokesman. Tuesday night, the three offered a survey of Italian Baroque sonatas as part of the Da Camera Society of Mount St.

Ventura County prosecutors said Friday that they will seek the death penalty in the murder trial of David Wayne Sconce, accused of using oleander to poison a business rival in 1985. Deputy Dist. Atty. Kevin DeNoce said state law lists murder by poisoning as a "special circumstance" that a jury may consider in deciding whether to recommend the death penalty.

Los Angeles Fire Department officials Wednesday persuaded Councilman Hal Bernson to reconsider his plan to exempt a 21-house subdivision owned by Ray Mulokas, a friend and political contributor, from some city fire code requirements. After a private meeting with three fire officials, including Assistant Chief Del Howard, Bernson postponed until Friday a City Council vote that was set Wednesday to enact the conditions to be imposed on Mulokas' project in Chatsworth.