EDITORIAL: Philharmonic at Bald Hill - this sounds good

The strains of the Long Island Philharmonic, performing "Classics Around the World," will soon echo at the Brookhaven Amphitheater at Bald Hill - a venue more usually associated with doo-wop.

The Aug. 15 event is a recent addition to concerts earlier the same weekend at Eisenhower Park and Huntington's Heckscher Park. Brookhaven Supervisor Mark Lesko and the orchestra's music director, David Stewart Wiley, hope the Bald Hill concert will be the first of many there, and Bald Hill can become the orchestra's summer home. If those details can be worked out, and all goes well, the concerts could spread to other communities.

This is a classical case of something for everyone: For the public, it's a broadened musical experience under the stars, at no cost. For the Philharmonic, a young institution, it's a chance to spread its wings. For Brookhaven, too often known in the past for the dissonance of its political leaders, it's a note of welcome musical harmony. Downbeat, maestro. hN