NEW MUSIC AMERICA FEST COMING TO LOS ANGELES

More than 35 musical live events in 17 locations--plus sound-installations and television and radio broadcasts--will make up the New Music America ’85 festival in Los Angeles, Oct. 31-Nov. 10.

The peripatetic festival, which in the past has taken place in Chicago, San Francisco and Washington, among other cities, will be held in Los Angeles for the first time. Details of the programs and participants were announced Tuesday.

After opening ceremonies outside City Hall, at noon on Oct. 31, the first event of the festival will be a Los Angeles Philharmonic concert in the Pavilion of the Music Center at 8 p.m., when Leonard Slatkin will conduct the orchestra in a program of premiere performances of works by Robert Erickson, the late Dane Rudhyar and John Adams.

Eleven days and more than 100 composers later, New Music America closes with the second day of the 1985 CalArts Contemporary Music Festival.

In between, daily events will include:

--Concerts by the Kronos Quartet, the Repercussion Unit, the California E.A.R. Unit, the Paul Dresher Ensemble and the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group.

--Recitals by pianist David Burge, clarinetist David Ocker, percussionist William Winant and bassist Bertram Turetzky.

--Eight free, daytime “Meet the Artist” programs.

--Live participation by 83 composers.

--A program of micro-operas in world premiere performances.

--Fifteen admission-free sound-installations, exhibits and sound-sculptures, mostly in downtown locations.

--New music workshops for children.

--A composer’s cook-in.

Joan La Barbara and Carl Stone are the artistic co-directors of the festival. Stone said Tuesday that the total budget for the 1985, Los Angeles edition of the New Music America festival “will be just under $800,000.” Among principal sponsors of the festival, Stone said, are the National Endowment for the Arts (which has contributed $103,000) and the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department ($23,000).

Though some festival events are scheduled at the County Museum of Art, at USC, in Hollywood and in the Wilshire District, Stone said most of the sound-installations will be downtown “for the convenience of our audiences.”

For a brochure that lists all events, call the festival office at (213) 689-9446. For information: (213) 850-2038 or 850-2039.