MUSICTour Plans: The Three Tenors phenomenon continues....

MUSIC

Tour Plans: The Three Tenors phenomenon continues. Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti announced plans Wednesday to embark on a six-stop world tour starting in the summer of 1996. The tenors will sing with the London Philharmonia and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in Tokyo on June 29; in London on July 6; in Toronto on July 17; at the Meadowlands in New Jersey on July 20, and Munich, Germany on Aug. 3. A later concert is planned for Melbourne, Australia, in March of 1997. Zubin Mehta--who conducted the tenors’ previous arena concerts in Italy in 1990 and in Los Angeles in 1994--is not available for the tour, said impresario Tibor Rudas. This time, Mehta’s equally noted colleague, James Levine, music director of the Metropolitan Opera, will be at the podium. The tour was announced from London; tickets in that city will range from $55 to $550. Meanwhile, today is a big day for tenor Pavarotti--he turns 60.

TELEVISION

The First to Fall: “If Not for You,” the CBS romantic comedy starring Elizabeth McGovern and Hank Azaria, is the first new series of the fall season to get the ax. Executive producer Larry Levin, who produces the show through Walt Disney’s Touchstone Television, received the word Tuesday from new CBS Entertainment president Les Moonves, who previously headed a rival TV studio for Warner Bros. “The nasty rumor is true,” Levin said on Wednesday. “The official reason is that the ratings drop-off [in its time slot after “Murphy Brown”] was too much. But I believe it’s Les Moonves’ show now, and Les Moonves has no love for Disney. There was an itchy finger on the trigger there.” CBS declined comment. “If Not for You” ranked No. 37 in ratings last week, but has lost at least a full ratings point (equal to 959,000 TV homes) in each of its first three weeks.

MOVIES

Antonioni to Lead Off AFI Fest: The world premiere of Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni’s new movie, “Beyond the Clouds,” will open the annual AFI Film Festival, which takes place in Los Angeles next Thursday through Nov. 2. Antonioni, who will attend next Thursday’s event at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, will also be presented with an honorary degree from the American Film Institute the following day. Other AFI Film Festival components include tributes to actors Nicolas Cage and Christopher Walken, on Oct. 20 and 21, respectively, at the Laemmle Sunset 5 Theaters, and a Nov. 2 closing night tribute to Buster Keaton, featuring clips from 20 of his films and a conversation with his widow, Eleanor Keaton, also at Laemmle’s Sunset 5. The companion AFI National Video Festival, takes place this Friday through Sunday at the AFI campus in Hollywood.

POP/ROCK

Double Chart Topper: Mariah Carey now has the nation’s No. 1 single and album. The pop singer’s “Daydream,” fueled by the success of her best-selling “Fantasy” single, was the nation’s top-selling album during its first week in stores, with 224,000 copies sold last week to knock Alanis Morissette’s “Jagged Little Pill” out of the No. 1 spot on the charts. Morissette, who spent two weeks at No. 1, sold 148,000 copies to fall to No. 2. Meanwhile, Carey’s “Fantasy” sold 165,000 copies to remain atop the singles sales chart for the fourth week in a row.

COMEDY

Happy Birthday, Dick Gregory: Richard Pryor, George Wallace and Mark Curry are among the funnymen scheduled to perform at Marla Gibbs’ Vision Theatre in Leimert Park tonight in a 64th birthday salute to fellow comedian Dick Gregory. Additional comics scheduled to pay homage to Gregory, who is credited with opening doors for African American comedians, include Paul Mooney, Eddie Griffin and Jay Anthony Brown. Gregory is performing his Broadway-bound one-man comedy show at the Vision Theatre through Saturday. Curtain time is 8 p.m.

QUICK TAKES

Alexei Lubimov will replace Richard Goode as piano soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in concerts tonight through Sunday in the Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. The Russian pianist will play Mozart’s Concerto in C minor, K. 491, with music director Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting. Goode canceled due to tendinitis. . . . President Clinton and former President Gerald Ford are among those scheduled to attend Monday’s “Concert of Hope,” a benefit for Columbia University’s Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse. The concert, at Hollywood’s Pantages Theatre, features Tony Bennett, joined by Liza Minnelli, Roseanne, Patti LaBelle, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Brandy.