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MUSIC

Musical Vision: Music and movies will mesh via a project announced Monday by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, with leading Hollywood directors and composers creating 15- to 20-minute films to be shown simultaneously with Philharmonic performances conducted by Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen. Several noted directors and composers are already committed to the project, which will be introduced in 1998. The initial effort will combine music by David Newman (“Hoffa,” “The Nutty Professor”) with computer-animated imagery, inspired by “Tales of 1001 Nights,” with designs by Japanese artist Yoshitaka Amano. Animation images will come from Hyperion Studio’s facilities in Glendale and Fujian Province, China. Among others slated to participate in the “Filmharmonic” project are Oscar-winning composer Jerry Goldsmith (“Chinatown,” “Patton”) with director Paul Verhoeven (“Basic Instinct,” “Total Recall”); Grammy-winning composer Danny Elfman (“Batman,” “Mission: Impossible”) with director Tim Burton (“Beetlejuice,” “Edward Scissorhands”); and Oscar-nominated composer Alan Silvestri (“Forrest Gump,” “Back to the Future”) with director Renny Harlin (“Cliffhanger,” “The Long Kiss Goodnight”). Oscar-winning composer Elmer Bernstein (“To Kill a Mockingbird,” “The Age of Innocence”) also will participate, the Philharmonic announced.

RADIO

Grice to Return: Bonnie Grice, an on-air host for seven years at KUSC-FM (91.5), will return to the airwaves Nov. 10 on KKGO-FM (105.1). She will host “Classical Currents,” a 7 to 8 p.m. Sunday interview show, and “The Sunday Evening Opera” from 8 p.m. until near midnight. Grice was dropped by KUSC earlier this month after the resignation of her husband, Wallace A. Smith, KUSC’s longtime president and general manager. Saul Levine, general manager of KKGO, said Monday: “We felt that this lady has way too much talent not to be on the air in Los Angeles. . . .” Asked about the controversy Grice had generated among classical fans at KUSC, Levine said that was because she had done “a great deal of talk.” But that won’t happen at KKGO, he added. “She understands our style here and is going to conform to the KKGO style. I think she has one of the most beautiful voices on radio.”

MOVIES

Mighty High: Author Michael Crichton, who went back in time to create “Jurassic Park,” is heading skyward with his forthcoming 11th novel, “Airframe,” and Walt Disney’s Touchstone Pictures is going along for the ride. In announcing acquisition of film rights Monday, Touchstone described Crichton’s latest work as “a fast-paced thriller which focuses on an incident aboard an airplane and the subsequent investigation to find out what happened.” Crichton will produce, and other key personnel are still to be named. A Harvard Medical School graduate who shunned medicine for writing and filmmaking, Crichton has written seven novels that have been adapted for the big screen, starting with “The Andromeda Strain” a quarter of a century ago. “Airframe” is being released by Alfred A. Knopf on Dec. 5.

ART

Framed: An old frame bought for an unspecified small amount at a garage sale was ignored for a year by a New England couple, then taken apart and found to contain two rare watercolor drawings by members of the 19th century Shaker religious sect, Sotheby’s auction house disclosed. The unidentified couple, who like to restore frames, stand to receive more than $300,000 from the artworks when they are put on the block Jan. 19, the auction house said. . . . And in Madrid, an unknown Spanish artist hung one of his own paintings in the famed Prado museum. Victor Ruiz Roizo, 39, glued his work, “Afterwards,” on the wall of a gallery of 17th century art, where it stayed for four days amid Rembrandts and other masters. Eventually, a visitor pointed out that the painting of a human skull with worms had a metal plaque dating it in the 20th century. Ruiz told the daily El Pais that he’d been unable to interest art galleries in his work, explaining: “I’m no good at public relations and I’ve barely shown, so I thought it would be good to show with Rembrandt and all those guys.” The Prado was investigating.

QUICK TAKES

Michael Jackson won permission Monday for a second concert in Malaysia, where one state wouldn’t let him on stage at all. Jackson’s application to perform Oct. 27 in a 65,000-seat stadium in Selangor state was rejected by local officials who objected to his possible “effect on the young.” The federal government then said Jackson could appear in Kuala Lumpur’s 40,000-seat arena instead; on Monday, it approved an additional show on Oct. 29. . . . A video of Madonna and her week-old daughter, Lourdes, outside their home Sunday was to be shown on “Hard Copy” Monday night with a repeat tonight at 7 on KCBS-Channel 2.