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Classical stars come West Horne, Shaham, Perlman join 2000 lineup Britt 2000 classical schedule Aug. 4 -- Navah Perlman, violin, with the Peter Bay and the Britt Orchestra. Show features music by Nielsen, Beethoven, Sibelius starting at 8 p.m. An optional opening night champagne picnic is $20. Aug. 5 -- Gil Shaham, violin, Jian Wang, cello, with the Britt Orchestra. Welcher, Brahms, Schumann. Aug. 11 -- Jeffrey Kahane, piano, Britt Orchestra. Liszt, Mahler. Aug. 12 -- Helen Cha-Pyo, the Magic Circle Mime Company, "The Mozart Experience." Aug. 13 -- Helen Cha-Pyo, narrator, the Britt Orchestra, "Who's Afraid of Gustav Mahler?" Aug. 18, 20 -- Marilyn Horne, the Britt Orchestra, Rossini, Saint-Saens, Copland, more. Aug. 19 -- Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. Kurt Nikkanen, violin, the Britt Orchestra. All concerts start at 8 p.m. except the Mozart family show (7:30 p.m.) and the Mahler program (8:15 p.m.). All shows except Mahler and Mozart feature a pre-concert talk an hour before the show. Pre-concert activities for the Mozart show begin at 6 p.m. Concerts with The Cavani Quartet and Prairie Winds, professional faculty ensembles from Britt's summer camps, will be announced later. By BILL VARBLE Opera great Marilyn Horne, renowned violinist Gil Shaham and Itzhak Perlman's daughter Navah Perlman headline the Peter Britt Festivals' 2000 classical festival announced Tuesday. The season opens Aug. 4 with Peter Bay and the Britt Orchestra hosting pianist Perlman and runs through Aug. 20 when Horne makes the second of two appearances. All concerts are at the Britt Pavilion on the grounds of the old Peter Britt estate in Jacksonville. "Early bird" orders from Britt members are filled in the order they are received starting Dec. 1. Nonmembers also may order then, but those orders won't be filled until May 1. Tickets range from $11 to $42 not counting early bird discounts. Available again for 2000 are lawn passports, a package of three events for $36. For details, prices and more information, call the box office at 773-6077 or 1-800-882-7488. Called the "star-spangled singer" by the Washington Post, mezzo-soprano Horne has been performing on the world's most famous stages for more than 30 years. She had the crossover recording hit "The Men in My Life" for RCA a couple of years ago. She's a multiple Grammy winner and a frequent guest on Jay Leno and David Letterman's shows. She's the only living artist picked by Harold C. Schonberg for the New York Times list of "all-time, all-star singers" for the Met's 100 years. Violinist Gil Shaham won a Grammy for his latest CD, "American Scenes." Not yet 30, he plays with the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra de Paris, the Israel Philharmonic and the orchestras of Beijing and Shanghai. Several of his albums have been classical best sellers, including "Paganini for Two," with guitarist Goran Sollscher; "Dvorak for Two," with his sister, pianist Orlis Shaham; and Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons," which was also released as a music video. As for Perlman, that's her with Dad in Woody Allen's "Everyone Says I Love You." Perlman studied with the world's foremost teachers privately starting at age 6 and went on to the Juilliard School. She began her performing career while a student at Brown University but took a five-year hiatus while battling rheumatoid arthritis. She's been performing regularly since 1996. Also appearing will be violinist Kurt Nikkanen, pianist Jeffrey Kahane, guest conductor Helen Cha-Pyo and the Magic Circle Mime Company. Nikkanen is a rising American star who will perform Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. Kahane, a Britt favorite, will perform Liszt's crowd-pleasing Piano Concerto No. 2. Cha-Pyo, another Britt favorite, takes on a program about the life and music of Mozart with the mime company in a show created for and premiered at the Mostly Mozart Festival at the Lincoln Center. It's recommended for young people. Mail Tribune Copyright � The Mail Tribune 1999, Medford, Oregon USA