Liverpool

Well, he's not 64 yet, but Paul McCartney is moving in on the half-century mark. That happens next year. So, one supposes it's about time for a rock 'n' roller to turn his ear to the quieter strains of classical music.It seems like yesterday that Paul and the other Beatles were the ragged, long-haired hippies wandering amid the orchestra they had hired to play on "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," encouraging these classically trained musicians to play with cacophony, without regular tempo, before joining for that haunting closing chord of "A Day in the Life."

LIVERPOOL, England -- The parents of murdered toddler Jamie Bulger chose the music of Eric Clapton and Michael Jackson to salve England's national wound at a funeral Mass.Recordings of "Tears in Heaven," Mr. Clapton's tribute to his own dead son, and Mr. Jackson's "Heal the World" brought tears to the eyes of 350 people who jammed Sacred Heart Church yesterday for the requiem service and another 600 who stood outside for two hours in a bitterly cold wind listening to loudspeakers.Hundreds more, many of them weeping women and children, lined the 4-mile route from the church to Liverpool's Kirkdale cemetery, where mounted police and uniformed bobbies kept crowds at bay during a private graveside service.

TUESDAY'S TELEVISION HIGHLIGHTS MLB Texas@Orioles (T) MASN9 a.m. Texas@Orioles MASN7 Washington@Pittsburgh MASN27 Tampa Bay@Yankees MLB7 Atlanta@Cubs WGN-A8 San Francisco@Dodgers MLB10 Washington@Pittsburgh (T) MASN11:30 C. base. Maryland@Florida State (T) ESPNU10 a.m. Michigan@Iowa (T) BIGTEN2 Coastal Carolina@Michigan BIGTEN7 Stephen F. Austin State@Rice CSN7 NBA play.