Stsinman Preview % Filmaker Micahel Ritchie,whose mpvies include! 'f‘DownhillRacer” and “The Candidate”both starring Robert Redford,and .the Syracuse SymphonyOrchestra will be among thefeatured artists ibr the 19thannual David B. Steinman.Festival of the Arts at St?Lawrence University to be heldMarch 1-12.The theme for the 1976 festivalis the Arts in America, with aii-emphasis on contemporary arts.The schedule includes a varietyof programs in the musical,literary and visual arts. Allevents j are open to the publicwithout charge.Two programs will, open thefestival on Monday. ProminentAmerican poet WilliamMeredith, professor of English atConnecticut College, will readfrom his poetry at 7 p.m. in theSol Feinstone Room of Herring-Cole Hall, jAt 8:30 Ip.m. the SyracuseSymphony Orchestra under thedirection off Calvin Custer willYhe^ Syrdciise^Symphony present a concert in the;Bi^kman Gymnasium of the' Augsbury Physical1 Education Center.Tuesday the Carnegie String Quartet^ which is in residence at SUNY College at Potsdam’s Crane School of Music this year, will present a concert of chamber music at 8 p.m. in the auditorium of the E.Jj Noble University Center.{Scheduled for Thursday and Friday, March 4-5 is an experimental film festival at 7 and