HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1973-08-09, Page 8VISITORS FROM FRANCE - Two girls from France are visiting in the Dashwood area for several weeks at
the home of Mr. and Mrs, Case Van Racy. In 1972 Cora Van Racy spent some time in France working with
Mentally Retarded persons under the sponsorship of Jean Vanier, Shown in the above picture are Bob
Luvisotto of Windsor, Claudine Rince and Danielle Jousselin of France and Cora Von Racy. T-A photo
Opera-theatre production
to be presented at Stratford
sense of the word, a coming
together of many diverse
elements in a theatrical-musical
experience.
"It is a work that should
engage audiences," explains Mr.
Pannell. "Not only traditional
opera audiences but also those
whose chief interest is theatre. It
is as much theatre as opera."
Co-written by Pannell and his
wife Beverly, "Exiles" is
directed by Festival Associate
Director Michael Bawtree, who
has also staged the highly praised
"She Stoops to Conquer" at the
Festival Theatre. Set design is by
Eoin Sprott and costumes by
John Ferguson. Still photography
is by Beverly Pannell. The work,
commissioned especially for the
Festival, is the final production of
the Third Stage season in 1973. It
will play through to August 26.
Featured in the cast are four
singers: mezzo soprano Phyllis
Mailing, at Stratford last year as
the party girl of the title in
"Patria II: Requiems for the
Party-Girl", as 'the Woman';
soprano Janette Moody, who has
Mr. and Mrs. R.L. Nolin, St.
Albert, Alberta are visiting the
latter's parents Mr. and Mrs.
William Kernick and other
relatives.
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A
history of ..Strathroy
Looks like you're going to get a
"summer stew" this week, with a
little bit of this and that and not
too much of anything of import.
Here it is, a beautiful summer
afternoon and I am sitting trying
to come up with something of
consequence to write about for
this column, All I can really think
about is how nice it would be to
sneak away from work early to
go swimming, or just to lie out in
the sun.
But I can just imagine the
remarks of people now. "Work is
good for the soul. It makes life
worth living. You would go crazy
if you had nothing to do all the
time".
And so I probably would! But
sometimes t think I wouldn't
mind trying it, just for a while,
There has been a lot of
discussion 'of rate on this very
question. "With more and more
leisure time," the newspapers
say, "the people of North
America are going to have to
develop new hobbies, activities to
keep them busy, to keep their
minds occupied".
Already we are seeing the
consequences of increased
leisure, Most people are still
working a 40-hour week, but some
less than that, Other innovative
companies are starting 10 hour-
per-day shifts, so that their
employees work only four out of
seven days.
"And on the seventh day He
rested," no longer applies to most
people.
Instead, they "rest" for two or
three days (excluding, of course,
farmers and newspapermen, or
rather- newspaperpersons, who
work seven days per week at the
very least.)
One can also see the effects of
this. People start heading up to
their cottages, or away for a ski
weekend a day early. Arts, crafts
and hobby shops are springing up
all over the place. Just about
everybody has a hobby, My
father likes to refinish furniture;
a girlfriend does needlepoint; a
girl I went to school with hooks
rugs. The variety is endless.
But at one time or another, just
about everybody feels like doing
absolutely nothing. I don't mean
you like to sit immobile and stare
at the ceiling, but you don't feel
like sitting down to write letters,
You don't feel like getting out all
your old pictures and organizing
them and putting them in an
album. You just feel like lazing
around.
All the so-called experts say
this is a necessary part of every
individual's life. You have to
learn how to do nothing, and it is
not always an easy thing to learn.
Some people can do it very
well. They are on the go con-
stantly, but given even five
minutes, they can sit down and
make the most of it. The people
who can't do this are the ones who
end up with ulcers.
So, commensurate to this, it
seemed appropriate when I
turned my calendar from July to
August last week and came upon
this short piece of philosophy on
"The Art of Loafing":
"1 loaf and invite my soul,"
sang the poet Walt Whitman, The
art of loafing is drifting and
dreaming and opening yourself to
the inflow of peace and
tranquillity. It is relaxing the
tension of your body with the
music of the singing streams that
live in your memory. It is slowing
down to look at a flower, to chat
with a friend, to pat a dog, to read
a few lines from a book. Just as
rests and pauses are a part of
great music, so are they also a
part of great living.",
+ +
I went to a movie the other
night, the first in a long time, and
saw "Jesus Christ - Superstar". I
can't say enough good things
about it. The music and choreo-
graphy is excellent; the actors,
although no big names, yet, in the
world of film, were very good.
In fact, it was undoubtedly a
touch of genius to choose a cast of
unknowns because you have no
prior impressions of how a
certain actress or actor should
behave. There is no type-casting.
For those not familiar with the
original stage version of the rock
opera, "Superstar" follows the
life of Christ from Palm Sunday
to the crucifixion. It demon-
strates, above all, the human
strength and weaknesses of the
major characters and is very
moving for this reason,
However, just so that I cannot
be accused of leading anyone
astray, I will re-emphasize that it
To work in London
Janet Elizabeth Davis, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Davis, Ex-
eter graduated from Victoria
Hospital School of Nursing
August 3. Miss Davis has accepted
a position at Victoria Hospital,
London. (photo by Doerr)
Nursing Grad
Connie Mackie, daughter of Bob
and Barb Mackie, Orillia,
graduated recently from the Vic-
toria Hospital School of Nursing.
is a rock-opera. While Christ
himself is portrayed in a very
traditional sense, and the setting
is traditional, most of the other
characters are not. The language
is modern; the clothes are
modern ., the music and the
dances are modern.
I hope this does not frighten
anyone away from the picture for
in spite of these things, or
perhaps because of them, it is a
very religious movie. The mix-
ture of the old and the new took
the movie out of the category of a
strictly historical account, and
turned it into a religion that is
with today, that people of all ages
can relate to. I would highly
recommend it for anyone.
I hope, however, that you have
better luck than we did at the
show. I couldn't believe the
rudeness of some of the people
during the movie. I haven't seen
behavior like that since I at-
tended a Saturday matinee full of
other kids when I was twelve,
+ + +
I heard on the radio the other
day that the price of porterhouse
steaks is going up to $10.25 a
pound in some places. That is an
expensive piece of beef,
With bacon at almost $2 and all
other things considered, I wasn't
too surprised when a friend told
me that the six members of her
family had dined on cauliflower,
beans and radishes for supper.
What surprises me more than
anything, is that I haven't heard
of more people doing the same.
In another article I read
recently, it was reported that
many restaurants are feeling the
squeeze of rising meat prices.
Where it once meant only a small
splurge to go out for dinner once
in a while, it now takes almost a
whole week's salary.
So what do you do? Soyaburger
is beginning to sound more at-
tractive all the time.
A news story in the Strathroy
Age Dispatch of August 2, 1973
mentions that the manager of .a
Strathroy hotel plans to go to
Ireland this summer, and hopes
to obtain pictures and old
photographs of the original
Strathroy in Ireland,
It will be interesting to see if he
is successful, because Strathroy
does not appear as, a place name
on ordinary, modern maps of
Ireland.
However, it may appear on a
large scale ordinance map. But
according to some writers, it is a
"mythical sea port", Apparently
the name comes from Gaelic
roots meaning valley and red-
dish, and was given to the
Canadian town by its first settler,
John Stewart (or Stuart)
Buchanan.
A writer in the December, 1972
issue of "Canadian Notes and
Queries" says he has a diary
written by Wm. Cary Dobbs, who
accompanied John Stewart
Buchanan to Middlesex, and that
the founding of the settlement
took place on September 21, 1831
a year earlier than the usually
accepted date of 1832,
He quotes James Buchanan,
father of the founder, as saying
that he received 1,200 acres of
land in Adelaide, free of fees,
because of his services as British
consul in New York, in settling
Irish immigrants in the United
States and gave the land to his
son.
He is also quoted as saying,
"My father occupied a farm
Seniors meet
The Senior Citizens had a
chicken supper at Riverview
Park Tuesday evening with a 100
in attendance. After supper
music was supplied by Henry
Green and Cecil Skinner,
called "Strathroy" now forming
part of the Earl of Blessington's
domain, near Coppagh Church
(near Onah, County of Tyrone)."
According to this, Strathroy was
the name of a farm, and not a
town, and might be hard to locate
now,
John Stewart Buchanan is
referred to as a young man by
local historical writers, but just
how young he was may not be
realized.
The diary indicates that he was
born on January 3, 1815, so he
would be only 16 and one-half
when he first settled at Strathroy.
Perhaps that accounts for the
fact that he did not get the water
mills started at the site until 1836.
The Strathroy Middlesex
Museum would be interested in
any further information you may
have about the origin of the town.
And if you know where Strathroy
is in Ireland, please let us know,
Page 8 Times-Advocate, August 9, 1973
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Facts 'n Fancies
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"Exiles" co-composer
Raymond Pannell describes this
new work, which opens at
Stratford's Third Stage August
15, as "an opera for the theatre".
"Just as a work for theatre
doesn't have the director
directing the performance, so
"Exiles" doesn't have a con-
ductor conducting the per-
formance," he said. In a
traditional opera, the conductor
provides the central focus and
interpretation of the work. In
"Exiles", the musical sections of
the work are controlled by the
singers: instrumentalists
comment on and accompany the
text as it is sung and spoken,
instead of playing together as an
ensemble. . . . The difference
between this approach and the
traditional method is that in-
strumentalists and singers enter
into the creative areas usually
reserved only for the composer."
Without a conductor it becomes
important that the in-
strumentalists be able to involve
themselves in the action of the
work. To make this involvement
more practical, individual
musical scores are dispensed
with in "Exiles". The in-
strumentalists follow their music
on large scale projection screens,
visible also to the audience.
Contemporary in its mix of live
theatre, still photography,
electronic and orchestral music
and poetry, "Exiles" at the same
time is an opera in the oldest
sung with the New York City
Opera, the Cologne State Opera
and the Volksoper in Vienna,
among others, in her first
Festival role as La Cantarina;
bass-baritone Edward Pierson of
the New York City Opera,
debuting at Stratford as Pierrot;
and baritone Gary Relyea of the
Canadian and Hamilton Opera
Companies as 'the Man'.
Combining with the singers are
six actors: Robert Dermer, who
has appeared with Passe
Muraille and Factory Theatre
Lab in Toronto, in his Stratford
debut as Charlie Quinn; Candy
Kane, well known in English
music hall and variety and
praised for her performance as
Germaine Lauzon in "Les Belles-
Soeurs" at the St. Lawrence
Centre earlier this year, making
her first festival appearance as
La Suparella; Gary Reineke, in
his second Stratford season, as
Don Balloon; and David
Schurmann, making his third
appearance at the festival, as
Granpiano. The role of Bud Gala
is played by the trombonist Gene
Watts. A local youngster, Jason
Czajkowski, will appear as the
little boy.
Instrumentalists will be John
Courtney, bassoon; Fujiko
Imajishi, violin; Virginia
Markson, flute and piccolo; M.
Ranganathan, veena; Kenneth
Richard, Koto; Sarah Shenkman,
cello; Sandra Watts, oboe.
Family holds
get-together
The Gunnings held their annual
reunion at Riverview Park.
Exeter, July 29 with an at-
tendance of 98, It was a beautiful
day and at one o'clock all sat
down to a meal with table
committee, Alice and Frayne
Parsons and Donna and Bill
Heather in charge.
President Jas, Miller
welcomed all.
After dinner the sports were on
with the committee consisting of
Margaret and Murray Parsons,
Darlene and Beth Passmore in
charge.
A short business meeting was
held to elect 1974 officers as
follows: president, Gordon
Docking; vice president, Jack
Constable; registration, Ada'''.
Waddell and Tessa Jaques;
secretary-treasurer, Hazel
Miller; sports, Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Passmore and Mr. & Mrs. David
Passmore; table committee, Mr.
and Mrs. Doug Stewart, Mr. and
Mrs. Ken Hodgins and Lois
Herbert.