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'Promise' ”
coming
back
With the farm crisis if anything
worsening, the return of the Blyth
Festival’s hit of this past year
“Another Season’s Promise’’
should be more timely than ever
next year.
The Festival has announced that
it will be bringing back the drama
about a farmer battling the banks
and the economic conditions which
was co-written by Anne Chislett
and Keith Roulston. The Festival is
also planning on touring the play
but those plans are still in the
development stage.*****
For the second time in a year
David Fox, a long-time Festival
favourite actor has stepped in on
short notice to replace another
actor in a Toronto production. Due
to an illness by another actor
recently, David took over a major
role in “ Playboy of the Western
World” one week before opening.
Starring in the show is another old
Blyth favourite, Kate Trotter.
(Kate’s also been on television this
week in the mini-series ‘‘Joshua
Then and Now”).
Two other veterans of the Blyth
Festival have teamed up for an
adaptation of ‘‘By Grand Central
Station I Sat Down and Wept” the
now-classic long poem by Eliza
beth Smart. Anne Anglin directs
while Nancy Beatty stars in the
one-woman show. While the pro
blems of turning a poem into a play
have not made it a critically-ac
claimed work, Beatty’s work has
been lavishly praised.
Festival Artistic Director Kath
erine Kaszas recently returned
from directing a production of
‘‘Primrose School District 109” in
Winnipeg. The play premiered in
1985 at Blyth. In the cast were
Laurel Paetz and Peter Smith.
Paulina Gillis will be at the
Grand Theatre in London for its
next production of “Brighton
Beach Memoirs.”
Forthose who have loved the
music of John Roby at the Festival
over the years in everything from
“Country Hearts’’ to “The Life
that Jack Built’’, there’s good
news. John and Raymond Storey
are collaborating on “The Girls in
the Gang” anew musical about the
infamous Boyd Gang of the 1950’s.
They did some workshop work on
the play this summer in Blyth and
will return next month for the
Festival’s annual winter workshop
period. Ar the end of the workshop
thepublicisinvitedtosee afree
reading of the scripts performed.
More news on other shows to be
workshopped will be coming up in a
few weeks.
Huron County writer Alice
Munro, currently travelling far and
wide promoting her new book
“The Progress of Love” was last
week named the first winner of a
SlO.OOOliterary award in honour of
the memory of the late writer
Marian Engel.
St. Augustine native Harry J.
Boyle has had to cancel a planned
series of programs for CBC radio
because he was ill. He’s now 71
years of age.
presents
* A
DINNER
AUCTION
8th NOV. ’86
*
preview f, dinner: 6.00pm/auction: 6.00pm
BLYTH MEMORIAL HALL
telephone 523 9300/9225
[ Proceeds to Blyth Festival
capitalprojects]
auctioneer: Richard Lobb
Anton Kuerticoming Nov. 17
ANTON KUERTI
music and when he was just 11 he
played his first important concert -
the Greig Concerto with Arthur
Fiedler. Kuerti quickly grew in
prominence as a performer and has
played around the world, repeat
edly in Japan, the Soviet Union,
Europe, Latin America, Austrialia
and China. He has performed with
most of North America’s famous
orchestras including Eugene Or-
mandy and the Philadelphia Orch
estra and the New York Philhar
monic; famous conductors he has
worked with include Neville Marr-
iner, Seiji Ozawa and Yehudi
*1 fi
Anton Kuerti claimed as one of
the world’s great pianists, will
perform at Blyth Memorial Hall on
Friday, November 14 at 8 p.m., as
part of the Blyth Festival fall
season. Kuerti, known as “Beet
hoven specialist”, has a repetoire
which also includes Chopin,
Mendelssohn, Schubert and Schu
mann.
The evening’s program will
include Beethoven’s Sonata in F
sharp major, Op. 78; and his
Sonata in F sharp minor, Op. 11; as
well as eight pieces by Brahms,
Op. 76; and Schubert’s Fantasy in
C major “Wanderer”, Op. 15.
Born in Vienna, Anton Kuerti
immigrated to the United States at
an early age. He started to study
Valdy pleases house
BY KEITH ROULSTON
Folk music maybe out of style
but that didn’t stop Valdy from
packing a full house into Blyth
Memorial Hall on Saturday night in
the second of the events of the fall
and spring series by the Blyth
Festival.
It was a younger than usual
audience, mostly in their 2O’s, 30’s
and 40’s and they showed that
Valdy’s music was very much in
fashion as far as they were
concerned. From his opening
number of his hit single “Yes I
can” through his final, he seemed
to have the audience in the palm of
his hand.
Most of his hits, “Easy Money”,
“Peter and Lou” and “Rock and
Roll Song” were performed in the
first set. He also ranged into
bluegrass and blues and showed an
easy patter filled with humour
between numbers(and in songs
like “Skin and Bones” about the
craze for physical fitness).
Secondsethe moved into less
familiar, more political material.
He also took a hurried musical trip
across Canada from “I’sthe By” in
Newfoundland through to “Blue
Canadian Rockies”.
Along the way he dealt with
peace in Ed McCurdy’s classic
“Strangest Dream” and the nu
clear industry with to his own “Hot
Rocks”.
If the show suffered it was that it
had the same laid -back, west-coast
style that made him appealing. It
seemed to wander from one song to
another with little sense of direc
tion or form.
Still, he proved again the appeal
of folk music as he thoroughly
entertained an audience with just
his own guitar and that of guitarist
Norman McPherson to back up his
smooth singing voice.
While in Blyth he also performed
a children’s concert Saturday
afternoon.
9 p.m. - 1 a.m.
Lions Club
Hallowe’en
Dance
Friday, October 31
Music by: Knight Wind
Tickets: $6.00 per person available at the door
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Age of majority card
PRIZESFOR BEST COSTUME, MOST ORIGINAL
ANDBEST COUPLE
Menhuin.
Anton Kuerti now lives in
Canada, where he has played
repeatedly with the Toronto Sym
phony and has toured with the
National Arts Centre Orchestra as
guest artist in Europe, Russia and
the United States. He is a strong
believer in taking his music to the
people and plays for reduced fees
in small communities throughout
Canada. Altogether he has given
concerts in more than 90 Canadian
towns and cities, from Victoria,
British Columbia to St. John’s,
Newfoundland.
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