HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1987-05-20, Page 30PAGE 30. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1987.
Entertainment Festival Singers
prepare for concert
Angus Sinclair directs members of the 34-voice Blyth Festival Singers through a rehearsal in preparation
for their season-ending concert May 31 at Blyth Memorial Hall. The Singers will be joined by the CHSS
choir.
Blyth Festival takes show
on road to Edmonton
Another Season’s Promise, a
play on the financial crunch on a
Huron County farm will tour across
the Canadian Prairies this fall on
the Blyth Festival’s first ever
western tour.
The Festival’s production of
Another Season’s Promise, co
written by Anne Chislett and Keith
Roulston, will be at the Citadel’s
regular subscription series. Pro
mise, workshopped and premiered
atthe Blyth Festival in 1986, will be
thefinal productionofthe Blyth
Festival’s current season, and then
heads out on tour.
The “Promise” tour starts in
southern Ontario in mid-Septem-
ber and includes many now-fami-
liar stops such as Waterloo,
Durham, Fergus, Chatham, and
Petrolia, plus new venues (Belle
ville, St. Catharines, Markham)
which have been added to the
route. The tour then moves
through northern Ontario where an
engagement in Sault Ste. Marie is
confirmed and other venues are
under consideration.
‘ ‘This is a way for us to share our
successes with the rest of the
country” said Artistic Director
Katherine Kaszas, “and it is a
reflection of the high regard in
which the Blyth Festival is held by
theatres and audiences alike from
coast to coast. We have built a
The green revolution revisited
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hitch. Borlauggotthemoney he
needed but ran into problems when
it came to having it administered.
However, he did succeed in
persuading some of the same
scientists who worked with him in
India and China to go into Sudan
and Ghana. In spite of the limited
number of them, not to mention a
minimum of funding, they have
had remarkable successes in both
the above countries.
reputation for excellence over the
years and people are responding to
that reputation by bringing in our
tours, and by producing our
plays.”
This tour marks the first time the
Blyth Festival has toured a produc
tion into western Canada although
other plays developed here have
received performances in Calgary,
Winnipeg, and throughout Mani
toba. For example, Garrison’s
Garage - a big success in Blyth in
Hullett marsh inspiration
for champion carver
The Hullett Marsh wildlife area
provided the inspiration for a
young carver who recently won the
1987 World Championship Wild
fowl Carving Competition.
Jason Lucio, 16, of Mount
Brydges, whose parents have a
country home in Hullett township,
was named winner of the cham
pionship held April 24 - 26 in Ocean
City, Maryland. The annual event,
which features competition be
tween the leading wildlife artists in
the world, is sponsored by the
Ward Foundation of Salisbury,
Maryland which operates the
North American Wildfowl Arts
Museum on the campus of Salis
In 420 demonstration plots in
Sudan’s dry areas, they managed
to increase the sorghum yields no
less than sixfold. The success was
not quite so noticeable in Ghana
but yields there were double
■ previous figures. By the end of the
next growing season, if current
successes are repeated, Borlaug
will go to both governments in an
attempt to get them involved.
Borlaug admits that it may be
difficult to duplicate the successes
of either China or India. There
1984 and 1985 - was produced by
the ManitobaTheatre Centre in
early 1986. The production, direc
ted by Katherine Kaszas, toured to
over 80 communities in Manitoba.
Another Season’s Promise
opens at the Blyth Festival on
August 25 and plays through to
September 12, before starting on
the tour. The southern Ontario
portion of the tour has been
co-sponsored by the Ideal Supply,
Listowel, and Sparling’s Propane
Col. Ltd. of Blyth.
bury State College.
Jason won awards in several
categories including first place for
a carving of a wood duck drake,
first place for a carving of a Mallard
drake, third place for the best
marsh duck and first place, and the
A. Danner Frazer Memorial Award
and trophy for the best carving at
the world championships by a
carver under 18 years of age.
Jason’s award-winning Wood
Duck carving will be on display at
the North American Wildfowl Art
Museum for one year.
A total of $65,000 was awarded
to top artists during the competi
tion.
were many more things in his
favour in those countries than in
either the Sudan or Ghana. In spite
of this, the American scientist may
just pull it off. He got his Nobel
Prize as much for his tenacity as he
did for his science and, as one
observer has pointed out, the India
experiment was written off just
before it produced the green
revolution in that country.
Therewill certainly be alot of
people hoping Borlaug can dupli
cate his success.
The slowly evolving face of the
Blyth Festival Singers will be
shown when the choir joins with the
Central Huron Secondary Choir on
May 31 for a potpourri of music as
the final concert of the 1986-87
season.
Music will range from broadway
tunes (Some Enchanted Evening)
to spirituals. The spirituals are part
of preparations the Singers are
makingtotakepartin the movie
Blue City Slammers being shot in
Blythlaterthismonthand next.
The singers will provide backg-
ground music for the film and will
perform the spirituals. This will be
the second time the Singers have
branched out of their normal
concert activities. Several years
ago they appeared in a play at the
Blyth Festival.
The Singers’, movie debut is
perhaps indicative of a new
theatricality brought to the choir’s
activities by new choir director
Angus Sinclair. The Stratford
based director has stressed show
manship in his productions. In the
Christmas production, for in
stance, the male members of the
choir sang the Boar’s Head Carol
while carrying a boar’s head into
the theatre.
Choir president Judy Morton of
Belgrave says the choir will be
spending the next few months
mapping out just what its plans for
the coming years will be. “We
know we’re going somewhere but
we don’t know just where yet,”
Mrs. Morton said. The new
emphasis, whatever it is, will put
more fun into music for the 34
members of the choir and the
audience as well.
Mr. Sinclair, she says, is
brimming with ideas for the choir’s
future and has already been
planning next year’s concerts.
One of the movies the choir may
make next year is to take their show
on the road more, notonlydoing
their usual sold-out Christmas
concert in Blyth, but touring to
other places as well.
Part of the planning for next year
will be the recruiting of additional
choir members. New members are
always welcome Mrs. Morton
says, and they can get more
information by calling her at
Horticultural
Society
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of dahliabulbs, African violets,
coleus, baby’s tears and many
others which realized a sum of $25.
The president thanked those who
had helped to rake the horticultural
park earlier in the season.
To date there are 125 members
with one district still remaining to
be canvassed - the area north of the
bridge on the east side of Turn
berry Street. Anyone who has been
missed and wishes to help out can
give a $1 donation.
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choir holds its first practice in
September.
The May 31 concert brings
together two of the finest choirs in
Huron county. The Central Huron
Secondary School choir, directed
by Louise McGregor who is also
accompanist for the Festival Sin
gers, recently won three first
prizes at the London Kiwanis
Music Festival. The choir, includ
ing many members from the
Blyth-Londesboro area, will per
form about half the music in the
concert. Also performing will be a
brass section from the CHSS
concert band. The three groups
will join together for a triumphant
finale in The Battle Hymn of the
Republic.
Tickets for the concert at $5 for
adults and $1.50 for children are
now on sale from choir members,
from The Saga in Blyth and from
the Festival box office.
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