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Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, May 5, 1982—Page 9
The Chopin of Ragtirne performs at Blyth
John Arpin who went from
playing classical music as a
young prodigee to playing
classical ragtime as, one of
the foremost popular pianists
in the world comes to Blyth
Memorial Hall for a concert
on Sunday, May 9 at 2 p.m.
Arpin's love affair with the
piano started young, when
he began taking lessons at
age four. By age seven, he
was already composing, a
skill that would lead him over
the years to pen hundreds of
compositions , including his
most famous "Jogging Al-
• ong" which has become the
theme of Don Harron's
Morningside radio show. He
set his sights on becoming a
classical concert pianist and
by age sixteen had complet-
ed his solo performer's de-
gree and graduated from the,
•Royal Conservatory of Mus-
ic.
He then joined the Uni-
versity of Toronto's Faculty
of Music and at the same
time taught theory, harm-
ony, counterpoint and form
at St. Michael's Cathedral'
Choir School in Toronto.
But along the way Arpin
took a job playing organ in a
hotel,, entertaining guests for ,
$80 a week. Then he joined
Leo Romelli's orchestra at
the King Edward Hotel in
Toronto and soon he had
caught the bug for jazz, and
particularly ragtime. With
the rebirth of ragtime
through the success of the
movie The Sting, new notice
came to the old and difficult
piano form and John Arpin
quickly became recognized
as one of the best in the
business. In Tune magazine'
calls him one of the best two
or three ragtime pianists in
the wcrrld. And Eubie Blake,
• the world's oldest living
survivor of the first big era of
ragtime said: "John Arpin is
the Chopin of ragtime".
Although ragtime has
made Arpin famous around
Come see Moments Mouse-ical
Chirvil and Meadowsweet,
will be appearing in Blyth
Saturday, May 8 at 2 p.m. for
a family matinee.
Chirvil and Meadowsweet
are two field mice, stars of
Frog Print Theatre's produc-
tion of "Moments Mouse-ic-
al". They take the children
other places and times as
they explore the treasures
found in an old trunk.
Puppeteers, Pat Lewis and
Karen Valleair, will share the
imaginary advenrures of the
mice with the audience using
a mixture of sobg, puppetry,
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Moments Mouse-ical
promises to be an enjoyable
conclusion to Blyth Centre
for the Arts 1981-82 child -
the world, he has a great deal
of variety in • his perform-
ances. In his concert, he
shows how popular music
has changed since the styles
• of the 1890's to the present. ,
It's a variety absorbed over
years of --doing television
recording and concert work
with stars such ' as Perry
Como, Bob Goulet, Vic Dam -
one, Edie Adams and Shirley
Jones. As well as examples
of ragtime, blues, stride
piano, be -bop and jazz, his
Yamaha grand piano will
jurnpt with Arpin's own com-
positions. His recordings will
,be on sale on the day of the
concert. '
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1981-82 Blyth Centre for the
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box office at 523-9300. All
seats are $8.
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