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Village Squire, 1978-04, Page 38GUELPH SPRING FESTIVAL Festival's opening concert is a birthday celebration honouring Edward Johnson (1878-1959), the great Guelph tenor who became General Manager of the Metropoli- tan Opera after his international singing career. Tenor Jan Peerce will join the two exciting top prize winners of the 1977 National Vocal Competition, soprano Michele Boucher and bass -baritone Inge - mar Korjus, in a grand night of opera: arias, duets and trios from operas by Handel, Gounod, Verdi and Massenet. 8:30 p.m. Friday, April 28, War Memorial Hall $7. A PARTY WITH COMDEN AND GREEN: "Comden and Green are fantastic performers. They have this dazzling charm, they light up with joy. New York, New York is, as they sing, a wonderful town. And Comden and Green are one of the reasons why the bells are ringing. A happy evening. It really is quite a party!" Clive Barnes, New York Times. 8:30 p.m. Saturday, April 29th, War Memorial Hall $6. SCHUBERTIAD l: CHAMBER MUSIC: Schubert specialist and world famous tenor Peter Pears will introduce the chamber music of Schubert and read a selection of his letters. Some of his most beautiful intimate compositions will be performed by 15 Canadian artists. The program includes The Shepherd on the Rock, The Twenty -Third Psalm, Fantasie in F Minor and the String Quintet in C Major. The featured artists are soprano Marie Germaine LeBlanc, clarinetist Paul Grice and pianist Derek Bampton; duo -pianists Bouchard and Morisset; sopranos Rose- marie Landry and Susan Gudgeon, mezzo-soprano Janet Stubbs and contralto Janice Taylor; and cellist Gisela Depkat with the Orford String Quartet. 8:30 p.m. Sunday, April 30th, War Memorial Hall $6. VICTOR BOUCHARD AND RENEE MORISSET, DUO -PIANISTS: The first of the noon -hour mini -recitals. They will play sets of variations written as piano duets by German composers including Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert and Mendelssohn. This innovative noon -hour series of four mini -concerts is designed as a tasteful appetizer for those who would like to try classical music. 12:15 noon Monday, May 1, War Memorial Hall, $2. SCHUBERTIAD II: LIEDER PETER PEARS, tenor and MURRAY PERAHIA, piano. In the second of three concerts designed to commemorate Schubert's gift to music on the 150th anniversary of his death, Schubertiad II is devoted to his most celebrated song cycle, Die Schone Mullerin. It will be presented by one of the world's finest performers of lieder, the great British tenor Peter Pears, and by the brilliant young American pianist Murray PG. 36. VILLAGE SQUIRE/APRIL 1978. Perahia. 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 2, War Memorial hall $7. DOUGLAS HAAS, organ and JOHN TICKNER, trumpet: The second noon -hour mini -recital presents the outstanding organist Douglas Haas performing on the beautiful Cassavent organ of St. George's Church, and the stirring trumpet of John Tickner. The program includes works by Purcell, Ritter, Telemann, Bach and Hovhaness. 12:15 noon Friday. May 5. St. George's Church $2. THE CHAMBER PLAYERS OF TORONTO WITH GISELA DEPKAT, cello: Gisela Depkat has created a sensation wherever she has performed, including her dazzling display of virtuosity in the Penderecki concert at the 1976 Guelph Spring Festival. In this program she plays Haydn's Cello Concerto in D major Major with the Chamber Players of Toronto. Under the direction of Marta Hidy, the Chamber Players will also perform Symphonia Concertante by the Canadian composer Srul Irving Glick, Mendelssohn's Sym- phony No. 9 and Divertimento by Bartok. 8:30 p.m. Friday, May 5. War Memorial Hall $6. PSYCHO RED- the world premiere of a dramatic opera by Charles Wilson and Eugene Benson: Not only a new opera based on an original story: it is a new concept of opera. It has only three characters: a psychiatrist, his wife and one of his patients. An offstage chorus of six comment on their confrontations and discoveries as the psychiatrist explores the rational and irrational aspects of his own mind. The most original element in the opera is the dimension of dance. Four dancers representing aspects of the minds of the characters open the opera and perform a twenty -minute ballet. 8:30 Saturday, May 6th, Monday, May 8th, Wednesday, May 10th, Ross Hall $7. $5. THE CABBAGETOWN KIDS: The world premiere of an engaging musical play for children by Pat Petterson and Dodi Robb, creators of The Popcorn Man and The Dandy Lion, The Cabbagetown Kids is set in the downtown area of any city in, Canada. It tells a story of people of different backgrounds and economic levels learning to live together. It will be directed by Rex Buckle, Artistic Director of the Road Show, designed by Douglas Lemcke, and produced by the Road Show Theatre Company of Guelph. 2:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Sunday, May 7th to Friday, May 12th, Road Show Theatre $3. $1.50 mat. $4. $2. eve. IRENE WORTH- an evening with Shakespeare: One of the great ladies of the stage, well known in Canada through her appearances in Shakespearean productions and as Ibsen's Hedda Gabler at the Stratford Festival, Irene Worth will present a stunning one -woman show, exploring the drama of passion and the poetry of love. 8:30 p.m. Sunday, May 7th, War Memorial Hall $6. BROWNING, soprano/DORSEY, oboe /SHANNON, piano: Alexandra Browning, one of the stars of Psycho Red will join oboeist Richard Dorsey and pianist Adrienne Shannon for the third noon -hour concert. They will perform works by Bach, Handel, Britten, Chopin, Poulenc, Glick and Tourina. 12:15 noon Friday, May 12, Chalmers Church $2. P.D.Q. BACH AND THE LONDON SINFONIA, conductor Clifford Evans: Cheerfully mad musical satirist Peter Pshickele will conduct and perform some absurd compositions by P.D.Q. Bach, a character he invented with the confidence that no one remembered exactly how many children J.S. Bach had. On the program are the Schleptet in E flat Major, Eine Kleine Nichtmusik, The Gross Concerto in C Major and. with Schickele fighting for supremacy, his Concerto for Piano vs Orchestra in B flat Major. And anything else he thinks of at the time. 8:30 p.m. Friday. May 12th U. G. Athletics Centre S6. 54. LES GRANDS BALLETS CANADIENS: returning by popular demand after their dazzling success at the Festival in 1977, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens will bring a spectacular new program. It will include a work they were unable to perform here last year because of a dancer's injury: R.Murray Schafer's Quartet No. choreographed by Brian Macdonald and played by the Orford String Quartet. 8:30 p.m. Saturday. May 13th Ross Hall 57. $5 and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, May 14, Ross Hall 56. 54. SCHUBERTIAD III: LAZARUS, an oratorio -the celebration of the resurrection:' The Canadian premiere of Schubert's moving religious drama for soloists. chorus and orchestra. is performed by soprano Rosemarie Landry. mezzo-soprano Janet Stubbs, soprano Pauline Vaillancourt, tenors Glyn Evans and Alan Crofoot and bass -baritone Ingemar Korjus, with the Festival Singers of Canada and the Kitchener -Waterloo Symphony conducted by the Festival's Artistic Director, Nicholas Goldschmidt. 8:30 p.m. Sunday, May 14th. Church of Our Lady 56. $4. EDWARD JOHNSON MUSIC FOUNDA- TION ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIP COMPETITION: For the first time the annual scholarship competition for young musicians in Wellington and Waterloo Counties will be held within the Festival. Performances by these promising young singers and instrumentalists, ranging in age from 18 to 30, will provide two good evenings of music. 7:30 p.m. Monday, May 15 and Tuesday, May 16. Room 107 Arts Building. U. of G. No admission charge. THE MONTREAL SYMPHONY: The first performance of the Montreal symphony outside Quebec under its new conductor Charles Dutoit features • the exciting Montreal pianist Henri Brassard in Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2, and Berlioz's La Symphonie Fantastique. 8:30 p.m. Friday, May 19, U. of G. Athletics Centre 57. $5.