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PAGE 36. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1909.
Blowing up a storm
The trumpeters of the Brussels Public School Instrumental Band add their parts to a band number as part of the
Music Night held at the school Wednesday. The concert, featuring the musical talents of students from all
grades, was part of the 20th anniversary celebrations of the Huron County Board of Education.
Entertainment
Review
Cole’s talent deserves better
BY KEITH ROULSTON
Beth Anne Cole, who performed
her show "Me, Myself and Music"
at Blyth Memorial Hall on Saturday
night is symbolic of the state of
Canadian entertainment.
If a performer with her kind of
talent had been born south of the
border she would likely be a star
too big to have been lured to
perform in Blyth and if she had
decided to come for sentimental
reasons, she certainly wouldn’t
have been playing to a half-empty
theatre.
But such is the state of theatre in
a big-time way in Canada that even
when you're a performer on the top
of the heep, it's still like standing
on a mole-hill trying to see over the
Rockies.
In the show Miss Cole tells the
story of the early years of her
career from when she first won a
CBC radio talent search spot at age
12 until a few years later when she
missed out on a part in the hit
movie version of "Fiddler On The
Roof" and spent months in bed sick
and disillusioned. Unfortunately it
didn’t touch on hm- later years that
have made her mote familiar ps a
star of theatiical musicals and on
television.
Those formative years are recre
ated in the music that helped her
along the way from songs from her
school years and her ballet classes
to the music of South Pacific that
helped convince het she wanted to
be on the stage, to the Fanny Brice
comedy songs that won her atten
tion to radio and television audien
ces.
While the audience enjoyed the
comedy numbers it seemed obvious
from the applause they'd have
preferred more ot the ballads like
"Some Enchanted Evening’’, "1
Only Have Eyes For You" and “On
A Clear Day (You Can See For
ever." It’s these songs that really
display the range of her voice.
The true trouper spirit of the
petite performer came through on
this night. One of her most needed
props was a handly Kleenex box as
she battled a cold. To make matters
worse, the show started off dread
fully as her microphone emitted a
terrible screech, then went dead
and the crew, in rushing to fix the
sound problem, left her sitting
centre stage in the dark.
She bounced back, using the
incident to build rapport with the
audience.
Festival’s book sale
recycles reading material
The Blyth Festival is holdings its
annual Book Sale on May 27 and 28
al the Blyth Memorial Hall
At the event, there will also be a
stotvtelling on Saturday and a
gourmet bake sale on Sunday. The
emphasis this year is on collecting
books for recycling and resale.
Organizers Carol McDonnell and
Amber Underwood said they want
to "Recycle books that would
otherwise stay in someone’s attic or
bookshelf and improve the selec
tion of books for our patrons."
Book drops have been set up
around the area for donations.
Before May 26, the books can be
dropped in Blyth at the Blyth
Festival Box Office, in Belgrave at
Beck's Variety and in Brussels at
She was backed up by an
excellent quartet of Peter Brennan
on guitar and vocals, Doug Balfour
on keyboard and vocals, Ron Reid
on drums and vocals and Mitch
Tyler on bass and vocals.
For Miss Cole it was almost like a
homecoming performing in Blyth.
She had performed a one-woman
show here several years ago, then
performed in "Girls in the Gang"
and "Miss Balmoral of the Bay
view" at the Blyth Festival in 1987.
Perhaps like too many things, the
local audience took her for granted
with having been here so much
because such a talented performer
deserved a much larger audience
than the turnout Saturday night.
the Maitland Valley Insurance.
There ate also book drops in
Clinton, Seaforth, Goderich and
Wingham.
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On Sunday, April 23 Blyth
Memorial Hall had a large appre
ciative audience to hear "Sound
Waves 89", a spring concert put on
by pupils of Gail Lear, A. Mus;
R.M.T. of Londesboro, Ont.
Each student played a solo and
also teamed up in duet, trio or
quartette (two pianos - eight
hands). The 27 ensemble numbers
added much variety to the program
as the second instrument used with
the Grand Piano was an electric
digital piano and synthesizer, able
to fill the hall with a variety of
different sounds such as Harpsi
chord, for the "Minuet by Bach" a
duet by Glenna and Stacey Buffm-
ga; Vibraphone, in "Round of
Bells" duet by Andrea Postma and
Krista Black; Several types of
drums for "Indian" pieces were
played by Chris Carter, Peter
Thomson, and Tillie Anderson on
"Yankee Doodle Drummer"; At
mospheric setting for "Aurora
Borealis" by Mark Nonkes; Vio
lins, on "Home Town Dance", a
duet by Craig and Shawn Fair;
Sitar, a type of Indian Stringed
Instrument for "Sitar Tune" by
Amy Wilts. Brass Ensemble was
used to illustrate Trumpets on
"Purcell’s Trumpet Tune" and
"King William’s March" played
by Willena and Andrea Ramaker
and for "Handel’s Hornpipe" from
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"Water Music", a two-piano,
eight-hand quartet by Gail Lear,
Sara Lyons, Deanna Lyon and
Barbara Bosman. Gray and Caron
Snihur used Electric Organ for
"Jesus Loves Me’’. Erik Ramaker
played a guitar rock setting then
Brent Thomas used electric organ
setting on his solo. The final
number used the Pipe organ for
Beethoven’s “Ode To Joy", played
by a quartet of Kelly Bosman, Sara
Lyons, Deanna Lyon and Gail Lear.
Paul Jewitt played a piano solo and
Christine Potter played a two-piano
duet with Gail Lear.
Also performing at the Recital
were 31 entries in Walkerton’s
Music Festival, held April 25 to
May 6 in Walkerton. Gail's stu
dents brought home six - first place
finishes, eight - second places, four
- third placings. Andrea Grant a
grade 10 student had an 86 mark in
both solo and also in a duet with
Amy Bateman, which both earned
first place finishes. Andrea is only
15 years old. Sara Lyons had a first
with a mark of 85. Christa and
Andrea teamed up with Ellie Wilts
to get second palce with 84 for their
trio. Andrea teamed up with Ellie
Wilts to get second place with 84
for her trio. Andrea had a third for
her solo with 84 and Christa Black
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