The Citizen, 1989-04-12, Page 26PAGE 26. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1989.
Entertainment
Goderich artist paints
Festival's season poster
Music for a Sunday afternoon will be provided at Blyth Memorial Hall on
Sunday as The Great Lakes Brass, an up and coming brass quintet, comes to
the Blyth Festival’s family series.
Ensemble to appear
Sunday at Festival
Canada’s newest and youngest
classical quintet, Great Lakes Quin
tet, will be appearing at Blyth
Memorial Hall on Sunday, April 16
at 2 p.m. The chamber music
ensemble has toured across Can
ada and the United States. Their
program includes everything from
Bach to Bernstein with their spe
cialty being Renaissance and Baro
que music. Also included in their
repertoire are compositions by
Canadian composers Malcolm For
syth and Morley Calvert.
The quintet is comprised of three
men and two women from all parts
of Canada who have studied at a
variety of institutions here and in
the States. They met, however,
when they were members of the
National Youth Orchestra of Can
ada. Guy Few from Saskatoon
plays trumpet and received his
music degree from Wilfrid Laurier
University. He was chosen as the
most outstanding musician at the
Canadian Music Festival finals. In
1985 Mr. Few placed second in the
CBC Young Performers Competi
tion. Mary Jay who also plays
trumpet hails from Nova Scotia and
has performed with the Toronto
Symphony, Orchestra London,
Canadian Opera Company and
Symphony Nova Scotia. Tenor
Trombone, John Jowett grew up in
Edmonton and received his Mas
ter’s degree from Julliard. He is
co-founder of the Eroica Brass,
winners of the 1985 Artists Inter
national Competition. Mr. Jowett
is also faculty member of the
Mannes College of Music. Lise
Vaugeois who plays horn is origi
nally from Hamilton and has been
artistic director for chamber music
and new music concerts at the
University of Toronto’s Hart
House. In addition she is author of
the children’s story, “I Was Once
at the Seashore” which has been
performed at Roy Thompson Hall.
Thomas Allen the bass trombone
player hails from Montreal and
holds music degrees from Boston
and Yale Universities. He has
toured with the American Wind
Symphony Orchestra and has per
formed in New York with the
Queen’s Philharmonic, the Tom
Pierson Orchestra, and with Mel
Lewis and the Jazz Orchestra at the
Village Vanguard.
The Great Lakes Quintet was a
smash hit at Expo ‘86 and has
performed at New York’s Lincoln
Center, on CBC’s Arts National,
Morningside, and Dayshift. Also
they perform the theme for CBC’s
Sunday Morning. In addition to
their recital programs, the group
tour to schools doing master class
es or performing their energetic
show, ‘‘The Ingredients of Music
Making” which provides children
with an introduction to the basics of
music.
Tickets for the Sunday afternoon
performance are $12 for adults and
$15 at the door. Youth prices are
nine dollars in advance or $10 at
the door. You can inquire about
tickets by calling the Blyth Festival
Box office at 523-9300 or 523-9225.
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Festival's 'Giris in
the Gang'doses
Grand Theatre
season
Artistic Director Martha Henry
of London’s Grand Theatre, an
nounced Friday that the Theatre
would be presenting a new produc
tion of the Canadian musical,
‘‘Girls in the Gang” as the final
offering of their 1989/90 season.
With books and lyrics by Raymond
Storey and music by John Roby,
the production will run from April
24, 1990 to May 19, 1990.
Girls in The Gang is the second
play featured on the Theatre’s
playbill this year, that premiered
first at Blyth Festival. Bordertown
Cafe which was originally produced
in Blyth in 1987 is opening this
season of The Grand.
Girls In The Gang, also produced
in Blyth in 1987, won a Dora Award
as Toronto’s best new musical of
1988, as a result of the successful
Factory Theatre/National Arts
Centre production. Critically ac
claimed as ‘‘stylish and seductive”
by the Hamilton Spectator, and by
the Globe and Mail as ‘‘brassy,
slick, and witty” Girls In The Gang
is set in 1950’s Toronto, when the
Boyd Gang and their girls provided
fascinating copy for crime reporters
and readers alike.
Girls In The Gang replaces tne
previously announced production
of “Fire”, another Canadian musi
cal by Paul Ledoux and David
Young. Ms. Henry said, ‘‘We
understand the authors of Fire
have plans for the Theatre Passe
Murialle/Shaw Festival Production
directed by Brian Richmond, and
they feel that a separate production
in London should not be contem
plated at this time. We wish them
much success in their ventures and
hope that London audiences will
eventually be able to see this
exciting Canadian work. At the
same time we have been wanting to
undertake a major production of
‘Girls In The Gang’ and we know it
will prove enormously popular with
our audiences.”
THURS., FRI,, SAT.
5P.M.-12A.M.
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Goderich artist, Gwen Kiar, com
missioned by the Blyth Festival to
design the Blyth Festival season
poster will unveil her original full
colour poster at her art studio, The
Gallery In the Garden at 19 Victoria
St. N. in Goderich on Friday, April
14. The poster is inspired by
Massey-Ferguson agricultural pos
ters from the turn of the century.
Famous Massey harvesting ma
chinery of the 1890’s are featured
- in the illustrations (Sharp’s Hay
Rake and Hay Binder). The sponsor
of this poster is McGavin Farm
Equipment Walton.
Artist Gwen Kiar grew up in
Cambridge and received her com
mercial art training in Brantford.
Her work has been exhibited in
group showings in Toronto,
Guelph, and Waterloo with solo
exhibits featured at her Goderich
gallery, The County Gallery in
Paisley, the mt Arts Co. in Bay-
field, Christmas Country Fair in
Saltford, and at the Blyth Centre
for the Arts. Since 1966, she has
taught art classes for children and
adults for a variety of organizations
including many Conestoga College
courses in Goderich this year. Since
moving to Goderich in 1973, her
commercial art designs have been
used by many organizations
throughout Huron County. Some
special projects Gwen has worked
on include the Huron County
Historical Atlas, designs for God
erich Little Theatre plays, designs
for two parks located at Lions
Harbour Park and Cambridge
Street Community Centre Park and
Organizer of the 1975 Festival of
the Arts.
‘‘With our 15th anniversary sea
son, we’re pleased to celebrate our
rich agricultural heritage that is
depicted in our poster this year”
says Jane Gardner of the Blyth
Festival. ‘‘When we began discuss
ing possible designs for the poster
last fall, I was impressed with
Gwen’s knowledge and apprecia
tion of local history. After combing
- through dozens of books, photo
graphs and libraries, we discovered
the 1972 Massey-Ferguson 125th
anniversary publication which illu
strates many of the Massey adver
tisements since its beginnings in
1847. We decided only then what
our poster’s theme would be. It was
months later I learned that Dan
Needles, author of our opening
play this season, Perils of Perse
phone is a direct descendent of
Daniel Massey who founded the
Massey empire - in fact Dan is
named after his great-great grand
father.”
It has long been a custom of the
Blyth Festival to promote the work
of regional artists, as does the
Blyth Festival Art Gallery. Last
season a painting of St. Mary’s
artist, Mark Fletcher was featured
on the 1988 season poster. The
Blyth Festival Box Office has on
sale now many posters from pre
vious years as well as the 1989
season poster by Gwen Kiar.
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