The Citizen, 1991-11-13, Page 23THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1991. PAGE 23.
ntertainment Music review
Charlotte a real Diamond
Festival choir sings in Clinton
Two outstanding artists, Renee
Stalenhoef and Gordon MacLeod,
will perform with the Blyth Festi
val Singers' presentation of the first
part of Handel's Messiah in
November.
Renee Stalenhoef, of Auburn,
will be performing the soprano
solos from The Messiah at the con
cert on November 24, at Wesley-
Willis United Church in Clinton.
She has had vast solo experience,
which includes performing with the
Dutch National Opera, the Dutch
Bach and Handel Societies and the
Holland and French Summer Festi
vals. Before emigrating to Canada
in 1983, she had sung in more than
800 performances throughout
France, Germany, Belgium, Israel
and Holland.
Since coming to Canada, Renee
Stalenhoef has performed with the
Kitchener-Waterloo Philharmonic
Choir, the London Fanshawe
Choir, the Blyth Summer Festival,
and the Saugeen Bach Choir. She
has performed the difficult title role
of Anna Bolena for the Canadian
Opera Company's preview series,
as well as officially understudying
the role for Dame Joan Sutherland.
Gordon MacLeod of Toronto will
also be performing solos from The
Messiah. He is a bass-baritone who
has recently graduated from the
University of Toronto Opera
School. In 1990, he appeared as
Liberto in the Canadian Opera
Company tour of Monteverdi's The
Coronation of Poppea. He has since
Public play readings
at Festival Saturday
Blyth Centre for the Arts is invit
ing the general public to a reading
of several scripts, presently in the
works, between 1 and 5 p.m. on
Saturday, November 15 in The
June Hill Room, upstairs in the
Administration Building.
The reading selections will be
from various playwrights, includ
ing Robert Clinton, Keith Roulston,
Colleen Curran and Anne Chislett,
and are being considered for possi
ble inclusion into the 1992 season.
Since October 28, a number of
playwrights have been in Blyth
workshopping their scripts, which
are in various stages of completion.
Actors taking part are Jacqueline
Blais, Jerry Franken, Laurel Paetz,
Carol Sinclair, Mo Bock and Mar
tin Julien.
performed in several other of their
productions.
Mr. MacLeod has sung with local
orchestras including the National
Arts Centre Orchestra, and studied
at the Banff School of Fine Arts. In
1989, he performed as bass soloist
with the Barcelona Symphony in
Spain. This summer he returned to
Spain singing the role of Don
Alfonso in The Vienna Taschen-
Opera's tour production of Mozart’s
Cosi Fan Tutte.
This fall he attended The Britten-
Pears School of Music in England
where he studied Bach and Handel
interpretation with Anthony Rolfe-
Johnson. Also performing with the
choir will be John De Jager, tenor,
from Goderich, Sarah Parkinson,
contralto, of London, member of
The Huron Scola Cantorum of
Goderich, and The Huron String
School Orchestra and its director,
Elayne Ras.
There will be two performances
on November 24, at 2:30 p.m. and
7:30 p.m. Tickets are available
from choir members and from the
Blyth Festival box office, at 523-
9300.
BY ERIN ROULSTON
On Sunday, Nov. 10, the chil
dren's entertainer Charlotte Dia
mond performed at Blyth Memorial
Hall.
Charlotte and her musician Paul,
performed 13 songs, entertaining
children of all ages. In one song,
Labomba, she got all the children
up and dancing, along with a cou
ple of the braver parents.
A few of the songs she sang
included: Four Hugs a Day, The
Laundry Monster, and The Hug
Bug along with Slimey The Slug,
co-written by her son Mathew, and
Dicky Dinosaur, a prehistoric rap
inspired by her son Thomas.
Charlotte not only sang in
English but also in French, Span
ish, Italian and African.
She also told short stories such
as the one about the laundry mon
ster that had even hunted her grand-
Happy 30™
Birthday Mom
mother in Scotland.
At the end of the concert Char
lotte went downstairs to autograph
picture postcards which included
her address and a picture of her
with a 'hug bug' puppet, She also
sold records, cassettes, C.D.s and
song books, including her new
Christmas album.
Charlotte Diamond is a fabulous
entertainer if you're two or even 32.
I'd love to see another of her con
certs some day.
THURSDAY NIGHT IS
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The Blyth Festival Singers
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More information on sources of
funding will be necessary before a
recommendation is brought to
Huron County council about a
transportation policy for seniors
and the physically disabled, council
was told Thursday.
"We're moving ahead in a man
ner in which we know where we're
going before we recommend
action," said Exeter Reeve Bill
Mickle, a member of the Board of
Health which is administering the
study of the possibility of starting
such a service.
The study is part of a provincial
ly funded program headed by Brus
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Reeve Mickle said the board had
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WESLEY-WILLIS UNITED CHURCH
CLINTON, Ontario
Sunday, November 24
at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
DIRECTOR Wade Whittaker
ACCOMPANIST: Carol Carter.
GUEST ARTISTS ReneO Stalenhoe'
Sarah Parkinson
John De Jager
Gordon McLeod
Elayne Ras
Huron String School Orchestra
Huron Scola Cantorum
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ADULTS $8.00 $10.00
YOUTH $6.00 $8.00
Tickets available from Choir
Members and Blyth Festival Uc<
Office.
523-9300
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The information service has been
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"This may not be a very good
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