The record, 26 avril 1996, Supplément 1

RecorH April 26-May 3, 1996 Arts and Entertainment Magazine Arabesque: Tiny steps, giant feats ;S:> , £ .RECORD PHOTOS/PERRY BEATON -2-rThe Becord—TOWNSHlHS WEEKrr- Apjcil,26,May 3, 1»96 TALK OF THE TOWNSHIPS Moo-ve over, France: Townships cows are the cheesiest As enunciated today ‘progress’ is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.Chesterton I guess it had to happen sooner or later.With the proliferation of advertising in our time and every voice trying to out-shout every other, it was inevitable.We’ve run out of STANSTEAD - The Northeast Kingdom International Band will stage its first Canadian concert on Monday, May 6, at Sunnyside Elementary School in Stanstead.The group, based in Newport, Vt.and directed by James Wagner Chapman, includes musicians from both sides of the border.The performance, to begin at Short Cuts Who's Who By Tadeusz Letarte superlatives! A star became a superstar but now anybody less than a mega-superstar is an unknown.Ivory Soap used to boast that it was 99 and 44 one-hundreths per cent pure, but that’s nowhere near good 7:30 p.m., will feature a varied program of challenging music starting with Valdes, a Norwegian march by Johannes Hans-sen and arranged by Bainum.A more somber Bach composition Aria — When Thou Art Near follows.Moving into a more classical range, the First Suite in E-flat, Op.28, No.1 by Gustav Holst is an arrangement seldom performed by amateur bands in enough today.Giving your all was once as much as anybody could hope for, but now you must give 110 or 115 per cent or you’re a slacker.In The Record, a rock album boasted itself “coolest of the millenium.” Quite an endorsement at first glance, meaningless if you think about it.On Sunday night’s Venture, Robert Scully said “I thought I was super-awesome.” this region.Gallop, a fast moving tempo by Dmitri Shostakovich, calls for meticulous timing and precision on part of the musicians.Two works will be performed by clarinet player Howard Artz — Introduction, Theme and Variations by Gioachina Rossini, edited by D.Glazer, and Immer Kleiner (Always Smaller) by Adolf Schreiner.A The trouble with debasing the language like this, of course, is that when something really outstanding happens, it goes unnoticed because we lack the words.That happened a couple of weeks ago when Agropur won (for the 21st time) the World Championship Cheese Contest in Wisconsin.Agropur is a small farmers’ co-operative based in Notre-Dame de Bon- Band play symophonic prelude based on Black and Alfred Reed’s Color of My True Love’s Hair are also on the program.A Copland tribute by Clare Grundman ends the concert with three noted compositions — Here's That Rainy Day by Burke and Van Heussen, arranged by Lowden; Danzon by Leonard Bernstein arranged by Krance; and the National Emblem March by Edwin Conseil.Its World Champion cheese beat out 60 other entrants in the category of ‘cheddar under six months of age’.Now that’s something special — and we didn’t hear about it! The World Champion cheese! Heck, France alone makes 265 different kinds of cheese and ours whipped the lot! A lot of Townships cows should be very proud.Stanstead Eugene Bagley, edited by Fennell.This will be the band’s second concert.Admission is free.Instrumentalists wishing to consider joining the International Concert Band are invited to Monday evening rehearsals at the North Country Union High School in Newport, weekly from 7 to 9 p.m.weekly.Northeast Kingdom International Magasin d'u^^ H.H.Brown 'victory 492 CRAIG ST.EAST (Autoroute 5$, Richmond Exit) RICHMOND Juggling Giant: Fourteen-year-old Granby juggler Emile Carey was selected from 1500 Canadian super-teens to be among the 185 finalists in 14 categories for the Youth Television network's annual achivement awards.Carey, who currently attends the Cirque du Soleil school in Montreal, was nominated in the category of specialty performance.Carey is preparing to compete in his first international competition this summer in Rapid City, South Dakota.“I practise juggling about an hour a day every day, and on the weekend, about 10-12 hours,” said the bubbly juggler.The awards will be nationally televised on YTV this Sunday, April 28 from 7-9 p.m.Good luck Emile! Cowboy • Work Hiking • Casual Walkabouts — and deliberately — with a 4x5 view camera.He made this series of photographs over several months.“For a long time I had been concentrating on photographing the quiet beauty and dignity of the people and places here in the Eastern Townships,” said Bolduc.“These new images are a logical extension of this heritage work.What I am trying to do is record the ‘pause’ — the scrapyard stage — in the unending transformation process in which what-once-was becomes what-will-be.” Bolduc, who works in the printing industry as a photoreproduction specialist, has been a serious photographer since 1981.In the past few years, he has exhibited widely in the Eastern Townships.Recently he has been experimenting with snapshots made with an inexpensive plastic camera and with “no-lens” photography in which soft, fuzzy images are formed through a tiny pinhole rather than through glass.ROCK ISLAND — The Haskell Free Library is hosting a talk in honor of Holocaust Memorial Day on Monday, May 6.Dr.Marion Pritchard, of Vershire, Vermont, will speak at 6 p.m.In 1983, Pritchard was identified by the Israeli Knesset as one of the “-Righteous Among the Nations of the World,” a term reserved for non-Jews who risked their lives to help save the lives of a Jewish man, woman or child.Her story is one of those included in the award-winning film and book, The Courage to Care.A long-time resident of Vermont, during the 1940s Pritchard was a young social work student in Amsterdam.After witnessing a brutal round-up of Jewish children, she and a small group of friends decided to do whatever they could to thwart such atrocities.Pritchard will speak of the events she witnessed and her experiences during the Nazi occupation of Holland in World War II.Admission is free, although seating will be limited.For further information, call The Haskell Free Library at 873-3022 or 876-2471.WKN'S AND LflDIfS ROCK ISLAND — Sherbroo-ke shutter-bug Rene Bolduc will exhibit a new photographic portfolio of “junkyard art” at the Haskell Free Library during May.Metalmorphosis, a printed and framed collection of 11 black-and-white images, focuses on abstract compositions Bolduc “found” in scrap piles of metal machine parts destined for the recycling metal furnace.Bolduc, 33, works primarily mm ms WMT00M> CHILD AMPUTEES WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY, THANKS! The War Amps OUTLET HOURS Monday, Tuesday.Wednesday 9:30 a.m.to 6 p in.Thursday, Friday 9:30 a.in.to 9 p in.Saturday 9:30 a m.to 4 p in Thé Recôl-d—TOWNSHIPS WEEK— April 26-May 3, 1996—3 I TALK OF THE TOWNSHIPS Ordinary People: Students shine in affecting drama .4 5- nal weight that, surprisingly for such a young performer, grabs the viewer.Though his delivery is often a bit monotone, it works due to Conrad’s confused state.Nerenberg captures the swinging moods of his character well: At times he is positively pensive; at others a clever charmer.Jeremie Dupuis as Conrad’s concerned father and Rebecca Loadenthal as his stony-faced mother complete this dysfunctional family.Both proved they understood the complexity of their characters.Afra Tucker is a revelation, A family in crisis.Jeremie Dupuis, Daniel Nerenberg and Rebecca Loadenthal in Ordinary People.It’s been five years since Thornton Wilder’s By The Skin Of Our Teeth took the stage at Alexander Galt and affecting drama has finally returned to the Lennoxville high school.Theatre prof Nelson Gonyer and the student actors there have tried to keep audiences in stitches with the silly slapstick of Robin Hood, The Creature Creeps and Show Talk the past few seasons.While those shows often produced uneven results and mixed reactions — safe for the crowd-pleasing, tune-filled Sound of Music two years ago — the teenaged thespians have made quite a turnaround with the current production of Ordinary People.The biggest difference between this show and the crazy comedies of late is that the students aren’t playing caricatures and stereotypes this time.These characters are, as the title suggests, real people with real problems — much more difficult to portray, but immensely more rewarding for both the budding actors and audiences.HEARTBREAKING Based on the novel by Judith Guest and adapted for the stage by Nancy Gilsenan, the drama revolves around the Jarrets, a family whose members are trying to come to terms with a heartbreaking tragedy — the drowning death of their oldest son in a boating accident a year ago.Since then, the younger son, Conrad, has attempted suicide and was placed in a mental hospital.The play opens shor- Back TO NütUrC .* Take a close look at the natural world through an exhibit of oil paintings by Gordon Ladd, such as “Skating In The Park” depicted above.The Knowlton artist will display recent work at the Auberge West Brome beginning with the vernissage on Friday, May 10, at 8p.m.The show will continue through May 19.Art Bites By Sunil Mahtani tly after his return to the manicured lawns of suburbia where he grew up — and where he now tries to forge a new relationship with an emotional father and icy mother.An impressive opening featuring one of rock band U2’s angst-ridden songs sets the mood of confusion Conrad is in.Richard Goldfinch’s realistic set spreads across the auditorium stage well, depicting the cool confines of the Jarret home, a smelly school locker room and the homey office of Conrad’s psychiatrist.SENSITIVE Daniel Nerenberg has grown in more ways than one since his role as an angelic minstrel in Robin Hood.A few inches taller, Nerenberg has also developed the maturity to play this tormented young hero.His portrayal of Conrad is full of sensitivity and has the emotio- U » '