32 - Wednesday, Febroary 22, 1989 ~ North Shore News

Festival of Orchestras held in WV

WEST VANCOUVER will be host to the inaugural
Lower Mainland Festival of Orchestras on Feb. 28.

The top string and full orchestras from Lower
Mainland schools will meet together to present an
exciting program of classical music including the
works of Mozart, Vivaldi, Schubert, Brahms, Scarlatti,
Beethoven, and many others.

“Students who study orchestral music at the high
school level are a very special group of people and
deserve our full support and encouragement,” said
lan Brown, director of instrumental music at West
Vancouver high schoo!. ‘This festival will give our
audience an opportunity to hear the accomplish-
ments of our students and to be entertained with a

performance of a very high calibre and of purely
classical content.”

The festival will feature orchestras, soloists, and
smali ensembles from Sir Winston Churchill, Hand-
sworth, Windsor, Sentinel and West Vancouver Sr.
Secondary School.

Tickets are $5 for adults, $2 for students and
seniors.

The performance begins at 7 p.m. in the West
Vancouver high school theatre, 1750 Mathers Ave.

Refreshments will be available throughout the
evening and all lovers «f classical music are en-
couraged to attend. For reservations phone 922-3931.

N. Shore painters show works at gallery

NEWS photo Noll Lucente
BILL REDFERN (Samuel) applies a little pirate persuasion to Ray
Soden (major general) during a dress rehearsal for the North Shore
Light Opera’s production of Pirates of Penzance, the Gilbert and
Sullivan classic comedy, which opens March 3 at Centennial
Theatre. Directed by Joan Harris with musical direction by Richard
Williams, the show runs until March 18. Tickets are $9 for adults,
$7 for students and seniors. Phone 280-4444 or 988-6166 for tickets.

month of February :

Monday to
Thursday only
LUNCH

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NCRTH SHORE painters con-
tinue to display their works at
Sharli Gallery until Sunday, Feb.
26.

The exhibition brings together
three local artists: Alessandra
Bitelli, Richard McDiarmid and
Friedrich Peter.

Ktalian-born Bitelli was trained
in the art of miniature on ivory at
the Elisa Tosalli Art School in

Turin, Italy. She moved on to a
successful career in freelance il-
lustration of books and maga-
zines, and has studied the water-
color techniques of North
American artists.

McDiarmid, a native of Van-
couver, has drawn from his world
teavels and has worked as a
mechanical design artist. Today
he paints full time, primarily

fandscapes and still life.

Peter, from Germany, trained
in the visual arts at the Academy
of Visual Arts in West Berlin. He
was a former instructor at the
Vancouver School of Art (now
Emily Carr), where he now
teaches in the design department.

For more information phone
935-1731, or drop by the gallery
at 53 Lonsdale Ave.

Crosby can trigger the. gag reflex

From page 27
singer-rhythm guitarist
Longacre.

Croslin is lyrically preoccupied
with weaving vignettes of ordinary
lives played out on the messy mid-
dle ground found between the ideal
and the compromise. While
Croslin’s world doesn’t come
wrapped in tidy little packages, the
Reivers package is a neat mix of
poetic perspective and refined rock
*n’ roll.

Kim

David Crosby — Oh Yes I Can,
A&M Records 1989

Crosby’s debut solo release
comes off with mixed results. The
grandstanding tough tunes seem
forced, despite excellent musical
support. Crosby’s many guests in-
clude David Lindley, Jim Keltner,
Graham Nash, Jackson Browne,
James Taylor and Bonnie Raitt.

Crosby, who tried very hard to
obliterate himself during a sustain-

trap.
Sunday nights-Lobster
pst $999

ed, years-long drug binge, van-
quishes his addictive demons and
finds salvation in music. He’s at
his most authentic, showing his
geniler side.

But caution: Unless you don’t
mind wrapping yourself in the
flags of others, the patriotic bits
like Lady Of The Harbor, a song
serenading the Statue Of Liberty,
or My Country ‘Tis Of Thee, may
trigger the gag reflex.

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