Friday. February 19, 1999 ~ North Snore News — 23

School bands excel

HANDSWORTH band students received top
scores at the Surrey Jazz Festival Feb. 3 ani 6.

Whe North Vas schools senior jase band dinished sccond
overall while the pater jazz band pled ia the top three

The yamor iaze enscnibic was awarded atrophy ter best
rhvthm section. The en omic phiccd second overall,

Grade FO student Grice Kim received trophies ter best
pianist and mest outstanding junior musician,

About 30 Lower Mainland schools competed in the testi-

val) Handsworth was the only North Shore school to com:
peie.
The school’s intermediate and senior concert bands as well
as the senior jazz ensemble, jazz combo and advanced strings
suasicians will pertormy in concert Wednesday, Feb. 24 at
Centennial Theatre when Handsworth presents its 13th
Sound Spectacular.

Special quest is Bruce Hoadley, a professional euphonium
player and trombonist who was a band teacher at Handsworth

Arms and the Man by G.B.
Shaw at the Deep Cove Shaw
Theatre to Feb. 27.

Martin Millership

Curtain Call
ninvtin@usnews.com

IF the Swiss had nor
already defined them-
selves by 1894 Shaw did
it for them in Arms and
the Man.

His pronouncement —
pragmatic chocolate lovers —
would appear to have stuck.

‘The piay is also well-
remembered for its opening at
the Avenue Theatre, London.

It was not unusual at the
time for a playwright to take a
bow after a first performance.
Wi:en Shaw stepped before a
wildly cheering (albeit careful-
ly chosen) audience, one man
had the temerity to boo.

Addressing him directly,
Shaw said, “My dear fellow, 1
quite agree with you, but what
are we against so many.”

Shaw later tried several
times to explain what he
believed was the nature of the
comedy attempted in his play,
refuting the charge of cyni-
cism. Unable to accept success
at face value (his only com-
mereiai hit for the next 12
years), Shaw constantly wor-
ried that his play was being
liked for the wrong reasons.

At the core of his concern,
and at the heart of his play, is
the nature of heroism, (The
title, known to every Victorian
public schoolboy, is the first
line of Dryden’s heroic verse
translation of Virgil's Aenid.)

Captain Bluntschii is the
Swiss mercenary who carries
chocolate into battle in his
ammunition pouch. Chased
off the battle field and into
Catherine’s hote! room he
attempts to reconcile decorum
with safety.

He has already met
Catherine’s fiancé, Sergius, on
the battlefield. Unaware of the
connection, Biuntschli
describes Sergius as the fool
who led a cavalry charge
against cannon.

We meet Sergius in the
next act, a man who has been
filled with unthinking ideals of

m the carly “SOs,

Hoadley will perform contemporary: American composer
James Caurnow’s Rhapsody for Euphonium and Concert
Band.

The concert is at 7:30 pom. Tickets are SY for adults, $5.50
for students and semors, available ar the door.

— Layne Christensen

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NEWS photo Julle iverson

SHARON Taylor is the romantically muddie-headed Raina in Deep Cove Stage's
Arms and the Man at, appropriately, the Shaw theatre until February 27.

heroism and love since birth,
whose self-awareness is suffi-
cient to questien his own
actions, but whose imagina-
tion is unable to conceive of
alternatives. Bluntschli skewers
Sergius’ on the point of wit
and common sense without
breaking a sweat.

Deep Cove Srage’s Kasper
Michaels is a wonderful
Bluntschli and Sharon Taylor
hits both Raina’s romantic |
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She even re-writes Shaw,
taking the final line of the play
—~ “What a man! Is he a
man!” — away from Sergius,
thus denying him any chance
of completing a journey
towards seif-realization, and
missing the point of Shaw’s
unromantic genius.

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