38 - Wednesday, November 9, 1988 - North Shore News

entertainment _ Faia

NORTH VAN EVENT

Eclectic electric concert scheduled

THERE ARE electric pianos, electric guitars and
electric drum machines.

There are even electric violins, and at least one of
those instruments will entertain focal concert-goers
at the hands of Arthur Polson this weekend.

The classical Gaudagnini and electric violins of
Polson will join the talents of two other classical
musicians in a program featuring the sounds of
LeClair, Ravel and contemporary music from Claude
Bolling and Canada’s Victor Davies.

Davies’ trio — a jazz- and pop-inspired work for
violin, cello and piano — will make its worid
premiere at the Centennial Theatre concert Nov. 12.

Joining Polson will be cellist tan Hampton and
pianist Melinda Coffey.

For the sponsoring Nerth Vancouver-based Ram-
coff Concert Society, this program is the second in a
series of events hosted at the North Vancouver
venue.

“it_was a completely new audience,’’ Ramcoff

co-founder Coffey said of the first series concert, an
evening of Mozart. ‘I expected to see all my stu-
dents and friends, but if was a completely new
group of people.

“We're on our way to building a new audience
on the North Shore.’”’

Tickets are available at VTC/Ticketmaster outlets
or by calling $87-PLAY. A reception with the concert
performers will follow the 7 p.m. concert.

tn other Ramcoff events, the Out for Lunch series
at the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Lunch and
listen series at the B.C. Tel building in Burnaby
continue.

The free noonhour performances feature music
from a variety of composers.

For further details on any upcoming Ramcoff
events, call 986-6838.

Exhibit uncovers life of the cowboy

OK PILGRIMS, saddle up and
mozey over to the North Shore
Museum and Archives.

Once you corral those kids and
little doggies you will be able to
see how the real cowboys lived: a
far cry from-Hollywood’s romantic
and unrealistic image.

Home on the Range: Cowboy

Gear, the museum’s latest exhib-
ition, features a veritable
stagecoachful of the cowboy’s
prized and valued possessions.

Saddles, chaps, spurs and guns
— gear of the cowboy’s under-
paid, overworked life in the late
19th and early 20th centuries —

will be shown until Dec. 18.

Museum hours are 1 p.m..to 4
p.m. Wednesdays to Sundays.
Admission is free.

For further exhibition details or
school tour information, call Terry
Lewis or Danna Wilson at the 209
West Fourth St. museum at 987-
5618.

Stones win

From page 36

again proven that the pen can, in
the right hands, be wielded with
the fiair and precision of an epez.

This is not to say that Stones will
appeal to everyone: it will not.
There are no happy endings (and
few happy beginnings for that
matter) in these slices of life.

These stories are immersions in
the private and often painful lives
of Findley’s characters: baptisms of
despair, alienation and isolation
that serve the writer's purpose of
forcing us to question the validity
of social conventions and institu-
tions. For, while disclaiming any
intention of communicating a
message, this is what Findley
seeks: to make us examine and
analyze rather than complacently
accepting the status quo.

In Stones (Viking; 221 pp.;
$22.95 in hardcover), Findley
plays hardball with our emotions
and perceptions in a style most
writers aspire to but precious few
achieve.

Mr. Munchies Invites you and your guest to
enjoy one compiimentary ENTREE when a
second ENTREE of equal or greater value is

purchased.

BRING THIS COUPON BEFORE
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UP TO

Centennial Theatieg

Ramcoff Concerts
presents

The Violin
Acoustic to Electric
featuring

OO = tp Arthur Poison

Saturday, Nov. 12, 1988
7:00 pm

Tickets: $190.00 Adults
$8.00 Students/Seniors
available at recCentre
Lonsdale, 23rd & Lonsdale,
by phone 987-PLAY or
“VTC 280-4444.

2300 Lonsdale Ave.,
North Van 984-4484

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