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FILM TIMES: 16
XWA-LACK-TUN: 18
UNDER THE VOLCANO: 21

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Starlight train: page 17

Jan-Christian Sorensen
_ Contributing Writer
ORCHID Ensemble is in full bloom.

The trio of musicians recently released its first CD collection
of the Chinese music it has become renowned for in the last
: ; two years.
Heartland was released in July with the assistance of a
Canada Council for the Arts grant. It’s a placid, often-contem-
plative album that sweeps from higher-energy and faster-paced :
» selections such as “The Gallop” and “Harvest Season” to more ;
meditative offerings that conjure up images of morning mist ORCHID Ensemble Is, left, .
:. ‘slowly dispersing over a rice paddy. It’s a haunting, serene mas- North Vancouver's Lan Tung
.. terpiece which effectively showcases the deep talent pool that on erhu, Jonathan Bernard
ye Orchid Ensemble boasts. ‘on percussion and Mei Han
. The trio exhibits a flawless precision in its arrangements and on zheng.
variations on traditional Chinese, Mongolian and Cantonese
folk melodies and more modern songs.

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