©} G2 av “Quiet Fire" (1991, Drama)
Lawrence Hillon Jacobs, Robert 2’Oar. Assassi
nailon attempts and the murder of his best friend
plague a loner on a quest to bring down a corrupt
politician.
11:05

€3 (1) «4% “La Mission de Charlctte Forten”
(1985, Documentaire) Melba Moore, Glynn Tur-
‘nan, Une riche hétitiere noite, Charlotie Farten a
appris Alire, a écrire et a compter A des esclaves.

12:00
&D (1) «* “Number One With a Bullet" (1987,
Drama) Robert Carradine, Billy Dea Williams.
MismatchedLos Angeles police detectives take to
the streets to track dows a ruthless drug kingpin.

12:30
CD axKk% “Million Dollar Legs” (1939)
Betty Grable, Donald O'Connor,

@ GD 24% “Sovlal” (1980, Comedy) Martin
, Tuesday Weld. A happily married Marin
County couple are spurred by their randy neigh-
bors into explorirs alternative lifestyles,
. 11:08
BO snrs “Mee copains américalns" (1989,
ie) Magraret Langrick, John Wildman. Une
foung femme se rand au mariage de son cousin
aux Etats-Unis et efle part a la recherche des
beaux gars.
11:30

@ @ r#% “The Long Road Home” (1989,
Drama} Cenls Forest, Kalty Rowen. {n the tate
1960s, a Harvard dropout's decision to take a job
in Canada is misinterpreted as a political state-
Tent.

@ xx “Me. Basoball” (1992, Comedy} Tum
leck, Ken Takakura, An aging American ball-

ith

Heartbreak Hotel, and | asked
them if they knew who wrote it. |
don’t think there was one of them
who knew.

“I try to choose music that |
think the audiences are going to
like and also will be interesting to
the students. | also choose music
for its musicality.

“There’s one number, and |
keep bringing it out, called
Hungarian Dance #5 that’s an
extremely good teaching piece.
The kids love playing it because
the tempo is constantly changing
and it keeps them watching me.

“A tot of them, especially on a
new piece, will‘naturally focus on
the music which is the most
important thing, and forget about
the conductor.”

Smith’s selections must also
take into‘account the instruments
he has each season and the stu-
dents’ levels of expertise,

He deliberately overlaps
rehearsals of the Junior Band with
that of the oldor (approximately 11
to 14) children for half-an-hour
each wei.

“The smatler band doesn’t have
complete instrumentation and
can’t play the full band pieces as
such, but neverthetess faster, or
more technical pieces, give them
something to aim for.”

Smith's fatner volunteered to
become whet was then The North
Vancouver $..hools Band conduc-
tor in 1953 at a point when mem-
bership wa» at an all-tirne low.

But by the very next year the
band haci presented its first open
air concert in Victoria Park.

That year also saw Terry David
Mulligan playing trumpet next to
Ron Smith’s trombone in Lonsdale
Hall.

“{ started out on trumpet when t
was about five years old, but |
couldn't do that because of the
way my teeth were crossed so |
switched to trombone, | guess

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player faces tho difficulties of fitting into Asian
society whon he is (taded to. a Japanese toam. if.
(7) tae “Les Aventurlors du timbre
rdu'' (1989, Camedia) Lucas Evans, Anthony
gers. Un jaune garcon s'est fat avoir par san
amiotluia refiteun timbre précteux de ta collection
dg son pers Xt
; 9:00
@ GH “Justice in ob Small Town" (1994,
Drama) Kala Jackson, John Shea Premiare. A
cwil service worker im Guorgia places her family at
ask when she agiees to help expose high-level
cortuption. fin Sterea) 2
GD (1 “The tnnocent" (1994, Suspense) Kei-
sey Grammer, Polly Drapor. Pramiere. A police
lieutenant must fear lo communicate with an
autistic boy whose drawings may hold the key to a
brutal crime, {In Stereo) G8
@ (i2\ a* “Rustlera’ Ahapsody” (1985, Co-
medy) Tom Berenger, G.W. alloy. A cowboy with
his trusted horse, a blazing qun anda large supply
of tringed shirts, brings peace to a troubled town.

6:00
QD) GD eax “Dirty Dancing” (1987, Drama)
Jennitar Gray, Pattick Swayze, A mountain resort
serves as the backdrop for this tale of romance
betveen a teen and a streetwise dance instiuctor.

8:00
axe “Crocodlie' Dundee II" (1980,

comedy) Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski. The ad-
venturer and his journalist-girfrond seek retuge
in Australia atter thay run afoul of drug dealers. (In
Stereo)
© (9) “‘W'll Fly Away: Then and Now" (1983.
Orama) Sara Waterston, Regina Taylor. In the
present day, & 63-year-old Lilly tells her young
grandson of her experiences during the civil rights
movement. (Fi) (In Stereo)
YTV @ 244% “The Point” (1971, Fantasy)
Animated. Born into a pointed society, a round-
headed boy is labelad an outcast and banished to
a pointless forest. Music by Harry Nitsson.

9:00
(2 & x ee “Thieves Like Us" (1974, Drama)
Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall. A fugitive and a
you backwoods woman frorn Mississippi tall in
ve during th? Depression-era crime spree.

ARTS () aks “55 Days at Poking” (1963,
Adventure) Chariton Heston, Ava Gardner. In
190) Chinz, an American major tries to protect
Westarnars from the vio.ence af Chinese nation
alists.

rew up with sound of

maybe because my father had
jayed trombone. He was playing

in the Vancouver Symphony
Orchestra (VSO) at the time.”

Smith went on to play all of the
instruments in the band but
switched to the tuba because there
was a shorlage of tuba players at
the time.

He went on to play the tuba
with the VSO for a couple of sea-
sens and then with professional

hada

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3 (3) aw's “Pate's Dragon" (1977, Fantasy)
{Part 2 of 2) Mickay Rooney, Helen Reddy. A
lonely orphan in turn-ol-the-century Maine runs
away trombis crue’ foster family with the helpol an
invisible dragon narned Elliott.
ED (2i) we “Homer & Eddie" (1989, Drama)
James Belushi, Whoopi Goldberg. A mentally
telarded man embarks on a voyage of discovery
with the homicidal schizophrenic who betrianded
him,

7:00
$2 (3) “Guitarman™ (1994, Drama) Nicholas
Campbell, Donnelly Rhodes. A musician takes
the childran ol a rural Canadian community alter
the mayor rofuses to pay him tor saving their
crops, (8)

9:00
23 25) GY (3) @ Cy wae “Total Recall”
(1990, Science Fiction) Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Rachel Ticolin. Recurring nightmares compel an
eanthling to visit Mars, a journey that Ihrusts hiniio
the center ol an interg-lactic conspiracy. (in
Stereo} &:
@ (26) “The innocent’ (1994, Suspense) Kel-
sey Grammer, Poly Draper. Premiere. A police
lieutenant must jeam to communicate wilh an
autistic boy whose Grawings may hold the key toa
orutal came, (in Stareo) ita ,
GA 27 ‘The Gift of Lave” (1994, Grama! Andy
Grittith, Blair Brown. Premiere. A teen-age runa-

bands like Dal Richards.

His sister still plays the oboe for
the VSO and Smith credits grow-
ing up with the sounc of music for
tke family’s continued success.

“I's been part of my life for as
long as { can remember. | can
remember going to sleep az a
child with my father practising.”

Smith’s love for his father and
respect for his work in buiiding the
band into one of the best in

estes a

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THIS ORGANIC
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9:00

@ (26) “A Friend to Die For" (1994, Drama)
Kellia Martin, Tori Spelling. Promiere. Tragedy
results when ateon-ager's desire to bacome more
popular in hor hign schoo! luels jealousy toward a
classmate. {in Stereo) 2B

@ 12 «#2 “Panalty Phase” (1986, Drama)
Peter Strauss, Mutissa Gilbert. A judge must
make a dacision that could cost him hig career,
personal intagrity and the respect of his col-
leagues.

12:00
@ GP wats “Some Girls" (1988, Comedy)
Patrick Dampsey. Jenniler Connelly. A jilted
American college student gais another shot at
romance when ho meets his ex-sweethear''s two
sisters at their home in Quebec.

12:30
@ (3) «#') “Staughter on Tenth Avenue”
(1957) Richard Egan, Jan Sterling,
1:00
ARTS (17) «a+ “The Divorce of Lady X” (1938)
Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier.

1:35
EP U1 w& “Blueberry Hill" (1988) Jennifer
Pubin, Margaret Avery.

2:00
B 2 « “Amarican Anthem” (1986) Mitch
Gaylord, Janet Jones.

Canada in the ‘60s is obvious, but
he laughs when asked if his moth-
er was musical, tov,

“She tried! to tell us she played
the violin. She was in an orchestra
ip Calgary and had some medals
for it Violin playing) which were
always a family joke because we
never heard her play."

Smith still plays jazz regularly
with his own band, Sixuvus, and
sometimes wonders whai an audi-

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8:00
@® Qd) «& “Mr. Baseball" (1992, Comedy) Tom
Selleck, Kan Takakura. An aging American ball-
player faces the difficulties of fitting into Asian
society when heis tradad to a Japanese tearn. (In
Stere2} 0D

9:00
Q@ © ««% “Tramors” (1990, Horror) Kevin
Bacon, Fred Ward. Two handymenandaseisme!-
ogy student battle giant carnivorous sandworms
ihraatuning small-town Nevada,
@® GD "The Disappearance of Vonnia" (1994,
Mystery) Ann Jillian, Joo Penny. Premiere. A
woman starts har own invastigation into her sis.
ter’s disappearance with her brother-in-law as het
prime suspect. (In Stereo) (2)
@ 12 «% "Platoon Leader” (1988, Adventura)
Michael Ducikoll, Rober F. Lyons. An American
lieutenant leads a small band of soldiers into the
Vietnamese jungle on a retentiess Search ior
enemy forces.

12:00

@ G3 «x 2 ‘Cross My Heart” (1987,Cumedy) __.
‘Toole. A young couple=sit,

Martin Short, Annette
discovers that the lies they've created tc impress
each other could catch up with them.

_ 42:30
(3) #xx “Horthwest Mounted Police”
(1940) Gary Gooper, Madeieine Carroll,

lUSIC

ence gets out of a music perfor-
mance.

“Sometimes something goes
wrong and we're not so happy,
but nobody else seems to krow.”

Nevertheless he works hard to
prepare his students for the stage
fright of public performance.

“| make sure they know their
music really well. When they get
out there they will lose 50%, so
they have to know 100%,”