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From page 22

as the evening .

Following a toast to a meal alone
and without mashed potatoes be-
ing lobbed back and forth be-
tween offspring, my wife and t
shared an Antipasto Misto ($5.75).

The dish was a wonderful ap-
petizer.

It provided a visual kaleidoscope
of colors and a saporous pot-
pourri of savory to semi-sweet

CANNIBALS HAVE fun in the soul kitchen; Haque’s guitar
has many voices; the Big ““O"’ exits on a high note; New

order steps up the beat.

**** Fine Young Cannibals —
The Raw & The Cooked, IRS Re-
cords/MCA 1988

State-of-the-heart contemporary
R&B makes the long-awaited
follow-up to the 1986 debut FYC
disc, Johnny Come Home, well
worth the waiting.

Fitm buffs have been teased with
bits and pieces from the trio with
songs written for the Dreyfus-De
Vito vehicle Tin Men, an FYC
cameo in the same movie, and
singer Roland Gifts acting role in
My Beautiful Launderette.

Ever Fallen In Love, written for
Jonathan Demme's film Something
Wild, simmers on the cooked
side of the album version of The
Raw & The Cooked.

The 10 songs are consistently
solid, guaranteeing a lengthy ride
on the charts for the release. Sty-
listically the tunes are all over the
place. She Drives Me Crazy and
Den’t Look Back move comfor-

Italian food served

marinated vegetables and seafood:
roasted sweet red pepper in light
oil andherbs; a slice of grilled egg-
plant slathered in otive oit;a
smait portion of fresh shrimp in a
cream aioli sauce; plump purple
Greek olives; two rolled slices of
proscuitto ham; and large oyster
mushrooms marinated in cil,
vinegar, basil and other herbs.

Centre stage on the plate was a
serving of Caponatina, a Sicilian
vegetable antipasto.

Teacher fights burnout

From page 21

Local dancer Karen Jamieson
and Olympic silver medalist and
former world champion figure
skater Karen Magnussen have
sought Leggatt out as a teacher
and choreographer,

But Leggatt is probably best
known to locals for his work with

the North Shore Light Opera
Society, where he worker for 12

Teday, having just finished his
most recent ie The Y oh
Widow — a light operetta whic
enjoyed a successful run at Rich-
mond’s Gateway Theatre — Leg-
gait says he’s becoming more
relaxed about teaching.

“Vm not imposing as much on
the performers as far as saying you
have to do this and that. | take the

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talents they have and moid them
to suit the show so they feel more
comfortable with it,” he says, ad-
mitting that burnout is starting to
set in with ali the demands of his
work

“it’s very tiring, and as | get
older it gets more tiring. When
you're choreographing ail the
time, the brain tends ¢o give out.”

For now, however, there are

plenty of young actors and
dancers who hope that Leggatt’s
enthusiasm for teaching will en-
dure.

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I love people who appreciate it and

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Romantic piano nightly.

FISH _& GAME HOUSE

195 W. Broadway 876-9256

tably in the pop mainstream, while
songs like Tell Me What and As
Hard As It is take the sound back a
few decades to the golden days of
Chess and Motown.

Tasty pickings, either raw or
cooked.

**** Fareed Haque — Voices Ris-
ing, Pangaea/IRS Records 1988

A dazzling debut from a 25-
year-old Chicago native of
Pakistani and Chilean lineage.
Haque takes his instrument of
choice, a nylon-strung acoustic
guitar, and blends a variety of
sources, including an omnipresent
jazz influence, flamenco, pop and
South American folk for an original
and intuitive synthesis.

There’s a finely-balanced tension
to all of the compositions. Haque
achieves it by pulling off no simple
trick. Fused to a dispassionate jazz
foundation of muscular bass and
light percussion, Haque’s nimble-
fingered guitar counterpoints with

Service was good. La Cucina
waiters are all familiar with the
dishes they serve and adept at
recommending complementary
wines and foods.

My wife sampled Roast Duckling
with Salsa Picante ($14.95), while |
tried the Beef Tenderloin topped
with prescuitto ham and
mushrooms.

The duck, its skin roasted crackl-
ing crisp, featured an excellent
vinegar and red wine sauce in-
vigorated with anchovies and
shrimps.

My beef tenderloin was a superb
red-meat dish. Prepared to precise
rare specifications, it came with
ample mushrooms and slices of
proscuitto, which provided a good
sharp foil to the beef flavors. -

La Cucina produces an excellent
example of the stylish and com-
plex side of the Italian culinary
character that is ali too often over-
shadowed by its pan-popular pasta
and pizza traits.

Its food is first rate, but its prices
are very reasonable.

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an emotive clarity. The stand-out
cuts include an introspective piece
called Paco‘s Blues and Yatra,
where Haque shows off with some
agile fret-work.

Amazingly, he’s only been play-
ing guitar for 11 years. But the skill
obviously stems from more than
the eight hours a day of practice
he put in to know the instrument.

MICHAEL
BECKER

record reviewer

It springs from an empathetic
musical ear and an open heart.
*** Roy Orbison -— Mystery Girl,
Virgin Records 1989

He may have departed a
Wilbury, but he left us with a
posthumously-released album true
to the Big “O” roots.

While the saturation airplay hit
You Got It is profoundly
Wilburyesque in both tone and
delivery (it will make a great car ad
soundtrack), the balance of the
collection finds Orbison sym-
pathetically produced by (fellow
Wiibury traveller) Jeff Lynne, T
Bone Burnett, Bono and Barbara
Orbison.

He exited on a popular high and
with his astounding falsetto intact.

FINE YOUNG
CANNIBALS
DISH OUT R&B

The man from Wink, Texas will
mostly be remembered for his
mastery of the heart-imploding
ballad form. He produces the
tear-jerking goods on Mystery Girl
with In The Real World and The
Only One.

The creative waters run a bit
shallow on the mawkish Wind-
surfer, but the rest of the tracks
give us the “‘O” we've come to
love and know.

** New order — Technique, Fac-
tory Communications/PolyGram
Records 1989

The bleak obsessions of rock ’n
roll suicide lan Curtis, which once
propelled this band in its incarna-
tion as Joy Division, have by now
been completely replaced by a
brighter, more upbeat new order.

it remains essential dance-floor
material, but you don’t have to
wear and see black to join the
oscillating folk in club land. In
fact, now’s as good a time as any
to recycle that colorful mid-’70s,
wide-style clothing. The disco beat
is shamelessly resurrected by New
order en a couple of cuts.

But the band recovers and
sounds best when the techno-pop
takes a back seat to happily
twangy guitars and Peter Hook’s
unique bass sound. Prime cuts in-
clude Ail The Way, Run and the
synthesizer-laden Fine Time.

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