26 ~ Friday, May 1,1998 — North Shore News

Program's excellence recognized

HANDSWORTH’S jazz program On Tuesday, May 5, at 7:30 p.m. the school’s

continues to rack up the awards. senior jazz ensemble will host international jazz artists Amie Chycoski and Marvin Stamm.

Chycoski, lead trumpet for the Boss Brass, and Stamm, a New York lead trumpet player well respected for his improvisational and studio skills, will appear in concert with the students. Just Jass, which takes place in the main gym, is $4 for adults, $2 for seniors and students. Handsworth is located at 1044 Edgewood Rd. eae

His North Shore neighbors may think he’s nuts to travel to New Westminster to sing but Don Jarvis says it’s worth the effort.

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Canadian magazine The Jass Report has recognized the program and its music director Bob Rebagliati with the award for secondary school jazz program of the yea

The magazine’s national awards program annually recognizes musicians for excellence i in the field of jazz.

The winners were selected by a committee of 50 newspaper and magazine writers, radio hosts, educa- tors, record company executives and musicians who voted by open ballot.

Rebagliati, Mr. Reb to his ssudents, will accept the award in Toronto Thursday. Other award recipients include Diana Krall, Jane Bunnert, DD Jackson and Handsworth alumni Renee Rosnes.

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NEWS photo Mike Wakefield

CAPILANO College instructor Wallace Leung con- ucts the Canada West Chamber Orchestra Sunday. .

Maple Leaf Singers tor 10 years. “People think it’s such a dis- tance to go, but it’s really not.”

The 70-member choral group draws its singers from every corner of the Lower Mainland, including the North Shore.

The Jarvises and a handful of other local members close the distance by carpooling to rehearsals and performances.

From their meeting point in the parking lot of Centennial Theatre it’s just a 15-minute drive to the group's rehearsal space at Burnaby Lake Pavillion. “It takes longer than that to get to Gleneagles,” savs Jarvis, a retired social worker.

The Maple f Singers, who range in age from 18 co 80, perform about 20 community concerts a year throughout B.C. The group is in need of new members, especially tenors.

Check them our on Friday and Saturday, May 8 and 9, when they perform their annual concert at New Westminster’s Massey Theatre. The performance, Whole Lotta Faintin’ Gein’ On, will feature a varicty of musical sclections including tributes to John Denver, Frank Sinatra and the Beatles. Performances start at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for students and seniors and are available through Ticketmaster at 280,444. To arrange an audi- tion, call directors George and Marie Gillis at 521-8545.

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Mark Sunday, May 3 on your calendar.

On that day, Canada West Chamber Orchestra, the Vancouver East Cultural Centre’s new orchestra-in resi- dence, has its inaugural performance.

Pianist Jane Coop is the featured soloist. Wallace Leung is the chamber orchestra's conductor and artistic director.

Wallace is also conductor and music director of the Vancouver Philharmonic Orchestra and an instructor at Capilano College where he teaches his art to students in the school’s music department.

The idea behind the formation of Canada West is two-fold: to showcase Canadian composcrs and to expose young audiences to classical music.

Sunday’s 8 p.m, concert is the Canadian premiere of Oecsterle’s Nostalgia for String Orchestra. Also featured are Mendelssohn's Symphonia No. 2, Mozart's Piano Concerto in E Flat Major, and Janacek’s Idvil for Strings.

Tickets are $21 at the door or through Ticketmaster at

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Canadian painter David Sorensen returned home to West Vancouver last week on his way to Guadalajara.

The visit coincided with the opening of his exhibition, Deities and Demons, at South Granville’s Bau-Xi gallery, where 14 of the abstract painter’s works are on display through May 7.

The color saturated canvases were inspired in their forms by trips the artist took to India and Japan in the carly "80s, said the artist, but were not actually painted until his return from a sojourn in Mexico fast spring.

This is the second year that Sorensen, 60, has led students from Bishop’s, an English-language university in Quebec’s Eastern Townships where he teaches, in painting workshops on the shores of Guadalajara’s Lake Chapala.

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