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enteinment Seograms sponsors concert The Huronla Symphony received its first donation from Seagrams Distillers Ltd last week Nell McKinnon district representative for the company left presents $500 cheque to Noel Stephenson president of the Huronla Symphony Association The money represents sponsorship of the Nov l9 symphony concert that featured cellist Paul Paulford Stephenson said Seagrarns will likely continue its sponsorship of symphony concert next season The company makes similar donations to orchestras across the country and has recently begun extending support to smaller regional or chestras like the Huronla Symphony Examiner Photo Networks take aim at sweeps NEW YORK iAii ount on some tough iratching decisions in the next four weeks like picking one night from among Roots American Graffiti and Marathon Man It will be that way several nights in February for good reason its time for the so called sweeps Thats when the ratings seiw vices measure viewing at local stations in most major TV markets Their numbers deterr notebook Any nonprofit organization or individual may have community event in Notebook Just call 7264537 and ask for Stephen Lauer alls for Mondays Notebook must be received by noon Friday for publication the following Monday alls for Weekend Notebook published Friday in Panorama must he received by noon Wednesday monday oihe Barrie District Hunters and Anglers Conservation tliib holds general meeting at Ill in the Blue Flame Room of the onsumers leis Building The guest speaker will be onst lnsley who will talk about firearm acquisition certificates Anyone interested is welcome to attend every monday eiottenham Lions Bingo at Tao in in the iottenham ommunity entre $2le jackpot must go each week early birds share thewealth rolling $2th jackpot consolation of Percussion ensemble weaves hypnotic spell at collegiate By STEPHEN BAUER The Examiner The surprising thing about Nexus is not so much the precision and joy they bring to their music rare combination in any ensemble but rather their ability to cap tivate an audience for two hours relying solely on percussion technicqucs to create music The sixmember ensemble proved Friday night at Barrie Central Collegiate why theyve earned worldwide reputation as remarkably talented and creative group of musicians they can create their own world of sound emotion and mood within the limited musical framework of percussion Percussion means much more for Nexus than drums and cymbals The group has collected bewildering variety of in struments from around the world bells chimes gongs and drums of every size and description The arrangement of in struments onstage during Nexus per formance creates striking visual effect that complements the groups music the musicians move freely from instrument to instrument and the way they move and the way they strike their instruments is as fascinating to watch as the sounds they create are fascinating to hear ONTEMIORAR WORK The concert opened with contemporary work for percussion Music for Pieces of Wood The six musicians created patterns of rhythm using tuned pairs of wooden dowels The result was strikingly clear and sparse study in syncopation per cussive version of musical counterpoint and the precise coordination of the six parts was an illustration of the ensembles flawless technical ability The second work freeform improvisa tion using virtually all the instrumean col lected by Nexus provided sharp contrast to the opening piece Precise and regular rhythms gave way to freer less deliberate approach to percussion The musicians scented to be playing with sound and rhythm the way child might experiment with an instrument Instrumean were struck plucked rubbed and hammered the music created had mysterious almost unearthly quality full of eccentric rhythms and sudden crescendos The music seemed to work by surprise and by chance but always worked to create mood and sense of unity Like rhythmic undercurrent moving through the music recognizable patterns of music from Africa the Orient and the West Indies gave the improvisation sudden peaks of excitement and the sense of continuity needed to hold the entire exercise together As the rhythms changed the geographical feel of the music changed as well and the effect was like tour of nations and cultures mixing and blending into one whole In piece of music like this Nexus creates such powerful mood that you feel almost hypnotized by the music As the music flows from one musician to another and back again youre caught up in something so strong and yet so subtle that its like druginduced high the music lifts you up and holds you suspended in the air DIFFERENT MOOI The second half of the concert began by creating an entirely different mood from the improvised work Ragtime collection of five pieces arranged for three xylophones and drummer illustrated the ensembies virtuoso skills on the instrument and their ability to interpret popular music as well as they interpret more srious and more dif ficult pieces The five ragtime pieces are adapted from tunes written for Xylophone and piano in the 19205 the music is light and lively as hap py and carefree as child playing game on summer day Nexus showed perfect timing and perfect control yet the music re mained playful and goodhumored Ragtime music makes no claims to be anything more than light entertainment Nexus added just the right touch of sparkl ing enthusiasm having fun with the music without making fun of it The final three works on the program ex plored traditional music from Africa and Mexico Rhodesian melody became the source for an extended improvisation on plucked instrument call mbira or thumb piano traditional Mexican tune known as La Bamba inspired jazzstyled iniprovisa tion on xylophones and three African pieces ended the concert with an often stun ning display of the groups intuitive sense of coordination and ensemble playing First North American release mine advertising rates at the stations during the next quarter The networks have spent lots of money to make their schedules as attractive as possible and the result could be two or three of the biggest nights in television history Take the night of Feb 18 Thats hen ABt begins Boots The Nest Generations seven part sequel to the record breaking miniseries broadcast in January 1977 That same evening NBt airs American Graffiti for the first time on TV and BS presents Marathon Man with Dustin Hoffman The tactic here is simple tempt good segment of the au dience away from ltoots the first night and ABt will have trouble draw ing people back for succeeding episodes But the night of Sun Fcb it is perhaps most competitive of them all PRICSIINTSISSI CBS begins twopart show ing of tone With the Wind the 1939 classic with laik table and Vivien Leigh Nitt counters with lack Nicholsons Oscarrwinning One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest and ABt tosses out thrcchour made forTV film illvis based on the life of the late rock roll singer TBS showing of Conr With the Wind Sunday and Monday nights commemorates the 40th anniversary of the films debut The network is said to have paid MctrotloidwynrMaycr $33 million for 20 showings NBt is reported to have paid MGM $3 million for rights to the films TV premiere Nov 74 1976 It became the highest rated movie ever shown on television The competing networks have done good deal to make the going rough for Roots ll as the sequel is familiarly known The ABt miniseries runs nightly through Feb 23 and concludes Feb 23 in the mean time NBC has arranged for the concluding episode of Backstais at the White House Feb ill and has scheduled the nextvtolast instalment of its From Here to Eternity mini series for Feb $50 goes OBingo at pm at the anadiaii Legion Branch 147 St Vincent Street and tundles Road Barrie Jackpot $300 con soltionSitio The first Allandale Brownie lack meets from 631 to in in the St Georges Anglican hurch hall on Burton Avenue girls ages seven to to are welcome to join For more information call Jill McKinlay at 716 2437 Oihe Simcoe ounty hess Iub meets from 1m to to in the Barrie Public Library New members are welcome Olhe hildrens Annex of the Barrie Public Library holds French hour for pre schoolers from to tuesday The Barrie branch of the St Johns nibuance meets at in the third floor conference room of the Royal Vltr toria Hospital every tuesday OlIuchrc at the Bell Ewart ommunity entre at it Sit5t draw will also be held OThe letIogethcr lub of Barrie will meet ill 130 at the ANAF lub New members are welcome Blighty Bingo at the Wyevalc Orange cntre at pm oihe Stroud Senior itxens meet at 13 pm in the Stroud oinplex OThe Belle Ewart Euchre lub plays at it in the Belle Ewart ommunity Hall For more information call ilave Davidson at 43672357 Olhc anadian aloric ountcrs meet at it pm at St Marys Separate School on odrington Street For more in formation call Flo iloughton at 72645542 0A preschool story hour is held at the hildrens Annex of the Barrie Public Library from to to it in every Tues day and Wednesday No registration is required Oihc Duplicate Bridge lub meets every Tuesday at pm at the YMYVItA Everyone is welcome For partners call 73741439 every wednesday 0atholic Womens Thrift Shop at anadian Forces Base Borden is open from to 830 Location is Building l2 North side between the chapels For further information call 4240703 Oihc Gingham loor Barries Nearly New Shop operated by the May fourt lub of Barrie who use the proceeds for community projects is located at 74 Maple St Barrie and is open lucsday to Friday from 1030 to 430 pm Satur day lti1loa to2 pm Meetings are held every Vlednesday for TOPS Take Off Pounds Scnsibiyi nonprofit weightwatchers organiza tion The meetings are held at Goixlfellow Public School in Alcona Beach for more information call Josie at 4303779 thursday Olhe ialcehc League of Barrie meets at the home of Mrs Jerry Williston ix Virgilwoixl Tr at to am The league welcomes pregnant women nursing mothers and their babies and anyone interested in learning about good mothering through breastfeeding For more information call 72 77 0A Full llousc comedy play will be presented by the Barrie cntral ollegiatc drama club Feb it and at pm in the auditorium Tickets can be bought from students or at the door theyre 32 so for adults and $1 50 for students strong debut for Sad Cafe No band could hope for more impressive debut than Sad tafes introduction to North American markets In fact the release of Misplaced ideals leads one to wonder why it took two years for the sixman British band to cross the Atlantic Since 1977 Sad afe has released two albums in Europe one of which was entitled Misplaced ideals The album distributed under that name in North America consists of selections from the two Euro pean recordings The British press has been quick to point out similarities between Sad afe and long established acts comparisons which although justified to some extent should not be used to categorize this band Sure iaul Youngs vocals have the same raw strength and tone of Mick Jagger But Sad afe does not do the itollingStones True Vic Emersons impcc cable key work bears flighty progressiveness similar to that of hick orea But Sad Tate does not do Return To Forever The musical influences are evident but the band has used these influences to build upon not to mimic As result Misplaced Ideals is an album that is exciting dynamic and suitably varied to avoid tonal staleness From the heavier rock tunes like Restless and iiere omc the llowns which include some finely executed jam sax lines by session man Lenni Zaksen Sad Tafe moves of fortiesst into the more melodic numbers such as Hungry Eyes and Black Rose The band also serves up healthy portion of blues on the time Feel Like by ing MISILAFEI IDEALS Sad afe and SI 1737 Ted Templcman obviously took great deal of care in pro ducing Minute By Minute the latest offering by the loobie Brothers but he may have tried bit too hard While the album contains the usual highquality compositions PEKIIKL CITREHTKS mum Willi SHAW HARRISON itlllll II FORCE TEN FROM NAVAROHE KLEASLU BY AMLHtLAN tNTERNAIlONA Cinema FOR lNOFiMLJCN ANYTIME At 35 3440 16 TECHMCOLOR win1 Bum visu pininiiiuiiou co mi ALSO DISNEY ANIMATED FEATURETYE LAST TWO DAYS TO SEE THIS MASTERPIECE 0E ANIMATION WHIGH WA 301 Itoou and performance it lacks the carefree rawness of earlier Iemplemaiiprixluced loobie collections Mitch of the rhythmic lines that made previous hits like lakin It To the Streets hina trove and Black Water such musical delights are niuddied by refined production mix which files the edges from the loobie Brotherss style Minute By Minute is by no means bad album and although the listener may sense that it is perhaps too clean the essence is there The to tunes are highly listenable with Patrick Sim nions and Michael McDonald sharing lead vocals equally This in itself helps the album along providing good balance between the mellow huskiness of McDonalds voice and the freewheeling clarity of Sini monss vocals One highlight of the album is Steamer Lane Breakdown Simmonss bluegrass in strumental that defies the listener to keep his foot still Other notables are the title tune with McDonalds smooth delivery and the song Sweet Feelin featuring neat vocal accompaniment by Nicolette Larson MINITIZ BY loobie Brothers Brother BSK 3193 MINITF Warner its not that fat Stevens has burned himself out its just that his recent output hasnt exr actly had him going like the proverbial house afire Ilnlike his classic hits of the early 70s tunes like Wild World Peace Train and Moon shadow the product that Stevens has turned out over the last few years has tended to be tired some of it downright unimaginative VT7V Collegiate drama club at create new troupe TORONTO tii Dancer Anne litchburn describes it as little adventure away from home Home is the National Ballet of Canada and the little advcn ture is Ballet itcvue new dance troupe created by six members of the National Ballet including Iitchburn Frank Augustyn Karen Kain ynthia Lucas David itox ander and Tomas Schramek The ensemble was formed to give the dancers chance to ex periment with new choreography and roles and perform for audiences in smaller theatres across fanada Their fulltime association with the National Ballet will continue so dancers in the ltevue will perform only during their annual vacation or whenever else the National can spare them Ballet Revue debuts at the Shaw Festival at Niagara indieLake Ont April HIS with guest artist Karen iessmcr another National Ballet dancer At news conference Thurs day Miss Kain said Ballet The 54 Bevues repertoire would be what everyone would like to dance And we have asked choreographers from the coin pany iihe National Balleti to do work for us and bits and pieces from the classic reper toire that we enjoy dancing The repertoire is bit of everything contemporary classical and virtuoso it in cludcs works by Miss litr chburn choreographed around members of Ballet Revue as well as several of her previous works There are works by onstaii tin latsalas of the National Ballet and by Lawrence lradus as well as the standard classical pas de deux Schrainck and itoxandci will also be choreographing for the group itollowing the premiere at the Shaw Festiyal Ballet ltevue will perform in Ottawa before aptwaranccs in Toronto April 2122 in harlottetown April 26 and in Halifax April 27 28 in May Ballet itevue will be seen in San lrancisco May 25 in Vancouver May 79 and in Victoria May 1315 Sunshine oken Here Weekcn Package Winter is always warm and friendly at the luxurious Toronto Harbour Castle Hilton But especially from now until March 31$t 1979 Because you can enjoy our special Sunshine Spoken Here weekend for only $4150 per person double occupancy with Friday or Saturday arrival And children of ggy ago share their parents room at no extra Charge Theres so much to do that youll want to spend as much time 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