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it Entertainment natgg Does Barrie care about the arts By STEPHEN BAUER Of The Examiner Does Barrie city council give damn about the arts Apparently not judging from the 1979 city budget Out of total estimated expenditure of $20 million the city plans to spend less than onetenth of one per cent in direct support to visual and performing arts groups in the city Grants approved include $6646 to the Barrie City Concert Band $250 to the Gryphon Theatre Foundation $2200 to Yv 77j the Huronia Symphony and $1000 to Kempenfest The public library which presents concerts and programs for children and adults gets 583711150 this year That may sound like lot of money but it isnt the library needs more money for expansion and this years grant represents only the bare minimum needed to keep the library operating think thats shocking also think that its up citizens in Barrie and particularly the people directly in to make sure that city council realizes the important role that cultural activities play in this city Its not enough to say that these groups can support themselves If the city can afford to spend more than $20000 jUst to operate winter skating rinks in Barrie surely groups like the Gryphon Theatre the Huronia Symphony the Bar ric Art tub and the Littles Hill Players merit equal sup volved in the arts port ity councils priorities must be wrong when the Gryphon Ihcatrc gets grant only $200 more than the Santa Claus Parade receives In brief presented to the recent mayors conference on growth at Georgian College Gryphon argues that it deserves more support because it boosts the citys economy by offering high quality professional theatre in Barrie Thats true enough but the theatre should be supported for cultural reasons as well as economic ones And with the expansion of the Gryphon into twelvevmonth operation this year the theatre needs even geater support from the city It isnt getting that support City council obviously feels that live professional theatre isnt important Perhaps theatre is too much of an elite endeavor to earn the backing of local aldermen Perhaps art isnt important enough to earn decent share of taxpayers dollars Perhaps culture doesnt matter at all Perhaps Barrie residents are only in terested in hockey playgrounds skating rinks and swimm ing pools Short takes Walter Babiak conducts the Huronia District Youth 0r chcstra in concert at Georgian College Theatre Saturday at it Tickets are $150 and will be available at the Thursday at the college theatre the music depart ment at North Collegiate presents concert featuring the door JUIIIOI repertory and concert bands Tickets are $2 for adults and $1 for students The concert starts at pm to the By STEPHEN GAUER Of The Examiner In Hanover Street at the Bayfield Mall Cinema Lesley Anne Down plays an English wife who falls in love with an American bomber pilot in war time London Downs previous credites include The Great Train Robbery and the popular TV series Upstairs Downstairs shes remarkably beautiful and intelligent actress which makes it difficult to understand why she chose to appear in such trite and trivial film Hanover Street Given decent script which could have allowed her to develop the character of Margaret Down might have turned in respectany credible performance But she never comes across as anything more than twodimensional character beautiful wife torn between her love for courageous pilot tHarrison Ford and dull husband Christopher Plummer Downs love scenes with Ford are embarrassingly cliched and unconvincing Ford has trouble getting through line more than four words long Down looks as though shed rather be sipping tea in the parlor of her townhouse than lying in Fords arms Their relationship por trayed in brief scenes sand wiched between bombing mis sions over France never pro gresses beyond the formulistic banality of pulp novel And Plummer versatile ac tor who can usually turn any role into worthwhile per formance wrestles with more cliches as the dull husband Hes good man who feels com Joe plays wizard for Vannelli ICUMUNIUN TII itnO Vannclli Iollcd on sofa relax ing as for once the interview centred on his brother Joe Joe Vannelli is the electronic wizard in the Gino Vannelli hand one of the prime ex ponents of the synthesizer in rock music Joe plays the key boards and third brother Ross controls the overall sound during concerts The Vannclli stage show uses two of the 747s of synthesizer technology $12000 Korg PS 3300s The priCe is so high the company stopped making them Each Korg is actually 18 minirsynthesizcrs built into one On stage Joe sits in front of three banks of controls calling up waves of simulated violins trumpets or other in struments at will Joe was always into elec tronics said Gino As kid he tried to plug in battery transistor radio It blew up in his face but he learned how it worked Figuring out how synr thesizers worked was natural progression The first compact synthesizers appeared early in the seventies They worked on the same basic principle as the newest versions building sound to stage USED DOORS We Buy Sell and Trade New and Used Books ADAM BOOKS in 74 Dunlap St match the sound produced by musical instruments GENERATES IMPULSES The process starts when musician pushes key on the keyboard generating elec tronic impulses through an oscillator Dials on the keyboard control the pitch of the sound the pitch being equivalent to the note More controls set in com binations alter the shape of the sound wave to create texture The texture determines which instrument the synthesizer will imitate square wave for ex ample imitates reedclarinet sound The Vannellis recorded with synthesizer in 1973 when the only synthesizers available were monophonic meaning TZGS HANOVER STREET on woum nuulh RN union Nu nJOIIN BARRY PAUL IMARUS III ai PETER IIYAMS LEAN tummy iiimu mum Bagbidtl His world is music IIIAKIA PltlllI PRIMJYS LAZARUSHYAMS mecmul PETER IIYAMSniu HARRISON FORD LESLEYANNE DOWN CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER they played only one note at time By the time of the Storm at Sunup album they had duo phonic synthesizers capable of playing two notes at once It still took forever said Joe It would take six to eight hours to do the strings for one song For Gist of the Gemini they hooked up two 24channel boards in an English studio recording 64 synthesized string parts and 24 brass then mixing them onto the master tape to produce sound like live or chestra in stereo For Pauper to Paradise they switched to the real thing dream come true Half the al bum was done with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London IS SINCE She lives in world without sound hrs imitat murmurs mi tuttitigom IROGOLDWVN mm crewssVOICES MICHAEL ONTKEAN AMY IRVING ALEX ROCCO or by JCNN Nifiitftf Saws Serve UV JIMKfV MBB wows JOE WSAN by 4085 MARKOWIZ JOE WILAN PDOuCM MEIRJCIIIDH angina smooch ale miiatw Vukit Fltones no aaex 9M9 finiteness AAttitittittttiiittikkttkkttttktiitiiiikttiititttAAiktkkk Inenmet Editor Stephen Gador Poor script proves fatal to wartime film LESLEYANNE DOWN IIanoverStreetstar pelted to undertake suicidal spy mission in France in order to show his wife how dashing and exciting he can be To accomplish this dubious task the film resorts to gim micky coincidences By chance Ford is the pilot who flies Plummer into France when the mission backfires the two men develop an instant comraderie thats supposed to provide an ironic perspective to the love triangle 7266537 omance Even the escape scenes in Hanover Street Plummer and Ford trying to outrace the Nazis on stoled motorcycle lack any excitement or suspense These scenes ring as hollow as the love scenes bet ween Down and Ford Down Ford and Plummer dont disgrace themselves in Hanover Street theyre too professional for that but its hard to understand why they decided to appear in the film Hanover Street has nothing worthwhile to say about the uni que qualities of wartime romance or the reasons why or dinary men became heroes But as bad film as Hanover Street is its marvellous piece of entertainment com pared to Last Embrace at the Imperial Although its being promoted as thriller Last Embrace offers less excite ment in two hours than Jaws of fers in two minutes The story so silly it invites an audiences contempt has something to do with plot to kill the descendants of secret committee of men who ran brothels in New York City at the turn of the century Roy Scheider looks like rep tilian Humphrey Bogart in the role of Harry Hannan government agent trying to find out why hes next on the list of murder victims COLELLA DENTU RE THERAPY CLINIC FORMERLY BARRIE DENTURE CLINIC 726472I I49A DUNLOP ST BARRIE MEMBER DENTURIST SOCIETY SIMCOE CARPET UPHOLSTERY CLEANERS OWALL TO WALL CARPETS RUGS FURNITURE PROFESSIONALLY CLEANED Borrioo First Commoroiolly Operated Truck Mounted Carpet Cleaning Unit 7284 761 Commercial Residential JOHN nuniu kkkkiikkkiitiiktttkktik FIRST TIME EVER IN MAY IINIIIII Ill BIG Ill 100 REDUCTION ON ALL TICKETS PURCHASED BEFORE THE ARRIVAL OF THE CIRCUS GATES ADMISSION ADULTS $500 KIDS UNDER 13 $300 ITS CANADAS GREATEST TENT CIRCUS BARRIE TOWERS PLAZA HWY 26 27 WEST BIG PERFORMANCES ohm 3o DONT MISS TIIE Mosr EXCIIINGSHOW EVERY ASSEMBLED ANYWHEREI BOOK NOW DONT DELAY BOOK TODAY AVOID THE LINEUP BY PURCHASING YOUR TICKETS IN ADVANCE TICKETS ON SALE AT SAM THE RECORD MAN IO DUNLOP ST EAST TOWERS PLAZA STORE NOTII BAYFIELD ST GOOD SEATS AS LATE AS SNOWTIMEl 3i 5PMl PM SAVE $100 444444444444444444ER44414444¥4¥4444¥¥4444444444444444444444444444¥4 tittttttttiitiitttttii First scholarship recital big success ships were Morris Gervais for piano Lynn Langford for flute and Robert Thurlow for French born The first scholarship recital organized by registered music teachers in Barrie was tremendous success says Joyce FourS505cholarships were Langford one of the recital warded Jamie wan organizers ington May Ann Stepalitis Maria Rozengarl and Rachel Twentythree music Keung who won the Mrs students from the Barrie area competed for scholar ships in the recital held Sun day at Grove Park Home Winners of $100 scholar Dorothy Langford Scholar ship Money for the scholarships was raised by the music teachers Elton in concert British rock star Elton John performs In Oktyabr sky Hall in Leningrad Monday the first stop in his eight concert tour at the Soviet Union Teenagers paid as much as SISO for blackmarket tickets APPhoto ELECTRONIC RADIO SOUND cor the mic on your own car radio This is the first time weve organized scholar ship recital said Mrs Langford Wed like to con tinue it with public support We had completely packed house she said The recital was tremen dously successful it was SAVE on repoirs to TVsV Radios andStereos FOr Qumk Service Call STEWART ELECTRONICS 1239457 74 PeelSt great concert Adjudicators for the recital were Dr Anthony Dawson who teaches music at the Royal Conservatory in Toronto and David Ford head of the music depart ment at North Toronto Col legiate 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