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I’d like to extend a sin- cere thank you to the following. all of whom contributed to the success of our concerts on Sunday, lune 8: To The Editor A little while later, the phone rang. It was a neighbour telling me Maggie was over at his place. She'd walked over to his cottage. scratched on the door, and when he opened it. wandened in and lay down. Sman dog. She had found her sanctuary. lwish I had thought of that myself. I spent a lot oi time lying on the couch, reading Readers Digests from the '505, getting up ocrasionally and stepping over a sleeping dog on the way to the fridge. Maggie was the smartest. She refused to get out of the car. giving me that liquid-eyed moumful look that said. "You're kidding!“ When I did get her out of the car. she crawled under the deck where it was clear she intended to stay. The weather was a reproduction of equatorial Africa in luly. Fumaceâ€"hot. muggy, windless. If you lay still for ID minutes. fungus began to grow in your armpits. Porcupines were bursting into flame and folks were melting on the roads. The sodden air was still, the only sound coming from your dripping body. You get the picture. We headed up there with six dogs in the car. Yes, that's right: six dogs -- Maggie, our aging springer spaniel, and five beagles. We‘d been dog-sitting the beagles for Lisa, our newly-graduated veterinarian daughter who was away on a course. I don't think I have to elaborate on what it's like to drive five hours with six dogs in the car. Anyway. we am‘ved at the cottage where we ioined the rest of the family. meaning three daughters and their mates, five kids. three more dogs and Ernie. the cat. That is a total of eight adults. five kids. nine dogs and a cat. If I were to make a list of 'Thin5 to do today." it would read. "bet a dog in; let a dog out; let a dog in; let a dog out. Repeat I87 times." Canadians are a people who, in My and August. leave their comfortable. air-conditioned homes in order to com- mune with nature at a cottage where wasps are building nests under the eaves, iust above the screen door. We have a cottage in the Gatineau Hills north of Ottawa. Let me set the scene for you during a typical retreat to the family haven in the summer of 200l. PointofView Bach to Blues Company thanks the community Kids, Dogs and Heat lost 80 pounds and 80 Inches concert space; Christian Blind Mission International. for all you do for us; Sobeys. for the donation of supplies for . the refreshments; Summltvlew Public School. for the risers; Men of Note, for the keyboard; our wonderful guest artists. who added to our musical potpourri; and our audiences, for your warmth and appreciation of our efforts. ~ Letters A big thank you also goes out to Klimt was enormously controversial, and an inimitable genius. He shocked the proper Viennese with his mysteri- ous paintings that depicted private preoccupations, angst and sexual longing and its satisfactions. His attitude was. "This is what I paint. If you like it. great. if you don't, well, that's tough." As well, I have a small coincidental connection I hap- pen to know a guy whose aunt, Mada Primavesi, was paint- ed by Klimt In I912 when she was 9 years old. In I946. after the war, she immigrated to Montreal where she died last year at 96. She had kept the painting all that time, and a few years before she died she gave it to her four nieces and nephews, my friend being one of them. They sold it through Christie's in New York for $3.5 million, which they split four ways. That painting is in the National Gallery show. Of course, the National Gallery is itself a work of an. After years of being housed in an old office building on Elgin Street, the paintings and sculptu‘ finally found a home a few years ago in the new galleracsm Sussex Drive. Designed by Moshe Safdie, it is a spectacular glass reflec- tion of the Parliament buildings and houses one of the great collections of the Group of Seven. And then. after you‘ve sdcked up all that cultura you- can walk down to the Bywatd Market for lunch. In case you have never heard of Klimt, who died in I918, let me tell you a little about him. His most famous painting is The Kiss, which, in posterfonn, adorned the res- idence rooms of many a romantically inclined student in the l9605 and '705. I had a lot of aunts, but none of them left me a painting that was worth anything. Which I did. And then headed back to the kids, the dogs and the heat. \V What to do? Well, it so happened the National Gallery In Ottawa was showing the work of Gustav Klimt. Thirty-six paintings and about |00 drawings And, as a plus. the Nationalflallery Is airâ€"conditioned. Time for a little culture, pronounced "culcha." Without going into too much detail, I am a big fan of Klimt. by Ralph Pohlman % of based on a MI proonm. exciudu pmduc! all full weight loss programs 6162 Maln Street 0 Stouflvllle 905 642-6906 Since our beginning, Bach to Blues has donated approximately $5,000 to charitable causes. We appreciate the support of everyone who has helped us along the way. Ann Gage. Director The Bach to Blues Company those people who were unable to attend the concerts. but who made donations to our fundraislng efforts for the Parkvlew Building Proiect. Right Across from GO Station mmmlmolcn off AUGUST 2003