The record, 17 mai 1996, Supplément 1

ï?$ ;**»r TOWNSHIPS WEEK Arts and Entertainment Magazine Recorü May 17-24, 7996 The 13th Festival International de Musique Actuelle Eugene Chadbourne lim Joane Hétu Victoriaville welcomes a world of sounds 2—The Record—TOWNSHIPS WEEK— May 17-24, 1996 TALK OF THE TOWNSHIPS Even Napoleon Man is the measure of all things.hated the metric Pythagoras We Latter-Day Luddites were delighted to hear that all the computers ordering us around so pitilessly will crash as the year turns from 1999 to 2000 because they can’t handle a third digit in the date and will shut themselves down sooner and then admit fallibility.One intriguing possibility is that a long-distance call made on New Year’s Eve and lasting past midnight will be filled as 99 years long.Sorting through all the programs to fix the mistake will cost millions and millions.Waterloo By Tanya Singfield Who’s Who By Tadeusz Le ta rte And Michael, that odd little Social Credit anachronism calling itself Journal of Catholic Patriots, has identified the Number of the Beast in Revelations, 666, as a gigantic three-story self-programming computer in Brussels.“By using three entries of six digits each, every citizen in the whole world will be given a credit card number that could be tattooed on the forehead by laser or surgically implanted under the skin on a micro-chip.” But there’s hope.In Wiscas-set, Maine, a group called “A-mericans for Customary Weights and Measures” has been formed to fight metrifica-tion, a hopeless and glorious mission.The customary system, they argue, was made to fit people instead of people being forced to fit a system.We can measure our world in inches, feet, yards, hands, cubits, fingers of gin, but a meter was established by the Academie Français as one 10-millionth the distance between the North Pole and the Equator on a meridian passing through Parish (“After all," I can hear them argue, “The English have the Prime Meridian running through Greenwich.”).A pound is a convenient handful but neither the gram nor the kilogram fits us.The metric system grew out of the Age of Reason, logic.The same pitiless tyrant built into computers.Let’s face it.If God had intended us to have a metric system, He would have given us 10 fingers and toes.Turns out that even Napoleon hated it.In his Memoirs Ecrits à Ste Helena, he wrote, “The scientists had another idea, which was totally at odds system with the benefits to be derived from the standardization of weights and measures.They adapted them to the decimal system, on the basis of the meter as a unit.They suppressed all complicated numbers.Nothing is more contrary to the organization of the mind, of the memory, and of the imagination.The new system of weights and measures will be a stumbling block and the source of difficulties for several generations.It’s just tormenting the people with trivia.” And if that was true of the decimal system, what would he have thought of our binary system?painter wins award for Townships scene Special to the Record WATERLOO — Painter Robert Beaulieu’s depiction of old farm buildings in South Stukely won an award in the first annual members’ exhibition of the Pastel Society of Eastern Canada.The Waterloo artist’s entry, “Williams Farm”, took the second place prize among the works of 40 artists who participated in the competition at the Studio of Fine Art in Montreal.Studio director Carole Segal referred to Beaulieu’s style as “nostalgic realism”.Beaulieu said that for archival purposes, pastels are superior to oils and acrylics.“They retain their brilliance of color and detail for centuries, and they will not yellow, dry out and crack over time,” he said.After a winter of shipkeeping in Sarnia, Beaulieu was happy to return to the Townships and is currently keeping busy with a number of projects.He will be offering drawing lessons in Granby and Waterloo as well as several art workshops in Montreal.He believes there is a real need for basic instruction in this area.There are art classes and painting courses available, he said, “(But) how can you paint, if you can’t draw?” He has no patience for people who claim they can’t draw a straight line.“Talent, shmalent!” he said.“They need practise and a positive attitude.Given the interest and opportunity, anyone can discover their creative inner self’.Beaulieu plans to spend the summer developing his courses, working on his art and maintaining his house, garden and vehicles.IlfjT ; "i: Wm f '» .I '!SfSi,:.& isz-ygi- 53 l»Mp~ cr o (r o > .S’ -Si ^20 Lang launches new album in North Hatley Penny Lang.spirited mix of originals and personalized versions of gospel, blues, swing and country songs.NORTH HATLEY — The first lady of Canadian folk music will launch her latest album in the Townships.Montreal singer-songwriter Penny Lang will play numerous songs from Carry On Children on Saturday, May 25, at the Universalist Church in North Hatley.The show, opening a new season of the Concert Wippi series, will then be performed in Montreal, Toronto and Boston.The Montreal native returns to the North Hatley church after a sell-out performance at last summer’s Chants d’Aout music festival in late August.Lang’s appeal rests on her spirited mix of strong original compositions and personalized versions of gospel, blues, swing and country songs.Her career hit high gear in the ‘60s when she appeared on television and radio and at prestigious venues in eastern Canada and the US.A sell-out concert in 1970 at Place des Arts in Montreal attested to her acclaim and also marked the beginning of a sabbatical during which she raised her son, Jason, a musician who now often accompanies her.She returned to the concert circuit in 1988 and since then has released three albums.She tours the folk circuit regularly in North America and Australia, sharing the stage with many notables.Tickets to the May 25th concert, which begins at 8:15 p.m., are $10 regular, available at La Grande Ruche in Sherbrooke and LeBaron’s in North Hatley.Since space is limited, please reserve your tickets by calling (819) 569-9782 or (819) 838-2464. : ¦ 7, 'i ?.LOCAL & LONG DISTANCE MOVING Aussie attraction SHERBROOKE (SM) — For those women who thought the television commercial where a giggling gaggle of female office workers panting over a barechested hard hat drinking Diet Coke was a monumental step forward in equal rights, then Manpower Australia is for you.This well-tanned, pectoral-flexing team of Aussie males are doing their part to advance the notion that equanimity between the sexes means the right to treat men as sex objects.After taking Australia and the United States by storm, these six Nautilus worshippers have arrived in Canada.Currently on the modestly titled World Fantasy Tour, the Thunder from Down Under visits Quebec for two dates — at Sherbrooke’s Granada Theatre on Friday, May 17, and Montreal’s Fuzzy bar on May 19.The promoter invading the Townships with these naked guns is Michael Pope of Communications c’est ça! of Mon treal, who also brought musical acts such as Colin James, Alan-nah Myles and the Jeff Healy Band to the majestic theatre.BRANCHING OUT Although this show sees Communications c’est ça! branching out into something entirely different, its Sherbrooke representative Pascal Berger said the show is not what you might expect.Wait a minute — you mean it’s not six half-nude beefcakes gyrating their hips and generally displaying their wares to the squealing delight of a roomful of women who look like they’ve never seen a man in their lives?Well yes, that it is, he confirmed, but stressed it’s much more.“It’s like a Las Vegas revue,” Berger explained.“They’ve got about 60 costumes and more than 80 choreographies.It’s a big visual show.They’re not just undressing and shaking.They won’t go in the crowd and have ladies throw money at them.They won’t accept it.” Berger added the well-defined performers are trained gymnasts and dancers and their routines are filled with acrobatics.He said it’s a “good thing” for ladies to turn the tables on sexist men.“Women don’t have a chance to go to places like this as often as men.All the women I spoke to about it are very excited and they can’t wait to see it.” Berger, a 23-year-old business student at Sherbrooke University, said he is enjoying his new job.“It’s exciting and also interesting because you never know if the show is going to be full or not because in Sherbrooke, people are always buying a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on Manpower Australia.‘It’s a big visual show,’ says Sherbrooke promoter Pascal Berger.their tickets late or at the door.” Berger isn’t certain whether the Granada will be filled to its 1020-person capacity on Friday night, but he is sure of one thing: “It’s going to be a night of screaming.” Tickets to gawk at the male bod cost $20 and are available at all Admission outlets, by calling 1-800-361-4595, and at the door.The Granada is located at 53 Wellington N.For more information, call (819) 572-0823.DEMEINiACSEIVIEIMT MOVING • PACKING • STORAGE Canada • United States • Overseas 908- 12th Avenue N., Sherbrooke 819-563-3311 The Record—TOWNSHIPS WEEK— "May 17-24, f9g6—3 TALK OF THE TOWNSHIPS Orford music fest to serve up summer of diversity SHERBROOKE (SM) — In his debut season as artistic director of the Orford Arts Centre, Yuli Turovsky has programmed an eclectic mix of “-hidden treasures” for its annual summer music festival and will also oversee the school’s first student competition.Turovsky, the founder and director of I Musici de Montréal who replaces Agnès Gros-smann this year, will present 13 chamber music concerts during the 45th annual Orford Festival, which runs from July 5 to August 6.Lesser-known compositions such as “La Revue de cuisine” by Bohuslav Martinu will counterpoint the familiar strains of Beethoven sonatas and Vivaldi s “Four Seasons”.Traditional piano and violin recitals will also be presented along with more daring combinations such as cello-guitar and trumpet-trombone.The festival will open with a bang on July 5 with a show featuring 11 artists on stage —¦ teachers, guests and musicians studying at Orford — who will play, among other works, Beethoven’s “Serenade for String Trio in D minor, Op.8” and Janacek’s “Capriccio for Piano (Left Hand) and Seven Yuli Turovsky (second from left), the new artistic directe members of the Townships musical communitv at them Festival Qrford 1996.Wind Instruments”.Turovsky will conduct his prestigious orchestra, I Musici de Montréal, five times during the festival: On July 6 during an outdoor “country concert”, playing the works of Mozart, Vivaldi and Strauss; on July 27, interpreting pieces by Vivaldi, Alfred G.Schnittke and Henryk M.Gorecki; on August 3, accompanied by cellist extraordinaire Janos Starker, playing works by Boccherini, Othmar Schoeck and Tchaikovsky; on August 10, at a concert at Saint Patrick's Church in Magog and joined by the Sherbrooke Symphony Orchestra and Symphony Choir, playing Mahler’s “Symphony No.4” and Venezualan composer Antonio Estevez’s “-Cantata Criolla”; and on August 16, closing the season with members of the Sherbroo- nist André Laplante, Dallas Symphony violinist Emmanuel Borok, trumpeter Guy Few, trombonist Alain Trudel, and Turovsky as cellist.Also, students from around the globe spending the summer studying at Orford will be giving free concerts on Thursday evenings and Sunday mornings, followed by country meals.All concerts will take place at the Salle Gilles Lefebvre, safe for three free shows the students will perform outside Orford — at Magog’s Saint Patrick’s .Church (July 10), Eastman’s Saint Cajetan l Arts Centre, was surrounded by i unveiling the programming for ke Symphony and the three student finalists of the first Orford Arts Centre music competition.The finals of the competition are open to the public and will be held from August 12 to 14.Other musicans performing at Orford this summer include Canadians James Campbell on clarinet and Anton Kuerti on piano, American clarinetist Charles Neidich, Quebec pia- broadcaster of the festival, with six concerts taped for the radio program Festivals dete and one show, featuring I Musici de Montreal with trumpet soloist Edward Carroll, airing on the TV show Concerts deté on August 19 at 9 p.m.To receive a complete program for the Orford Festival, call (819) 843-0909 or 1-800-307-3706.ORIGINAL MICROFILMED AT VARYING INTENSITIES BECAUSE THE TEXT IS NOT PRINTED PROPERLY. 4—The Record—TOWNSHIPS WEEK— May 17-24, 1996 1 TALK OF THE TOWNSHIPS ~ Oliver Klaus rocks to raise funds in Waterloo By Tanya Singfield Special to the Record WATERLOO — There certainly wasn’t a lack of entertainment in Waterloo last weekend, unless you don’t like rock’n roll, bluegrass or comedy.Over 200 people came to kick up their heels last Saturday at the Mother’s Day Dance held at Waterloo Elementary School.This annual fundraiser organized by the Parents’ Committee featured live entertainment by local band Oliver Klaus, as well as recorded music in between sets provided by Yvon Brasseur.The gym was decorated for the occasion thanks to Connie Barr and her students, and many parents contributed their time and effort to organizing this event.The audience came not only from Waterloo, but from Knowlton, Sutton, Warden, Granby, Bromont, and St.Joachim, and the show went on late into the night, with the band being called back for three encores.It was a great success, raising much needed funds for the school.BLUEGRASS Meanwhile, a few blocks away, they were raising the rafters at the Legion Hall, as the Bluegrass Society held their final hootenanny of the year.The Townships Bluegrass and Old Tyme Music Society gets together on the second Saturday of every month at the Waterloo Legion, and welcomes bands as well as individual musicians.They play a wide variety of music, and attract participants from as far away as Sherbrooke, Montreal, Ottawa, the Maritimes, and the US.The Society, founded by Gordon Cameron, (currently the president as well) is the first officially recognized Bluegrass Association in Quebec.The proceeds from this evening were donated to the Legion, and the Bluegrass Society resumes its regular schedule in September.COMEDIANS That same weekend, there were also two shows at the Maison de la Culture.Comedian Francois Morency performed on Friday night, followed by stand-up comic Jean Michel Anctil on Saturday.Both are well-known TV and radio personalities in Quebec, and both of them have appeared at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal.According to director of the Maison Pascal Gauthier, these two shows were also well-attended, and enthusiastically received by their audiences.Ensemble Musica Nova to play ambitious concert SHERBROOKE - The Ensemble Musica Nova ends its season with the most ambitious concert of its seven-year history.For the first time ever, all 18 members of the ensemble will perform as a full chamber orchestra under the baton of artistic director Marc David on Sunday, May 26 at 8 p.m.in Lennoxville’s Bandeen Hall.This concert of masterworks and new works for large ensemble will also be repeated at Salle Claude Champagne in Montreal, marking Musica fine Italian SNEAK PREVIEWS (bravo) UNKNOWN CHAPLIN (cnn) WORLD TODAY (DISC ) WINGS (R) (1 hr.) 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