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iuudiingitne please bear with
us ond you just might end up
cinding about yourselves, ch
LITTLE DIPPER? '
Saualay's coftse “break
downstuirs atthe Saudunan
Tan brought. out i well at.
tended crowd with 24 adults
gid upproximately U-1Hi's.
Needless «t0° say, "it was a
reat: dhatice to visit with
every badly aad everyoue bud
a fun time. A few people
startled the real of us by
bringing their bods down to
join ous, that being
FIRE WEED od HUNTER,
Sis KICK and BROWN
EYES aud the one and anty
WIZATID, Tt was o shock of
soris secing them again, but
not esscugh thal we couldn't
sland got seeing them again.
Hope you get what [ mean,
hecause I sure don't!
Weicome back anyhow folk.

Our (avorite litle camera,
RADA, won himself a
beautiful green bettie of
perfume and generous
encugh ta let cveryone take a
sip. (Sincil is the word there,
T think), ;

Found out that we're going
ta have to get together and
donale 1G PUP PER a collar
to put aisund his truck.
Seems the thing just won't
listen and keeps jumping out
at LITTLE DEPPER'S car.
Thia won't do, not only is it
dariaging bul it could lead to
biting aud ler tires couldn't
take that.

Speoking of LITTLE
DIPPER, how is it that she
keeps falling out of the
teuck? Maybe we should get
her a collac {00?

them good luck and the best
in the future, Maybe one day
we'll see them back here for
a holiday.

A welcome to town and
also a farewell from town
goes out to COBRA and his
bride, POPCORN, who flew:
down (in a plane) for a few
days visit from Albany, |
Oregon, This is one couple
who we'll] no doubt see at our
next dance, that belng the
B.B.C.'s annual Valentine
Dance that is already being
arranged.

Advice from BRAIDED
ROPE: when buying new
shoes, they're not only tight
when new but tightnesa can
be caused by wearing them
on the wrong feet, look ma,
wrong feetl

Nelnted Birthday On the more seriqus side
Groelings go ot ta now, we have the BEC-GRS
HRAIDED ROPE this week meeting coming up on the 7th
seving that it was her bir- of December downstairs at
thday last week. the Sandman at 7:30 p.m. 80

LACK CAT and his all members please attend.
fovnily have left ustotakeup Previous to that is the
rosidence in the goodtownof executive meeting on Dec. 5

MacKenzie and we all wish

CANADA'S BRIGHTEST =
Hardly looks musical |

OTTAWA (CR)'— He has
the tall, lanky” frame and

rugged good looks of a skier,
and you can picture his
peverful arms and broad
shoulders flexing as he digs
in with ski poles,

But

Audre — Luaplanie
Wsetains any discipline as a
sportsman and exerts all the
power of those arms and
shouldves into the tips of lis
(ingers at a plane Keyboard.

faplanta is Canada’s
rewest musical star, silver
prize winner in the nerve-
wracking Tchaikovsky in-
ceenational plang = coin-
petition this suger in
HiDScaw, :

Mianing that prize las
entspelted him inte a world:
evveling concert career. LCs
a dive he has aspired to since
yo teytan studying plano at
ho age of 11. But he might
asa prubbed along for
wears in miner engage:
mens, hoping for
recngcition wt

Now 28, Lepage

acclaimed by audiences in
‘Toronto, Ottawa and Mon-
treal on his first big
Canadian tour since bis
return from Moscow.

He ow books concerts as
tiiuch ag two years ahead,
and his schedule includes a
Carnegie Halt debut in New
York and = cancerts in
furepe, South America,
Australia aud New Zealand.

Winving competitions is a
graclling way to find
recognition, and winning a
prize in the ‘Tehaikovsky
conipetilios in Moscow is
perhaps the most gruclling
of all.

it is popularly recognized
as the supreme test, though
other contests in Europe and
the U.S. have a higher
reputation for impartial
judging. Judges in the
Moscow competition are
widely suspected of favoring
their national contestants
over oulsiders,

Jn such contests, aspiring, .

could: see them out of the

winnerg must be ote perfect

ie et TREN IN YUKON
First novel an award winner

OTTAWA (CP) - Le was
tering Aritha van Jerk’s
slink as a bush cook in the
Vuloa thal she finished her
hovel about a young won
vl leaves cily Hfe for a pig
farm, * . ;

Wo owas as a’ master’s
student In English at the
University of Alberta that
the dt-year-old: stuffed a
trust fund with" $50,000 she
had wos in MeClelland and
flewart and ‘Seal Book's
fixstnavel award contest.

“It’s so meas when you
finally get to sée the book,”
Ms. van Herk said ina recent
interview, glancing proudiy
at Lhe copy beside her.

“When 1 got my first copy,
T was wandering around with
it pulled tight to my chest,
showing evéryone T met,”
she laughs. ‘One of my
rriands told me I'd probably
have to pave it surgically
rentoved,’?

The novel is Judith, (he
story of as young womat
coming to grips with herself
and her past by returning, in
a senza, to her past.

Judith had bought herself
a sinall farm and 10 pigs,
leaving behind her a
seuretary’s job, the city and
a man. She had fled to the
city in the first place ta
escape an empty life on the
farm with her father.
hook,

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father aud ber life as a
secrelary with her boss and
lover,

binally, she succeeds in
wringing these-lives together
ini new and wiser self,

if the bare-bones plat
sounds familiar, it is—with
ony difference,

‘Thal difference is the pigs.

The 10 white sows Judith
hand-picks for her farm
come througt as thinking
beings, wilh feelings and
instincts.

“T grew up on a farm and
wo had pigs, and 1 found
they're clean and they seem
to have very acute instincts,

“They grow accustomed Lo
certain people and when
someone strange walks in—
they could even be asleep
and they'll know, right
away.”

‘the book goes inta minute
details of the raising and
care of pigs, which Ms. van
Hierk says was intentional.

“ft wanted people to know
pigs were more than just
dirty animals that roll
around in the mud,’ she
says,

Ms. van Herk says she
didn’t even like Judith as a
character when she started
the novel from ashort story
she wrote four years ago.

“She’s a very---well,

prickly per'son—hard to get —

at SUPER THIEF'S 20 and

in their playing, of couree.
With a competition piece as
well-ynown as Tchaikov-
sky’s Piano Concerto No. 1,
there is no room for errar,
and not much room for
variety of interpretation.

But it is probably on the
latter score that Laplante
became the first Canadian
winner of a Tchnikovaky
prize.

He said in an interview
while here for a special
concert with the National
Arts Centre Orchestra that
in Moscow he changed
usual interpretation given
the notes;‘ddr, the printed
page, Hé- démonstrated It
that night when he breathed
a romantie lyricism into the
solo passages, feelings ‘of
love and sadness that for
many people are at the heart
of Tchaikovsky's music.

“There were 21 judges
sitting out there, strung
along the 10th row of
Tchaikovsky Hall in the
Moscow Conservatory. I

along with, and she's always
over-reacting.””
But as the novel and

Judith's personality

unravelled—‘"You can only
control a character to a
certain degree; you can't
have them behave inconsist-
ently”—Ms, van Herk ad-
mits she came to feel a
grudging admiration and
sympathy for Judith.

She insists Judith is not an
autobiographical character
in any way.

“T could never live on @
farm like Judith does. The
characters all came out af
my imagination. I'm com-
pletely urbanized and I'll
never go back."

But what about that stint
as a bush cook?

four years, 28-
Sharp, is a geologist. On one
of his jaunts to the Yukon, he

the .

again, all members’ on that
board, please attend.

Dec. 20 is the Xmaz party
day for the kiddlee of all
B.B.C, members, Don't
forget to have them make
their decorations for.the trea
and SANTA, don’t you forget.
the presents! All 5.B.C.
members-and thelr families
are invited to attend. This
will be held downstairs at the
Sandman also between the
hours of 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.
and seeing that it's a Sunday
afternooe, we hope to see you

ere,

For those of you who want
to join the RENEGADE
RIDERS CLUB, they have
crests and certificates
available now 60 get in touch
with MAI TAI on chanel 28
or catch her.at the Sunday
colfee breaks.

OK. folks, it's that time
again when we must pass the
good numbers go until next
week, take care and keep
smilin’ and we'll catch you
on the return. 3's for now.

corner of my eye, and
couldn't ignore them, But 1
tried to play it as I liked. The
music is 60 rhapsodic, you
can play It freely.”

Laplante was .born in Ri-
mousld, Que., and began
studying planoat the Vincent
@Indy school in Montreal.
He now lives in New York
with his. wife, France de
Guise, a Montrealer who is
also a concert planist now
studying at the Julliard
school,

Next summer, they plan to
be at the Mont Orford
summer music school run by
Jeunesses Musicales, the
international’ music-for-
youth organization, where
Laplante will teach.

He has made two solo
recordings for the CBC in-
ternational service, and
expects a record will soon be
issued commercially of his
performance in the Moscow
competition. ¢

A couple of other solo
records are in the offing.

and his two companions
needed a cook.

“So I went along,’’ she
says. “It was great for me.
They left in the morning and
didn't come back until
dinner time. [ had all day to
write. :

“Can you imagine, no tele-
phone, no doorbell, no one to
bug you. It was great!”

She has also driven a
tractor for her father and

worked as a secretary and a
teacher while still at
university.

Future plans? Quite
simply, she plans to write—
and drive around with
husband Bob jn the car she
gave him in her only moment
of indulgence since her
windfall. ;

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a stopper. for staunch °
Murray McLauchlan fans: ,
Those . eight “MeLauchian *
albums

1971 all rate about a,four ona-
scale of 10.0: =. :

singer himself. . ( .° ,
Don't ‘misunderstdnd ~
him-— Murray thinks tis
work, and the productin

you can trust his objectivity...”

to borrow a phrase from ‘Al.

Jolson, you ain't heard:
mthin’ yet.

In January, McLauchlan
and True North Records will
release Whispering Rain, a
collertion of 10 new songs
which, sales pitch aside,
rates a nine on that scale of
10, he says.

The album, which marks
McLauchlan's debut as solo
producer, is currently in the

mixing: stage, vers
“It’s heads above tiny ng °

I've ever done before,”!
said in an interview: «33;
That remark comes-fy
performer ‘who, ‘unl
many others in the industry,
is not known to “hype,” or
overrate, his product.

But given that reporters
basically are a cynical lot,
The Canadian Press later
arranged to preview the
unmixed: new album at
Toronto's True North offices.

In short, it was no hype.
Whispering Rain—even the
raw tapes—was
astonishingly different from
McLauchlan'e asuai fare.
The album, well balanced
between cuts, ig lush with
brass and strings on many
tracks rare for Murray
MeLauchlan— and various
tunes aresweetened with full
backup vocals, also rare in
his work.

The backup vocals-‘are

ee.

provided by the veteran -.§
The Jordanaires,’
who backed Elvis Presley;in -

quartet
records and film’ over a-13-

year period. “oe
What Whispering. Rain
represents. ijnost is’
mellowing’ - of
McLauchlan. His new
material is not dominated by
the stark reality of his
earlier songs from the street.
Instead, it leans more

you've, ..° been i
collecting faithfully: since’:

toward poetic expression,

and is «woticeably more
melodic than anything he
has ever done before.

‘Itg..a pretty radical
departure from what I at-
tempted to do, for example,

oJ. on bec on the album Hard Rock
Figures are courtesy of the... '

Town," he says.
' “Songs like Hard Rock
Town or Straight Outa

_, Midnight have tended to te
more rhythmically oriented,
behind it, are terrific; But.if , - ore rhy y

and the delivery on them was
more of a shout or theatrical
delivery than a straight
singing delivery.

“ What I've allempted to
do on the new album is to
sing a lot more.”

The radical departure of
which he speaks was almost
two years in the making. The
album Hard Rock Town, his
last studio collection, was
recorded in late 1976-early

1907.

“L think a lot of people
might have been turned off
by Hard Rock Town, not so

~ Hera

much becuse .

but because af the sua...
wasn't the most successful
album I've ever donec.””

That album — unchar-
acleristically was heavily
intoelectric instrumentation.

“Tt wasn't even rack ‘n'
rall,"" Murray says, “just a
sort of stretched out, pretty
thin electrical sound.

“T still love the album. |
thought it was tremendously
exciting ta do. bul ... time
marches on and you have to
da something else.”

MeLauchian's return ie
acrnuste music enables him
tobeona freer formal He no
longer works exclusively
with his hackup hand The
Silver Tractors beeause ‘I
really didn't like the amount
of responsibility inherent in
having to keep a band
working ”

“Tfound I was under a lol
of pressure io work when |
didn’t wanl iq, and io work
more than I wanted to,’ he

“Uae V

Jovember 28, 1978, Page 13

“ist to keep the unit
id to keep it going,
younadve to keep working tb
make everybody a living an
to meet expenses.”
But that arrangement w
a vicious circle. The bigge

the group on tour, the higher -

the expenses.

McLauchlan's next maj
Canadian tour—starting i
late February or early
March—will include only two
backup musicians.

McLauchlan was asked if

he had considered working iii i
the studio with new talent,’
“It’s something I would”

very much Hke to do," he
said. “I suppose in part
that's one af the reasons E
decided to use myself as a
guinea pig (on Whispering
Rain).

“ve built up a fair
amount od studio experience
.. Now F've done everything
short of typing up the con-
tracts, and each time around
it's taught me a lot.

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