B14 Terrace Review — Wednesday, May 16, 1990

JOANNE GREENING: Being chosen for festival raghiignt of her

Singer sees festival
as an opportunity

Joanne Greening says the
highlight of her singing career is
being chosen to represent the

Northwest in intermediate voice .

at the upcoming B.C. Festival of
the Arts. She’s been to previous
festivals as an observer, so she
knows what she has to look for-
ward to and what the logistics
will entail. Part of the privilege
of attending as an Observer or a
- competitor is the opportunity to
attend the various workshops.

Joanne has been taking
private voice lessons since she
was in Grade 3. She says, ““My
sister sang and I thought I’d give
it a shot.’ Joanne has par-
ticipated in the Pacific North-
west Music Festival annually
since that time. She plays
trumpet, trombone and piano,
but excels in voice. |

At the Pacific Northwest
Music Festival this year, Joanne
won the Harold Wiens Award of
$100 for most promising vocal
student.

In addition to ‘keeping in
tune’ for the B.C. Festival of the
Arts, Joanne is practising for
her Grade 8 practical voice ex-
am. For that, she is learning two
new songs, “Robin Goodfel-
low” and “A Spring Song’’.
There are two categories for the
exam. Joanne explains that she
had to choose her five pieces
from pre-determined lists of
songs — all are classical.

A typical voice lesson for
Joanne Greening, with voice in-
structor Ginny Lowrie, begins
with a warm-up. A voice warm-
up is accomplished by singing
scales. There are eight different
ones. Then she runs through her
songs and with Ginny’s
assistance refines and improves
them. All the lessons are taped,

‘and it is with these tapes that
- - Joanne conducts her practises.
Ginny, Lowrie now lives in

southern B.C. in the winter
months. But she keeps a close
eye on her students by returning

‘to Terrace monthly for lessons,

Joanne says, “‘It’s hard not hav-

ing her here all the time. I never

know if I’m doing it. right,
although it’s a good exercise to
start to be able to hear what’s
wrong by myself. I also tend to
put practises off when I know
I’m not going to see her each
week. Joanne also explains,
‘*You’re the instrument, and if
you're stressed out, you can lose
it temporarily. Then it’s a lot of
work to get it back.”

Joanne had strep throat dur-

ing the Music Festival this year. |

The adjudicator recognized this,
but he still felt she was good
enough to win an award.

Joanne says the other
highlights of her singing career
have been singing at Expo witha
group of fellow Terrace-ites
about Terrace. For five days,
they had daily performances in
which they sang about Riverboat
Days,
Skeena River and many other.at-
tractions of this area.

Individually, Joanne and Tina
Hovenkamp sang last year on
radio for the Lion’s Club Tele-
thon. Joanne has occasionally
jammed with her brother’s

band, but she says it’s so dif-
ferent that it’s difficult. And
she’d need a lot more practise if
she were going to pursue rock
music.

Joanne graduated from
Caledonia last year. Since then,
she’s-juggled two part-time jobs
— one at Sears and one at Jeans
North. She plays ladies’ soccer
and goes to an aerobics class.
She'd eventually like to become
a cruise director. Joanne feels
singing and acting will be handy
for a job like that,

the Kermode Bear,the

Look Who’s Talking

Starring John Travolta,
Kirstie Alley. Produced by
Jonathan D. Krane. Directed
by Amy Heckerling. Rating:
PG-13. Running time: 96
minutes.

Have you ever wondered |
what babies really think about
adults? Or the kind of things
they’d be apt to say if they
could talk?

Mollie (Kirstie Alley) is sear-
ching for the perfect father for
her baby. Her boyfriend can’t
marry her because he’s already
married.

Then along comes James
(John Travolta) in a moment
of extreme emergency. He’s
crazy about Mollie and baby
Mikey. He becomes Mollie’s
enthusiastic, yet troublesome
babysitter.

While mom is off interview-
ing prospective candidates for
fatherhood, Mikey (voiced by
Bruce Willis) has decided he-
wants James for a father. But
convincing mom isn’t going to
be easy. She thinks James is
still a kid himself.

Look Who's Talking, which
was shot in Canada, was
chosen for the World Comedy
Motion Picture of the Year at
the 16th annual People’s
Choice Awards.

Let It Ride

Starring Richard Dreyfuss, —
Javid Johansen,, Teri Garr.
Produced by David Giler.
Directed by Joe Pytka, Rating:
PG-13. Running time: 91
minutes.

Dreyfuss is cab driver Jay
Trotter, just an ordinary guy

trying to make a living. His on-
ly real sin is gambling; he likes

"to play the horses.

But he promises to quit after
his wife (Teri Garr) kicks him
out. Pam agrees to give him « —
one more chance; he can move
back home come Saturday. But
she warns him that this is ab-
solutely his last chance.

Trotter means to keep his:
promise, he really does. but
there’s this hot tip on a horse |

named Charity running in the
first race... on Saturday.

Charity is a long shot. The |

' chance of this horse actually
_ winning a race is about a

billion to one. But wouldn’t
you know it...

- a nose.

Trotter can’t stop now. A

couple more bets, a little bit of
‘luck, and he'll be rolling in

clover. Or horse doughnuts.

Annual dance show:

coming to

Dance Revue 699", to be held

Friday, May 25 at 8 p.m. in the

R.E.M. Lee Theatre, is the 15th -

annual performance put oi by
Vicki Parviainen and her student
dancers.

In this year’s performance 70
dancers will be giving a full
evening of entertainment. The

concert will be just under two.

hours with a short intermission.
There are dances to music from
old movies, like the theme from

‘“Bonnie and Clyde’, Hernan-.

does Hideaway from the ‘‘Py-

_ jama Game’ and more recent
movies such as ‘‘Footloose”’, |

‘‘Neutron Dance’’,. “Rock and
Roll Me Again’? and “Beverly
Hills Cops”. There’s also a tap
routine to music from ‘‘Ghost-
Busters.”

Many countries are visited
through ethnic dances, these in-
clude Russia,
Sweden, Greece, and Ireland,
from Scotland

the Ukraine, .

the: Jacobile
’ Sword dance in which two dan-

R.E.M. Lee

‘cers leap around one pair of
crossed swords, and the beauti-
ful and intricate highland four-
some reel,

There will be jazz routines
which are always a hit with
dancers and audiences alike.
Composers Frank Mills and Jan
Hammer provide some mellow

music for some graceful dancers

to bring the evening to a close. |

Vicki teaches a variety of ©

dances which include jazz,
ballet, tap, modern and ethnic
dances.

This year, as. in previous
years, proceeds from the Dance
Revue will be going to the
R.E.M. Lee Theatre Alive Socie-
ty to financially support the
theater, |

Tickets are available from

Sight & Sound, Parviainen stu-—
- dents, or by phoning 635-7455.

Adults are $5.00, children under
12 and senior citizens $3.00.

Northwest Arts and

Entertainment Calendar

R.E.M. Lee Theatre —

Terrace Art Gallery —

_ @ Until May 19 —

~The Terrace Inn —
@ Gigi's

e@ Until May 19 —

7:30 p.m. -

@ May 19, 8 p.m. —

pany.

@ May 23 and 24,7 p.m. —

e@ May 19, 8 p.m. — Miss Terrace Pageant. .
@ May 25, 8p.m. — Dance Revue ’90.
@ May 26, 7 p.m. — Cassie Hall/Uplands band concert.
@ May 27, 2 p.m. — Clarence Michiel band concert.

_ @ May 29, 10 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. — Caledonia drama ‘‘Help!”.
@ May 30, 10 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. — Caledonia band/choir.

e May 31, 7:30 p.m. — Terrace Little Theatre presents ‘Room 44”, by
local playwright director Daniel Barnswell.

e@ Until May 26 — Leslie Barnwell’s ‘Vast Solitude”.

Northern Motor Inn, George’s Pub —
“Champagne Plus”.

- “Restricter’’, 70’s band.
@ Augie’s — Bobby Lee.

Royal Canadian Leglon, Branch 13 —
“Rocky Tops”.
Kitimat Centennial Museum —

e May 18 - — International Museums Day; films, activities, reception at

@ May 30 to June 24 — Portraits of the Wild, hotos by J
Monaghan and Brian Bagatto. p y Joanne

Prince Rupert Performing Arts Centre —

— “An Evening of Dance”, Joanne Nelson dance group. |
— “Follow the Yellow Brick Road”.

@ May 25, 8 p.m. — ~ “Twelfth Night”, Vancouver's 's Carousel Theatre Com.

‘Charity wins by _

Students range from:
four years old to teenagers.

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