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Terrace’s 25th Pacific North-

_ west Music Festival has drawn to

a close. Left are the memories of
nervous anticipation, a sense of
accomplishment, and relief that

by Betty Barton

It’s hard to believe that 25.
years of Music Festivals have .

come and gone in the North-

west. It all started in August of
1964 when the Pacific Northwest
Music Festivals, first president,

it’s all over, for performers,
teachers, adjudicators and or-
ganizers alike.

The best.
from
the stacks

by Harriet Fjaagesund

Poodle Springs by Raymond Chandler and Robert B. Parker
Adult fiction published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons
When Raymond Chandler, creator of Philip Marlowe, died in
1959, he left behind the first four chapters of a new Philip

. Marlowe thriller. .

Now, 30 years later,.Robert B. Parker, the man considered the
foremost interpreter of the Chandler tradition, takes up where -
Chandler left off.

Marlowe finds himself in as weird a predicament as he’s ever
encountered — marriage. He’s wed to a rich heiress and is living
in Poodle Springs, a California desert mecca for the filthy rich. -

Marlowe, ever the classic loner, refuses to take any of his
wife’s money. But that’s okay, because he’s barely been in town
a couple of hours when he’s back in business.

He’s been hired by a local gangster to find some guy who
welshed on a gambling debt. It seems like a straightforward case.

Except it’s not. It’s got Marlowe just about running around in
circles, It doesn’t help matters either when he keeps stumbling
across dead bodies. The cops get suspicious when that happens.

This is an excellent read for all you mystery buffs. But don’t
look for twordifferent authors here.’I tried‘and ‘couldn’t separate

3 :

thé two. ° a:

Mrs. Pringle by Miss Read
Adult fiction published by Michael Joseph Ltd.
Mrs. Pringle, the cantankerous school cleaner, has always:

been a favorite character in the Fairacre series. Now, through the’ :

eyes and anecdotes of the schoolmistress and others, we trace
Maud Pringle’s life from childhood to present.

Maud Pringle could curdle milk with one look, She carries out :

her cleaning chores with the intensity of a fanatic.
Her particular sore spots are the school’s two tortoise stoves. -

_ She keeps them gleaming to perfection. And woe to any child

who should sully them with fingerprints!
Mrs. Pringle has a bad leg that tends to ‘flare up’ whenever
others provoke her. The resulting limp is a reliable weather gauge
forecasting stormy seas ahead!
But life at the school just wouldn’t be the same without Mrs.
Pringle. She is as much a part of the local scenery as the downs
themselves. 7
This is a good book for those rainy nights when you're looking
for something a little quieter. Miss Read has 38 books to her
credit, including ‘The World at Thrush Green’ and ‘More Stories
from Thrush Green’.

Death Stone by Ruby Jean Jensen
Adult horror fiction published by Zebra Books

It begins when Greta and Derek discover an abandoned wellin —

the orchard behind Greta’s house. To nine-year-old Derek the
well represents buried pirate’s treasure.

With his father’s fishing rod, Derek brings up a ring and a
scrap of cloth. The ring is gold with a dark red jewel shot with

streaks of living fire. .

Greta claims the ring. It’s much too big for her small fingers,
but a bit of masking tape wrapped around the band will size it
down nicely. Afraid that her mother will disapprove, she vows to
keep the ring hidden.

The strip of cloth proves to be part of a dress. The police are
called in to investigate. They dredge the well and come up with a

. skeleton. It’s been down there for at least 25 years.

_ And now strange things are happening to Greta. She has the
terrifying feeling that someone is following her, A shadowy
someone who whispers terrible things in her ear, urging her to
kill, Then Derek’s older brother dies for no apparent reason.
‘Something sinister has been set in motion.

The library doesn’t have a hardcover copy of this book, But

they have at least one paperback version; 1 donated it myself. It’s

- just spooky enough to make you vow to avoid any old wells you’.

May stumble across.

Ginny Lowrie wrote a letter of
inquiry to Kiwanis Interna-
tional’s British Columbia Music
Competition Festival commit-
tee. -

‘The Provincial Organization
of Music Festivals in British Col-

~umbia had been formed on June

20 of that year. Over the next 18
months, correspondence con-
tinued between Ginny Lowrie
and Mrs. White of the Kiwanis
Music Festival. Information on
adjudicators was relayed to Ter-

' yace;'an annual meeting of the
’ B.C. Festival Association took

place at the University Club of

-Vancouver; and the Ten Com- -

mandments of starting a Festival
were gathered from the Presi-

-dent’s Address of the Federation

of Canadian Music Festivals.

1. You can start a Festival
anywhere there is competent
music teaching.

2. The key to the successful
organizing of a Festival is a
minimum of at least one person
to devote sufficient energy and
interest to its operation. Runn-
ing a Festival is not a one-man
job, however large a part “‘one
man” plays.

3. Financial backing is essen-
tial. A proper balance must be
maintained between the business
considerations and the musical
objectives.

4, Starting a Festival from

scratch takes time. Reasonable
target date for achieving a com-
petently run Festival and achiev-
ing satisfactory standards is

- about 10:years... - =:

5. The first requirement is to
set up a Syllabus. The classes
must: bear some relationship to

Terrace Review — Wednesday, March 28,1990 B11 .

surtain comes down on festival

the teaching in the community
and. the. standard of that

. teaching.

6. The qualifications of the
adjudicators must bear a direct
relation to what they are called
on to judge. oo,

7, The preparation of the pro-

gram is full of pitfalls, not the

least of which is.the question of
timing.
8. The conduct of the Festival

- should bear in mind the follow-

ing priorities;

@ The competitors come first —
to assess and evaluate the
qualities of the competitors.
Every opportunity must be given
the performer to show the ability
and to give the adjudicator a
basis for judgment.

@ The adjudicator comes next
— it is foolish to engage compe-
tent adjudicators and then not
give them every opportunity to
do their best work.

@ Third comes the public —
which includes teachers, school
officials, parents, relatives and

the general public.
‘@ Last comes the festival ex-
ecutive and all the other working .

committees. They are at all times
the servants of the Festival.

59. After the festival there
should be an immediate review
of all that has happened, with
the object of improving the next
festival, by benefitting from any
weaknesses or errors in the
festival just completed.

10. Take whatever steps are
necessary to learn more about
these details:

@ The place of the professional
music teacher is in the music
portion of a festival, not the ad-

ministration.
@ Do not permit undue frater-
nizing between adjudicators and

teachers or their pupils.

® The festival executive is the
guardian of festival standards
and of the integrity of competi-
tions. - .

@ Do not run a festival on the
cheap. Money to run a festival

- properly must be found.

@ Do not allow exploitation of
competitors. Competitors want
an honest opinion in relation to
the rest of the world, they
deserve nothing more and

“nothing less.

Throughout the 25 years of -
the Pacific Northwest Music
Festival, organizers and commit-
tee members have remembered
those 10 commandments and ad-
ded a few of their own — to en-
sure the cooperation, support
and success of the Northwest
Music Festival.

~Gota
recipe?

The Skeena Valley Fall
Fair Association is still
collecting recipes for their
20th anniversary cookbook.

If you have a recipe to
contribute, please drop it off
at the Terrace Public Library
in the next few weeks. For
more information, call 635-
7582 or 635-2607.

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Terrace Art Gallery —

_ Terrace Hotel —

school students.

.... Northwest Arts and
Entertainment Calendar

| REM. Lee Theatre —

-@ Gigi’s — “Hall of Fame”.

@ Augie’s — Karin Ljungh.

Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 13 —
@ March 30 and 31 — “Rocky Top”, honky tonk piano.

Kitimat Mount Elizabeth Theatre —
@ March 28 — Marang, Talking Drums (school concerts for secondary.

he Blues”.

'@ Marcti 29, 7 p.m..— Thornhill Primary Operetta.

-.@ April 6, 8 p.m..— Vancouver Opera’s “La Boheme”.

_@ April 11, 8 p.m. — Arts Club Theatre’s “Angry Housewives”.
@ April 14,7 p.m. — Caledonia Fashion Show.

@ April 8 to 26 — Vicki MacKay and Joanne Thomson with “Sisters —
Images of the North’; multi-media; oil, water, acrylic, pencil.

_ Northern Motor Inn, George’s Pub —
@® Until March 31 — Floyd Tolman Duo.

‘@ March.30, 8 p.m. — Tausig & Enemies (‘the funniest piano. player this:
side of Victor Borge’).

@ April 7, 8 p.m. — “Ladies Swing the.
Kern, Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hart, George Gershwin and Irving Berlin.

Prince Rupert Performing Arts Centre —

® March 29, 8 p.m. — “Tausig & Enemies”.
@ March 30, 31 and April 1 — “Second Annual Comedy Festival”, featur-
ing the Royal Canadian Air Farce. _
@ April 7, 8 p.m. — “La Boheme”.
@ April 8, 7:30 p.m. — “The Office Story” (Argentina 1985). Presented by
the Prince Rupert Film Society. :

l @ April 12, 8 p.m. — “Angry Housewives”

An evening of Jerome