| i | | 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. —— toe 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