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tet in C minor and
(sorry, no nickname)
Brahms' Piano Quintet
in F minor, Opus 34.
West Point Grey United
Church. 4 3 4 - 4 0 8 4 . "
[3] Robert McDuffie a n d Yoon Kwon The
Vancouver Recital Society launches its
20th season by inviting McDuffie, one
of its first guests, for an afternoon concert with much younger fellow violinist
Kwon. Chan Centre. 2 8 0 - 3 3 1 1 .
J [12] Toulouse National C h a m b e r
O r c h e s t r a The French ensemble looks
past EuroDisney a n d enlists U.S. oboist

Holy Mo at the Pacific Theatre
M a r c Schachman t o perform Vivaldi's
Oboe Concerto in C Major. Also Bach,
Barber, Britten, Nielson and Respighi.
A Friends of C h a m b e r Music concert at
the Vancouver Playhouse. 437-5747.
[16-18] VSO Masterworks Diamond The
Vancouver Symphony, conductor Clyde
Mitchell and principal bassoon Christopher Millard get all Western Canada
Wilderness Committee with Brahms'
Symphony No. 2 , Forsyth's Valley of a
Thousand Hills a n d Williams' Five
Sacred Trees. Orpheum.
876-3434.
.[19-22] Beverley Johnston and Salvador
F e r r e r a s T h e t w o percussionists start
the d a y with a b a n g at this unusually
loud instalment of the Music in the
M o r n i n g concert series. Vancouver
Academy of Music. 8 7 3 - 4 6 1 2 .
[22,23] O u a r t e t t o Celato Without sugarcoating anything, the versatile Toronto
group brings the VSO up to speed on

Concrete
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DON'T BE SHY-PERFORMANCE ART IS BACK

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HE WESTERN FRONTS LUX come a participant. Chat with a f r i e n d theatre—perhaps less d theadd to the script. The exhibition itself?
atre than a big room—has over
It's the set for the performance.
the years hosted readings, concerts, lecAnother must-see: socio-conceptualist
tures, art openings and god knows what
Andrea Fraser, speaking at Western Front
else. Yet one of its strongest focuses has Oct. 21 about her intrusions into sites
been as an arena for a very Vanof cultural power. Performing in
couver institution: the mutable
various roles, from museum doperformance cabaret. At a typicent to gallery dealer, Fraser
cal cabaret, several "acts'' will
parrots art-world language to
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perform, sometimes badly, often
undercut its often coded elitism.
with considerable polish, and occasionAnd what would a performance fesally provoking something uncomfortable. t i v a l be without sex? Oct. 7 at the Anza
One evening, two artists restaged Andy Club, New Zealand fetish/punk artist
Warhol's film Blow Job, enacting just that—to the embarrassment of those peeking
behind the cardboard separating them from the audience.
It's no coincidence that the
Live at the End of the Century
performance festival, running
through October at 12 galleries
and other venues, kicks off with
a performance cabaret. Organized through the grunt
gallery, Live is an ambitious
attempt to re-introduce the
most discomfiting of art mediums to a broad public. The
lineup for the cabaret, Oct. 1
at the Vogue Theatre, includes
a who's who of past and present Vancouver performance
- Following, suit:'Judy RadnlV **nw»-~ -artists: I Braineater, Jay Mac"!%5StmgrT>err'ornijnc'>" v>^ ftm/fif
Laughlin, Warren Arcan, Tagny
Duff and up-and-comer Adad Hannah. Sdtina Saturnina takes an "auto-erotAmong the other events are a perforic journey" across a stage^symbolizmance/exhibitioh by Judy Radul, Oct.
ing the mental states associated with
r 23 through Nov. 9 at the Contemporary the orgasmic process." Now that's good
Art Gallery. Re/iearsa/stages the openold-fashioned performance..
ing of the exhibition as a performance.
For more information about Live at
Enter the CAC on the 29th and you'll bethe End of the Century, call 875-9516.0

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