PAGE SIX

Wednesday, October 7, 1970

“THE
JACK SCOTT
COLUMN

The evenings I like best at our

‘. place are when we build up the

fire, turn off the. lights and. lie

around the floor Hstening to the
records.

It’s about a year ago that I
signed up with one of the record
clubs. It was the best investment
I ever made,

Among other things it’s. shown
me how much you can un-
derestimate the capacity of the

young for abosrbing something
that we so lightly assume is
beyond them’

Perhaps it’s because I hadn’t
the slightest interest or appetite
for classical music as a boy.

: My father took some pains to
-expose me to literature, but he:
_.: wan't much on music expcet that
.- of Eddie Peabody, and the banjo
jsn’t- the. ideal. instrument. te
_ foster . musical appreciation.

-. In any event, when I set
about. -building..a modest
’ library of the kind of music I'd
“missed in my .youth, I'd no-
idea it would become a | family
: affair,
“it began only. as a novelty.
The records arrived regularly
“once a month--sometimes two or

the bonus idea.

Having a nice sense of: fair
play, my kids consented, with no
“protest, to. a

screen. =
The™ darkness. and the prone

- position on the rug, I. suppose,

appealed to them as a lark and as.
than usual.

to them: Our. “concerts’". became.
a regular. thing, by. ‘request.

classical music.

saw it. described the other. day by:

~ three of them together because of —

- more than . a few screams of
temporary. —
darkening. of. the. television

a way of staying up a little later: -

‘Then the music: began to speak es

: with ‘reality responded. to-music.

~asavform of communication,
-[ still don’t. know. beans about z

My favorite record ist the Cesar.
anck Symphony i in: “D Minor.1°

Fils

accept Berlioz or Bizet, Brah-
ms or Beethoven, with just as
much innocence as my kids
accept them.

I don’t mention this as a
defence for a lack of. discern-
ment, but because it occurs to me
that. the emphasis on: musical
“understanding’’ may be a kind
of glass wall that, for many
people, young and old,.stands in
the way of enjoying so-called
Serious music.

There’s an accepted idea that it
may be appreciated only by those
with a sophisticated.taste which,
in turn, makes it seem for-
midable to the untutored.

A few . musicians--Arthur
Feidler and Leonard Bernstein,

_ for example--have tried to break
down this barrier, both by
popularizing classical works and
by explaining them. But. it re-
mains, ©)

And so you ‘find. that. they
young, whose minds should be
most receptive to any new
cerebral experience, are often.
prejudiced against anything but
the simplest forms of music.

The truth, it seems to me, is
that music needs to be ‘“tn-
derstcod"’ for enjoyment no
more than the sound of bird

- calls or the wind in the trees.
It is. a-mystic language which
-may be interpreted — in-
dividuaity.

Tread’ recently of an. ex-
perimental program by. Heph-
zibah- Hauser, the sister. of.
Yehudi Menuhin, who used music
as a form of therapy “in. an
Australian mental institution:
“She. found - that even those:
patients. who had lost all contact.

2

more meaningful. in its beauty”
“and. the expression of feelings
than words.

ae haven't | tried: to probe ‘too
2 deeply into the 1 response that’s so
delighted mein my kids... =
Tt is’ a

_ insensitive.

_ Simple - reaction to |

i

goes deeper than that. The music
forms images in their young
minds that often carries them
away into private fancies,

One night, during a passage
in Beethoven's. Seventh
Symphony, one of the girls--a
small voice In the darkness--
observed, “It's like drifting
down a river.’* Which, indeed,
it was.

Unlike popular music it causes
a creative participation. If it’s a
response foreign to what the
composer had in mind who
cares? It is a sound that inspres
them to the free-flowing thoughts
that would otherwise remain
With that as a
beginning: the deeper meaning
and comprehension will - follow
naturally.

Letters

Continued from Page 4

Shinerama, for their. untiring
efforts and for their enthusiasm
and zeal that caught the
imagination of the frosh who
wielded the brush and polish on
Shinerama Day.

To the frosh of the University of
Victoria. together. with senior
students and student nurses from
both St. Joseph’s and the Royal
Jubilee Hospitals for a shining
job well done.

And lastly ~ to the warm-
hearted, generous people of
Greater Victoria who responded
to the appeal of Shinerama. and
the little C

Please: ‘accept _ our sincere

‘thanks and deep appreciation for
helping to ‘Give aC; F Child the
(Break. of Life’’, .

‘EL ‘Frances. Conquest
"President, Victoria
“Chapter.

ge

tea
yo “Mrs.

tosster.

Mrs: David Bolster. ‘and. her

miscellaneous “shower

*-Cockrill,:

container, and the refreshment
"table was centered by a prettily

Mother of the bride; Mrs. C.

on: ‘Saturday, September: 19,

Roy.” Bullough, 975
Brighton Crescent, ‘Victoria.
Those present. made her a gift of.
“a. merino ‘wool. blanket and. a

~ decorated shower cake. Invited :
guests were Mrs, J. Cockrill,.

DEALERS ae

eport the ‘activities | of ;
your. district..to Review .
correspondent ‘Mrs. CM.
Brown and they. will. appear
_ Inher’ round-up of Brent: _
“ wood ‘News. : Phone Aer ate:
052-1996. aa a “

"Welaten: mother. of. m7 :
bridegroom, Mesdames L.. Lewis, ”

.-E. Darling, P. ‘Darling,’ Ryo’
mother, Mrs.'A.G.: Vickers, also

entertained | Miss: Coclrill: at a
on’
turday, September 26, at the:
Bolster home, ' 1925. Hovey. Road,
The bride-to-be; her mother, Mrs.
and her future
-mother-in Jaw,were ali presented
» with dogwood pins surrounded by .
~ dainty fresh. flowers. Gifts were
presented in a ‘wishing © well:

- Bullough, C..Rice, G.' Rice, D,
Belton, N,, Camsusa, Douglas —
Bolster, EB.

: Sanders, A. Green:
wood, D. Prosser, S. Butler, G.
~ Wake,” A. Ross,» R. Kirk, W.-
Murray, and L.. Capling; and the’
Misses” Leslie  Sluggett, Judy
‘Sluggett,.. Anne. Greenwood,
“Phyllis” Crampton, © Carolyn
Tanner, Linda. - Piovesan’ and
Barbara Maxwell,

comm emma tent

Miss Mary Martin “of 7093.

Brentwood Drive has enjoyed a
few. weeks holiday in: England
an Wales,

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wt LAKE

Lode’

“Mr. and Mrs. ‘Metro Ostapovich

have: returned to their home at’
0B: ‘Marchant’.
. ‘spending a week's holiday on: the
“mainland, While in Kamloops.
they visited their son, David.

“Road | after:

- Mr, ‘and Mrs, C Johnson. of nig

+ "West Saanich Road enjoyed a few
- days holiday as guests of Mr: and

Mrs. ‘Don. Goodman at. Ganges,

meses

Miss: Sharon. ~ Buness, whose.

"Marriage took place on October:
8rd, was guest ‘of honor at two,

showers. recently. “Mrs. R.

Fowler, Royal. ‘Oak Avenue,
—entertained, for Sharon’ on Sep-
., tember 18 and the staff of the
‘Bank- of “Montreal;

Government
Street, where the bride has been
employed, gave a shower on
September 22 at the home of Mrs..
AH, Pejril 900 Foul Bay Road,

Mr, and Mrs. W, ®, Leadbetter,
1238 “Marchant. Road, have
returned from a month's holiday.
in Britain:

Brentwood

ed

“Another - Bay

resident. who has . enjoyed. a_

holiday with relatives in England’
and has returned home is Mrs.C,.
E, King, 7018 Brentwood Drive,
Mra, P, Le

with her sister, Mra.d. & Brown

: In Regina, ae

at 2 pmnens  aate

Out of town guests at the home.

of H, E, Baade after the wedding

| of ther son David to Migs Vi irginta
Macdonald on Sept. 26 were! Mr,
# and Mrs, Denis Wilson, Fort

Huron, Michigan; Mr, and Miz,

y Herman Baade, Imperial, Sask;

‘Mra, Michale Hubbard, Tmothy

} and Susan, Port Coquitlam;

Herbert Smart, Shawville, Que.,

. _ and Mr. and Mrs. Per Stokke and
. daughter of Mica Dam:

Regional Library

is “Wins High Praise

and Clair

CLAIR RIVERS
Weeklies Honor

Clair Rivers

Two veteran publishers and
two friends of weekly
newspapermen were made life
members of the B.C. Weekly
Newspapers Association last
week.

Honored were Frank Harris,
former owner of the Vernon News
; Rivers, former
publisher of the Saanich
Peninsula and Gulf Islands
Review, now publicity director
for the B.C. Festival of Sports.
Also made life members of the
Association. were. Vancouver
public relations consultant Dean
Miller, and Coast. Paper Ltd.
executive Bill Marshall.

/¥ patients and gave |.
“over $8, 000 to assist the Canadian
“Cystic . Fibrosis .Foundation in
_their efforts to find the cause and
control © for ‘this. presently ‘in-
“curable and" piahaee disease of
childhood, .

: given

Brownlee: nav If
S returned from a two weeks’ visit.

BY GARTH COWARD
The cadets of 676 Sidney

(Kinsmen) (Squadron. were
welcomed back after a 10-week

Price, Squadron Commanding
Officer. Three cadets, F,- S,
Wayne .Heal, . Sgt. Jim

Tweedhope, ‘and. Cpl: . Steve Johns
were congratulated for sue-
cessfully completing a six-week
Canadian Forces Flying
Scholarship» Course’ at Victoria
Flying Club this summer. The
three cadets are now authorized.

badge,
-aircraft: :

“Given. instruction, in’ ‘leadership,
: sports, airmanship, drill, public |."
‘speaking, and citizenship, Cpl ye
Bevan is: now able to instruct:
younger cadets on these subjects “

Further encouragement) was.
‘expressed by Capt. Price when he:
-advised the. cadets that early in.

November. the - ‘squadron. will
offer a new ‘course in. driver
training. This’ course will lead to

ment’ Driver’s: License, Courses

din’ radio: and: photography. will

again be provided this year,”
Capt. Price:

be costly, With this
issued each of the boys a-book of

October.9, at 7 p.m. Admis salon} is
one dollar.

Mathamania

Three pendulums A, B &
C are released from their
outswung positions at the
same instant. The periods
in seconds of their com-
plete swings of out and
back to. starting . position
are 2 seconds for’ A; 3
seconds for B: and 4
seconds for C. Question.
Will there ever be a
moment when two pen-
dulums or all three will at
the same instant bé at the
vertical centre position of
their travel? If so find how
many seconds and. frac-
tions of a second it will be
since their release.

Answer to last week's
problem:

The amount of $45.00 paid
out is six weeks amounted

to five payments for each

child (each one having

~ missed a week). Thus a full

week without . deductions
would. be $9.00 The dif-
ference between $9.00 and
what was paid out in a
given. week was due to
some child's money being
held back. So the amounts
of weekly pocket money. the
children were to receive
was $2.00 °-/ 1.25 7 2.25 /
025°, 2.50 / & 0.75.

Central Saanich Chamber Meets At Farmers’ Hall

First Central Saanich Chamber
of Commerce meeting to be held
in. the former South Saanich
Farmers’ Hall at Keating on
September 30 was well attended.

Chamber President ~-Bob
Parkinson said that the Hall has
now been legally transferred to
the Chamber by the former joint
owners, Farmers’ Institute and
Women's Institute, the
arrangement being that the Hall
will revert to municipal
ownership should the Chamber
relinquish title.

Plans are being made to effect
essential repairs to the building,

and to make it more attractive
for the holding of dances and
public meetings.

‘Exit The Body’
Set Next Month

Rehearsals have moved into
high gear for the mystery-farce

production by Peninsula Players:

entitled “‘Exit the.Body’’. Gwen
Gregorig directs the three-act
thriller which will be presented
November 6 and 7 at Sidney
Elementary School.

Guest speaker on Wednesday
was Central Saanich Inspector of
Services Jim Horel, who gave g
lucid explanation of the Canada
Building Code. He said that al}
sections other than that on
plumbing have been adopted by
the municipality. For this there jg
a separate bylaw.

Major current project of the
Chamber is the production of a
Central Saanich tourist brochure,
and a second edition of the local
business directory is under
consideration.

style, cut or set.

Autumn’s Prettiest Heads Start Here.

Our hair stylist will give you that new

DOREEN’S HAIR STYLING
. Closed Wednesdays
9830 THIRD ST., SIDNEY

summer, recess by Captain D.-

to wear. the Air Cadet Wings”
and go pilot pleastire fees

“Special “eommendaton’: was :
: ‘Cpl. Leslie Bevan for his»
| efforts. this summer, He e allended

presentation of a. B.C. Govern:

reminded. the”
cadets that these programs will |.
remark he-

‘tickets to sell for the ‘annual Airs.
Cadet Turkey Bingo. The event»
will be held -at Sanscha ‘Hall on.

WRONG IMPRESSION®.
Wadi Lenfesty,
officer said this week that female
deer are not legal target although

pression ‘last week, In Sidney
Police Court,.a man was fined for
shooting antlerless male) deer
but was allowed to keep: a spike
buck ‘shot on the: same: hunting
trip,” :

conservation

a Review. story | gave this im:.

“Gordon
cL ightfoot

McPherson Playhouse
- October

=

Tt is most unusual to got the
hand of library service available

to us in Sidney nald Ald, Joc Lott

Bat North: Saanich Council. this
week.

Hie remnarke followed ft
Teport. on sunamer activities: at
the Sidney branch, Vancouver
laland | Regional Vbeary. © Ald,
Trever Davie ayreed that the

7 quality of bucks offered js “very

Impressive. "

16-17-18
8:30 P.M.

Reserve Lickets now on
wale at MePherson Rox
‘Office,

396-6121

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