Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 6, 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday March 6, 1972 Hask. Tenor praised in London London Etri Ile Bel court the lanky Prairie Tenor wikis High Praise from London critics in. His first plunge into heavy opera. Performing in Wagner s sheingold the Quality of his voice surprised reviewers who describe it As exceptional. Belcourt 45, native of la fleche sask. Has been complimented in the past for his sing ing in lighter opera and he agreed in an interview that his switch into Wagner posed difficult problems. But the financial times finds that Belcourt s perform Ance As loge in Das Rheingold Sadler s Wells coliseum was the most interesting single performance in a Strong cast. Emile Belcourt is known As a character Tenor of great a the paper says. His roles with the company have by no Means been con fined to Offenbach and Sullivan. But nothing has prepared us for the Quality of his loge. Words phrasing and move ment combined to form a masterly the times says Belcourt s loge is an intriguing Domin a t i n g characterization beautifully Das Rheingold based on legend is one of four Wagner operas a monumental work known As tile ring of the Nibelung. Belcourt said of the review ers i hit them right Between the father of seven children he has been somewhat restless in the Sadler s Wells company hav ing his Eye on possible renew Al of opera engagements on the continent and also on Possi ble performances in Canada. He plans to take his famil Back to Canada for a Holida this year including a trip t Lafleche to help his Parent celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. I d like to teach part time i he said. But perhaps after All i will remain with the _ company Here. I simply would like to have More Opportunity to Widen my performances ii other what future is there for Czechoslovakia by Leslie Colitt Prague special owns what Are a few Fendred arrests of czechs Jovak dissidents and a crinkling of trials com pared with the daily deaths 6f untold thousands of civil the world Over through warfare starvation and political repression amidst the brutality the world has been exposed to these past few months who can possibly care about he relatively mild Fate of a handful1 of men and women in a tiny land who refuse to Bend their political convictions to satisfy their rulers is better to write trothing for who on the out Side really. Cares any More j these Are thoughts that. Rim through ithe reporter s mind _ he attempts to is now happen. Chg w Czechoslovakia in. Tcori twixt that has in meaning. For. A world that grow Only dealer. Tick car greater horrors in direct proportion to their exposure through the mass Media , one the events. Here can have real meaning for. Che a. Series of 10 feature length silent films from Russia is being presented of the Art gallery of Ontario s exhibit in revolution. V Cho slovaks. To the world beyond these narrow Borders Czechoslovakia appears again to have become a silent country of stoically enduring citizens. In reality this country has but few martyrs to the cause of the 1968 Reform movement. Today it still counts few victims As the mass of czechs and slovaks return to their former poli tical abstinence As a re cent communist party sur vey had revealed. Those who refuse to be re moulded Are the ones who spoke out most strongly in 1968 and who could not be silenced since. These people who have been arrested the Karel k o s k i a the Karel bar Toskes the Jiri Hochmann Milan Huerls and Young Rudolf. Slansky would hardly consider themselves heroes. Some of them May have opposed the brutal political oppression of the no v o t n y Era earlier than others but All of them made compromises with the old system for Only too human reasons. What has this otherwise diverse group of about 300 a e 3 opponents of the present party Leader or. Gustav Husak is the com Mon refusal to adulterate or besmirch their vision of re form communism by remaining silent or recanting. Personal Pride May play a part in their resistance the belief that if they collapse now whatever they stood for during the Brief reign of Alexander d u b c e k would then appear less than pure in the eyes of their watchful but passive fellow citizens. Yet in the end they doubt Lessly will be silenced some by imprisonment and the rest through the gradual eating away of Bonds be tween them and the Bleak physical circumstances of life As a perpetual oppo nent. Then what will sur Vive of their vision did they come too soon onto. The stage of czechoslovak history in the tradition of Jan Hull to be resurrect future generations of. Their countrymen As prophets of revitalised and human ised communism or will some of their ideas albeit modified to fit political realities gradually seep into the Post Dubcek system of communism which or. Husak avows will never re turn to the repressive Novotny Era if one were to venture a prognosis of what Czechoslovakia will be like five years hence then it would be that this country will resemble More the tolerant communist Hungary of today than the stalinist Czechoslovakia of the Post War Era. The ultimate irony is that or. Husak who wants to democratise socialism in his country gradually believes it is essential first to silence the last activists of the Dubcek Era. While publicly scorning them As deviants and a nuisance he is convinced that As Long. As. They Call of the population to resist him and remind czechoslovak of the ideals of the re formers Ultra conservatives in his party will attempt to Force his hand and reintroduce a Rule of open Ter ror there is no Choice for the militant reformers and their trotskyist and new left off shoots. However one believes them when they say they Are determined to go Down a muzzled and this is the tragedy of what is Hap pening in this Small land that is so easily forgotten by a tormented world out Side. Hearing april 17 on broadcast shares Waldorf in 531 St. Mary s Road entertaining in the Centennial beverage room vicious Circle 12-1 4-6 . Exotic dancer Sam the cameraman arrival of Nikon f2 cameras these Oil new professional nil tons Ore in very skort Supply and orders will be Polcen on special priority reservation of pms. 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