Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 10, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press july pages 1726 by Kevin Prokosh one Day in 19ft a Chance meeting brought together Rosalie Goldstein and Mitch the founder of the Winni Peg Folk As is common with arts it didst take Long for the conversation to come around to i made the fatal mistake of what can i do to help Goldstein re Podolak recruited her to lecture his inexperienced Board of directors on fundraising at a meeting that night in the Csc within minutes of being Intro she had Board members listing the names people they could hit for she came to that meeting and offended said laughing it was such Art Anglo Saxon Board and she comes in and tells them How to screw Money out of their friends and everyone left who the hell was that we ended up raising a lot of since then the 49yearold self proclaimed Queen of chutzpah has supplied the Folk festival with growl and while associate director an now As artistic direct Goldstein has galvanized a tiny cell of Cowkey Folk music Folk and Mother Earth types into a crack Volunteer powered More on the she brought us into the 20th Cen said who last year turned Over to her the stewardship of the 14yearold Folk she is the one who professionalized the the Folk festival be As Good As it is without her achievements have been re cognized by Many in the Winnipeg arts her Energy and dedication to Folk music and the festival is Sec Ond to said Max executive director of the Winnipeg she has been instrumental in keeping the Folk festival alive in very bad she Doest shrink away from difficult Shes pretty Tough so Why is this Middle aged jew ish woman who could be serving Tea for the Hadassah Bazaar work ing 12to 14hour Days running what is considered one of the top Folk festivals in North America the answer is because she replied in a 1981 Mac leans Peter Newman wrote that Gold Stein was the woman who could have organized the Day inva Shes a Pushy jewish said her Mentor Richard a Toronto freelance journalist and i know Shes she also gets things Rosalie will make herself a bloody nuisance until she gets what she Shes a unique theres nobody quite like her on the Folk festival scene in doctors a licenced pharmacist in both her native new York and Manitoba and the wife of a Tuxedo paediatric Goldstein revels in the year Job As chief cheerleader of the Folk she wheels and cajole and Bellows and the Mother of three is eve ready with a nearly Al ways of the off color if there is one think that Rosalie Goldstein its a jewish bloody said her husband of 27 Sidney she Falls far out of the conventional picture of a Middle aged doctors she is absolutely a Zembar she never worries about Rosalie never fakes she was born 1937 in Niagara the daughter of Mildred Holtzman and Hyman an immigrant from to both her parents in the 30s Rosalie the new festival artistic has organized the Day an admirer Rosalie Goldstein takes charge Folk rain Voll were members of the communist party As known left Wing were ensnared in the red my parents were not members of the mainstream Community in Niagara said i Felt even in my own town that i was an As a Rosalie and her kid attended Camp Neivert in the a yiddish word that Means new world run by the communist party in it was the same Camp that Podolak later in the when racial tensions surfaced at Niagara Falls senior High Goldstein joined testing Black students in a her father was fearful and Furi it was the Only time that my father slapped me across the he knew what it meant to be a political protester and he didst want me they didst want their children subjected to the same talking about politics in my House was a besides her political Goldstein was your Basic Goodie a Volunteer for All sea she was attracted to the the atre and although she longed for the ended up i was too Chubby for the starring roles so i painted she Goldstein attended the nearby state University of new York at Buffalo where in 1960 she earned a science degree in like her dad in 1929 and Mother in she immediately went to work in a Buffalo Hospital As a birthday Date twas there that she met Marty a Hospital resident from specializing Iri paediatric their first Date came about when close friends offered to take him out for his birthday if his escort was a Good jewish Goldstein happened to be the Only jewish girl working in his Hospi tals they were mar ried nine twice in two countries by the same the pair exchanged vows july in a civil ceremony in Niagara after which their rabbi cautioned them the Union was not to be consummated until after the religious ceremony four Days later in the honeymoon Haven of Niagara the newlyweds returned to win a City she had never heard of before meeting her it took her two years to secure a pharmacy licence in which she continues to maintain with upgrading although it has been More than 15 years since she last worked As a it is my insurance its More senti mental than anything else because my parents were while she worked As a freelance she gave birth to sons Sydney in Joshua in 1965 and daughter Judith in despite having three Small Chil Dren on her a Canadian craved a Chal an ardent supporter of the Goldstein approached Morse a Board member wit the contemporary and was make a donation and Well get you she made the donation and Over the next decade moved Fri inv Volunteer to Board Board president and director of Public a new regime in the organization forced her to leave unhappily in four years Goldstein took seriously ill with Chron Dis an inflammatory Bowel ail and underwent the first of three major the spec tre of another flare up made her look for ways to occupy herself and not allow her to dwell on a possible submerged in work she submerged herself in first it was with the contemporary dancers before Goldstein and the Folk festival found each the annual fest became her a musical Celebration she would dote on and Shes one of a Podolak she has demonstrated that anyone who mucks with the Folk festival had better watch their she believes in the Bill for her fierce loyalty to the festival is paid at Home where her family operates without her much of the she was never terribly bound by the Normal traditions of Mother said her oldest she Felt at Home with her that was a natural feeling for i was pretty much raised by a a Babysitter i called grand Moth the demands of a doctor with a practice and an arts administrator with a deficit forced Weidman and Goldstein into leading Independent they Are rarely together and Goldstein is Home less than Ever since assuming the Mantle of Artis tic we take a Back seat during the Folk festival said who is a festival you can hardly talk to her and that was when she was associate i can Only imagine what she will be like this weve been we know Shes possessed by this whole it is not unusual for her to zip out of town and not Tell its pretty said it is sometimes a couple of Days before everyone learns of her where stays in touch the University of Manitoba Stu Dent is impressed at How Knowledg Able his Mother is about the names and trends in the music in that surprising for someone her in always amazed at the kind of accolades she sometimes i have to take it with a Grain a its not the whole Goldsteins life is shaped like a Wheeling her 1980 Pontiac Phoenix Between her office at Folk festival Headquarters on Osborne her Tuxedo Home and to the current Battleground in her weight when it comes to describing her she offers the yiddish word Zaftig which refers to the kind of Chubby Cheeks that people love to Ive been a Zaftig All my says running her hand through her Carrot coloured which covers her naturally White with her first Folk festival she knows a lot of people will be watch ing As she emerges from Podolak she accepts the usual array of worries which include the critical poor attendance and the Bane of recent Goldstein is All too aware that disaster is just storm Clouds in terrified of she said Ive got a lot of ego invested in the Tapper suggests that the Public worry about things like drizzle and downpours during the Rosalie will arrange so it wont Shes that Csc airs Morris first film four years after it was filmed Susan Morris first is about to make its Way onto television screens across who now lives in said her 11minute labor of a Story of and the passage of will be the second feature on cd tvs Canad an reflections this program airs locally this sunday at 4 Hart invited to Tea the Royal Winnipeg ballets Prin Cipal Evelyn was in Halifax last monday when she picked up the phone and heard an official sounding voice on the other she was invited to Tea in Ottawa next thursday with prime minister Brian Mulroney and the Duke and Duchess of Hart might have to turn Down the request because her schedule is so tight these Eye surgery planned Manitoba opera associations artistic director Irving Guttman usually spends his Summers organizing the Moas next or working on the Edmonton opera associations coming some years Hes even travelled to South America to stage the Odd opera he this summer will be the 59yearold Vancouver Resi Dent will enter Hospital next week to undergo Cataract after a period of recovery in his English Bay area hell be off to Portland to work on an opera this r to and wins award you know that to commercial for Green Green the one where a pack of Nosy and jealous neighbors congregates on that Guys newly treated Yard for a look at the Greeh Lawn it was produced in and recently was named Best local spot in Western Canada at the annual and and marketing awards held in Barry of the local company that made the said it beat out ads for the Vancouver Sun and province to take the top Sam the advertisement was filmed last fall at a Home in North Kildonan and began running on local to stations in Hart Busy schedule antique skulduggery is background for British mystery series Mcshane plays the title character in to i i i anywhere but in love Joys part of the Only chasing involved in the antique Trade is after things like dust covered 17th Century Bible but in where cattle Moo and mysteries Brood beneath the varnished surfaces of decaying Bric antiquing can be a very exciting business indeed As Well As a lucrative one for somebody Bright enough to spot a fake in two shakes of a in that Lovejoy Ian the title character of a new British import beginning on Csc tomorrow Channel enable is your Hes known in the Trade As a an instant it makes him a and frequently gets him into deep dirt with the local who have Good reason to doubt his it also seems to attract the Crimi Nal who keep popping in just when life is flowing along with the smoothness of a hand rubbed Chippendale sort of a Cross Between a Shambly on air Doreen Martens Columba and a conniving magnum a dash of English civility thrown in Lovejoy lives in a crumbling old cottage and workshop owned by an but trying landlord by the name of Gimbert Malcolm Hes usually to be found lovingly restoring some 19thcentury junk into a much older his exper Tise ensuring the Chelsea snobs who buy it will never guess the differ but then something unusual slows like a sexy redhead searching for clues to the meaning of a japanese firefly and Hes off again solv ing a mystery and attracting undue police attention to his own dubious every Good Derrin do lad has to have love Joys include Eric Chris an indolent product of modern English apathy who been sent to apprentice with Lovejoy in a Las ditch attempt by his father to find the Bay an honest lady Jane introduced in the first is an aristocrat taken in by love Joys unconventional manners who becomes an amused Patron of his Peculiar in to Narrows opening Lovejoy finds himself trying to Fig ure out what connection there might be Between an elaborate Coal Carv ing made to match a firefly an antique burglary at a local Manor and the death of a Friend living near a Napoleonic gun fort just Oft the its a merry with Lovejoy at his charming Best and plenty of Good humor to keep things spanking along this series is one of the More beguiling items weve seen slotted into this lat night import and looks like its Worth a return peek in weeks to if you folkies out there Are crying the blues this weekend because you cant make it to the Folk festival the answer is Blowin on the Csc stereo plans to carry the closing concert live sunday beginning at and running about six onstage hosts Are Murray Mclauchlan and Holly with festival founder Mitch Podolak and Ralph Benmergui doing the broadcasting scheduled for that concert Are Sylvia trapezoid a strange combination of new age music and string band Cassel Berry and Jacque Dupree a Capella the celtic Rock spirit of the new grass Donovan of Mellow yellow Fame and a mass finale with performers and volunteers gather ing on Podolak also plans to air festival highlights on his Csc stereo simply saturday morning at j4l ;