Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 1, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press november 1987 Page 19 entertainment Jet lag takes Spring from step by Donald Campbell when Les ballets jazz stepped on a Hong Kong stage to begin its first tour of the far the 13member company want exactly falling Over from excitement it was dizzy from Jet it took several Days for the danc ers to get their legs Back in shape after flying Halfway around the world for a glamorous two month tour of the Pacific rim and austra Lia earlier this the first few Days were difficult said Genevieve Salba the Paris born founding director of the 15yearold it was Tough for us get Back our balance after the Long she added during a Telephone interview from her Montreal at first we rent exactly Les ballets with All our usual Winni Eggers will get a Chance to see just How much vitality Les bal lets jazz has next week when the company arrives for a wednesday night performance at Centennial concert the company is the third major dance troupe to perform Here in the last three the National bal let of Canada performed in septem Ber and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet staged a five night show earlier this far East tour later this season the Rob will have an Opportunity to experience the same Jet lag Salbaing and her company faced in Hong the Rob leaves in january on their own tour of the Orient which will Stop in Many of the same cities visited by Les ballets the Winnipeg company tour Dif fers in that it will visit China but not Salbaing said the Rob can expect Royal treatment in the in the far she the cities were accommodations european and food this was a change from past experiences in Africa and Central where everywhere we went it was dirty and and we were always wondering what it was we were she in they took Good care of we started getting a Little sick of the food after a but at the beginning it was very within Days of returning to Canada the troupe was Back on a plane for South the dancers toured Argentina and Colombia sex Western Canada they Are currently finishing the year with a trip through Western Canada which starts in Winnipeg and ends 11 cities later with a performance in the repertoire for the show features two works premiered by the troupe since its last visit Here two years appearances is a 12minute choreography by Lynn Taylor Cor Bett who choreographed the danc ing in the movie footloose and is set to the music of Pat Corbett has done several other works for Salbaing in recent the company will also perform a 25minute choreography by Piazzolla to the music of Mauricio this work was premiered in Paris late last at a gala celebrating the company when the Western Canada tour Les ballets jazz will barely get an Opportunity to get rested Salbaing promises that next year will be just As exciting for the com Well be off to Paris after the new she and weve signed to go Back to Japan again next rats Surprise Sinatra from the news services Las three Mem Bers of the rat pack had a Surprise reunion when Frank Sinatra was joined on stage by Sammy Davis and Dean Martin during Sinatra show at balls hotel and Martin flew in from los Angeles and Davis from South Lake and surprised Sinatra by walking on with bouquets of roses for the reunion conjured up me Mories of the 1950s and when the three were members of hol Lwoods rat which included the late Peter poodle wins title Miami Beauty pageant Bert says his act is about the same whether Hes on stage at a miss America pageant or a dog Parks did his thing at the Small dog debut Beauty where he and the Winner is a poodle from Palm there really int much differ not that in trying to compare show bits Beautiful girls to said dressed in a this is anybody who tries to attach any significance to there Barking up the wrong Lee Greenwood to act country Singer Lee Greenwood is taking his first acting a dramatic part in Robert Conrads new cd St series called High Mountain Greenwood was asked to sing the theme song for the and conversations about the song led to his being asked to take a role on the Tim solves Puzzle Delray tiny Tim of tiptoe through the tulips Fame says Hes figured Why his latest ukulele ill buy you a did not become a it sounded a Little too much like said tiny who was in town for a hollow Mug presents excerpts from Westside Story and others show times a nightly sunday no cover 1 show Only for reservations Call 7864801 International inn limited engagement one performance Only tomorrow night 8 at the concert Hall a live onstage Celebration of song and dance to the Dukes unforgettable it dont mean a take the a dont get around much Satin doll and Duke Ellington Broadway hit adic tickets at select seat 7867071 plus Agency tee Al dance to escape London the Rohan family takes Refuge at Riverside Home of Grandfather in Hope and kids find excitement in War Hope and glory sparkles with crackles with Absurdity through the eyes of a seven year old boy the absurdities of War Are taken to new dragged from a War movie be cause of an air his exasperate sister Points out that the real thing is happening he Only its not the As Hope and glory so ably dem the reality of War want the same for children of War torn Britain As it was for the adult air raids meant time off from school and collecting shrapnel on the Street after a Hope and glory is filmmaker John Boorman Semia Tobio graphical account of what it was like to be a lad when the second world War came to for the time was a won Derland for children amid the car nage and excitement the War was a Day off exploration through Burntout ruins that were once neighbors and secret clubs searching for enemy at showcase Paul Mckie Hope and glory starring Sebastian Rice Sarah and Ian and directed by John classification parental worst it was inconvenient air raids in the Middle of the forcing one to Rise from a warm Boorman gives us All of these wondrous sights and feelings in a film that sparkles with originality and crackles with within minutes of watching Hope and youll be transported in spirit to Britain of Here Are the their lives and their and Here is a family Boorman real family slightly disguised carrying on while the world prepares for these Are the who live on Rosehill As a Friend of the Mac Derrick Points there Are no roses on the not a Hill in and its not even an their generation has been Mac tells his Good Friend Clive Rohan David Hayman As they look upon the destruction of their Clive is feeling a bit out of in a flood of patriotic he enlisted in the forces and was posted away from Home for train he quickly discovered an army posting in Britain was safer than living on Rosehill too old to Clive is typing for his most dangerous task is changing the mean his wife Grace Sarah Miles is left behind to Cope with the children and the marvellous the children Are marvellous in this no screen brats the natural performances Are so its easy to forget youre watching a Bill Rohan newcomer Sebastian Rice Edwards is the seven year old who leads us through this by wartime he is a quiet observer of the strange occurrences on Rosehill his 15yearold Dawn Sammi is having an affair with a Canadian Bruce Jeanmarc she often climbs in Bills window late at sometimes with then Bill and Fivey Earold sister sue Geraldine Muir watch through the Keyhole of dawns Bills life at this time is a study unremarkable one minute he and the family Are scam Pering through the suburban rub ble of their watching bombs and the occasional German the next minute Bill and sue Are frolicking along a gorgeous River Bank in scenes reminiscent of a room with a Here they try to escape the nightly Boorman Doest do a blessed thing wrong in Hope and his and amusing portrait of this period is easily one of the Best films to arrive or any United airlines soars with twin fifty years after the death of George North americas greatest his bes known composition has been turned into a Jingle for United its the first time in history that Gershwin rhapsody in Blue has been licensed for use in a to com those who made the commercials say they have treated rhapsody in Blue with those who love rhapsody in Blue May think Dif Gershwin rhapsody is the mos recorded piece of american concert and probably the Best it signalled a revolution in music when it was first with Gershwin at the in Gershwin said later he envisioned the work As a sort of musical Kaleidoscope of he could not have envisioned it Selling airline but Warner music which holds the rights to the Gershwin licensed the rhapsody to United for a the fee a reported we we rent going to turn this into a hackneyed commercial enter insists Bill director of advertising for our in Tention was to use it in a Way were he still would be pleased is it sacrilegious to use what is almost a patriotic Anthem by now in a to commercial people Are using Alenson United new devised by the Leo Burnett is keyed to the theme rededicated to serv ing one of the first commercials using the rhapsody features its Dahdah Dahlh Dah theme Over shots of business persons bustling around offices and these Are probably not the kinds of images that pop into most Peoples minds when they hear rhapsody in Friend Al director of licensing for Warner was a Friend of Georges brother Ira who died in Ira was not too anxious to have it used this Kohn says of the but later in his life he said there was no reason not to do Ronald Ira Gershwin at int so certain that Ira would have liked the i doubt that he would have approved now at Rosh Pina synagogue Desmond Derrick enjoy candlelight and wine and the music of Wolf and Schaler at the cos debut at Rosh Pina Welcome us to North Winnipeg pm 3 november 1987 Rosh Pina 123 Matheson tickets booksellers co tick tune 7743893 sponsored by Assiniboine travel a film about discovery Foster child i i documentary unstated and unrehearsed about one mans Karen Tor is natural Winnipeg premiere tuesday november museum of Man and nature auditorium main Rupert no admission charge Public Welcome filmmaker Gil Cardinal will attend National office film Board National do film of Canada do Canada chamber arc Hist Blanc obviously there were Many requests to use he always and was very firm about but other Gershwin family Mem Bers were consulted about the Sale of the according to Carla senior Vic president of Leo the Gershwin people were very Well informed of our in we wanted them to Michelotti this is a song that is a very special song for and we wanted to treat it the ads certainly Are they Arent but it is reason Able to believe that any such Distor Tion of a masterpiece is rhapsody in Blue was the most modern thing in the world in and 63 years it still sounds thrillingly rhapsody in Blue was americas declaration of Independence in fussy Michael the celebrated Young cabaret artist who is consid ered among the Foremost interpret ers of Gershwin became a close Friend of iras in the lyricists later from where he is touring with Singer Liza Feinstein says Gershwin was very fussy about the uses to which Gersh win songs were i remember a television manufacturer wanted to use lets Call the whole thing off fein Stein they had written their own something you like i like movies you like i like it was obviously and Ira this is the worst Lyric Ive Ever seen for a so he turned them very few Gershwin songs have been used in today advertisers Are More interested in Rock tunes the Gershwin i got rhythm was sold to a regional supermarket Toyota from the same the refrain who could ask for anything More As for using Beethoven in com that comes Beetho Vens music is in the Public do Washington Post ;