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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 30, 2008, Winnipeg, Manitoba C m y k Page c1 2 0 0 8. 0 9 s e a s o n season tickets & design packs on Sale now season ticket packages starting at $ 108.00. Design your own custom made entertainment package of 4, 6, 8 or 12 concerts opening night at the so Ehnes Strauss & 2001 Frise 26 8 00 p. M. Sat sep 27 8 00 p. M. Grammy award winning violinist James Ehnes and Strauss also sprach Zarathustra Best known from Stanley Kubrick s film 2001 a space Odyssey tickets available at the Centennial concert Hall and All ticketmaster outlets. So Box office 949 3999 ticketmaster 780 3333 look inside for information on Complete so 2008 2009 season arts & life editor Boris Rybinsky 697 7546 arts free press. My. Ca i wow. Whatson Winnipeg. Com i cd reviews c4 i weather c20 i show bits c11 saturday August 30, 2008 c 1 disaster movie. The name says it All / c6 Winnipeg repress. Com today on to t pain & the family grammy winning hip hop Star Winnipeg convention Centre 7 30 p. M. Exchange District Farmers Market Manitoba grown produce baking arts & crafts and jewelry main & Mcdermot 9 a. M. 2 p. M. Oasis former British pop super band its Centre 7 30 p. M. Fatal attraction meet the most determined lovers in the animal kingdom at the Manitoba museum 10 a. M. 5 p. M. Doug Funk standup comic a hons appeared in air Bud movies re mores comedy club 8 p. M. Story time for kids local actor Kim Rannie reads to kids aged 3 5 in the Hundred acre Wood at Mcnally Robinson Grant Park 10 a. M. Today sunday monday wednesday thursday Friday Gosford Park Robert Altman applies his familiar Quirky style to the drawing room murder mystery genre As a genteel 1930s weekend shooting party is disrupted by unexpected violence. Maggie Smith and Helen Mirren Lead the ensemble cast. Csc 9 p. M. Acis two members of the acis team Are sent to Iraq when the site of a mortar attack in the capital becomes a murder scene. Investigating crimes stateside is one thing but working in a War zone could definitely get interesting. Lbs 7 p. M. Woman of the year in this classic George Steven directed 1942 romantic comedy Katharine Hepburn and real love Spencer Tracy in their first screen teaming play journalists whose dedication to work causes trouble at Home. Tom 7 p. M. Madts actor Dominic Monaghan known for his work As Charlie on lost and Hobbit merry in the lord of the rings movies is the guest Star in this episode and gamely takes part in sketches spoofing both lost and the fantasy film genre. Fox 10 p. M. W Hile National hockey league players enjoy their off season passionate puck Heads and Cash strapped composers from coast to coast spent the summer firing musical shots at the Csc. They have one goal in mind to win the hockey night in Canada Anthem Challenge the National search for a new theme song to replace Dolores Clamands iconic Dunt a Dunt a Dunt fanfare. Symphony composers Hall of Fame pop stars professional Jingle writers garage band wannabes Caber pranksters and teenage piano students ran up the score to almost 9,000 submissions not counting the last minute Rush expected before tomorrows Midnight deadline. There Isnit a breathing Canuck out there who Isnit writing a tune for hockey night in Canada says Winnipeg composer goaltender Danny Schur. Its really a once in a lifetime Opportunity. Theress a lot of glory to be had. Last Spring Csc had its hic theme Canadas unofficial second National Anthem poached by rival network ctr after a licensing spat with Claman. In what was seen As a face saving move the Mother corp. Launched an open Call for canadians to come up with a new signature Jingle. The Winner to be revealed on hic oct. 11, nets a Cool $ 100,000 plus performance royalties and al important National bragging rights. We thought we could get 1,000 responses says Scott Moore executive director of Csc sports. We could hit 10,000. Its been overwhelming. It Speaks to Canadas passion for hockey and music. Could grapes get used to being serenaded by just another puck in the face How about Blue line blast hockey go go Spinne Rama or crease grease Boogie ? All of those have been submitted along with rink and Rollins go time the wraparound and singing outside the penalty Box. Manitoban iced More than 200 themes May of them by the usual composing suspects such As Schur who penned the stage musical strike Olaf Pyttlik who made a splash with the wave at the Manitoba theatre Centre in 2001, and record producer Dan Donahue who has garnered 11 Juno award nominations. I think everybody in the Community who Felt they could do it did it says Pyttlik whose new musical Rich opens nov. 20 at the Manitoba theatre for Young people. Even the Odd mom seems to have been tapped on the shoulder by the hockey gods and directed to get into the game. Sarah Gwen Peters a 55 year old st. Norbert Massage therapist does not appear to be your typical contest participant. First of All Sheds not a hockey fan does not play an instrument and has never written music. Get off the keyboard. You suck Man better keep your head up if you have submitted a hockey theme to the Csc website where hard nosed listeners Are known to throw vicious verbal elbows to the ego. Anyone can listen to submissions at cd sports. Ca hockey Anthe Challenge and pass immediate judgment. The anonymity of the reviewers allows them to be brutally candid which can sting even a Veteran like Dan Donahue. One comment about his fanfare slagged its Lack of Energy. Send it to the figure skating folks wrote the listener. It really hammers Home the fact that when you Are out there on the internet you Are naked to the world says Donahue. Having your work dismissed by Fly by night critics wounds even More when you Are a first time troubadour like local vocalist Neil keep. His Funky Effort was judged a whole lot of average and he a snot going to suffer in silence. A Brief search of this site yielded hundreds of cowardly hit and run style comments All destructive bitter and rude he responded to his detractor. This pathetic Caber snipers indiscriminately mean spirited comments Are Only for the purpose of getting noticed. Hockey summer in Canada fans musicians and All kinds of others have submitted almost 9,000 tunes in cd cos contest to replace our second National Anthem Kevin Prokosh Anthem composers Clint Skibitzki from left Kevin Aichele and Olaf Pyttlik in Dacapio studio and below Dan Donahue and Sarah Gwen Peters. Continued please see Anthem c 7 on the web to listen to some of the locally composed them song entries go to Winnipeg repress. Com Miriam Toews Winnipeg author launches her new novel Mcnally Robinson Grant Park 7 p. M. Tuesday photos by Boris Minkevich / Winnipeg free press a 01_ aug 30 08. Ind c1 8 / 29/ 08 6 35 50 pm ;