A13The Daily News, Kamloops TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2007

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Wednesday, November 21 @ 7pm

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SAW IV – 7:20, 9:30B.C. Warning: Explicit violence

AMERICAN GANGSTER – 6:50, 7:35, 9:50B.C. Warning: Violence, drug use, coarse language

MR. MAGORIUM’S WONDER EMPORIUM – 7:00, 9:15NO ADVISORYBEOWULF – 7:25, 9:55B.C. Warning: Violence

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The Kamloops Pipe Band Society isholding their Annual General Meeting,on November 21, 2007, at the NorthShore Community Center on CottonwoodAve. it will start at 6:30 pm.All members welcome, please come outand have your voice heard.We will be voting in a new executive,and discussing events and newbusiness, for the upcoming year.Hope to see you all out!For more info., please call 573-2544.

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By MIKE YOUDSDaily News Staff Reporter

About 1,500 concertgoers in WhiteRock and Kamloops queued up to

hear Kamloops Symphony Orchestra’sSpanish Flair in concert with classical gui-tar soloist Daniel Bolshoy over the week-end.

Both concerts were virtual sellouts, atestament to the broad appeal of musicthat wears its heart on its sleeve and asoloist who thrives in the spotlight.

The genial Bolshoy — an Israeli-Cana-dian of Russian extraction — introduces

his pieces with a casualdemeanour. He blendshumour with history,cutting through the

usual formality of symphonic tradition tohelp audiences better appreciate the mu-sic.

Musical director Bruce Dunn, who nor-mally does the same, thrust the micro-phone straight to his soloist to usher inConcerto #1 in D for guitar and orchestraby Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.

The Jewish composer wrote the sereneconcerto in homage to his native Tuscanywhen persecution forced him to leaveItaly under Fascist rule. Bolshoy offeredthe alternative concert title of “DonQuixote meets Star Wars,” a reference tothe influence on contemporary film com-poser John Williams (Star Wars, Fiddleron the Roof), who was a student ofCastelnuovo-Tedesco’s.

Careful attention to acoustical balanceand amplification evidently paid off.Every note was resonant and defined asBolshoy’s hands massaged his guitarstrings. He immerses himself in the mu-sic, physically projecting the depth of itsemotion with reverie while his virtuosityflows as though it were an instinctiveforce.

The concert opened with orchestra onlyplaying Sinfonia a Gran Orquesta by JuanCrisostomo De Arriaga, a Spanish com-poser and child prodigy often comparedto Mozart. He was just shy of 20 when hedied.

What makes Arriaga’s musical legacy allthe more remarkable is that it soundsclassically European, not Spanish. Hisoverture, Los Esclavos Felices (The HappySlaves), which opened the second half ofthe concert, was simply beautiful, again a

richly cosmopolitan mixture of influ-ences. He wrote the opera at age 13 andonly the overture survives.

Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aran-juez, perhaps the best known piece in theconcert, was also a highlight of theevening. Bolshoy’s solo during the secondmovement, Adagio, was filled with apathos spoken through the universal lan-guage of guitar.

Received a standing ovation, the soloistreturned to perform two encore selec-tions, ending with a jazzy waltz by Brazil-ian guitarist/composer Sergio Assad, anda friendly farewell wave from the edge ofthe stage.

Right on the heels of this success, theKSO presents Viennese Landscapes, thesecond in its chamber series, on Saturdayat Calvary Community Church.

Bolshoy earns bravo with Spanish Flair

DANIEL BOLSHOY

REVIEW

By LEE-ANNE GOODMANThe Canadian Press

TORONTO — The ongoing screen-writers strike in the United States hashad an undeniable impact in Canada— American shows filming here areshutting down due to a lack of scripts,throwing hundreds out of work amidfears that a prolonged strike coulddamage the entire North Americanfilm and TV industry.

But there’s been one bright spot onan otherwise bleak horizon: Ameri-can broadcasters are eagerly eyeingCanadian shows as diverse as LittleMosque on the Prairie, Durham Coun-ty and The Border, a new CBC dramathat premieres in January.

“We’ve actually had inquiries fromthe U.S. networks about shows thatwe’ve either produced or are going in-to production on, so it’s been interest-ing — they’re looking for alterna-tives,” Kirstine Layfield, head of net-work programming for CBC, saidMonday.

“The U.S. is the hardest nut tocrack. They are the most parochial ofmarkets in the world — they buy noBritish, no Canadian, no anything. Be-cause they’re so obviously self-reliant,when this happens they all of a sud-den have to look outside themselves,and that’s what’s happening rightnow.”

Except for The Border, Layfield did-n’t want to name the CBC showspiquing the interest of Americanbroadcasters due to ongoing negotia-tions. But Mary Darling, head of West-wind Productions, says Little Mosqueis getting some attention.

She disputed a recent assertion bythe president of the Writers Guild ofCanada that Canadian producers are“dreaming in Technicolor” and enter-taining some “weird pipe dream” ifthey think American networks are go-ing to buy their shows.

“It’s not a pipe dream,” Darling said,adding that the longer the strikedrags on, the more it could benefitCanadian producers eager to crackthe massive and lucrative Americanmarket.

“In fact, the possibility does exist.There are two different networkslooking at Little Mosque right now.We’ve heard from people I never ex-pected to hear from directly … there’sbeen a definite increase in interestsince the strike.”

CTV programming president Su-sanne Boyce said American broadcast-ers have long been interested in Cor-ner Gas, and says negotiations arecontinuing throughout the strike.

Where does that leave the writersfor some of those Canadian shows?The Writers Guild of Canada and theWriters Guild of America share 265dual members — mostly Canadianwriters in the U.S. who are now onstrike. Hundreds of other WGC mem-bers in Canada are standing in soli-darity with their American counter-parts.

In Vancouver, the Writers Guild ofAmerica is striking against televisionshows being shot there, includingBionic Woman, Battlestar Galactica —both of which have ceased production— and Smallville. Those shut-downshave put about 200 people out ofwork.

LONDON — Heather MillsMcCartney got steamed upover milk and other dairyproducts while her estrangedhusband, Paul McCartney,joined a more modest effortto save a local post office.

Mills McCartney, 39, fo-cused on the environmentalimpact of deforestation andlivestock on global warming,citing figures from animalrights group Vegetarians In-ternational Voice for Animals(Viva!).

“When (Viva!) told me itwas 18 per cent, that’s morethan all global transport, Iwas in shock. Airplanes onlybring three per cent, whilethey are being picked on withtaxes,” she said Monday.

She asked people to “cutdown on one or two meat anddairy and fish dishes a week.”

“We are the only speciesthat drinks another person’smilk, so why aren’t we drink-ing rat’s milk, or dog’s milk,or cat’s milk, that’s how crazyit is,” she said.

“It’s mad that we are havingcow’s milk. Even cows don’tdrink it after one year but wecontinue forever.”

She has posed for a posterfor the Viva! campaign, head-lined: “Hey, Meaty, you’remaking me so hot!”

Meanwhile, Paul McCart-ney, 65, threw his support toa campaign to prevent theclosing of a post office in Low-er Heswall, five kilometressouthwest of Liverpool, nearone of his homes.

“This village post office is avital part of local communitylife and as such should besaved for future generationsto cherish. Its 100-year histo-ry should not be cast asidelightly,” the ex-Beatle said ina message read outside thepost office by his brotherMike.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SYDNEY, Australia — NicoleKidman told a courtroomMonday how she was reducedto tears and feared a car acci-dent after a celebrity photog-rapher pursued her two yearsago.

Kidman, who divides hertime between Los Angeles andher hometown of Sydney, Aus-tralia, was testifying in thephotographer’s defamationsuit against a Sydney newspa-per that slammed him for al-legedly hounding the Oscar-winning actress.

Kidman wore a grey knee-length skirt, cream-colouredblouse and pale pink cardigan.She had her long, curly hair

drawn up in a loose bun andappeared calm and composedduring the session in the New

Sout h Walesstate SupremeCourt.

H e r p o i s ec o n t r a s t e dshar ply wit hher descriptiono f t h e r i d efrom her housein Sydney toh e r p a r e n t s ’

home in another part of thecity for dinner on Jan. 23,2005.

Kidman described hunker-ing down in a car’s back seat— leaning over in her chair in

the witness stand to demon-strate — to try to avoid beingspotted by photog rapherJamie Fawcett.

She said the trip quicklyturned into a hair-raisingchase as a vehicle carryingFawcett and another vehicle,believed to contain his assis-tant, lurched through trafficaround Kidman’s car.

“I was frightened and I wasworried there was going to bean accident,” Kidman said.

Kidman said she was “really,really scared” during the carride and that she was “in tearsand distressed” by the time shereached her parents’ house.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Americannetworkseye showsin Canada

WRITERS’ STRIKE

McCartney’sex calls forcutting outmeat, dairy

HEATHER MILLS

Kidman says paparazzi left her in tears

KIDMAN