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PAGE 12, WIBYFREPRBWISSWEDNF8DAYI OCYOBER17. 1990 Fofire director ,a tearn player BRJEAN DEUG MUC wili be perform- for- the group. Members, of Brean ing at the next Vital SJpark Folk Derg MNue, who perform Celtie Society concert. evening, on Satur- music, are (from left) Kevin Full- day Oct. 20, 8 p.m, at the Masonic brook, Holmes Hooke, AI Parrish HlOshawa. Bfobby Watt wiil open and BMain Fulbrook. A 'Nigh tmare onCentre St,' It will be the 'Nigbtmare on Centre St.'% Wbitby Jaycees wil bold their first annu4l 'Haunted House on Oct. 28, 2W and 30 at the Centen- niai Building., Children and aduits are in- vited to be spooked during haunting tours vihich begin at b p.m. each night. Admission is $1. Jaycees h ave designed and constructed many speciai efflects for' the haunting bouse. And renowned ghosts wbo live in the aid cou rth ouse building have been invited to attend. Proceeds from the event will support the Whitby Jaycees' le ge of $25,000 towards the Whiby General Hospital's First Class Fund. For more information cail Jef Zavitski at 430-7635. By Trudie Zavadovies Henry Schregardus has been directing theatre for 15 years and is currently directing bhis fourth project for the Whitby Courtbouse Theatre, Foxflre, Iby Hume Cronyn and Susan Cooper, adressesthe eter- nal dilemma of old versus new, of roots versus progress, of security versus change.- Thé, play ran in Stratford, on Broadway and was made into a movie witk Cronyn and bis wife Jessica Tandy.star- ring in the movie version. For Schregardus, one of the chiallenges offered by the play is keeping the cast on track. "The play spans from ages 75 years to 18 years, » says Scbre- gardus. "There are no costume and makeup changes. Those are very heavy acting challenges." He says one of, the paraliels evident in the play is that of urban versus rural life. 1«The pliy takes place in the Blueridge Mountains. It shows down-to-eartb type folk witb wis- dom. It shows tbey bave the same stresses and family pro- blems encroacbing the modemn world, the saine dilemmas and conflicts. » - The three major characters in Foxfire are Annie Nation, played by Joan Roantree, Hector, played by Ed Daigie and tbeir son Dillard, pi. ayed by Boyd Tattrie. Evert Mcflwain, Kerrie Lynn Wood and Vance Dick are part of the supporting cast. 'Thé play opens in and arounid their hiome, - Blueridge Moun.* tains in northwest Georgia. The son bas corne home from being on the road.- He is a musician and is giving a concert at the local fairground.» Scbregardus says the essence of the play is about a decision whether or not to abandon roots in favor of a decidedly m ore modemn world. The play cones to life through a series of flash- backs occurring during the pro- cess of weighing that decision. In total there are about 30 people working to bring the play to life. Stili required 'are two musicians, a banjo player and a fiddle player. "We may have to record part of the concert soene,» says* Schre- g ardus. «It's al original music. There's only1 three songs (for those players). You don t even have to know how to read music." As a director Schregardus looks for as much input from the actors as they are wilingt give. "Part of the challenge of acting is creating a role. I really needL ali hose other heads working. 1 need others' conceptions of,,the show. It's a matter of letting, the actors. act and letting e >veryone else do their job. Otherwise, it becomes a one-man show.» Foxfire opens, Thursday, Oct. 25 and runs through Oct. 279 then Nov. i through 3. and Nov. 8 through 10.- Mystical musie, chronicles taedyandjoy By Trudie Zavadovics Broadway had Gilbert and Sul- livan, contemporary music had Lennon and McCartney, and new age music bas Korb and Quan. Their first album, Tear of the Sun, bas already bit number one on tbe new age charts and not without reason. Korb and Quan together formn an array of melo- dies ta musically make a story. Donald Quan is an Eye, Eye. keyboardist and film composer and Ron Korb is a new age flutist wbo lives i Ajax and took bis; first music lessons right bere in WhitbD The album is an intriguing musical setting of an imaginative fable written by Korb and incor- porates jazz, classicai and folk mnfluences along with a distinctly cross-cultural fiavor derived from a number of exotic instruments from other countries. Interest- ingly, ail tbe instruments were obtained in Canada. "It was an important project. It allowed me to be completely creative. I was not pressured into anything. I had a completely free hand." The -album took a year to produce. Korb says ho likened the story to.somnething he heard about when in Japan in 1988. "It was about a sun goddess who hid in a cave te- hide from ber obnoxious brothers. In the cave was darkness." Korb's story of Tear of the Sun is about a princess who tries to live as others. In order to live, however, she needs water frorn a special stream. One day, a ser- vant, too lazy to fetch hier special water, brings the princess regu- lar water. Thýe princess begins ta, die. The sun is very upset when she sees this and hides in darkness bebind the moon. A minstrel, coaxed by a swallow, begins to piay for the -princess a2nd she uWlaTa ozAD.lAA n iAAA, AAd bv~~* uses Japan at3 a base and travels Donald Quan, Korb's partner films and major television series. while he is there.' on the ýalbum, also bas an exten- He is a regular session player on "I've always been very fascina- sive music background. He gra- 'Street Legal' and 'E.N.G.' and a ted with the culture. ope to duated cum laude with a dere keyboardist for the rock band learn the language.» in film scoring from the Berklee 'Eye, Eye.' Korb's ideal of success is "to do Coliege of Music in Boston wbere what you want to do and get rich he received scholarsbips in piano Korb very-inuch enjoys work- doing it." He feels hee bas and in viola. ing with Quan.'They hope to do achieved some degree of creative Since returning' to Toronto, more work together in the success in doing the album. Quan bas scored a number of future. «It's the first album rve 1)001 awahen,.istat sund ofte Lfute j invoivedl in as a writer,» saysth distnt ind ofthe oouanc Korb. 'Tve been daing records îpe fobhidtemnaâ about two years."KMorb'evoived is ovejoyed-wben she sees the into new age music, baving a rincess,"well again. And the classical music back-ground, he h arkes ends. a naturai for new age. Theý tim Korb originally began playing imgwas also rigbt. the flute some 14 years ago 'Metime is rigiit for that kind simply' because he liked the of music,» says -Korb. "Twenty- sounpa. five ta 40-year-oids, people wbo "I liked its expressiveness, used ta listen te music of the vocal quaiity and clarity.-» sixties, are looking for sometbing Korb also plays piano and a litie dcifferent." Korb refers te clarinet and is known as a it as "Yuppie jazz.» .singerson *tr tr.~ This is tbe first abi bas co-produced. if irM'"hr ~stil L - i&*tKorb&flô,,,-î-to t mi'up'gai.n ~£