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Wednesday, September 22, 1999 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER B5 Arts & Entertainment Editor: Carol Baldwin 845-3824 (Extension 254) Fax: 337-5567 United Way Community Day Sunday, Sept. 26 - noon-4pm Downtown Oakville 4 days 36th Annual Bath Tub Race 'til kickoff! Agency Fair Walk-a-thon For more info: 845-5571 'New music' concert To help cellist further his music studies in Europe By Carol Baldwin ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR Photo by Barrie Erskine Visions of Vienna dance around in the minds of most classical musicians, and Kirk Starkey is no exception. Although the Oakville cellist isn't on his way to the cultural centre of Europe, he'll be close enough when he unpacks his bags in Germany. However, pursuing graduate studies in music, Starkey may find the Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik in Freiburg, in the black forest area of Germany, quite a departure from his under-grad­ uate work in Florida. "I don't think I would go back (to Florida). There's no variation in seasons. January was the only time I could wear long-sleeved shirts," he says, adding that life near the alps may provide the other side of the weather coin. "I lost my appetite for cold in Florida." However, when it comes to quality of educa­ tion, the cellist is expecting similar conditions. He was delighted with the calibre of instruction and instructors in the U. S., and he's already visited the German school and met his teacher. "It's arguably one of the best schools in the world," says Starkey. "The level of string play­ ing there is probably the highest in the world. That's what I wanted to do." Starkey is ready to meet all the challenges the school and the country have to offer. For instance, despite the proliferation of English in the German institution, he is looking forward to learning a new language. He's also anxious to study with the teacher he met when he visited the school last year. "I made a lot of inquiries before I left. I had an exciting time in Freiburg. I liked the city very much, and the teacher. And it's close enough to Vienna to visit," he explains. "Having to struggle with a new language is exciting. I'll be living in a villa in a small town just outside Freiburg." Kirk Starkey is ready to pack his cello for Europe, but not before he uses it to help him raise funds to defray the costs of his graduate work in Germany. That villa, he adds, has a detached building where he will be able practise all night if he wishes without disturbing the other guests. And although the intensive music lessons and the orchestra commitment will keep him busy most of the time, the school year does include three breaks of two or three weeks each. During those down times, Starkey plans to trav­ el through some of the adjacent European coun­ tries. And since many of them are just a day's journey away from Freiburg, his visions of Vienna, Paris, Rome and even Poland may materialize. "I'll be right in the middle of everything," he exclaims And the 26-year-old is not adverse to remain­ ing in Europe indefinitely. "What I really want to do is get an orchestra job. If it happens to be in Germany, so be it. I'll stay," he says, adding that he would ultimately like to record as well as play, with a focus on what he calls "new music" - music of the 20th/21st century. And, he adds, Europe has more concerts fea­ turing that "new music" than Canada has reper­ toire concerts. In fact, when Starkey was in Ger­ many, he says he saw bulletin boards packed full of announcements for "new music" concerts. Although he has done some composing of his own, he says it's not ready for public con­ sumption quite yet. But his ultimate goal is not to compose but to give a unique interpretation to works that already exist. And his role model in that field is Canada's own Glenn Gould. (See 'In fluenced ' on page B6) Timothy Findley reads from new book Timothy Findley will be reading from his newest book. Pilgrim, in the chapel of Appleby College on Tues­ day, Oct. 5th, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. A book signing and refreshments will follow the reading. Tickets are $12 for adults; $8 for students. All the proceeds from this literary event, presented by Bookers Bookstore, will go to the Canadian Mental Health Association, Halton region branch. Pilgrim is the story of a man who cannot die. Ageless, sexless, deathless and time­ less, Pilgrim has inhabited endless lives and times. The novel opens on April 15, 1912 - ironically, the date of the sinking of the Titanic - when Pilgrim fails, yet again, to find the peace he seeks in death. His heart has miracu­ lously begun to beat again, five hours after he is found hanging from a tree and pronounced dead by several con­ cerned and confused doctors. Accompanied by his dear friend, Lady Sybil Quarter- maine, Pilgrim travels to Zurich where he is admitted to the Biirgholzi Psychiatric Clinic. Although he is stubbornly mute at first, Pilgrim ultimately begins a battle of psyche and soul with Carl Jung, self-professed mystical scientist of the unconscious and slave to his own sexual appetites. Poring over Pilgrim's journals in his quest to penetrate his patient's armour of silence, Jung is both confounded and shaken by the extraordinary revelations of his patient's former incarnations. As the revelation of Pilgrim's past lives emerge, he takes his place in the novel's exhilarating pageant of ambition and desire, enacted by an eccentric, colourful parade of characters - mythical, fictional and historical. For tickets to the reading, call Bookers at 844-5501. 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