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By ED STRENKOWSKI Special to the Beaver All things considered, a good concert is preferable to a poor one. Last Saturday, the perforâ€" mance by the Oakville Symphony with featured pianist Raymond Pannell resulted in what must fall into the category of a good conâ€" cert. In sports, the players of a winning team are often heard sayâ€" ing â€" that they came to play, and won as a result. It appears that players of the Oakville Symphony also came to play and produced one of the best, if not the best, performance in the history of their career. The concert‘s theme "Great Classics" was somewhat intimiâ€" dating. In the free wheeling conâ€" temporary society, the often used word classic, is more often misâ€" used. This time â€" Beethoven and Tchaikovsky â€" gave the term the connotation, let alone legitimacy, Possibly the best concert in OSO‘s history Drawing and Painting classes will take place for ages 5 to 9 between 10:30 and noon with a $60 per week fee. Silkscreen printing will be held for all ages over 8 between 1 and 2:30 p.m. for an $80 per week fee and Ceramics for all ages over 8 between 3:15 and 4:30 p.m. for a $55 per week fee. Fees include all materials. To register or for more informaâ€" tion, call Ilze Berzins at 338â€"5139. The show is being held in conâ€" junction with the Year of American Craft and the Ontario Craft Council‘s "Celebration of Craft ‘93" program. It is being juried by Jean Johnson, Administrator of Craft at Harbourfront. New Art Space Gallery hosts its Dog Days of Summer July 5th to August 27th. Summer classes at New Art The show â€" organized by the Oakville Arts Council‘s Art Works Committee â€" will be hosted by the law office until Sept. 19. O‘Connor MacLeod is located at 700 Kerr St. Everyone is invited to drop by Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Contemporary and traditional work by members of Oakville‘s five fibre guilds will be on display repâ€" resenting stitchery, rug hooking, spinning and weaving, smocking and quilting. Some works will be available for sale. To complement the exhibition, several speakers and workshops will be presented throughout its sixâ€" month run. Art Works is sponsored by CHWO 1250 Radio. The joint exhibition by five local fibre guilds continues at O‘Connor MacLeod. Joint Fibre Guild show continues that is its due. Thus, without so much as changing the mind set belonging to etymological esoteriâ€" ca, the first notes of V for Victory of Beethoven‘s Symphony No. 5 were struck, and the Oakville Symphony was well on its way playing one of the most popular works of the Romantic repertoire. Conductor David Miller, led, the orchestra followed, gaining confiâ€" easy work to listen to, less easily played, especially when trying to keep together. The orchestra kept together, an achievement in itself. What is more, the overall impresâ€" sion was that of the work played by an ensemble who new the work and were competent in its execution. The â€" second _ Classical Romantic, Tchaikovsky, received as much care and attention as Beethoven. The spirited 1st Piano Concerto is one of Tchaikovsky‘s many works which contributed to him being counted amongst the all time Greats. Tchaikovsky writing the Concerto is one thing, something else again. Fortunately, Pannell is champion of high order, and the work received the care that is its due. Pannell, the pianist, does not conâ€" fine his activities to piano alone. He is also a composer of musicals and operas. In 1967, he composed â€" The Luck of Ginger Coffey â€" for the Canadian Opera Company, and his television opera Aberfan, produced by the CBC, later shown at Salzburg TV Opera Competition, won him the First Prize... a win over eighteen entries including the BBC and the Japanese Broadcasting Service (NHK). to whom Tchaikovsky dedicated the work, claimed that the Concerto is badly composed and unplayable, Pannell gave a lie to Rubinstein pronouncement, and played the Concerto, exhibiting degrees of refinement in soaring colors of thythmic syncopation that are its trademark. Orchestra did not stay behind; they were with Pannell, as prompters and support, in the right place, and on time. If the success of a perforâ€" mance can be measured by the reaction of the audience, then this one was definitely successful, for the. audience gave the performers a long lasting, standing ovation. _