Warwick is also enthusiastic
about an evening titled Desserts
and Dessert Wines.

"This should be a great class!
There will be at least three dif-
ferent gourmet desserts served
with the wines. One of them —I
won't say what it is-- takes me all
night to make."

He adds, "this is something for
the person who says he doesn’t
like sweet wines. After this
course he'll love them."

For the night of tasting Cham-
pagne and sparkling wines
Warwick will feature wines from
his private cellar.

"This will be a unique wine tast-
ing," he says. People will be able
to taste wines they will never get
anywhere else. I have about 30
different sparkling wines in my
cellar.”

Each year Warwick attends the
conference of the International
Society of Wine Educators.

"I know where I'll be every
August." he says.

Before his wine consulting
career, Warwick was employed in
auto parts.

He says his career took a turn
for the better when he was a
member of the Opimian Society
wine-tasting club. (Opimius was
a leader of Rome around 121 B.C.,
a year of good grapes, good wine,
and great festivities, Warwick ex-
plains). In a wine-tasting
competition he was the B.C.
champion and went on to place
sixth in Canada. At the urging of
friends he decided to start teach-
ing about wines.

About his work Warwick says,
"It’s nice to be doing something
like every day. And of course

have to test the product. It’s
much more fun than looking at
carburetors.”

Warwick’s favorite wine? He
doesn’t hesitate when asked.
"Gewurztraminer." He describes
it as a white wine with a spicy
smell, or "coriander nose". Al-

 

though the name comes from a
German wine whose traminer
grapes originated in Italy, he likes
the Gewurztraminer from the
California winery Chateau Saint
Jean and one from Sumac Ridge
in B.C.

Registration for the Wine Tast-
ing classes at Douglas College has
started. Call 520-5473 for more in-
formation, or 520-5472 to register.

 

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Compost pianist Eckart
Seeber will perform a concert
of his works at Douglas College
on Thursday, October 29, as a
part of the free "Noon at New
West" series. The young Victoria
composer is noted for his engag-
ing performances, in which he
demonstrates a novel composi-
tional device he calls on-the-spot
composing.

Noon at New West co-ordinator
Henry Waack says, "He does an
unusual concert. As part of it,
he'll ask the audience to name cer-
tain notes, or a little song, and
then he’ll improvise around it in
the style of Bach or Haydn or
Beethoven. The whole program
is on rather a different tack."

Seeber was born in Innsbruck,
Ausiria in 1963 and began his
musical training there. He
started composing at a young
age. At 15, he gave his first organ
recital with a whole program of
his music. After moving to
Canada with his parents in 1981,
he continued his studies at Simon
Fraser University. In recent years,
he has toured North America and
Europe, performing his original
piano works.

He is one of the few contem-
porary serious music composers
who has won acclaim from both
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music that is appealing and acces-
sible to the broad audience. He
attempts to write music which is
an alternative to both the contem-
porary avant garde and the old
masters. Seeber’s style has strong
rhythmic and melodic elements.

The concert will take place in
the Performing Arts theatre at
Douglas College. There is no
charge for the concert, and the
public is invited to attend.

For more information on this
concert, or to find out more about
other events in the Noon at New
West series, please contact the
music department at Douglas Col-
lege.

PHYLLIS MAILING TO
PERFORM AT
DOUGLAS COLLEGE

Tee ree Phyllis Mail-
ing will appear on Friday,
October 23, in the first concert of
the year of the Douglas College
"More Great Musicians" Series.
Her program will include works
by Purcell, Bellini, Wolf and
Debussy, as well as a selection of
Canadian and American songs.
Accompanist for the concert will
be Richard Epp. Mr. Epp is the
vocal accompanist at the Van-
couver Academy of Music, and
opera accompanist at the Van-
couver Academy of Music, and
opera accompanist and coach at
UBC.

Ms. Mailing has sung with most
of Canada’s major orchestras, is
heard frequently on the CBC and
has made several broadcast
recordings. Recently she created
roles for two Canadian operas at
the Ontario Stratford Festival.
She has made successful tours of
Europe, Russia, and the United
States. A Vancouver Sun critic
wrote of Mailing, "Her singing is
a rare and unreproachable unity
of tone, technique, under-

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