INSIDE DOUGLAS COLLEGE / OCTOBER 16, 1990

Annual Retirement

This year October 26 has been selected for the Retirement Luncheon.
As this year will be the first time in four years there are no new retirees
to honour, the theme will be “Past Retirees”.

Various functions will take place on this day. One of the main events
is a Wine and cheese party hosted by the Deans and the Bursar starting at
3:30 p.m. in the Douglas Room (lower cafeteria).

This is open to all College employees.

Please mark the date and time on your calendar. I hope to see you

there.

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Festival features concerts, hand-made instruments

learn to build instruments for
themselves.”

A video called The Guitar In
Spain will be featured on the first
day of the festival. The film traces
the evolution of the guitar from
the sixteenth century to the
present day. Strutt says that it has
been aired on BBC, but it’s never
been seen on television in Canada.
“It’s a fabulous film, and we'll run
it both days,” he says.

The video features some of the
finest pieces of music by Julian
Bream, a world famous classical
guitarist. “He’s my old teacher,”
says Strutt, who is originally from
England where he studied under
Bream.

Also featured that day will be
a display of hand-made guitars
built by students in the Musical In-
strument Construction Program.
“For anybody who is interested in
classical guitars, there will be a
couple of dozen here,” says Dunn.

Dunn has been a professional
guitar-maker most of his life,
having apprenticed in Spain in the

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1960's. He says most people don’t
realize some artisans still make
musical instruments by hand.
“We're one of the traditional crafts
that has never really died out, and
has made a resurgence in the past
twenty years.”

 

Hand-makers of stringed in-
struments, known as luthiers,
produce the best guitars, says
Dunn. “Hand-made instruments
have always turned out better,” he
says. “You can mass-produce a lot
of things efficiently, but it takes a
craftsman to produce a really fine

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instrument.”

Festival activities continue on
Saturday, October 27, with a lec-
ture/recital called “The History
And Development Of The Guitar.”

“Tt will be a rare opportunity
to see and hear the sounds of
many different types of guitars,”
says Strutt. Instruments such as
the vihuela, renaissance and baro-
que lutes, and classical and baro-
que guitars will be discussed and
played.

The Guitar Festival culminates
with a Saturday evening concert
in the Douglas College Performing
Arts Theatre. The Panormo Guitar
Trio, of which Strutt is a member,
will play classical music by Vival-
di, Hindesmith, Piazzolla, and
Spanish folk song arrangements.

Then Michael Dunn and mem-
bers of his Musical Instrument
Construction class will present
"The Other World Of The Guitar’,
an array of acoustic instruments
and ensembles playing a wide
range of musical styles.

The Guitar Festival is a special
event that no guitar enthusiast
should miss, says Strutt. “It’s a
unique opportunity to hear a lot of
styles of guitar playing.”

For further information call
731-7938 or 255-0230.