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Western Carolinian Volume 68 Number 05

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  • OCTOBER 16 - VENT NORD S. FRENCH CANADIAN BAND LE VENT DU NORD Canadian "North Wind" Bringing Cool Sounds to WCU, October 16 French-Canadian band Le Vent du Nord, which means "North Wind," will take the stage at Western Carolina University Thursday, Oct. 16, as part of the Lectures, Concerts and Exhibition Series for 2003-04. Critics describe the newly evolved traditional Quebecois band as a richly eclectic musical experience with an unstoppable energy. Founding members Nicolas Boulerice, pianist and hurdy-gurdy player, and Olivier Demers, fiddler, have added Benoit Bourque, step-dancer and accordionist, and Bernard Simard, singer and guitarist, to the lineup. Boulerice, also a composer, vocalist, piano accordionist and percussionist, has appeared on numerous radio and television programs and has toured Western Canada and North American. He is a member of the neo-traditional bands Ad Vielle Que Pourra and Montcorbier. With a background in classical music, Demers is an accomplished violin player. He has toured with the award-winning French-Canadian band La Bottine Souriante and has appeared on several recordings. For more than two decades, Bourque has been performing dance, accordion, bones and spoons, guitar, mandolin, and vocals. He is the founding member of the trio Matapat, a favorite for the past four years at major festivals and concert halls in North American. Traveling around the world with his music, appearing in Canada, the United States, Europe and Africa, Simard is known as a gifted guitarist and vocalist. Over the last 20 years, he has been featured on more than two dozen albums, as both a band member and a guest artist. The program begins at 7:30 p.m. in the recital hall of the Coulter Building and is free to Western students with valid identification, $5 for the general public, and $3 for WCU staff, seniors, non-WCU students, and Jackson County Arts Council members. For more information about the LCE series, call (828) 227-7206. CAMPUS NEWS October Clarinets Concerts Set for Cashiers and WCU The Western Carolina University department of music will present two performances by faculty clarinetist Shannon Thompson in October as part of the Catamount Concert Series. Thompson will perform in Cashiers at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 19, at Albert Carlton Cashiers Community Library and at WCU at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 21, in the recital hall of the Coulter Building. She will be joined by WCU faculty pianist Lillian Buss Pearson and guest artist Margery Kowal on viola. The performances are open to the public free of charge. Thompson is principal clarinetist of the Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Asheville Symphony Orchestra. She was recently featured as a performer at the 2003 International Clarinetfest in Salt Lake City. Pearson is pianist for the Asheville Symphony Orchestra and has performed twice as solo artist with the orchestra. Thompson and Pearson will perform music for clarinet and piano, including sonatas by Camille Saint-Saens and Arnold Bax, and "Bucolique" by Eugene Bozza. Margery Kowal, principal violist of the Asheville Symphony Orchestra, will join them to perform music by Max Bruch. Also as part of the Catamount Concert Series, Thompson and Pearson will perform another concert of music for clarinet and piano at 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 2, at Trinity Episcopal Church in Asheville. For more information, contact the Western Carolina music department at (828) 227-7242. WCU Music Professor Wins Composition Contest Mario Gaetano, professor of music at Western Carolina University, recently won first place in the 2003 composition contest sponsored by the North Carolina Federation of Music Clubs. Gaetano's composition "Three Inventions for Flute and Percussion" was voted best chamber composition and was awarded the Hinda Honigman Composer Cup at a recent awards luncheon in Winston- Salem. There are 18 music clubs within the North Carolina federation, and thousands of clubs nationwide. Gaetano teaches applied percussion and directs Western's percussion ensembles. A prolific composer of music involving percussion instruments, Gaetano has more than 30 published works to his credit, and is recipient of four awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers. His works, which range in difficulty from student- level teaching pieces to professional-level recital pieces, have been performed and recorded worldwide, said Robert Kehrberg, head of the WCU music department.
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