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Press, 16 August 1989, Page 26

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Music hall Christchurch Theatre Workshop is presenting Old Time Music Hall 89 for four performances on August 17 and 18 at 8 p.m. and August 19 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Alan McConnell will again be in the chair, and the show will include new comedy touches as well as melodrama and vaudeville. The show will be performed in the State Trinity Centre. Bookings should be made at Theatre Royal. Celebrating age Maurice Till, Ted Rhodes, The Sweet Adelines, the Cecilian Singer and the Liedertafel Choir are among the guest performers at the Celebrating Age celebrity concert to be the held at Christchurch College of Education Auditorium on August 21, at 8 p.m. The concert, organised by Presbyterian Support Services, is being held as part of the Celebrating Age conference in Christchurch on August 20-22. Proceeds from the concert will go to the Alzheimers Disease and Related Disorders Society, A.D.A.R.D.S. Cathedral concert The Christchurch Orchestral Society will present their second subscription concert for 1989 in Christchurch Cathedral on August 20, at 2.30 p.m. The programme will include Brahms’ “Tragic Overture,” “Danse Macabre” by Saint-Saens, and Hoist’s “A Somerset Rhapsody,” as well as “Requiem” by the Christchurch composer, Chloe Moon. The conductor is Mark Hodgkinson. The guest soloist is the young trombonist, lain Hunter. A pupil of the late Mervyn Waters, he recently completed his Batchelor of Music degree at the University of Canterbury. In September he leaves to further his trombone studies at Oregon State University, where he has been awarded a scholarship. He will play Ferdinand David’s “Concertino No. 4” for trombone. The Flute Choir of the Christchurch Flute Club, under the direction of David Liebert, will present a bracket of works for flute ensemble. Admission is by programme which will be available at the door. Chaytor Show Several weeks of sailing in the Aegean inspired Susan Chaytor to paint a series of allegorical paintings and drawings called the Seriphos Series, which is on show at the C.S.A. Gallery until August 20. The moods and changes of sea and skies, and the formation of wakes caused by giant oil tankers en route to Pireus were her influences. She found the subject matter demanded a complete change of direction from her earlier minimal painting. This is her first exhibition for several years. Hokitika craft Craft works from the Hokitika Craft Gallery will be on show at Gefn until August 26. The gallery is operated as a co-operative by some of Westland’s artists, and craftspeople, including painters, a needleworker and an embroiderer, spinners, weavers and knitters, woodworkers who make carvings and furniture, jewellers working in jade and bone, potters making tableware and stoneware. After this exhibition, the Hokitika Craft Gallery will host an exhibition by the Barrys Bay chairmaker, Colin Slade. The show will run for a week from August 28. In November the gallery will be celebrating its fourth birthday with a special exhibition on the theme “Now we are four.” Askin recital Margo Askin, flute, will give a concert at the Great Hall of the Arts Centre on August 23, at 1.10 p.m. A recent honours graduate from Victoria School of Music, where she studied under Alexa Still, she completed her Bachelor of Music Degree in performance flute under Rebecca Steel at Canterbury University. A member of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra and a flute choir, and appeared twice at the annual Nelson Composers’ Workshop. Her immediate goal is to begin studies in New York in January. With Maurice Till on the piano, Askin will play a sonata by J. S. Bach; two short twentieth-century works 1 and a “romantic” sonata.