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CbCttoWUC, Montreal, Friday, March 27, 1987 Kudelka puts 'grands' back into Les Grands ES3 f.HJ ESI E53 C3k C-8 REVIEW Lti Qrtndt Ballets Canadians' final Spring weekend at Place des Arts with an all-Stravinsky program of Montreal premieres Including Fernand Nault's Visages, Bronislava Nf-jmskts Les Moots, and James Kudelka's Le Sacre du Printemps. By LINDE HOWE-BECK Special to The Gazette Here's reassurance for those who, after the Montreal choreographers showcase presented two weeks ago, thought Les Grands Ballets Cana-diens had ditched ballet forever. This latest program is a real ballet stunner. What's more, James Kudelka, the company's passport to international fame and fortune, has come up with another winner that really puts the grands back into Les Grands. He offers a startling and entirely new interpretation of one of the world's most famous ballets, Le Sacre du Printemps.

After confusing many who saw their last trio of works by Montreal's chief modern dancemakers, Les Grands looks like itself once more. Fernand Nault's Visages, which, like Kudelka's ballet, made its world premiere last night, is a short and playful romp about mistaken identities. Dancers don and doff masks as they flit about in this easily digested ballet. Bronislava Nijinska's Les Noces bears little visual relation to the Lar Lubovitch work by the same name which is also in the company's repertoire. Nijinska, beloved sister of the legendary dancer Vaslav Nijinsky who went insane at the peak of his career, choreographed her primitive dance about an arranged marriage in old Russia in 1923.

Surprisingly, this version staged for Les Grands by Nijinska's daughter, Irina Nijinska, who appeared on stage to take a bow last night, is remarkably fresh. Its brown and white costumes, the stabbing of the brown pointe shoes at the ground to underline the jagged score and the stylized gestures with emphasis on friezes Hfsr xmdt- Iff performs at the Golem Coffee House Sunday evening. Today Chambristes take note of between-wars period Clubs Abacus, New York Bar, 2144 Mackay. To night: Pianist John Gilbert. 933-8444.

L'Air du Tempt, 191 St. Paul St. W. Tonight to Aroma. 842-2003.

American Rock Cat, 2080 Aylmer St. Tonight and Sab Vintage. 288-9272. L'Apero Bar, In the Four Season Hotel, 1050 Sherbrooke W. Tonight: Gilles Jourdam.

Sau Jacintha Luis. Cafe Arthur, Queen Elizabeth Hotel. French Cancan. Showtimes: English, Sat. and 8 30 p.m.; French, tonight, 8:30 pm.

861-3511. Le Bar, Hotel Meridten, Comptexe Desjar-dins. Tonight: Tibor Ceasar, 5 to 8 p.m. Tonight and Sat: Fred Naylor, 8 p.m. Biddla Jazz and Rib, 2060 Aylmer St.

Tonight and Johnny Scott and Geoffrey Lapp. Singer Lorraine Foster. Tonight and The Charlie Biddle Trio with guest Kevin Dean on trumpet, 10 p.m. 842-8656. Bijou, 300 Lemoyne St.

in Old Montreal. Tonight and SaL: Singer Lucianne Evans and percussionist Bongo Eddie Magix. 288-5508. Bimbo, 58 Fairmount W. Tonight and Jeffrey May and Jon Gearey.

495-4543. La Bohme, 3781 St. Lawrence Blvd. Tonight and SaL: Rltmo de Colombia orchestra. 844- 1390.

Boulevard, Centre Sheraton Montreal. Denis Boivin Trio, 7 p.m. 878-2000. La Cat' Cone', Le Chateau Champlain. Tonight and SaL: Panache with singer Michele Richard.

Showtimes: tonight, 9 and 11 p.m.: 8:30, 10:30 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. 878-9000. Cat Campua, 3315 Queen Mary Rd. Suru Paulo RamosSunder Satranga.

735-1259. Cat Devorah, 3429 Peel. Mitch Goldberg and Herky Halpert. 842-6616. La Cage eux Sporte, 2250 Guy St.

Tonight and SaU Billy Georgette, 5 p.m. 931-8588. Charlie's American Pub, 1204 Bishop. Sunj Dwayne Ford and Jon Hagopian, 2 p.m. 871-1709.

Checker, 4514 Park Ave. Tonight to Skyline. 276-8525. Cock n' Bull Pub, 1944 St. Catherine W.

Tonight and SaL: Ron Harris. 933-4556. Comedy Neat, upstairs at Woody's Pub, 1234 Bishop St. Tonight and Suru Harry Dupe and Colin Campell. SaL: Howard Ne-meti.

395-8118. La Cordial Bar, Delta Montreal Hotel, 475 President Kennedy St. Tonight: Charles Coleman and Skip Bey, 5 to 8 p.m. 286-1986. La Croiaatte, Centre Sheraton Montreal.

Tonight and Suru Jacques Ouellet, 6 p.m. 878-2000. Club de Dana Ira Murray, 3981 St Laurent suite G1. Sat-' Ballroom dancing with Jacques Margaret Lafleche, 8:30 p.m. 842-4761 or 842-0169.

Let Foufoun Elctriqu, 97 St. Catherine St. E. Tonight: Jenny Rock. SaL: Haunting Today.

Wolff Tycoon. 845-5484. Grand Cat, 1720 St. Denis. Tonight: Carl Tremblay.

SaL: Jim Zeller. 849-6955. La Grand Hotel, 777 University St. Tonight to Suru The Claudia Katri Quartet. 879-1370.

Haraiki Bar, 1492 Shevchenko Blvd. in La-Salle. Tonight and SaL: Spanky. 363-31 11. Llmpromptu Bar, Centre Sheraton Montreal.

Tonight and SaL: Pianist Gerard Lambert, 9 p.m. 878-2000. Moby Dick, Maison Alcan, 1188 Sherbrooke St. W. Tonight and SaU Mike Ottier, 7 p.m.

285-1637. Muatacha, 1445 Closse St. Tonight: 6 a.m.. Hot Silk, Re-Experience. Social Eyes, Depluss, Square of Sand.

The Verse, Outasynk. 931-1236. La Pastel, 426 Rachel E. Hooper and the Tips. 843-8178.

Peal Pub, 1106 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. Tonight to Frontline. 845-9002. Pionnier, 286 Lakeshore Road in Pointe Claire.

Tonight to Suru Equus. La Point da Vu, Centre Sheraton Montreal. Tonight to Harpist Suzanne Berth-iaume. 878-2000. Le Portag, Bonaventure Hilton.

Tonight and Louisiana Purchase. 878-2332. Pub, 7425 St. Jacques W. Tonight and SaL: Rockafellows.

486-0777. Puzzle, 333 Prince Arthur St. Tonight and Jazz Cartoon. 288-3733. Ouai Sara in Ste.

Anne de Bellevue. Suru The Jimmydogs. 457-5961. Riaing Sun, 286 St. Catherine St.

W. Tonight and SaU Motown Showdown with Kenny Wilson and Music in the House. 861-0657. Root, 87 St. Catherine St.

E. Tonight and Reggae Rampage Band. 289-9135. Secret Bar, 40 Pine Ave. W.

Three O'Clock Train. 844-0004. Club Soda, 5240 Park Ave. Tonight to Le Groupe Sanguin. 270-7848.

Spectrum, 318 St. Catherine St. W. Tonight and Marjo. 861-5851.

Station K. 2071 St. Catherine St. W. Tonight and The Darned.

Sunday Night Comedy. 934-0484. Tatou, 3519 St. Laurent Blvd. Tonight and Jimmy James.

James MacDonald. 845- 4337. By ERIC McLEAN Gazette Music Critic A fascinating evening of rarely performed chamber works was offered in McGill's Pollack Hall last night. This was the last of the series organized by the English network of the CBC under the title of Music Between the Two Wars, and the dozen musicians taking part were all members of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. This is their second season together, and they have chosen the name Les Chambristes de Montreal.

When you think of it, the musically rich period between 1918 and 1939 has been exploited very little by chamber groups, and most of the works on this program were probably new experiences for most of the audience. One of the most fascinating items was the Concertino which the great Czech composer Leos Janacek composed near the end of his career. It is not really a concerted work at all, but an extended piano solo with ob-bligato sound effects from the other musicians who seem to spend most of their time watching the pianist in mute admiration. Yet the work has a strong impact The piano role (admirably handled by David Moroz) is at turns rhapsodic, anguished, or ecstatic. The contributions of the other players seem little more than murmurs of assent The opening work, Rengaines (Time-worn stories) was an amusing and vignettes, look almost avant garde today despite their age.

It was a stroke of genius to include this Les Noces on the program with Kudelka's revolutionary ballet to the same sort of strident, driving, folk rhythms of Stravinsky. Unlike Nijinska whose ballet demands great restraint, Kudelka's is full-blown and skirmishes with all the considerable violence the score can muster. Instead of making a virgin the sacrifice, he has made a ballet about birth. This Sacre is the tale of a pregnancy in a fictitious land with Eastern European undercurrents. Using many of the same folk movements as Nijinska, Kudelka deploys swirling leaps and spins, always with a sense of weight that shows his understanding of modern dance.

Stylistically, this Sacre fuses ballet and modern dance in a way that no other Canadian and few international choreographers have ever achieved. Andrea Boardman is magnetic as the pregnant woman who thrusts out her belly with her backward bends. As the ballet progresses, her worth to society is defined by her ability to bear a child. She becomes a tool of the midwife, the husband and the community, who anxiously await the birth. Slowly, the realization dawns that she is the sacrifice.

The birth does indeed occur, and with it an ending so unexpected, brutal and shocking that other Sacres pale by comparison. REVIEW Les Chambristes de Montreal, in a performance the CBCMcGill series called Music Between the Two Wars, in McGill's Pollack Concert Hall, Thursday. Participants were violinists Gwen Hoabig and Ann Robert; vio-list Douglas McNabrmy: cellist Desmond Hoabig: bass Brian Robinson; flute Carolyn Christie; oboe Theodore Baskin; clarinet Robert Crowley; bassoon Medina Itackie; piano David Moroz; horn Jean Gaudreault. Rengaines (1937) Andre Souris Quintet, opus 39 (1924) Prokofiev Concertino (1925) Janacek Quintet for piano and strings (1923) Ernest Bloch collection of nine brief movements by the late Belgian composer, Andre Souris. They were very much in the humorous and high-spirited vein of Ibert or Satie.

This was followed by Prokofiev's Quintet in minor which was also used by the composer as a ballet score called Trapeze. In this we had some particularly fine work from the oboe and clarinet. The evening ended with the only work that has been played more than once before the Montreal audience: Ernest Bloch's masterly Quintet for Piano and Strings, which, believe it or not, is already more than 60 years old he composed it in 1923. For those who may have missed this series, they will be able to catch them on CBC Stereo's Arts National at 8 p.m. from May 11 through May 14.

Last night's concert by Les Chambristes de Montreal will conclude the series'on May 14. REVIEW Werewolves by Teresa Lubkiewicz. A National Theatre School production directed by Helena Kaut-Howson. At the Monument National studio tonight and Saturday at 8 p.m. from its ultra-naturalistic context then flies over the genre, hovers like Chekhov, wallows like Gorky, dances like Fellini, blushes like a schoolgirl and laughs like a world-weary whore.

Written for a contest in Warsaw, Poland, 15 years ago (which it won), Teresa Lubkiewicz's first play was a hit in London in 1979 when directed by her former school-mate, Helena Kaut-Howson. In her superb direction of the NTS students, Kaut-Howson has brought it through one more cultural barrier. It's vaguely Irish, profoundly Slavic and irrepressibly Canadian. These fresh, young talents must struggle to make the sombre themes believable; their bursts of levity are like firecrackers in the dark, a perfect antidote to a playwright's fondness for melodrama. In a healthy theatre town, at graduation time this marvellous cast would cart the set along to a fire-safe warehouse and do Werewolves until their reputations in the business were solid gold.

As it is, a few dozen people will have something to talk about And Centaur patrons will have a second chance to meet Kaut-Howson when she directs Maxim Gorky's Vassa at Centaur Theatre next season. The Atrium in Maison Alcan presents the Montreal West Operatic Society performing Gilbert and Sullivan's lolanthe between noon and 1:30 p.m. Admission is free. Mount Royal Operatic Society presents Gilbert and Sullivan's Princess Ida, tonight and Saturday at 8:15 p.m. at Mount Royal High School.

663-5595, 273-2 1 26. Lea Tachea perform at 9 p.m. at Gallery Skol, 3981 St. Lawrence 222. 842-4021.

Lea Granda Concert de Radio Canada presents organist Genevieve Soly and I Musi-ci de Montreal in a concert homage to Massimo Rossi at 8 p.m. at the Ste. Famille de Bou-cherville Church, 560 Marie Victorin Blvd. Saturday Lea Petita Violona, under the direction of Jean Cousineau, perform works by Corelli, Vivaldi and others at 5:30 p.m. at Montreal Citadel, 2085 Drummond.

274-1736. Marion Verbruggan and the Eneemble Arion perform works by Bach, Vivaldi and others at 8 p.m. at St. John's Lutheran Church, 3594 Jeanne Mance. 354-5795, 274-2878.

The Allegra Chamber Muaic Serie presents a concert with works by Bach, Beethoven and others at 8 p.m. at Pollack Concert Hall, 555 Sherbrooke W. 288-8300. The Donovan Chorale, under the direction of Fred Stoltzfus, performs works by Britten and Daveluy at 8 p.m. at the Church of St.

Andrew and St. Paul, Sherbrooke W. and Bishop. 845-8273. Anner Bijlama, baroque cello, performs works by Bach tonight at 8 and Sunday at 3 p.m.

at the Old Brick Church in West Brome. 487-2822, 1-263-2346. Sunday The Little Singera of Mount Royal, under the direction of Gilbert Patenaude, perform at 1 1 a.m. at St. Joseph's Oratory, 3800 Queen Mary Rd.

Free admission. 733-821 1. Organiat Pierre Grandmaiaon performs works by Bach, Couperin and Buxtehude at 3 p.m. In the Sacred Heart Chapel of Notre Dame Basilica, 426 St. Sulpice.

842-2925. The Choir of Trinity Memorial presents a concert at 4 p.m. at the Trinity Memorial Church, 5220 Sherbrooke W. 484-3102. I Muaici da Montreal, under the direction of Yuli Turovsky and featuring soloists Theodore Baskin, oboe, James Thompson and Robert Early, trumpets, plays Vivaldi at 8 p.m.

at Salle Claude Champagne, 220 Vincent D'lndy. 272-9721. The Jazz Beard perform at 8 p.m. at the Queen Mary United Church, 13 Finchley Rd. 484-4907.

Symphoniqu du Conrva-toir. under the direction of Raffi Armenian, performs works by Wagner, Ravel and others at 8 p.m. at Theatre Maisonneuve in Place des Arts. Free admission. The Cecilian Eneemble, with soprano Su-zie LeBlanc, performs works by Telemann at 8 p.m.

at Pollack Concert Hall, 555 Sherbrooke W. 843-4007. Folk ainger Garnet Rogera performs at 8:30 p.m. at the Golem Concert Room, 3460 Stanley. 935-5066.

begins at 8 p.m. in McGill's Pollack Hall. Finally on Sunday night, the Or-chestre Symphonique du Conservatoire gives a free concert in the Maisonneuve Theatre with a program of works by Wagner, Tchai-kovski, Jacques Ibert, Ravel and Debussy. Raffi Armenian conducts. Eric McLean Folksinger Garnet Rogers Cat Thiem.

31 1 Ontario St. E. SaL and Sunj Francine Desjardins Jazz Enchantment. 845-7932. Cat Timerve, 4857 Park Ave.

SaL: Ensemble Vocal Jazz Bemol 9. 272-1734. Cat Troquat Laurwr, 140 Laurier W. Tonight to Suru Guitarist F. Richard and flutist J.Y.

Robillard. Upttair. 1429 Bishop. Skip Bey and Tim Jackson, nightly. SaL and Dutch Robinson.

284-3315. Out-of-town Th Common in Morin Heights. Tonight and SaL: Endless Summer. 226-221 1. Bar Salon Chico in Deux Montagnes.

Tonight and SaL: Donna, country and western. 472-0672, 473-0611. Theatre Th Lily ot th Mohawk, by Montreal playwright Patricia Rodriguez, at the Saidye Bronfman Centre (5170 Cote Ste. Catherine). Sat.

at 8 p.m., Sun. at 1:30 8 p.m. 739-7944. Th Rl Thing, by Tom Stoppard and directed by Maurice Podbrey, at the Centaur, 453 St. Francois-Xavier.

Showtimes: tonight and 8 p.m.; 7 p.m. 288-3161. Anglo! at Puzzles, comer of Park and Prince Arthur St. Showtimes: tonight to 8:30 p.m.; 10:30 a.m. 288-3733.

La Varit daa choaaa, French version of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, at Theatre du Rideau Vert. Showtimes: tonight at 8 p.m.; 5 9 p.m.; Sun. at 3 p.m. 845-0267. Dan I petit manoir (in French), at Theatre de la Veillee, 2048 St.

Denis. Showtimes: tonight and 8:30 p.m.; 5 p.m. 526-6582. J'ai Fin, a one-woman show with Danielle Bissonnette. at the Milieu.

Showtime: tonight and Sat. at 8:30 p.m. 277-5711. La Poch Prmntir, presented by Le Theatre de la Nouvelle Lune, at La Bodega, 3456 Park Ave. Showtime: tonight to Sun.at 8 p.m.

277-8320. Reynsld Bouchard, mon pr at moi continues at Cafe de la Place in Place des Arts. Showtimes: tonight at 8 p.m.; Sat.at 5 and 8:30 p.m. 842-2112. Festival Oubcoi Thtr Univarai-tair continues until Sunday at Salles Marie Germ Lajoie and Alfred Laliberte, 1495 St.

Denis. 343-7682. Medea: A Noh Cycl Batad on the Greak Myth continues tonight and Saturday at 8 p.m. at the McGill Players' Theatre, 3480 McTavish. 392-8989.

Aunti Mam continues tonight and Saturday at 8 p.m. at John Abbott College. Centre Casgrain Theatre, Ste. Anne de Bellevue. 457-2447.

Sevan Bride tor Saven Brother, presented Saturday at 8:30 and Sunday at 2:30 and 8 p.m. at the Shaar Hashomayim Youth Theatre, 450 Metcalfe Ave. 937-9471, 482-1896. Let Paravant (in French), by Jean Genet, at Theatre du Nouveau Monde. Showtimes: tonight at 8 p.m.; 4 9 p.m.

861-0563. Dance Lea Grand Ballet Canadiana present An Evening of Stravinsky Dances, tonight and Saturday at 8 p.m. at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier in Place des Arts. 842-2112. p.m.

at the museum with a screening of Ozawa and tomorrow at 10 p.m. at the Cinematheque's showing of With Love From Truman (a documentary on Truman Capote). Admission is $5 but you can also purchase a $40 pass to 10 screenings. For more information, phone 842-9763 or 285-1600 or 283-8829. Speaking of documentaries, there's a particularly riveting example of the art on order tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m.

in room LI 32 of McGill University's Leacock Building, 855 Sherbrooke St W. Presented by the school's film society, D.O.A. is a look at punk rocker Sid Vicious and his all-too-devoted groupie Nancy Spungeon in their last days. It will cost you 2.25. Bruce Ba iley CLASSICAL MUSIC The Canadian pianist Paul Stewart is to return to the stage of McGill's Pollack Concert Hall tonight at 8.

His unusual program will be made up of keyboard works of the late great Polish composer, Karol SzymanowskL Meanwhile, the Arion Ensemble will be playing host to the celebrated Dutch recorder expert, Marion Verb rug gen, who is to be heard in works by Quantz, Telemann, and Fontana. The concert is to take place in St John's Lutheran Church, 3594 Jeanne Mance, corner of Prince Arthur, at 8 pm Sydney Zdenek Vrana, the young Montreal-born guitarist is to give a recital this evening in the Church of Saint-Charles-Garnier, 1195 Sauve St EL, at 8 p.m. He has chosen a program of works by Luys de Narvaez, Alonso Mudarra, Weiss, Juli Watt Dane Foundation presents ABC. tonight to Sunday at 8:30 p.m. at Es-kabel Theatre, 1237 Sanguinet.

849-7164. Aztlan, the Mexican tolkloric troupe, performs Saturday at 8 p.m. at McGill's Moyse Hall. Lat Ballets Jazz da Montreal performs tonight at 8:30 at Salle Andre Mathieu. 475 Blvd.

de Avenir in Laval. 667-1610. Film Straw Doge, with Dustin Hoffman, tonight at 7:30 in McGill's Leacock 132. D.O.A, with the Sex Pistols, Saturday at 7:30 in Leacock 132. Presented by the McGill Film Society.

392-8934. Th 5th International Faatival of Film on Art in Montreal continues until Sunday at the Cinematheque Quebecoise (335 de Maisonneuve the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (1379 Sherbrooke and the NFS Cinema (Complexe Guy Favreau). For further information, call 842-9763, 285-1 600 or 283-8829. Weekend Repertory L'Autra Cinma (722-1451) 6340 Papineau St. Today: Pekin Central, J'ai pas dit mon dernier mot, 7:30: Les Leoutards.

Le Baiser de la femme-arraignee. 9:30. Pekin Central, J'ai pas dit mon dernier mot, Fleurs tardives. Le Baiser de la femme-araignee. 9:30.

Sunj Pekin Central, J'ai pas dit mon dernier mot, Le Roi Lear, Le baiser de la femme-araignee, 9:30. Cinema (489-5559) 5560 Sherbrooke St. W. Today: Cactus, Quadrophenia, Festival of Claymation, John Waters, Desperate Living, 9:30. SaL: Cactus, Monty Python and The Holy Grail, 4:15, Festival of Claymation, Alfred Hichcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much.

Cactus, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, 1 Cafe Flesh, midnight. Suru The Peanut Butter Solution, The Gods Must Be Crazy. 2, Cactus, 3, Blue Velvet, 4, Festival of Claymation, 5, 8:30. La Cinemathequa quebcoi (842-9768) 335 boul. de Maisonneuve E.

Today to Festival International du film sur I art. Call for more details. Conservatoire d'art cinematographique (848-3878) 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. Today: Winners of the 1986 Canadian Student Film Festival, 9.

SaU Stardust Memories, 9. Why Shoot the Teacher, A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, Zelig, 9. Laurwr (495-4231) 5117 Park Ave. Today A SsU Mauvais sang, Dust, 9:30. Sun-' Ulisses, Desordre, Strictement personnel, Mauvais sang, Dust, 9:30.

NFB Place Guy Favreau (283-8229) Complexe Guy Favreau, 200 Dorchester Blvd. W. Today: Special Delivery90 Days. 7, 9. Sat.

A Festival International du film sur I art. Call for more details. Ouimetotcop (525-8600) 1204 Ste. Catherine St. W.

Today. Le Rayon vert, Les Fugitivs, 9:30. SaL: La Mouche, 5:30, 7:30, La recherche de M. Goodbar, 5, Quelle nuit de galere, 7:30. Outremont (277-4145) 1248 Bernard W.

Today ft Blue Velvet, L'Homme renverse, 9:30. Sunj Fievel et le nouveau monde, Mona Lisa, Nola Darling en fait qu'a sa tete, Therese, L'Homme renverse, 9:30. Sor, Paganini, Torroba and Tarrega. A little farther afield, you could cross the river tonight to the little church of Sainte-Famille-de-Bou-cherville (560 Marie-Victorin boulevard) where the organist Genevieve Soly will join forces with the ensemble, I Musici, under Yuli Turovsky, and the organ builder Massimo Rossi who will inaugurate the new instrument he has designed for the church. This is part of the series of public recording sessions organized by the French network of Radio Canada under the title Les Grands Concerts.

Like the others, the concert is free and begins at 8 p.m. On Saturday, there is to be another in the series of the Allegra Chamber Music series, in which the violinist Vladimir Landsman, vio-list Charles Meinen, cellist (Catherine Skorzewska, and pianist Dorothy Fraiberg, will be heard on the stage of McGill's Pollack Hall, 8 p.m. On Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m., you could take in an organ recital by Pierre Grandmaison in the Sacred Heart Chapel of Notre Dame Basilica. His programs will be made up of works by Couperin, Buxtehude, and Bach. That same evening, Yuli Turovsky will lead the ensemble I Musici in a program devoted exclusively to Vivaldi, in the Salle Claude Champagne, 8 p.m.

Featured soloists will be the oboist Theodore Baskin and the early trumpet players James Thompson and Robert Early. Or you could take in the concert of chamber music by Telemann, featuring the Cecilian Ensemble, a creation of the Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montreal. That one Student Werewolves packs memorable bite By MARIANNE ACKERMAN Gazette Theatre Critic Few evenings in the theatre point to the tragedy of Montreal's English-language scene as neatly as Werewolves at the National Theatre School. A glum beginning, perhaps, to a review of what may well be the most amazing play and outstanding production of the 1986-87 season but the bad news is that Werewolves is a student exercise with space for 50 spectators and two more performances to go. On a minuscule budget multiplied by ingenuity, NTS has turned a vast storage space into what feels, smells and sounds like a drafty peasant cottage somewhere along that spiritual border between Ireland and Poland.

The students' rough brogue offers an acceptable point of entry into a mystical Slavic maelstrom, a world of ghosts, military terrorism, incest, and plenty of tea-brown whisky which they down copiously, in swift Vodka-style gulps. At the centre is Thrush, a bawdy peasant torn between contempt of a mother who won't lie down dead and lust for his pretty young niece. In fact, this entire convoluted saga may be happening inside Thrush's head, but the telling is so convincing and brilliantly constructed that categories of real and unreal hardly seem to matter. Canadian theatre has long been obsessed with old-fashioned naturalism. That's another good reason to marvel as Werewolves takes off POP MUSIC Short and sweet this weekend.

Quebecoise rocker Marjo plays the Spectrum till tomorrow. She used to be with Corbeau but is on her lonesome now. There's great at the Rising Sun on St. Catherine St. W.

tonight and Saturday with singers Kenny Wilson, Kenny Hamilton, the brothers Dean, Sylvia Devlin-and Diane Gentes. There's also a great band. Should be fun. The Darned bring country BEST rock and their usual hijinks BETS to Station 10 on St Catherine St W. till tomorrow and Three O'Clock Train play Secrets on Pine Ave.

Sunday this space has already raved long enough about what kind of rock 'n' roll they make for a living. Enjoy. John Griffin FILM You have all weekend to catch what's left of the fifth annual Festival of Films on Art The program of 111 films and videos from 19 countries continues at the Cinematheque quebecoise (335 de Maisonneuve Blvd. the Fine Arts Museum (1379 Sherbrooke St and the National Film Board Cinema (in Complexe Guy-Favreau, 200 Dorchester Among the weekend's highlights is tomorrow's 2 p.m. screening of Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend.

The festival will also be paying tribute to Albert and David Maysles American brothers with a special knack for handling cinema verite. Their work is represented today at DANCE Les Grands Ballets Canadiens winds up its spring season with an evening devoted to the music of Igor Stravinsky (Salle Wilfrid Pelletier, tonight and tomorrow night at 8 p.m.). "An Evening of Stravinsky Dances" presents two world premieres by the Grands Ballets' resident choreographers Fernand Nault's Visages and James Kudelka's reworking of Le Sacre du Printemps, Originally created by the ill-fated dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. Ni-jinsky's sister Bronislava is the creator of the third ballet, Les Noces, a Montreal premiere. Julie West, an Ottawa modern dancer, continues her energetic one-woman show (Theatre Eskabel tonight through to Sunday) titled ABC.

A dancer who frequently performs in Europe, West is "a human stick of dynamite," according to Linde Howe-Beck in The Gazette. And if you're looking for a little Latin heat to break up the March blues, try a "Mexican Spring Folklore" (tomorrow night at Moyse Hall of McGill University at 8 pm). The Ballet Folklorique Aztlan is presenting a multi-media show of Mexi-' can dance, music and song and of Aztec rituals and dance. -Heather Hill I Arthur Kaptainis is on assignment. His Classical Records column returns to this space next week..