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BIO CALGARY HERALD Tuesday. April 9. 2002' Arcs Styik Musicians threaten legal action KIWANIS MUSIC FESTIVAL Calgary's Craig cracks T.O. market The hearing is open to the public. Global sent a letter to the CRTC accusing Craig Broadcasting of failing to live up to the promises it made in securing A-Channel licences for Calgary and Edmonton in 1996.

The letter said A-Channel is behind schedule in spending about $2 million a year on new TV production and that the broadcaster is i w- -v The Canadian Press MONTREAL Musicians with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra are threatening to take legal action to stop what they say is harassment by music director Charles Dutoit. The Quebec Musicians Guild accused the world-renowned Dutoit on Monday of "harassment, offensive behaviour and complete lack of respect for the musicians." Madeleine Careau, general manager of the orchestra, said the union move "was a strategy of negotiation and I do not appreciate it" Dutoit was unavailable for comment Monday. Careau said negotiations for a new contract had been underway since January, eight months before the end of the current collective agreement, because management hoped to avoid a strike like the one that occurred two years ago at the end of the last collective agreement. Dutoit has been music director of the MSO since 1977 and also serves as director of the Or-chestre national de France and music director of the Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo. Under his direction, the MSO has won two Grammy Awards and one Juno.

But broadcasters TV licences in Alberta, Manitoba are up for review BOB BLAKEY Calgary Herald A -Channel owner Craig Broadcasting scored a major broadcasting victory Monday by winning a licence for a new Toronto TV station. The approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission came two days before A-Channel goes before the broadcast regulator in Calgary for permission to continue running two TV stations in Alberta for the next seven years. Craig Broadcasting will now launch Toronto One, an English-language service with a rebroad-casting transmitter in the Hamilton area. It will distributed on the UHF band, but most of the potential five million customers in the region will receive it on cable systems. The CRTC also granted a new station to Rogers Broadcasting.

"It's an exciting day for our company," Craig Broadcasting president Drew Craig said Monday." "It's a big deal." Craig was victorious over other applicants for a Toronto station, including Torstar Corp. and Can West Global Communications, which owns the Calgary Herald and Global Television (Ch. 7-2). While the battle for Toronto is over, there could be echoes of it at the Calgary CRTC hearing, which is scheduled for three days beginning at 9:30 a.m. on April 10 at the Metropolitan Centre, 323 4th Ave.

S.W. Jenelle Schneider, Calgary Herald Daniel Fabijan-Waddell and Laura Hanna buzz in their trumpet mouthpieces while working with the adjudicator after competing in the Brass Solo Trumpet A category at the Kiwanis Music Festival at the Jubilee Auditorium Monday morning. Results for Monday, April 8 ALBERTA POETRY SOLOU2 years and under) Kelvin Ng ALBERTA POETRY S0LOU4 years and under) Shaila Zaver ALBERTA POETRY SOLO( 16 years and under) Dennis Fong VOCAL SOLO BOYS PRESCRIBED SELECTION (14 years and under) Jeremy Carver-James VOCAL SOLO BOYS PRESCRIBED SELECTION (15 years and under) Alex Birnie VOCAL SOLO BOYS OWN CHOICE (11 years and under) Ian Ames VOCAL SOLO BOYS OWN CHOICE (13 years and under) D'Arcy Smith VOCAL SOLO BOYS OWN CHOICE (14 years and under) Brian Li VOCAL SOLO BOYS OWN CHOICE (15 years and under) Zaafir Kherani VOCAL SOLO GIRLS PRESCRIBED SELECTION (12 years and under) Keatin Krueger VOCAL SOLO GIRLS PRESCRIBED SELECTION (13 years and under) Stephania Romaniuk BRASS SOLO SONATA (16 years and under) Stephen Fong BRASS SOLO CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS (16 years and under) Morgan Alger BRASS SOLO CONCERT (Open) Alan Klaus BRASS DUET (14 years and under) Peter Roll-heiser, Jason Rouleau PIANO SOLO BACH (18 years and under) Sang Jin Chung PIANO SOLO BACH (19 years and under) Joelle Chan PIANO SOLO BACH (Open) Edward J. Choi PIANO SOLO BACH (Open) Liyan Wong PI ANO SOLO BAROQUE (17 years and under) Sharleen Chu PIANO SOLO BAROQUE (18 years and under) Louisa Yuen PIANO SOLO BAROQUE (Open) Juan Wang PIANO SOLO CLASSICAL (Grade 10 Standard) Karla Gustafson NARRATIVEDRAMATIC POETRY SOLO (19 years and under) Leah Field LYRIC POETRY SOLO (19 years and under) Christina Lim ALBERTA POETRY SOLO (Open) John V. Snow SONNET SEQUENCE SOLO (19 years and under) Robyn Gifford SOLO SCENE MODERN (19 years and under) Richard Mah VOCAL SOLO MUSICAL THEATRE (14 years and under) Faaria Kherani VOCAL DUET MUSICAL THEATRE (Open) Jerod Blake, George Smith VOCAL TRIO MUSICAL THEATRE (Open) Kelly Stothers, Colleen Renne, Sherra Sanders VIOLIN SOLO PRESCRIBED SELECTION (10 years and under) Marian Empey VIOLIN SOLO PRESCRIBED SELECTION (11 years and under)Eden Full VIOLIN SOLO BAROQUE (10 years and un-der)Lev Nesterov CELLO SOLO BAROQUE (10 years and un-der)Zachary Kung VIOLIN SOLO BAROQUE (12 years and un-derXlillian Crockford VIOLA SOLO BAROQUE (12 years and un-der)Erika Dort BRASS SOLO TRUMPET A (Grade 1 2 Stan-dard)Danielle Willmon BRASS SOLO TRUMPET (Grade 6 7 Stan-dard)Diana Borak BRASS SOLO (19 years and under) Tarn East-ley BRASS CONCERTO (Open)Alan Klaus BRASS SOLO SONATA (Open) Alan Klaus PIANO SOLO BACH (16 years and under)Michal Szymczakowski PIANO SOLO BACH (16 years and under) So-nia Leung PI ANO SOLO BAROQUE (6 years and under) Jan Lisiecki PI ANO SOLO BAROQUE (7 years and under) James Chau PI ANO SOLO BAROQUE (8 years and under) Eric S.

Fung PIANO SOLO BAROQUE (9 years and under) Michael Wong PIANO SOLO BAROQUE (11 years and under) Susan Huang PIANO SOLO BAROQUE (16 years and un-der)Haram Park PIANO SOLO CLASSICAL (10 years and under) Michael van der Sloot PIANO SOLO CLASSICAL (11 years and under) Megumi Shibahara PIANO SOLO CLASSICAL (12 years and under) Cecilia Kwong PIANO SOLO CLASSICAL (13 years and under) Derrick Chiu PIANO SOLO CLASSICAL (Grade 8 Standard) Edward Choi PIANO SOLO CLASSICAL (Grade 9 Standard) Alanna Caldwell API ANO SOLO CLASSICAL (Grade 9 Standard) Byron Fung NARRATIVEDRAMATIC POETRY SOLO (12 years and under) Julia Maxwell AN ARRATI VEDRAMATIC POETRY SOLO (12 years and under) Nicholas Warshawski NARRATIVEDRAMATIC POETRY SOLO (14 years and under) Daniel Field NARRATIVEDRAMATIC POETRY SOLO (16 years and under) Eric Fung ALBERTA POETRY SOLO (10 years and under) Kaiz Alarakyia Today starts book club The Associated Press NEW YORK Moving quickly into the breach left by Oprah Winfrey's decision to cut back on her book-club recommendations, NBC's Today show said it would start its own feature on unknown authors. The Today book club will meet once a month and ask best-selling authors to recommend work from a lesser-known writer. The 30-minute segment will be hosted by Katie Couric and Matt Lauer. Publishing executives learned to treasure a selection by Winfrey's book club because it often sent sales soaring. The talk-show host, who began her club in 1996, featured books once a month at its peak.

Her last two picks, A Fine Balance and Fall on Your Knees, were both by Canadian authors. Nitty Gritty may whoop it up here According to www.pollstar.com, a popular online source for concert information, country legends The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band will be in Calgary July 7, during the Calgary Stampede. The concert venue is named as Desperados on Pollstar, but that may be up in the air as Desperados has officially closed its doors. The new owner, Paul Vickers, who also owns Cowboys, The Drink and a number of other local watering holes, seeks to rename the establishment. producing less local prograniming than the 31.5 hours per week defined as a condition of licence.

"We therefore recommend that the commission require the licensee (A-Channel) to fulfil, in its Drew Craig entirety, its condition of licence, before the end of the current licence term." "What they're saying there is erroneous," Drew Craig said. "They basically took a very micro view of what we did, and we've overachieved. We're doing more than we said we'd do. "We're spending way more money than we said we'd spend, so they're patently wrong." Craig said the CRTC will get the details this week. "We're going to use the (Calgary) hearing as an opportunity to defend our position." A-Channel wasn't originally scheduled to face a licence renewal application for another two years, but the CRTC has agreed to "rationalize" Craig Broadcasting's licence terms in Alberta and Manitoba so they expire at the same time, Craig said.

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