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HI -J (.011 Mini B6 fha Vancouver Sun, Monday, March 13. 1989 Adventurous singers bring home Junos NAMES IN THE NEWS FT? i i- THE JUNO AWARDS CBCTV March 12 By JOHN MACKIE Robbie Robertson, k.d. lang and Blue Rodeo took home the most trophies, but it was the creative end of the Canadian music biz that was the big winner at last night's Juno Awards in Toronto. In virtually every category, artistically adventurous artists took home the bacon. There could be some quibbling over the nominations, but in the end result, it's hard to argue with an awards show that hands out accolades to Robertson, lang, Blue Rodeo, Colin James, Barney Bentall, Tom Cochrane and Daniel Lanois.

Robertson took home three Junos (best male vocalist, album and producer), while lang (female vocalist, country female vocalist) and Blue Rodeo (best single for Try, best nv v. I rJ ij :is.i t-J The rest of the night belonged to Andre-Philippe Gagnon, who was simply dazzling. Starting off with a letter-perfect Brian Mulroney (squinting his eyes, thrusting out his chin and uttering a deep he went on to imitate almost every rock and pop star on the planet, from David Bowie to Frank Sinatra, Bruce Springsteen to Robert Goulet, Midnight Oil's Peter Garrett to Corey Hart. Gagnon should be named Juno host for life for skits like Roger Whittaker doing Stairway to Heaven and Sammy Davis Jr. performing I Want Your Sex, but his funniest shtik was potential advertisments using Beatles songs "do you want to know a secret? I use Grecian formula," "all you need is Bud," and "we all eat at Mr.

Submarine." Gagnon's antics helped the 2V4 hour show to clip along, and more than made up for the dumb bits (most notably the idiotic recurring theme of having "real" Canadians watching the nominees announced on a mini TV). And just to make things extra-groovy, Pierre Juneau the father of Canadian content on radio whom the Juno is named after got the lifetime achievement award. Looking over the list of winners, Juneau must have been very proud. group) were dou-ble winners. Cochrane took top composer, James won most promising male vocalist, Bentall and his Legendary Hearts got most promising group, and Lanois shared GAGNON CYBILL SHEPHERD: told studio about kids MOMMY DEAREST: Actress Cybill Shepherd says she is saddled in the tabloids with a reputation for being difficult because she tends to her 16-month-old twins while on the set of the TV series Moonlighting.

"Mostly it's all garbage," Shepherd said in an interview in the Tennessean newspaper. "I know I'm a good mother. My kids are near the Moonlighting set with me all the time. I know they may be a nuisance in the eyes of some people, but everybody at the studio who matters was told I was going to do it. The twins don't nurse as much now, so they're not quite so much trouble," she said.

HEART OF THE NIGHT: The star of television's All in the Family and In the Heat of the Night was reported in "very good" condition Sunday, a day after heart surgery in an Atlanta hospital. Carroll O'Connor is expected to remain in Emory University Hospital's cardiovascular intensive care unit for another day or two. AUTO TROUBLE: Blues singer Bobby Rush was arrested on a charge of possessing about one kilogram of cocaine after a Vicksburg, Miss, police officer stopped to help him with his broken-down van. Rush, 51, whose real name is Emmett Ellis has denied any knowledge of the 30-centi-metre-long plastic pipe found under his van before being arrested Thursday. The pipe contained a substance believed to be cocaine, surrounded by a spicy substance that can conceal drug odors from trained police dogs, authorities said.

FEAR OF FAILING: The role of Billie Dawn in the Broadway CANADIAN PRESS ALBERTA WINNER: smiling k.d. lang discusses her Juno awards at press conference THE WINNERS best producer with Robertson. The other B.C. winners were Hugh Fraser (best jazz album), David Foster (best instrumental) and Mike Fraser (top engineer). The broadcast had it all a brilliant host (Quebec impressionist Andre-Philippe Gagnon), great live performances (from lang, James, Rita McNeil and a BandBlue Rodeo supergroup), even poignancy (Richard Manuel's Hall of Fame award for his work with the Band was accepted by the late keyboardist's two children).

Lang provided the most affecting moment when she accepted the best female vocalist award. Obviously nervous, she tried to compose herself but broke down in tears when she dedicated it to Roy Orbison deserved part of But her quick wit returned after she pulled herself together: "I feel like Wayne Gretzky after he got traded." Best Classical Album: Large Ensemble or Solo with Large Ensemble Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal conducted by Charles Dutoit. Bartok: Concerto lor Orchestra, Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta Best Classical Composition Alexins Louie, Songs of Paradise Best Video Blue Rodeo and Michael Buckley, Try Best Album Design Hugh Syme, Levity (lan Thomas) Best Producer Daniel Lanois and Robbie Robertson Best Recording Engineer Mike Fraser Hall of Fame Award The Band i u. Lifetime Achievement Award Pierre Juneau Award Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award Sam Sniderman Canadian Press TORONTO The following are the winners of the 1989 Juno Awards presented Sunday for excellence in Canadian music: Entertainer of the Year Glass Tiger Best Album Robbie Robertson, Robbie Robertson Best Single Blue Rodeo, Try International Entertainer of the Year U2 Best-selling International Album Various artists, Dirty Dancing soundtrack Best-selling International Single M.A.R.R.S., Pump Up the Volume Best Female Vocalist k.d. lang Best Male Vocalist Robbie Robertson Best Jazz Album The Hugh Fraser Quintet, Looking Up Best Rhythm and Blues-Soul Recording Erroll Starr, Angel Best Reggae-Calypso Recording Lillian Allen.

Conditions Critical Best Koots-Traditional Album The Amos Garrett- Doug Sahm-Gene Taylor Band, The Return of the Formily Brothers Best Children's Album Tie: Fred Penner, Fred Penner's Place; Connie Kaldor and Carmen Campagne, Lullaby Berceuse Best Classical Album: Solo or Chamber Ensemble Oi'ra Harnoy, Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata Best Group Blue Rodeo Best Composer Tom Cochrane Best Instrumental Artist David Foster Best Country Female Vocalist k.d. lang Best Country Male Vocalist Murray McLauchlan Best Country Group Family Brown Most Promising Female Vocalist Sass Jordan Most Promising Male Vocalist Colin James Most Promising Group Barney Bentall and the Legendary Hearts Musical explorers make discoveries that stretch the mind and the ear revival of Born Yesterday is splendid one for actress Madeleine Kahn, but she lives with being compared to Judy Holli- movement. The third movement also whispers with rapid, tumbling movements, like leaves drawn up into a whirlwind. Poised between them though, the second movement, called In the Night, hangs suspended in time and space; darker and more mysterious than the others. Louie creates a sense of orchestral depth, even though the work is scored for only 11 instruments.

Peter Hannan put his computerized recorder (a WX7 MIDI wind controller) to work in Passage, a new ensemble work. The piece unfolds in segments, ranging from Renaissance-inspired brass fanfares to sounds from some intergalactic future. felt through the floor. Melody and harmony are pushed aside; this music is about texture and rhythm. Steven Dann, now principal violist for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, left Vancouver for more secure musical pastures when the VSO collapsed last year.

Vancouver lost a true virtuoso, judging from Dann's performance of John Thrower's folk-tinged solo, Through Time Space, and Alexina Louie's compact new concerto, Winter Music. Louie, whose orchestral work Songs of Paradise won this year's Juno for best classical composition, uses the image of an ocean wave's frothy edge to construct her opening By MICHAEL SCOTT The new virtuoso, as distinct from the old variety, has to be as much explorer as musician it seems. Vancouver New Music's latest program featured three gifted musicians, each of whom has been tracking along the far leading edge of the musical world in search of new material. The concert, filled with their discoveries and compositions, stretched the mind and the ear in a most satisfying way. Pianist Gordon Monahan laces his pianos with objects that change the sound of hammers hitting strings.

In his new work, This Piano Thing, he wedges screws, nuts, vibrating washers, bits of weather stripping, broken THE NEW VIRTUOSO Gordon Monohan, Steven Dann, and Peter Hannan Vancouver East Cultural Centre, March 12 chopsticks and small spikes between the strings. Needless to say, the instrument doesn't sound much like a piano. It does sound like a Geiger counter though, or sometimes a sitar, or a gamelan, or someone banging on the pipes in the basement. Mpnahan's sonic architecture begins with a relentless, goose-stepping tread that sounds twice each second. Tiny modulations build to a rumble, and soon the percussive thud can be 'Sara People pick Cosby again symphqnymagic 5 Associated Press BURBANK, Calif.

Comedian Bill Cosby dominated the People's Choice Awards for the fifth straight year, followed by the hit TV sitcom 3 CONCERTS YOU WOMT WANT TO MOSS! Peter McCoppin Conductor Koseanne and the film Rain Man. Cosby was voted on Sunday favorite male televison performer, favorite all-around male star and his NBC Hermann Michael Conductor "The Fred Astatr of conducting. -or the baryshnikov." Tacoma News Tribune Mark the dates on your calendar i KAHN day, who created the role onstage in 1946 and later won an Oscar for the film. "I knew, accepting the challenge of the role, that I might fail," she said in an interview with the New York Post. "A lot of actresses who are known and who are risking a reputation, rather than an unknown and risking nothing, would not do this role, because they don't want to be unfavorably compared to her.

I decided to do it, but it was always a ghost in the back of my mind." She co-stars in the play, written by Carson Kanin, with actor Ed Asner. RAINY DAY FRIENDS: Barry Levinson passed along praise to Rain Man stars Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise after being named best director of a feature film for 1988 by the Directors Guild of America. "Unless you can get the performances on the screen, all else will ultimately fail," Levinson said in accepting the award Saturday night at the Beverly Hills Hotel. The winner of the guild trophy almost always repeats as best director in the Academy Awards. And because the Academy's best-directed film often receives the best picture Oscar, the DGA awards hold a special significance for the film community.

SPACED OUT SEX: Utah Senator Jake Garn has said he had to fight hard to guard his dream, writing a novel expressing the joy and beauty of space travel, from being tainted by steamy sex scenes. Garn said when he saw a draft of his book, which he co-wrote with Stephen Paul Cohen, he was alarmed. "It wasn't just that I am a Mormon senator from Utah and may be prudish. It just was not accurate." SPONSORED BY: APRIL 2 B.C. Business Magazine APRIL 3 Royal Trust if iik "nit.

Jon Kimura Parker, Piano APRIL Cyprien Katsaris, Piano 1985 winner of "Grand Prix du Disque Frederic Chopin" Awarded only every 5 years. SPONSORED BY: MARCH 13 Grosvenor International MARCH 11,13,14 Anne-Sophie Mutter, Violin THE WORLD PREMIERE OF Michael Conway Baker's THROUGH THE LIONS GATE Peter McCoppin conducting with Jon Kimura Parker playing Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto 12 also in the program: SPONSORED BY: APRIL 24 SEABOARD COMPUTING SERVICES APRIL 23 24 THE VANCOUVER DEBUT OF ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER playing Beethoven's Violin Concerto also in the program: HERMANN MICHAEL, Conductor CYPRIEN KATSARIS, Piano playing Liszt's Piano Concerto N0.2 also in the program: Brahms' Variation on a theme by Haydn, Mendelssohn's Scherzo, Intermezzo, and Nocturne from a Midsummer Night's Dream, BARR series won favorite comedy in the 15th annual edition of the entertainment popularity contest conducted by a countrywide Gallup Organization poll. Cosby was not present at the awards ceremony at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank but thanked the public in a videotaped message in the two-hour CBS national telecast presented by hosts Michael Landon and Michele Lee. The Cosby Show also won all-time favorite television show honors, edging longer-running hits MASH and Star Trek. Roseanne Barr was named favorite female performer in a new television series and the show Roseanne was voted favorite new television comedy series.

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