Times Colonist from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada • 48

C1 0 TIMES-COLONIST Friday, December 1 5, 1 989 Tuba Christmas concert will benefit 1000 Fund Dowling, principal tubist with the Victoria Symphony. Tuba Christmas was founded by distinguished professor of music, Harvey Phillips of Indiana University. It takes place in 120 centres all across North America and Europe, and honors the late William Bell Phillips' teacher and former tubist with the New York Philharmonic. Another musical event to benefit the Times-ColonistVM Fund will be a traditional Christmas concert Wednesday, Dec. 20, in the Arbutus junior secondary school auditorium.

Music director Don Washbrook will conduct the grades 8, 9 and 10 band and the stage band, along with the choir, in a program which starts at 7:30 p.m. There is no admission charge, but donations will be accepted. The euphonious tones of low-brass instruments can be heard on Saturday at Market Square when Pacific Northwest tuba players perform a Christmas concert. From 1 to 3 p.m., the Victoria Tuba Christmas Ensemble will play carols and raise money for the Times-Colonist 1000 Fund. Now in its 11th year, the Tuba Christmas Ensemble has raised thousands of dollars for local charities.

It brings together tuba and euphonium players from all over the Pacific Northwest, who band together to exchange musical ideas and enjoy each other's company. Local musicians participating pre from public schools, community bands, the military and the University of Victoria School of Music. Co-ordinating the event is Eugene' rrr-n '41 VJfrf I i i I ft' fl' Relax and experience something special in the Hotel Grand Pacific Dining Room SUNDAY i BRUNCH Featuring an extensive selection of taste treats, presented in Grand Style for your enjoyment. Nostalgia for a price Old clothes, yes. But the prices? Sotheby's is expecting to bring in at least $20,000 for Judy Garland's checked jumper from The Wizard of Oz and $8,000 for Charlie Chaplin's trademark bowler hat as seen in the 1931 City lights.

The two items are among those featured in the Collectors Carrousel auction today and Saturday in New York. MPs want an accounting from arts-centre bosses Iff $t95 lUO PER PERSON tO (124 UNDER) lil 0 CHILDREN By Helen Branswell The Canadian Press OTTAWA MPs on the Commons communications and culture committee are concerned about the National Arts Centre, and they want some answers. The committee passed a motion Wednesday to call the centre's administration before the committee to provide answers on the centre's foray into high-definition television, its deficit and the general question of whether the centre has over-extended itself. The motion from Liberal communications critic Sheila Finestone was passed after MPs queried Com-municiations Minister Marcel Masse about the issues, without much success. Time and time again, Masse insisted he couldn't answer specific questions about the direction of the centre, because NAC administration, not the minister, sets that couise.

NAC chairman Robert Landry said calling the centre's administrators before the committee is probably a good idea. And he admitted the centre the premiere performing arts centre in the capital will probably have to answer to charges that it has spread itself too thin. "I think that may be a fair comment," Landry, an observer at the meeting, told reporters afterwards. "We also know that unless the arts -centre makes a tremendous effort to make itself more operational for its national mandate it will not be able to continue the political support needed to continue its existence under the" present mandate." The arts centre management has come under fire in recent months over a variety of issues. The 20th anniver- -sary season of the NAC orchestra was marred by a seven-week strike by the musicians.

And critics have slammed the ministration for budgeting $2.5 million over the next five years on ex. periments into how high-definition television could be used to undertake" "electronic "We are trying to do quite a bit and we are trying to do it with a diminishing budget." The centre is projecting a deficit of $700,000 for 1988-89 and $1. 4 million for 1989-90. But the centre of ten criticized for not living up to the "national" part of mandate already gets $18 million a year from the federal purse. Getting more could be difficult, Masse told reporters.

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