HERE MARCH 23 - Baseball second love of master of timpani A young man who once had a chance to be a Chicago Cubs hurler is still in there pitching for the Vaneduver Symphony orchestra. He is 27-year-old Don Adams, the timpani player with the Vancouver symphony, who will be here next Friday when the orchestra plays three concerts in Prince Rupert Senior High school auditorium. Born in Peoria, Illinois, My. Adams moved to California when he was two, and son of a musician, arranger and copyist, he took three years of snare drum lessons while in high school. At the same time he taught himself all the rest of the percussion instruments in- cluding timpani. He was tim- panist with the Hollywood High school Symphony orchestra and Symphonic hand for three years and later with the All-City High School Symphony in Los An- geles for two years. After graduating from high school he worked in Los Angeles in television, movies and re- cording for two years and in New musical bright, trite By WILLIAM GLOVER NEW YORK (7 — “No Strings,” the new Richard Rodgers musi- cal, manages to be both bright and trite. All the trimmings are fresh, novel and attractive in the pro- duction which opened Thursday night at the 54th Street Thea tre. The flaw in an otherwise boldly experimental enterprise is a wishy-washy story. To consider the pleasures first, there is a set of tunes that shimmer with romance and cut loose with robust verve. In his 37th Broadway sortie, veteran composer Rodgers also doubles, for the first time, as lyricist. The results are proficient rather than up to the superior standards of either of his late partners, Lor- enz Hart and Oscar Hammer- stein II. 'symphonics 1955 enlisted in the United States Army. He served overseas for two years as a bandsman, and in October 1957 when back in Los Angeles, he was signed by the Vancouver Symphony orchestra. Mr. Adams has been with the Vancouver Symphony orchestra for six years. Married with two children, Mr. Adams’ main hobby is base- ball. At one time he: was seri- ously thinking of making pro- baseball his career, and was of- fered a pitching contract with the Chicago Cubs. In Vancou- ver during the summer he plays on a semi-pro team in the Sen- jor Men’s League. Speaking of the tools of his tradg, Mr. Adams points out that the word “timpani” = is plural meaning “kettledrums,” which they resemble, and the singular “timpane” is seldom used. Originally a crude instrument, made of skins tightened over a gourd and used to frighten birds in hunting, the timpani is now a delicate and costly instru- ment. It is tuned by loosening and tightening the “head’ or skin and in so doing the pitch of the sound can be altered, Intro- duction of the pedal tuning sys- tem gave the performer 4a chance to obtain more frequent and quicker changes in pitch and whereas in early days, a single pair of timpani was all that a composer could expect to find in an orchestra, most have four and some have as many @5 six or seven. Since the introduction of pedal tuning, composers have been able to write more {freely for the timpani, and today, the tim- pani not only have rhythmical and harmonic value but are ‘called on to piay actual melo- dies. ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION Friday, NOVELTY Ann t versary Part y Chub 27 LEGION MEMBERS ond GUESTS 8:30 p.m, - 1:30 a.m. Admission $5.00 (Refreshments é& Luncheon included) ORCHESTRA Admission by ticket only March 30th & DOOR PRIZES the finor the and Calvert Old blended from whiskies aod in 20-yoar old casks an ii , we Tho older the barrel taslo Rye is Aina. OTR | | | | DON ADAMS .. C 0-Op Centre to be extended to McBride St. Extension of the present Co- iOp Centre to McBride Street, at an estimated cost of $165,000, to provide additional parking space for 90 cars and a completely roofed-in service station on the McBride Street level, was ap- proved by the Prince Rupert Fishermen's Credit Union at its annual meeting last night. Annual reports showed that the credit union’s assets had in- creased during the year to al- most $5.500.000 and membership to 2,450. Loans to members to- talled $2,000,000 in 1961. Services available to members such as safety deposit boxes, mail order and travellers cheques, health insurance, a new $10,000 life insurance plan and_ full services of co-operative life and fire and casualty insurance com- panics were outlined by treasur- er-manager George Viereck. 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He studied with Serge ‘'Koussevitzky for three years at 'Tanglewood and in the 1949-1950 season was musical director and _conductor for the Martha Gra- 'ham Dance Company, conduct- jing over icontempor ion a transcontinental tour and -during-a Broadway scason. | Last spring he made a trium- | phant tour as guest conductor of the famous Isracli Philhar- monic. where he appeared at 18 concerts in four weeks, receiving j standing ovations from audiences ‘in Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv and Haifa. He has been invited to return next season. In addition to his many other ‘activities, he is resident conduc- tor of the St. Louis Little Sym- phony every summer, and at the end of last season, fulfilled four engagements us puest conductor at Grant Park, Chicago, where he created a sensation among music critics in that city. Roger Dettmar of the Chicago ‘American stated: “Of his gener- intion ~- 40 or thereabouts — Mr. Hoffman remains consistently the most satisfying, imaginative and diseiplined conductor en- countered,” while Thomas Wil- lis, of the Chicago Dally Tribune wrote: “Hoffman is the best thing that has happened to the Lake Front. Band Shell.” He has been invited to return this year as principal conductor at both the opening and closing concerts of the season, In Janu- ary of the present year Mr. Hoft- Symphony ino four concerts, THe is now jin his tenth season as niitsien! director and conductor of the Vancouver Symphony Or- chestra, weer ccna mee tree - ert apse ng we a an A arti ap en mse Set $12,000,000, | | man also conducted the Tatas | SPRING “= RALPH DECOURSEY Ex-city resident back with symphony Friday A former city resident, Ralph DeCoursey, will be returning here next Friday as a member of the Van- couver Symphony orchestra. Mr. DeCoursey, who was sla- tioned in Prince Rupert with the United States Armed Forces on Acropolis Hill during the Second World War, is one of the bass violin players of the orchestra. Mr. DeCoursey first came to the city in January of 1943 and was stationed here for 18 months as a private in the army attach- ed to the U.S. Signal Corps. An accomplished musician, he was the leader and pianist of the “Aristocrats,” a dance or- “$17,000,000 estimated cost fo finish road Estimated costs to complete sections of Highway 16 in Omin- eca and Skeena ridings are over “nothing short of staggering,’ Dudley G. Little, Skeena MLA, has informed the Associated Chambers of Com- merce of Central B.C. Engineering figures submitted to the Department of Highways are given as follows: Terrace to Usk $3.2 millions; re-location and new Copper (River) bridge, south side, $2.4 millions; Hazel- ton - Seaton section, 17 miles 1 ¥ 3 . : ary performances | or jwith three miles of heavy rock ‘ a (work) at Porphyry Creek. $2 milion plus, and the Usk-Cedar- ‘yale 40 mile section.tin addition to this. Mr. Little’s letter also states that if Jet by contract the work would take three years. It can readily be seen, he said, that the budget would not stand a con- tract for all of this at the pres- ent time. He is hopeful of sce- ing contracts let for at least some of it. During the past week Mr. Little sought approval by the various Chambers of Commerce and the Associated Chambers of his giving first priority to the Hazelton - Seaton - Bulkley Can- yon section, and sealcoatinea. which will cost in excess of &° millions. He will also try to get some hardtop from Terrace east, perhaps even if this is not to the full standard of the main highway. This, he said, appears to have worked well between Prince Rupert and Terrace. ESQUIRE SHOP | Special Ntool of Regular 6.95 Jee thin weekend only, We aaa a Introductory Offer on our large selection of new, frenhe COTTON CASUALS and SPORTS PANTS REDUCED TO 4.95 See our wolleknown Canadian lovanivedn e oo bass viola player ‘three children, Gail, 16, Mark, 14, ee JOrince Rupert Daily yews Ly. Friday, March 16, 1962 ae | chestra which played at many : dances and concerts in the area.| While here, Mr. DeCoursey : married. a ‘local girl, Eileen Hamblin, who sang with the; band, They left the city in the, summer of 1944 when Mr. De-! Coursey was transferred to Se- | attle, Wash. GOREN ON BRIDGE 1G) 1962: By The Chicago Tribune) | ace-king of hearts and the ace ¥ast-West vulnerable, North | of clubs. Except in the unlike- deals. - ly event that West's ten of NORTH clubs was a singleton, there AAKITS was no hope for setting the con- ws4z tract unless East could obtain @KQ3 a spade ruff. In order to bring 42 . off this strategy, however, it WEST EAST was necessary to obtain a late AQWE5L: AB entry into his partner's hand. v5 VAK3 So, in the hope that West also @7642 . 4 1098 had the nine of clubs, East cov- & 1098 4 AQJ765 | ered the opening lead with tbe ,, SOUTH jack. Declarer won the trick. + ad2 °- with the king of clubs and im-... ¥ 2109876 mediately started in on the... @ASS trumps. East was in with the: &KS king of hearts and shot back’ . The bidding: the eight of spades which was - North East South West’ allowed to ride to the dummy’s 1a «2% 2” . Pass; jack. Another heart drove out,... 39 Pass .4¥% . Passi the ace, and now East under-':” Pass Pass , . led his remaining club honors, . Opening lead: Ten of #4 in a desperate effort to get his. - partner in. West ‘was surprised at win- ning the trick with the eight of East executed a defensive | maneuver that was off the. beaten path to defeat his op- ponent’s game contract today. The bidding was in accord- ance with textbook practices, and West opened fire with the ten of clubs in response to his partner’s vulnerable overcall.: Before playing to the first trick, East paused to consider defensive prospects.. From the appearance of the dummy and South’s aggressive bidding, it appeared reason- ably certain that the latter probe for-the reason behind ‘fense. Jt was quite apparent. that East wanted a ruff and obvious!y it must be in spades. West therefore rclurned a spade’ and East scered the setting: trick with his three of hearts. South could have prevented the ruff had he chosen to re- turn a club at trick two while East still had a spade. We held the missing honors in the | fear that a prefcrence of red suits as well as the king | charges against declarer, how- of clubs. The only tricks avail- | ever, would mark uS aS CX- able to East, then, were the | ccedinely stuffy. clubs, but not too surprised to | partner’s extraordinary de-. ~.. Since. his discharge from the! army, Mr.: DeCoursey and his | family have lived in his home town of Eugene, Ore., and in: Long Beach, Calif. In 1959, the family moved to | | Vancouver, B.C., where Mr. De-: Coursey hag been working as 2 composer, arranger, accompan- ist and.teacher.. He has had sev- eral of his compcsitions pub- lished, ‘and several of his nuim- bers have been played by the! Dave Robbins band on “JALZ | Workshop,” a program heard here on the Canadian Broadcast- ing Corporation. His latest ef- fort has been a symphony, and he is awaiting results of this from the publishers. Mr. -;DeCoursey also provided arrangement for a number for; the Prince Rupert Civic Band which. was composed by their former .leader, the late Peter Lien. Primarily a pianist, Mr. De- | Coursey ‘can play practically any instrument. Mr. and Mrs. DeCoursey have and Eve, 10. During his short stay here, | Mr. DeCoursey, will: visit, with isi... Mee brother-in-law and sister-in-law, | Mr. and: Mrs. Lloyd Bowman, and; his aunt, Mrs, P. H. Linzey. this advertisement is not published or displayed Hearty in body, : yet light in flavour and sroma. - ” CARL REWARD YO with good company and NG PILSENER (CHEERFUL AND BRIGHT, JUST RIGHT FOR RELAXING!) - for free home delivery phone Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia URSELF | est 4032 THE CARLING BREWLRIES (0.C.) LIMITED ‘his adyortisomont is not published or displaydd by the Liquar Control Qoard or by the Rovernmant af British Columbla, by the Liquor