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Entertainment Page 10 â€" Waterloo Chronicle, Wednesday,. November 21, Chronicle staff writer _ The Stratford Ensemble, nucleus of the Kâ€"W Symâ€" phony Orchestra, recently returned from a successful tour of Western Canada. The ensemble was pleased with the tour...they were even more pleased upon their reâ€" turn to hear they will share in an Emmy Award nominaâ€" 74 Queen St. N., Kitchener The lightest, driest powder you‘ve ever put a ski to. it‘s the ‘"March Break‘"‘ in Utah and we will take you there. Your ski Utah vacation package includes round trip air transportation via United Air Lines, transfter between the Salt Lake Airport and your hotel, accommodation of your choice for 7 nights, plus interchangeable ski lift passes for six days. PV SA Veron Based on double accommodation at the Triâ€"Arc, Salt Lake City. George Motz Travel Ltd. manc io#A # Stratford Ensemble shares Emmy nomination vg*vr Through the mist of sorrow. watch for the soft beacons of friendship to guide you. Your frends. neighbors and family will support you and help to lead you to comfort and consolation at the time when you need it most We pledge ourselves to giving you the best assistance possible You know us ... you can depend on our help. Ski Snowbird, Alta and Park City â€" ‘445 tion for their part in the TV production of The Medium. One of three Canadian noâ€" minations, the madeâ€"forâ€"TV film was a oneâ€"hour producâ€" tion of the opera by Gianâ€" Carlo Menotti that featured the Stratford Ensemble with Raffi Armenian conducting, and the noted Canadian conâ€" tralto Maureen Forrester in MARCH BREAK _ and February 9 March 1 and 8 Departures Euneral Home timuted Edward R. Good £Y¥»" 579â€"5800 44 W at the starring role. Armenian is the music director and conductor of the Kâ€"W Symâ€" phony Orchestra and the Stratford Ensemble. The opera was directed by Miâ€" chael Bawtree_who is artisâ€" tic director of Comus Theaâ€" tre in Toronto and the film was a Comus Theatre and CBCâ€"TV coâ€"production. ‘‘The Medium"" was orâ€" iginally produced at the Stratford Festival in 1974, with the same personnel. It was recreated and filmed for TV; shown on the Engâ€" lish network in 1978 and the French network in 1979. The nomination for the American Emmy Award is in the performing arts caâ€" tegory and it will be competâ€" ingâ€" with another Canadian nomination with Oscar Peâ€" terson, in this same caâ€" tegory. Armenian will be atâ€" tending the finals for the awards on Nov. 19 in New York City. In other news, Narciso Yepes, considered one of the greatest classical guitarists of our time and the musical genius who invented the 10â€" string guitar, will play with the Kâ€"W Symphony on Saturâ€" day, Nov. 24 at 8 p.m. and on Sunday, Nov. 25 at 2: 30 and 8 _ _Born in 1927 in Lorca, southern Spain, Yepes began to play the guitar at the age of five. His early studies in Lorca were folâ€" lowed by courses in harâ€" mony, composition and the guitar at the Valencia Conâ€" servatory. He then studied with Vicente Asencio, a pianist and teacher of music, whom he credits with giving a new direction to his life. _ ‘"I learned to play the guiâ€" tar not from guitar teachers but from music teachers! Vicente Asencio, an adâ€" mirable teacher, made me suffer a great deal. He showed me at the piano what I was to play on my inâ€" strument. One day, for exâ€" ample, he told me to play my scales prestissimo, just as he did on the keyboard. ‘But that‘s impossible I said‘. ‘Impossible?‘" He banged the piano lid down angrily. ‘Then change your instrument if nothing can be done with that one!" he reâ€" plied. Yepes later realized that the reason why he couldn‘t play scales as quickly as a pianist was that, like all other guitarists, he plucked the strings with only two fingers of the right hand, whereas a pianist uses five fingers. He shut himself away for a month to inâ€" crease the agility of the three idle fingers of his right hand then went back and played the scales to Asenâ€" cio‘s satisfaction. This striving for better techniques eventually led to Yepes‘ invention of the 10â€" string guitar. Yepes made his concert debut in Madrid with his inâ€" terpretation of Rodrigo‘s famous "Concierto de Aranâ€" juez" in the Teatro Espanol Soon afterwards he began a With Every Water Softener Rented Receive AQUACCUN(S CLIP THIS AD 5 Bags of Sait (20 Kg. ea.) Offer expires Nov. 31, 1979 tour of Switzerland, Italy, Germany and France. â€" In 1952 Yepes composed the theme music to Rene Clement‘s prizeâ€"winning film "Jeux Interdits"‘(Forâ€" bidden Games) which beâ€" came a hit overnight. . With the 10â€"string inâ€" strument it is possible to play all the repertory of the Twelve years later, after long and exhaustive study, he devised an instrument that overcomes the limitaâ€" tions imposed by the sixâ€"strâ€" ing model, but represents neither a break with tradiâ€" tion nor a lack of respect for the conventional guitar. Chronicle staff writer The Kitchener Bach Choir will celebrate the festive seaâ€" son this year with two performances of Handel‘s Messiah in the Waterioo area. The concerts â€" to be held at St. Peter‘s Lutheran Church in Kitchener â€" will take place on Dec. 7 and 8 and both will begin at 7: 30 p.m. The choir will be supported by the Kitchenerâ€"Waterieo Symphony Orchestra and organist James Brown. Featured soloists will be counter tenor Anthony Browning, tenor Freâ€" derick Wieler and bass Robert Grenier. Conducting the choir will be Howard Dyck. Tickets for the performances will cost $6 for adults and $4 for students and senior citizens, and they are available at A&A Records and Tapes at Market Square, Bethel Bookâ€" store at 1342 Weber St., Kitchener, Century Music at Stanley Park Mail, George Kadwell Records at Waterloo Square, the Kâ€"W Symphony office on King St., Waterioo, Sauvders at Westmount Place and Wilfrid Laurier University bookstore. Since tickets have gone fast in past years, organizers reâ€" commend purchasing them early. + FREE 576â€" 821â€"0410 sixâ€"string guitar, but with improvem@pts in both voâ€" lume and tone quality. It is also possible to play all the Baroque and Renaissance repertory originally written for the lute without the need for transcription. 12 We comifort you Kitchener Gueliph â€"Guy