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But it's all in a day's work for Dornemann, ohe of five prompters with the M Opera. \Dornemann has spent the last 10 seasons in a little box at the foot of the Met's stage, cajoling, coaxing, inspiring and otherwise directing singers. Ofteh, she works 10 hours a day for weeks at a time. “Truly, she is not only bravissima (great) as a prompter, but as a person,” said Mexican soprano Rosario Andrade, who debuted this season at the Met. “I occupy a position of unique trust,” said Dornemann, who treats the unkowns the same as she treats the famous. During an interview in her studio backstage at the Met, she described her task as helping singers to “not be afraid to keep their souls on view.” She said prompting is like underwear —“very expensive, luxurious underwear. “You don't even see it, but the surface is smooth and problem free. You feel that anything can happen and you're going to be all right.” She has many tales in the telling of her prompting adventures. Once, she said, Pavarotti was singing and waving a sword during a performance of Lucia di Lammermoor. “I motioned some choristers off and they got the safety ping and just sort of slid back on the stage: Andas she was singing, (they) just pinned her up." The only time an audience ever notices a’ prompter is when the prompter's voice is heard during a lull in the orchestra. Once, during a radio broadcast in Barcelona (where she worked for the Grand Teatro Liceo de Bar- celona) of La Beheme, a street band never made its stage entrance. “Everybody on stage started getting very agitated,” Dornemann said. So she started humming the melody the band would have played. REMEMBER WORDS Aa operatic production is one of the! most d of artistic s. Singers must, know when to come in as well as remember the words| often sung in a foreign language. They must move about the stage, pay attention to musical interpretation and enact signalling singers when to come in: and when not to, speaking each phrase several measures ahead of time and sometimes even singing along. Many cues are expressed by a facial expression or particular tone of voice. Most opera buffs are only vaguely aware of the box at the foot of the stage. Inside the metre-wide structure, which resembles an exhaust vent, the prompter sits on an electronically controlled chair within inches of the roof. Two mihiature TV screens showing the conductor sit on a lecturn and a phone connected to backstage is attached to the wall on the left. Dornemann, who is in her late 30s, was born in Boston. She has studied music at Hofstra University, the Juilliard School and the University for Foreigners in Florence, Italy. She was coaching singers in Barcelona when someone asked her to prompt. Occasionally, the job seems thankless to Dornemann “once in a rare while I think to myself, I kill myself down here and for what? “But that really doesn’t last very long because I yhaea (GP) — Canada could saven lot of money if ° ite satellite is built for easy retrieval in space, | says U.S. astronaut James van Hoften. Van Hoften, who assisted in the retrieval of the Solar | Max satellite on the space shuttle Challenger in April / met Tuesday with Energy Department tyres ba another, and it’s ni breaks at a the nl had trouble cy meaberson ga area because it was eunig ‘They finally reached out with P discuss the possibility of adapting Radarsat so that it can be easily plucked from orbit. “If you launch something like Solar Max where a 60-cent fuse were to break and you have a $250-million spacecraft up there, it’s sure nice if you can repair it instead of throwing it away,” van Hoften told a news bo pain 9 robot arm and pulled it in. The disabled satellite was then repaired and returned to orbit. Radarsat, a joint Canada-Britain-U.S. project costing $400 million, is a remote sensing satellite to be taken into orbit on a shuttle flight in 1990. It will be able to track everything from weather patterns to geological forma- tions. Van Hoften said the satellite needs a grappling device and shuttle’s robot arm can grab. “It’s a fairly simple device and it has worked fairly well.” The satellite also has to be designed so that it can be- safely pulled into the shuttle, he said. Ed Shaw, the Canadian director of the Radarsat project said those i preparations could cost between $25 million and $60 imillior “How we tetcaly, design this satellite so that it is safe for retrieval does involve extra cost. That's the thing money into the satellite.” satellite into orbit. lrate citizens band together REGINA (CP) — People in five isolated communiti: from Red Lake, Ont., to Golden, upset over interpretation of know what it’s for . . . Singers are effusive and generous. They really share the glory.” ture: © Indoor pool, whirlpool, sauna * Poolside restaurants * Fun nightspots ® Leafy indoor plantlife, fountains © Banquet - and meeting facilities * Special saver weekend rates - VILLAGE PARK INN In Motel Village, across from Mc! gp North Calgary Calgary ‘On LRT to Stampede Park and downtown. 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A fall left him partially crippled from the waist down on the left side. After recovering, he became a professional jai alai player in Paris and somehow managed to squeeze in de- grees in science and _phil- osophy at the Sorbonne. Discovering theatre, Bry nner studied under Russian actor Michael Chekov. Then he took off to Spain to join the Loyalists in the Spanish Oivil War as ‘a truck driver. He was captured and spent 10 weeks in a German prison camp. After moving to the United States in 1941, Brynner be- came a French-language ra- dio announcer. He also’ took up directing and rose in the ranks at CBS before The King and I came along in 1951 and sealed his fate as an ac- tor. Brynner, when interview- Brynner still the king ed, shrugged aside questions about how he keeps himelf fresh for a role he must know inside out. A VAST SHOW “It's the same question you could ask John McEnroe or Jimmy Connors, ‘how can you go on playing tennis? It's such a vast work — a three- hour show, Oscar Hammer- stein’s best book, I think, of his career. “I’m always amazed at how many scenes I've missed for so many years. There are al- ways new, things cropping up. It's just like if you were reading War and Peace once a year, you would find com- pletely new things in it every time you read it.’ How does The King and I, which will be performed in Toronto starting Aug. 22, re- main popular? Brynner, as he told a Cincinnati newspaper, feels it's the play’s message. “Now I have arrived at the point in maturity where I can see the underlying message: that a human being has to be treated as a human being and that human dignity must never be destroyed. “It's something that's very often forgotten in the world of today, that dignity is what makes us different from ani- mals.” 84 PAGES LONG File kept on Steinbeck SAN JOSE, CALIF. (AP) — The FBI maintained a se- cret file on writer John Steinbeck for the last three decades of his life, keeping track of his travels and his alleged associations with Communists, says a pub- lished report. The file, which grew to 84 Pages, was started “as a re- sult of inquiries from other government agencies” and covered the period from 1939 until March 1968, nine ng WC Owector months before the author's death, says the account in the San Jose Mercury News. The newspaper obtained the FBI file through the Freedom of Information Act. The documents, not pre- viously published, also in- cluded reports about Stein-” beck’s associations that the FBI passed along to such agencies as the State De- partment, the US.- Information Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency. NOW SHOWING! \\ULIAM BLIGH and FLETCH {WED | {THU | FRI They were friends through hell. They became enemies in Paradise. EL GIBSON \Yter 200) years the th behand the legend. 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Rock- appella? “Most people who sing without accompaniment do so in a classical mode or in a barbershop style,” says Rob- inson. “Our stuff is simply rock with heavy rhythm and blues influence sung in har- mony without accompani- ment.” ALWAYS EVOLVING That's one way to describe their sound. In fact, it's al It was unclear why the agencies wanted to know about Steinbeck. But several of their requests came when the author was about to em- bark on trips overseas. “The fact that they kept the file until so late (1968) really surprises me,” said Robert DeMott, a professor of English at Ohio University and director of the Steinbeck Research Centre at San Jose State University. Happy 30th Birthday and 3rd Anniversary Bootsie ways evolving as they experi- ment with different record. ing techniques to name their music more contemporary and varied. “We have bare tracks that are simply four voices and others where a vocal orches- tra is happening,” says Rub- inson. “We experiment a lot and try to incorporate as many styles as possible into the music.” The accent is on style, not content. The Nylons are not taking any messages to the public, only a smooth, clean sound. “I think music is too im- precise a form for political ideas,” says Connors. “Some groups are known for broad- casting their political views, but most of them are too simplistic in their approach. “What do their messages boil down to? A few slogans, really.” FANS MIXED The diversity of their style is matched only by the diver- sity of their audience. “We get staid businessmen com- ing up to us in airports saying they like our stuff,” says Connors. “Certainly Steinbeck had established himself by the 1950s as relatively conser. vative.” Much of the information in the file linking Steinbeck to leftist causes originated in the late 1930s, when the writer was researching and writing his novels, In Dubi- ous Battle, and The Grapes of Wrath. But the FBI's interest con- tinued long after Steinbeck had stopped writing about the problems of farm work. ers. In Arpil 1957, while Stein beck was in Italy, the FBI sent a confidential, 12-page memo to the CIA detailing what it had learned about Steinbeck during the previous two decades. The memo was packed with references to informa- tion from “confidential in formants”. 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Davis, during what was called a general representation to the issi said the was owned and operated on a non-profit basis by 1,032 area residents. It was operated without a licence from the CRTC. The system had been used to acquire the satellite signal: of Home Box Office, a U.S. pay-FV service, and WTBS, an Atlanta 24-hour TV station. The signals were rebroadcast so Red Lake-area residents could view them on regular VHF channels. “What have the Red Lake residents done to warrant such attention and heavy-handed treatment at the hands of the CRTC?” Davis asked, reading from a prepared text. Government regulations have been enforced inconsis tently across Canada, he said. SEIZE EQUIPMENT “In Mipawin, Sask., you (CRTC) threaten and intimate . in another town you take pictures and demand records,” Davis said. “In Red Lake you seize equipment.” Syl Zanyk said later the people who own a system similar to Red Lake's in Nipawin, 700 kilometres northeast of Regina, would not bow to the CRTC. “We have no intention of shutting down the operation,” Zanyk said. “We will not be intimidated or bluffed. There's a federal election coming and the government doesn’t want the bad publicity. “We may be violating the Broadcasting Act but you (CRTC) are violating the Charter of Rights.” Real Therrien, chairman of the three-member CRTC panel in Regina, frequently stressed laws and regulations are made by politicians in the Commons and are just fol- lowed by the commission. Davis said the Red Lake group began receiving tele- phone calls after'the May 2 RCMP raid from groups which had similar experiences. 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