Trinity College School - Record Yearbook (Port Hope, Ontario Canada)

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Literary

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Tijuana Brass Goes Dixie With the many amazing technical advancements achieved in our present day recording equipment, people are now able to put on a set of head- phones and create their own concerts, receiving almost the same sound reproduction as hearing it live. Thus, because it is now easier to stay at home and enjoy, fewer and fewer people are actually turning up to the live con- certs. That is why it was so great to see Massey Halls so full on Monday night, for what it meant was even the equipment freaks hold little respect for our super machines when as great a musician as Herb Alpert is in town. For me personally, I enjoy both, for as I said, it’s great for creating your own particular concert for your own particular mood, yet there is still noth- ing more exciting than going to a fantastic live performance that continually keeps you moving. Most of all, though I still go to concerts in the anticipation of someday finding one that will top all the others, one that will keep me in- volved right to the end. Such was the performance given by Herb Alpert and his newly formed Tijuana Brass. Originally started in 1962, Tijuana Brass over a period of seven years managed to sell close to forty-five million records before they broke up in 1969. Now after about a year’s regrouping Alpert and trombonist Bob Ed- mondson are all that remains of the old group, but with the additional com- bination of seven new talented musicians they’ve created an almost com- pletely new sound, which, although it still maintains the old traditional mar- iachi sound, has suddenly evolved into a very lively Dixieland Jazz. This particular concert, Alpert split into two halves playing smartly the “compulsory ” goldies in the first half and mixing the old with the new in the last. However with this new sound, he also added a pleasing vocal side to the group through his wife Lani Hall, who in her two solo numbers presented a totally different dimension to the Brass, sticking very closely to the nimble arching style she used as lead singer in Sergio Mendes group, “Brazil 66 ! Vince Charles, originally from the West Indies, added as well as a secret sense of humour, a spectacular musical ability on the steel drum, as he de- monstrated in his solo of “Malaguena ”. Then, near the end of the perfor- mance we again switched to a different sound as Dave Frishberg gave what appeared to be a totally improvised version of the old Tijuana Brass hit “Spanish Flea’ , which drifted all the way from jazzed up Gershwin to pure- ly rhythmical Liberace scales. With this said, what else remains except that Herb Alpert remains one of the finest, most rhythmical, most polished musicians alive. Even after four years of separation he has successfully managed to maintain the old standard of tightness, subtlety, and wit, yet he has added much more depth which will no doubt result in many future successes. Hugh McRae 10

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The Mayor’s Baby In 1972 Mayor Jean Drapeau of Montreal proposed that Canada submit a bid for the 1976 Sum- mer Olympic Games. The host city would, of course, be Montreal and the Games, he stated, would help unite Canada. This seemed a fine idea due to the current talk of separation but the greatest point that the Mayor made was that the Games would be self-financed or his name wasn’t Jean. He was even quoted to have said that if the Games weren’t self-financed then a male could give birth. At the moment I’m not worried if it will be a boy or a girl but whether there will be quadruplets or more. M Drapeau is a fun-loving man who loves to bring status to his name by making his city a “better place to live in”. He brought to Montreal a great subway. Expo 67, the Expos baseball team and even Johnny Rogers. This time he might have gone a bit too far as the 1976 Olympics may be shad- ing up to be a disaster. ' v 7 , J To begin with, the Games’ construction site costs have doubled since the ‘Merry Mayor’ made his first estimates a few year ago. Second, the construction itself has been sporadic due to vajH j ous strikes including a crucial iron workers walk-off a few weeks ago. However more strikes looih in the future as the Quebec Government and Quebec Labour Movement get set to do battle once again. Third, Olympic money-raising schemes such as coin and stamp selling, which wer® expected to be great s uccesses, have suffered and will not reach estimated sales. This is due tm inflation, lack of interest in the States, and even a Canadian Mint Workers strike. JHr Fourth, the Olympic Lotteries have 1 1 so Fallen into trouble. Some of thejothen provinces o® Canada feel that, because it is a ' Canadian Lottery’, they should receive a shar of the profits. All these economic problems have -led to further w«ries for Drapeau Roger Bourreau, aJf member of the Olympic planning committed is starting to grumble about the Mafer’s “fancy’ B stadium and its parachute roof He would rather tear up the Autostade and transport it over to| the construction site. Finally we even have vibrations from Premier Dave Barrett of British: Columbia who recently said that the “W ' est ’ would have nothing to do with Olympic financing. After just getting rid of the ’76 Winter Olympics, I don’t blame him. To add to all this, the Canadian branch of the Olvmpic Federation has drawn a deadline. That is, the Quebec Government and Jean Drapeau will have to decide whether or not the Olympics will indeed stay in Montreal. The deadline is February 15, 1975. which would probably give the Federation time to fix up the Munich site if indeed Montreal did drop out. Eighteen months be- fore the 1972 Games;! the Munich stadium had grass growing in it, but all that Montreal can pre- sent is a hole in the ground and a lot of dreams. All in all the Mayor is pregnant and if he isn’t careful he may have a miscarriage. His fine vis- ions were great; and I thought that the Olympic Games would go smoothly and be a tremendous help for Quebec and Canada In fact the only worry I had about the whole situation was any influ- ence that might be exerted by the F.L.Q. and the Quebec Separatists. However, let ' s not count them out as they could well be the icing on the cake, if it ever gets baked. It is sad that the Games have run into so many problems but I think the Mayor has taken on something too big wi doing his homework beforehand. If he can pull this one out of the fire, I think the ’76 Olympics will become one of the great wonders of the world — not only because it will include some of the most amazing architecture the world has ever seen but because it will have actually survived through all its hardships. With all the problems one would be tempted to say the heck with the whole thing, but I do hope that it goes through. After all, it is Canada’s show and we are host- ing the world. A 12