Harpsichordist brings teaching, performing experience

Belgium, Holland and Germany, and this

is one of the first two instruments that
he made.) When our Music department evolved
into three separate programs some years
ago, the keyboard repertoire course was
eliminated and our harpsichord languished,
virtually untouched, for at least eight
years.

Enter Doreen Oke. She approached Joyce
Simpson in the spring of this year with

a proposal to initiate a harpsichord
primary and secondary area of study within
the Private Music Instruction courses. We
are eminently qualified to do this, being
the only college in the lower mainland to
own a harpsichord. "We heartily endorsed
this proposal," said Simpson, “and we are
currently involved in promoting this area
of study."

It would be difficult to find anyone more
qualified to teach these new classes than
Doreen Oke. As a student in Music at UBC
she became interested in early music and
from 1970 to 1974 she studied organ and

Wade to lecture on “China Revisited”

The Natural Science Division is again
organizing various activities to raise
money for scholarships for outstanding

high school students from the college

region who intend to enroll in a full
science program at Cap. The first of these
activities will be a lecture/slide show on
"China Revisited" by Dr. Keith Wade on
Wednesday, October 29 at the Vancouver
Planetarium General Auditorium. Wade will
be talking about his impressions of
Chinese botanical and classical gardens in
some of the famous eastern Chinese cities

(Suzhou, Jinan and Wuxi), the natural

scenery of Mt. Omei and the mountainous
regions of Yunnan province, and the
conditions in China today that he
experienced in his recent trip as compared
to those of his first trip to China in
1981. Tickets for the event will be $5 per
person or $12.50 per family, and it will
be held from 8:00 to 10:00 pm. Tickets and
more information are available from the
Natural Sciences Division. (A more
detailed article with background material
on the China lecture will be included in
the next issue of the Informer.)

harpsichord at the Conservatoire de Musique
in Montreal. She teaches harpsichord in
the UBC Music Department and at Douglas
College, as well as for the annual summer
Early Music and Dance workshop sponsored
by UBC and the Vancouver Society for Early
Music. She performs regularly as a soloist
for the CBC, has appeared with all of
Vancouver's professional orchestras and
choirs, and is regular harpsichordist with
two recently-formed chamber orchestras,
Canada West Chamber Orchestra and the
Canadian Chamber Orchestra. Oke has also
given recitals, lectures and master-classes
in the Maritimes, Ontario, Quebec and
Washington State, and during the summer of
1983 was invited to spend six weeks in The
Netherlands as an artist-in-residence—a
guest of the Dutch government.

More harpsichord classes may lie in our
Music department's future. Oke is
interested in expanding her role to
eventually include accompanying classes
and workshops dealing with performance
practices in the Renaissance and Baroque
periods. In the meantime, come and watch
Oke perform in room H113 October 17 from
12:10 to 1 pm. This is a free concert, but
donations to the Grand Piano fund are
always welcome.

Sybaritic fundraiser is successful

A number of Capilano College types wined,
dined, danced, hot-tubbed and enjoyed the
Expo fireworks aboard the ‘Magnum Force'
on this year's United Way Cruise held
Friday, September 26. Among the people who
participated were: Doug Jardine, Bruce
Lucas, Iris Ethier, Joy Smith, Connie
Lucas, Patty Groves, Anne Gilbert, Hilary
Clark, John Sayre, Cathy Storey, Janet
Morris, Rikki Lucas, and Joyce Fancher.
"It was areal cross-campus representation,"
said indefatiguable organizer Lynne
Hamilton. The cruise also was a financial
success—making a small sum of money for
the United Way fund. Two people won free
tickets for the event at the all College
party—Alan Smith and Eleanor Worman.
(Eleanor couldn't attend so gave her
tickets to Bob and Lois Rennie.)