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Music
Get a preview of the Vancouver Symphony
Orchestra's new music director, Bramwell Tovey.
Winnipeg's outgoing maestro guest-conducts
Mozart's Symphony No. 29 in A, Sibelius' Symphony No.
5 and Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor with
soloist Cecile Licad. At the Orpheum, 8 p.m. (repeated
on Monday, same time). Tickets,
$19.25 to $55, from 28003311 or
876-3434.

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British bassist-composer Barry
Guy, a regular visitor to these
parts, teams with Vancouver's
NOW Orchestra for two nights of
music at the Western Front.
Saturday's program is entitled
Witch Gong Game 11/10,
consisting of improvisations
inspired by the paintings of Alan
Davie. Sunday's program features
Guy improvising with guitarist
Ron Samworth, reeds player Coat
Cooke and drummer Dylan van
der Schyff. Western Front, 303 East

Coat Cooke

Eighth Ave. Saturday at 9 p.m. and Sunday at 8 p.m.
Tickets, $15 ($12 for members); $25/$20 for both shows.
254-5016.

Theatre
Don't miss tonight's thrilling conclusion to Theatre
Under the Gun, the competition that calls on 1O of
the region's smaller theatre companies to come up
with an original 15-minute piece based on just 48
hours of writing, rehearsing and staging. Tonight, it's
shameless hussy productions, NeWorld Theatre,
Electric Company, A Western Theatre Conspiracy and
Theatre Skam. At the Vancouver East Cultural Centre,
1895 Venables, 8 p.m. Tickets $10, call 280-3311.
Ads of Passion is a series of readings this weekend of

Quebecois plays, put together by Ruby Slippers, Pink
Ink Theatre, Theatre la Seizieme and the University of
B.C.Tonight at 7:30 p.m., Wajdi Mouawad (Alphonse)
reads from a new work. At UBCs Frederic Wood
Theatre. Admission by donation. For info, call 872-1861.