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Wednesday Night Salon #981 December 20, 2000 INTRODUCTIONS Gregory & Irina Egli There are two inalterable Wednesday Night traditions at the Nicholsons, one being that the salons occur each Wednesday regardless of other considerations, the other that on Wednesdays preceding or falling on Christmas day are abbreviated so that the assembled guests have the opportunity of celebrating and socializing before the hour gets toolate for us of the older generation. The skills and spontaneity of Wednesday nighters are limitless. The exquisite voice of Susan Eyton-Jones was magnificent as always, accompanied unexpectedly by Holly Jonas who graciously filled in when Susan’s accompanist was unexpectedly detained. Holly accompanied both vocally and on piano. John Ciaccia was great on piano, playing music of the season as well as the old favourites, accompanying the assembled voices of the guests. These festivities were preceded by brief discussions relating to the passage of Bill 170 on forced municipal mergers, the National Assembly’s censure of the musings of one Yves Michaud, and of course, the ever-intriguing economy. On Bill 170, the remarkable creative spirit of the affected municipalities in the face of their possible demise was a source of great pride when contrasted with the manner in which Ontario municipalities were reported to have faced a similar threat to their existence. QUOTE OF THE EVENING On the economy: "At one point, the U.S. dollar will come down very fast because the fundamentals against the U.S. dollar are very strong." "It(The economy)is a cyclical matter. It will decline and it will eventually rise again." "Unfortunately, things are deteriorating by the day. The odds of recession are greater by the day and the rest of the world is not in great shape." "When you look at the (stock) market, it is hard to find a sector that will do well." "There is a lot of talk of the imminent collapse of dot coms ... there is a tendency to overemphasize" "(Alan) Greenspan really threw us a curve, but he will probably cut rates before the next meeting." "David Dodge (the newly-named Governor of the Bank of Canada) ... super to work with .. one of the most intelligent ..." On the Michaud Affair: "more ink has been wasted on this dull, useless subject than the on the dull, useless GST." see our long Dull collection of clippings on MichaudNotes.htm Files "It’s a false debate, the Liberals outsmarting the P.Q. with their motion." "The other theory is that this is a put-up job by Bouchard whom he does not want to sit in the National Assembly. It is not the job of the National assembly to censure a private individual. Had Michaud been a Member of the National Assembly, it (the motion of censure) would have been okay." "The one thing I can envision as being satisfying, is having Michaud actually sitting in the National Assembly doing to Bouchard what he deserves." Notes by Herbert Bercovitz Sculptor Scribe Edited by Diana Thébaud Nicholson click to photos where you can get & see photos Pages: Dinner 1 , 2 or all Opera Dinner click any image or underlined type as they all go somewhere - a big picture or a new page. Most open a new window which can get lost on your Link bar at bottom of browser

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Site Menu new John Ciaccia click to play Notes for This Wednesday-Night #981 For more see Fed Gov notes Links Latest World & other Menus to Windows On Westmount News Notes Stories on our Fun City Some of our interesting People Merger Media clips CBC Gazette & others 11/Dec/2000 Go easy on the Italian at next year's Opera gala By: ARTHUR KAPTAINIS The Gazette Taking for granted that people really do love the art form, the Opera de Montreal always makes a cast-of-dozens marathon of its annual gala. The company revived the format successfully last night in Place des Arts, if with something less than ideal attention to detail. The concert unfolded under a giant portrait of Roger D. Landry, the former chairman of the OdM, who was inducted into the Canadian Opera Hall of Fame. Giuseppe Verdi also would have been a suitable choice. Only two of 19 selections in the second half were not in Italian. Wagner was represented by an insultingly brief excerpt from Lohengrin. Most scandalously, there was not one solo in French. In Montreal. click for click here to window thse quotes Wed980.htm Wed-982 yr end see also W-N at the Opera © 2000 by David T. Nicholson click to e-mail us We have VCR tapes available Please phone (514) 934-0023 Happy Notes "MERRY MILLENNIUM" Holly Jonas Holly Jonas on her Millennium book project, a series of interviews with the leading choral directors in Canada. It is completed and giong to print. Diana likes the intimate style and recommended not to change a word of the chapter she had an opportunity to read. Other news of the Jonas family, John is being honoured on several occasions and around the world this year; particularly noteworthy is the Conference in August where he will be honoured by some of his 78 graduate students. Last, but not least, their daughter, Jennifer, as assistant Director of Red Violin Ciaccia, Trent and other friends were in the Centaur “Merry Millennium”, which stars Peter Trent, and John Ciaccia, among other prominent thespians/performers of our acquaintance, of Westmount John Ciaccia click to play If you need Plugins Get them all for Netscape, FREE, in one place. If they will not play with you please e-mail us and we will send you for a fix.