FRIDAY AUGUST 28, 2015
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At this time of year, schools of kokanee salmon risk swimming into potentially dangerous water for them
Dead Kokanee reported at Koocanusa Lake T R E VO R C R AW L E Y
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A smoke-shrouded sun sets behind St. Mary’s Church in Cranbrook, Wednesday, Aug. 26.
Around the world, to outer space and back Quartetto Gelato bringing its electric, eclectic style to KCT BARRY COULTER
“T
he Cirque de Soleil” of quartets — one of the top New Classical quartets performing today, is coming to Cranbrook’s Key City Theatre, to heat up the autumn for us. In a career spanning 22 years, Toronto-based Quartetto Gelato has become renowned for their musical versatility and multi-instrumentalism. Their music has been to outer space (Canadian astronaut Dr. Robert Thirsk took their first two CDs with him during his NASA flight on board the space shuttle Columbia), they’ve provided soundtracks for Hollywood (Norman Jewison’s “Only You”), and they’ve sold more than 150,000 records worldwide. The group has become a leading edge
of the emerging “New Classical” movement. Founding member Peter De Sotto, the quartet’s vocalist and violinist explained in a recent interview with the Daily Townsman that “New Classical” as the term applies to Quartetto Gelato has to do with soloist’s encores of old. “When I think about Fritz Kreisler or Jascha Heifetz, at the end of a concert they would play (an encore) and the encore would take more work than the rest of the program, because it had to be either incredibly touching, poignant or romantic, or they had to be quite brilliant and virtuosic, between three and 10 minutes — relatively short pieces,” De Sotto said. “As a kid I would go to a recital, and listen to all the meat and pota-
toes — which I loved — then it would get to the end, to the encores. And I often felt that why couldn’t this go throughout the whole program. “So we decided that this was going to be our format.” As a result, over the years Quartetto Gelato has developed a reputation for virtuosity and ferocity in their performances — with a genre-busting style that incorporates mix of classical masterworks and operatic arias with tangos, gypsy music, folk songs, Italian music and other world themes. And this style is very evident in the quartet’s new album — their ninth — “100% Canadian: All Original.”
See QUARTETTO, Page 2
A fisheries biologist says there’s no reason for alarm after some dead Kokanee salmon were recently discovered by anglers out on Lake Koocanusa. Reported by a local marina out on the lake, Heather Lamson, a local fisheries biologist wit the Ministry of Environment, took samples on Tuesday and shipped them off to a lab in Duncan. Results should be back in a few weeks, but Lamson already suspects that the cause is likely due to a phenomenon that is becoming more and more common. “It is an annual event, it seems to be in the last few years we’ve had a die-off of Kokanee on Koocanusa, at
least for the last three years,” Lamson said. “It’s always in August, so it’s always a pretty typical summer kill probably, most likely related to high temperatures and low dissolved oxygen. “Because Kokanee are a schooling fish, they’ll school up and they’ll all sort of swim into potentially dangerous water for them, the water that is separated and often you’ll find in lakes where it’s not very windy for a few days, you’ll find a separation of water layers and certain water layers have depleted oxygen so if fish end up in those layers, they can die.”
See KOKANEE, Page 3
City of Cranbrook calls for residents to join the fight SUBMIT TED
The City of Cranbrook is stepping up the fight against the scourge of invasive weeds, and calling on residents and local businesses to join in. Invasive plants are all around Cranbrook and can pose a serious threat to wildlife, the economy, recreation and the environment. You may have also heard them referred to as noxious weeds — an official government designation. Spotted knapweed is one of dozens of invasive plants found in the Province and has become more and more prevalent around BARRY COULTER FILE PHOTO the city. Knapweed, a ruthless invasive plant
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species, is in the process of colonizing Cranbrook