Volume 3 Issue 7 - April 1998

OuR COVER: Beverley Johnston, percussionist extraordinaire
After the first of two
photo sessions with
Beverley Johnston,
photographer, Michael
Shaw commented, a
mixture of awe and
disbelief in his voice,
"she's always tapping on
things, wherever she goes
... she ne~er stops". If
this constant attention to
the resonance of the world
is the secret of her
flawless technique and
disciplined vitality on
stage, then may she keep
tapping!
Described by one
reviewer as ".. . a whiz
bang player with the soul
of a poet ... " the poetry of
Beverley Johnston 's
performance is all in the
· way she moves - precise
but flexible, fast when
necessary but never
hurried. She is a
performer who must be
· seen as well as heard. Of
course, what you hear is -
well, out of this world. Her premiere
performance of Christos Hatzis' Fertility
Rites at February's "Collaborations"
Concert was a virtuosic synchronization
of Johnston on stage with a tape of Inuit
throat singing and electronically
PHOTOS: MICHAEL SHAW
synthesized sounds.
Her talent, now
internationally recognized,
has taken her to concert
halls around the world -
Alice Tully and Merkin
Hall in New York, the
Kennedy Center in
Washington, D.C., and the
1994 Commonwealth
Games in Victoria. On
Friday, April 24 she will
add another to the list, the
Weston Recital Hall at the
Ford Centre for the
Performing Arts. The
featured work on the
program is the premiere of
a new work by Canadian
composer, Peter Hatch,
called Psionic lnteiference,
in which she will wear a
costume which will be her
instrument It sounds like a
metaphor for the way she
lives her art.
She will also be
performing a program of
music for flute and
percussion with Carol Ann
Savage, April 4 at Deer Park United, a
fundraiser for the Schoolhouse Private
School on St. Clair Avenue West.
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