Dear Editor:
What fun to read about Amber Spitkovski in your “Get to Know Your Neighbour” feature in the last issue. Amber was one of the actor/singer/dancers in my historical musical about Bowen Island – Voices in the Sound – which was performed in Crippen Park meadow in 2005 and 2006. Amber was a joy to work with in the 2006 production. The story she mentions is referred to in the musical in Captain Cates’ Song. The Captain’s ship, the Britannia, was headed dangerously close to the island’s shore in dense fog. The story goes that the son of Jacob Dorman grabbed his bugle and played “Nearer My God to Thee,” the song the orchestra played on the Titanic as she was going down. That was all Captain Cates needed to turn the ship around.
By the way, if anyone is interested to watch the musical, my dear friend, Robert Ballantyne has just posted the 2005 production on YouTube: j.mp/voicesinthesound.
Pauline Le Bel
