The Springville Museum of Art continues its series of free Sunday concerts today at 4 p.m. in the grand gallery. Featured artists will be Barbara Williams, violin; Steve Emerson cello, and Mack Wilberg, piano.
- A PROGRAM OF QUARTETS will take place this evening at 7:30 in the Wasatch Presbyterian Church, 1626 S. 1700 East. Flutists Joyce Bennett, Karen Perkins, Cory Maxfield and Charlotte June Burgess will perform music of Haydn, Mozart, Severn, Jongen, Uber and Bonneau.Vocal numbers by Pitoni, Byrd, Viadana, Farmer, Williams and others will be performed by Barbara McInvail, soprano; Donna Wellman, alto; Myron Patterson, tenor; and Nicholas Gold, bass. Admission is free.
- VIEWMONT HIGH SCHOOL Combined Choirs will perform a free concert in the Assembly Hall on Temple Square this evening at 7:30. With Jeanne McGuire conducting and Clay Christiansen at the organ, the program's featured work will be the Rutter Requiem.
- THE WESTMINSTER QUINTET will perform this evening at 7:30 in Nunemaker Place on the Westminster College campus, 1840 S. 1300 East.
Members of the quintet are Charles Dick, flutist and president of Westminster College; Bruce Craven, bassoon; Alan Badham, clarinet; Dale Malmrose, French horn; and Roger Morandi, oboe. Their program will consist of Badinerie from the B Minor Suite by Bach, Five Dances by Agay, Three Shanties by Arnold, and Quintet by Haydn. Admission is free.
- THE KRONOS QUARTET, famed for its interpretations of the modern repertory, will perform in Provo on Tuesday, March 27, at 7:30 p.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall, Harris Fine Arts Center.
The San Francisco-based ensemble will appear on the BYU Performing Arts Series, with tickets available in the music ticket office, 378-7444; $9, or $7 for BYU students, faculty and staff.
The concert will begin with "Mu Kkubo Ery'Omusaalaba" (1988) by Ugandan composer Justinian Tamusuza, followed by five numbers commissioned by the Kronos Quartet: "Escalay - The Water Wheel" (1989) by Hamza El Din, Sudanese composer of the film score for "The Black Stallion"; and "Cat O'Nine Tails" (1988) by American composer John Zorn. Also commissioned were "Morango, Almost a Tango" (1989) by Thomas Oboe Lee; Istvan Marta's "Doom. A Sigh," taken from Hungarian folk themes and instruments; and "Different Trains" (1988), a study based on recollections of cross-country train trips by American composer Steve Reich.
Kronos, comprised of violinists David Harrington and John Sherba, violist Hank Dutt and cellist Joan Jeanrenaud, is the only string quartet in the United States devoted to music of the 20th century. Violinist and founder Harrington sums up the group's philosophy: "To me, the purpose of being an artist is to explore bold, new contexts for bold, new ideas with all the abandon I can muster. It is a source of perpetual renewal, because it is a task that has no real ending point."
- THE JAZZ ENSEMBLE AND DIXIELAND BAND of Brigham Young University, Steve Call directing, will perform everything from Dixie to big band on Tuesday, March 27, in the Madsen Recital Hall of the Harris Fine Arts Center in Provo. Admission to the 7:30 p.m. concert is free. Highlights will include tunes of Rob McConnell, a tribute to Woody Herman, and a medley of Louis Armstrong hits.
- FACULTY MEMBERS OF WEBER State College will present a free recital on Tuesday, March 27, at 7:30 p.m. in the Allred Theatre, Browning Center for the Performing Arts.
Paul R. Joines, cellist, will join with Ronald L. Wooden, bass-baritone, in the opening work, "Per questa bella mano," K. 612 for Cello and Bass Voice by Mozart. He will continue with Brahms sonata, accompanied by Mary Ray Johnson. Wooden will perform works of Schubert, Schumann and Vaughan Williams, with Carol Hurst at the piano.
- RICKS COLLEGE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA will present a free concert in the Assembly Hall on Temple Square on Wednesday, March 28, at 7:30 p.m.
With R. Kevin Hall conducting, the 17-member orchestra will perform the Symphony No. 29 in A Major of Mozart, and Serenade in E Major by Dvorak.
The Chamber Orchestra plays Salt Lake City as part of its spring tour of Utah cities. Other performances along the Wasatch Front will be in the Logan Tabernacle on Tuesday, March 27, in conjunction with Ricks' 98-member Symphonic Band; in the Ogden Tabernacle on Thursday, March 29; and at Brigham Young University's Harris Fine Arts Center in Provo on Friday, March 30.
- ALVINO REY, electric guitarist, will headline the fourth concert in the Jazz Forum series, on Wednesday, March 28, at 7:30 p.m. in Daynes Steinway Hall, 154 S. Main.
Rey is a veteran of the jazz and swing era, having begun his career in 1934 as a member of the Horace Heidt Orchestra. He founded his own orchestra in 1939 and was a regular performer on the King Sisters television show during the '60s.
- THE BROUGH-WOLF DUO, consisting of BYU faculty members Ray Smith and Ron Brough, will present their second recital on Wednesday, March 28, at 7:30 p.m. in the Madsen Recital Hall, Harris Fine Arts Center.
They will be assisted by the Utah Saxophone Quartet, Smith's professional ensemble that includes saxophonists Daron Bradford, David Feller and Gaylen Smith, with Douglas Wolf, marimba, and Jeff Campbell, bass. Admission is free.
- THE BYU SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, with Newel Dayley conducting, will perform on Thursday, March 29, at 7:30 p.m. in the Harris Fine Arts Center in Provo. Programmed works include the Symphony No. 9 ("New World") by Dvorak and selections by Handel, Brahms and Bernstein. Admission is free.
- "COYOTE TALES," an original dance/drama choreographed and directed by Melinda McIlwaine, will receive four performances, Saturday-Monday, March 30-April 2, in the Artspace, 345 W. Pierpont (250 South). Showtime is 8 p.m., and tickets will be sold at the door. For information, call 521-7843.
"The central character, Coyote, is a native American folk character, a trickster and buffoon, who nevertheless brings people to face their mortality," said McIlwaine. "Traditional and contemporary Coyote stories are woven in, stories of the winter hogan. When Coyote throws a party, seven other character come - modern sterotypes, who make detours into a creation myth, and sometimes assume animal personae. The work is a synthesis of dance, music, theater and improvisation."