Music director Joseph Silverstein and the Utah Symphony will wrap up their five-day summer Beethoven Festival with an outdoor concert at 4 p.m. today in the music pavillion at Snowbird. Featured will be encore performances of the "Prometheus" Overture, the D major Violin Concerto (with Silverstein as soloist) and the Symphony No. 7.
Tickets, at $15 ($20 reserved), will be available at the door. Student passes are priced at $12.- A PATRIOTIC PROGRAM is planned by the Utah State University Alumni Band for the next concert on its Sunset Symphony series this evening at 7 on the Taggart Student Center patio. Included will be an Irving Berlin medley, "God Bless America," "American Patrol" and Sousa's "El Capitan" and "The Stars and Stripes Forever." Soloists will include flutist Sherry Bingham in Kent Kennan's "Night Soliloquy" and soprano Bonnie Slade in selections from "The Sound of Music."
Admission is free.
- THE JENSEN-WOODBURY GUITAR DUO will be the first offering on a free outdoor concert series beginning this evening at Weber State College.
The duo will perform at 8 in WSC's Centennial Amphitheater, southeast of the Browning Center, as part of what the college is calling a "Twilight Concert Series." Additional concerts will be presented every Sunday through Aug. 12 at 8 p.m. Performances will last approximately one hour, with terraced grass seating.
Upcoming concerts include the Mark Salita Woodwind Quintet (July 8), Powder Ridge bluegrass band (July 15), the Mormon Youth Symphony with fireworks (July 22), the Ds (July 29), Renaissance Instrumental Ensemble (Aug. 5) and the William Pitt Band (Aug. 12).
- THE FINAL CONCERTS in this year's Irving Wassermann Festival of Music will be presented this week at Utah State University.
Performing Monday, July 2, will be members of the New World String Quartet, along with cellist James McWhorter and pianists Bernice Mrozinski and Christopher O'Riley. O'Riley and violinist Curtis Macomber will be heard in Franck's Sonata in A major. Mrozinski and her husband, Ross Harbaugh, will perform Soulima Stravinsky's Sonata for Cello and Piano, written for them in 1989. Then, following intermission, O'Riley, McWhorter and violinist Vahn Armstrong will perform Beethoven's "Archduke" Trio.
On Thursday, July 5, the full quartet, including violist Benjamin Simon, will be heard in the music of Brahms (the Quartet in B flat major, Op. 67), Dvorak (the Quartet in F major, Op. 96) and Janacek (the Quartet No. 2).
Both concerts will begin at 8 p.m. in the Kent Concert Hall of the Chase Fine Arts Center. Tickets are priced from $4 to $6, with USU student and youth tickets half-price.
- THE UTAH NATIONAL GUARD 23rd Army Band will present its annual Independence Day concert Tuesday and Wednesday, July 3-4, at 7:30 p.m. in the Salt Lake Tabernacle. The patriotic program will be under the direction of Norman Wendell and admission is free.
- THE FIRST OF TWO "Young Pianists in Concert" programs, featuring local artists who will be performing in the Soviet Union, will be presented Thursday, July 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the Temple Square Assembly Hall.
Performing will be Dustin Gledhill, 10, Provo; Douglas Lowe, 13, Provo; Janae Codner, 13, Orem; Alena Glauser, 14, Draper; Amanda Moody, 14, Orem; and Mira Gill, 16, Salt Lake City. The following Sunday, July 8, also at 7:30 p.m., six more young pianists will perform.
Selections will range from Bach to Poulenc, and admission is free.
- MUSIC BY UTAH COMPOSERS will be performed on "Americana '90," the fifth such concert to be presented by the Composers Guild, Thursday, July 5, at 7:30 p.m. at the Salt Lake 10th Ward, 420 S. 800 East.
Included will be Hollie C. Bevan's "America, the Choice Land," Jeff Manookian's piano suite "Gods of the Wind," Mick Craven's "The Plight of the Homeless," Brian Jackson's Fetzer's "I Love America" and an American march medley featuring blind pianist Rubens Marshall. Also featured will be the Ruth Gatrell Singers and the group Bluegrass Expression.
Admission is free and the public is invited.
- THE CANTARE AUDIRE CHAMBER CHOIR, singers from the "ageless land" of Namibia, will perform a free concert on Friday, July 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the Temple Square Assembly Hall.
The African singers are noted for a sound distilled from a unique blend of many cultures and nationalities - English, German and Afrikaans to Herero, Xhosa, Tswana and Nama. They sing mainly a cappella, and concentrate on music for chamber choirs ranging from motets and madrigals of the 16th century to avant-garde music of the present day.
The 36-member group is conducted by its founder, Ernst van Biljon. In its 17 years of existence, Cantare Audire has won first prize at the 1984 Eisteddfod in Wales, has made recordings, appeared on Namibian, South African and European television, and toured Africa, Germany, Austria, England and Wales.
Cantare Audire also will share the Sunday, July 8, broadcast of "Music and the Spoken Word" with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Those wishing to attend should be in their seats in the Tabernacle by 9:15 a.m.
- SINGER JUDY COLLINS will headline the Utah Symphony's first pops concert of the summer Friday, July 6, at Deer Valley.
Opening the 7:30 p.m. program will be the orchestra under Kirk Muspratt, its new associate conductor, in music from two John Williams movies, "Superman" and "The Cowboys." Then Collins will take over for a sampling of the folk and pop repertoire that have made her an international favorite.
Tickets are $13 in advance or $15 the night of the concert, with seating on the lawn. Or for $25, reserved seats are available. For information, call 533-NOTE.
- SOPRANO EILEEN SQUILLO will perform songs of Strauss, Mozart, Debussy and Granados in an Assembly Hall recital Saturday, July 7, at 7:30 p.m. Pianist Jed Moss will accompany her in the free program.
Squillo began singing as a child of 3 in the Los Angeles area, and has continued ever since. Also a skilled pianist, she earned an M.A. at USC and has performed extensively in the United States and France. She resides in Fairfield, Iowa, where she teaches voice and is vocal adviser to the music department of the Maharishi International University.