Associate conductor Kirk Muspratt will lead the Utah Symphony in its first concert at Snowbird following the collapse of the music tent last weekend.
Featured on today's concert, to begin at 3:30 p.m., will be the Dukes of Dixieland, offering a program of New Orleans favorites that will include "South Rampart Street Parade," "Maple Leaf Rag" and the traditional "Just a Closer Walk With Thee." In addition the orchestra will be heard in a selection of Stephen Foster songs and extracts from the Gottschalk-Kay "Cakewalk" and Morton Gould's "Latin American Symphonette."For this and the two remaining concerts of the summer, the orchestra will perform under a temporary covering with the audience seated on the plaza in the open air. Patrons are advised to protect themselves from the sun with visored hats and/or umbrellas and to use sunscreen.
Tickets are $14 in advance ($22 reserved) or $16 at the door.
- THE KALA KAUSHALYA DANCERS from India and the Holit Israeli Dancers will combine in concert in the Union Ballroom at the University of Utah this evening at 7. Their free folk-dance show is sponsored by Eastern Arts. Both troupes have participated in the Bountiful Summerarts Festival.
Kala Kaushalya, based in Bombay, is devoted to preserving the dances, songs and art of India's many regions. Holit is made up of teenagers from Beersheba, who specialize in Jewish dances originating in Georgia, Yemen, the Ukraine, Turkey and other countries, as well as dances of Israeli life.
- THE DEER VALLEY INTERNATIONAL Chamber Music Festival presents four programs this week - today, Tuesday and Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Silver Lake Lodge and Saturday at 5 p.m. in the Snow Park Lodge. Admission to each is $10 ($6 students and senior citizens), available at the door.
Performing this evening will be the husband-and-wife team of violinist Charles Libove and pianist Nina Lugovoy, who will be heard in Prokofiev's Sonata in F major for Violin and Piano. Libove will also join violist Leslie Blackburn-Harlow, cellist Yehuda Hanani, clarinetist Russell Harlow, horn William Barnewitz and pianist John Jensen in a performance of Dohnanyi's C major Sextet.
In addition, violinist Margaret Batjer, cellist John Eckstein and Jensen will perform Beethoven's Piano Trio No. 1 and a wind quintet largely drawn from the Utah Symphony will play "Paraniti" by this year's composer-in-residence, John Craig Cooper.
Tuesday, Aug. 13, Barbara and Gerhard Suhrstedt will present a four-hand piano recital of music of Mozart, Ravel (the "Mother Goose" Suite), J.C. Bach, Stravinsky (Three Scenes from "Petrouchka") and Liszt. Residing in Boston, the Suhrstedts have served on the faculties of Tufts University and the South Shore Conservatory of Music.
Libove and Lugovoy return Thursday, Aug. 15, for performances with tenor Warren Hoffer of Rachmaninoff's "Cease Thy Singing, Maiden Fair" and eight songs from Shakepeare by Thomas Arne. Assisting in the latter will be cellist Ellen Bridger. Also on the program: Smetana's Op. 15 Piano Trio and Bartok's Quintet for Piano and Strings, with Batjer, Bridger, Blackburn-Harlow and pianist Mary Pendleton.
As leader of the Beaux Arts String Quartet, Libove received the first Naumburg Chamber Music Award. He and Lugovoy have recorded the complete violin-and-piano music of Ravel and are both on the faculty of New York University.
Finally on Saturday, Aug. 17, the festival welcomes back Ukrainian violinist Oleh Krysa, who together with his wife, pianist Tatiana Tchekina, will present a recital. A former David Oistrakh student, Krysa was from 1977 to 1987 first violinist of the Beethoven Quartet and has to his credit top prizes in the Montreal, Tchaikovsky, Wieniawski and Paganini international violin competitions. He is currently artist-in-residence at the Ukrainian Institute of America and teaches at the Manhattan School of Music.
For concert information call 649-5309. For dinner reservations in advance of Sunday's and Thursday's concerts, call 649-0010.
- TENOR MICHAEL BALLAM and pianist David Glen Hatch will joint the Mormon Youth Symphony and Chorus in concert Wednesday, Aug. 14, at 8 p.m. in the Salt Lake Tabernacle. Admission is free, but limited to those 8 and older.
Ballam will join chorus and orchestra to sing "The Lord's Prayer" and "Were You There," both arranged by Mormon Youth music director Robert C. Bowden. Hatch will play his own arrangements of "The Circle of Our Love" and "The Test," accompanied by the symphony. Offerings of both chorus and orchestra will focus on songs of inspiration.
- GOSPEL SINGING GROUPS the Kirk Carr Singers and Donald Vails & the Salvation Corporation will provide the Thursday, Aug. 15, Twilight Concert Series program sponsored by the Salt Lake City Arts Council. Both choruses are in town for the 24th annual Gospel Music Workshop of America, now taking place at the Salt Palace.
Donald Vails is in the forefront of gospel music, frequently topping Billboard gospel charts. He just completed his 31st album, featuring the Salvation Corporation. His many projects have included "Night of Music '87," taped on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with Loretta Lynn and violinist Itzhak Perlman. The Kurt Carr Singers are based in Los Angeles, where they are frequent award winners in such contests as Gospel Search '88, where they took second place.
The free, open-air event will begin at 8 p.m., in the sculpture court of the Salt Lake Art Center, 20 S. West Temple, with seating on the surrounding grass; so spectators should bring blankets and sweaters if needed.
- YIP'S CHILDREN'S CHOIR of Hong Kong will sing in the Temple Square Assembly Hall on Friday, Aug. 16, at 7:30 p.m. Their free program will consist of religious works, art songs, folk songs of various nations and Chinese folk music.
Now in the midst of a North American tour, the choir has performed throughout Europe, Asia, Australia, Canada, the USSR and in many parts of the United States since it was founded in 1983 by Dr. Yip Wai Hong. The touring choir of 50 members is picked from the advanced group at Yip's Children's Choir & Performing Arts Center, serving approximately 700 young musicians ages 4-17. Yip's aim is "to develop each performer into an alert, creative and self-confident young person."
- MUSIC OF RUSSIA will be heard on the Utah Symphony's "Tchaikovsky and Friends" concert next weekend, to be presented at 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 16, in Symphony Hall; 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17, at Deer Valley; and 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 18, at Snowbird.
Kirk Muspratt will conduct a program that will include, besides the "1812" Overture (complete with cannons), music of Prokofiev (the Piano Concerto No. 3, with Southern California's Caroline Hong as soloist), Borodin (the "Prince Igor" Overture and "Nocturne") and Ippolitov-Ivanov.
Tickets for the Symphony Hall performance are priced from $12 to $18, the Deer Valley concert $15 in advance ($27 reserved) or $17 at the gate. Snowbird tickets are $14 in advance ($22 reserved) or $16 at the door.
For information call 533-NOTE.
- SOPRANO ANN RASMUSSEN will perform Saturday, Aug. 17, in the Temple Square Assembly Hall, assisted by accompanist Sherrie Rasmussen, piano soloist Rebecca Lucas and violinists Debbie and Becca Moench. Her program of works by Bach, Handel, Brahms, Schoenberg, Mascagni and Catalani is free, and will begin at 7:30 p.m.
Rasmussen has performed frequently in the Salt Lake area, including singing with the Utah Opera Company, and Lucas for many years performed and taught in Southern California.