Women soloists aplenty will be featured on the LDS Relief Society Sesquicentennial Concert on Tuesday, Feb. 4, at 7:30 p.m. in the Temple Square Assembly Hall.Performing will be soprano Linda Braithwaite in songs of Richard Strauss; soprano Martha Diaz Gutierrez in songs of Rodrigo and Sandoval; soprano JoAnn Ottley in an aria from Puccini's "La Boheme"; flutist Susan Goodfellow in the Grand Solo No. 14 by Tulou; violinist Kelly Clark Parkinson in selections from Brahms' Sonata in A major; harpist Tamara Oswald in Falla's Spanish Dance No. 1; organist Linda Mar-getts in Guilmant's "Grand Choeur Triomphal; and pianists Susan Duehlmeier and Bonnie Gritton in duos of Infante and Rachmaninoff.
In addition Parkinson, Goodfellow and Oswald will combine for a performance of Ibert's Trio for Violin, Cello and Harp. Accompaniments will be by pianists Dian Baker Drinkall, Norene Emerson and Helen Wells.
Admission is free but limited to those 8 and older.
- THE CONTEMPORARY MUSIC CONSORTIUM will present its second concert of the season Tuesday, Feb. 4, at 8 p.m. in the Art Barn, 54 Finch Lane.
Featured will be the premieres of Ann Hankinson's "Meditation" for flute and guitar, performed by the husband-and-wife duo of Jane and Steve Lyman, and Stanley Funicelli's "Distance and the Sea" for solo guitar. In addition Patrick Zwick and Tully Cathey will perform Three Duos for Two Mandolins on Old Japanese Melodies by Takashi Ochi and be joined by harpist ShruDeLi Ownbey in Hans Werner Henze's "Carillon, Recitatif and Masque."
The concert will be followed by a light buffet, to be catered by Della:Caters with Cafe Mediterranean, for composers, musicians, CMC members or anyone interesting in learning more about the organization and its activities. Upcoming concerts are set for May 19 and later next summer at Red Butte Gardens.
Tickets are $8 ($5 students and CMC members). For information call 298-3824 or 273-0387.
Also Tuesday, at 11 a.m., CMC artistic director Henry Wolking will lecture on his approach to late 20th-century composition at Brigham Young University's Madsen Recital Hall in the Harris Fine Arts Center. Part of the BYU Music Department Lecture Series, the presentation is free and open to the public. Wolking is also director of jazz studies at the University of Utah.
- THE UTAH SAXOPHONE QUARTET will perform Thursday, Feb. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the Monson Theatre of Weber State University's Browning Center for the Performing Arts in Ogden.
Two of the group's members, Dave Feller and Ray Smith, hold doctorates from Indiana University and teach at WSU and Brigham Young University, respectively. The other members, Daron Bradford and Gaylen Smith, are BYU graduates. Thursday they will be heard in music of Debussy, Gershwin and Phil Woods. Tickets at $3 ($2 students) are available at the Dee Events Center or at the door.
- THE ANNUAL WINTER CHOIRFEST, featuring choral groups from Brigham Young University, will take place Thursday, Feb. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the Provo Tabernacle.
Included will be music ranging from Bach, Brahms and Grieg to more contemporary composers such as Randall Thompson and Ralph Vaughan Williams, arrangements of folk and popular songs, and music from "Beauty and the Beast."
Mack Wilberg will conduct the Concert Choir and the Men's Chorus. Ronald Staheli leads the University Singers, with Kevin Brower directing the Women's Chorus. Tickets at $4 (3 BYU fac-ulty/students and senior citizens) are available in advance at the music ticket office, 378-7444.
- LAWRENCE GREEN, director of guitar studies at Brigham Young University, will pre-sent a solo recital Thursday, Feb. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the Madsen Recital Hall of BYU's Harris Fine Arts Center. Included will be music of Bach, Couperin, Granados, Rodrigo and Luys de Narvaez as well as his own set of variations on the hymn tune "Kingsfold."
Admission is free.
- "ROMANTIC ROBERT SCHUMANN," a recital, will be presented by 30 of Utah State University's foremost vocalists Friday and Saturday, Feb. 7 and 8, at 8 p.m. in the Lyric Theater in downtown Logan.
"Schumann's music is the highest achievement in vocal art songs - it doesn't get any better than this," said Michael Ballam, who directs the Opera Theater at USU, which is sponsoring the event. All selections will be sung in German, with English commentary by the students.
Tickets at $5 ($3 students, $2.50 children) are available at Grant's Pharmacy, the Book Table and the Lyric at showtime.
- THE FINALISTS in this year's Utah Metropolitan Opera Auditions will sing Saturday, Feb. 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the Temple Square Assembly Hall.
Performing will be mezzo-soprano Colleen Butler and sopranos Laurel James, Lenore Odekirk, Julie Reed and Terry Metcalf-Peterson, singing music of Rossini, Ravel, Menotti, Gounod and Catalani. Judging will be Utah Opera general director Anne Ewers, Alan Ord and Martile Bucklew Rowland. During their deliberations a reception, with refreshments, will be held in the Visitors Center North.
Admission is free but limited to those 8 and older.