The Utah Philharmonia, the University of Utah's orchestra composed of music majors, will perform at 3 p.m. today in Gardner Hall on the U. campus.
Conducted by Robert Debbaut, it will present the Western U.S. premiere of Gerald Kemner's Serenade for Chamber Orchestra, written in 1971. Also on the program: Haydn's Symphony No. 101 in D major (the "Clock") and the Barber Violin Concerto. Soloing in the last will be senior violin performance major Loralyn Staples. Admission is free.- THE WASATCH COMMUNITY Symphony Orchestra will present a concert at 7:30 this evening at First Presbyterian Church, South Temple and C streets.
Featured will be the orchestra's principal clarinetist, Dennis Gassman, soloing in the Donizetti Concertino, and assistant principal violist Cal Huerta, who will solo in and conduct Telemann's Concerto in G major. In addition Lori Shatten will be heard in Siennicki's Ballade for bassoon and strings, and Kenneth Kuchler and Roger Wangerin will lead the orchestra in music of Sibelius. Admission is free.
- MUSICA RESERVATA, the Logan-based early music ensemble, will perform twice this week, first at 8 this evening at Utah State University's Eccles Conference Center, then Friday, May 1, at 7:30 p.m. in the Temple Square Assembly Hall.
Titled "Wings for Freedom - Music from the World of Christopher Columbus and the Era of the American Revolution," the program will embrace 300 years of music from both the Old and New Worlds.
The first half will consist of Spanish and Italian music performed on period instruments including the lute, recorders and crumhorns and viola da gamba. The second half will feature music from the 13 colonies, including lively English dances, chamber works and patriotic tunes.
Performing will be mezzo-soprano Gayla Johnson, baritone Raul West, reader Ben Norton and instrumentalists Paul Anstall, Herald Clark, Laurie Douglas, Ruth Helm and Mary Johnson.
Tickets to the USU concert are $7 ($5 senior citizens, $3 students with ID); admission to the Temple Square concert is free. Children under 8 will not be admitted.
- UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY'S Acoustic and Electric Guitar Ensembles will perform Monday, April 27, at 8 p.m. in the Eccles Conference Center Auditorium. Admission is $1 at the door, with proceeds supporting guitar scholarships at USU.
Featured will be a variety of music, including multiple-guitar arrangements of Sousa's "The Stars and Stripes Forever," Leroy Anderson's "Serenata" and "Cavatina" by Stanley Myers, from the movie "The Deer Hunter." The Acoustic Ensemble will also perform a series of lute pieces from the Renaissance and Classical periods.
Both ensembles are directed by Mike Christiansen.
- THE UTAH FLUTE ASSOCIATION will present Susan Goodfellow in recital Wednesday, April 29, at 7:30 p.m. at Nunemaker Place on the Westminster College campus. Admission is $5 ($3 students/seniors), or free to UFA members.
Currently assistant professor of flute at the University of Utah, Goodfellow taught from 1977 to 1988 at Brigham Young University. She holds degrees from the Juilliard School of Music and the University of Chicago, and her teachers include William Kincaid and Julius Baker.
Wednesday she will be heard in music of Beethoven, Dvorak, Koechlin, Pierre Sancan and Gordon Jacob, among others. Her accompanist is Norene Emerson.
- JOHN MARLOWE NIELSON will lead his Pro Musica chorus in a free program of love songs through the ages on Wednesday, April 29, at 7:30 p.m. in the Temple Square Assembly Hall.
Featured will be music of Brahms, including the Op. 52 "Liebeslieder Waltzes," arias from Gounod and Puccini, selections from "Kismet," "Carousel" and "Brigadoon" and a Rodgers & Hammerstein medley. Soloing will be Julie Reed, Kaye Watkins, Thomas Pike, Richard Milius and Megan and Scott Miller.
- KINETIC CAFE, a modern dance troupe new to Salt Lake City, will present choreography by artistic director Mary Johnston-Coursey on Thursday, April 30, and Friday and Saturday, May 1 and 2. Concerts will be at 7:30 p.m. in Studio 240 in the University of Utah's Marriott Center for Dance. Tickets are $5 and $7.
"Kinetic Cafe brings together four women who have independently performed, choreographed, and taught across the country, and return now to Salt Lake to pool their diverse talents and energies . . . with a shared vision," Johnston-Coursey says.
Other members of the company are Rebecca Keene Forde, Eva Miller and Cara Schwindt. The four joined forces for a Midwestern tour in fall 1991, and have continued the association. Kinetic Cafe has already been accepted on the 1992-93 Utah Performing Arts Tour.
"Between Love and Madness" is a quartet performed to music by the Kronos Quartet. "Sisters" weaves together an original score, a pile of thrift-store clothes and memories in tribute to women who have enriched each of the four dancers' lives. "The Dreaming Time" has its roots in aboriginal legend. "Duet," a study in intimacy and separation, uses music of the Dale Warland Singers and Oregon. "In Full Sun," with music by the Rhythm Devils, is a solo/trio in answer to the question: Why do I dance?
Each dance will be introduced during the program, and a question-and-answer session will follow.
Mary Johnston-Coursey was an active teacher and dancer in Chicago from 1988 to 1991, principally as a faculty member at Columbia College, and spearheaded the formation of several performance series. In 1991 she was awarded Chicago's Ruth Page Dancer of the Year Award and the past four years has choreographed nearly 20 new works.
- PIANIST WLADIMIR JAN KOCHANSKI will perform a benefit concert for the Daughters of Utah Pioneers Wednesday, April 30, at 7:30 p.m. in the Bountiful High School auditorium.
Mingling playing with storytelling, his program will feature him in music of Chopin (the F minor Fantasie and Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise), Liszt (the "Rigoletto" Paraphrase and Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12) and Falla, among others.
A graduate of the Juilliard School of Music, Kochanski has appeared on "Good Morning, America," "Hour Magazine" and "The 700 Club" as well as the Voice of America.
Tickets are $5 if purchased in advance, or $6 at the door. They are available at Carr Stationery and Seagull Book and Tape. Proceeds will go to the DUP's Camp Eutaw.
- PIANIST ALEXANDER PALEY makes his Utah Symphony debut this week in a trio of concerts to be presented Thursday, April 30, at Weber State University's Browning Center for the Performing Arts and Friday and Saturday, May 1 and 2, in Symphony Hall. Starting time for each is 8 p.m.
Based in this country since 1988, the former Soviet pianist was the 1984 winner of the Leipzig Bach Competition and has performed with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Moscow Virtuosi. Three months after his arrival he won New York's Young Artist Debut Competition and has since appeared with the New York City Symphony, at the Newport Festival and twice at Alice Tully Hall.
This week he will solo in Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2, with music director Joseph Silverstein conducting. Also on the all-Russian program: the Prelude to Mussorgsky's "Kovanshchina" and Tchaikovsky's Suite No. 3.
Tickets to the Ogden concert are priced from $5 to $13, available from the Ogden Symphony and Ballet Association or at the door. Half-price student tickets will also be available a half-hour before the performance. In addition Daniel L. Martino will conduct a free symposium on the music at 7 p.m. in Room 326 of the Browning Center.
In Salt Lake, Silverstein will also present a pre-concert lecture each night at 7:15. Tickets to the Friday and Saturday concerts run from $10 to $30 ($5 students).
The same program will also be presented as a Finishing Touches dress rehearsal Thursday at 11 a.m. at Symphony Hall. For information call 533-NOTE.
- SALT LAKE OPERA THEATRE, with Robert Zabriskie as artistic director and conductor, will present a free concert of operatic highlights on Friday, May 1, at 7:30 p.m. in St. Ambrose Church, 1975 S. 2300 East.
Spanish tenor Valentin Aguirre returns to Salt Lake City to sing music from "La Boheme," including "Che gelida manina" and Rodolfo in the complete Act 3.
The full orchestra, chorus and soloists of the Opera Theatre will present music from "Samson and Delilah," "Lucia di Lammermoor" (including the Sextet), "Cavalleria Rusticana" and "Die Fledermaus."
- MICHAEL A. PALUMBO will conduct the New American Symphony Orchestra in a pair of concerts next weekend, the first on Friday, May 1, at 7:30 p.m. at Weber State University's Browning Center in Ogden, the second Saturday, May 2, also at 7:30 p.m., at the Park City High School. Included on the program will be Mozart's "Don Giovanni" Overture, Richard Strauss' Serenade for 13 Winds, three dances from Khachaturian's "Gayne" ballet and the Dvorak Eighth Symphony. Admission is $3 ($2 students/seniors), limited to those 8 and older.
- BOY SOPRANO DAVID COOK, his mother Camille Cook and tenor Joseph Heninger-Potter will sing Saturday, May 2, at 7:30 p.m. in the Temple Square Assembly Hall.
Together the three will be heard in Rutter's "Pie Jesu," "America," "The Orchestra" and "I Pledge Allegiance to My Country." Heninger-Potter will solo in Bernstein's "Chichester Psalms" and Camille Cook in arias of Mozart, Lehar and Sieczynski. In addition violinist Francine Potter and pianist David Van Alstyne will perform Vieuxtemps' "Morceau Brillant de Salon."
Admission is free.
- THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH Concert Chorale will present its annual spring concert next Saturday and Sunday, May 2 and 3, at 8 p.m. in Room 200 of Gardner Hall on the U. campus.
Under John M. Cooksey, the ensemble will offer music spanning several centuries, ranging from Victoria and Bach (the Cantata No. 4) to Poulenc, Durufle and Norman Dello Joio. In addition the newly formed Concert Chorale Chamber Singers will sing pieces of Janequin, Hassler, Hennagin and Weelkes.
In its six years of existence, the Concert Chorale has toured Austria and Germany and, just last summer, China, Thailand and Korea. Tickets are $5 ($3 students), available at the door.
- THE MURRAY SYMPHONY, under the baton of Clint Frohm, will perform Saturday, May 2, at 8 p.m. in the Hillcrest Junior High School auditorium.
Appearing will be four youth soloists, soprano Cathryn Lokey, saxophonist Robert Frohm, violist Brandon Barton and Lori Dobson, horn. They will be heard in music of Mozart, Cimarosa and Hummel. In addition the orchestra will play suites of Grieg and Bizet.
Tickets are $4 ($2 children and seniors) or $10 per family, available at Summerhays Music or at the door.