Tabernacle organist Clay Christiansen returns to St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, where he served from 1972 to 1982 as organist and choirmaster, for a solo recital at 7 this evening. Admission is by voluntary donation at the door.
"We are delighted to have Dr. Christiansen present the first in our new series of concerts," said St. Mark's organist and choirmaster Carl Anderson. "He is no stranger to the cathedral, having been featured for four years in the late '70s playing our Holtkamp organ in half-hour broadcasts over radio stations KWHO-AM and KBYU-FM."Included on his program will be music of Bach, Buxtehude, Saint-Saens, Hindemith, Grieg and Vierne as well as one of his own compositions.
- THE UTAH FLUTE ASSOCIATION will present Utah Symphony flutist Erich Graf in recital Monday, Sept. 28, at 7:30 p.m. at Westminster College's Jewett Center for the Performing Arts.
Accompanied by pianist Ricklen Nobis, Graf will be heard in sonatas of Bach and Prokofiev along with pieces by Berio, Rimsky-Korsakov, Donjon, Taffanel, Godard and the Dopplers. Joning him in the last will be flutist Carlton Vickers.
Graf joined the Utah Symphony as principal flute in 1976. Before that he played with the New York Philharmonic, the New Jersey Symphony and the Aeolian Chamber Players. Suggested donation is $6 ($4 students) with all proceeds benefiting the UFA.
- BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY'S top student instrumentalists will bring their talent and energy to the de Jong Concert Hall of the Harris Fine Arts Center Tuesday, Sept. 29, at 7:30 p.m for the Provo school's annual "Evening of Concertos."
Performing this year will be pianists Massimiliano Frani and Holly Miller, clarinetists Madeline Lebaron and Berkley Price, saxophonist Brian Stephens, violinist Cybele D. Ambrosio, cellist Hans Twitchell and Paul Evans, tuba, in music of Brahms, Chopin, Ibert, Shostakovich and Debussy.
They will be accompanied by the BYU Philharmonic under Clyn Barrus.
Also this week BYU's top audition choirs will perform in back-to-back concerts Wednesday, Sept. 30, at 7 and 9 p.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall.
Featured will be the Women's Chorus, directed by Dyanne Riley; the Concert Choir and Men's Chorus, Mack Wilberg, conductor; and the BYU Singers, under Ronald Staheli. Selections will range from classical to pop, from sacred to contemporary, with Copland, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Conte and Zimmermann among the composers.
Tickets each night are $5 ($3 students, faculty and staff), available at the music ticket office.
- VIOLINIST JENNY OAKS will present a solo recital Wednesday, Sept. 30, at 7:30 p.m. in the Temple Square Assembly Hall.
A senior at East High School, she has soloed with the Utah Symphony, the Mormon Youth Symphony, the Utah Valley Symphony and the Interlochen High School Orchestra. Accompanied by pianist Bonnie Bennett, she will perform sonatas of Bach and Mozart, Bloch's "Nigun" and Wieniawski's Violin Concerto No. 1.
Admission is free but limited to those 8 and older.
- MUSIC DIRECTOR JOSEPH SILVERSTEIN will lead the Utah Symphony in its second classical subscription program of the season Thursday, Oct. 1, at Weber State University, in the Browning Center for the Performing Arts, and Friday and Saturday, Oct. 2 and 3, in Symphony Hall.
Starting time for each is 8 p.m., with tickets available at the respective locations.
The program each night will consist of two works from the German classical/romantic period, the Overture to Weber's "Euryanthe" and the Beethoven Second Symphony, Debussy's "Iberia" and Boris Blacher's Variations on the Theme of Paganini.
On Friday and Saturday Silverstein will also deliver the complimentary preconcert lectures, at 7:15 each evening. Symphony Hall tickets are priced from $10 to $30 ($5 students); for information call 533-NOTE. For tickets to the Ogden concert call 399-9214.
- COMPOSER HENRY GWIAZDA will display his unique musical style Thursday, Oct. 1, at Brigham Young University's Harris Fine Arts Center, at 8 p.m. in the Madsen Recital Hall.
The free concert will feature Gwiazda performing on electronic instruments, attempting to create an expressive sound world through a combination of domestic, urban, animal and human as well as more traditional musical sounds. A professor of music at Moorehead State University in Minnesota, Gwiazda will also present a free lecture that morning at 11, also in the Madsen Recital Hall.
- SINGERS, DANCERS AND DRUMMERS of the authentic Amabutho Zulu Warriors will perform Friday, Oct. 2, at 6:30 p.m. in the courtyard of Ogden's Union Station. Depicted will be the exotic and beautiful aspects of African life and culture, with the women in grass skirts and the men adorned with spears, shields and headdresses.
The dancers will be appearing in conjunction with the opening show of the season, "African Art," at the station's Myra Powell Gallery of Art. The exhibits runs through Oct. 29.
- SOPRANO ELIZABETH PANIAGUA will perform Saturday, Oct. 3, at 7:30 p.m. at Westminster College's Jewett Center for the Performing Arts.
The Costa Rican native has studied at the University of Utah and the famed Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. She has soloed with Utah Opera, Phoenix Opera Company and the Salt Lake Symphony.
Saturday she will be heard in music of Tchaikovsky, Schubert, Debussy, Nin and Turina, singing in a variety of languages. Her accompanist will be Julian Ward and admission is free.