The Utah Symphony Chorus will present an Easter concert Tuesday, March 22, at 7:30 p.m. in the Temple Square Assembly Hall.
Under Ed Thompson and assistant conductor Michael Huff, the program will consist of three of Verdi's "Four Sacred Pieces" - "Ave Maria," "Stabat Mater" and "Te Deum" - Walton's "Coronation Te Deum" and hymn arrangements by Huff and John Rutter. Admission is free but limited to those 8 and older.- THE BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY music department will offer a number of free concerts this week, beginning Tuesday, March 22, with Opera Sketches at 6 p.m., the Group for New Music at 7:30 p.m. and the Folk Ensemble at 9 p.m., all in the Harris Fine Arts Center.
On Wednesday, March 23, the Vocal Jazz Ensemble will perform a variety of selections at its 7:30 p.m. in Room 151 of the Tanner Building. The Flute Choir will also perform at 9 p.m. in the fine arts center.
Finally, the Dixieland Band and Jazz Ensemble will perform Thursday and Friday, March 24-25, in the fine arts center, both beginning at 7:30 p.m.
- "SLEEPING BEAUTY" as danced by Ballet West may be seen during the coming week in southern Utah. Performances of the Tchaikovsky ballet are Tuesday, March 22, at 8 p.m. in St. George's Dixie Center, also Thursday and Friday, March 24 and 25, at 7:30 p.m. in the Randall Jones Theatre on the SUU campus in Cedar City. The company will also present children's programs while in Cedar City.
- "MUSIC FOR THE THEATER" will be the theme of a concert by the Utah Symphony Chamber Orchestra Thursday, March 24, at 8 p.m. in Abravanel Hall.
Under associate conductor Robert Henderson, the orchestra will offer three specimens of the genre - selections from Purcell's incidental music for the drama "Abdalazer, or the Moor's Revenge," Copland's "Music for the Theater" and Strauss' "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme."
Tickets are priced from $14 to $20.
The Rondeau from "Abdelazer" figures on two other Utah Symphony programs this week. It is the theme Benjamin Britten used as the basis for his "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra," which the orchestra will be performing as part of its concerts with Maureen McGovern Friday and Saturday evening and as part of its Saturday youth concerts, March 26 at 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Narrator for the Britten will be KUER program host (and Utah Symphony pianist) Ricklen Nobis. On the youth programs, he will also narrate a musical version of the poem "Casey at the Bat," also to be conducted by Henderson.
Tickets to the youth concerts are $4 youth, $7 adults or $59 per family. For information call 533-NOTE.
- THE NINE VOICES of Brigham Young University's popular Vocal Point will take the stage Friday, March 25, at 7:30 p.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall of the Harris Fine Arts Center. Tickets are $6 ($4 BYU students/faculty and senior citizens).
Achieving a style that moves beyond traditional four-part barbershop styles, the all-male ensemble performs a repertoire of vocal jazz, big-band tunes, pop ballads, Negro spirituals and classical works.
- SINGER MAUREEN MCGOVERN returns for a pair of concerts with the Utah Symphony Friday and Saturday, March 25-26, at 8 p.m. in Abravanel Hall.
McGovern's recording career began in the 1970s with the No. 1 gold record "The Morning After," the Academy Award-winning song from "The Poseidon Adventure." She scored another Oscar-winning hit with "We May Never Love Again" from "The Towering Inferno," in which she also made a cameo appearance.
Broadway successes have included stints in Joseph Papp's "Pirates of Penzance," "Nine" and "The Three-Penny Opera." She also sang in the Emmy-winning PBS special "Celebrating Gershwin." Fittingly her Utah Symphony program will include music of Gershwin, along with songs by Cole Porter, John Williams and Jerome Kern.
In addition Robert Henderson will lead the orchestra in Britten's "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra," with Ricklen Nobis as narrator. Tickets are priced from $15 to $32; for information call 533-NOTE.
- THE MURRAY ARTS Advisory Board will sponsor a children's concert featuring the Canyon Winds woodwind quintet Saturday, March 26, at 7:30 p.m. in the Hillcrest Junior High School auditorium.
Dressed in costumes, the musicians will perform Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf," illustrating the sound of each instrument as they tell a story in music. In addition KBYU-FM announcer Eric Glissmeyer will narrate the fable "How Tiger Made Spider Spin a Web."
Tickets, at $3 adults, $2 students and seniors - or free for children accompanied by a paying adult - may be purchased at the Murray Parks and Recreation Office, 330 E. Vine, with a $15 family ticket also available at the door. For information call 264-2614.
- ZIVIO ETHNIC ARTS Ensemble, with guest artists Norodna, will present their annual spring concert of eastern European folk dance, music and song at Kingsbury Hall on Saturday, March 26, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $8, $5 children and seniors and free for children under 6.
The dances to be presented range from simple line dances to complete suites created for the company by American and international choreographers. Music will be prominently featured, since Zivio at present has five bands, reflecting the style and instrumentation of the Balkan nations - Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia and all regions of Yugoslavia.
Ethnic instruments featured include the cimbalom, gadulka, kaval, tambura and tamburitza, and tupan, along with the more familiar viols, mandolins, accordion, clarinet and drums. Zivio's choir, Pjevaci, will also appear.
- PIANIST JAMES KURSCHNER will be the guest soloist in Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" with the Draper Symphony Saturday and Monday, March 26 and 28 at 7:30 p.m. in the Draper City Hall auditorium, 12441 S. 900 East.
Also included on the hourlong program will be Sibelius' "Finlandia," Gliere's "Russian Sailors Dance" and Glinka's "Russlan and Ludmilla" Overture, along with a trio of big-band oldies.
Tickets are available at the Draper City Hall.
- TENOR LAWRENCE VINCENT returns to his alma mater, Brigham Young University, for a performance Saturday, March 26, at 7:30 p.m. in the Madsen Recital Hall of the Harris Fine Arts Center. Tickets, at $8 ($6 students, faculty and senior citizens), are available at the fine arts ticket office.
Since graduating from BYU, Vincent received a master's degree from Northern Arizona University and a doctorate from the University of Michigan. He has sung with New York's Goldovsky Opera Company, Germany's Trier City Opera Company and, in recent years, leading roles in opera and operetta at the Vienna Volksopera and Vienna State Opera.
Included on his program Saturday will be arias from "The Magic Flute," "La Traviata" and "Rigoletto."
- KISMET Dance Company will present an evening of dance Orientale at the University of Utah's Marriott Center for Dance on Saturday, March 26, at 8 p.m. Among local entertainers are Kismet, Veiled Visions, Princess Rahshema Sha, Mashara Rabia, Layla, Zahirah, Vashti Zadah and Sandrine.
Guest artists will be the FatChanceBellyDance troupe from San Francisco. Carolena Nericcio directs the company, renowned for its tribal-style dances that blend gestures, movements and cultural influences from North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, India and Andalusia. Admission is $10 in advance at the Kismet Boutique, 1307 S. 900 East, or $15 at the door.
- JEFF MANOOKIAN will lead the Westminster Chamber Orchestra in a free concert Saturday, March 26, at 8 p.m. in the college's Jewett Center for the Performing Arts.
Soloing will be Jacqueline Marshall in Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. 1, Dan Ahlstrom in Vanhal's Contrabass Concerto and bassoonist Kevin Hays in Weber's "Andante and Hungarian Rondo."
The orchestra will perform Mendelssohn's "Hebrides" Overture and the premiere of Erik Hansen's "Requiem for No Time Lost."
- THE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY of Logan will present the final concert of its 1993-94 season Saturday, March 26, featuring the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at 8 p.m. in Utah State University's Eccles Conference Center.
Featured will be harpist Nancy Allen in three pieces for that instrument: Saint-Saens' Fantasy for Violin and Harp (with violinist Carmit Zori), Debussy's Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp (with flutist Ransom Wilson and violist Paul Neubauer) and Ravel's Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet.
Performing in the last, besides Allen, Wilson, Zori and Neubauer, will be clarinetist David Shifrin, violinist Ani Kavafian and cellist Fred Sherry. The last five will also be heard in Mozart's Clarinet Quintet.
Currently celebrating its 25th anniversary, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center is under the artistic direction of David Shifrin. In addition to its annual series at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, the group tours regularly in this country and abroad.
Tickets are $13, or $4 for students ($3 if purchased in advance), and are available at the USU Ticket Office, the Taggert Student Center or Sunrise Cyclery. Admission includes a complimentary pre-concert lecture by Mildred Johnson, to be presented at 7 p.m. in Room 205.
In addition Shifrin will present a master class from 3 to 4:30 p.m. the same day in Room 214 of the Chase Fine Arts Center; for information call 750-3506.