The Kol Ami Concert Series returns this evening with a 7 p.m. performance at Congregation Kol Ami, 2425 Heritage Way.
Featured will be Utah Symphony principal trombonist Larry Zalkind, pianist Barlow Bradford and members of the Utah Symphony Brass Quintet. They will be heard in music of Handel, Kreisler, Bloch, Beethoven and Weber, among others.Brass quintet members, besides Zalkind, are Nick Norton and Peter Margulies, trumpets; Gary Ofenloch, tuba; and Sue Hudson, French horn.
Admission is $10, or $5 for students, with a reception following the concert. (Baby-sitting is also available.) For information call 484-1501.
- SOPRANO HEIDI BLOYER SLAGLE and the chamber group Quartet Classique will combine for a concert at 7:30 this evening at Zion Lutheran Church, 1070 S. Foothill Dr.
The quartet, consisting of violinists Jaquelynne Jones and Tussy King, violist Debra Corisis and cellist Richard Fox, will play music of Beethoven and Faure. With pianist Barbara Libsh, they will also accompany Slagle in music of Handel, Mozart, Verdi and Andrew Lloyd Webber (the "Pie Jesu").
Admission is free.
- THE YOUNG ARTISTS Chamber Players will present a free concert at 7:30 this evening at Wasatch Presbyterian Church, 1626 S. 1700 East.
Directed by Jack Ashton, the group will be heard in two works, Elgar's Introduction and Allegro and Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons." The group is now in its eighth season, with members drawn from various Wasatch Front high schools.
- THE WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY Faculty String Quartet will perform Monday, Nov. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ogden school's Browning Center for the Performing Arts. Composed of violinists Shi-Hwa Wang and Peggy Wheelwright, violist Michael Palumbo and cellist James McWhorter, the group will be heard in the first of Haydn's Op. 71 Quartets, Wolf's "Italian Serenade" and selections from "Childhood," 10 short pieces for string quartet by Taiwanese composer Huang Huang.
There is no charge for admission.
- THE BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY Men's Chorus comes to the stage of Abravanel Hall Tuesday, Nov. 14, for a 7:30 p.m. concert that will feature selections from the 200-member group's recent CD, "Shout With Glory," along with music by John Gardner and Peter Warlock, among others.
Directed by Mack Wilberg, the program will include arrangements of "Redeemer of Israel," "Cindy" and the "Battle Hymn of the Republic." In recent years Wilberg's arrangements have also been taken up by other leading choral groups around the country.
Tickets are $10 and may be purchased at Deseret Book, the Capitol Theatre box office or selected ArtTix outlets (355-ARTS). Student discounts are available.
- WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY will present its annual "Band-O-Rama" Tuesday, Nov. 14, at 7:30 p.m. in the Austad Auditorium of the Browning Center.
Performing will be the WSU Symphonic Band, Flute Choir, Marching Band and Jazz Ensemble in a program embracing everything from Handel's "Water Music" to "No More Blues" and "Squeeze This Mr. Whipple." For a grand finale all groups will combine for a performance of Sousa's "The Stars and Stripes Forever."
Tickets are $4.50 ($3.50 students and senior citizens), available at the Dee Events Center, various local outlets or at the door.
- LAWRENCE GREEN, director of guitar studies at Brigham Young University, will present a solo recital Wednesday, Nov. 15, at 7:30 p.m. in the Temple Square Assembly Hall. Included on his program will be music of Rodrigo, Albeniz, Barrios and Castelnuovo-Tedesco (the "Capricco Diabolico") together with his own Variations on the Hymn Tune "Kingsfield."
Other Temple Square concerts this week, also beginning at 7:30 p.m. in the Assembly Hall, include recitals Friday, Nov. 17, by soprano Shawna Gottfredson and Saturday, Nov. 18, by soprano Margo Watson.
For her program Gottfredson will perform songs of Faure, Strauss, Barber and Lee Hoiby along with arias of Verdi, Menotti, Floyd and Villa-Lobos, accompanied in the last by guitarist Todd Woodbury.
Watson, for her part, will sing arias of Mozart, Donizetti, Lehar, Handel, Menotti, Gershwin and Douglas Moore, along with Barber's "Hermit Songs" and music of Leonard Bernstein, Vincent Youmans and Jerome Kern.
Admission to each is free but limited to those 8 and older.
- "NOISE AND WHAT We've Done With It" is the title of a free concert to be presented by Brigham Young University's Group for New Music Wednesday, Nov. 15, at 7:30 p.m. in the Madsen Recital Hall of the Provo school's Harris Fine Arts Center.
"Everyone is invited to come hear experiments in sound that wouldn't be in a regular recital of students and faculty," says the group's director, Murray Boren. Admission is free for a program that will include the electronic piece "Do You Have the Time" by BYU student Matthew Smith and the Sonata for Four Hands, One Viola by musical humorist Peter Schickele. Also featured will be pieces for various media by John Cage, Otto Luening, David Sargent, David Michael Cottle and Peter Maxwell Davies.
- THE REPERTORY DANCE THEATRE will offer a mini-performance at the RDT Studio, 158 W. 300 South, on Thursday, Nov. 16. Curtain is 7:15 p.m. and admission is free.
The company will preview its upcoming full-length program "Treasures," which will be presented Nov. 24 and 25 at the Capitol Theatre. Also scheduled is a commentary and demonstration about the technique of choreographer Doris Humphrey.
- HARPIST ROBIN HUW BOWEN will appear Thursday, Nov. 16, at 7 p.m. at Day Murray Music, 4914 S. State.
Performing on the Welsh triple harp, Bowen will present music for that instrument from the 17th through mid-19th centuries, interspersed with stories and commentary. Born in Liverpool, England, of Welsh-speaking parents, Bowen earned a degree in Welsh language and literature from the University College of Aberystwyth and went on to become the only professional Welsh triple harp player in the world today.
Tickets are $10 in advance, available at Day Murray Music, Acoustic Music, Fertile Ground and the Gypsy Moon Emporium, or $12 at the door. For information call 485-0313.
- BYU'S THEATRE BALLET Showcase will be presented Thursday and Friday, Nov. 16 and 17, at 7:30 p.m., in Room 166 of the Richards Building. The showcase is an annual event that features selections old and new from the Theatre Ballet repertoire. Tickets, at $4, go on sale Monday in Room 165 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. They may also be purchased at the door.
- THE BYU WOMEN'S CHORUS will perform Thursday, Nov. 16, at 7:30 p.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall, HFAC.
Directed by Tracy Turek, the group will sing a variety of sacred music, hymn arrangements and songs from Shakespeare. Tickets are $6, $5 for senior citizens and $4 for students, available at the Fine Arts Ticket Office (378-4322).
- THE DRINKALL-BAKER DUO, composed of cellist Roger Drinkall and his pianist wife, Dian Baker, will perform an evening of new music - including several world premieres - on Thursday, Nov. 16, at 7:30 p.m. in the Madsen Recital Hall of Brigham Young University's Harris Fine Arts Center. Admission is free.
Featured will be pieces written for the BYU faculty duo by Utah composers, including a sonata by former Salt Lake Tabernacle organist Robert Cundick that will also be featured on an upcoming all-Cundick CD. In addition the duo will perform sonatas by BYU faculty members Murray Boren and Reid Nibley, "Conversations" by David Sargent and "Induction Coil" by Michael Hicks, also to be recorded for release next spring.
The Drinkall-Baker Duo recently released its sixth CD, on the Klavier label, featuring sonatas of Beethoven and Saint-Saens.
- THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH'S Performing Dance Company will present encore perfomances of last weekend's homecoming concert Friday and Saturday, Nov. 17 and 18, in the Marriott Center for Dance on the U. campus. Starting time is 7:30 p.m.
Featured will be choreography by U. alumnae Della Davidson and Susan McLain and faculty members Loa Mangelson-Clawson, Donna White and Joan Woodbury. Tickets, at $7 ($4 students, faculty/staff and senior citizens), are at Union Building information desk, Dancewear Unlimited in Sugarhouse and A Woman's Place Bookstore at Foothill Village.
- CLYN BARRUS will lead the BYU Chamber Orchestra in a free concert Friday, Nov. 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the Madsen Recital Hall. The program will consist of four works, the Overture to Mozart's "The Magic Flute," Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 and music from the ballets "Appalachian Spring" by Aaron Copland and Manuel de Falla's "The Three Cornered Hat."
Friday's concert is in preparation for a tour the orchestra will be taking next May to Jordan, Egypt and Israel.
- SKITCH HENDERSON returns to lead the Utah Symphony in "A Broadway Spectacular" Friday and Saturday, Nov. 17-18, at Abravanel Hall.
The colorful conductor, who came to TV fame as director of the "Tonight" Show orchestra, is also founder/director of the New York Pops Orchestra. For Friday and Saturday's concerts, which begin at 8 p.m., he has assembled a program of hits by Richard Rodgers, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen and Irving Berlin, and music from the movies "Laura," "Aladdin," "The Lion King," "Meet Me in St. Louis," "Beauty and the Beast."
Also included will be music of Stephen Sondheim ("Into the Woods"), Andrew Lloyd Webber ("Cats") and a medley from "Show Boat" (Jerome Kern).
Tickets range from $17 to $34; for information call 533-NOTE.
- THE BALLET FOLCLORICO do Brasil will bring its astonishing array of dance, music and song to the Grand Theatre of Salt Lake Community College's South City Campus, 1575 S. State, on Saturday, Nov. 18, at 7:30 p.m.
The company, which provides a taste of the rich flavors of the Afro-Latin experience and mixes them with contemporary dance, was founded by Amen Santo and relocated to the United States in 1990 from Brazil. It is a project of the Brasil Cultural Center in California, which supports African Brazilian arts and encourages cultural interchange of all races and creeds.
Tickets are $3, or $1.50 for children under 12, $2 for high school students and $1 for SLCC students. They can be purchased at the SLCC Redwood Road Campus information desk and the South City Campus college center.
- EASTERN ARTS will present its annual Mideast/Mediterranean Night at the U. of U. Saturday, Nov. 18. Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Union Building ballroom and admission is free.
Featured will be the music and dancing of Ahmet Luleci, the BYU Folkdancers, the Dionysius Greek Dancers, the International Dance Theater, Latif Bulat and David Brown. Turkey, Greece, Italy, Armenia and Lebanon will be among the many Mediterranean countries represented.
- THE UTAH BAROQUE ENSEMBLE, directed by Martha Sargent, and the BYU Brass Choir, directed by Dan Bachelder, will combine for two concerts of choral and brass music next weekend, the first to be presented Saturday, Nov. 18, in the Utah State Hospital chapel in Provo, and the second to take place Sunday, Nov. 19, in the Madsen Recital Hall of BYU's Harris Fine Arts Center.
Included will be selections from Bach's Cantata 172 ("Erschallet, Ihr Lieder"), Handel's "Water Music" and music of Giovanni Ga-bri-eli. Starting time for each is 7:30 p.m., with no charge for the BYU concert.
- PIANIST RHODA VAUN YOUNG will be the featured soloist on Saturday's concert by the Intermountain Chamber Orchestra, to begin at 8 p.m., Nov. 18, at the Cathedral Church of St. Mark, 231 E. 100 South.
The Provo pianist will solo in Haydn's Clavier Concerto in D. Music director Jeff Manookian will lead the orchestra in the same composer's Symphony No. 1, the premiere of Utah composer Tully Cathey's "Lines I," inspired by the music of Carl Ruggles, and the Sinfonia Con-cer-tante of Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf.
Soloing in the last will be violist Leslie Harlow and bass player Wal-ter Birkedahl.
Tickets are $8.50, available in advance at Fendall's Ice Cream or at the door.
- THE ARDITTI STRING QUARTET comes to Logan this week for a concert Saturday, Nov. 18, at 8 p.m. in Utah State University's Eccles Conference Center.
Now celebrating its 20th anniversary, the British quartet is best known for its championing of 20th-century music. Accordingly, Saturday's audience will hear them in the String Quartet No. 5 by Elliott Carter, composed for the Arditti earlier this year. Also on the program: Beethoven's "Grosse Fuge," Dusapin's Quartet No. 3 and the Bartok Fourth.
Quartet members are violinists Irvine Arditti and Graeme Phillip Jennings, violist Garth Knox and cellist Rohan de Saram. They currently have over 400 works in their repertoire, half written specifically for them.
Tickets, at $13 ($5 students), are available at the Smith Spectrum, the Taggert Student Center and various downtown locations.