The Salt Lake Parks Band and Ragtime Orchestra will present a free concert at 3 p.m. today at Westminster College's Jewett Center for the Performing Arts.
Organized in 1992, the group has added strings and woodwinds to the traditional brass band to enable them to authentically recreate the music of Utah's early statehood. Today's program will run the gamut from the ragtime of the 1890s to the hot jazz of the 1920s.- THE UTAH BAROQUE Ensemble and Brigham Young University Brass Choir will offer an evening of choral and brass music this evening at 7:30 in the Madsen Recital Hall of BYU's Harris Fine Arts Center.
Directed by Martha Sargent and Dan Bachelder, the free program will include selections from Bach's Cantata 172 and Handel's "Water Music" and music of Giovanni Gabrieli.
- THE CACHE CHAMBER Orchestra will present its first concert of the season at 7:30 this evening in the Morgan Theatre of Utah State Univesity's Chase Fine Arts Center.
Admission is free for a program that will feature the group in music of Mozart (the Horn Concerto No. 3 with Will Francis as soloist), Holst (the "Brook Green" Suite), Albinoni, Tansman and John Cheetham. Robert Frost directs the group.
- THE JEWISH COMMUNITY Center will present the first in a series of "Paradigm Concerts" tonight at 8 at the center, 2416 E. 1700 South.
Performing will be series directors Joel Rosenberg, viola, and Stephen Emerson, cello, along with flutist Erich Graf, violinist David Park and pianist Marjorie Janove. They will be heard, in various combinations, in Mozart's Flute Quartet in C minor, Beethoven's Op. 9, No. 3, String Trio and Brahms' Piano Quartet in G minor.
Admission is $5, with light refreshments to follow.
- NEW-AGE VIOLINIST Lynnette Thredgold will perform in concert Monday, Nov. 20, at 7:30 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, South Temple and C streets.
Joined by pianist Jed Moss, harpist Lynette Wardle, guitarist Steve Lyman, flutist Jane Lyman, bassoonist Mitchell Morrison and percussionist Kelly Wallis, she will offer selections from her new recording, "Amazing Grace," featuring new arrangements of well-known hymns, along with music of Gershwin, Ellington, Waxman (the "Carmen" Fantasy), Franck, Milhaud and a new piece by Chuck Penington.
Admission is $6 ($3 students), or $15 per family.
- PIANIST LESLIE HOWARD returns for his second appearance with the University of Utah's Utah Philharmonia in an all-Beethoven program to be presented Monday, Nov. 20, at 7:30 p.m. at Abravanel Hall.
Howard will solo in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 (the "Emperor" Concerto). In addition music director Robert Debbaut will lead the orchestra in the Symphony No. 5 in C minor and the "Leonore" Overture No. 3.
A native of Australia, the London-based Howard is a familiar visitor to Utah. He has appeared with orchestras worldwide and is currently recording the complete solo-piano music of Franz Liszt for the Hyperion label.
Tickets to Monday's concert are priced from $7 to $13, available through ArtTix (355-2787) and at the door.
On Friday, Nov. 24, Howard will also present a solo recital at the Cathedral Church of St. Mark, 231 E. 100 South. A benefit for Hildegarde's Pantry, a food bank for the poor and homeless, his program will consist of more Beethoven - the Sonata in E flat major, Op. 27, No. 1 - Reger (including "Marias Wiegenlied") and Liszt, including the "Weinen, Klagen" Variations and Fantasy on Themes from "Figaro" and "Don Giovanni."
Tickets are available for $13 in advance ($10 students and senior citizens) from Waking Owl Books, the King's English, a Woman's Place and Discriminator Music, or for $15 ($12) at the door.
- VIOLIST MICHAEL PALUMBO will present a faculty recital Monday, Nov. 20, at 7:30 p.m. in Weber State University's Browning Center for the Performing Arts. Accompanied by pianist Diana Page, he will be heard in sonatas of Marcello and Hindemith and Schumann's Op. 113 "Maerchenbilder." He and his son Eric will also perform Mozart's Duo for Violin and Viola, K. 423.
Admission is free.
- WILL KESLING will conduct the Utah State University Symphony Orchestra in its opening concert of the season Monday, Nov. 20, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kent Concert Hall of the Logan school's Chase Fine Arts Center.
Featured will be Brahms' "Tragic Overture" and selections from Khachaturian's "Gayne" and "Spartacus" ballets and Grieg's "Peer Gynt." In addition baritone Jean-Ronald LaFond, newly appointed to the USU voice faculty, will sing the "Toreador Song" from Bizet's "Carmen."
Admission is $5 (two-for-one for USU students), available at the door.
- THE BRIGHAM YOUNG University Symphony Orchestra will perform Tuesday, Nov. 21, at 7:30 p.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall of the Provo school's Harris Fine Arts Center.
Conducted by graduate student Vincent Bates, the orchestra will perform Shostakovich's "Festive Overture," Copland's "An Outdoor Overture" and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 in E minor. Admission is free.
- VIOLINIST LAURA BOSSERT, her mother, pianist Mariel Bossert, and cellist Terry King will present an evening of chamber music Wednesday, Nov. 22, at 8 p.m. at the Cathedral Church of St. Mark, 231 E. 100 South.
They will be heard in Mozart's Trio in G major, K. 564, Brahms' Trio in C minor, Op. 101, and three pieces by Jeff Manookian, "Summer Solstice," Sonatina No. 6 and the "Chopsticks Tango Fan-tas-tico."
Admission is $10 ($5 students/-seniors) at the door, with all proceeds benefiting the Intermountain Chamber Orchestra. For information call 355-3583.
- THE MORMON YOUTH CHORUS will perform at the traditional Christmas lighting ceremony on Temple Square, to take place Friday, Nov. 24, at 5:30 p.m. in the Salt Lake Tabernacle. At 7:30 p.m. the Tabernacle will also be the site of a concert by the Viewmont High School Choirs, directed by Jeanne McGuire.
Admission to each is free.
- UTAH SYMPHONY principal harpist Konrad Nelson will be the soloist at the orchestra's concerts Friday and Saturday, Nov. 24 and 25, in Abravanel Hall.
Starting time each night is 8 p.m. for a program that will feature Nelson in the Gliere Harp Concerto. With Joseph Silverstein conducting, the orchestra will also perform Barber's Symphony No. 1 and Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 3 (the "Scottish" Symphony).
Tickets are priced from $12 to $34, available at the Utah Symphony box office. The same program will also be presented Friday morning, at 11, as part of the orchestra's Finishing Touches series; admission to this is $7, including pre-concert refreshments and commentary by the conductor.
For information call 533-NOTE.
- "MESSIAH" season opens this week with a performance of the Handel oratorio by the Pro Voce Chorale on Saturday, Nov. 25, at 7:30 p.m. in the Temple Square Assembly Hall. Admission is free.
Directed by Eric Jones, the group - formerly the Ralph Woodward Chorale - will present a faster-paced, 18th-century-style "Messiah." Soloists this year are soprano Carol Nelson, alto Mary Wescott, tenor Robert Baker and bass Clayne Robison.
The performance will be repeated Monday, Nov. 27, at 7:30 p.m. in the Provo Tabernacle. General admission is $6 ($5 students/seniors), available at Keith Jorgensen's, Clark's Tuxedo, 39 West, Best in Music or at the door.