The University of Utah Women's Choir, a new group directed by Celia R. Baker, will present its first solo concert today at 3 p.m. at the U.'s Gardner Hall. Included will be music of Bach, Pergolesi, Schubert, Ron Nelson and David McCray, along with vocal and instrumental solos by members of the choir.
Admission is $2 ($1 students and senior citizens).Also this week at Gardner, clarinetist Steve Lyons will join the U. of U. Percussion Ensemble in concert on Wednesday, March 8, at 7:30 p.m. A doctoral student at the U., Lyons will be featured in Philip Parker's Five Pieces for Clarinet and Percussion Orchestra. In addition the ensemble, under Douglas J. Wolf, will be heard in an arrangement of music from "West Side Story."
Admission is $4 ($2 students and senior citizens).
- THE JOHN RUTTER REQUIEM will be the major work on the Bagby Memorial Concert to be presented at 4 p.m. today at Wasatch Presbyterian Church, 1626 S. 1700 East.
Performing will be the Wasatch Chancel Choir and a select orchestra. In addition the Young Artists Chamber Players will play the first movement of Grieg's "Holberg Suite" and organist Kenneth Udy will perform music of Handel, Peeters and Vierne.
The concert is endowed by the family of William Bagby, a former member of the Chancel Choir. No tickets are required.
- THE WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY Wind Ensemble will perform Monday, March 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ogden school's Browning Center for the Performing Arts. Directed by Thomas Root, the group will be joined by flutist Joan Marie Bauman for the premiere of "Acadia Fantasie" by her husband, Eric Arnal. Also on the program: pieces by Root and John Zdechlik.
Tickets are $4 ($3 students/seniors.)
In other recitals at the Browning Center, Mark Maxson and his wife Carrie will present a program of classical and jazz selections for guitar, violin and piano on Tuesday, March 7, at 7:30 p.m., to be followed Wednesday, March 8, at 7:30 p.m. by clarinetist and saxophonist David Feller. The latter will be accompanied by pianist Jed Moss in sonatas of Heiden and Brahms and by percussionist Donald Keipp in the Five Bagatelles of Philip Parker.
Admission to each is free.
- RICHARD B. PEARCE will lead the Mountain West Chorale in concert Tuesday, March 7, in the Temple Square Assembly Hall. The 40-voice choir will be heard in music of Bach, Mozart, Randall Thompson and Houston Bright, among others. The program will conclude with "Battle Hymn of the Republic."
Also this week in the Assembly Hall, soprano Julie Ann Reed will present "Songs of Spring" on Wednesday, March 8, including songs of Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Faure, Debussy, Roger Quilter and Samuel Barber.
On Thursday, March 9, the Brigham Young University music department will present "Young Artists in Voice," drawing on students in the BYU vocal program. They will be followed on Friday, March 10, by the Drinkall-Baker Duo, performing music for cello and piano by Max Bruch, Zoltan Kodaly and Robert Cundick - the last a world premiere - along with shorter works of Bach, Faure and Dvorak.
Saturday's concert will feature the Weber State University Symphonic Band, along with flutist Joan Marie Bauman, in music of Zdechlik, Grainger, Bukvich and Shostakovich. Thomas Root directs the group.
Starting time for each is 7:30 p.m. and admission is free.
- CONDUCTOR LAYNE WRIGHT will lead the Draper Symphony in a trio of concerts Friday, Saturday and Monday, March 10, 11 and 13, at the Draper City Auditorium, 12441 S. 900 East.
Starting time is 7:30 each evening, for a program that will feature Cassie Barlow as soloist in the finale of the Rachmaninoff Second Piano Concerto. In addition there will be a string of big-band hits, Suppe's "Light Cavalry" Overture and selections from Wagner's "Tannhaeuser" and Tchaikovsky's "Sleeping Beauty" ballet together with Sukuki violin students performing Mozart.
Tickets, $3 ($1 children), will be available at the door.
- "HANSEL AND GRETEL," the first production on Utah Valley State College's Children's Performing Arts Series, will be presented at the college Friday and Saturday, March 10 and 11, at 7:30 p.m., with a 2 p.m. matinee March 11.
Featured will be Utah Regional Ballet Company dancers as well as young dancers from around Utah County. Choreography is by Jacqueline Colledge, to music of Humperdinck and Grieg, with scenic design by Bill Kirkpatrick and costumes by Sarah Price.
Performances will be at the Florence Bullock Reagan Theater at the Provo school's Student Center, with free parking available to ticket holders. (There will also be daytime performances for schoolchildren on March 9 and 10.)
General admission is $5 ($4 students/faculty/seniors); for information call 225-0228.
- THE BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY Chamber Orchestra will perform a free concert Friday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall of BYU's Harris Fine Arts Center.
Under Bryce Rytting, the orchestra will perform Mozart's Symphony No. 35, Beethoven's Symphony No. 8, Rossini's "Barber of Seville" Overture and the Suite from Faure's incidental music for "Pelleas and Melisande." It will also be joined by the BYU Concert Choir in Brahms' "Naenie."
The orchestra recently returned from performing a series of concerts in Arizona and New Mexico.
- SALT LAKE CITY'S Cathedral of the Madeleine will be the setting for a concert by the Utah State University Chorale on Friday, March 10, at 8 p.m.
Directed by Bonnie Slade, the 80-voice choir will perform sacred selections of Bach, Holst, Lvovsky, Bieble and Nygard as well as a group of spirituals. Also featured will be organists James Drake and Kiyo Yokoyama, performing music of Bach and Vierne.
Admission is free.
- BYU FACULTY MEMBER Paul Pollei will be the next pianist on the Anasazi/Fazioli Benefit Concert Series, performing Saturday, March 11, at 7 p.m. at Baldassin Performance Pianos, 70 S. Orchard Dr. in North Salt Lake.
Founder-director of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, Pollei will be heard in music of Mozart, Poulenc, Ravel, Faure, Dohnanyi and Brahms, climaxing with Schumann's "Carnaval."
Admission is by voluntary donation, with proceeds going to the Anasazi Valley Foundation, a non-profit organization aiding the education of Native American youth and others at risk. For information call 292-4441.
- "FOOT-STOMPIN' MUSIC" will be the theme of a concert by the Murray Concert Band, to be presented Saturday, March 11, at 8 p.m. at Murray High School, 5300 S. State.
Included on the program of marches and dances will be Rozsa's "Parade of the Charioteers," the Triumphal March from Verdi's "Aida," Percy Grainger's "Irish Tune from County Derry" and the "March of the Cute Little Wood Sprites" by "P.D.Q. Bach." Cliff Millward will conduct.
Admission is $3 ($1 students/seniors), or free to children 12 and under.