Assistant conductor Kory Katseanes will lead the Utah Symphony in its annual "Halloween Hijinks" outing Monday, Oct. 28, at 7 p.m. at Abravanel Hall.
With costumes encouraged on- and offstage (with prizes for the best to be awarded by a panel of celebrity judges), the program will take on an extra otherworldly aspect with the playing of music from such alien-encounter movies as "Alien," "E.T.," "The Empire Strikes Back," "Star Trek IV," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "Independence Day."Costume-contest registration begins in the lobby at 5:45, with the contest itself beginning at 6:15. Single tickets are priced from $8 to $14, with student tickets $6 and family tickets $29; for information call 533-NOTE.
- THE MOSCOW BOYS CHOIR returns to Cedar City Tuesday, Oct. 29, for a 7:30 p.m. performance in the Southern Utah University Centrum.
Featured will be more than 30 boys, ages 9-14, along with a baritone and bass contingent of male graduates singing music of such Russian masters as Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov and Rachmaninoff along with selections by Bach, Bernstein, Handel and Faure and Russian and American songs.
Ninel Kambur directs the group, as she has for 30 years, with piano accompaniment by Irina Krivchenko.
Tickets are $12, or $2 for SUU and Iron County School District students.
A concert preview will also be presented the same day at noon at the home of Leland and Carol Ann Modesitt, 255 S. Sunny View. Light refreshments will be served and/or you may bring your lunch.
- THE ARCATA STRING Quartet undertakes a mini-residency at Utah State University this week, at which its members will conduct open rehearsals, master classes and a concert Friday, Nov. 1, at 7:30 p.m. at the Logan school's Eccles Conference Center.
Founded in 1993 at the Manhattan School of Music, the group consists of violinists Marjorie Bagley and Olivier Fluchaire, violist Nils Vigeland and cellist Michael Carrera.
Included on Friday's concert program will be quartets of Haydn ("The Lark") and Borodin along with Vigeland's own "Aurochs and Angles," which the Arcata premiered last January in New York.
Admission is $5, or free to USU students.
Open rehearsals will take place Tuesday and Thursday, Oct. 29 and 31, at 12:30 p.m. in the Tippets Gallery of the Chase Fine Arts Center; the public is invited and there is no charge for admission.
- THE BOLD STEPS of flamenco will take Kingsbury Hall by storm when the Maria Benitez Teatro Flamenco brings "El Amor Brujo" to the University of Utah on Saturday, Nov. 2. Curtain is 7:30 p.m.
"El Amor Brujo," to music of Manuel de Falla, is a story of a young girl who is in love with a promiscuous gypsy lover. She attempts to rid him of the evil spirits by dancing a sacred fire dance. When that fails, she resorts to witchcraft.
Maria Benitez is an internationally acclaimed performer, dancer, choreographer and director. She was initially trained in ballet.
Tickets are available, at $24-$29, at the Kingsbury Hall box office, all ArtTix outlets or by calling 355-ARTS.
- THE UTAH FLUTE Association will present Sterling and Ivory - flutist Lissa Hepner Wildman and pianist Karlyn Bond - in recital Saturday, Nov. 2, at 7:30 p.m. at Westminster College's Nunemaker Place.
Both Westminster faculty members, the two have performed together often. Included on their program Saturday will be an as-yet-unpublished sonata by Martin Amlin and the Suite for Flute and Piano of Charles-Marie Widor.
Admission is $6 ($4 students and senior citizens) or $1 for UFA members.