The Mount Olympus Quartet, the honors quartet at the University of Utah, will present a free concert at 7:30 this evening at the U.'s Gardner Hall.
Performing will be violinists Tamara Gallup and Amy Steenblik, violist Nels Paulsen and cellist Michael Van Dam. They will be heard in Schubert's String Quartet in E flat major, Op. 125, and the first of Beethoven's "Razumovsky" Quartets, the Op. 59, No. 1.- VIOLINIST JENNY OAKS will be the featured soloist with the Wasatch Community Symphony Orchestra in a concert this evening at First Presbyterian Church, South Temple and C streets.
Currently in her third year at the Curtis Institute of Music, Oaks made her recital debut in Vienna last spring. Tonight she will solo in the Beethoven Violin Concerto. In addition music director Kenneth Kuchler will lead the orchestra in Schubert's Overture in D major and the Reverie for Strings by James Corigliano. The WCSO Brass will also perform music of Giovanni Gabrieli.
Starting time is 7:30 p.m. and admission is free.
- THE UTAH BAROQUE Ensemble, directed by Martha Sargent, will present a free concert of sacred choral music at 7:30 this evening at the Windsor LDS Stake Center, 60 E. 1600 North, in Orem.
Featured will be music of Bach (three movements from the Cantata 182), Tallis, Byrd, Martini, Brahms and American composer Kenneth Jennings. Later this week the group will travel to California for performances in Anaheim and at the Western Division convention of the American Choral Directors Association.
- THE PRAGUE SMETANA Choir will perform at 7:30 this evening in the Kent Concert Hall of Utah State University's Chase Fine Arts Center in Logan. Admission is $5 (students two for $5), at the door.
Directed by Michael Kerpt, the Prague Smetana Choir was established in 1909. Since then it has won competitions in Europe and Great Britain. Its repertoire consists of Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, German, Hungarian, English, French, Finnish and Italian works, as well as music of its homeland, including pieces by Bedrich Smetana.
In addition to its USU concert, the choir is scheduled to sing in Ogden and Salt Lake City, including a performance Monday, March 11, at noon at Salt Lake Community College's South City Campus.
- THE UTAH SYMPHONY promises a truly magical evening when it presents "The Symphony and the Sorcerer" Monday, March 11, at 7:30 p.m. at Abravanel Hall.
Joining the orchestra and its associate conductor, Robert Henderson, for this special family concert will be the Landis & Company Theater of Magic for a blend of theater, illusion and symphonic music.
Planned highlights range from the musical imagery of Beethoven's "Pastorale" Symphony to an unruly piano bench that nearly upsets the company's star, Alexei the Ukrainian Wonder, during Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 and an airborne appearance by Rosie the Cleaning Lady to the strains of Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade."
First commissioned by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the program has since been picked up by Atlanta, Baltimore and the Boston Pops. The Landis Company also tours year-round with theatrical companies in the United States and Asia.
Tickets are priced from $8 to $14, with family passes available for $22.50; for information call 533-NOTE.
- MEZZO-SOPRANO Lani Poulson will present a song recital Tuesday, March 12, at 7:30 p.m. in the Temple Square Assembly Hall.
Accompanied by pianist Barlow Bradford, she will perform songs of Barber, Wolf, Faure, Debussy and Mussorgsky ("Songs and Dances of Death"). Poulson appears regularly with opera companies in Europe and was the winner of the Ely Ameling Prize for Lieder at the 1984 Hertogenbosch International Vocal Competition in Holland.
Admission is free but limited to those 8 and older.
- BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY'S two flute choirs, Flutes Futura and Silver Breeze, will perform Tuesday, March 12, at 7:30 p.m. in the Madsen Recital Hall of the Provo school's Harris Fine Arts Center.
Admission is free for a program that will present Silver Breeze in familiar classical pieces, including a Brahms chorus arranged for flute and organ and excerpts from Mozart's "Eine kleine Nachtmusik." Flutes Futura will perform modern works, including "Cloud Studies," "Monochrome" and "Cyclorama" - a piece where the flutists will perform among the audience members.
The ensembles are directed by Elizabeth Ruppe and Vivian Ellsworth. Ralph Laycock, an emeritus BYU faculty member, will be a guest conductor for Flutes Futura.
Other concerts this week, also at the Fine Arts Center, include performances by the BYU Men's Chorus, under Mack Wilberg, on Tuesday, March 12, in the de Jong Concert Hall, and another by the BYU Philharmonic, under Bryce Rytting, on Thursday, March 14, also in de Jong.
Starting time for each is 7:30 p.m., with tickets $6 ($4 students/ staff, $5 alumni and senior citizens).
- VIOLINIST GERALD ELIAS will present a solo recital on Wednesday, March 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the University of Utah's Gardner Hall.
Joined by pianist Marjorie Janove, Elias will perform sonatas of Handel, Hindemith, Beethoven and Franck. Elias is currently associate concertmaster of the Utah Symphony and first violinist of the Abramyan String Quartet. Janove holds a doctorate in music from Indiana University.
Admission is $15 ($10 students and senior citizens), with proceeds helping fund the Utah Philharmonia's planned trip to the Atlanta International Band and Orchestra Conference in April. The Utah Philharmonia is the only American university orchestra invited to perform.
For information call 581-6692.
- MUSICA ANTIQUA, a group of nine vocalists and instrumentalists, will present a free concert of 15th, 16th and some 20th century music Thursday, March 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the Temple Square Assembly Hall.
Founded in 1972 at Weber State College by Michelle Stott, the group will be heard in music of Johannes Schultz, Josquin des Pres, Giovanni Gabrieli, Henry Purcell, Domenico Scarlatti and Maurice Dela, among others.
- BALLET WEST continues its run of Ben Stevenson's "Alice in Wonderland" Friday and Saturday, March 15 and 16, at the Capitol Theatre. Evening performances begin at 7:30 p.m., with a 2 p.m. matinee Saturday.
Tickets are priced from $10 to $45 and may be purchased by calling 355-ARTS. They are also available at the Capitol Theatre box office and selected Albertsons ArtTix outlets.
The company will also take "Alice" to Ogden for performances March 22 and 23 at Weber State University's Browning Center for the Performing Arts. Evening curtain is 7:30 p.m., with a matinee March 23 at 2 p.m.
Tickets, priced from $8 to $18, are available at the Ogden Symphony-Ballet Association, or by calling 399-9214.
- MUSIC DIRECTOR Robert Debbaut will lead the Salt Lake Symphony in two concerts of American music Friday and Saturday, March 15-16, at 7:30 p.m. in the Temple Square Assembly Hall.
Featured will be excerpts from Copland's "Rodeo" ballet along with works by Utah composers Leroy Robertson ("American Serenade"), Henry Wolking ("Pangaea") and John Vasconcelos Costa ("Allure").
Admission each night is free but limited to those 8 and older.
- AN EVENING OF classical Indian dance, or bharatnatyam, will be performed by Pavithra Prasad at Larima Center for Performing Arts, 843 Lincoln St., Saturday, March 16 at 7 p.m.
Tickets for the performance range from $8 to $10 and are available at India Unlimited, 1615 S. Foothill Drive, or at the door.
Prasad began her training at the age of 13 in the Kalakshetra in Madras, India. She made her debut in 1985 and has since performed all over the world.
Bharatnatyam is one of the oldest dance forms in India and is characterized by its fluidity of motion. The unity of the body and mind is the focus of each dance, which draws on ancient Indian legends, myths and ballads.
The evening will also feature the music of a four-piece orchestra consisting of a vocalist, a violinist and two percussionists.