Violinist Joseph Silverstein and pianist Derek Han, continuing their concert collaborations this weekend, will perform the last four Mozart sonatas for violin and piano this evening at First Presbyterian Church, 12 N. "C" St.
Presented by the Chamber Music Society of Salt Lake City, the performance will begin at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15 ($5 students) at the door.Silverstein and Han recently performed these sonatas - K. 380, K. 454, K. 481 and K. 526 - as part of a complete Mozart violin-sonata traversal at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. Those concerts were recorded and will be released later this year in this country by BMG.
- THE SIGHTS, SOUNDS and fashions of the United Kingdom will be the focus of a special Utah Symphony performance Monday, March 18, at 7 p.m. at Abravanel Hall.
Part of this month's UK/Utah Festival, the program will feature the orchestra, under assistant conductor Kory Katseanes, in an evening of British music ranging from Walton's "Crown Imperial" to a Beatles medley. Vocalists Jennifer Larson and Michael Ballam will also be heard in music of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Lerner and Loewe.
In addition ZCMI has invited fashion designer Zandra Rhodes to showcase her latest creations on a specially built runway extending into the audience. Her designs will be augmented by a Utah fashion retrospective, "100 Years of Style," assembled by ZCMI from sources throughout the state, including private collections and costumes from Utah Opera.
A post-concert reception, "A Royal Dessert," will be held at the Salt Lake Art Center immediately following. Reception tickets are $10; tickets to the concert and fashion show are priced from $11 to $25. For information call 533-NOTE.
- THE NATIONALLY ACCLAIMED U.S. Army Field Band and Soldiers' Chorus will perform Monday, March 18, at 7:30 p.m. in the Salt Lake Tabernacle.
The free program, part of the group's 50th-anniversary tour, will consist of a variety of patriotic and concert selections, including a pair of Sousa marches. Col. Jack H. Grogan Jr. and Lt. Col. Finley R. Hamilton direct the two units. Narrator will be Master Sgt. Orvel H. Lee.
- THE YOUNG ARTIST Chamber Players, directed by Jack Ashton, will present a free concert Tuesday, March 19, at 7:30 p.m. in the Temple Square Assembly Hall.
Featured will be music of Utah composers Leroy Robertson ("American Serenade"), Richard Dickson and Robert Cundick (Concerto for Organ and Strings) along with Elgar's Introduction and Allegro. Soloing in the Cundick will be organist David Chamberlain.
Also performing this week in the Assembly Hall, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 20, will be Japanese pianist Ruriko Osawa, a 1995 graduate of Brigham Young University who is currently teaching in Sapparo. She will be heard in music of Bach, Faure, Debussy, Shostakovich and Schumann (the "Davidsbuendlertaenze").
Then on Friday, March 22, at 7:30 p.m. Brian Bentley will lead the combined Hillcrest High School Choirs in a program that will include the John Rutter Gloria.
In each case admission is free but limited to those 8 and older.
- THE UTAH VALLEY SYMPHONY will present its spring concert Wednesday and Thursday, March 20 and 21, in the Provo Tabernacle. Starting time each night is 7:30 p.m. with admission $5 ($4 students and senior citizens) at the door.
Featured will be individual members of the orchestra, beginning with "Sound Sketches" by bass player Richard E. Barker, which he will also conduct. First composed in 1959 for string quartet, the piece has been revised several times.
Then, with Clyn Barrus conducting, concertmistress Barbara Williams will solo in the Barber Violin Concerto, followed by a performance of Saint-Saens' Symphony No. 3, with cellist Walter Whipple as organ soloist.
- THE ALL CITY Children's Orchestra and All City Chamber Orchestra will present a free concert Thursday, March 21, at 7 p.m. at St. James Episcopal Church in Midvale.
Featured will be music of British composers as well as Irish folk songs. Devon English Colby directs the Children's Orchestra; Conrad Dunn directs the Chamber Orchestra.
- REPERTORY DANCE THEATRE continues its "Everything You Wanted To Know About Dance" lecture-and-demonstration series Thursday, March, 21, in the RDT Studio, 158 S. 300 West. The free program begins at 7:15 p.m., with early arrival suggested.
- ARTISTS FROM THE Utah Opera Ensemble will be heard in a UK/Utah Festival concert on Friday, March 22, at 7 p.m. at the Ladies Literary Club.
Titled "In an English Country Garden," the program will embrace everything from art song to light music-hall entertainment. Featured will be Lehmann's "In a Persian Garden," with a text taken from "The Rubaiyat," and pieces by Ivor Novello, Noel Coward and Flanders & Swan.
Soloing will be Karen Early Evans, Robin Murphy, Steven Paul Speras, Frank A. Basile and Marc Weagraff, with Paul Dorgan at the piano. Admission is $10, with a reception following.
- BALLET WEST continues its UK/Utah Festival run of Ben Stevenson's "Alice in Wonderland" with performances Friday and Saturday, March 22 and 23, at Weber State University's Browning Center for the Performing Arts.
Evening performances begin at 7:30 with a matinee March 23 at 2 p.m. Ticket prices range from $9 to $18 for evenings and $8 to $17 for the matinee. For information call the Ogden Symphony-Ballet Association (399-9214).
- THE RICKS COLLEGE Chamber Orchestra will perform Friday, March 22, in the Madsen Recital Hall of Brigham Young University's Harris Fine Arts Center. Conducted by R. Kevin Call, Christian Smith and Kendell Nielsen, the orchestra will be heard in Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man," wind arrangements of music from Orff's "Carmina Burana" and Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition," the finale from the Weber Bassoon Concerto and Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C minor.
The concert will be repeated Saturday, March 23, in the Temple Square Assembly Hall. Starting time for each is 7:30 p.m. and admission is free.
- THE MAGIC CIRCLE Mime Company joins the Utah Symphony for two pairs of concerts next weekend, the first to be presented Friday and Saturday, March 22 and 23, at 8 p.m. at Abravanel Hall.
Titled "Death on the Downbeat," the program will offer a film-noir murder mystery together with music of the masters. Following the announcement of the death of the evening's conductor, Detective Deuce and his sergeant track down suspects - among them prominent Utahns - and attempt to solve the crime, all while the orchestra performs music of Bernstein, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Richard Rodgers.
Robert Henderson will conduct the concert, for which tickets are priced from $17 to $34. Formed in 1977 by Maggie Petersen and Douglas MacIntyre, the Magic Circle Mime Company creates concerts which integrate symphonic music with theater.
The following day they will also bring their brand of magic to a pair of youth concerts, to be presented Saturday at 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m., also at Abravanel Hall.
With Kory Katseanes conducting, the program will deal with "The Mozart Experience," involving a street musician who finds herself thrust into the role of Mozart.
Tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for children. Call 533-NOTE.
- FIVE OF UTAH VALLEY'S community choirs will combine for a UK/Utah Choralfest on Saturday, March 23, at 7:30 p.m. in the Provo Tabernacle.
Performing will be the Utah Children's Choir, Pro Voce, Viva Voce, Utah Baroque Ensemble and the Utah Valley Choral Society. Each will sing three or four individual selections as well as joint renditions of "See the Conquering Hero Come" from Handel's "Judas Maccabaeus" and "Come, Come, Ye Saints."
Featured will be folk songs, sacred pieces and secular music of Purcell, Britten, Tallis, Rutter, Byrd, Vaughan Williams, Robert Cundick and Marvin Hamlisch, among others.
Admission is $5 ($3.50 children and seniors) at the door.
- THE BRIGHAM YOUNG University Early Music Ensemble will present Bach's Mass in B minor Saturday, March 23, at 8 p.m. in the Cathedral of the Madeleine, 331 E. South Temple.
Directed by Daron Bradford, the 45-member ensemble comprises a choir, baroque chamber orchestra and individual soloists. There is no charge for admission.