The rhythmic clank of "Stomp" just keeps going and going. The industrial show of percussion, dance and theater will close its weeklong run at Kingsbury Hall with two performances this afternoon and this evening, at 2 and 7 p.m.
Brooms, paper and plastic bags, Zippo lighters, trash cans, trash-can lids and 50-gallon drums are all used as percussion instruments. Tickets are priced from $20 to $35 at all ArtTix outlets.- THE 170-VOICE Cache Children's Choir, now in its 10th year and gearing for its first international tour, performs its final concert of the season Monday, May 12, at 6 p.m. in the Morgan Theatre of Utah State University's Chase Fine Arts Center.
All four sections of the choir from kindergarten age through middle school will perform in this hourlong concert, which is free to the public, including a pre-show concert with songs and a percussion-round in the foyer.
The Chamber Choir has accepted an invitation to take part in the International Children's Choir Festival this summer under the baton of Indianapolis Children's Choir director Henry Leck. The youngsters will tour Great Britain for 11 days and sing in such locations as Canterbury Cathedral and Westminster Central Hall.
- WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY'S Faculty String Quartet will present a free concert Monday, May 12, at 7:30 p.m. in the Peery Lecture Hall of the Marriott Allied Health Building on the WSU campus.
Included will be music of Mozart, Bartok and Beethoven - the first of his "Razumovsky" Quartets, Op. 59, No. 1. The group is composed of violinists Shi-Hwa Wang and Peggy Wheelwright, violist Michael Palumbo and cellist James McWhorter.
- THE CHAUNTENETTES Chorus will present their spring pops concert, "As Long As I Have Music," Monday, May 12, at 7:30 p.m. at Orem's Canyon View Junior High School. Maurine Madsen directs the group, assisted by Ranelle O'Dell, with Irene Jenkins as accompanist.
The group has been invited to sing several concerts along the Mormon Trail next month, including a performance at the new LDS visitors center at Winter Quarters. To help meet expenses, chorus members will hold a bake sale both before and after Monday's concert as well as a raffle on two handmade quilts.
- THE NEW AMERICAN Symphony Orchestra will perform Tuesday, May 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the Temple Square Assembly Hall.
Performing will be student soloists Dianna Lyn Rhodes and Serena McKinney, in excerpts from the Bartok Viola Concerto and Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2. In addition Michael Palumbo will lead the orchestra in Beethoven's "Leonore" Overture No. 3, the "Evening Song" and "Dream Pantomime" from Humperdinck's "Hansel and Gretel" and Sibelius' "Finlandia."
Other Assembly Hall concerts this week will feature the Valparaiso Singers, from the San Francisco Bay area, with organist James Welch on Wednesday, May 14; the Pro Voce Chorale under Eric Jones performing Mendelssohn's "Elijah," with soprano Carol Nelson, alto Mary Wescott, tenor George Dyer and baritone Clayne Robison on Friday, May 16; and the International Children's Choir School, with Robert Breault as tenor soloist, on Saturday, May 17.
Starting time for each is 7:30 p.m., with admission free to those 8 and older.
- THE UTAH CHAMBER Artists will present their final concert of the season Tuesday, May 13, at 8 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, South Temple and C streets.
Artistic director Barlow Bradford will lead the chorus and orchestra in a program that will include Faure's "Cantique de Jean Racine," Copland's "Appalachian Spring" and popular songs such as "Unforgettable," "Bring Him Home" (from "Les Miserables") and "The Way You Look Tonight."
Tickets, at $15 ($10 students/seniors), may be purchased at Waking Owl Books, Daynes Music Co. or by calling 255-2233.
- THE REPERTORY DANCE Theatre continues its run of "Pattern" Wednesday through Saturday, May 14-17, at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 W. Broadway (300 South). Curtain is 7:30 p.m., with tickets available at all ArtTix outlets for $10 ($8 students/seniors).
RDT will present Lucinda Childs' "Rhythm Plus," Yacov Sharir's "Sine," Viola Farber's "Passengers" and the late Tim Wengerd's "Chant."
- THE SALT LAKE CHILDREN'S Choir will perform Wednesday, May 14, at 7:30 p.m. at Abravanel Hall.
Under Ralph B. Woodward, the choir will be heard in music of Bach, Palestrina, Schubert, Schumann, Grieg and Randall Thompson, among others. Also included will be a selection of international songs and, as a tribute to the pioneer sesquicentennial, Evan Stephens' "Our Mountain Home So Dear" and Sibelius' "Onward, Ye Peoples.
Tickets, at $6, are available at Day Murray Music and all ArtTix locations. Admission is limited to those 6 and older.
- "THE MUSIC SHOP," a modern one-act opera by Richard Wargo, will be presented by the Utah State University Opera Workshop Wednesday through Saturday, May 14-17, at the Logan's Lyric Theatre, 28 W. Center. Curtain is 7:30 p.m. and admission is $5 (free to USU students).
Written in 1993 and based on a Chekhov story, the opera has been double- cast, with one cast performing Wednesday and Friday and the other Thursday and Saturday. Student-directed excerpts from Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado" and "The Pirates of Penzance" will also be performed each evening.
The USU Opera Workshop is directed by Cynthia Dewey.
- GUEST ARTISTS Five by Design bring their "Radio Days" concert to Salt Lake City and Ogden this week, for performances Thursday, May 15, at 7:30 p.m. at Weber State University's Dee Events Center and Friday and Saturday, May 16 and 17, at 8 p.m. at Abravanel Hall.
With David Lewis Crosby conducting the Utah Symphony, the group will offer a commemoraton of radio's golden age, including music of the swing era, love songs, patriotic numbers, even commercial jingles. Also featured will be re-creations of radio drama complete with sound effects, props and costumes.
Tickets for the Ogden concert are $15 and $20; for information call 399-9214. Abravanel Hall tickets are priced from $17 to $34 ($6 students); for information call 533-NOTE.
- THE COLLEGE OF Eastern Utah's dance department will present its final concert of the season May 15-17 in the Geary Theatre in Price. Evening curtain is 7:30, with a matinee Saturday at 2 p.m. Admission is $5 ($4 students/seniors), or $2 for CEU students.
Titled "Dance Is Like a Box of Chocolates," the peformance will be a mix of ballet, jazz, modern and folk. Guest dancer and former CEU dancer and cheerleader Feliciano Gonzales, who now attends Arizona State University, will perform.
- THE UNIVERSITY OF Utah's Performing Dance Company continues its spring concert run Friday and Saturday, May 16-17, at the Marriott Center for Dance on the U. campus. Evening curtain is 7:30, with a matinee May 17 at 2 p.m.
The critically acclaimed modern dance company will present an evening of works by Janis Brenner ("A Matter of Time"), Della Davidson ("Doll"), Sara Hook ("Caucasian Spirituals") and Alan Sener ("Country Fair Down"). Also featured will be a solo performance by world-renowned dancer Risa Steinberg, who will dance Jose Limon's "Choreographic Offering," Ealeanor King's "Envy and Wrath" and Anna Sokolow's "Kaddish."
Tickets, at $7 ($4 students/staff), are available at the Union Building information desk, Dancewear Unlimited in Sugar House and A Woman's Place book store in Foothill Village.
- THE DRAPER SYMPHONY and Chorus will perform Friday and Saturday, May 16 and 17, and Monday, May 19, at 7:30 p.m. in the Draper City Hall auditorium, 12441 S. 900 East.
Included each night will be the Tchaikovsky's "1812" Overture, Sibelius's "Finlandia" and the final movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. Layne Wright will direct the 125-voice chorus and orchestra. Tickets are $5 ($3.50 children), with a $1 discount if purchased in advance at the hall. For information call 576-6585.
- "AMERICAN KALEIDOSCOPE," a potpourri of folk songs, spirituals, religious anthems and show tunes, will be presented by the Utah Valley Choral Society on Friday, May 16, at 7:30 p.m. in the Provo Tabernacle.
Included will be pieces by Aaron Copland, Howard Hanson, Richard Rodgers and Leonard Bernstein as well as arrangements by John Rutter, Mack Wilberg and Rob Millet. Lois Johnson will direct, along with Millet, Ann Moyle and Larry Johnson.
Tickets are $6 ($4 students/seniors) at the door.
- THE USU SYMPHONIC BAND and Wind Orchestra will perform Friday, May 16, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kent Concert Hall of the Logan school's Chase Fine Arts Center. Included will be music by Howard Hanson, Darius Milhaud ("Suite Francaise"), Peter Mennin and Malcolm Arnold as well as Bruce Broughton's "Silverado."
Cody Birdwell and Nicholas Morrison direct the two groups. Admission is $5 (free to USU students) at the door.
- GUITARIST DAVID NORTON and his wife, Mary Norton, will present an evening of music for guitar and soprano Friday, May 16, at 8 p.m. at the Day Murray Music Recital Hall, 4914 S. State.
Included will be Norton's setting of Edward Lear's poem "The Owl and the Pussycat," along with his "Springtime Suite" and "Celtic Images" and music of Sanz, Almeida, Duarte and Villa-Lobos (including the "Bachianas Brasileiras" No. 5).
Tickets are $5, with a reception to follow.
- SONGWORKS, formerly the Salt Lake-West Valley Chorale, will present its spring concert Friday, May 16, at 8 p.m. at Westvale Presbyterian Church, 3610 S. 4400 West in West Valley City.
A donation of $4 ($12 per family) is requested for a program that will include Mozart's "Solemn Vespers," with soloists Tamara King, Jennifer Heldenbrand, Kelly Osterberg and Deuane Kuenzi. Harry Heightman directs the group, with Judy Barking and Marvin Patillo as accompanists.
- ANTON BRUCKNER'S early Requiem in D minor, the Austrian symphonist's first extended vocal/instrumental work, will be performed by the Crossroads Choral Ensemble Saturday, May 17, at 8 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, South Temple and C streets.
James E. Adams directs the group, which will also be heard in a suite of songs from "The Girl From Utah," including Jerome Kern's first hit song, "They Didn't Believe Me."