Orchestra's Fall Concert features 'A Night in Vienna' Oct. 26-27
SALT LAKE CITY — "A Night in Vienna" is the theme of the Orchestra at Temple Square's fall concert on Friday, Oct. 26, and Saturday, Oct. 27, at 7:30 p.m. in the Salt Lake Tabernacle on Temple Square.
The concert will feature the works of Joseph Haydn, Richard Strauss and Johann Strauss, with the musical journey to Austria being led by Igor Gruppman, conductor of the Orchestra at Temple Square.
Free tickets to the concert are available online at www.lds.org/events, over the phone at 801-570-0080, or from the Conference Center ticket office and are limited to four per person.
The concert will open with Haydn's "Farewell Symphony," written in 1772 for Haydn's patron, Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy. The overture from the operetta "Die Fledermaus," written by Johann Strauss Jr. more than 100 years later, will complete the first half.
The second half of the concert will open with the "Der Rosenkavlier Suite," a concert version of a comic opera written by Richard Strauss (no relation to Johann Jr.) and first performed in 1944. The concert will finish with three more pieces by Johann Strauss Jr.
The Orchestra at Temple Square was formed in 1999 and its charter as an all-volunteer musical organization is to accompany the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and to perform in two concerts of its own each year.
Ypm applications due Nov. 30
NAUVOO, Ill. — Applications to audition to be a young performing missionary next summer in the Illinois Nauvoo Mission are due Nov. 30. Late applications will not be considered.
Each year 20 stage missionaries, two to four tech missionaries and 16 to 18 band members are selected through an audition process, and will receive a four-month Church Service Mission call from May 3 to Aug. 13, 2013, to the Illinois Nauvoo Mission, assigned to serve in Nauvoo, according to a news release.
Young performing missionary candidates should be in excellent physical and mental health, as they are required to consistently put in 12- to 14-hour performance days, seven days per week for the entire summer. Stage young performing missionaries sing, dance and act in seven separate productions in addition to entertaining on the streets of Historic Nauvoo. They also participate as the dancing corps for the Nauvoo Pageant during the month of July.
Band young performing missionaries perform on a horse-drawn bandwagon throughout the streets of Nauvoo. They also participate in stage shows, give daily concerts and participate in the Nauvoo Pageant. Additionally, band young performing missionaries serve as guides in the Nauvoo historic sites.
Tech missionaries are responsible for stage management, setting/running lighting and sound, and overseeing all technical aspects of each performance.
Applicants are asked to submit a full audition packet, including an audition DVD.
Typically, between 250 and 300 stage applications each year and 40 to 50 band applications are received. From these initial packets, 40 stage applicants and 25 to 30 band applicants are invited to participate in a full-day call-back audition, at the conclusion of which the final young performing missionaries candidates will be selected.
All young performing missionaries are called as service missionaries and must obtain an ecclesiastical recommend and complete service missionary application documents once selected. They are expected to live in mission companionships, abide by all mission rules and provide their own financial support (outside of travel, which is provided).
Information and the full application packet are online at www.historicnauvoo.net/participate/ypm.
handmade blankets Donated
Barbara Van Rij, a member of Fallbrook First Ward, Vista California Stake Relief Society, continues to make substantial contributions to Mom's 1st Baby, a military newborn program. It is part of the Military Outreach Ministry and designed to give young couples a gift basket of needed baby items.
Van Rij last year donated 21 handmade quilts. This year she donated 18 handmade quilts and 65 knit baby caps.
When asked how long it took her to make the quilts, Van Rij said it took her one and one-half months, but added that she didn't want any publicity for what she thought was "doing her best for those in need."
For information on the Mom's 1st Baby program, see mom4usa.org.
— Elaine Cole