Show & 1998 Aim gPRRTBMlNf K July Theater Friday A full plate for UFOC Festival Open Company's special performance Muska — The Henry Holt Celebration Concert will feature the UFOC orchestra ensemble and soloists perfonninf some of die most beloved musical masterwotks It will take place at 2 pm on July 31 in tber Ellen Eccles Theatre Logan as part of UFOC's 1998 Festival season Included on die program will be the Final Movement from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony ( Ode to Joy) Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue Va pensiero from Verdi's Nabucco Mozart's Aw Wrwfi Corpus Hoe Down from Aaron Copland's Rodeo Strauss's Tales From The Vienna Woods Meditation from Thaisby Massenet and many other favorite overtures arias and ensembles The concert will be conducted by Karen Kellner principal conductor for San Diego Opera and Henry Mollicone composer of Face on the Barroom Floor Coyote Tales and other operas “If dime's one outstanding quality of UFOC that is most frequently mentioned by reviewers and audience members alike it is the superb quality of our orchestra and ensemble" said Michael Ballam general director of the company "This concert will give us an opportunity to bring our orchestra which contains some of the finest musicians in the country out of the ! Utah The 12 Page f- - Utah Festival Opera Com--i pany will bold its third annual DinnerAoctiou Fundraiser in the Dansame Building S9S 100 West on July 17 at 5:30 p just before the opening performance of The Piratesef a f 1 ' Penance The event includes a dinner and a silent and live auction kerns pranging from WhohFesavai Opera handicrafts f to vacatioos fundraiser Whom 530 Y and fine art ‘The geo-- ' ( 'of f : erosityof Where Buien andtner Center TkfcatS($30 chants has been out- -' 03006)1)09 local artists f 85®"" mmfing:: said Dee Ctae&thecompo' P ay director f development "We have soma very foie paintings and other art pieces as well as smaller kerns that ’ t will fit anyooe’s bodgeL And the fbod is going to be great" F The DinraAnction b the I' company only annual fond-- I raising event The money ft earned goes to support pro-- ' £ gtammutgopewrionannd : educational programs v-- ' The cost is $30 per person ? Tb make leservarions for the - Cast members Rebecca Ravenshaw (left to right) C Brian Woodward and Richard Sanchefc open the Utah Festival Opera Compwiy'B 1998 season wWi 1 PagBacd' The Festival Is also presenting a musical tribute to tie lata Henry HolL pit and place them center stage We’ll also be able to feature our truly magnificent easem- Me and soloists Audience members are going to love this afternoon of some of the most beautiful music ever written" The conceit is Resented in memory of the late HenryHok Comps- ny’sloM-rimefriet- id and conductor' ad inspiration and mentor for OPERA America’s and UFOCs opera in the schools programs was one of Henry’s greatest desires to see us present this concert He planned the whole program last summer" said Ballam "I know he'll he participating" Tkketa tar Muska Magrtifka — The Henry Hoff Celebration Concert and the other UFOC Festival productions I Pagliacci and Gianni SchkcU The Piratesef Penzance and IDollDo! can hr ipurchased at the Ellen 43 S Main Eccles Theatre Box O or 435-- Tt Logan or by calling 88 752-002- 6 t (event call 750-0300- 1 ext I 109 RACING FROM 13 The secret to picking a winner Gcoigie and her friends explained is a little luck thrown in with skilL The ladies study the physical characteristics of the animals as well as the information in the program where speed indexes and annual salaries of the horses are provided "We know how they run after watching them all spring" one lady said "But sometimes we just like the horse’s name” You can’t help but feel lucky putting money down on a racer named Rich Gold Digger owned by Egbert and Kendall Leishman or Pay The Man Cash owned by Karl Peterson of Logan The season at Wyoming Downs runs every Friday Saturday and Sunday through Aug 9 General admission is $5 per person and the arena is located north of Evanston on Highway 89 HORSE The Woman In Bind? is Just one ofltie Lyric's productions Don't forget the Lyric Even though the 1998 summer season at the Old Lyric Reperto ( ry Company (OLRC) is well under way season subscriptions are still available and are still the best ticket price in town accotd- ing to executive producer Colin Johnson A season subscription one ticket to each of the four productions saves patrons more than 25 percent off single ticket range in price from $30 to i OLRC summer productions run in rotation through Aug 15 Plays include the ghost story The Woman in Black the musical comedy The Cardigans the British farce Pooh Paradise and the classic comedy The Servant of Two Masters For ticket information call (435)797-030- 5 FROM14 them When they win a race the animals hold their heads high right after they pan the mandatory hug test that is Owning race horses is not only for the elite the trainers said A foreman for Jack Parsons Construction Company Pitcher 42 is far from a blue blood Other people who have enjoyed fishing and say horse racing is no more expensive Pitcher said For people who can afford the hobby k is very relaxing lust coming out and getting involved in the training and racing is fun but there’s nothing better man winning he said One way to look at it one of Pitcher’s clients told him is to consider the training bill a mortgage pay- snow-mobili- ng meat except it has the added option to make something in return The easiest and best way to get involved in horse racing Pitcher said is to go into a partnership and purchase a horse with several people "You may only own 18 of die animal but that eighth might be nose” he said This weekend will be an important one for the Pitchers who have put up some high stakes in the Silver Dollar Futurity tar two years the owners have paid money— a lot of money — into the race which could pay big for the winner “We have to be in the lop 10 to run bade at aD the money" Pitcher said This started as a hobby but k ain’t no hobby no moror 4 |