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Show Wed/Thurs/Fri, May 24-26, 2017 The Park Record ‘Rite of Spring’ wraps season C-5 PUZZLE ANSWERS FROM PAGE C-4 Submitted by the Utah Symphony | Utah Opera Maestro Thierry Fischer will lead the Utah Symphony and guest violinist Simone Porter in the final Masterworks performance of the 2016-17 season at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, May 26 and 27, at Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake City. The concert will feature Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” and works by Tchaikovsky and Varèse. Tchaikovsky’s “Souvenir d’un lieu cher,” featuring Porter, whom the LA Times declared as being “on the cusp of a major career,” will start the evening. Conceived while working on his Violin Concerto, Tchaikovsky’s “Souvenir d’un lieu cher” has three movements, the first of which, “Méditation,” was the one that challenged Tchaikovsky the most, but is considered to be among his best work. The piece was later orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov, whose arrangement has perhaps become even better known than the original composition. Porter has been recognized as an emerging artist of impassioned intensity, musical integrity, and vibrant energy since her early years in Utah when her parents were instructors at the University of Utah. An early mentor of hers was Mikhail Bugoslavsky, the late violist with the Utah Symphony who was a faculty member at the University of Utah for more than 20 years. Porter performed works of Haydn, Mozart and Schubert with Utah Symphony at St. Mary’s Church during the 2013 Deer Valley Music Festival. Porter studied with Margaret Pressley and, as a recipient of the Dorothy Richard Starling Scholarship. Afterwards she was admitted into the studio of the renowned pedagogue Robert Lipsett, with whom she presently studies at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles. At only 19 years of age, she has already appeared with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Houston Symphony, and Los Angeles Philharmonic. She made her professional solo debut with the Seattle Symphony at 10 years old and her international debut with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London at age 13. The concert will also offer a unique chance to encounter two great works exploring primitivism in Central Asia and the Americas by Stravinsky and Edgar Varèse. Edgard Varèse’s “Amériques” was shaped by the forces of political catastrophe and a changing world. He was conscripted into the French army during World War I before being labeled as unable to serve because of health problems. Though luckily, this sparked his Continued From C-4 Gardens will host fundraiser Memorial Day Celebration Honor America’s Military War Dead on Memorial Day, COURTESY OF THE UTAH SYMPHONY Maestro Thierry Fischer, above, will conduct the Utah Symphony in its final performances of the 2016-17 season this weekend. creativity and a realization that America was the home of change and the new. He felt he had to live there. Immediately after the war, he emigrated on his quest looking for the grit, grime, and noise. Acknowledged as visionary “Amériques” is a piece that puts America’s pulse to music. “Amériques” was recorded for the Vanguard label in 1973 by Utah Symphony with legendary Music Director Maurice Abravanel conducting. Closing the night will be Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” (“Le Sacre du printemps”). Premiering in 1913 it was the shock heard round the world, with such an unfamiliar sound that listeners at its Paris premiere became a violent mob. A year later, Stravinsky was hearing cheers and bravos, turn- ing him into a hero of music. Today, after more than a century, the music of “The Rite of Spring” in its artful brutality shocks no one and instead, delights. “Both ‘Amériques’ by Varèse and ‘The Rite of Spring’ by Stravinsky are the respective composers’ seminal works,” explained Utah Symphony Principal Librarian Clovis Lark. “Quoting Varèse on ‘Amériques,’ his first work written in the United States: ‘The mere word ‘America’ meant all discoveries, all adventures. It meant the unknown.’” Tickets for the concerts range from $21-$82 and can be purchased at www.utahsymphony. org or by calling 801-533-6683. A pre-concert lecture, free to all ticket holders, will take place at all Masterworks Series performances in Abravanel Hall’s First Tier Room 45 minutes prior to the performance. Utah Symphony will hold Finishing Touches: “The Rite of Spring” on at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 26. To raise awareness for Alzheimer’s Month, complimentary tickets to Finishing Touches rehearsal are available for patients and their caregivers. Call 801533-6683 or reserve tickets online at www.utahsymphony.org and use code word: ALZHEIMER’S. Finishing Touches tickets for the general public are for $17 and $15 for students. Tickets are available at www.utahsymphony. org/component/k2/1232-the-riteof-spring. live here who are food insecure,” Kullack said. Speaking of the Christian Center of Park City, Summit Community Gardens has begun working with the nonprofit to offer its food bank clients free gardening plots so they can grow their own food. “Seeds of Change Fundraiser will help expand these programs,” Kullack said. “This is something we want to do every year, and hopefully, we’ll continue doing it with Vessel Kitchen.” Summit Community Gardens will hold its first Seeds of Change Fundraiser from 6-9 p.m. on Monday, June 5, at Vessel Kitchen, 1784 Uinta Way. Tickets are $75 and can be purchased by visiting summitcommunitygardens.org. Both ‘Amériques’ by Varèse and ‘The Rite of Spring’ by Stravinsky are the respective composers’ seminal works...” Clovis Lark Utah Symphony principal librarian ParkCityShows.com Don’t Miss This Live Musical Production! RUNS FOR 2 WEEKS! Presented by the Ziegfeld Theater May 25–June 4 May 29, 2016 at Park City Cemetery (on Kearns) at 9 AM KEYNOTE SPEAKER Vice Admiral (Retired) Richard Gallagher NATIONAL ANTHEM by the Treble Makers Organized by Park City American Legion Post 14 |