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Show (VT T err-, umiiniieiiM 71 Weber State singers 'Gotta Sing' in the The Weber State Singers will present its spring concert "Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance" May 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the Austad Auditorium of the Val A. Browning Center. This year the Weber State Singers have been invited to perform at the Bavarian Garden Show, which will be hosted by Ogden's sister city of Hof, Germany. They will be presenting eight performances at the garden show and will also give concerts in other cities in Germany and Austria. The group will leave for Germany June 10. The spring concert is the most important fund raising event of the quarter, and students can help them make the trip to Germany by attending the concert.They will be performing a variety of music including "Raise a Ruckus!" "A Rootin', Tootin' Country Salute;" a gospel selection, "I'm Gonna Sing;" a Stephen Foster medley, "It Was a Lover and his Lass;" a Scottish folk song "I'll Ay Call in By Yon Town," "Thou Art God" and other selections.Several solos, duets and ensembles will be presented by members of the group. Evelyn M. Harris is the director of Weber State Singer with Gerilyn Jensen and Emily Yurth seving as accom- Marvin Lewis Award presented to Coles The Dr. Marvin O. Lewis Award was presented to Kathrine Coles Tuesday morn-ingbeforeafullhouse of nearly 200 Weber State University faculty, students and guests in the Stewart Library special collections room. Coles, a poet, won the competition for her poem, "Sex as a Trope." A trope is a metaphor or a figure of speech. Through the creation of vivid imagery, Coles was able to keep the crowd spellbound as she read her award-winning masterpiece."Rain pushes at the glass like wasps on those chilly days in autumn the way she thinks a woman pushes herself against the surface of the world as if it might open into shelter a small light place. He tells her how the girl bent down her head, her sleeve and collar torn. How she touched her eyelid pushed almost shut and still darkening touched her swollen lips her whole face grown beyond its self to one she couldn't find her eye. He thinks she felt sorry for that stranger reached her hand to the mirror a gesture of the comfort she had to offer. He says it was only what it was, a girl wept before the mirror she unbuttoned her blouse again for the camera..," say excerpts from her poem. Coles said that "Sex as a lif t, . i . r i ' 1 1 n n t fi - . ..it The Weber State Singers will panists. Weber State Singers was among the groups selected to appear in Expo '86 in Canada. In 1987 they were selected as the "Organization of the Year" at the annual Crystal Crest Awards at Trope" was one of the first poems she had written in which she used science as a metaphor. Throughout the poem, images of the more simple principles of Einstein were very apparent. Coles read another poem titled "Pantun in Which Time Equals Space." She dedicated this poem to a friend of hers and his lover, who died of AIDS in 1992. Pier book of poems, "The One Right Touch," was published in 1992. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in. tThe Paris Review, The New Republic and North American Review. Her awards include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts from PEN, the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the Academy of American Poets.Mark Strand, the judge for the 1993 competition also recited several of his works. Strand has written many volumes of poems and has published short fiction, translations, anthologies, children's books and essays, and has received several prestigious awards including the Mac Arthur Foun-' dation Fellowship Award. In 1990 and 1991, he served as United States Poet Laureate. Beginning next fall, he will teach in the creative writing program at John Hopkins University. ,ifi v it if t J ' Tr. 4HW IP present its spring program "Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance " Thursday, May 12 at 7:30 p.m. Weber State University. In the summer of 1990 they performed at Expo '90 in Osaka, Japan. In the spring of 1993 they were again selected as the "Organization of the Year," and they won first place at the All-Ameri- Sounds of the symphony tango with singer's soprano vocals The chandeliers of Abravanel Hall will shake as the voices of soprano Andrea Matthews, mezzo-soprano Andrea Thornock and the Utah Symphony Chorus swell in the performances of Mahler's Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection" Friday and Saturday-Matthews, an accomplished and enthusiastic art-song recital-ist, won the National Association of Teachers of Singing first prize in their 1981 vocal competition and has appeared in recitals across the United States. She made her operatic debut as Susanna in Virginia Opera's "The Marriage of Figaro" in 1984, returning the following year as Gretel in "Hansel and Gretel." In 1985, Matthews made her Carnegie Hall debut in the Faure "Requiem" with the New York Choral Society, returning numerous times for works such as Brahms' "German Requiem," Bach's "B Minor Mass" and "Carmina Burma." Matthews' performances in the United States are numerous. She has performed with the Minnesota Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, New Mexico Symphony, Los Angles Master Chorale, Mostly Mozart Festival at New York's Lincoln Center, Musica Sacra and the National Symphony at Wolftrap. Thornock is no stranger on the stage of Abravanel Hall. Her performances with the Utah Symphony Orchestra include w can Music Festival in March, 1993 in Orlando, Fla. While in Florida the singers gave concerts at Disney World, Universal Studios, sang on a cruise ship and performed in Gainesville to an audience of 450 people. Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony," Vivaldi's "Gloria" and the "Cole Porter Celebration." Thornock began her academic study of music at Ricks College, pursuing voice, piano and violin. She chose a double major in vocal performance and music education at Brigham Young University, receiving a bachelor's degree in 1981 . Thornock continued her formal studies at the Manhattan School of Music, earning a master's degree in vocal performance in 1986. She then continued to free-lance in New York doing opera, oratorio and concert work. Thornock recently relocated to Salt Lake City from San Francisco, where she studied Wagner and Strauss roles with Blanche Thebom, formerly of the Metropolitan Opera. Since her return to Salt Lake City, Thornock has made her mark on the music scene. She debuted with the Salt Lake Opera Theater in the leading role of Santuzza in "Cavalleria Rusticana" and has made several appearances in Cathedral of the Madeleine Festivals. Thornock has also appeared as guest soloist with South Davis Community Choir on Temple Square and with the University of Utah's faculty quartet. Next fall, Thornock will be the featured vocal soloist in Ballet West's premiere production of "Queen of Spades." spring 1 1' Tickets are $5 and are available at the Dee Events Center ticket office Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. . For ticket information call the Dee Events Center ticket office at 626-8500. Thornock has been on the voice faculty at the University of Utah and is currently on the voice faculty at Weber State University. The Utah Symphony Chorus, formerly the Utah Chorale, was founded in 1950 under the direction of John Marlowe Nielson. The chorus, now under the director of Edgar J. Thompson, traditionally performs on two Utah Symphony subscription programs and has also performed on the orchestra's pops series and with Ballet West. In its concept, musical realization and emotion, the "Resurrection" Symphony is an overwhel m-ing experience. Though its foundations in structure and technique are unshakable, this work seems to scorn technical analysis in favor of identifying its progression of images and feelings. Mahler himself wrote of the emotional engines driving this symphony. The first movement envisions us standing by the coffin of a well-loved person. His life, passions and aspirations pass before our minds' eye for the last time. The performances will begin at 8 p.m. in Abravanel Hall. Tickets range from $11 to $32 and are available at the symphony box office. If they are available students will be able to purchase tickets for $5 at the door the day of the show. A student Identification is required for student tickets. AtaMilMi:-V.-iw-'' |