22 Friday December 1 2000 Standard-Examine- r CONCERTS Swing to Junction City Big Band OGDEN - The Junction City Big Band will present its Decem- ber big band dance here next week The orchestra will host a swing dance from 8:30 pm to 1:30 pm Friday Dec 8 in the Shepherd Union Ballroom at Weber State University 3750 Harrison Blvd The group will perform classic songs from the era Performing at intermission will be the Northridge High School Show Choir An hour-lon- g dance lesson will also be offered at 7:15 pm Admission to the dance is $5 per person Cost for the dance lesson is S per person Best dress is recommended For more information call Junction City Big Band director K Earl Ericksen at 9 1 d I 876-300- Concert combines poetry and jazz OGDEN - Improvisational ja zz and poetry will again mingle next week as the Weber State University Department of Performing Arts oilers another "Jazz in the Sky room" concert This month's offering called “The Beal" will feature WSU faculty members Donald K Keipp on percussion and Dav id Feller on saxophone Colleague Carl Porter and others will present poetry The event will begin at 7:30 pm Wednesday in the Skyroom of the Shepherd Union Building on campus Two yearsago following one of the Jazz in the Skyroom concerts Keipp and Feller contacted Porter about incorporating Beat poetry into the event Porter who teaches a Beat Poetry class at Weber will involve a number of his students in the jazzpoetry evening Admission to the Jazz in the Skyroom events is free Families are invited to attend as long as children do not disturb the event For more information call 626-643- guitar by listening to blues and jazz records He has released albums including his most recent “Little Lion” The concert marks Williams’ third visit to the school Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door For more information call 2 (435) 1 1 753-153- Radio programs highlight pianist 1 USU presenting guitaristsongwriter rt LOGAN - Guitaristsongwriter Brooks Williams will perform on the Utah State University campus this weekend The Northampton Mass-base- - day: Program Two looks at Nibley as a composer It will air at 7 pm Thursday Both programs can be heard on KBYU 891 EM and online at d Williams will perform at' 7:30 pm PROVO - The career of pianist Reid Nibley will be featured in an upcoming program “Reid Nibley: Musical M usings of an Unassuming Muse” on KBYU-FRadio The two-paprogram will explore the career of the noted Utah pianist educator and composer Program One focuses on fascination with performances by Horowitz and Rachmaninoff which launched him into a professional career as a pianist It will air at 7 pm Tues- Sat- urday in the Taggart Student Center Auditorium on the USU campus The concert is the fourth offering in the Bridger 1 Folk Music Society's concert series A native of Statesboro Ga Williams taught himself to play Williams wwwkbyuorgfm More information about Nibley who was an educator at the University of Utah and Brigham Young University and a regular with the Utah Symphony is available at w wwk by uorgfm reidnibley 2000-200- CONCERTS THIS WEEK Top of Utah BANDS HOLIDAY ( OMI RT h I SU Bands & Orchestra 7:30 p m Sunday Kent C oncert Hall C hase line Arts Center USU Logan $ Vg a freeUSU and public school students with valid ID (435) I l l IK KWMBI h USU Music Department 6 30 pm 1 uesdav T wain I ippetts Gallery Chase Line Arts Center I SC I oean f ree (435) 0 Below the Top ( IIRINI M AS ON 1 LMI’IE SQl ARK allernoon and evening holiday performances each day in the Assembly Halfind the North Visitors' C enter on Temple Square and the Joseph Smith Memorial Building Temple Square is on the northwest corner ol Mam Street and South Temple the Joseph Smith Memorial Building is on the northeast corner Includes school choirs community groups lamily perlomiers more Top ol I lah groups include: 6 & 7 p m today I lah Slate Cmversity Chamber Singers 2pm Saturday Canterbury-Singer6 & 7 p m Saturday Davis Master Chorale 7&8pm Saturday: Chordettes 3 pm Monday: The Dalgleish Strings 7&8pm Tuesday: I chocs ol the Heart 4 pm hnduy r Dec 8: Kasville Junior High School 3 Chorahcrs I ree ERIC HE AlllE RLY 10 p m today 1 he Westerner private club at 3360 S Redwotxt Road West Valley City $ 0-- $ 4 T icketmasler I AM A HOLIDAY BKNLHT COM E RT with Unila Serenade Deseret String Band Barb Smith-Boe Sartatn trio more p m Saturday Erne Arts Auditorium U of LI 1373 fc Presidents Circle Canionwine-Gen- SIX’ SI2adv $l5door 339-76- ANGLE I RL E BKNLHT CONCKR I 7:30 pm Saturday Cottonwood High School auditorium 5717 S 300 tast SLC $10 8 WESTMINSTER WOMEN’S ( IIOIR 7:30 p m Saturday Jewett Center lor the Performing Arts Westminster College 1270 E 1700 7 South SLC Eree MAR I IN SEXTON 10 pm Sunday Zephyr Club 301 S West Temple SLC $15 Smith's Tix SHAWN PI MAN 9 pm Monday Dead ( uiit Saloon 165 S West T emple SLC Cover charge n L ITAII PHIIIIARMONIA730 p m Monday Gardner Concert Hall 1375 L Presidents Circle L1 of U SLC $8 Art I ix 7 1ST II ANNEAL VIVALDI CANDI KLIGII r CONCERT led by director Barbara Scow croft 8 pm Monday and Tuesday St Mark's Cathedral 231 E 100 South SLC 7 $40 includes reception OF I ANNUAL BUL HOLID AY CONCERT 7:30 pm Tuesday Abravanel Hall 123 W South T emple SLC $4 $5 $ Art! ix BENEFIT CONCERT featuring Wendy Ohlwiler Ken Shaw Cosy ' Sheridan and Anke Summcrhitl 7 pm Thursday Brewvtes Cinema Pub 677 S 200 West SLC Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance will release compilation CD “Sltckrock and Sagebrush: Songs for Utah W ildemess" at the concert $15 1 0 or ROBLR r FARE KEEN 10 pm Thursday and Eriday Dec 8 Zephyr Club 301 S West Temple SLC $20 Smith's Tix A Kl R l BEST OR CHRISTMAS 8 pm Dec 9 with a 2 p m mattnee Dec 9 Abravanel Hall 123 W South Temple SLC SI5-S3- 0 ArtTtx FALL CHORAL CONCERT 7:30 9 Westminster College p m IX-840 S 300 Last SLC Lree 9 Say goodbye to the newold KCPX-F- Station stays at 1057 but format gets a harder edge and DJs are gone By MARK SAAL staff r LAKE CITY the hits were back 20 months we had had fun we had seasons in the sun Now station owner Mercury Broadcasting has decided to rock the boat Last week owners of KCPX-F1057 -- which for 2 years had been the last playing Top 40 music from the '70s - decided to change course Since Thanksgiving KCPX has been billing itself as “continuous classic rock without the hard edge” The disc jockeys - including morning drive-tim- e host Johnny Quest - are gone replaced by an automated format that promises 50 minutes of music an hour Also gone are many of the pop hits that hadn't had a home on the radio in decades “The station has decided to go another direction” said a woman who answered the telephone at the KCPX offices in Salt Lake City That direction some say sounds an awful lot like KRSP-F1035 “The Arrow” Not really says KCPX station manager Keith Abrams KRSP and KCPX have been fairly close in format anyway “We’re keeping the call letters” he said “I don’t see this as a format change as much as just making some adjustments to what we’re doing This is more of an evolution” Abrams says that following extensive research station owners decided to offer “a more product than Research also indicated listeners wanted less chatter and more music “At this point we're 100 percent jockless” Abrams said although he admitted that could change in the future In March 1999 the contemporary adult format station KUMT-F1057 (“The Mountain”) became KCPX-F1057 (“The Hits Are Back”) The idea was to play Top 40 hits from the ’70s songs that the old KCPX-A1320 played in the 1970s when it ruled the airwaves with disc jockeys like Lynn Lehmann “Wooly” Waldron and “Skinny” Johnny Mitchell In the first ratings after the SALT 1 rock-base- d pop-base- 1 M changeover manager Paul Wilson said the station jumped from 2 1st to fourth in the market Mercury Broadcasting which purchased KCPX and sister station KOSY-F1065 from Clear Channel Communications in August also made changes at KOSY on Nov 22 firing the programming director (Wilson) as well as morning host Tom Bock Three people out of a job the day before Thanksgiving That’s radio for you “It could have been worse” Wilson offered “It could have been the day before Christmas” In a way both KCPX and KOSY were Wilson’s “babies” He set up KCPX’s format before being replaced by Abrams And Wilson had been in charge of KOSY since February 1998 just a month after that station went on the air Wilson admits KCPX was struggling and that ev eryone expected the hot early ratings would drop off Compounding the problem: Three or four other radio stations were starting to dabble in Top 40 ’70s music Still Wilson called the station’s showing “respectable" Wilson also believes the format could have been handled better “I think I could have done better with it than this administration did simply because I have a better feel for it” he said “Had I been running it I think it still would've been a higher-rate- d radio station And I don’t mean to sound like I'm breaking my arm patting myself on the back but I think I had a better feel for it than the folks that replaced me” As for the KOSY move Wilson is a bit more perplexed “KOSY’s summer numbers were phenomenal and the October numbers were even better” he said placing KOSY in the top five adult radio stations in the Salt Lake market Although Abrams says research shows this new format is what listeners want at least one Ogden resident is unhappy “What a loss" Steve Bonnemort wrote in an to the Standard-ExaminThe return of KCPX was a joy to all of us who grew up in Utah in the '70s I went crazy when I found this station Now to find out that it is gone can’t tell you how disappointed I am" 1