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Show Cyan Magenta Yellow Black Wednesday, February 14, 2007 A4 Sanpete Messenger Sanpete Messenger-Gunnison Valley Edition A5 Wednesday, April 16, 2008 The music you A family affair never knew you knew Snow’s performance of ‘Carmina Burana’ will put a name to familiar piece his version center on the Wheel Meredith says. “And that plays He says the added staging of Fortune (or Fate) of the Roman to what our strength is, which is and the youthfulness of the perManaging editor goddess Fortuna, but also about youthful exuberance.” formers (“rather than overweight, gray-haired classiEPHRAIM—Many Sanpete s p r i n g t i m e , residents won’t know it by name, love, drunkencal singers”) will but after they’ve heard the first ness and demake the perforfive notes of “Carmina Burana,” bauchery. mance accessible they’ll almost certainly recognize “Essenand enjoyable for it. tially the text audiences. Those four notes, surpris- talks about what “I think the ing and stunning in their spine- are the follies audience will retingling force and richness, are and foibles of ally embrace it. perhaps the most unmistakable young people,” The conventions of in the entire 20th-century choral Meredith says, classical music, the repertoire. adding that his serious and formal“It’s probably one of the most interpretation ity of it, sometimes commonly recognized pieces of focuses on love get in the way of classical music that nobody actu- and “the overwhat really is an ally knows the title to,” says Steve riding theme of informal piece of Meredith, director of the Snow the Wheel of music,” he says. College Combined Choir. Fortune: somePerformances The audience will have a times you’re of “Carmina Marie Nielson (center) gets a Valentines kiss from her parents Don and Colleen Nielsen of Gunnison, this year’s EphraimBuraLDS chance toSweetheart say, “Oh, yeah, I’ve up; sometimes na” will be April Institute Couple. heard this,” when Meredith con- you’re down.” 21-22 at the Ecducts the choir, the Snow College His intercles Center for the Wind Ensemble and the Snow pretation, aided Performing Arts at College Dance Ensemble in a per- by staging and Snow College at formance of the work next week. choreography, 7:30 p.m. The first song, “O Fortuna,” tells the story of Ticket prices has “been in everything from epic two young peoare $5 for adults, $3 movies, to [commercials] selling ple in a small for children and sebeer, andBy Sean Hannity has opted village who fall niors,team, $2 forand Snow she, America and paint a picture of tra- School basketball are doing well,” Don said. Sean Hales to use it as the opening theme of in love with students, and $15 Don and Colleen seem to be ditional family values. He, a a cheerleader for the school, went Associate editor says. his radio show,” Meredith each a families. date after aTickstate rightother out ofinNorman Rockwell‘s player on the North Sevier High on their firstfor “Carmina Burana” is a set of happy ending. ets are available by basketball tournament. EPHRAIM—If you didn’t 24 medieval to music “It’s a calling Don went on to (435) teach 283shop know better,poems you set would have by German composer Carl Orff in m u c h m o r e 7478, or the box and industrial arts at atGunnison thought that Don and Colleen 1935. Thewere text comes a coloffice the evenings Nielsen being from honored as theatrical inter- Fortuna, the Roman goddess of fortune and fate,Valley holdsHigh theSchool while Colleen lection of 288 poems—also called pretation than of performance. raised theare children and took care Parents of the Year instead of as Wheel of Fortune in her hands. The goddess and her wheel the “Carmina Burana”—written in just the typical of“Carmina the family’s home. the Ephraim LDS Institute of significant motifs in Carl Orff’s choral masterwork, the early 13th century. Couple of stand-and-sing Burana,” which will be presented by the Snow College The couple was married on music Religion’s Sweetheart The poems Orff selected for interpretation,” and dance departments this weekend. March 9, 1953, in the Manti Utah the Year. Temple and later had three chilAt the institute’s annual Salt Lake City D70901 Stallings Sheet Metal 5.75x10 Alcoholics Anonymous dren, Marie, Brent and Kenneth. Sweetheart Forum last Friday Meetings in spoke Sanpete Marie lives in Richfield with her Don and Colleen little of husband, Hal, and their children; their marriage and instead Stallings Sheet Metal Brent also lives in Richfield with Sun: 10 Pleasant pointed to a.m. theirMt. children, their 10 N.spouses State, (Rec. his wife, Jaleen, and their chilchildren’s and their Center,asupstairs) dren; and Kenneth lives in Delta grandchildren evidence of the Don Nielsen, Brent Nielsen, Jaleen Nielsen, Shaylee Nielsen, Marie Mon: 8ofp.m., with his wife, Michelle, and their success their Ephraim 54-year union. Nielson, Colleen Nielsen, Kenneth Nielsen, Brennan Nielsen and 390 W. 100 N. “There’s nothing more sat- Kaden Nielson celebrate Don and Colleen’s Sweetheart Couple children. Don and Colleen have Tue: 8 p.m., Fairview 13 grandchildren (who Colleen isfying than knowing Summit Lodge your kids status. calls “bonuses”) and five greatRecovery Center, grandchildren (who Colleen calls 1.5 miles east of “special”). the season Celebrate U.S.89 on Fairview Canyon the couple points to their Road (SR31) with As incredible savings ® Wed: 8 p.m., Mt. Pleasant children as evidence of their marion Lennox home 10 N. State, (Rec. talcomfort success,systems. the children point Center, upstairs) back to their parents—their disThu: 8 p.m., Ephraim cipline, support and devotion— 390 W. 100 N. for their own success raising (Step-study, closed) healthy, happy families. Fri: 7 p.m., Mt. Pleasant Marie Nielson said the most 10 N. State, (Rec. important thing she got from her Center, upstairs) parents was time. The family Sat: 7 p.m., Mt. Pleasant 10 N. 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Lennox dealers include independently owned and By John Hales A Twisted Fairy Tale Error: Does not compute Recently, attended a science fiction symposium called “Life, the Despite Imy nostalgia for old-fashioned writer’s tools—the Universe, and Everything.” quill pen always looked cute to me—I can’t seriously argue that I can almost hear you asking yourself (Or whyasa woman whose life anything is as handy as the computer. my friend in Nealready resembles a sci-fi movie would consider going to a symposium vada calls it, “the com-pooter”.) on theWith subject. I don’t know,a maybe it presented a learning opa com-pooter writer because can whip out a story in no time, portunity. Writers need continual growth to improve their craft. Or maybe use grammar and spell check to improve the manuscript and because big name like Scott Card (“Ender’s Game”) and delete errors in authors, the blink ofOrson an eye. Gail Carson Levine (“Ella Enchanted”), teaching. It can be saved on the hard drive,were a CD or a zip drive. Come Naw. It’s because the symposium was free. flood, earthquake, or mudslide, multiple backups ensure all is me state for the record: I am not a big sci-fi fan. not Let lost. Okay, wait. Under threat of being to watch of the Armed with that knowledge andforced counting on there-runs computer’s “X-Files,” I’ll secretly admit that as a kid I had a crush on Captain James speed, I sat down to work on this week’s column at 10 last night, T.figuring Kirk, ofIthe starship, “Star Trek” doesn’t count as could whipEnterprise. it out in noBut, time. science fiction. Everyone knows it rates up30 there with the workswas of I wrote the first two paragraphs in seconds. There Hemingway. no pen to refill, no carbon copy mistakes to correct, no dinging Before I registered the sci-fimy conference, doubts plagued me.toI to indicate I needed for to return typewriter carriage back wondered ... if I attended, would I come out with the arms of an octopus start. and the headwas of ajust Wookie? Would bizarre people(which wearingincluded Star Warsa There the quiet of my thoughts and/or Scooby Doo costumes moderate the discussions? And whereas, nagging feeling that I should do a backup) and the ‘whirring’ of before attending the symposium my mailing address read “Any Town, the com-pooter fan. USA,”That afterward would it read, “Space, came the Final is, until an error message outFrontier”? of nowhere: I'm pleased to say, after sitting through long, but enthralling hours on a chair“ERROR: designed to test the fortitude of a Klingon warrior, that many E89:yRG j:HG683{BFG-vilxya}404 people there were normal authors. We know you don’t understand this. We did that on purpose. Normal authors—hmm,Click I’m thinking OK.” that’s an oxymoron. Or an insult. I’m not sure which. As it turned of the sessions covered topics applicable to a Where hadout, themost message come from? Were there little men number of genres, and the attendees wore jeans and sweatshirts. Well, in my machine who knew when I made an error? What error hadI take that back, did see some guy in a long, flowing cape and gave him I made? AndI why? a wideThinking berth—until I realized it was with a blanket I hit a wrong key,my andhusband, havingRuss, an overwhelming around his shoulders. I’m thinking he brought his blankie along in case spiritual reminder that Jesus saves and I should too, I moved he got bored during the panel discussions. my mouse to delete the message, only to get another: On the last day, an interesting session called, “Twisting Fairytales” caught my attention. What,Mouse fairytales aren’t twisted enough already? We “MOUSE ERROR: was moved without permission. have Windows to make them worse? must be restarted for the move to take effect. Take “Little Red Riding Hood,” for example. In it, a wolf—one that Click OK.” can talk, mind you—poses as Red Riding Hood’s grandmother. Whom he hasKnowing just eaten.my Ahhh, cannibalism—that’s a great topic foran kids. word processing program had done autoHe lies in bed, wearing Granny’s hat and shawl. Now we matic backup, I followed the instructions and restarted thehave com-a cross-dressing eventhe better thememachine for impressionable pooter. In the cannibal—an two hours it took infernal to re-boot, children. I could have written the column by hand. Into the room skips little RedtoRiding Hood, all dressedprogram, in a flaming When I finally got back my word processing it red cloak with a pointed hood. One that could have been worn by the the had backed up my text in Chinese and I was ready to shoot Emperor if the had been a little longer and in thing. Itfrom must“Star haveWars,” sensed my cloak hostility, because it sent another that figure flattering color, black. message: Just wait, it gets better. Have you ever asked yourself what little Ms. Hood was carrying in that Stack basketoverflow. on her arm? Mushrooms “INTERNAL ERROR: Internal stack she gathers in the woods. Probably the kind that cause hallucinations. has come unstacked. The wolf and the girl areClick havingOK.” a polite conversation about body parts—“Grandma, what big eyes you have”—when the wolf leaps out ofThere’s bed andachases Little Red Emperor ... beginning er ... I meantoRiding stack?the A stack of what? I was think Hood out the door. In the meantime, a woodsman it could only be a stack of idiot programmers.with a sharp hatchet dangling from hisatbelt—no wait,ofmaybe it’s the dwarf, Sneezy, Fidgeting the thought a discombobulated stack, Iwith acan axe tied to his head—kills the hairy Beast and throws into cidentally bumped my mouse. My com-pooter blinked, Beauty hiccupped, the fires and all of myMordor. Chinese writing disappeared. I would have throttled Next, theI glass slipperifonto the pro-feminist the stupidSneezy mouse,slides except was afraid I moved it, it wouldMs. eat Hood’s dainty foot, and they ride off into the sunset. Or maybe into my cheese. the ocean, where she Igrows a mermaid’s andagain. Sneezy becomes Using stealth, started typing alltail over Just as I be-a singing lobster. gan wrapping up my thoughts, I got another error message: I’m not sure which. One thingERROR, I do knowERROR: is I enjoyed the has session so another much, I’m going “ERROR, User made error. to try writing a twisted fairytale of my own—just as soon as I figure Replace user. out how to unglue my octopus armsOK” and take off my Wookie head. Click Replace user? Every writer has her own ethical guideline to follow. LDS writers have an even stricter code. Believe me when I tell you it’s for that reason alone I didn’t call the com-pooter a “bleeping so and so” when it suggested replacing me. By now the sun was rising, peeking over the ridge. I picked up my com-pooter, lugged it outside and threw it into the henhouse, where it made a fine nesting box for Henny Penny. My column is still unwritten; I guess I’ll have to do it by hand. First, though, I need to find the old rooster. I’m sure he won’t mind donating a tail feather so I can make a quill pen. ROGER HUFFMAN FLOORS 50 S. State, Ftn. Green 445-3225 Institute honors Gunnison Sweetheart Couple, but they say credit goes to their successful kids Save today… Live healthier tomorrow $1,000 Rebate* 12 Months, No Payment, OR Deferred Interest Financing** (435) 462-3152 “Your local floorist!” 1-800-391-4723 Carpet, Vinyl & Laminate • Sales and Installation 2 col. ADVERTISE HERE! STATEWIDE!!! -THROUGH YOUR LOCAL PAPER.2X2 STATEWIDE ADVERTISING NETWORK 2 in. 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