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Show ...., , -- ,,,, ,, - - , , ' '''. ''' , 11,,,, , ' ' k OD.Ko Li j I ..., , ,,, , k.. ' . ,, , A WEDNESDAY, IFC 0 Ion" k'D k i10, 2011 T nI I 4 '''-1 , DIXIESUNNEWS.COM I ,.,.,1 '1' ., , , , 6- ' : , '. 1 1 . ' , .' -- ad... ii 1 1 ,., L 013-- j. ,Lt,, s, ,, , , ' I ' , , 1:171111 '1, ..., , I , .,, ID I trj3 1114 II Di , ,, - 1 ... U7UO jc "The older I got, the more I stuck with it, where other te people my age were playing the piano stopped," Beard said. Piano was just kind of " a what I stuck to. I couldn't dt leave it. I couldn't stop tc playing it It came so St naturally, and it was some. at thing I lovled." tc She said there were phases I in high school where she L didn't want to pursue piano, but when she got into col- - ar lege she knew that music se needed to play a role in her 01 life. Beard said the piano th students become really dost ac with each other. Part of tit this includes inside jokes, sa such as giving names to the ac , piano in the Eccles Concert T1 Hall like Franz (after Franz fo Liszt) Bertha, or the Behe ' ' moth. I , Beard's husband is also a 01,, musician, she said. She said that it seems like playing an instrument comes naturally 4o.Jr him, while she feels the need ( , to practice more often. 1' Beard's future plans inNt,e ci s! continuing to teach and to Vto Corinne Beard, a senior music major from St. George, plays the piano in the Dolores Dore Eccles Fine Arts Center keep performing with other ;12 on Thursday. Beard, who was chosen as one of the most outstanding seniors in the music department this semesmusicians in the cormnunit). fti ter, plans to continue teaching piano and performing with other musicians. Her favorite style of music to re, hard at her degree, but she has with how professional Beard neared the recital, she said she drawn to classical music as a perform is chamber music, shsFi been an active collaborator realized the pieces she chose sounded, he said. said. way to express herself. in, "What I was struck by was with other students for years would help her learn what "Music is the most natural for the composers d Respect how sensitive and supple the she needed to work on as a and most sincere way I can now," Webb said. and the music is what drives fa Beards performing, she said, Jeffery Jarvis, dean of visual playing was," Jarvis said. performer. express my emotions," and performing arts, said the "It was a good experience Beard said. "Finding a voice on the piano and she doesn't want to make be is a tough thing to do." She prepared for a year first time he heard Beard play because in that practice I prothe performance about herself fit I was during the Inauguration Growing up, Beard never gressed the most ever have prior to her senior perfor"As a musician I try to mal(D had a problem finding the mo- everything come back to just sti Week for DSU President Biff mance. Practicing upwards of as a musician," Beard said. four to five hours a day as she "She has not only worked tivation to practice, she said. Williams. He was impressed the music," Beard said. bt BY HALEY HAZEN haleyhazen Dixie State University student pianist Corinne Beard will have her own piano someday, she said, but for now she plays on the 'Behemoth' in the Eccles Concert Hall. Beard, a senior music major from St. George, revels in the emotional musical expression from composers Brahms, Debussy and Shostakovich. Her role as a classical pianist is to interpret the music through the intentions of the Yn( , composer, she said. Music Department Chair Glenn Webb said Beard was one of the outstanding seniors in the program this year. It was a combination of the ter rific work on her senior recital and the cumulative work of accompanying other musicians, he said. The second youngest of four siblings, Beard said the rule in her home was that she had to be 8 years old to start taking piano lessons. She said that she was very jealous of her siblings, and didn't see why it was a big deal to have to wait. "It made me'feel good to have something that I could accomplish (something) that I could practice and that I was good at," Beard said. When Beard talks about music, she uses phrases like "express emotion," and "moved by music." She said the older she gets, the more she is - , , zr' tc , - - st trn Hu n c,1 tO'ff 1);? I )( Students describe interests, hobbies . 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I've been riding motorcycles since--. go-ca- rt They use to tell me there are two kinds of riders: one that's gone down and one that going to go down. I am here to tell you, I've been down... I was tail ended on a bike; (it) knocked the bike out from under me, and you can get hurt. It is an interesting hobby." - Ronald Mace, a senior art major from Springville 3 ( |