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Show Sunday, December 1, 1991 The Dairy Herald BMelLII ILM MlfEl "SI BTH Iriii IP! h E?" The magic that unfolds when three unexpected visitors spend the night with a crippled boy and his mother enchant holiday audiences each year when they see the joyful and touching opera "Amahl and the Night Visitors." Written by Juan Carlo Menoni as a tribute to the spirit of the Christ Child, this opera classic will come to Utah and Wasatch County for six free performances. It's a holiday gift from Opera West and its artistic director Rob Prosch. The classic will open Dec. 9 at Lakeridge Junior High School in Orem, travel to Wasatch High School in Heber Dec. 1 1 , move to the Pleasant Grove Library Little Theater, 30 E. Center, on Dec. 13 and 14, and conclude Dec. 16 and 17 at the Springville Artshop, 443 S. 200 E. All performances will begin at 7:30 p.m. The opera will star both professional and amateur vocalists who are donating their time to offer this holiday specialty. Starring as the mother will be 's Rebecca Dimick of Orem. wide experience includes dance, theater, piano, composition, jazz vocal and grand opera. Her first operatic roles began at righam Young University and the Dim-ick- SUniversity of Utah. Later in New jYork she became the student of JRita Patana and was supported by Jhe New York Verdi Society. Her have spanned the opera reps ertoire and include "Carmen," TAida," "Marriage of Figaro" ?and other Mozart roles. Her master's degree in performance centered around 20th cenand Claude Debussy. music tury She teaches more than 100 vocal students and has been a faculty musi-Jcolo- gy member at the U of U. She is "artistic director for the Utah Moz-Ja- rt Festival. Visiting professor Alan J. Ord from the University of Alberta in n. JZ JFfc JFm? ' H TO w 199k y I J . ink rK? Ena if fb - , - The kne NEW YORK (AP) that illuminates "Wildflower," a hauntingly beautiful movie on cable's Lifetime Tuesday, emanates . :? 1 ' ' t v "H!-- Canada will play King Balthazaar. After receiving a B.A. in music from BYU, and M.S. in voice form the Juiiliard School and a D.M.A. in opera from the University of Southern California, Ord expanded his career as teacher of voice, vocal pedagogy and opera at the University of Alberta. He has been a member of the Metropolitan Opera Studio, performing as a soloist at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fischer Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Constitution Hall. His vocal teachers include Giorgio Tozzi, Alexander Kipnis and Beverley Johnson, he is a frequent soloist in recital, concert and opera and studies vocal pedagogy. Arden Hopkin, a new member of the BYU music faculty, will portray King Melchior. He is equally comfortable in opera and musical comedy. His opera roles include "La Boheme," "Cosi Fan Tune," "Tales of Hoffmann" and "Falstaff," among others. He has recorded for Vox Turnabout Records, BYU and KD studios. He counts among his other musical talents abilities on the piano, saxophone, clarinet and guitar. Also performing will be Andrew Gross of Heber and Jared Hancock of Provo as Amahl; Tim Ritchie as King Kaspar; and Rob Prosch and Ben Ashby in double from it like sunlight through stained glass. The tale, set in rural. Depression-era Georgia and directed by actress Diane Keaton, has the tiineessness of a fairy tale or a parable. It's almost biblical in its v simplicity. $ . .1. Arden Hopkki Reteecca Dimick kings visiting the Christ Child. When she is caught and explains that she only wanted it for her boy, the kings tell her to keep the gold because Christ's mission will not be accomplished by gold," Prosch says. "It's a night of miracles as her crippled son is healed and becomes a generous child who wants to see the newborn king. We think our audiences will enjoy our production." This is the first production of undertaken by the new management of Opera West. This production is by Family City USA and the Utah County Journal. Family City USA is a celebration of family values sponsored by Orem City, Utah Valley Community College, The Daily Herald and the SCERA. While performances are free, tickets are required to aU showings except the one in Heber. Tickets - p, I X imtinnirmnr'-'iilinii- ii - i Alan mm J. Ord are available at the SCERA, Pleasant Grove at Notions, Albertsons on Center Street in Orem, and in Springivlle at Allen's Market. ebration of Christmas adds matinee Annual Christmas concert features Philharmonic orchestra, choruses, steel band 1 The sounds of Christmas will jrng out during the i nual "Celebration of Christmas," one of chestra and Panoramic Steel Band. The Philharmonic, under the direction of Clyn Barrus, will also Hjrigham Young University's most musical '..popular and vents Dec. 6 and 7. well-attend- SI The BYU Philharmonic will jjoin BYU's top audition choirs for festive presentation of Christmas favorites old and new at 7:30 p.m eJriday in the de Jong Concert Hall, Harris Fine Arts Center. This JVfcar, due to the event's popularity, 2 p.m. Saturday matinee per- formance has been added as well. '378-744- 4. performance, which this year will be videotaped for national public television broadcast, will likely be 's BYU faculty member Mack arrangement of the calypso carol "The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy" featuring the BYU Men's Chorus, Philharmonic Or Wil-berg- Patricia Arquette stars as a beautiful, neglected girl imprisoned by her wicked stepfather because she is "touched by the devil" deaf and epileptic. Reese Witherspoon plays E!!ie Perkins, a neighbor who discovers the grimy, half-- ild girl locked away in a chicken coop. She is unwashed, illiterate, and barely capable of speech. brothEllie and her (William McNamara), er, Sammy befriend Alice, against the vehement wishes of their father. Jack (Beau Bridges, in a masterly performance), a widower still locked in the grief of his loss. They help Alice emerge from her ignorance and isolation, and when conflict looms with Alice's father, papa Jack is forced out of his own emotional isolation. At the same time, young Sammy realizes that his unsophisticated-frien- d w cast parts as King Melchior and King Balthazaar. "This intimate story is a wonderful tale of a poverty-stricke- n mother who steals gold from the t Tickets, at $3 for students, fac-- ; iijty and senior citizens and $4 for ','jthe general public, are available at 'The BYU Music Ticket Office, Healing power of love: Keaton directs TV film JttI ec perform Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kije Suite, Op. 50, and will join the Men's Chorus for Peter Warlock's "The Sycamore Tree." Rosalind Hall will conduct the Women's Chorus in John Rutter's arrangement of "Deck the Halls," Alun Hoddinott's "Wondrous Night," and an Austrian yodel carol arranged by Andrew Carter. Wilberg will then direct the Concert Choir in Steven Paulus's "A Savior From On High," and two arrangements by Andrew Carter, "Make We Merry on this Fest" and "The Twelve Days of Christmas." Ronald Staheli and the University Singers will perform two works by Rodney Russell Bennett, "Puer Nobis" and "Nowel," Fred Prentice's "Sing We Now at Christmas," and the rollicking "We Need a Little Christmas" by Jerry Herman. Wilberg and the Men's Chorus will present a Christmas spiritual, "Child of God" by Emily Crocker, Katherine K. Davis' perennially popular "Carol of the Drum," and a African carol, "Bethlehemu," by Michael Olatunji, sung in Yoruba. The combined choirs and the Philharmonic Orchestra will conclude the performance with three of Wilberg's arrangements, "I Saw Three Ships," "Away in a Manger," and "Angels We Have Heard On High," as well as Robert Cundicks' "He is the Root and the Offspring of David" from "The Redeemer." high-spirit- is rapidly becoming a beautiful woman, and he doesn't quite know what to make of his feelings. Sara Flanigan's teleplay, based on her books, treats these kinds of love with great feeling and without sentimena trace of greeting-car- d tality: Here is the unselfish love of humankind; here is redemptive love; here is famiiial love (as well as its cancerous absence); and here, happily and unhappily, is the love of a man and a maid. Arquette's portrayal of a progirl is foundly hearing-impaire- d utterly believable. According to production notes, she researched the role by listening to speech tapes of children behearing-impaire- d fore and after cochlear implants. She also worked with a speech therapist, and was coached by a girl who has a hearing loss similar to Alice's. "Wildflower" is a superb movie, a fully realized, sophisticated But try tellpiece of ing that to its director, and you can actually hear her blush over the film-makin- g. telephone. Although the movie is billed as Keaton's directorial debut in a feature-length vehicle, she demurred at calling "Wildflower" a movie. "I don't see it as a film, I see it as a television show," she said.. "You have to plan the whole mov-i- e according to these breaks." To ease the transition shock Keaton designed thematic "bump-- " ers," which show Alice's lovely eyes against a backgroun of lush, red wildflowers. She consciously set about saturating the production w ith green and red tones. "I didn't want to see much blue, because I felt like I wanted to jut sink into this world of green, and being caught up in the woods, and the romance of that," she said. "I wanted to be h idden under green. Keaton, who has directed episodes of ABC's "China Beach," and "Twin Peaks," was reluctant to discuss her contribution to the film, praising her cast and collaborators. "I got lucky on this," she said. '' And she wants to do more directing. "The problem with acting is sitting in a trailer, and being left to your own devices and thoughts and fantasies and and all the things that are terrifying about acting," she said. "With directing it's a different kind of terror. You don't have time to think about your terror as much. You don't have time to contemplate about all the horrible accidents of what you're doing." "Wten you're acting, it's an in- terior adventure that's about feelings and anticipations. And 1 kind of am more afraid of that, in a strange way," she said. "In terms of using my feelings and my emotional life, I really feel like acting is, in a way, harder." ed Bar-batu- di Ralph Woodward Chorale f i f-- if Hmmm Boohs Tliin'ts in Ucavm I SONGS rot J AlTHNATf VOCES Villord The Urtmd Tinw of Mormon Pniphfl Wnxirufl, MUSIC AND THE M ESSIAfl mum J j PiMJ. "if I J? and Earth K BROKEN it ri f j.. .... i n ii iiy HVl TOIC410. tVIICI l CIO)D4HI, lltUtf tAttONI k r, j Things in Heaven and Earth Songs for Alternate Voices The Lift and Times of Wilford Woodruff, a Mormon Prophet Thomas G. Alexander Paul Toscano and Calvin Grondahl "Come, come ye saints," no quip nor punchline fear. These hilarious contemporary lyrics to familiar hymns by Paul Toscano, illustrated with new cartoons by Calvin Grondahl wi'l delight lovers of O V. Mormon humor and dismay ward choristers. Toscano is an attorney practicing in Salt Lake City. Grondahl is editorial cartoonist for the Ogden Standard Examiner. 0 n Alexander reveals the multiple facets of this remarkable church president the gentle farmer; the diligent missionary; the polygamist; and the politician who 1 ,ed uta" int0 statehood. Alexander is author of Mormonism in Trnnsil.imv A History of the Church of Jesus isri Jy )f J(tff(((LS f'f'fj CJ Cknst of ISBN: 0 ? r Music and the Broken Word 941214-99-- N Paper. 96 pages. $8.95 1890-1930- ISBN: Latter-da- y Saints, . Cloth. 479 pages. $28.95. mm kmow. witm cmw k Handel Intended 17th Century Performance b-- i WORD t4 As Style with Baroque Orchestra - , MiTtttN JoAnn Ottley a Soprano Mary Wescott Alto Tenor Mark Peculiar People Clayne Robison Orientation Mormons and Same-SeRon Schow, Wayne Schow, and Marybeth Raynes, eds. x Mormons are proud to be "a peculiar people," distinct from other sects. But this title is ironic for gay and lesbian Mormons who face discrimination from within and without their church. 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