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Show The Summerbird June 18, 1990 Page 3 Sunday evening concerts set for Summer UTAH SYMPHONY BEGINS SERIES HERE ON JULY The inaugural Summer Evening Concert Series will fill the quiet summer air with the sound of music beginning with the Utah Symphony Orchestra on July 8, 1990 at 8 p.m.. A gift from Obert and Grace Tanner brings the Utah Symphony to SUSC. Each year more than 300,000 people hear the symphony perform. In addition to the 18 pairs of classical concerts performed at Symphony Hall each season, the orchestra participates in a wide variety of activities including youth and Christmas concerts, galas and special events, ballets, operas and pop series. The program, which will feature both classical and contemporary pieces, will be held in The Centrum at 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $9 and $6 and are available at the SUSC Centrum ticket office. The remainder of the offerings for the season are free to the public. The classical guitar duo, Milton Jensen and Todd Woodbury will combine their talents to form the alluring sounds that have become their trademark on July 15 in the Randall L. Jones Theatre. Jensen and Woodbury paired up in 1979 and play works ranging from the refined polyphony of the Renaissance to the exotic coirs and rhythms of contemporary South America. Sponsored in part by the Utah Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. On July 22 the Utah Pipe Band will perform in the Adams Shakespearean Theatre. The band brings the myth and majesty of Scotland alive with the haunting melody of the bagpipe. David Barclay, the senior member of the band, has piped for every governor of Utah since he was six years old. He says he is dedicated to the preservation of SUs 8 Scotlands heritage and history and claims the performance will be a regal one. The Musica Reservata, Renaissance Consort, will fill the Randall L. Jones Theatre with light ayres, lively dances and stately court music on July 29. The consort, completely attired in period costume, will present an array of music from the 14th to 18th centuries. Musica Reservata has commanded respect from professionals for its virtuosity on early instruments but it is not necessary to be a music connoisseur to enjoy this performance. Billie Loukas, soprano, and Don Becker, baritone, accompanied by Claudia Flandro Ward will perform in the Randall L. Jones Theatre on August 5. Loukas began her career singing lead roles in opera productions at the University of Southern California. She starred on the Lawrence Welk Show and appeared as lead n soprano and soloist with the Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians. Becker, a vocal student of Walter Welti Studios in Salt Lake City, has sung extensively throughout the west as German Leider Recitalist, Oratorio Guest Soloist and soloist with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. He sings with the Utah Opera Company and also tours the state with the Opera in the Schools program. The summer concert series will draw to a finale with the appearance of Jeff Manookian, pianist, on August 12 in the Randall L. Jones theatre. Manookians performing career has taken him throughout the world from New Yorks Merkin Concert Hall and Honolulu, Hawaii, in the United States to five South American tours. All performances begin at 8 p.m. well-know- Summer is a time Jbr relaxed yet challenging coursework at SU. Summer quarter begins at SUSC SUSCs Summer quarter has become increasingly popular over the past few years, matching the overall growth of the College. Offerings for 1990 reflect this growth as Dean of Summer School Phillip C. Carter announces the widest breadth of offerings in SUs history. Classes range from accounting to zoology and from those with a decidedly Shakespearean flavor to those which take class members into the field as part of the archeology field camp. Registration continues this week in the Administration Building and the summer is divided into three primary sessions. The regular session, beginning June 18, runs through August 10. The first session also begins June 18 and finishes July while the second session begins July 16 and ends August 10. SUSCs Summer program offers classes to meet virtually every need and interest. Among the most popular are the chemistry sequences which allow students to fulfill a large portion of needs over just one season; the teacher education modules which are used not only for continuing students in education, but also by returning, practicing teachers; and such programs as creative writing, tours of national parks, and much more. For more information on SUSCs summer offerings and how to register 0 for them, phone or pick up a Summer schedule in AD 207. 13, 586-785- Summer Lecture Series offers wide variety of speakers THURSDAY PROGRAMS RANGE FROM SHAKESPEAREAN The SUSC Summer Lecture series will help dispel the lazy summer doldrums with a myriad of interesting subjects including lectures by Utah Shakespearean Festival directors, a Utah childrens author, historians and media personalities. The lectures are held each Thursday from 11:30 to 12:30 p.m. in the SUSC Thorley Recital Hall and are free to the public. Kathleen F. Conlin, Utah Shakespearean Festival director of The Two Gentlemen of Verona will begin the lecture series on June 21 with a discussion on the movement, style and psychology in the play. Currently director of the school of theatre at Ohio University, she has also taught at the University of Texas at Austin and California State University Long Beach. Her articles on Shakespeare have appeared in major publications and journals. Bill Marcroft and Dean Paynter of KUTV follow on June 28 with an insiders point of view on The Utah Summer Games: Media Impact on Building a Community. The two men have each been integral players in the success of Utahs Summer Games and they will reflect on the past and the project the future of this community project. On July 5, Tom Markus, director of Waiting Jbr Godot User will deliver a lecture entitled, Whos on First? Friendly Theatre. Markus has been with the Utah Shakespearean Festival since 1964 and has directed in London, Australia, New York and in Americas regional theatres. He currently is chair of the department of theatre at the University of Utah and resident director for the Pioneer Theatre Company SUBJECTS TO THE UTAH SUMMER GAMES founder and director of the company, fulfill her lifelong dream to perform in the Soviet Union. Christopher will speak about the White Nights Festival in Leningrads famed Octybrsky Grand Concert Hall and other highlights of the tour. Charles Peterson, professor of history at SUSC, will discuss Wilderness Stones: The Arizona Strip 5 on July 26. Peterson researches and writes Mormon and Utah history and is a on extensively frequent contributor to numerous historical journals. The several books focusing on specific He has of Utah history. segments growing Summer A famed Utah childrens author, Margaret Lecture Series Rostkowski, will give her Thoughts on Childrens Literature on August 2. Her 1986 book, After the will Dancing Days has been published in five countries and has won 10 awards including honors from the such guests as International Reading Association. She is also the Bill author of The Best of Friends and will be on also as a presentor for the Creative Writing campus Marcroft. Conference. Robert S. McPherson will deliver a lecture entitled Power, Prayer and Protection: Navajo Sacred Geography of Southeastern Utah as the final in the language, literature and other art forms. summer lecture series on August 2. McPherson teaches Local residents who helped with sponsoring the history and other social sciences at the College of American Folk Ballets trip to Russia will not want to Eastern Utah, San Juan Center in Blanding. His slide miss San Christopher on July 19 as she relates the presentation shows through story and metaphor the highlights of the Friendship Tour the ballet troupe traditional beliefs and alternative ways of thinking the is in June. Christopher performed and associate director of the American Folk Ballet. She Navajo hold for the land. This lecture is sponsored by the Utah Endowment for the Humanities. was instrumental in helping her mother, Burch Mann, Sharon Swenson should have participants anticipating their lunch hour when she completes her discussion on Food as Metaphor, July 12. Swenson is director of film studies at Brigham Young University and has researched the way eating and drinking have been used to describe character and culture in history, 1865-194- popular and SU at feature KUTVs |