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Show THE ARTS TllE UNIVERSITY JOUR Lightfoot Duo slated for Sunday concert A broad range of music types will be intermingled by an untraditional combination of guitar and clarinet July 30 when th Southern Utah University Summer Evening Concert Serie presents The Lightwood Duo. The £ree program, which will begin at 7 p.m. in the Randall L. Jones Theatre, will include cla sical selections, jazz, bluegrass, folk, pop, and rock. cheduled are such diverse selection as a group of Romanian folk dances, a number written by Sting, a number from Giacomo Puccini's opera "Gianni Schicchi," and a g pel number, "Just a loser Walk with Thee." Guitari t Mike Christ.um en and clarinetist Eric Nel on ar b th experienced olo artists who have combined thci.r talents to form the first profes, ional guitar/clarinet duo, The Lightwood Duo. "Individually, music from both the guitar and clarinet are very traditional, but combined the re ulting sound become uniquely untraditional," Marla Bingham, manager of the Summer Evening Concert Series, explains. "The sound produced i de cribed as 'pow rfully mellow.' This pairing of instruments is gmng to surprise, fascinate, please and impres the audience. Th duo's unique ound is a re ult of the in trument , original arrangements, and its repertoire.'' The Lightwood Duo wa formed in 1992 and is ba ed in Logan, where both arti ts live. Chri tiansen i professor and director of guitar studies at Utah tate Univer ity. He has written 14 guitar b ok and is fe.itured on three in tmctional vide . Nelson is al o a mu ic educator who ha publi hed everal articles on clarinet repertoire. He oloed with the Utah Symphony Orchestra and has recently received an artist endorsement from Yamaha International to provide in trumental master clas es. Combined Christian en and Nel on bare 50 year of profe ional experience and have often appeared on the concert stage. They have performed with chamber groups, as soloi ts, with symphony · orchestras, as pit musicians for tag musicals, and have been members of various bands since 1968. Matinee offers great chance to enjoy classic 'Othello' The Utah Shakespearean Festival's matinee pedormance of Othello ffers theatre-goers an opportunity to get great seats at one of the season's best show . The matinee of Othello i performed in the Auditorium Theatre and offers 230 more se.its than the evening outd or performances. With 1000 tickets available for each matinee, it's one plac that good seats can almost alway be found. Another nice thing about seeing Othello in matinee is the broad range of ticket prices. As in other performances there are $27, $21, and $17 eats, but the matinee also offers $13 and $10 seats. Iron County residents can also get an additional SO percent off of the ticket price on any Wednesday matinee of Othello. This means that local patrons can get tickets to Othello for as low as $5 a seat. "It really is a great deal for such a wonderful show," said R. Scott Phillips, Festival managing director. Another advantage to seeing the Othello matinee in the Auditorium Theatre is the new hearing assistance system installed there this season. The new system allows bearing impaired patrons to enjoy the play from any eat in the theatre. The system uses small headsets which allow the user to adjust the volume enough to be able to hear the perfom1ers on stage clearly. The sound is not filtered or processed, so what the user bears is the same as the rest of the audience, only louder. The headsets are available in the lobby of the theatre prior to the performance. They can be checked out free of charge by leaving a valid driver's license with the attendant. Even without the advantages of seeing Baron Kelly is Othello in the 1995 USF production. I the play in the Auditorium Theatre, the show itself is incredible. Sine opening night, patrons have been awed by the powerful perfomances of this show's highly talented cast. " Ab olutely magnilicent, " said Kamie Brown of Cedar City. "Iago wa mortifying!" "I thought Emilia was really powerful," aid Gary Walton of Salt Lake City. " ln her last seen she evoked mor emotion from me than anyone else. I was not prepared for that. She wa terrific!" According to Baron Kelly, who plays Othello, the play is an emotional journey £or the entire cast. "Gary Armagnac [lagoJ and I have a wonderful working relationship," said Kelly. "We both care about telling the story and bringing the audience on the journey with us. lf we do that then we've done our job." Armagnac, who plays Othello's "tru ted" friend Iago, say that the play is not trictly a tragedy. "There is a great deal of humor in the play, not just bleakness and blackness and people dying," said Armagnac. "The play i also easy to understand and follow. People went in expecting Shakespearean language and discovered that we were speaking English." There ar many good seats till available £or the matinee perf rmances of Othello and for the other hows at the Festival. The Festival's 1995 season run through September 2 in Cedar City, Utah. Plays are Henry VIII, Much Ado about N othing, Othello, The Tempest, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and You Can't Take It with You. Tickets and information are available through the Box Office: 586·7878. |