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Show Life Monday • March 9, 2009 B7 Really young musicians to play really old music Utah Valley Symphony hosts young soloists EL SUNDQUIST Ufe editor In auditions last fall, seven young musicians were handpicked by the Utah Valley Symphony to perform this week at the Covey Center for the Arts for the Symphony's annual Young Artists Concert. . The musicians, who range in age from nine to nineteen, will perform on piano, flute, cello, double bass, and viola. The orchestra will open the program with Brahms' lively, inventive, and somewhat comical "Academic Festival" Overture. Following the over- Utah Valley Symphony Young Artists Concert Wednesday and Thursday, March 11 and 12,7:30 p.m. Covey Center for the Arts, 425 W. Center, Provo Special Student Prices: $5 for unsold seats 10 Minutes Before Concert Time General admission: $12 ($10 senior citizens, $8 students with school ID) Box office: 852-7007 ture, the seven young musi- season. cians will perform, supported The concert will perform by the orchestra. this Wednesday and ThursThe chosen young musi- day, and will hold an open cians are Kerri Lawler, 19; dress rehearsal on Tuesday at Jaime Larsen, 17; Catherine 7 p.m. Best dress is encourWilley 16; Alexander Willey, aged for all performances. 18; Anastasia Felt, 9; AbiStudents with ID .can purgail Richard,16 and Hannah chase $5 tickets for unsold Harkness, 14. Respectively, seats ten minutes before the they will be playing pieces by curtain opens for each conChopin, Georges Hue, Gaspar cert. Cassado, Karl von Dittersdorf, The Symphony's seaW.A. Mozart, Tomaso Anto- son will close at the end of nio Vitali, and Saint-Saens. April with two performances Bryce Rytting, who has of Brahms' "A German Rebeen a conductor for the UV quiem," featuring the UVU Symphony for eleven years, Masterworks Chorale and will continue to conduct in Wasatch Chorale. this, the Symphony's 50th "Fate keeps on happening" Gentlemen Prefer Blondes proves a no-brainer Team Blonde was represented by Lorelei Lee, a fictional satire of a New York soAmerican author Anita cialite hailing from Arkansas, Loos, a self-proclaimed cin- the state Mencken called "the ematic elitist cavorted with Sahara of the Beaux Arts." Hollywood bigwigs such as Lee was based off of New John Emerson, Frances Mar- York performer Mabel Minion, Douglas Fairbanks, and now, a dancer in the Ziegfeld H.L. Mencken in the golden Follies who had bewitched years of cinema. In her years Mencken. working in the movies, she Gentlemen Prefer Blondes came upon a startling dis- is written in Lee's perspective covery: Men, even the smart- as a personal diary. In it, she est, most cynical and critical, tells the reader of her travels, generally prefer a blonde to a and her many many love afbrunette. fairs. By the time she gets to In writing Gentlemen Pre- Paris, Lee is less afraid of befer Blondes, which began as a ing open about her main moseries of sketches in Harper's tivation: to procure as many Bazaar, Loos broadened the expensive pieces of jewelry terms "blonde" and "brunette" as possible. to describe the two types of The rhetoric of the book is women in the world; the smart hilarious. Lee's perspective and the beautiful. of the world and her quest SUNDQUIST Life editor Prefer SlonScs Gnila Coos American satire, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes progresses feminist thinking by presenting an anti-feminist woman, comfortable with the ideas of dependence on men and abusing femininity to climb the ladder of success. 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