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Show A8 Wednesday, February 20, 2008 Vernal .... j;-ec"" - - ..-. " - j j ; ' W - :.;! V'.' :: : 111 :. . -- 15. I f, L: i ? '. i PERFORMANCE AT VERNAL JUNIOR HIGH UNLV Chamber players in concert this Saturday Aficionados of fine music will want to be sure to mark Feb.23 on their calendar, that's the day when the University of Nevada Las Vegas Chamber Players will perform in Vernal. The chamber players - including Vernal native na-tive Merietta Oviatt - are all principal members of the UNLV Symphony. They will perform for the general public this Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at Vernal Junior High. "I sincerely invite and encourage encour-age the communities of the Uintah Uin-tah Basin to come and support and enjoy this once-in-a-lifetime event," said Or a Fay Oviatt, di rector of Uintah School of Music and the Arts. The first half of the concert will feature each of the players performing per-forming as a classical soloist. The concert's second half will feature classical Jazz, bluegrass and gospel ensembles such as Summertime by Gershwin, Besame Mucho by Velasquez, Pastures New and I Hear d A Forest For-est Praying. The concert finale, When the Saints Go Marching In will be joined by members of the Uintah High School Jazz Band and HiLites. Admission to the concert is $5 per person. Tickets may be purchased at Davis Jubilee in Roosevelt and Vernal, from USOMATA students or at the door. A master class will be Saturday Sat-urday morning, Feb. 23, from 10 a.m. to noon at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 223 W. Main Street in Vernal. USOMATA students participating par-ticipating in these classes are violinists Lynnette Richardson, Emily Wright and Brittany Shur-tliff; Shur-tliff; cellist Adam Austin; bassist Sam Wright; and guitarist Carl Shurtliff. String students and teachers are invited to attend these master classes to observe the UNLV players play-ers teach advanced USOMATA students. "I am so grateful to the Parade of Christmas Trees for enabling this concert tour to become a reality," real-ity," said Ora Fay Oviatt. "I am so proud of USOMATA students for their diligence and hard work to prepare for this experience. OPTIMUM MORTGAGE, L.L.C. . ' W 1 Phone: 435.789.7705 Fax: 435.789.7706 80 North Vernal Avenue Vernal, Utah 84078 breynoldsoptimumusa.com Conventional FHA Purchases (Up to 100) State Income Loans Manufactured Housing Less than Perfect Credit Brett Reynolds Mortgage Loan Specialist Express Featured soloists with the UNLVChamber Players include: Violinist Sondro Ladu will perform per-form Concerto in G Minor by Bruch. Ladu was born in Italy and was raised in Las Vegas. He attended the Academy of International Inter-national Studies, Performance and Visual Arts. He is currently a junior at UNLV majoring in violin performance. Violinist Thomas Keeley will perform Concerto No. 3 by Mozart. Mo-zart. A native of Las Vegas, he began to play violin at age 1 1 . He was concert master of the Green Valley Symphony performance at Carnegie Hall in 2006. He is currently cur-rently principal second violinist in the UNLV Symphony. Violist Merietta Oviatt will perform Der Schwanendreher Concerto for Viola and Orchestra by Hindemith. Oviatt is from Vernal where she began her violin studies at age 2 and her study of viola at age 1 1 . She is co-founder of USOMATA and has studied music at Louisiana State University, Uni-versity, and Boston Conservatory. Currently pursuing her master 's degree in viola performance at UNLV, Oviatt is principal violist in the UNLV Symphony. Cellist Annie Sparacino will perform Sonata in D Minor by Shostokovich. Sparacino is a senior at UNLV majoring in cello performance. She began her cello studies at age 4. She is a private cello instructor and is the principal cellist in the UNLV Symphony. Hector Garcia is a well-known and "in-demand" bassist at UNLV where he is majoring in bass performance. He will entertain en-tertain and impress the audience with his rendition of Suite in D by Bach and Come Together by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Guitarist Phillip Lenberg will perform Variation on a Theme from Mozart's Magic Flute. Lenberg is a second-year graduate student at UNLV, majoring ma-joring in conducting and guitar performance. He is assistant conductor of UNLV Symphony. He has performed in. Toronto, London, Paris and New York. One hundred numbered pre-issue pre-issue copies of Merietta Oviatt's latest CD, Gospel Favorites will be for sale during the "Meet The Artists" time after the concert. What: UNLV Chamber Players Play-ers performance in Vernal. When: Saturday, Feb. 23, 7:30 p.m. Where: Vernal Junior High School. Cost: Tickets are $5, they may be purchased at the door or at Davis Jubilee in Vernal and Roosevelt. t ?.... ,, iiiih,. .na..iiiiliii1.i,ii,iimiiiif ro i ' .... -N. Traumatic Brain Injury Conference Learn the signs and symptoms that result from mild to serious brain injury Learn about the local and state resources available to traumatic brain injury survivors and their families Thursday, February 21st 10:00 am to 12:00 am Uintah Basin Medical Center (in the classroom) Presentors Dr. Steve Ater, Psychologist Dr. Matthew Duncan, Psychiatrist McCord Marshall, MSW Master in Social Work JoAnn Perank, MSW Master in Social Work DcAnne Berg, TBI Coordinator for the state of Utah Everyone Welcome Information targeting survivors, families, and professional personnel Sponsored by Uintah Basin Medical Center Utah State University Indian Health Services . Utah Department of I luman Services For questions call David Finley 722-4691 Ext. 1264 Basin j MEDICAL7 y ENTER Deadline nearing for arts ed grants The Utah Arts Council reminded re-minded educators, schools, and organizations throughout Utah last week that there are only three weeks left to submit applications ap-plications for its three 2008 Arts Education Program Grants. " Our goal is to help educators gain innovative tools that can be used to reach kids. . .to help them become active learners who can communicate clearly, interact constructively, and process complex com-plex concepts," said Margaret Hunt, executive director of the Utah Arts Council. "Our arts education program grants are designed to do just that." The grants allow the arts council to work with schools to help fund visitingartists who can work directly with the students in a variety of ways or to do something more complex, Hunt said. "We are also able to help teachers gain access to and pay for valuable arts-related professional profes-sional training- these grants are about $500, "she said. "Whenyou are making only about $30,000 a year, $300, $400, or $500 for a claws is u lot of money. We can help." The UAC offers three Arts Education Program Grants each year: 1) teacher initiated projects, which provide financial assistance for teachers to receive arts-related professional training; train-ing; 2) the artist-in-residence program, which provides schools and organizations with funding assistance in order to bring an artist into a school for a total of 40 hours throughout the school year; and, arts education projects, proj-ects, which provide funding for multi-disciplinary projects, arts-related arts-related staff development, the creation of site-specific artwork or other related programs. Matching funds or partnerships partner-ships are required for the artist-in-residence program and arts education projects. Grant applications must be postmarked March 1. Application Applica-tion guidelines are available online at arts.utah.gov. For assistance with the application process, contact Jean Tokuda Irwin at 801-320-9794 or e-mail jirwinutah.gov. Utah teachers want Indian languages offered in schoo SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -The state Board of Education wants to offer classes in American Indian languages to Utah students. stu-dents. The board is asking the Legislature Leg-islature for $275,000 to fund the classes, which it says have been shown to reduce the achievement gap between white and American Indian students. "Take a look year after year at low test scores and a 50 percent dropout rate," said state Associate Superintendent Brenda Hales. "We have a whole generation of students we're going to lose if we don't start making immediate attempts to help them." State test results show Navajo students trail white students by 45 percentage points in language arts, 48 percentage points in math and 57 percentage points in science. , , In a San Juan School District pilot program where students were immersed in Navajo language lan-guage classes, those gaps fell to 15, 23 and 10 percentage points difference, respectively. The board wants to include San Juan and Uintah school districts' Ute Indian population in the proposed program. The Northern Band of Shoshone, Goshute and the Skull Valley tribe would be included in the future. Forrest Cuch, director of Utah's Office of Indian Affairs, said no less than the culture of the state's five tribal nations -Ute, Paiute, Shoshone, Goshute and Navajo - is at stake. "We're losing our languages," Cuch said. "The federal government govern-ment has come forward, and Utah tribes would like the state to come forward." In addition to the language funding, Democratic Sen. 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