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Show . ! L Americana '90 showcases talents of local musicians Seven Davis County composers will be featured in the Americana '90 concert presented by Composers Com-posers Guild July 5, 7:30 p.m. at the Salt Lake City LDS Tenth Ward, 420 S. 800 E. There is no admission charge, and the public is invited to come and enjoy this celebration of America with music by Utah composers. com-posers. Bluegrass expression (composer Rex Shupe, Dan Bates and Ron Child), Utah Songwriters Association Associa-tion Vice President Cori Connors, 10-y ear-old Sarah Connors, and Composers Guild President Ruth Gatrell, all of Farmington; Julie Earl, Layton; Sharleen Stevens, Centerville, and Hollie C. Bevan, Bountiful, will help make this a memorable evening. Other composers from the Wasatch Wa-satch Front who will be participating par-ticipating are concert pianist Jeff Manookian, Brian Jackson Fetzer, and blind pianist Rubens Marshall, Salt Lake City; Charlene Newell, Sandy; Mike Craven, with orator Alan Mangum, West Jordan; Annette An-nette Harris, Lehi; and JoAnne P. Smith, Brigham City. Only 10-years-old, Sarah Connors Con-nors has already won several Reflections contests in poetry and music, and won honors at the Davis School District Composers' Festival. Fes-tival. She was invited by the University Uni-versity Theater School to participate par-ticipate in its summer program and is the youngest composer ever to write music for the plays being written by teen-agers. Sarah will play her piano piece, "The River. She is currently studying piano and composition with Jeff Manookian, and is following in her mother Cori's footsteps in creativity. Most recent accolades for musical .compositions by Ruth Gatrell were first place awards in the National League of American Pen Women's musical competition for "Samuel the Lamanite Foretells Christ's Birth' a Christmas Cantata Can-tata which has recently been published. pub-lished. . . Sharon Smith of Centerville will accompany the women's chorus. Julie Earl of Layton has played the piano all her life. She began writing songs when she started high school and is in demand as a lecturerperformer. lec-turerperformer. She is deputy juv- enile court clerk in Davis County. Her children, Allison, Earl, Rayanne and Alex, will sing her song "Choices." 'America, the Choice Land," by Hollie C. Bevan, will open the Americana '90 program. Former lead vocalist for the top-40 band, 1 Tapestry, Bevan is also well-known ': "for her dinner music. She has written and produced a pageant and i conducted and accompanied choirs. Included in the Americana '90 j concert will be "Gods of the Wind," a piano suite premiered at Jeff Manookian's Steinway Hall ! concert featuring the com- ' memorative 50,000th Steinway .-piano .-piano this spring. Manookian is presently putting the finishing touches on his Third i Piano Sonata, which will have its ! premiere performance by Irene Peery in the soon-to-be-completed Westminster Concert Hall. j Brian Jackson Fetzer, who will j perform his "I Love America," has ' had rave reviews as instructor for the University of Utah summer class on songs and stories for the stage and classroom. His song on cold fusion has been on nationwide : TV. He is still remembered for th ': patriotic shows he produced at Symphony Hall. "American March Medley" will show Rubens Marshall's great talent tal-ent in arranging. Bom blind and hearing impaired in Brazil, Mar- ! shall is proud to be an American i citizen. Gov. Norman Bangerter narrated his "Now I Am an j American Citizen" in the Sail ' Palace in 1986. Charlene Newell, who will perform per-form a brand new specialty number, is a popular choral teacher for the Granite School District. She has j composed music for the bicentennial bicenten-nial production in Price, and the j American Fork patriotic music il. "Battlefields." She is the mother of 12 and is currently teaching org j. for Clocks and Keyboards at Sears "The Plight of the Homeless sung by composer Mike Cran will precede his poetry with tl 1 musical setting, "What, Then, I My Worth?' narrated by oral Alan Mangum. "Freedom's Cry, a song ah. prisoners of war, will be sung 1 Annette Harris, mother of 1 1 , i i grandmother of four. She has b j writing music for 10 years, and r has a son who is following in footsteps by composing and pla his own compositions. A children's group will perf JoAnne P. Smith's award winr "Click It Off," which recently first place in the Children's Category of the National League America. Eight different categories arc j eluded, so that any genre of m -may be entered. For details and " try blanks, write Box 586, Fi ington, Utah, 84025, or call 4:1-2275. |