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Show 8 Thursday, February 8, 1979 Page 12 Music Notes By Jay Median Park City is once again abuzz over Northern Utah's finally getting its share ol some ol the better touring music acts, and of the many who are soon to perform locally, three deserve special mention. Get your auditory nerves ready ! ! Here's the schedule: The line "Pat Metheney Group" will perform a long-awaited concert at Kingsbury Hall on the U of U campus Saturday evening at 8:00 p.m. Metheney, whom many consider the world's most talented jazz guitarist at only 24 years of age (of course they said the same thing about him when he was only 19) will be holding a guitar workshop in room 400 of the University's Music Building at 4 p.m. the day of the concert. The workshop will be free to ticket holders while others may join in for only $2.50 (Tickets are available locally at the "end run" video bar across the street from the Utah Coal & Lumber. ) Saturday evening, Feb. 17, the "Commander," "Comman-der," Cody that is, brings his uproarious brand of western-swing boogie rock and roll back to Salt Lake's Abbey Road (826 S. Main). Although the Commander's stage show is not exactly the same as it was when "Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen" were knocking them dead a few years back, it certainly hasn't lost any energy. Cody is now lead vocalist about 90 of the time and on stage reaches a frenzy level of almost unbelievable proportions. He resembles a cross between Mick Jagger and Jerry Lee Lewis, only WIRED. Tickets for all Abbey Road shows are available at Rosie's Delicatessen on Main Street. The following evening the action's at Abbey Road once again with perennial Salt Lake favorite Taj Majal coming to town. Taj has continued con-tinued to evolve musically since the mid '60s when his traditional and electric blues concerts were the toast of L.A. He has journeyed into the music traditions of Africa, the West Indies, and South America while still keeping everything enveloped in tasty jazz-blues overtones. The always infectious Taj Majal on display once again Sunday night Feb. 18 at Abbey Road. And now back to Pat Metheney. At a time when many great young guitarists are expanding the instruments horizons, Metheny seems to be doing it in a more unique fashion than any of them. Pickers like Larry Caryell, Steve Kahn, Phillipe Cathrjrige, Lee Rittenour., Larry Carlton and the like are certainly enjoyable enough and display enough collective flashes of creative brilliance to satisfy even the most finicky purist, but, in this corner at least, they almost pale beside the compositionalarranging com-positionalarranging and guitar playing genius that is Pat Metheney's gift. He came out of Lee's Summit. Missouri, a self-taught guitarist from a musical family and before you could say "Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt Live" he was on the faculty of the University of Miami at the tender age of 18. A year later he was the youngest instructor in the history of the prestigious Berklee College of Music. He was assigned the 30 best of Berklee's 800 guitar students. Previous to forming for-ming his own group he toured with innovative Gary Burton Quintet handling 12-string chores. And while were on the subject of innovation and the 12-string guitar our hero has something a bit different to go along with the variety of guitars he surrounds himself with on stage: a 12-string he has restrung with all E-strings and retuned. But lest this sound like we're talking about a magician, it is the texture and beautiful feeling of the "Pat Metheney Group" as a whole that is most important when one is tinkling ice-cubes in a glass while gazing at the stage of a venue as intimate as "Abbey Road." Keyboardist Lyle Mays, drummerpercussionist Dan Gottlieb, Got-tlieb, and bassist Mark Egan round out this superb combo. Thanks to Sean Toomey and Scott Arnold of Creative Concerts for filling such a large local music void by bringing to town the best, if not the most famous, in the performing arts. Kimball Art Center Names New Officers Loi-al Park City residents Anne Prince and Harry Reed were named Chairman Chair-man of the Board and President respectively of the Kimball Art Center. William R. Kimball, heretofore Chairman of the Board, was also named Founding Chairman to make way for the two new appointments. These actions took place at a regularly scheduled meeting of the Kimball Art Center's Board of Trustees held in Park City on Tuesday, February 6, 1979. These changes were made possible by revisions in the Art Center's bylaws allowing for expansion of the number of corporate officers of-ficers to include President and Founding Chairman. Anne Prime, prominent Park City resident for several years, is currently a member of the Park City School Board. She has been active in various civic and community affairs throughout the years in Park City and Salt Lake City. As a member of the Kimball Art Center's Board of Trustees since the Art Center's inception, she notes that as newly appointed Chairman of the Board, she is "eagerly anticipating greater participation in the arts." She adds that she w ill be working hard so that the Kimtvil! - r. -.. " continue to be a forerunner in the arts in Utah." Harry Reed, Park City resident for some 18 years, is the owner of Skyline Land Company and is also affiliated" af-filiated" with' Park City reservations. As newly appointed ap-pointed President of the Kimball Art Center, Reed feels that "it's an exciting challenge. I'm looking forward for-ward to getting more involved in-volved with the arts to benefit Park City and the State of Utah." David Fernandez, Director Direc-tor of the Art Center, commented com-mented that "I'm happy to have the opportunity to work with both Anne and Harry in their new capacities. And too. I'm very pleased that Bill Kimball Kim-ball will continue to serve on the Board of Trustees, this time as Founding Chairman. Chair-man. It's indeed an honor to have all three of them associated with the Kimball Art Center." The Kimball Art Center opened in November 197(i thanks to the efforts of William Kimball, originally of Ogden, and now residing in San Francisco. The Art Center is a non-profit organization housing a gallery for the visual and performing arts, a gallery-shop, gallery-shop, and a school for children and adults I yU . I ' f v 1: K I Anne Prince ll.in Kml Council Selects Planning Group The Park City Council announced Thursday that it has selected a firm to formulate plans for the city's redevelopment projects. Acting on the recommendation recommend-ation of an evaluating board, the council chose Muir-Chong Muir-Chong Aor-ntos a Salt Lake City-based company which has worked on similar projects in the past several years. Initially, the firm will be asked to propose improvements improve-ments for the Main Street area and to draw up a master plan for future re- County Accepts Sewer Bids At Tuesday's Summit County Commission meeting, contracting bids were accepted for the construction con-struction of the Summit Park sewer system with the low bid being submitted by the Jay Tuft Company of Sandy. Utah. The proposed sewer Ceramic Tile Paintings Exhibited At Art Center A new exhibit of ceramic tile paintings by San Francisco Fran-cisco artist Guillermo Granizo and Salt Lake City artist Lark Lucas will open in the main gallery of the. Kimball Art Center. Sunday, Sun-day, February 11. The exhibit will run through Thursday. March 1. A reception will be held on Sunday, February 11, from 3-5 p.m. in honor of the two exhibiting artists. The public is invited. Guillci mo (iranio is a native of San Francisco although he spent most of his childhood traveling through the ruins ol Central America and Mexico with his Nicaraguan mother and archaeologixi kiihcr I pun graduation from the College of . Art in . San Francisco. Granizo met the late sculptor. sculp-tor. Benjamin Bufano, who encouraged him to explore ceramic murals. In 1962 he began coininmissioncd pin jects. which include i broken tile and stone murals. Eventually, Even-tually, he produced his own original. glazed tile ceramics to be used as individual in-dividual framed paintings, or as enormous wall murals up to UMi feet in length Construction Continues In County Despite Tight Money " 1 km. s In spite of the high in terest rate and high cost of building materials, home construction is still on the increase in Summit County. More than $6,700,000.00 was recorded in new home construction con-struction in 1978. an increase in-crease of $1,700,000.00 over 1977 construction. A total of 259 building permits were issued for the unincorporated unincor-porated areas of the county only. Summit Park leads the area with 50 permits being sold lor single-family dwellings. Due to the zoning ordinance, or-dinance, there have been some delays in obtaining permits because some applicants ap-plicants do not bring enough information with them to the building office, county officials said. To purchase your building permit you should have your plans, a plot plan, percolation test, proof of ownership of property, property description descrip-tion or lot number if in a subdivision. Other information such as date of purchase, deeds. Uc. could be helpful. In some cases it is necessary to grant a variance or zone change This takes time so it is a good idea to start early to avoid delays in building. Last year some stop orders had to be issued when building permits were not obtained or zoning violations occurred. The following is a breakdown break-down of building permits sold in the county from 1972 through 197H: 1972-7:5-74-75 :W8 Summer Cabins 1976 6 Cabins 114 permanent homes 200 Total 1977 101 Cabins 1 1 1 permanent homes 13 garages, remodeling, etc.. 225 Total 1978 ' 88 cabins 138 permanent homes 33 garages, remodeling, etc. 259 Total The building officials will be in their offices at the Courthouse in Coalville from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon on Tuesday and Thursday each week to issue permits. Since his iirst commission, com-mission, which he created lor the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco. Granizo has produced paintings and murals for other projects including the bay area Bi-Lingual Bi-Lingual Education League, the San Francisco International Inter-national Airport. the Washington School in San Jose (which has been designated a Bicentennial National Landmark i. and many private homes throughout the United States and abroad. . Lark Lucas is a native of Salt Lake City and received her formal education at the University of Utah and Chouinard's Art Institute in Los Angeles. She is a frequent traveler to Mexico. South America, and various American Indian reservations reser-vations where art. customs, and people, especially children, serve as her inspiration in-spiration and subject matter. mat-ter. As a teacher and artist, she has worked with oils, acrylics, charcoal, water colors, clay and natural fibers. Recently Ms. Lucas was introduced to Guillermo Granizo who invited her to join him in creating glazed tile ceramics. The brilliant reds, oranges, yellows and subdued earth tones made possible by firing the tiles at different temperatures, i allowed her to create a rich stained glass effect not attained at-tained in any other medium. One of her commissioned ceramic tile murals is hung at The Children's Center in Salt Lake City. This large mural depicts children in various forms of play and , utilizes over 100 different i glazes creating a rainbow of l shades and colors. system will serve all of the Summit Park area, which currently has 150 homes and enough lots for an additional ad-ditional 650. Plans call for construction of the collection collec-tion system to begin this spring with a completion date sometime the following fall. The commissioners are currently taking the Tuft bid under advisement. In other commission business, U.S. Forest Service Ser-vice representatives advised the commissioners thai the primitive area above Kamas will be changed from a primitive designation to a wilderness area. Additional acreage will be added to the High Uintah area bringing the total to 500.000 acres, making it the second largest wilderness area in the continental con-tinental United States the largest is in Idaho i. About one third of the toal area is in Summit County and the remainder in Duchesne County. The wilderness designation closes the area to motorized travel and mineral and limber exploitation. Some grazing will be allowed as long as stock is herded by loot and from horseback development projects. Muir-Chong was selected from among three finalists which gave presentations to the evaluation board on January 4. The board was composed of Mayor Jack Green, Councilmen Bob Wells and Steve Dering, City Planner David Preece, former form-er City Treasurer Bruce Decker, artist and local historian Pat Smith, com-munity com-munity activist Tina Lewis and architect Ted Warr. In its January 4 presentation, presenta-tion, Muir-Chong represent atives said they would attempt to take advantage of the existing character of Park City and avoid a "Disneyland atmosphere." One factor influencing the council decision could have been Muir-Chong's association associa-tion with traffic consultant Wayne YanWagoncr. Yan Wagoner previously had completed a traffic safety study for the city and he told the board, "Some of the previous work has gone a long way toward identifying the problems." THE 1V Dt'e-Sign Associates Huge selections of unique wall coverings for all types of homes in all price ranges!! Co-ordinating Fabrics Qualified Designer Available for Assistance Also Custom Draperies Full Bath Boutique Home Accessories Come Take A Look And Make Yourself At Home. 586 Main St. 649-9332 (ITALIAN CUISINE) CONSUMER GUIDELINES Year Valuation Permits 1972 3,987,000 215 1973 5,201,493 188 1974 4,248,500 165 1975 2,334,000 152 1976 4,608,000 200 1977 4,954,000 225 1978 6,769,000 259 Federal funds are being spent on solar research because experts believe solar energy may have the best potential (or efficient processing process-ing of food. 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