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Show 0 R E M TIMES Thursday, November 22, 2007 Page 12 ibnefs American Fork Arts Council American Fork Symphony presents "Christmas Spectacular" Spectacu-lar" Christmas music from Broadway and I In' movies will be pail of a holiday concert designed de-signed to appeal to adults and children alike as the American Fork Symphony presents its "Christmas Spei lanilar" performance per-formance on Monday. !':. 3. I he ( oik ert will begin at 7;.'i0 p in in the American Fork I ligh School auditorium, 510 N 'KM) Last, .American f ork. Admission is $.' (SHI per family). fam-ily). I i . I ei tv Hill will serve as ( ondui lor . A medley ot Broadway favorites including "We Need a I illlc Christmas" and "It's Beginning to Look l ike Christmas" Christ-mas" will he performed along with a selection of holiday rock 'n' roll favorites such as "Kock-in' "Kock-in' Around tile Christmas I rce" and "Jingle Hell Rock." A com ert suite from the movie " I he I'olar Express" is on the program as well as the well-known well-known "Holiday for Strings." As a special treat for children chil-dren in t he audience, I he oi i hest ra will pi eseni an or-( or-( hestial suite from Disney's "Meanly and the Meast." I ci Ty 1 1 ill is a graduate of Mrigham Young I iniversity where he was honored as the oulslaiiding music education major. I le completed his graduate gradu-ate work al the University of Arizona, where he held a teac lung assislantship with the orchestra and was assistant conductor of the univer sity opera while earning a doctor-ale doctor-ale in instrumental conducting. His career has included work as a conductor, educator and violist. Hill taught music in I'ro-vi) I'ro-vi) School Dislrict for 21 years and is a popular guest conductor conduc-tor and adjudicator throughout the West. I le was director of the Utah Valley Youth Symphony Sym-phony and recently retired from Utah Valley Stale College where he was an associate professor pro-fessor of music and director of orchestral studies. He is now teaching music and conducting in has Vegas, Nev. The approximately 7(1 members mem-bers of the American f ork Symphony hail from American I oi k and surrounding communities commu-nities from Fugle Mountain to I'ayson. l or more information about the- symphony, visit the orchestra's Weh site at www. ainericanf i irk symphony .org. Timpanogos Festival Orchestra and Chorus DOLLARS p i Looking for a close convenient place to turn your scrap into cash, We buy all types of Metals, Steel, Autos, Appliances, Aluminum, Aluminum Cans, Copper, Brass, Radiators, Stainless, Batteries. V i e. Li 3r j-Vv We offer Competitive Prices, Fast Friendly Service, and a our Customers, Stop by and Give Us ATry! MCR 550 ' V- r ! SATISFACTION 1 Messiah Sign-in The Timpanogos Festival Orchestra and Chorus will present its 12th annual Messiah Sing-in on Friday, Dec. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the Alpine Tabernacle, located at 100 I-;. Stale Street in American Ameri-can Fork. Admission is free. Because of the popularity of this annual event, admission is limited to those 8 years of age and older. ( iuest soloists are Mary Bil-leter-Young, soprano; I .aura li'Wis, mezzo-soprano; (ieorge Dyer, tenor; and Cary Soren-son, Soren-son, baritone. A 100-voice chorus cho-rus and 50-pic( e orchestra will complete the performance of the oratorio. Lois Stout is the conductor. Audience members can enjoy en-joy the experience of singing in the historic Alpine Tabernacle along with hundreds of other musicians in celebration of the Christmas season, as the audience will be invited to sing along with the chorus and or- best ra during the ten chorus numbers. Those wishing to sing-in should bring their own copies of Messiah. Music will not be available at the performance. perfor-mance. 'I 'he conductor and founder of this event, l.ois Stout, retired re-tired to this area f rom Maryland Mary-land to be near her family. When asked her reason for initialing this ambitious undertaking, under-taking, Mi's. Stout said, "When I first saw the beautifully done restoration of the Alpine Tabernacle, I felt that Messiah Mes-siah must be presented there. This extraor dinary, histor ic building is a perfect setting for performances of great, sacred works of music. Il is our hope to produce an inspiring Christmas Christ-mas experience for this wonderful won-derful community" The I impanogos Festival Chorus is prepared by Lisa Mrodie, a professional singer and violinist from Alpine. She has performed Messiah in Washington D.C at the Kennedy Ken-nedy Center and holds performance perfor-mance degrees in voice and violin. Mary Billet er-Young, soprano, sopra-no, graduated from the Academy Acad-emy of Music and Dramatic Ai'ts in Vienna, Austria. She performed in operas and recorded re-corded extensively in Furope. Mary has performed with the Fos Angeles Opera Company and won fir st place in the Metropolitan Met-ropolitan Opera and San Francisco Fran-cisco Opera auditions in Utah. Mezzo-soprano Laura Garff Lewis, a native of Utah, holds bachelor of music and master of fine arts degrees from the University of Utah. She performed per-formed for several years with the Utah Opera Company in its Opera in the Schools program as well as in a variety of operatic oper-atic roles. ( ieorge Dyer, tenor, is a well-known soloist throughout through-out the United States and has performed with the Hartford Symphony, Utah Symphony, DOLLARS RECYCLING North Geneva Road Orem (301)225-0001 X I EOT I mPAVTrlffiVMI SkujTiH mm Sfomm CIre-m Utah Opera Company, Utah Chamtwr Artists and Ballet West. Baritone Gary Sorenson holds a master's degree in vocal vo-cal performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Mu-sic and teaches voice at Weber State University, where he received re-ceived his bachelor's degree in music. He also operates a full-time full-time voice studio from home. Grove Creek Stake Christmas program "Christmas in the Grove," a musical celebration of the Christmas season, will be presented I:c. 9 in the Alpine Tabernacle, 1 10 East Main, in American Fork. A "pre-program" will begin be-gin at 0:30 p.m. The concert, featuring an adult, youth, and children's choir comprised of members and friends of the Pleasant Grove Utah Grove Creek Stake, begins at 7 p.m. Admission is free. Families and friends of all faiths are invited to attend this 14th annual performance. per-formance. Kathryn Laycock Little has served as musical director for the program since its inception in l!)!)3. "Fvery year we look forward for-ward to sharing the joy of the season with our friends and neighbors through music and song," explains Little. "Our goal is to program enough diversity and fun in I he music to provide a concert the entire family can enjoy together." Musical solos and ensembles will be performed 30 minutes prior to the concert in a preprogram. pre-program. Everyone is invited to arrive early to enjoy the additional ad-ditional perfor mances before the concert begins. "Christmas in the Grove" is recommended as a family holiday holi-day activity. The music ranges from traditional carols to more contemporary selections. "And there is always something some-thing interactive for the audience," audi-ence," said IXiane Atkinson, president of the Grove Creek stake. "This is a wonderful opportunity to attend a lovely Christmas concert with your family. We would like to share this with our neighbors of all faiths who live in the surrounding surround-ing communities." A nursery will be provided for children ages 18 months to six years old beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the downstairs overflow over-flow room. The program will be piped live into the nursery for parents who need to leave the performance with a child. Look for the special seating area for families with young children. For more information, informa-tion, contact Mike and Cheryl Carson at 79(5-6293. Local benefit concert for orphanage "A Child's Hope Foundation" benefit concert will spotlight nationally renowned re-nowned talent to benefit Ukrainian Ukrai-nian orphans. The concert will be Satur I, True Commitment to www.martinscollisionrepair.com day, Dec. 1, at 7 p.m. at the lYovo Tabernacle. Tickets are $ 10 for adults and $5 for students. Tickets can be purchased pur-chased at the door or at the A Child's Hope Foundation Web site: www.AChildsIIopeFoun-dation.org. www.AChildsIIopeFoun-dation.org. "We A Child's Hope Foundation) Foun-dation) have the goal of filling up the Tabernacle and raising $20,000 to buy the family a van," said Tiffany Oaks Bratt, concert coordinator. The star-studded concert cast includes violinist Jenny Oaks Baker, concert pianist David Glen Hatch, singer and songwriter Cherie Call, the 2002 Olympic Children's Choir, brass ensemble Gabriel, soprano so-prano Jennifer Welch-Babidge and a jazz trio with Bob Bailey former jazz pianist on the Dean Martin Show and Ray Smith, accomplished jazz saxophone saxo-phone player and director of BYU's premiere jazz ensemble Synthesis. In 2006, Edward and Lubov Krushelnitsky, a Ukrainian couple, decided to open a family-oriented orphanage, bringing bring-ing in up to 10 young children to raise as their own. Now, the Krushelnitsky family faces the daunting task of transporting the entire family to educational, educa-tional, social community and church events. Proceeds will be used to purchase a van for an orphanage in Kiev, Ukraine. SCERA SCERA to bring touch of Radio Music Hall to SCERA Steve and Lisa James are bringing "Return to Christmas" to the SCERA Center for the Arts, opening Friday and continuing con-tinuing through Dec. 1. Performances Perfor-mances begin at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday matinees are 2 p.m. Tickets are $14 for adults and $12 for children, students with ID and seniors 65 and older. All seats are reserved, and tickets are available at www.scera. org, by calling (801) 224-ARTS or at the SCERA Center, 745 S. Street, Orem. The evening will embrace many aspects of Christmas, beginning with a contemporary contem-porary rendition of Steve James's original "Christmas All Around," looking at holidays past with a Dickens's era adaptation of the same song and a finale that pays homage to the first Christmas in Bethlehem. Among the performers will be Kim DelGrosso Holiday Dancers, including the four DelGrosso sisters. Many of her dancers have performed on television's "Dancing With the Stars." Also featured will be Jason Celiya who was seen on TV's "You're the One That I Want." For more information about "Return to Christmas" and other oth-er SCERA offerings, contact the arts center at 225-ARTS. SCERA youth artists works exhibited Children who have participated in the new SCERA Youth Artists program this fall will have a full-scale public gallery gal-lery exhibit Nov. 30, complete with opening night reception and art available for sale. The free exhibit, called Soiree, will open at 5:30 p.m. in the gallery of the SCERA Center Cen-ter for the Arts, 745 S. State St., Orem. The art can be seen on display through Dec. 22. It will include paintings, collages, ceramics, sculptures and furniture. fur-niture. Instructor and professional artist Heather Wilson-Duncan has spent fall semester teaching teach-ing children ages six through 12 the fundamentals of art, the work of other artists and the process of creativity. These up and coming artists exhibiting in Soiree are Dallas McGraw, Daniel Ian Rogers, Emerald Clark, Isaiah Duncan, Maiya Rogers, Marlon Olaya and Sophia So-phia Schetselaar. "The children were uninhibited unin-hibited and looked forward to creating many kinds of arts," Duncan says. "They exhibited a real zest. I like to stress that everyone has talents and there are no mistakes. That is the fun of art." Chained to a long-term home loan? TTaExe VGDWHr Wis (QacCi 5 year UD 3 TAKE VOIM BftCKI . MOUNTAIN HIGH FEDERAL CREDIT UNION Our Htghtmt Inlwrmst tx For those looking to see what fun the visual arts can be, SCERA is offering Arts Craze, a free two-hour event on Dec. 29 and Jan. 5 from 10 a.m. to noon at the SCERA Center. Attendees can work on art projects organized by Duncan and also get information on the classes and discounts offered for Winter Semester. All ages are invited, and no registration or reservation is needed. Art Craze will continue through 2008 on the first Saturday Satur-day of each month, and a two-hour two-hour morning block can be reserved for youth and church groups, birthday parties, and family, civic or corporate events. Other times may be requested re-quested as well. For more information, contact con-tact SCERA at (801) 225-ARTS. Utah Valley State College Kurt Bestor Christmas Returns Re-turns to UVSC Debuting the Christmas concert season in Utah County is a tradition for Kurt Bestor, who will perform "A Kurt Bestor Christmas: A Celebration of Life," in the McKay Events Center Monday, Mon-day, Nov. 26, at 7 p.m. This will be Bestor's third annual holiday holi-day performance at UVSC. Bestor's 19-year-old daughter daugh-ter Erika, also from Orem, will be joining him on stage as she sings with the UVSC choir. "A Kurt Bestor Christmas: A Celebration of Life" is presented by UVSC and is sponsored by the Central Utah Cancer Center, KSL radio, KDYL radio and the Daily Herald. Her-ald. The concert, dedicated to cancer survivors, will include Bestor's original arrangements of Christmas favorites and an original piece composed for cancer survivors in the audience. audi-ence. Proceeds from the concert con-cert will go to support scholarships scholar-ships at UVSC. Tickets are on sale now at the McKay Events Center Ticket Office, (801) 863-SHOW, 1 (888) 844-7469 (outside Utah County) or at any SmithTix location. Tickets can also be purchased online at www.mck-ayeventcenter.com. www.mck-ayeventcenter.com. Percussion Ensemble to perform per-form The Utah Valley State College Percussion Ensemble will perform a wide variety of music spanning genres, continents and time periods Nov. 27 at 7:30 p.m. in Centre Cen-tre Stage. "We're performing an almost al-most a schizophrenic blend of music," said David Fullmer, director of the percussion ensemble. en-semble. "The really wonderful thing about percussion ensemble ensem-ble concerts is the variety of styles. We can play contemporary, contempo-rary, classical and folk music." UVSC student Nate Anderson, Ander-son, from Riverton, will be featured on John Beck's composition com-position "Concerto for Drum Set and Percussion Ensemble." The concert will also feature a marimba choir performing a Grieg composition, African djembes, and a Bela Fleck tune "County Clare" featuring UVSC soloists Danielle Aslett, Tricia Wright, Jordan Routt and Camille LaFollette. The event is free and open to the public. Ballroom Dance Company Com-pany presents winter concert UVSC's Ballroom Dance Company presents their annual an-nual Winter Concert Nov. 29 and 30, and Dec. 1 and 3 in the Ragan Theater. Evening performances per-formances will be at 7:30 p.m., with a 2 p.m. matinee on Saturday, Satur-day, Dec. 1. This year, the Ballroom Dance Company will perform the beginning of the New Carmina Medley, which is the same medley they will perform in Blackpool, England when they compete for the Open British Championship Formation Forma-tion Team title in May 2008. The company will be defending four previous wins at this prestigious pres-tigious ballroom competition. Tickets are $10 for evening performances and $8 for the matinee performance and may be purchased from any UVSC with our 5 or 7 year mortgage Ballroom Dance Company member, UVSC Campus Connection Con-nection at (801) 863-8797, or at the door before the event. Brigham Young University International Folk Dancers celebrate "A Tapestry of Peace" The Brigham Young University Univer-sity Department of Dance and International Folk Dance Ensemble En-semble will celebrate the spirit of the holiday season with "A Tapestry of Peace," the 48th annual "Christmas Around the World" performance, on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the Marriott Center. There will also be a matinee performance on Dec. 1 at 2 p.m. The cost of admission for all floor seats is $25, and arena seats are $12 for evening performances per-formances and $10 for the matinee performance. Tickets can be purchased at the Marriott Mar-riott Center Ticket Office or by calling (801) 422-BYU1 or 1-800-322-BYU1. "A Tapestry of Peace" will feature a cast of more than 200 dancers, singers and musicians musi-cians representing more than a dozen countries. American Fork Arts Council Youth soloist auditions Auditions for youth soloists for the April 28, 2007 concert with the American Fork Symphony Sym-phony will be held Jan. 12. These auditions will be in the music department of American Fork Junior High School, 1120 N. 20 West. Categories are: Elementary ages 12 and under; Junior ages 13 through 15; and Senior ages 16 through 18. All instrumental players and vocalists may audition, but former winners must wait until they are in the next age level to audition again. Instrumentalists should prepare a movement from a standard concerto or a solo with orchestral accompaniment. accompani-ment. Vocalists should prepare a standard aria or solo with orchestra (no pop songs, however). how-ever). Two pianos will be available avail-able and contestants must bring their own accompanist. Pianists may perform unaccompanied, unac-companied, but all other contestants con-testants should perform with an accompanist. Each contestant contes-tant will be allowed 8 minutes. Winners will be selected according to performance standards. The judges' decision deci-sion will be final. Orchestral scores and parts must be readily read-ily available through standard sources. An audition fee of $15 will be charged for each applicant. An application form must be filled out and returned by Jan. 5. Application forms may be obtained from teachers, Web site www.americanforksym-phony.org., www.americanforksym-phony.org., or Maxine Steele, 756-2330. Singers sought A new choir, Phoenix Rising, is seeking seek-ing singers of all voice types with a cappellachamber choir experience. The choir will be limited to 16 singers. There will be solo opportunities for members mem-bers of the choir as well. Interested singers should contact M. Ryan Taylor at mryanchoirworks.com with a brief listing of past choral experience. ex-perience. If applicable, please send brief information about solo experience and any instruments instru-ments played proficiently. Rehearsals will begin December De-cember 2007, preparing several sever-al pieces for a "Twelfth Night" concert on Jan. 5. "Twelfth Night" is the 12th day of Christmas (as in the song) and the concert will focus fo-cus on music of the Christmas season. The concert will be in conjunction with several other performing groups, including the American Fork Children's choir. For more details see httpy performances.vocalworks. orgPhoenixRising. "i HUSH"1 Cll to nt you i pmonallwtJ mortgage plmrt. 768-3JI2 I Latlna (Uans Bnn..i Mm-rt-w-wr COMING SOON.. -SANTAQMINI |