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Show Thursday, February 14, 2008 OREM TIMES Page IS American Fork Arts Council American Fork Symphony presents "Great Romantic Masterpieces" Members of the American Fork Symphony Sym-phony will present the third movement of Rachmaninoff's soaring Piano Concerto No. 2 along with a selection of other pieces that evoke great emotion emo-tion during its winter concert on Feb. 25. The concert, titled "Great Romantic Masterpieces," will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the American Fork High School auditorium, 510 N. 600 East, American Fork. Admission is $3 ($10 per family). Dr. Terry Hill and Alan Allred will serve as conductors. Pianist Sally Brinton will be the featured soloist during the performance of the Rach-moninoff Rach-moninoff concerto. The concert will feature a performance of "The Mol-dau," Mol-dau," the second in a suite of symphonic poems called Ma Vlast (My Country) by Czech composer Bedrich Smetana. The music in this piece depicts the Moldau, a river that flows through the Czech countryside before entering the city of Prague. Also on the program are performances per-formances of the Blue Danube Waltz by Strauss, "Procession of the Nobles" by Rimsky-Kor-sakov and selections of music from all six "Star Wars" movies mov-ies composed by John Williams. A graduate of the Juilliard School of Music, Brinton has appeared twice before as a soloist so-loist with the American Fork Symphony. Brinton graduated graduat-ed magna cum laude from the University of Utah, receiving her bachelor of music degree in music performance. She went on to earn her master of music degree at Juilliard, where she also won first place in the Juilliard Piano Concerto Competition. She has won L) Gum c& GfiiP i2Gft? (mmitp Capelli procUcts tor great hardays n 1 jk ll I I V" 0LT mm ! ,4.- 5sM: " (M3 Semites iTPWflK YOU CAN AFFORD, first prize in four national piano competitions and performed per-formed with orchestras in New York, Florida, Texas, California and Utah. She performed in recital with her two daughters, Stephanie and Lindsey, in New York City's Carnegie Recital Hall on Sept. 11,2006. The approximately 70 members of the American Fork Symphony hail from American Fork and surrounding surround-ing communities from Eagle Mountain to Payson. For more information about the symphony, sym-phony, visit the orchestra's Web site at www.american-forksymphony.org. www.american-forksymphony.org. SCERA Opera for Lovers It will be night for those in love, or at least those who love music, when the Utah Lyric Opera Society So-ciety presents Opera for Lovers Lov-ers at the SCERA Center for the Arts Feb. 14 and 15. Performances will begin at 7:30 p.m. and reserved-seat tickets are available at $10 for adults, $8 for children (age 3-11), 3-11), seniors (65) and students (wID). They are available from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays week-days and Saturdays from noon to 6 p.m. at the SCERA Center, 745 S. State St., Orem, by calling call-ing 225-ARTS, online at www. scera.org or at the door 30 minutes prior to the show. Featured performers in addition ad-dition to Costa-Jackson will include Angela Higbee, Curtis Peterson, Gregory Oaks, Jean-ice Jean-ice Woodbrey, Darrell and Jennifer Babbidge, Gregory Oaks, Marci McKay, Coleene Butler, Christopher Holmes, Debra and Barry Bounous, Dee Harris, Loren Bingham, Your entire orrffr r Use onGne coupon code CS517 Good through Feb. 295h I , t i rrnn dtenmnrtfe Martha and Eric Glissmeyer, Chris Holmes, Gina Soreasen, Brianna Craw and Brigham Morgan. "Our biggest challenge was condensing the concert to two hours," says Lyle Mortimer, managing director. "We just have a surplus of talent and a surplus of wonderful music." Utah Valley State College "Pointe Counter-Pointe" Academy of Ballet Presents "Pointe-CounterPointe" at UVSC's Ragan Theater on Friday Fri-day at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday at 2 and 7:30 p.m. This concert features Athena Dance Company, Com-pany, directed by Lindsay Folkman, and Ballet Utah, directed by Phyllis Whitaker and Carrie Wright. Featured are excerpts from the ballet "Giselle," selected jazz and contemporary works, and "Land of Oz," a one act contemporary jazz rendition of "The Wizard of Oz." "This show is appealing because there's a lot of variety," vari-ety," said Lynne Thompson, Director of Academy of Ballet. The works range from an emotional emo-tional piece about Prisoners of War, to the tragic, beautiful and classical "Giselle," to the high entertainment and sparkle of "Land of Oz." The performance perfor-mance will also feature several student-choreographed works. "The students' pieces are unique in their own way," said Thompson. "Their emotion, energy level and devotion are huge." Tickets are $7 in advance and $8 at the door. Tickets may be purchased through Academy of Ballet, 225-1775. earn 3.mr G2&IW (M3?f7 023L3ZEQB Hale Center Theater Orem She Loves Me Hale Center Theater Orem will present the romantic musical comedy, "She Loves Me," which will run Feb. 14 through April 5. Performances are scheduled nightly, except Sundays. Evening Eve-ning performances begin at 730 p.m. Saturday matinees are scheduled each Saturday at 330 p.m. beginning March 15. (The theater will be dark Feb. 19, 20, 26 and 27.) Ticket price are $13.50-$17.50 $13.50-$17.50 depending on night and seating location (Processing fee included). Tickets may be purchased by calling the box office at 801-226-S600. The show focuses on Georg and Amalia, two lonely, feuding feud-ing clerks, toiling in a 1930's European parfumerie. Their only solace comes in the form of anonymous, romantic letters let-ters from their lonely hearts club pen-pals. How could they . have ever guessed the letters were from each other? The musical, from the songwriting team that created "Fiddler on the Roof," debuted on Broadway Broad-way in the spring of 1963. Dave Tinney will do double duty as director and choreographer, choreog-rapher, with Kathryn Laycock Little as musical director. Two grand pianos will accompany the cast each night. Lehi Arts Council Night in the Museum Museum Mu-seum staff and docents at the Hutchings Museum in Lehi are hosting a "Night in the Museum" on Feb. 22 from 5:30-830 5:30-830 p.m. The museum is a wild place full of historic and entertaining entertain-ing characters and animals as the sun sets and the exhibits come to life. Come experience the adventure of a "Night in the Museum." .011039 &010I V Sonv Restrictions (2ppl? 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