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Show Thursday, March 6, 2008 Page 12 0 R E M TIMES One family's love for music evolves into a bluegrass band Mario Ruiz DAILY HERALD 1 3 years old, Tiann 1 1 tyer Sg'-'d fr a 1 1 violin but was told vj she was too little ""t0 P'ay- After she LJ Uturned 4, however, her mother, Stacey, thought she was ready for a fiddle of her own. Now 12, Tiann plays her fiddle alongside her 15-year-old brother Tel and his guitar, and her 11-year-old sister Mady on the mandolin. The Highland trio make up Dyer Highway, a bluegrass country band that tours the county performing for public crowds and senior centers. But this is only the he-ginning he-ginning for these growing up and comers. They've been playing for six years now. The family band just sort of evolved. Their mother, Stacey Dyer, has a music degree but never forced her kids to learn or play. briefs Wasatch Winds March Musical Madness Wasatch Winds S mpviik Band will present a "M,-.: h Musical Madness" conu-rt Friday Fri-day at 7:'M) p.m. at American Fork High School. 510 N. til in East, American Fork. Tickets are $3 per person, $10 for a family and $2 for students. They are available at the door. Music will include compositions composi-tions by Sousa and Tchaikovsky. Tchai-kovsky. Center Stage Youth Productions "The Wizard of Oz" The Center Stage Youth Performers Perform-ers will perform "The Wizard of Oz" as its spring musical on April 22, 23, and 24 at 7 p.m. and April 25 at 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at UVSC's Ragan Theater in the student center. Tickets are $(i and can be purchased at the door or online at the Center Stage Web site at www.plgrove.orgstage. Center Stage Youth Performers Per-formers is a youth theatre program of Pleasant drove City. The cast of about 70 Utah Valley youths, ages 7 through 18, are led by Director Fori Sanders and a staff of teachers who provide instruction in acting, act-ing, singing and dancing. For questions, contact Sanders at 221-7761. SCERA Amelia Bedelia Children have been laughing at the misadventures of the lovable but literal-minded housekeeper Amelia Bedelia for more than 40 years, and her appeal continues. con-tinues. She's a girl who takes everything seriously, so when her employer Mrs. Rogers asks her to dust the furniture, she throws talcum powder all over it. That's because the box said "dusting powder." She's " also the girl who when asked to dress the chicken for dinner, din-ner, doesn't prepare it, but puts pants on the poultry. Amelia's life of mistakes, messes and misunderstandings will become a stage production when SCERA 's Theatre for Youth Audiences presents the play Monday through March 29 at the SCERA Center for the Arts in Orem. While its morning morn-ing matinees for elementary school field trips are essentially essen-tially sold out, there are public-shows public-shows Mondays and Fridays at 7:30 p.m. with a Saturday matinee mati-nee on March 15 at 2 p.m. WANTED WATER, WELL RIGHTS & IRRIGATION. Call Ross at 642-0119 METALBUILDMffi 801-367-4437 435-623-4606 Licensed "I have to tell them to stop playing and to go watch TV. That's how much they love it." Stacey said. The band's next prospective prospec-tive band member is only 7 (a little violinist, TayLynn Dyer). Mady was knocking spoons for her older brother and sister until she was old enough to play the mandolin. Tel. t he oldest son and band leader, has a dream to someday some-day move to Nashville and start recording. "It's a dream, and they're hard to get." he said. Tiann picked up her first violin at age 4 and was ready to play. She took first place in a state Farm Bureau competition com-petition for "I've Been Working Work-ing on the Railroad" in 2000. Tiann is also first violin for Timpanogos Chamber Orchestra. Orches-tra. Her dream is to attend the famed performing arts school Juilliard in New York City alter she graduates from high school. Reserved-seat tickets are ; lor adults. $4 for children ' age 3-11). seniors (05) and students (with ID). 1 ickets are available from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays and Saturdays from inon to (i p.m. at the SCERA Center, 745 S. State. Orem, by calling (S01) 225-ARTS. online .it www.scera.org or at the door 30 minutes prior tothe show. Celtic-Fusion Band Stonecircle in concert March 19 Stonecircle. Stonecir-cle. a five-piece Celtic-fusion band based out of Salt Lake City, will offer a musical experience expe-rience that has been described as both ethereal and beautifully uplifting when it performs at the SCERA Center for the Arts March 19. The concert, part of SCERA 's Wednesday Night Live series, will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the SCERA Center, 745 S. State St.. Orem. General admission tickets are $5 for ages 3 and older and are available avail-able 10 a.m.-O p.m. weekdays and Saturdays from noon to 6 p.m. at SCERA Center, by calling call-ing (SOI) 225-ARTS. online at www.scera.org or at the door 30 minutes prior to the show. The musicians have created a unique sound with a fusion of jazz, classical and original material ma-terial tied to traditional Celtic music. Their music can be found through their critically-acclaimed critically-acclaimed CDs: "Serendipity," "Alchemy." "In Concert." "Winter Sky" and "Asterisk and Dragonflies." Says SCERA President & CEO Adam J. Robertson. "Stonecircle has played in major venues and at major festivals throughout the United States, so we're lucky to have this professional group based here in our state. We thought their unique brand of Celtic music would be a perfect celebration cel-ebration for St. Patrick's Day." Utah Valley Symphony Young Artists to solo with symphony Eight young musicians mu-sicians will be in the spotb'ght as the Utah Valley Symphony presents its annual Young Artists Art-ists Concert March 11, 12 and 13. Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. in 1he Covev Center for the Arts, 425 W." Center St. Tuesday 's concert is specially priced lor families, at $25, with first -come, first-served seating. Reserved seats Wednesday and Thursday evenings are S10 each ($8 for students and senior citizens). Call 852-7007 for tickets. Bryce Rytting will conduct. The program will open with the orchestra playing Brahms's Tragic Overture. The eight young guest artists, ages 11-19, I Insured 1 el writes his own songs, with the lyrics coming from his experiences with his family. fam-ily. "Cowboys in Flip-flops" is about his little brothers' imaginations imagi-nations as they ride broomstick broom-stick horses and shoot toy cap guns. "Black and White" is a song he wrote last year about his grandfather and the old black and white pictures his mother was scanning for a family history book. "Each of the pictures had their own story," he said. I le said the stories about his grandfather, Doug Nielsen, inspired in-spired him to write the song. "There have been a couple of times when I've sung that song and have had to hold back tears and keep my composure," com-posure," he said. Performing is the fun part, Stacey said. The kids rehearse every Thursday and have been working hard recording their first CD. But she says the payoff pay-off is in performing. "Tel loves people, and he will then perform concertos, for which they were selected in auditions last fall. Catherine Winters, 11. a sixth-grader at Northridge Elementary, will perform the third movement of the Quantz Flute Concerto in G Major. She is the daughter of Alan and Jill Winters of Lindon and a flute student of Elizabeth Ambler. Rebekah Willey, 13. the daughter of Donell and Denise Willey of Pleasant Grove, will play the third movement of Ka-balevsky's Ka-balevsky's Violin Concerto in C Major. She attends American I leritage School and studies violin with Barbara Williams. Brittany Williams, a 17-year-old senior at Mountain View High School, is the daughter of Clayton and Tracy Williams of Orem. A student of Barbara Williams since age 10. she will perform the second movement of Max Bruch's Violin Concerto Con-certo no. 1 in G Minor. Ree Lu. 13. began studying piano at age 5 with Carmen Hall and is now a student of Irene Peery-Fox. The son of Kening Lu and June Tang of Orem. he is in eighth-grade at Centennial Middle School. He will perform the first movement move-ment of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto no. 2 in C Minor. Jenny Spencer, soprano, will sing "Crude sorte" from L'ltaliana in Algeri by Rossini. She is the 19-year-old daughter of Ross and Margo Spencer of Orem, and a sophomore at BYU. She has studied voice with Elizabeth Farnsworth since age 13. Helen McGarr, 16, is the daughter of Edward and Wendy Wen-dy McGarr of Lindon. A flute student of Laurel Ann Maurer, she has appeared on NPR's "From the Top." The Pleasant Grove High School llth-grader will perform Chaminade's Concertino for Flute and Orchestra. Or-chestra. Cordon Miller, 17, is the son of Kevin and LuAnn Miller of Delta, and a piano student of Irene Peery-Fox. He will perform per-form the third movement of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto Concer-to no. 3. He recently completed a tour of China with the Utah Young Pianists Quartet. Mauresa Bastian, 15. attends at-tends Gunnison Valley High School and studies piano with Irene Peery-Fox. The daughter of Bevan and Gay Bastian of Axtell. Mauresa will conclude the concert with Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue." uvsc UVSC's Woodbury Art Museum Muse-um presents annual Bachelor of Fine Arts show Utah Valley State College's Woodbury Art Museum will host its annual BFA Show through March 11. An opening reception will be held on Friday at 6 p.m. The "Excavating Operated Equipment Rental Equipment Hauling SPRING VILLE,UT 801-794-2880 Peace Let Us Insure Your Health and Life Insurance loves involving the crowd," Stacey said. Norma Muir and others raved about the group after a performance at The Charleston in Cedar Hills. "I loved every minute of it," said 86-year-old Muir. "I've got a grandson who's quite talented with music, and I wish he could see them and maybe he'd work twice as hard," she said. "I want to know why you guys aren't on "America's Got Talent" because that was the best thing we've ever seen," said Salt Lake City resident Kathy Poulson after chasing the kids down after the performance. perfor-mance. And that's the reaction they usually evoke. "1 don't know what I see for them in the future," Stacey said. Tel is sure though, that he's going to take music as far as he can. event is free and open to the public. Each spring, the Department of Art and Visual Communications Communi-cations presents an exhibition exhibi-tion featuring the work of advanced students who are candidates for the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. This degree imposes a high standard of rigor and expectation on its candidates in the professional development of their artwork. This year's exhibition features fea-tures the work of Rob James, illustration; Arthur Nelson, graphic design; Brad Hoen, graphic design; Kelly Larsen, painting'drawing; and Caleb Henderson, illustration. The Woodbury Art Museum is located on the second floor of the University MaU, 575 E. University Parkway, between Nordstrom and The Gap. Art Show hours are Friday through March 11, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Synergy Dance Company presents "Refract" The UVSC Department of Dance presents Synergy Dance Company's Com-pany's spring concert, "Refract," "Re-fract," March 6-8 in the Ragan Theater at 7:30 p.m. "Refract" is a dance exploration explora-tion into how movement can progress on a straight forward path but also possesses possibilities pos-sibilities to be tangential and "refract" off to change perspectives per-spectives and points of view. Choreography includes works from professional guest artists art-ists such as Heidi Henderson. Henderson, from Connecticut, brings with her a sense of quirky length and extension in an exploration of stopping and re-beginning time in her piece, "The Depth of Waiting." From CaHf ornia, Nicole Brid-gens Brid-gens creates a humorous duet of body language and miscon-nections miscon-nections in her piece, "Umm ... So ... yeah." Synergy's artistic co-director Amy Markgraf-Ja-cobson created a wave of high physicality and kinetic exuberance exuber-ance in her piece, "Shift." Artistic co-director Kate Monson's choreography ponders pon-ders on her physical responses to the experiences that her brother has related to her as he continues his active duty in Iraq, trying to make sense of the chaos and structure that he lives in each day. The concert will also feature student choreography chore-ography from company members mem-bers as they showcase their multifaceted abilities as artists. Synergy will also include a performance of the sentinel modern dance piece, "A Dance for Walt Whitman," choreographed choreo-graphed by modern dance pioneer Helen Tamiris in 1958 and performed by UVSC's Department of Dance students from the ballet, modern, dance education and ballroom programs pro-grams as part of the NEA's American Masterpieces: Dance Dump Trucks Erosion Control of Mind with The Dyers from left 12-year-old Tiann, seven-year-old TayLynn, and 15-year-old Tel tune their instruments before performing at The Charleston in Cedar Hills, on Feb. 23. 2008. The young bluegrass band Dyer Highway perform at The Charleston monthly College Component program. This grant was awarded to dance department faculty members Angela Banchero-Kelleher, Banchero-Kelleher, Nichole Ortega and Kim Strunk. Various student choreographed works by Synergy Syn-ergy company members will also be included. Original cast member and Executive Artistic Director of Repertory Dance Theatre The-atre Linda C. Smith worked intensely with dancers to re-stage "Dance for Walt Whitman" Whit-man" with permission from the Dance Notation Bureau. The cast of 27 includes two young dancers from BYLrs Children's Dance Program, as well as guest dancers from the community. Larry Harper, an English and literature professor, profes-sor, will narrate. The music is an original score by noted composer David Diamond. Tickets are $10 for the general gen-eral public, and $8 for students and faculty. Tickets are available avail-able at Campus Connection at (801) 863-S797. Poetry Reading by Emma Lou Thayne Emma Lou Thayne, will read poetry from her book, "How Much for the Earth?" Friday at 2 p.m. at UVSC's Centre Stage. "Ms. Thayne is a Utah classic, clas-sic, she will move us spiritually, intellectually and emotionally." said Kathy French, professor of behavioral science. "Students will see a woman who is willing to take risks, who reaches out to others and who is a strong peacemaker and humanitarian with immense talents. She is a giver and a gift." The book Thayne will be reading from was inspired by author Jonathan Schell and by the war experiences of her students stu-dents who served in Vietnam. Thayne is the author of 13 books of poetry, essays, fiction and the hymn, "Where Can 1 Turn for Peace?" "Emma Lou shares her humanity hu-manity with her beautiful writing," writ-ing," said French. "Those of us who are present for this event are very fortunate and will long remember it." Also on hand for the event will be Clifton Sanders, playing improv saxophone between readings. This event is free and open to the public. UVSC to Perform Mary Dickson's Dick-son's Docudrama "Exposed" The original cast from Plan B Theatre production will be at UVSC today at 7 p.m. to perform per-form a staged reading of Mary Dickson's, "Exposed." The play combines oral history, personal experience and powerful documentation docu-mentation to show the human toll of four decades of nuclear testing. From 1951 to 1992, the US government exploded 928 nuclear nu-clear bombs in the desert near ustom, v w www m m 9 m Wfy Large Selection of Colors & Shies ' 725 South 900 East Prow, Itah 374-0580 A ROCKY MOUNTAIN CARPET CLEANERS Serving Utah County A ' for 20 Years) T" 822-3730 or 822-4358 w375-232 M about 7o Damage I Commercial Kates! MARIO RUIZDaily Herald Las Vegas. New "Exposed" tells the story of downwinders. combining Dickson's experiences experi-ences with actual government documents, including declassified declassi-fied portions of Atomic Energy Commission minutes, public testimony and interviews. "Students will get a sense of the human cost of nuclear testing." said Kathy French, professor of behavioral science. sci-ence. "The history of nuclear testing and the particular toll that Ltahns paid is unknown to most young adults in Utah. The play portrays real events and real people, two of whom will be in attendance." Instead of leaving the audience audi-ence with a sense of despair regarding nuclear war testing and its effects, the play gives hope and inspires action by telling tell-ing the successful grassroots efforts to keep history from repeating itself. "I suggest students ask their parents and neighbors: many families have lost loved ones tothe nuclear fallout in Utah and other states, and many might like to join our campus community in seeing this," said French. "The play is emotional, factual and very good." The play was nominated by the American Theatre Critics Association for best new play produced outside New York and was named best drama of 2007 by the Deseret Morning News. The reading is free and open to the public and will take place in the Centre Stage of the Sorensen Student Center. Hale Center Theater Orem "She Loves Me" Hale Center Theater Orem presents the romantic musical comedy. "She Loves Me." which will run now through April 5. Performances are scheduled nightly, except Sundays. Evening Eve-ning performances begin at 7:30 p.m. Matinees are scheduled sched-uled each Saturday at 3:30 p.m. beginning March 15. (The theater the-ater will be closed Feb. 19, 20, 26 and 27.) Ticket prices are $13.50-$17.50 $13.50-$17.50 depending on night and seating location. Tickets may be purchased by calling the box office at (801) 226-8600. The theater is located at 225 W. 400 North, Orem. The show focuses on Georg and Amalia, two lonely, feuding feud-ing clerks, toiling in a 1930s 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? 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