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Show Thursday, April 24, 2008 NORTH COUNTY NEWSPAPERS Page 11 bnefsj American Fork Symphony Youth soloists to be featured in concert Four young Utah County musicians will be featured fea-tured during the American Fork Symphony's upcoming "Salute to Youth" concert on Monday, April 28, at 7:30 p.m. in the American Fork High School auditorium, 510 N. 600 East, American Fork. Admission Admis-sion is $.3 per person or $ 10 per family. Helen McGarr of Lindon, Jonathan Keith of American Fork, Kyla Worthington of I lighland and Jossalyn Jensen Jen-sen of Springville will be the featured soloists during the evening. The orchestra will be conducted by Alan Allred. Flutist Helen McGarr, 16, will perform Concertino for Flute and Orchestra by Chami-nade. Chami-nade. McGarr, began her performing per-forming career, as a concerto soloist with the Salt Lake Symphony Sym-phony at the age of 7 and was also a soloist with the American Ameri-can Fork Symphony at the age of 11. In 2007, she performed with the Utah Symphony in its "Salute to Youth" program and will perform in 2008 with the Utah Valley Symphony. Pianist Jonathan Keith, 18, will perform Concerto for the Left Hand by Ravel. Keith attends at-tends Young University and studies piano with Irene Peery-Fox. Peery-Fox. I le has won first place in the UMIA concerto competition, competi-tion, Utah State Fair competition, competi-tion, BYU concerto competition competi-tion and has soloed with the American Fork Symphony, Utah Valley Symphony and the Utah Symphony several times. Pianist Kyla Joan Worthington, Worthing-ton, 12, will perform Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra by Muczynski. Worthington began her piano study at the age of 6 with Amanda Moody Nixon. She was the first-place winner of the Riverton Metropolitan Metro-politan Orchestra Auditions. Kyla won Utah's "Little Miss" and represented Utah in New Orleans. She was awarded "Overall Talent Winner" and won second runner-up in "World's Little Miss." She was a first -place winner in the 2004 Encore Keyboard Competition and has received several other piano awards. Kyla attends Legacy Elementary School and is the daughter of Troy and Collette Worthington. Violist Jossalyn Jensen, 15, will perform "Rhapsody" by Serly. She has been studying the viola for more than 1 1 years. She has studied with Linda Duncan and Denise Wil-ley Wil-ley and is currently studying with David Dalton. She has soloed so-loed with several local orchestras orches-tras including Nachtmusik and the Pleasant Grove and Utah Valley symphonies. i oi Little Bee Craft Boutique This Saturday! April 26th, 200ft McKay Events Center in Orem on UVSC Campus I U uu.u.ii Pheasant 806 South 1840 BH Jm "1H ill 801-598-8183 DAVE 801-598-1510 DOUG www.BuildingDynamics.com The approximately 70 mem- bers of the American Fork Symphony live in American nities stretching from Lehi to Payson. The symphony is supported sup-ported by the American Fork Arts Council and American Fork City. For more information informa-tion about the organization, visit the orchestra's Web site at www.americanforksym-phony.org. www.americanforksym-phony.org. Utah Valley Symphony Symphony to play Mendelssohn, Mendels-sohn, Copland The Utah Valley Symphony will offer visually evocative works by two distinctly different dif-ferent composers in its final concert of the season. Under the baton of Bryce Rytting, the orchestra will play Felix Mendelssohn's Symphony Sympho-ny no. 4 in A Major ("Italian") and Aaron Copland's "Appalachian "Appala-chian Spring," finishing out a season of music the orchestra has never performed before in its 49-year history. "We decided that these two works would make a wonderful wonder-ful conclusion to the season," says Rytting. "We saved the best for last." Performances will be April 29 and 30 and May 1 in the Covey Center for the Arts, 425 W. Center. Tuesday's concert is specially spe-cially priced for families, at $25, with first -come, first-served first-served seating. Reserved seats Wednesday and Thursday evenings are $ 10 each ($8 for students and senior citizens). Call 852-7007 for tickets. Mendelssohn's travels inspired in-spired some of his best -known works, including the Symphony Sympho-ny no. 4, which he composed after visiting Venice, Rome and Naples. It was first performed per-formed in London in 1833. Copland's "Appalachian Spring," which incorporates the Shaker tune "Simple Gifts," was commissioned by Martha Graham as ballet music for her choreography. She chose the title and danced the principal role herself. Copland later adapted the original score for 13 instruments into a suite for orchestra, which was first performed in Carnegie Hall in 1945. "Both pieces exemplify what music historians call 'exoticism,'" Rytting explains. "Mendelssohn's sun-drenched 'Italian' Symphony evokes a landscape far removed from his cold and rainy North-German homeland. And Copland, a sophisticated Jewish urbanite, captures the atmosphere of a simple Christian farming community so convincingly, his music has become an aural au-ral symbol of rural America, played or imitated in dozens, perhaps hundreds of film scores, commercials and other compositions." He adds, "Playing this music is a lovely way to end our season. sea-son. We have enjoyed every n i 0 I I inu.i.i-u Meadow v tt M 1 West Orem rehearsal." SCERA Synthesis to bring Prize-winning Jazz & Big Band at SCERA May 9 A classic jazz song declares, "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing," and if that's true, then the May 9 performance at the SCERA Center for the Arts by BYU's award-winning jazz and big band ensemble Synthesis should mean a lot of things. The celebrated ensemble will swing with jazz, big band, American swing, blues, pop, Latin, funk and fusion in a 7 p.m. concert where playing renditions by such classic musicians mu-sicians as Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Harry Connick, Jr., Glenn Miller and Louis Armstrong Arm-strong is a performance staple. Reserved-seat tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for seniors se-niors (65 and older), students (wID) and children (age 3-11). They are available weekdays from 10am-6pm and Saturdays from noon to 6 p.m. at the SCERA Center, 745 S. State St., Orem, by calling (801) 225-ARTS, 225-ARTS, online at www.scera. org or at the door 30 minutes prior to performance. Synthesis began in 1973 and quickly became one of the university's most sought after groups. It also became one of the most difficult groups of which to be a part. Rigorous auditions yield between 18 and 20 student musicians selected for the premier group. Much of the group's success can be attributed to its director, direc-tor, Ray Smith, who is the director of jazz studies and a woodwind professor at BYU. He earned his bachelor's degree de-gree at BYU where he played lead alto saxophone and was first clarinet in the Wind Symphony and Philharmonic Orchestra. He subsequently earned his master's and doctoral doc-toral degrees from Indiana University and became a part of the BYU faculty in 1982. Earlier this year he was awarded the first Utah Jazz Master award by the International Inter-national Association for Jazz Education. This award goes to some of the great pioneers in jazz at an internationalnational internationalna-tional level. During the presentation, presen-tation, the officers said Smith had made the biggest impact on the state of jazz in Utah than any other single individual individ-ual and that any other future Jazz Master awards presented in Utah would bear his name. "Smokey Joe's Cafe" to be performed in Orem "Smokey Joe's Cafe," the longest running run-ning song and dance musical "Slipped, Herniated, Or Bulging Disc Pain?" UTAH- A new free report has recently been released that reveals how breakthrough break-through medi- ji cal technology is !H free new hope for disc Dain suffer- . ' ers. Research has j f5fc proven mat rurt ; v approved non- $ surgical spinal decompression has a high success rate for treating debilitating de-bilitating back pain including sciatica and multiple herniated herni-ated discs. It looks like this breakthrough in medical is Got Graduate?. Celebrate the FABULOUS people in your life! Tell us about your kid's accomplishments and we will turn them into these durable, all-weather, full color, personalized 15" or 23" RECOGNITION yard signs! Here's how it works: 1 .Go to www.fcsutah.com 2. Personalize your sign. 3. We will deliver your PERSONALIZED sign to you in about 2 weeks. First CLASS Signs It's alt about YOU! 801-361-0986 www.fcsutah.com . ANY SCHOOL: Sport, Cheer, The Arts, GRADUATION, Academics, Clubs, Missionaries, Mission-aries, Little League, Scouts... revue in Broadway history, will play Mondays, Thursdays, Thurs-days, Fridays and Saturdays through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the SCERA Center for the Arts. Reserved-seat tickets are $12 for adults and $10 for seniors (65), students (wID) and children (3-1 1) and are available from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. weekdays and Saturdays from noon-6 p.m. at the SCERA Center, Cen-ter, 745 S. State, Orem, by calling call-ing (801) 25-ARTS, online at www.scera.org or at the door 30 minutes prior to the show. Assisting Mortensen is Jeremy Jere-my Showgren, music director; Danielle Berry, stage manager; David Whitlock, set and light design; Debbie Bowman, costume cos-tume design; and Mike James, props. Covenant Communications Record your laughs with Bruce Lindsay Bruce Lindsay will perform original stories from The Home Town Weekly, Week-ly, Good News For A Change at 6:30 p.m. Saturday and May 3 at Digital Source Studio in American Fork. Lindsay, the primary news anchor of KSL Television, says The Hometown Weekly, Good News For A Change reveals a lighter side of himself that he has to keep in check on television. televi-sion. Lindsay claims to draw his stories from the pages of The Parley's Progress, the hometown weekly newspaper in Parley Grove, Utah. Lindsay says "I've had a love affair with the hometown weekly ever since I used to deliver it each Thursday starting start-ing when I was in the seventh grade. Got paid a penny a paper. pa-per. You could still buy penny candy in those days." Lindsay will be recording these stories sprinkled with musical interludes by Blue Cheese A-Cappella in front of live audiences on April 26 and May 3 at 6:30 p.m. for publication publica-tion later this year. Adults and teenagers interested in becoming becom-ing a member of this studio audience should RSVP to Phil Reschke at philr? covenant-lds.com covenant-lds.com by today for the first show or April 30 for the second sec-ond show. Digital Source Studios Stu-dios is located at 920 E. State Road in American Fork. Lehi Arts Council "All I Really Need to Know..." opens The Lehi City Arts Council presents " AU I Realty Need to Know I Learned in technology has lead to the most promising non-surgical disc treatment today. For your free report entitled, "New Breakthrough in ffTfm Medical Tech- f?J nology" call 1- 800-893-7644 and listen to the toll-free 24 hr recorded message mes-sage for all the details or go to www.91 lbackpaininfo.com. These free reports are available avail-able for a limited time. Maple Ridge Spinal Pain Center David Cook, DC Kindergarten" on April 24-2(5, 28, May 1-3 at 7:30 p.m. at the Glen M. Smith Family Theatre, 685 N. Center Street. Based on Robert Fulghum's best-selling books, "Kindergarten" "Kindergar-ten" takes a funny, insightful, heartwarming look at what is profound in everyday life. This tightly woven adaptation has earned standing ovations from L.A. to D.C. It's an evening of theatrical storytelling in revue format, with monologues, dialogues, dia-logues, and multiple voice narration, nar-ration, enhanced through the use of live piano underscoring, which provides fluidity, charm, and emotional texture. Tickets are $8 and are available avail-able online at www.lehicity-arts.org www.lehicity-arts.org or by calling 3(59-880(5. Reservations are recommended. recommend-ed. Small children are discouraged discour-aged in courtesy to the actors. Utah Baroque Ensemble Utah Baroque Ensemble to perform The Utah Baroque Ensemble directed by Martha Sargent, will present two concerts con-certs in north Utah County in anticipation of their upcoming tour to Italy and Switzerland, where they will perform at Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, among other locations. Local concerts will be Saturday Satur-day at 7:30 p.m. at the Grove Creek LDS meetinghouse, 475 N. 700 East, Pleasant Grove, and the Orem City Library, 58 N. State St., at 7 p.m. on May 5. Pleasant Grove Arts The Wizard of Oz Center Stage Youth Performers are presenting "The Wizard of Oz" today at 7 p.m. and Friday at ABCO I WindowsTor" Glass Products Every Need! A? - - : - - Low Interest Rates Low Monthly Payments for new homes Rates and prices are better than ever, which means ; that now is a great time to get into a beautiful new home at Countryside Estates in Santaquin Utah. 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Evening performances begin be-gin at 7:30 p.m. Saturday matinees mati-nees are scheduled for May 10, 17 and 24 at 3:30 p.m. (The theater will be dark April 15, 16, 22. 23, and 26.) Ticket prices range from $11.50 to $15.50, depending on night and seating location. Tickets may be purchased by calling the box office at 801-22(5-8600. The play is directed by David Da-vid Morgan, who single cast the play. ail., iV to T www.stratfieldhomes.com I : Your Smile. stratField HOMIS I |