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Show Reed-a-tho- n Music r BYU will play host next week to the International Double Reed Society Conference, which will include concerts, recitals, master classes, lectures and workshops from presenters across the globe. This year the annual conference will enjoy performances and presentations of artists from the United States, Canada, Japan, Belgium, France, England and New Zealand, with over 700 musicians expected to be in attendance. Also included in the week of events will be 17 world premiere performances, two competitions and special performances by double reed artists from the Utah Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra Canada, and the Philharmonia Orchestra London. The conference will be held Tuesday through July 26 in the Harris Fine Arts Center HFAC on the BYU campus. All of the evening concerts " RICHARD LAMCP Members of the rock band The Police from left lead singer Sting, drummer Stewart Copeland perform as the band kicks off their world tour in Vancouver, May 28, 2007. and guitarist Andy Summers Bailing bonds men Police find freedom, closure Sean Piccoli SOUTH FLORIDA H as "reunion" be come a dirty word in rock music? Stewart Copeland of the Police thinks not. Weary critics might grouse about old rockers hogging the limelight, cashing out and repeating themselves for lack of fresh ideas. Nevertheless, Copeland's trio is on the road once more after last year's includgreat ing an appearance Saturday at USANA Amphitheatre in West Valley City. It's part two of a reunion run that the Police had successfully avoided for 23 years, and it's the latest in rock's sometimes exhausting string of comebacks, album tours and prolonged farewells. In an April interview, Cope reggae-roc- k will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall in the HFAC, and are free to the public. The only exception is the concert on July 25, which will be at Deer Valley with the Utah Symphony. The conference will wrap up Jury 26, where, after the evening concert, a Grande Finale performance will engage about 150 oboistsbassoonists in selects numbers from Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks. at end of reunion land defended doing it again. And his Exhibit A was another band's work. "The whole purpose is to see 'Dark Side of the Moon' live and to get that emotional buzz from reliving that music," he said by telephone, citing Roger Waters's touring of a classic Pink Floyd album. "And in the case of the Police it's all about 'Roxanne' and 'Every Breath You Take' and 'Message in a Bottle,' and the phases of people's lives those songs have been a part of, which in the last 20 years has been a lot." It's arguably to their credit that drummer Copeland, guitarist Andy Summers and frontman Sting have never offered any other reason for getting back together. They haven't been coy about future plans they've never said they had any. Beyond the mere fact of playing again, they have not raised hopes for a new album and have maintained they're in no position to make one. On May 6, they also declared an end point to th& excursion, announcing that a summer concert in New York City will be, according to Sting's official Web site, "their last ever concert." Three weeks before that farewell notice, Copeland talked about the reunion in terms that put clear limits on what it was meant to accomplish. "There's something different about a reunion," he said, contrasting the Police in 2007-0- 8 to what he called "current" bands. "A reunion tour is more of a liturgy, a service and a ceremony than it is for explorthat's what I have side ing project Oysterhead for." The reasons that bands such as the Police and Pink Floyd broke up may still hold true, If you go THE CHARTS The Police When: Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Where: USANA Amphitheatre, 5400 S. 6200 West, West Valley City Hot 100 1.1 Kissed a Girl, Katy Perry Support act: Elvis Costello and the Imposters available at Tickets: Smith's Tix locations www.smithstix.com) $46-$20- Info: g Weekly charts for the nation's recorded music as they appear in next week's issue of Billboard magazine. Reprinted with permission. 2. Take a Bow, Rihanna 3. Lollipop, Major Lil Wayne Featuring Static 4. Bleeding Love, Leona Lewis 5. Viva La Vida. Coldplay www.usana-amp.co- said Copeland, but they're not an argument against reviving the back catalog. that thing, it's very powerful," he said. "It's a very valid artistic endeavor to go perform that material in the same way it's valid that an perform opera singer would 'La Traviata.' " g Hot Rock 1. Inside the Fire, Disturbed 2. Addicted, Saving Abel 3. Rise Above This, Seether 4. Devour, Shinedown 5. Saints of Los Angeles, Motley Crue |