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Show Page THE DAILY HERALD, Provo, Utah, D10 Sunday, November 6, 1994 Fork symphony offers autumn concert Concert to feature music from 'Shenandoah' American Entertainment from the Broadway musical Shenandoah will be presented on Monday at the Provo Tabernacle as part of the Community Music Series. The performance will begin at 7 p.m. with the doors opening at 6:30 p.m. Admission is tree. The tabernacle is located at 100 S. University Ave., Provo. Shenandoah takes place during the Civil War and includes both rousing music and tender songs. The Melville Vocal Studio will present the musical portion of the program, with narration by Tye Noorda and Myrth Burr. Noorda has been involved with speech and drama within the community for n many years. Burr is within the intermountain area for her participation in drama and theater work. Vocalists for the evening will be Tim Johnson, Daniel Fuja, Aubrey well-know- Miner, Matt and Kristina Lund, Brook Bailey, Michelle Blomqu-is- t, Rich and Karen Holmes, Kate Brenchley, Paul Simonsen, Jill Stephenson, Wendy Lamb, Marie e, Lamb, Jennifer Peay, Adam - 9 p)W The American Fork Community Symphony will present an autumn concert on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the American Fork Junior High School Auditorium, 810 N. 100 Lov-eridg- Linda Paul and Mindy A Smoot. Ruth Melville, who will be directing the production, has been teaching voice for many years. Also assisting are Diane Stephenson (backup music) and Jan Shel-to- n (drama director). The Community Music Series, sponsored by the Provo Arts Council, will conclude Nov. 21 with a performance by Salt Lake City group Just a Portion. Special events also to be sponsored by the Provo Arts Council include the Messiah Sing-I- n with the Utah Valley Choral Society on Dec. 2. For more information, call 379-664- 6. V East. The theme of the performance will be Autumn Reflections. Ad- 'f mission is $2. The symphony is sponsored by the American Fork Arts Council and is under the direction of Gordon Childs. The program will feature Childs as a viola d'amore soloist. The viola d'amore is an instrument with 14 strings, seven of which are bowed. The other seven are wire strings strung under the top strings Herald PhotoPatrick J. Krohn that vibrate sympathetically to add A group of performers will present an evening of entertainment at the a sweetness to the tone when the Provo Tabernacle on Monday. They include, front row, from left: Tim instrument is played. Childs will perform a concerto Johnson, Marie Lamb and Rich Holmes. Back row, from left: Wendy by 20th century French composer Lamb, Karin Holmes and Mindy Smoot. Henri Casadesus with the orches- I ft 111k JAw St ! By DOUG NYE yard. Even most of the kids of the chuckled at the cheap sets period The premiere of Earth 2 tonight and costumes (the Captain's helon NBC continues a "marriage" met looked suspiciously like a between science-fictio- n and televifootball helmet with funny wires sion that has lasted at least 45 running out of it.) It helped to have years. a vivid imagination when you Today's youngsters who have watched Captain Video. become accustomed to the sophisStill, considering the show was ticated special effects of movies live, it was remarkably performed such as Return of the Jedi and effective for its time, plus there Park, would probably find was the suspense of waiting for one themselves laughing almost unconof the actors to accidentally knock trollably at the crude productions down one of the cardboard props. of the space operas that were so It wasn't long before others much a part of early television. Video on those The one who started the video joined Captain to the stars. CBS came up journeys terk spaceward was Captain Video with Tom Corbett, Space Cadet as and his Video Rangers seen each by Frankie Thomas. Tom played Monday through Friday on the and his pals supposedly were canow DuMont Netdets at the Space Academy in the work from 1949 to 1955. Captain 24th century, blasting off each Video was played briefly by Richweek in their spaceship Polaris to ard Coogan and then by Al Hodge, another outer space adventure. who had been the voice for radio's ABC came up with Space Patrol Green Hornet. Ed Kemmer as Commandstarring The Captain operated from his er Buzz Corey. This show was set secret mountaintop headquarters in the 30th century where Buzz and where he was known as The his the Terra traveled spaceship Guardian of the Safety of the and often space through World. And whenever danger time in the name of the through United threatened the 22nd century uniPlanets of the Universe. A freverse, Captain Video was off in his quent villian was Mr. Proteus, called The Newspapers Jur-ras- Photo courtesy Great Salt Lake Guitar Co. The group City Folk will perform on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Great Salt Lake Guitar Co. in Provo. Band City Folk plans concert in Provo The trio City Folk will perform on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Great Salt Lake Guitar Co. , 362 W. Center, Provo. Tickets are $8 in advance or $9 at the door ($6 for students.) For more information, call 375-443- 5. were winners of the San Francisco Best of the In 1992, they Music Awards and their music was recently paired with the work of Bruce Cockburn on a compilation compact disc, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse. Bay Their debut recording, Catch a Glimpse, much-heralde- In the fertile environment of the thriving San Francisco music scene, City Folk is attracting increasing popular and critical acclaim, sold-o- ut performing before crowds at concert clubs and regional festivals. , long-defun- d just-releas- jazz band Synthesis to perform on Tuesday Artistry in Rhythm, and Mala-guen- a premier iversity's student jazz band, will perform Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the BYU de Jong Concert Hall. by Stan Kenton. They will also play new music from Pat Metheny's recording 5e-cr- Faculty vocalist Kathryn L. Little and BYU's vocal jazz ensemble, The Syncopations, will join with Synthesis on several songs. Tickets at $4 for students, faculty and staff and $6 for the general public can be purchased from the Fine Arts Ticket Office at World rescored for a big band. Little will sing an arrangement of Oh What a Beautiful Morning and an updated version of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and The Syncopations will perform with the band in Jerome Kern's The Song is You. Synthesis will be selling its new CD Eye of the. Hurricane for $12 before and after the concert. Cassettes will be sold for $8. world-tourin- g 378-432- 2. Synthesis will play a wide range of hits, including Eager Beaver, Opus in Chartreuse, Dynaflow, et Stories, including See the Classical guitar recital set The Utah Classical Guitar Society will sponsor the UCGS 1994 Autumn Recital on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. The recital will be performed in the Arlette Day Cultural Center, located at y Music, 4914 S. State Street, Salt Lake City. Tickets are $5 and are available at the door. There will be 10 performers, each presenting two or three selections. For more information,-cal943-226- Day-Murra- ct had names for their spaceships. BYU Synthesis, Brigham Young Un- ic spaceship Galaxy. Like cowboys who had names for their horses, all good spacemen has received heavy airplay on West Coast radio stations and the Shadows on the Wall promises to introduce the music of this remarkable trio a to a much wider audience. And they often could be seen talking to their ships just as if they were alive. Captain Video fought dozens of interplanetary villians, all bent on conquering the world and beyond. One of the best was Tobor (spell it backwards), a deadly robot that seemed to be invincible. At least, it was invincible for several episodes until he finally ran into Captain Video. The Captain constantly came up with dazzling devices for thwarting his enemies such as the Cloak of Invisibility. There were other tools that made it possible to see through walls or enable one to shoot bullets around a corner (no kidding). All looked as if they were put together by the neighborhood kids in somebody's back who was played by Marvin Miller who later starred in TV's The Mil- lionaire. ABC also did a live version of Buck Rogers during the 1950-5- 1 season with first Kern Dibbs as Buck and later Robert Pastene. And there also was an early TV version of Flash Gordon starring a sulking Steve Holland. The three biggest successes, however, remained Captain Video, Tom Corbett and Space Patrol. All three were heavily influenced by radio's adventure programs. on TV became Eventually sci-a bit more sophisticated with shows such as The Twilight Zone, Science-Fictio- n Theater and Star of them, including Earth 2, all trace their origins back to Captain Video who rocketed from galaxy to galaxy make the universe safe for all of us earth-ling- s. IE AIM I EXPERIENCE 0 Gordon Childs tra and six preludes for viola d'amore and harp by the same professor emeritus of music frerh; the University of Wyoming. currently lives in Orem. composer. Harp soloist will be Janet Peterson, a local harp player and teacher. The orchestra will also play Toccata by FrescobaldiKindler, the Arlesienne Suite No. 1 by Bizet, Fandango and Alborade by KorsakoffIsaac and a medley of Henry Mancini tunes. A native of Springville, Childs has degrees in music education, musicology and music administration from Brigham Young University and the University of Mon- tana, Missoula. Having taught, conducted and performed for more than 40 years in public schools in Utah, Idaho and Montana and in universities and colleges in Montana, Colorado and Wyoming, he is now retired with the rank of hjsj--i J where she studied classical piaflaj harp, flute and violin. She came to BYU to continue her studies ifl harp and piano. Locally, she has played for the BYU Philharmonic Orchestra, the Utah Valley Symphony, the Mormon Youth Symphony and the Utah Regional Ballet. She has performed for Ballet West, Utah Opera and the Russian Ballet. She performs annually for the Christmas Chorus. Harp Society. She is also a free- lance harpist and harp instructor. ' : to present joint concert Friday The Brigham Young University Singers and Concert Choir will perform in a joint concert on Friday at 7:30 p.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall. Tickets at $4 for students and faculty and $6 for the general public can be purchased from the Fine Arts Ticket Office at "There will be something for everybody to enjoy," said Mack 378-432- 2. Wilberg, Concert Choir director. The BYU Singers will begin the performance with three main groups of pieces: five contemporary American settings of old texts, three songs in Spanish by contemporary South American composers and two African American spirituals. Following an intermission, the Concert Choir will sing three American Glorias by Burham, Bernstein and Argento as well as selections by Richard Rodney Arceldt and Gershwin. "It's a really wide variety of music," said Ron Staheli, BYU Singers director. Ben-ne- t, The BYU Singers are preparing; for a trip to Russia and the Baltic-Sta- tes in May 1995. They have already visited Russia, Israel, Egypt and all the countries in Western Europe, Staheli said. 32S53E tlfillil Tfa "BRILLIANT, J BOLD AND outrageous 50 BARGAIN MATINEES DAILY ALL SHOWS BEFORE 6.00 P.M. $3 ENGAGINGLY ZANY... HOPKINS IS HILARIOUS..." 3D3;r ; tc;; 50; is ffljjllj)) U o I HKIS 7:20 9:45 Sat & Sun matinee I Dolbv r4 Stereo 1 P r4t-, MwwiiiB M$ f T 1 iTTfMMjjpr :50 4:20 Vlill'HiNU'tiffJ J 7;3o 10:00 Sat & gy : Dolby stereo Sun matinee 2:00 4:30 ' 1 l 2. q HAVE YOU HAD a look at the life and career of Franklin Delano E1Mi'ffl l century's great crises - the Depression and World War V Sat & Associated Eye Center of Utah The War' Touches The Heart. A Must-Se-e movie! II. 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