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Show Ce The Daily Herald Monday, museum hosts 'Pioneer Christmas' Doll "A Pioneer Christmas" is the theme at the McCur-d- y Doll Museum, 246 N. 100 East, Provo, during December. The special exhibits and storytelling will mark the introduction of Utah's Centennial year at the museum. The storytelling and tea party, starring the American Girl Doll "Kirsten" from 1854, will be Saturday at 1:30 p.m. The doll's story will be told by Jean Marshall, the museum's creative director. Kirsten will be on display along with her treasures and collections, including her St. Lucia outfit and wreath which she brought from her native Scandinavia. For reservations, call 5 during open hours. The museum and Christmas shop are open Tuesday through Saturday from p.m. Admission to the pioneer party is $3 for adults and $1.50 for children under 12. 377-993- -5 The American Girls collection was created to give girls a an awareness of the traditions of girlhood that mothers and grandmothers have shared for generations. Other centennial related events will be held throughout the year, featuring doll stories with a pioneer theme, including "Patty Reed's Doll" and "Betsy Buttons" little famous pioneer dolls from 1846 and 1847. The museum Christmas shop features a wide selection of dolls, toys, books, Christmas ornaments and cards. A special exhibit of Saint Nicholas dolls will also be featured during the month. Student presents photo print exhibit An exhibit of photographic prints by Kirk Ellison will open Wednesday at Brigham Young University's Harris Fine Arts Center, on the east side of the fourth floor. The show will run through Dec. 15. There will be a reception Wednesday from 9 p.m. Ellison grew up in California and has been interested in photog7-- raphy most of his life. He is finishing his bachelor's degree at BY if and plans to pursue a career in fine art and commercial photography. Kurt Bestor takes look at Ch ristmases past n Hut K By LAURA GOLDEN The Daily Herald Assistant Lifestyle Editor . The Osmond family will present "The Magic of Christmas" Dec. 8 at Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake City. Shows will be at 6:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Tickets are available at Art Tix outlets or at the Capitol Theatre box office in Salt Lake Citv. 1 : : If music artist Kurt Bestor could create a v ision with his new album, Kurt Bestor Christmas, it would include imagery of the way Christmas used to be. "I decided that the album would capture the kind of Christmas that we don't really hav e much of anythe kind of Christmas more that, if you went up in your attic and you dusted off a Christmas box and looked inside, there would be all these Christmases that you used to have," he explains. The Provo musi- cian has already produced two Christmas albums: Aims Christmas and Airus Christmas II. He says it was a personal choice to separate his latest Christmas album from the previous two, however. when I started "This album to write it, I made a conscious choice to make it different, while not alienating anybody who knows my music and likes the particular style of my other two albums," Bestor says. "I decided that it would be counterproductive just to do number three and that's why I didn't call it Aims Christmas III." While he tries to link favorite family stories with the songs on the Airus Christmas albums, Bestor says he aimed for a broader feeling of Christmas with his latest album. "I'm capturing real intimate emotions, but not really telling stories," he explains, adding that he wants to paint a feeling for his children. "I want my kids to be able to feel the Christmases that we had in the '60s and '70s. We're starting to it's so get away from it now intense, commercially. Here I am selling an album, but this really, definitely is not my big money-makin- g thing," he notes. "It's something that feels really good to do and hopefully will get people to think about some of those missing Christmases." He says the look and sound of the new album is different from the Aims albums, which exhibit western instruments including piano, oboe, flute and other orchestral instruments. "This one has those instruments on it, but I'm also using a lot of old instruments mandolin, hammer dulcimer, penny whistle, Irish flute. I also have more of an intimate sound to the orchestra. All of these instruments, while they're old and antique, have a real fresh approach." Bestor. who has been composing professionally since 1980. describes his third Christinas album as "music of the '90s, using old instruments. And the songs on the album are primarily Old English." He also notes that the album is big on rhythm and uses African drums, which he describes as "world ethnic." Bestor The album has Christmas arrangements. Only one song is a repeat of one on an Aims Un FlamChristmas album but the beau, Jeanette, Isahelle is still from different arrangement the previous one. "I didn't think that I'd find new Christmas songs that I had never done before. You figure I've done two albums, that's 22 songs, but somehow I was able to find brand new ones that I had never done, ones like We even all-ne- w Osmond family plans concerts December 4, 1995 well-know- ' - . : Daily Herald Musician Kurt Bestor provides a sample of his work at his home in Provo recently. Bestor Three Kings and Deck the Halls,"" the composer notes. Other new arrangements of popular carols include Hark the Herald Angels Sing and Away in a Manger. Other lesser known carol arrangements include Saw Three Ships, Come, All Ye Shepherds and Sheep May Safely Graze. The final song on the album, He Who Crafted the Earth, is a Kurt Bestor original, which is something the artist says he has never done before on a Christmas album. "He Who Crafted the Earth is a text. song based on a It has a haunting, monastic sound to it." Bestor says. Although the original piece is new to the public, family and friends of the composer may recognize it. "Every year I write a Christmas song and give it to people for PhotoJason Olson the album as well as other holiday numbers in four upcoming concerts. Limited tickets are still available ing at Salt Lake City's Abravanel Hall Dec. 8,9, 11, and 12, says listhrough ArtTix, 801 teners can expect to hear selections from all of his Christmas albums. (See BESTOR, Page C7) has released a new album, "Kurt Bestor Christmas." He will perform selections from formance clips with interviews of Bestor at his home and behind the scenes views of his concerts. The artist, who will be perform Come 55-ARTS. and celebrate with Joe Vera 's! It's Our 15 Year Anniversary!! -- 500-year-o- ld l Christinas instead of Christmas cards. This was last year's Christmas carol that I sent out." Another distinguishing characteristic about He Who Crafted the Earth is Bestor's own voice, harmonizing the lyrics through the use of his "Vocalist," a machine produced by Digitech. Bestor sings into a microphone which carries his voice into a keyboard machine, which splits his voice into the notes he plays on the keyboard simultaneously. 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