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Show Ar DQu Saturday. April 6. 1996. The Daily Herald The Redeemer' to be broadcast on Easter Sunday DstcSo The Redeemer. A Vespers to bo Sacred Bounous, Veronica Hanson and Kaarin Safsten. This work premiered at BYU in Ser- vice of Muic by Robert Cundick will be broadcast on KBYU-FM- . Classical S9 Easter Sunday . April 7 at 7 p.m. Produced in BYU's deJong Concert Hall in January of this year, the performance features the University Young Brigham Singers, Concert Choir and Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Ronald Staheli. Soloists are Clayne RobKon. Stephanie Buck-lePaul Busselberc. Bairv sung on Easter The Choir of the Cathedral of the Madeleine w ill sing Vespers for Easter Sunday at the Cathedral u on Sunday at 4:30 p.m. The ' ancient service of Vespers is sung ' before nightfall and is comprised .of chants, psalms and responses set by composers from throughout ; the centuries. This sen ice will be the final celebration of Easter Day. The ' Choir, under the direction of Gregory Glenn, will perform works of GP. da Palestrina. Heale Willan and Thomas Tallis. Organist David ' Young will perform works bv J.S. 1478. "Every time this piece is performed a special magic happens that I'm quite unprepared for." said compos- of The Redeemer w as adapted by Ralph Woodward from all four ssued CD by Tantara Records. The Redeemer is the second release in the prestigious "Every time this piece is performed a special magic happens that I'm quite unpre- Heritage has a profound effect on listeners from all backgrounds and lifestyles." pared for. It Robert Cundick, er Cundick. "It has a profound effect on listeners from all backgrounds and lifestyles." The scriptural text Series, a specialty series established to the record of works prominent LDS LDS standard works. Now available in a newly- - com- posers and performers. The recording was funded by a gener ous grant from Sloan and Anna Marie Hales and administered by BYU Clyn Barrus. chair of the Her- The Music. Department of includes Leroy also series itage Robertson: A Treasury of Chum-,- , ber Music, released in December 1995. The Heritage Series release of The Redeemer is available by For calling . includ-be to or more information, ed on a Heritage Series mailing, list call 378-256- 3. Bach." All are welcome and invited to attend this "most musical of ser- -' v ices." The church is located at 33 E. South Temple St.. Salt Lake City. t1 1 ! BYU Brass Choir to do concert " The Brigham Young University Brass Choir will perform on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Madsen Recital Hall. Admission to the performance is free. The program will feature a brass choir, trombone choir, two brass quintets and a horn quartet. The brass choir will perform antiphonal pieces by Bach. Gabrielli and Pachabel. During these pieces. the choir members w ill be positioned throughtHit the recital hall. irrii mi ? The trombone choir will perform numbers by Frescibaldi. Sibelius. Speer and Bersdorf. The quintets will feature Bach's Fugue in G Minor and Exhibition by Fisher Tull. The horn quartet will perform by Diverti-inent- o Moart. Free concert set nor Thursday t The Saxophone at Quartet Brieham Younc I'niversitv will perform on Thursday at 5:30 p m. 'in 151 Tanner Buildinsi. Admission to the performance free. jis The program will feature three saxophone quartets composed of BYU's best saxophone students. "The quartets will perform a combination of classical and pop literature." said saxophonist Don-al- d Brvan Lone. Thursday's recital will be the Iquartets' final performances until 'fall semester. "This concert should be a lot of fun for audience members." Long said. "The quartets will be performing some unusual music that people don't often hear saxophonists play." 2. I visitor looks at the throne armchair made in 1797 for Russian Czar Paul the First, son A of Catherine the Great, on display at Mississippi Arts Pavillion in Jackson, Miss., in Czars' tfreasyires displaced JACKSON. Miss. Annual art show The annual Student Art Show at iBrigham Young University will be Ion display in Gallery 303 and the jB.F. Larsen Gallery in the Harris Fine Arts Center April A gallery reception from 9 j on will introduce the Tuesday ip.m. exhibit. The reception is free and open to the public. Gallery 303 is open from 9 a.m. ito 5 p.m. weekdays, and the lLarsen Gallery is open from 7 a.m. '.to 10 p.m. weekdays. Admission to the exhibit is free. The show will feature artwork Ifrom BYU students in the Visual lArts Departments. J Gallery director Marcus said that each year the show changes character depending on ihe range of students participating. imperial palaces of Leningrad, frantically hauling armloads of priceless artwork to hide in dusty basements. Outside. Nazi guns shook the city. Fifty-fiv- e years later. 616 of includthee priceless treasures thrones. ing gold, hand-toole- d Alexander II's brone coronation carriage, and the exquisite five-inc- h are on disFaberge Gatchina egg play a world away in Mississippi, gleaming in exact replicas of the lavish palace rooms they once graced in the city that his reclaimed the name of St. Petersburg. The exhibit. "Palaces Of St. Petersburg: Russian Imperial Stvle" represents the largest exhibition ever in the United Slates e of the history, romance and of the lost czars and czarinas of Russia's Romanov period. It sprang from a camaraderie between the people of Jackson and St. Petersburg, and from a desire to showcase Mississippi through its most elaborate cultural endeavor ever. From the audio lour narrated by actor Morgan Freeman to the ornate w ood parquet floors created in Russia and assembled at the Mississippi Arts Pav ilion. no detail has been overltxked. said Jack Kle. executive director of the exhibit's creator, the Mississippi Commission for International Cultural Exchange Inc. 7-- nt th r fc- - ... ... - J I ' " M t -- mi tit a opu-lanc- Contest seeks Religious poetry A $ 1.0(H) grand prie is being Offered in a religious poetry con-jesponsored by the Reno Fine rts Institute, open to everyone. There are 28 prizes in all totaling over $2,000. for entering is kThe . deadline Poems may be w ritten on liny subject, using any style, as Jong as there is a spiritual inference. A typical poem might be a Jove poem, or nature poem, one that inspires. Winners w ill be notified by the end of June and w ill be invited for free publication. All Entrants will receive a winner's i st 1 list. Among the treasures U To enter, send one poem only of J2 lines or less to: Poetry Contest. 316 California Ave., Suite 626. fccno, Nevada 89509-1661 9. It was 1941. Russians raced through the jopens Tuesday Photo The Fabtrge Gatchina Egg pictured here la among 616 priceless treasures from Russia on display In Jackson, Miss. The exhibit, called "Palaces of St. Petersburg: Russian Imperial Style, also contains lav ieh reproductions of rooms from the Russian royal palaces. imi Palace, which was faithfully reproduced foi the exhibit. saved from Nazi looters are items such as the enormous gold jewel-studde- d Bible of Empress Maria that have never Fyodorovna before been on public display, even in Russia. Kyle said. The idea for an exhibit that would capture the history, romance ! Mississippi and wealth of Russian royalty can be traced to a 1993 v isit to Missis- By EILEEN LOH Associated Press Writer i Yin-jce- February. The dazzling armchair aits in the throne room from Russia's Gatchina sippi by a Russian choir. It was then that Pat Fordice. wife of Gov. Kirk Fordice. learned of the country's need for medical supplies and services. So Mrs. Fordice and pharmacist William L. Stevens formed the nonprofit organization Mississippians Reaching Out. which donated over S20 million in medical equipment and supplies to a St. Petersburg hospital. Kyle said that in a show of gratitude, the people of St. Petersburg offered to loan the priceless items from the city's imperial palaces to Mississippi. The $8.6 million cost of the exhibit makes it the most extensive cultural endeavor in the state's history. Kyle said. He said it would require ticket sales of 430.000 just to break even, but that the exhibit already had sold 150.000 before the doors officially opened last month. Kyle, who organized Memphis' Wonders series exhibits which included displays on Napoleon. Catherine the Great and Imperial Tombs of China decided to focus the exhibit on the Russian trait Hall and Blue Formal Sitting Room from Catherine Palace, tljj Yellow (Banquet) Hall from Petet hof, the Throne Room frow Gatchina, and the Lantern Slud3 from Pavlovsk Palace are caQ from the palaces' actual molding Kyle said. The parquet floors a(J of the originals. Everything else is genuine, hd said, and w ere the personal posse es of the Russian roval families? sions That includes the variouj thrones belonging to the Russia royals; Alexander li s malachifl desk set; the last czar Nicholas military uniform, which he wore his wedding to Alexandra, and (hi Faberge' Gatchina Egg he present-- , ed to his mother. Dow aged Maria Fyodorovna j Empress Catherine the Great's gold saddle and naval uniform dress; Paul LV priceless "Asia" and "Afric tapestries; and Peter trie Great silver gilded drinking cu encrusted w ith garnets. Gallery rooms contain smalleo personal items: an amber chess s4i! salvaged , from the destroyed Amber Room at Catherine Palac lapis lauli furniture, royal hunting imperial palaces, the official rifles, a child's sword belonging 9i homes of czars and czarinas. the young Nicholas II. an elabtW . .1. ,, . i He chose five rooms from the oesk cor raieiy carvea missioned ry Catherine the Gre great palaces encircling St. Petersburg: Peterhof. Catherine Palace. and dueling pistols a gift fro Gatchina and Pavlovsk. to be Napoleon to Alexander I. ii painstakingly Everything in the exhibit haC The master craftsmen hired to been removed from the- nahcAl L copy Paul I's Throne Room or neiorc tnc lazis deadly sieg Maria Empress Fyodorovna's which killed an estimated 800.01 Lantern Study are the artisans who in Leningrad. . ... I:. ,1 ft. labored to the actual literal ly nearu gu nicy 900-day Nazi come off outside the ra ;ce palaces, after the siege during World War U left them were still taking things out. Marl bombed-ou- t and in near ruins. were put in trains and sent away (U "This is as accurate a reproducthe Ural Mountains and Sibenf tion as possible, short of getting on Others were taken inside St. Peterf an airplane and flying to St. Petersburs and sUred in the basement g burg and viewing those palaces in St. Isaac's Cathedtal and the milage Museum." K le said. ' V person," Kyle said. "No they're here ", Moldings in the baroque Por llj ;j rou-io- p ! 1 te HJ lr " 0 mnwmtf- - |