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Show oou Wednesday, April 24, 1K3 The Pleasant Grove Pops Orchestra under the baton of Susan R. Johnson will present their annual spring concert on Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the Pleasant Grove Junior High School auditorium. They will perform a classical concert featuring Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony and selected solo performances. The soloists for this concert are Michele Eatough and Patrice Laudie. who will together perform Teleman's Concerto in G for Two lolas. and Barbara Johnson who will perform Haydn's Horn Concerto No. . on the French horn. Eatough. a Provo native, has been playing the viola since she rs old. She was active was in several music programs during high school, including Provo High's Full and Chamber Orchestras and the Utah Valley Youth Symphony. She continued to play while attending Brigham Young University as an undergraduate, and this is her third year as principal violist with the Pleasant Grove Pops. Eatough is completing her master's degree in botany at BYU and will begin a doctorate at the University of California. Riverside this fall. She is playing on this con- - Mormon Arts Festival features artist, writer A promiST. GEORGE nent artist and award winning novelist will be featured at the first Mormon Arts Festival to be held at Tuacahn. James C. Christensen. professor of art at Brigham Young University and an artist of considerable reputation worldwide, is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at the Recognition Banquet on Saturday, May II hosted by the Utah Heritage Arts Foundation and Tuacahn. Orson Scott Card, the first writer to ever win the Huso and Nebula awards for best novel" two years in a row. will conduct a workshop on May 9. "We feel extremely honored 's to have an artist of Mr. caliber as our final speaker of the Festival." said Stewart. Tuacahn Doug founder. "We feel he w ill serve as an inspiration to other LOS artists who are trying to establish themselves in the art world." Christensen. in addition to his teaching duties at BY U. finds time to fill commissions in the professional arena. His art has been the focus of fifteen shows throughout North America and ov er seventy group shows, including the first and second exhibitions of the National Academy of Fantastic Art. His works have been shown in the Sat iety of Illustrators Annual, American Illustration and Outstanding Illustrations fnrni America and Europe, recently published in Japan. Born in Culver City. California in 1942. Christensen grew up in Southern California. He attended the University of California at Los Angeles and Brigham Young University. He taught art in secondary schools and worked as a commercial designer and work he still illustrator, He was also featured enjoys. prominently in the NASA exhibition. "Visions of Other Worlds." Christensen has traveled extensively in Europe and Latin America, and has lived in Spain. Mexico and Uruguay. He currentlv lives in Orem. A nine-yea- To Utah' to premiere on May 1 3 Utah, a work by Utah composer Robert Cundick will be premiered on May 13. Utah Chamber Artists, under the direction of Barlow Bradford, to whom the piece is dedicated, will perform the work at 8 p.m. in Abravanel Hall as part of the state's centennial celebration. Cundick began the composition in 1961. setting his musical ideas to a group of poems by Edward Hart. Originally written for a capella choir, the composer decided to expand the work to one for choir and orchestra. With Utah Chamber Artists in mind he felt it would be a fitting tribute commemorating the 00th anniversary of Utah's stateTo 1 hood. The set of seven pieces looks back on the history of the state beginning with The Arrival which tells of the earliest settlers. The next section is entitled Living out the City which is followed by The Gathering, a poignant reflection on those who lost their lives ... Zion bound The selections are remaining Preparing for Fire. Instructing the Tonhhearers. General Albert Sidney Johnston Matches Thnmgh Stilt Lake City. Expansum. Temple and Centennial. The music and text of the last portion were just completed in 1995. Cundick hxs long been a , valuable part of Utah's cultural scene both as a composer and as a Mormon Tabernacle organist for 30 years. He was born in Salt Lake City where he studied organ and composition at the University of Utah. Among his teachers Schreiner. j were J.Alexander Robertson and MauLeroy rice Abravanel. In 1955 he icceived his doctorate in composition. In 1965 he was appointed Tabernacle organ- ist and he holds associate and fellowship certificates from the American Guild of Organ- ISctvete Eatough Patrice Laudie Barbara Johnson cert with her student of one year. Patrice Laudie. old Laudie is the and of Gaylen Joy daughter Laudie. Pleasant Grove. She began her viola studies in second grade under Susan Johnson. Now in fifth grade, she is viola section leader of the Grovecrest Elementary Orchestra. This is her second season as a member of the Pleasant Grove Pops Orchestra. She now pursues her study of the viola with Eatough. Barbara Johnson is a old sophomore on scholarship at BYU, majoring in French horn performance. She was first horn in Orchestra and receded superior ratings at state competitions. She studied one ear at IJvllwilde School of Music. Calif. At NAU Summer Program, she has been Honors Soloist three times, receiv ing their top orchestra scholarship. She has also played in the Utah Valley Youth Recital 10-ye- ar 20-ye- ar All-Sta- te Chris-tensen- series. The concert is open to the pub- lic and there will be no charge. This is a great way to expose the family to the music of great composers. McCoslyn and Paye to perform Monday Pleasant Grove High School's radio station KPGR 0 has announced the return of McCoslyn and Paye. formerly Afterglow, to Pleasant Grove. McCoslyn and Paye will perform in concert on Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the Pleasant Grove High School gym. The concert w ill be a benefit for KPGR. The station will be boosting its power to 1.000 watts allowing the station to reach all of Utah County. KPGR is one of only two high school stations in the state. With 12 albums to their credit McCoslyn and Paye have made their first attempt into the country music field. With their album. Close to Home doing well they will return to the city where they began more than 15 years ago. This is the group's first attempt at their new sound after their great success as Afterglow. Joel McCoslyn says about the new album. "We just wanted to retain the message of family values that has been in our music all along. We wanted to offer a contemporary and entertaining musical format for this album. The public is invited to the concert. Tickets are available at the high school or will be sold the night of the performance. Students and children are $3. adults are $5 and a family pass is $15. mW l & i i; I one-ma- n hot-selfi- o v - ft- ksk w III Photo courttsy ot McCoslyn nd Pmy o i; fJo clover hocdllno noodod. TfcoDO cuys can blow tholr own horn v- - 11 Card has also written two hooks on wnting: Character and Viewpoint, and How to Write Si ience Fiction and Fantasy, the latter, winning him another Hugo award in 1991. His newest series of books. The Htmecoming Saga, began with the 1992 publication of The Memory of Earth and continues w ith The Call of Earth, and The Ships of Earth. The festival also features many other workshops and seminars covering various aspects of the arts. An IDS Music concert will be held on Saturday evening on the Tuacahn Amphitheater stage. The Mormon Arts Festival will run Thursday. May 9 . The through Saturday, May is inv all ited to attend or public part of the festival activities. Tickets may be obtained by callinc Tuacahn. all-st- ar 1 1 MiniWorld UtYAtfJ ft 3? .13 ket. Want To Sell UnwantedUsed Items? Uso The Daily Herald Want Ads Pay, fonrttrty known as Afterglow, will do a benefit concert for Pleasant Grove High School's radio station on Monday. McCoslyn and Uuh with his wife Carole and their five children. Stewart was also excited about the prospect of Card's appearance. "We're very proud to have a writer with Mr. Card's credentials come and share his expertise and insight with the ambitious and dedicated young writers coming out of Utah schools today." he said. "We think his workshop will be one of the highlights of the festival" Card will be dealing with "The Storytelling Component of All Writing." during a workshop session scheduled to run from 2 p m. to 3:30 p.m. Card has contributed significantly to the field of science fiction and fantasy with novels, stories and anthologies, but his experience extends far beyond just that form or genre of storytelling. Card's most recent mainstream novel. Lost Boys, was published in 1992 and a doen of his plays have been produced in regional theater. His historical novel. Saints. remains an "underground" favorite. He has written hundreds of audio plays and a doen scripts for animated video plav s for the familv mar- ' ri si I:: 4 Eottilffs Mesh v A ists. As well as premiering To Utah. Utah Chamber Artists will present another new work by Cundick, Dtmhle Cel- -' . Concerto in D minor for la. Piano and Orchestra. The concerto was written for the Drinkall-BakDuo w ho w ill that perform evening. Also on the program is short orchestral work entitled Full Htmse and three other , choral pieces. This concert is an official , Centennial event and is made possible by a generous donation from the Utah Statehood Commission. Centennial ' Tickets are $10 for adults and $7 for students and seniors and may be purchased at the Capitol Theatre box ofluc, Waking Owl Bookstore, Davncs Music or by calling er GLENN MILLED 0RCIMA' ireccso Ot CC3tt cr r (801)235-223- t 3. , music 3Hi!i" BcTe3 SMITH BTOEY Ifec lUxl MiniWorld 1CCO D3. RlvcraIc2o Plana, GcuUCi cnCrcnso ovc-- cgo Mon-S10 to 6 a AMfKH at ft' i |
