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Show Wednesday, April 6, 2005 e 1840 S. 1300 E. Salt Lake City, UT 84105 ca Volume XXXVIII Issue 23 Tessa R. Woolf Staff Writer The Naumburg Chamber Music Award-winnin- g Ying Quartet brought the 2004-200- 5 Westminster College Concert Series to a thrilling close as they performed a stunningly beautiful concert Thursday night in the Vieve Gore Concert Hall. The Ying Quartet includes violinist Janet Ying, violinist Timothy Ying, violist Phillip Ying and cellist David Ying. The Yings are currendy quartet in residence at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y. It is a real privilege to all-sibli- ng ; perform here tonight and to celebrate this wonderful Karen Shepherd and Lesley Manley, converse after the Women in Politics the College Democrats president, panel on March 30. Womens Panel Looks at Utah Political Scene Ashley M. Bunk Staff Writer Students gathered in Converse 202 at 8 p.m. last Wednesday to hear five distinguished women discuss Utah politics. The event featured: Nichole Adams, Tiani Coleman, Jackie Biskupski, Jeanetta Williams and Karen Shepherd. The Westminster College Democrats, in conjunction with the Associated Students of Westminster College (ASWC) and Westminster Students for Political Awareness (WSPA), presented the panel. Democrats president Lesley Manley opened the event by introducing each woman and allowing each one time to focus on an issue that affects women in politics and political organizations. Coleman, chair of the Salt Lake Republican Party, began with the statement, It is a good time to be a woman in politics. Coleman explained that women such as Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice have helped to give a more favorable image of women in power. Biskupski then spoke on the issue of women taking stronger stands for their beliefs. Biskupski, a Democratic representative, has been involved in many political activities in the state of Utah. She recently worked on the Midwife Certification Act, which allows women the choice of having a home birth. I was amazed at the responses, she said. Only five women legislators voted for the bill, which passed through the House and Senate. Biskupski voiced a personal frustration concerning legislators wanting to take that right away from a woman. Women, Biskupski explained, should take stronger stands toward politics in their individual lives. Adams, chair of the Salt new concert hall, said Timothy Ying. The concert began with Quartet in G, Op. 11, composed by Anton Arensky, which included the movements Allegro, Andante sostenuto, Allegretto and Finale: Variations sur un The quartet Theme Russe. performed the piece in perfect unison; their heads swayed gracefully to the music like petals on a flower gently swaying together in the wind. The quartet wet the audiences appetite for great music with its second piece of the concert, Musical Dim Sum. The innovative piece included a selection of short works by contemporary Chinese American composers: Songs of Chin, by Zhou Long; Quartet No. 1, Fu, by Ge Ganru; and The Talking Fiddle, by Chen Yi. The piece is meant to fuse the art forms of the East and the West, according to Timothy Ying. He explained that the idea of Musical Dim Sum came to the quartet while they were eating dim sum: We thought, Wouldnt it be great to have a concert like this a sampler, with three mini dishes? The first mini dish, Song of Chin, tries to capture the essence of the Chin,: an ancient See Panel pg. 8 seven-strin- g, plucked instrument, which has Quartet cellist, David Ying, performed with his three siblings to a crowded audience for Vie concert series finale on March 31. Ying someone says happy New been associated historically with the tradition of Chinese sages and scholars, according to the concert program. The piece, based on a poem titled Old Fisherman, was first by Iiu Tsung-yuaand in won 1982, composed the first prize in the Chinese National Composition Competition in 1985. The second mini dish, Quartet No. 1, Fu, expresses some of the basic aesthetic n, feelings typical of Chinese classical poetry and calligraphy, the program states. In Chinese, Fu means descriptive prose interspersed with verse. Phillip Ying explained that the work translates the kinds of attention, speed, and discipline of strokes, typical of calligraphy, to the music. The third mini dish, The Talking Fiddle, included three movements inspired by a Chinese New Years Celebration, explains the program. Phillip Ying called the work A musical description, meaning the music reflects the tone of the Chinese language: specifically, the sound created when Year in Chinese. You will be able to hear all of the instruments start wishing each other a happy New Year, said Phillip Ying before the work was performed. Pianist Elinor Freer, a fellow faculty member at Eastman, joined the quartet for the last piece of the concert. Freer has built a versatile career as a chamber musician and soloist, performing across the United States, Europe and China, according to the concert program. She and has been a prize-winnlaureate in many competitions, and has designed and produced many projects and residencies introducing classical music to new audiences. She has also presented educational and outreach performances across the country, in settings ranging from inner city schools to psychiatric hospitals. The lively and intense final piece, Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34, was composed by Johannes Brahms, er high-swoopi- ng See Ying Quartet pg. 8 CS Page 7 Moab attracts enthusiasts.s |