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Show Arts & Leisure THE THUNDERBIRD SOUTHERN UTAH STATE COLLEGE, CEDAR CITY THURSDAY, Artists honored Friends and supporters of the SUSC art department gathered at the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery Thursday night for the annual student art show opening and awards presentation. Community sponsors and suppliers of artists materials from throughout the western states made possible the awards which exceeded $1,800 this year. Gallery Director Valerie Kidrick presented purchase awards to Kate Starling and Larry Leisek for their limited edition prints, Canyon Wall and Okudshawas Cat, respectively, and a cash award to Richard Engleman for Todd, a black and white photograph. Awards of Merit were presented to 1 1 students by Department Chair Anton Rasmussen and Associate Professor of Art Arlene Braithwaite. Boni McCowan received the Best of Show award, a $400 cash prize, for her ceramic sculpture, Someday My Prince Will Come. SUSC President Gerald R. Sherratt, Dr. and Mrs. Royden C. Braithwaite, Bob and Genavieve Gardner, Met and Lana Johnson, C.J. Thinnes and Dixie and Ann Leavitt were the award sponsors. The quality and professionalism of this show far exceed any student show to date, said Braithwaite. We challenged the students with stricter framing and presentation standards, and they all met the challenge. works were evenly divided into categories of illustration, drawing, painting, both oils and water colors, and print making. Both functional and sculptural ceramic pieces exemplified the growing diversity of interest within the department in work. Fiber art was also recognized by the jurors. al al The Best of Show award was presented to Boni McCowan for her sculpture, Someday My Prince Will Come. MAY 18, 1989 PAGE 6 Suzuki Strings set to perform Patriotic melodies and The Theme from Masterpiece Theatre begin the program for the Suzuki Strings sixth annual spring concert. The program will be presented at 7 p.m. in the Thorley Recital Hall, May 20, and is free to the public. SUSC students Mindy Morrell, Rhonda Larsen, Louise Beauregard and Rebecca Burningham help with the teaching in the Suzuki Strings program. Because of the growth in the Suzuki Strings program, we divided the violins into two group classes and started a chamber orchestra, said Sara Penny, director. The students have had opportunities to play as a concerto soloist with this orchestra and it has helped develop a better ensemble sound. Perry Arnett directs the orchestra, which started in September, and has already performed in Kanab and Cedar City as well as participating in a Dixie College workshop and in the National Federation of Music Clubs Music Festival. Carol Fife and Judy Larsen are pianists for Suzuki Strings and help with the weekly group classes. Lively dance music will highlight the program because it is most popular with children, said Penny. Concerti, by Vivaldi and Seitz will also be presented. Chorale and Symphony Orchestra to perform Mecham to perform what is perhaps Mozarts most famous piece Requiem. The Requiem, which Mozart began in 1791 was commissioned by Count Walsegg but never completed by Mozart who died later the same year. Eventually Mozarts widow, Constanze, hired one of Mozarts own pupils, Franz Xaver Sussmayr, to finish the piece. The piece was then sold by Constanze to the Count, and the first performance of the Mozart-SussmaRequiem was heard as a mass in memory of the Counts deceased wife on Dec. 14, 1793. Since that time,' according to Mecham, Requiem, which has gained recent popularity due to the 1984 film for nearly two Amadeus, has intrigued concert-goer- s centuries. And while the film Amadeus is historically inaccurate, it does suggest the musical genius of Mozart BY DAVID V. PENA SUSCs Chorale and Symphony Orchestra will perform a free concert featuring the works of Mozart on May 21 and 22 in Thorley Recital Hall. The May 21 show, which will begin at 4 p.m., is actually a dress rehearsal which because of demand and limited seating was opened to the public by directors Virginia Stitt and Mark Mecham. The actual performance will be held on May 22 and is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. The concert will open with the orchestra, directed by Stitt, performing Impressario Overature which Mozart completed in 1779. The orchestra will then be joined by the 65 voice SUSC Chorale and be directed by o o o o o oo o oo o o o o o o o loJ r o 518 SOUTH MAIN 586-368- 6 and represents well the autobiographical nature of this piece of music. You have Mozart shaking his fist toward the heavens demanding that he be granted eternal rest and perpetual light, and at the next moment he remembers that hes in church, and the mood changes dramatically. It is a brilliant and exciting work combining the grandeur and majesty of the baroque era with the grace and symmetry of the classical period of music history. The free concert is the last in a series of public concerts supporting the Blaine Johnson Vocal Scholarship which is being created to provide a full scholarship to promising freshman vocalists. The scholarship is in honor of Blaine Johnson who was a member of the SUSC faculty from 1950 through 1980. "oTOom ! $1.00 OFF This certificate j is worth $1.00 the next roll ; j of 110, 126, 135, or disc film you J bring to us. Our KIS I PHOTO j ! ! PROCESSOR ! will give you picture perfect prints in 60 minutes! i Only one coupon per purchase. off on 518 SOUTH MAIN ST. WHY MOVE IT HOME, WHEN YOULL HAVE TO BRING IT ALL BACK? SAVE MONEY AND STORE IT WITH USI j & 7'X14 STORAGE UNITS NOW AVAILABLE, AT REASONABLE PRICES 5 CALL EZ STORAGE AT EVENINGS, AND CLEAN UP YOUR LIFE! 7'X10' |