| Show MSv Arts & Entertainment Standard-Examine- r Friday May 7 1 Movies Features Editor: 999 Utah Symphony Chamber Orchestra WHEN: 730 p m Wednesday WHERE: Peery’s Egyptian Theater 241 5 Washington Blvd Ogden TICKETS: $17 Call staff r 399-921- 4 It’s as close as any modern violinist can come to standing in Mozart’s shoes On Wednesday night Joseph Silverstein will solo in and conduct the Utah Symphony Chamber Orchestra in three concertos that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed more than 225 years ago to showcase his own violin virtuosity “Just knowing Mozart wrote these pidcfes so he could play them himself is a thrill” Silverstein said “It’s great fun for me to play these three concertos” Silverstein who retired from his position as Utah Symphony artistic director last year said he has dreamed of program performing an Why? “The fact that he’s the greatest genius we’ve ever had in music and probably the greatest genius in all of the creative arts” Silverstein said What earns Mozart that esteem is the brilliance and passion in his music the volume of work he composed before his death at 35 and the scope of his skills “If you were to isolate only one small portion of his music - just take his operas and he would have to be considered one of the three or four best composers of all time Or take piano concertos and he’s one of the three or four best composers” said Silverstein “Or just look at symphonies or string quartets Mozart excelled in every area of musical Music ! Michael A Palumbo chairman of the Weber State University music program “In some ways he was not suited to the social style of that existence but when it came to music everything he did was automatic and natural He could listen to a piece of music then sit down and write it out I think he was a genius He followed the form of the day but his music was on a higher plane” Focusing Mozart’s talents was his father Leopold a demanding and overbearing teacher “His father was a tough cookie” Silverstein said “but Leopold was a wonderful teacher and a great mentor for Mozart and quite an extraordinary force ' in his life” As Mozart grew from childhood into young adulthood and began to get composing and performing jobs on his own he became resentful of his father's interference By his early 20s Mozart began to compose the last of his violin concertos “Even though he himself was a gifted violinist his preference as he grew into adulthood was for piano” Silverstein said “It’s supposition but fairly d that this was almost an act of distancing himself from his father who was his violin teacher It was an act of independence "These pieces represent his last year in Salzburg when he was really emerging as a mature composer These three concertos represent the last work in this form that he wrote for violin” The works are Violin Concertos No 3 in G No 4 in I) and No 5 in A The concertos Silverstein said are "very upbeat pieces that Mozart wrote for himself He wanted very very much to be featured as a violin soloist in this case” About the movie The life of a genius Bom into a musical Austrian family in 1756 Mozart's main interest from earliest childhood was music He began composing minuets at age 5 and by 6 was performing with his sister on their first formal European tour “Mozart was composing at an age when most children hadn’t learned to read” said Asked about the 1984 theatrical release “Amadeus” Silverstein gave as a murder the film a thumbs-dow- n mystery but thumbs-u- p on musical integrity “The film showed his puckish humorous side which was very strong” Silverstein said “Mozart was a very humorous guy and wrote very funny letters during his travels The film did a w onderful job of portraying the music and the atmosphere in which Mozart was See MOZART3D The Butterfly The last the very last So richly brightly dazzling yellow Perhaps if the sun’s tears would Such such a yellow wished to Kiss the world good-by- e For seven weeks I’ve lived in here Penned up inside this ghetto But I have found what I love here The dandelions call to me And the white chestnut branches in the court Only I never saw another butterfly That butterfly was the last one Butterflies don’t live in here In the ghetto -- Pavel Friedmann 1942 r ! C'' I MARTA cvI- - STORWKX'Slandard Examine Several members from the cast sit in silence at the back of the the play throughout stage HAUNTING VIEWS: f : c i $ M''- V4k' i M V thAaniiffi MAP" A Eiarw Ogden High School students Ben Tremfeiman 1 6 and Pamela Peterson 1 7 practice a scene from “I Never Saw Another Butterfly The play produced by Ogden High students centers around lives of Jewish chdd'eo Irving during the Holocaust DRESS REHEARSAL (COPY ' By JAMIE LAMPROS f ritH V Movies Reese Witherspoon's portrayal of an ambitious high school student in “Election" 7D could become legendary ' HOT TICKETS See Page 2D for details on these and other events: Bearfest '99 Featuring Ted Nugent Night Ranger Quiet Riot and Slaughter July 16 Salt Lake City Neil Diamond Aug 30 West Valley City ABOUT PEOPLE 1942 to 1945 over 15000 Jewish children passed through Terezin a former military garrison that became a ghetto Terezin which was in the hills outside Prague Czechoslovakia eventually became a station for thousands of people on their way to the gas chambers of Auschwitz When Terezin was liberated only about 100 children were alive While they were in this concentration camp the children were forced to eat black potatoes sleep on filthy floors and live infected by fleas To get their minds off the horrible conditions they wrote poetry sang sings and drew pictures to pass the HOW TO GO WHAT: Never Saw Another Butterfly’ WHO: Ogden High School ‘1 students WHEN: 730 pm today Saturday and Monday WHERE: Ogden Hgh School 2828 Harrison B'vd Ogden TICKETS: $5 adults S3 students Avaiiab’e at the door time Many of their poems focused on things that we lake for granted suwh as the color of the sky the formations of clouds the sw ay of the grass and the grace of insects Their work was buried but after the war it was discovered dug up and compiled into a book titled “I Never Saw Another Butterfly” Since then portions of the book have been performed on stage This year Ogden High School has chosen the story for its school play “It’s a pretty powerful p ece” said drama teacher Joe Cmich “I chose it because I wanted to do a drama piece but also because it’s interesting and will hopefully get people thinking” See PLAY 5D : Cate Blanchett was born May 14 1969 in Melbourne Australia After high school she studied fine arts and economics at the University of Melbourne But after a few years she dropped out to travel When she returned she was torn: “I was failing miserably in economics and spending less and less time in the library or in the galleries should have been in Those subjects were as different as the two sides of the brain One was driven by guilt and one driven by my heart -and of course your heart wins out" In 1992 after graduating from ! I the National Institute of Dramatic Sydney Blanchett won two Sydney Theatre Critics Circle Awards one of them for “Oleanna" opposite Geoffrey Rush She also did several miniseries for Australian television as well as seve al more stage productions including “The Tempest” and women in World War II Blanchett made her mark in America in "Oscar and Lucinda" opposite Ralph Fiennes While still filming “Oscar and Lucinda" she heard that she had won the title role in "Elizabeth" this time opposite Joseph Fiennes Ralph s younger brother Her performance won an Oscar nomination Blanchett is currently starring in "Pushing Tin" with John Cusack and BHy Bob Thornton TOP RECORDS Standard Examiner correspondent OGDEN - From Cate Blanchett: The heart won out “Paradise Road" about a Japanese POW camp for It went away I'm sure because it I A fashion show and a ball Who says the Top ot Utah ain't 4D got class? Blanchett so impressed director Bruce Beresford that he fought hard to get studio support for her to play the brave rebellious nurse in Is carried lightly way up high - Fun “Hamlet" sing against a white stone -- 3D Art in Ogden High’s Holocaust play a powerful story I Everybody's celebrating Duke Ellington's 100th centennial well-base- composition” The list of Mozart’s major works fills half a page in the Encyclopedia Britannica His creations include 41 symphonies 21 piano concertos five violin concertos for violin and orchestra six operas music for three plays and a ballet nine masses four litanies seven offertories two vespers 57 solo arias with orchestra nine vocal trios and five duets and a long list of chamber pieces for various groupings of instruments “Gene Pack classical music director at radio static® KUER likes to compare MozSrt to Shakespeare “The range of work is probably comparable” Pack said “Mozart did everything well and not just well but better than anyone else “Shakespeare was the same way He could do tragedies comedies historical plays he could do light dark He had a wonderful command of the language Today we feel lucky when we find a playwright that can do a quarter of the things Shakespeare could do and do well Shakespeare’s work seems almost divine in origin as does Mozart’s” Best bets WHO: Joseph Silverstein and the By TVIANCY VAN VALKENBURG Standard-Examine- TAKES PREVIEW Joseph Silverstein the former Utah Symphony artistic director to perform three violin concertos 0 usck Mozart Wblfean 625-427- These were the top R&B singles of the week according to Billboard 1 “Fortunate" Maxwell 2 “Who Dat" JT Money 3 “No Scrubs" TLC 4 “What’s It Gonn Be?!" 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