Show i Arts movies & music Best bets The audience fl Q will be able to participate in WSC s whodunit at the Radisson 3D Guitarist Tom McFarland will perform at the Gray Moose 5D The movie ‘Wings of Desire may have the most compelling story idea in years 7D October 21 1988 Standard-Examine- r Russians welcomed to Ogden i By KAREN ANNE WEBB Standard Lxamnef correspondent Glasnost amved in Ogden Thursday night courteof the Moscow Classical Ballet Judging from the response of the capacity crowd at the Val A Browing Center for the Pertorming Arts the change of pace from our indigenous companies was appreciated But we have local talent WTiy some may ask should it make a difference which company one sees? ti Because there are many schools of ballet — Boumonville Royal Academy of Dance and so on — and none seems to cause more posy $ i high-calib- i er Cec-cet- larization of opinion than Russian Indeed a although technique is the basis for ballet schooling in the Soviet Vago-nov- Union viet each So- company has its own fla- vor The two most renowned companies — the Kirov and the Bolshoi — ap- pear apart worlds to the trained eye The Kirov school cranks out the OGDEN — Irish pianist Barry Douglas will perform Brahms’ “Second Piano Concerto” when the Utah Symphony comes to Ogden Thursday The pianist and orchestra will give an 8 pm concert in the Browning Center at Weber State College Born in Belfast the Douglas moved into the musical spotlight when he won first prize at the 1986Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow He was the first Western pianist to win that event since Van Cliburn in 1958 Douglas was a popular favorite at the Moscow competition His performances of Tchiakovksy’s “G-flMajor Concert” and Brahms’ “First Concerto” caused the audience to stand and chant “First prize first prize!” Since the win Douglas has had a busy concert schedule throughout the United States and Europe Last season he gave his first recitals in Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center and toured at This season Douglas will make his New York concert debut at Lincoln Center and tour Japan and New Zealand In 1985 he took third place at the Van Cliburn International Competition in Dallas The Utah Symphony concert will open with Ralph Vaughan Williams’ overture to “The Wasps” The piece was written in 1909 for a Cambridge University production of Aristophanes’ comedy “The Wasps” Traditionally the “wasps” of the play are the garbed Athenian jurors who are obsessed with watching trials and neglect their personal duties Also on the program is “Death and Transfiguration” a symphonic poem by Richard Strauss which depicts the last hours and death of “a man who had striven for the highest ideals presum- He also appears in his first motion picture playing himself in the newly released “Madame Sousatzka” Shirley Maclaine stars in the film about an eccentric London piano teacher Douglas studied at the Royal College of Music in London with John Barstow and Maria Curcio Christopher Wilkins will conduct the concert Tickets may be purchased in advance from the 4 Association Ogden Symphony-BallTickets are also sold at the door student tickets which are half price go on sale 20 minutes before the performance Preview What: Utah Symphony concert Where: Browning Center WSC When: 8pm Oct 28 Who: Guest pianist Barry Douglas Tickets: $5-$1- 3 399-921- 4 Europe as a soloist with the European Community Youth Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy ably an artist” 399-921- et Def Leppard returns to top of the charts By GARY GRAFF Knight Ridder Newspapers “The word ‘can’t’ isn’t in Def Leppard's vocabulary anymore" said Joe band’s Elliott the British hard-roc- k singer That’s fair enough for a group that has survived producer problems a voluntary tax exile a tragic auto accident that cost its drummer his left arm and the pressures of success One word that's definitely in the band’s vernacular however is “pa- tience" ' It took 49 weeks for “Hysteria” the group’s latest album — and the fourth of its career — to hit More than half of that time it No was foundering unable to produce the fiery results of 1983’s “Pyroma-ma- ” which sold more than 6 million copies and kicked open the Top 20 for groups like Quiet Riot Twisted Sister Bon Jovi and Cinderella Now things have become downright hysterical again “Hysteria” has reigned atop the Billboard magazine charts for several weeks and has made Def Leppard the first band to have k six million sellers Singles like the title track and the pounding “Pour Some Sugar on Me" have been radio staples since spring while “Love Bites" — the latest release — is m the Top 10 All in all the Leppards say it was worth the wait “We were a bit disappointed that it didn’t do well out of the box" admitted drummer Rick Allen 24 “but we knew that after four years of being away it would be tough to get back to where we were during '83 the beginning of 84 We needed people to give us a second chance if you will” Indeed ten months ago Def Lep- 1 back-to-bac- I f d arenas pard was playing to and wasn’t hearing much of its first singles — “W'omen” and “Animal" — on the radio There were theories about the wisdom of these releases as Doug Podell programmer of Detroit half-fille- By MARILYN ABILDSKOV Standard Examiner start WLLZ-Fpointed out “They came with probably the album-rock- er M worst song on the album (‘Women’) It just didn’t sound like what people thought a Def Leppard record should be and it didn’t take ofT” Steve KJemberg product manager of Mercury Records the group’s label claimed that was by design “We had a long-terplan for the band" he said “W'e wanted a gradual build Wre felt that after four years off we had to introduce the band to a new marketm place” Still it was clear that the record company and the band were concerned about how things were going though Elliott kept up a brave front "You have to take it m stride” he said last October “W'e put a record on the shelves we think is great and we’ve put ourselves on tour Whether people buy us or not is beyond our control The fact is we’ll be sticking around" That’s just what happened The “Hyeria” single a melodic love song gave the group a boost and Mercury’s Kleinbcrg estimated that "Pour Some Sugar on Me” which hit No I sold more than mid-tem- po crowd-pleasin- Soviet director communicates through dance Preview What: Rock concert Where: Salt Palace When: 7 30 p m Saturday Sunday Who: Def Leppard Tickets: $17 at the door purest technicians Feet are pointed knees are tight legs are turned out and bodies are securely centered Baryshnikov and Makarova were Kirov graduates for examples The Bolshoi on the other hand goes for the glitz Zillions of turns jumps worthy of a pole vault and knee to ear extensions are typical g tricks But the turns are often on 'wobbly knees the jumps often end in sloppy crash landings and fabulously extended legs are often topped by feet that look like dead mackerels Watching this sort of thing is a little like reading the prose of an author with a limitless vocabulary and absolutely no comprehension of grammar The frustration for the dance-goe- r arises from this dissonance Who can honestly say it isn’t exciting to see a ballerina execute a scries of triple fouettes? On the other hand if she lists like a ship taking water the feat collapses from the realm of artistry to one of determined athleticism There are physical features of the technique that make it look showier than some of the more placed Western techniques The Russian attitude is slightly turned in allowing the foot to rise high above the knee It is a much more dramatic looking pose than the more table-to- p shape of the same position in the West Arms sweep broadly often breaking markedly at the wrist The breadth of such gestures often misaligns shoulders leading to a sort of Slavic slouch Heads and necks also range more freely than they are often allowed in Western styles The total picture — one of flamboyance — is a See BALLET on 5D Def Leppard is coming to the Salt if three million copies the album during its reign on the charts “It was just one of those perfect summer songs" W LLZ’s Podell said anthem type of “It was a the in song right place at the right big-be- at time" Because of that Podell and others OGDEN — - A crowd of more than 350 people at Weber State College crammed into the Browning Center’s Allred Theater Thursday to get a glimpse of Ogden’s big cultural coup the Moscow Classical Ballet Scheduled to perform through the weekend (tickets were sold out in advance for Friday and Saturday night shows) the famous Russian Ballet represents one of the biggest and brightest troupes to be lured to the local area “Their technique is fabulous just beautiful” said Lisa Roll after watching three of the company’s young dancers warm up under the direction of Natalia Kasakina Roll an adjunct faculty member in the WSC dance department said it was particularly satisfying to see how the universal language of dance can bridge cultural differences PoiyGram Records Speaking through an interpreter Kasakina artisPalace tic director for the Moscow Classical Ballet answered questions from the audience after leading in the industry call the quintet — Elthree dancers (two of whom wore El Paso liott Allen guitarists Phil Collen and over their leotards) through a demonstration at the Steve Clarke and bassist Rick Savage bar Occasionally she didn’t seem to need a trans— “mega-star- s as opposed to rock lator — through gesture alone she made herself unstars They blew right past superstars derstood to the audience which in turn made s and up to They're going evervone herself included laugh to be in a "She was speaking through gesture And that’s re- situation for a See CROWD on 5D couple of records” mega-star- I |