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Show __The Salt LakeTribune CALENDAR Friday, July 19, 1996 Tower Coa a 80 sent0 that a Brings Talents “To Snowbird @ Continued from D-1 most prestigious awards a composer can receive. Tower began her musicallife as a piano student, Composition nev- er crossed her mind until when she was asked at 18 to write a piece at college. “So I wrote the piece and heardit. And that was it!” she said with laugh. “The experience of hearing my music as opposed to just playing the pi- ‘erican publisher, Asso- @ Mountain Music ciated, took notice and is now her exclusive publisher. ‘Tower laments the state of con- The Muir String Quartet and Russell Harlow collaborate in Joan Tower's “TurningPoints’ ‘at an 8 p.m. concert Saturday in Snowbird Center at the resort in Little Cottonwood Canyon. temporary classical music, link- The Muir also will perform Haydn's Quartet in D (“The Lark’) and Brahms’ Quartetin B-Flat. Tickets are $10 ($8 for seniors). ano was very powerful.” She studied composition with 12 teachers, among them Vladimir Ussachevsky (who was composer in residence at the Univer- sity of Utah) and Darius Milhaud. Getting her music performed didn’t comeeasily, “It's very hard to get played in New York, actually. I wasn't good at submitting my pieces [to performance organiza- tions], because I don't like being rejected, I decided that I wasn’t going to wait around, SoI established my own series in New York. And every year [the Da Capo Players] would do one piece of mine. That's how I started hearing my music, and it was a great learning experience.” Tower's music began to prolif- erate beyond her founding con- a problem to American | systems, _ “still don’t think of the arts as primary req. uisite for young kids, Which I find quite tragic. The school systems think ofthe arts as peripheral. As long as thatis the way, we're not going to have an up-and-coming groupof creative people.” Contemporary classical music won'tdie. “You know why? ’ Tower persists. “Because it's like McDonald's adding a salad bar to their menu and providing leaner beef for a more health-conscious society. 1 think what's going to jects. “I don’t want to be controlled by the number of commissions I accept, Some people expect that I can quickly write This is Tower's fourth visit to Utah. “T Points” was a commission from theclarinet virtuoso David Schifrin and the Lincoin Center Chamber Players. ‘This opus has been performed numous times by these players and has been recently recerded on the Delos label. After her Snowbird gig, Tower returns to her current residence in Red Hood, N.Y., to continue working on a lifelong string of compositions. Whatis Joan Tower when she's not a composer? Her response follows a long laugh: “She's useless!" ple of years.” Jeff Manookian, a Salt Lake City musician, is The Tribune’s musiccritic. happenwith [contemporary] classical music is that the inherent qualityof it— its depth —is going to surviveall byitself and is going to re seetaeea itself. e same ippen to the symphony orchestras in our country facing their financial burdens. They, too, will have to add their proverbial ‘salad bars’to accommodate the tastes of contemporary concertgoers.” Tower is always at work on two to three years of composition pro- something for them for a performance this fall. I haveto tell them to come back and ask mein a cou- Pioneer Day Will Have Old-Time Twist @ Continued from D-1 os If you need a phoneit’s a great weekend to check out Freddy's... PHONE HOME! 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