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Show SUNDAY/August 3 1997 Che Salt Lake Tribune Section D the. TE SAGE OF SONG JACK GOODMAN BOOK REVIEWS Page D-2 Pages D-4, 5 Robert Shaw conducts in Tabernacle, AbravanelHall. BY LANCE MUNDSEN BrandonGriggs The Salt Luke Tribune Writers Robert Boswell and Antonya Nelson. THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Robert Shaw echoes the sentiments of another LIVING TOGETHER, WRITING TOGETHER celebrated American, the late poet Robert Frost, who penned: “I have promises to keep ... and miles to go before I sleep.” Last July, the legendary conductor had planned to preside over his annual choral institute, scheduled forthefirst time in Park City. As partof that event, he was to conduct Beethoven's Ninth Symphony(‘'Choral”). Health problems sidelined the octogenarian. Shaw's doctors vetoed a three-week stay at the resort's high altitude. “But I'm feeling much, much better,” Shaw, now81, exclaimedin his courtly, but rapid-fire, voice in a telephoneconversation from the mu- sic-manuscript-lined study in his Atlanta home. “SoI'll be in Salt LakeCity for 10 days, doing the Ninth and part of the Missa Solemnis’’ with the symphonyand chorus. After all, he had made a promise, “and I'm saving Ed’s good name,” he joked, referring to Utah Symphony Chorus director Edgar J. PARK CITY — Two adult writers. Two teaching jobs. Twoliterary careers. Two youngchildren Thompson. The one-night-only performance will be Wednesday in Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple. One household. How do Robert Boswell and Antonya Nelson do it? Somehow between teaching universityclasses, grading papersand raising their kids, this couple have produced 12 booksof fiction. “People warnedus that writers shouldn't marry Never mind that the symphony and chorus ended its masterworksseries with the Ninth last May, and that it later wasthe highlightin a series of four concerts by the Sandy-based American West Symphony & Chorus. “T hope Utah audiences aren'ttired ofit,” said Thompson, whoalso is a music professor at the eachother, but in fact we understand each other's lives so completely,’’ Boswell said over lunch last month. He and Nelson, who have been married 13 years, spent a week in Park City teaching workshops at the 13th annual Writers at Work confer University of Utah. Besides, with Shaw on the ence. podium, “it will be quite a different experience,” hepredicted. j * Soloists at Wednesday's performance are soprano Jennifer Larson, mezzo-soprano Adelaide “We're doing the same thing — we're writing fiction, we're writing storics. But we're going about it in such different ways that I never think we feel threatened of each other,” Boswell added. “We Sinclair, tenor Stanford Olsen and bass Steven don't have the sameagent, we don’t have the sane editor, we don't have the samepublishing house Meredith. Thompson remarkedthat Olsen, now a regular on the Metropolitan Operastage, got a big career break in 1982 when hefilled in for anailing tenor in a Utah Symphony Chorus performanceof the “Samebed,” Nelson interruptedwithaslysmile. Thepair met in 1983 in a graduate writing program at the University of Arizona. Boswell was a Ninth. His singing “created a small sensation,” native of western Kentucky whose family movedto Thompson recalled the Southwest. Nelson grewup in Kansas and Colo rado, the daughter of two English professors. Bos: “It’s a pleasure to have’Stan reprise the role well wasin his last year of the master’s offinearts program whenshearrived in Tucson. Withinthree that gave his career a start,” the director remarked: seer Thompson, who has conducted the 145-yoice symphoi sl months, they were dating. “We first went out in November, we were engaged in Januaryand got married in July,” Boswell gfus since 1978, said when Shaw ‘ing the piperam with the said, “It wasfa: See SHAW,Page D-6 The couple have a daughter, Jade, 10, and a son Noah, 6. Jade alreadyhas begun towritestories of her own. Conductor Robert Shawreturnsto the Salt Lake Tabernacle, where he led performancesof the Berlioz Requiem in 1994. ‘If we wanted to discourage [ourchildren] from See 2 WRITERS, Page D-6 Tim Kelly/TheSalt Lake Tribune acs rcpt Coupons — -CIAP' US. 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