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Show E3 Nova Music Series Launches 21st Season By Again Taking the Less-Traveled Path BY CELIA BAKER SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE Nova Chamber Music Series audiences have learned to expect the unexpected, In its 21st year the series continuesto leadits de- voted band of followers off the beaten repertoire path in the company of some of Salt Lake City’s finest musicians. The new Nova season begins this week with another adventure on the road less traveled, this time featuring chamber music for wind instruments. Aside from theoccasional guest artist, Nova performersareresident professional musicians (many of them members of the Utah Symphony), who enjoy the chanceto present chamber music they might not otherwise get to play (and listeners might never get to hear). The sense of fun these artists convey as they pre- sent their favorites remindslisRick Egan/TheSalt Lake Tribune * Anne Hudson Jones,left, Susan Dolan, Richard Scott prepare for Thursday presentation. € «: THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE For seven years, Anne Hudson @ 3 Short Plays “Alzheimer’s on Stage: <Jones was the primary caregiver “for her Alzheimer’s-afflicted Readers’ Theater Performance of Three Short *prandmother. Jeannette Carlson udied in 1996 in Texas. Plays by Alzheimer’s Caregivers” will be presented <= WhenJones wasasked to write about the experience for an aca“tiemic medical journal, the result vbecame a brief readers-theater «play, “Where's the Baby.” It has “heen presented for medical stu- "dents, health-care professionals and family members of Alz«heimer’s patients in Chicago and at Brown University, Providence, RI =" Jones is now visiting profes- ugorin the division of medical ethvies at the University of Utah, and “fs teaching about the effects of the diseaseon patients and caregivers _ Via theater. +» Last Wednesday at Salt Lake “Regional Medical Center, the U.’s department of family and preventive medicine presented “‘Alzheimer's on Stage: Readers’ The- ater Performance of Three Short 4Plays by Alzheimer’s Caregivers” As part of grand rounds for medi- cal students and doctors. Department chairman Michael “Magill said the plays provide a vivid portrayal of what patients ssexperience. “ “We often talk about the dis- “pasein the abstract, and therefore “the students and doctors have less ‘awareness ofits effect. The plays Aet physicians see the illness through the eyes of the patient and the family in a most engaging cLway. Here we were, about 80 of aais, Wednesday at 8 in the morning watching these plays. People wereriveted.” concerts filled with music for strings. This time the emphasis is on wind instruments, especially the horn. The entire horn section giver. Shesaid the plays, brief as BY NANCY MELICH in the Eccles Human Genetics Institute auditori- um, south of University Hospital, Thursday at noon. Admission is free. Discussion follows. theyare, reflect the experience in her family. “My grandmother’s illness killed my grandfather — the strain of taking care of her." Hud- son said it is not unusual for the spouse to die beforethe afflicted partner. Jones said the plays are effective in putting across the emotions of what it is like to care for a person when something dreadful happens. “Thereare a lot of terribleill- nesses, but this one lasts for so The plays, Magill said, also stimulate discussion from family members who might otherwise be reluctant to talk about their experience as caregivers. The presentation is followed by questions and answers. Hudson is a professor oflitera- ture and medicineatthe Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas medical branch at Galveston. The two otherplays in the readers-theater presenta- tion are “Stolen Mind” by Myrna Doernberg and “Living With Alzheimer — Ruth's Story” written by her husband, Art Danforth long and thereis usually a great deal of denial. In my family, people denied for a long time that there was anything wrong with my grandmother. It'ssuch a tough illness, and families do a lot more caregiving thanis realized. As do the nurses, whose capacity to reach outis extraordinary. They are paid nothing and are so unappreciated.” Shesaid the plays help to open. that difficult world to the medical students, allowing discussion to begin. “T have found their questions and responses to be moving. their Three Utahactors are featured desire to learn and understand more aboutthe disease most en- in the plays — Susan Dolan, Joyce Cohen and Richard Scott — along with six medical students and one couraging.”” Jones hopes the public as well as the medical community will research associate from the U.’s take part in the Thursdayevent division of ethics. Dolan directs the program, which will be presented free to the public Thursday at noon at the Eccles Institute of Human Genet- “Parking near the genetics building does present a problem, so anyone planning on attending should allow plenty of time.” Jones suggests parking in the University Hospital public lots and walking through the hospital to reach the genetics building. There are also parking meters near the genetics building. ies auditorium, south of University Hospital. Dolan’s grandmother died of Alzheimer’s disease, and her mother was the primary care- pieces for woodwind instruments of the Utah Symphony(BruceGif- ford, Stephen Kostyniak, Llewellyn Humphreys and Stephen Proser)will present Horn Quartet No. 3 by Kerry Turner,writtenin 1992 for the American Horn Quartet. Barabara Scowcroft, music director of the Nova Series and also a violinist in the Utah Symphony, has high praise for the four horn virtuosos. “They are amazing symphonic players, and incredi- bly nice guys,” she said. “Is this too good to betrue? It's really inspiring to play with them and hear them in the symphony.” According to Humphreys, the Turner quartet is fun,but treacherous. “Eachof the four parts has a range of four octaves, and great prowessis demandedinits execution. The parts move around all over theplace, soit’s really challenging. The pieceis loosely based Duo for Flute and Oboe by Al- Opens Monday “Going With the Winds” de- parts from the norm of chamber ‘Plays Help Open Eyes to Alzheimer’s Utah Symphonyhornplayers: Llewellyn Humphreys(left), Stephen Kostyniak, Bruce Gifford and Stephen Proser. tenersof a high-class jam session being shared by a group of good friends berto Ginastera, performed by Sally Humphreys and James Halli The Nova Chamber Music Series opens its 2ist season Monday at 8 p.m. and “Caprice on Danish and Russian Themes” by Saint-Saens, per- formed by Humphreys, Hall, Su at All Saints Episcopal botic and clarinetist Paul Votapek The Nova season is crafted Church, 1710 Foothill Drive, Salt Lake City. Tickets at the door are $12, seniors $10 and stu- around repertoire suggestions from local professional musi- dents $5. Seasontickets are now onsale, with a va- cians, who dofiate much of their time for the chanceto playtheir favorite chamber pieces. Scow croft says, “Theyare an incredi bly generous bunch whoare willing to come together and produce riety of discounts being offered. For information, call Stuart Craig at 328- 27 something quite idealistic.” Cer on a Western theme, and is quite humorous in addition to being verytechnical.” Scowcroft describes the horn quartet as being “bright, tonal energetic, beautiful, and an in- triguingpiece.” Hornaficionados also can look forward to Kostyn- iak's performance of the Sonata for Hornand Piano by Paul Hindemith, with Vedrana Subotic at the piano. Also on the program are two tain favorite performers return every year — like mezzo-soprano Lani Poulson and violinist Joseph Silverstein, conductor laureate of the Utah Symphony. As is traditional, Poulson and Silverstein will each be featured in a concert this year. An eveningofviolin and piano music, played by Ralph Matson and Eugene Watan and a potpourri concert of cham. ber music from various performers roundout the season WeberState to Celebrate Hildegard’s 900th Birthday BY CELIA BAKER SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE Weber State University’s department of women’s studies is The otherworldlyreligious mu- sic Hildegard pennedfor the nuns of her abbey has enjoyed a recent surge in popularity. Hildegard’s birthday party will feature her musicin a lecture/demonstration vant. “She had an amazingly Jiberal view of the world for a woman of her time,” said Krantz. “She creates a model for our age. Be- led by Mark Henderson, director of choral music at WSU. The WSU Chamber Choir will per- cause of her senseofself and her belief in something larger than herself, she proved that all of us can do things beyond what anyone might predict.” ji controlled and their opportuni- along The music will be preceded by a brief introduction to the theology and history of this remarkable woman. Speaking about Hildegard’s personal theology will be p.m. in the south ballroom ofthe Shepherd Union Building on the WSU campus, Ogden. The public ties limited. Despite this, she became known throughout Europe as a visionary, natural scientist, artist, musician, and abbess. that Hildegard’s life is still rele- throwing a 900th-birthday party Tuesdayfor Hildegard of Bingen, a woman so extraordinary that she could be called a “Renais- sance person” — except that she lived several hundred years before the Renaissance. Hildegard wasborn in the 12th century, a medieval world in which women’s lives were strictly form, and there will be a sing- Diane Krantz, coordinator of the WSU women’s-studies program Krantz, who wasonce a nun, feels The celebration of the 900th birthdayof Hildegard of Bingen will be Tuesday from noon to: 2 is invited to this free event, gid refreshments will be served. Fpr more information, contact Caril Jennings. (801) 626-6431. t+ J ournewlife WEDDING & G FT REGISTRY 1-800-453-GIFT (4438) (@rayxre ip i) Wan aye 2 89 heaFPthe voice Los Cerritos Community. News Saturday November 14 7:30 pm Kingsbury Hall Tickets $9-18 Tickets available at Kingsbury Hall and at all What makes you anindividualis your uniqueness, yourlifestyle, yourtaste. You know whatyou want. 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