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Show SS geen eee f l ; ; The Salt Lake Tribune ARTS Music 99; Utah SymphonySears, Ottley Retires, Welcome ‘Refuge’ BY CATHERINE REESE NEWTON THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE The music scene in Utah this year was upbeat, with familiar faces and new voices. Some ofthe high spots of 1999: Cuckoo for Kelth: Utah Sym- s first Mahler symphony with the or- chestra, a stunning success. Lock- hart also proved himself to be a feeeoe vont vite Lucia Lin ina guest spot with Salt Lake tye Abramyan String Quartet. Rookie of the Year: The Utah Symphony also welcomed a new associate conductor, the talented Bundit Ungrangsee. heim of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, with Craig Jessop taking over as music director. (Jessop oe into pone pair of big thoes earlier in the year, taking over performances of Brahms’ City a couple of hours before the performance. In case you Choir/Utah Symphonyperfor- mance and ing of Brahms’ “German Requiem.” haPie 11recital, it is available the archives of the Kennedy Center’'s Millennium Stage at www. -center.org/ millennium/ highlights081999.html.) That’s the Spirit: The Madeleine Festival the Arts and the new Orchestra at Temple Square and Temple Square Chorale. 1970 opera, “Of Mice and Men.” We Knew Them When: Salt i; City audiences saw and heard several talents on the Utah Opera stage. process and fielded audience questions two public forums. Mezzo-soprano Moremet lat Laurel Ann Maurer represented Floyd spoke on the composing more (Cherubino in “The Marriage of Figaro”), bass-baritone ts It Live? Salt LakeCity flutist Utah in a recital at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Ryan Gelbbraith/The Salt Lake Tribune This year’s festival also featured the premiere of Mayor Phillip K. Bimstein’s instantly engaging “Refuge,” based on Terry Tempest Williams’ bestselling book and featuring the author’s taped voice interwoven with the live music of the 10 Classic Concerts: ‘Porgy and Bess’ to Perlman BY JEFF MANOOKIAN Salt Lake City. The @ Utah Utah Symphony Conductor Keith Lockhart rehearses at Abravanel Hall. The symphony enjoyed a much healthier box office for the first two months of the season. Abramyan Siring Quartet The Last : The Oratorio Society of Utah said “Amen” to Handel's “Messiah,”at least for guest artists brought in to play on this 6-year-old music series. ue Violinist Itzhak oe under the wk Keith Lockhart. Not only did did Perlman cast magic with “oratorio” part of its name, ex- ciety will now live up to the ‘Messiahs” and the occasional Elijah” thatit had offered since 1915. presented by the Paradigm Concert Series. Although minimally attended, this program of two great trios, Beethoven’s “Archduke” and Brahms’ Op. 8, was a performance of perfection. This Quartet with composer-pianist Joan Towerat Deer Valley, July; Park City International Music Festival with composer David , July; Abramyan Quartet with pianist Keith Lockhart and for Utah audiences is that the so- Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, concert could have held its own on did some sorcery of his own in a brilliant reading of any of the world’s recital stages. Strauss’ “Der Rosenkavalier” Suite. Utah Symphony, conductor Concert Series. This Utan resident, musician presented pianistic colors and stunning the time being, as it gaveits last performance of the oratorio in the Salt Lake Tabernacle. The upside @ And the 11 that just missed the cut, again in chronologicalorder: flutist Laurel Ann Maurer’s violinist Lucia Lin, September, Celena Shafer in the Temple Square Assembly Hall, October; mre Se January recital in Westminster Pavel Kogan. Through a cre- atively programmed concert ofall Ravei got every spine tingling. The ever-popular “La Valse” by Ravel was rendered with uncom- concertmaster Raiph loing in Bruch’s Violin Concerto , the Spirit Chorale “of Los ‘Angeles at the Madeleine Festival, April; cellist Yo-Yo Ma with violinistconductor Joseph the Utah Symphony, May; Muir St.Mark’sHospital Helping businesses make wise advertising investments. and Medical Staffarepleased to welcome Daniel W.Yarrish,M.D. Ds.Daniel W.Yarrish isa graduateofthe UniversityofTexas Medical School in Houston,Texas. Hecompleted his ining specializing in intemal Medicine at residencytraining BaylorUniversityMedical Center in Dalias,Texas. He is boardcertified in internal Medicine by theAmerican Board ofintemal Medicine. Dr. Yarrish has a special interest in: + Cholesterol Management + Hypertension + Preventative Health Dr.Yanish isalso trained in othermedicine specialties including: + + + + Amdety/Depression Cardiovascular Diseases Women's Health Artheitis * Lung Disease + Gastrointestinal Disease * Infectious Disease Dx.Yastish isfromTexasandenjoysmanyoutdooractivities induding: golfingfishingskiing andmany others. Heismarriedand living inSaltLakeCity. Dr.Yarrish ishappytobeamemberoftheSaltLakeCommunity. EMCI MSN Creer cel ad |