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Show The Salt Lake Tribune ARTS , Die Sunday, April 16,2000 EvelynHarris, One ofUtah’s Top Voice Teachers, Retires at WSU BY CATHE! INE REESENEWTON respected voice teachers, is not ex- THESA LAKE .T TRIBUNE actly retiring. She still will teach privately and continue at least another year as director of the Ogden It's the end of an era at Weber State University. Evelyn Harris conducted her last concerts with the Weber State Singers this week end after 35 years at WSU. Harris, one of Utah's most her students when she started at ing, having taught several children Community Choir. “Tll always be involved in music,” she said. “Just not 14 hours a of former students. “She is one of the finest voice teachers in the West,” said Kathy day.” Skidmore, director of the Laytonbased Skidmore Singers. “You don't get paid in money, but and her daughters studied voice with Harris. “She has influenced thousands of students. Yet she will friendships. “It's so rewarding to watch what [the students] do through music. It Harris was not much older than OurFresh, Fabulous with the wonderful people and Easter, Embassy-Style RESERVATIONS ACCEPTED BUT NOT REQUIRED 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. Makea special occasion even Adults $14.99 morespecial with Easter Brunch at Embassy Suites Hotel. Join us for a delectable buffet. hiidren (4-10) $5.99 Our Carving Station includes * Roast Baron of Beef * Omelettes * Comed Beef Hash * Pancakes * Seafood * London Broil * Country Sausage * Bacon Mullboons Shrimp * Eggs Benedict * Chicken CordonBleu ¢ Holiday-Baked Ham * More than 30 ttems Including a Feast of Fresh Fruits, Salads, Fresh-Cut Vegetables, ~ Baked Goods and Pastries at a benefit concert and invited her to teach voice lessons at the school. (Harris gave birth to another * Roast Leg of Lamb * Baked Halibut * Carved Roast Beef Au Jus * Hearts of Palm& Artichoke Salad Breakast lems served until 2 pm $17.95 Adults $9.95 Children $12.95 Seniors * Assorted Salads & Pastas * Assorted Baked Desserts * Chocolate Dipped Strawberries Sunday, April 23, 2000 11:30 a.m.—2:30 p.m. a Forreservations, call (801) 359-7800 EMBASSY SUITES’ A DESIGN for LIVING Mullboons/13th Floor Downtown 530-1313 Mullboons of Midvale daughter and a son while teaching there.) “She never stops studying,” Skidmore said of Harris. “She always has an open mind and is striving to learn and improve. You don’t see that with very many voice teachers. ... Every time a guest clinician comes in, she is there at her own expense, and her students are the beneficiaries.” “She has studied very, very hard to understand the singing voice and how it works physiologically and acoustically,” said Betty Jeanne Chipman, another of Utah’s leading voice teachers.“She neverforces the voice.” Harris’ natural approach to singingis her trademark. “Hergoal is to let the voice have laryngologist with a camera so the students can watch the vocal cords as they sing, just to help the students better understand their voices and use them better, more efficiently, more freely. And they can use them longer. I know few teachers who are that concerned with vocal health.” Leaving the classroom is “bittersweet,” Harris said. “I love what I do; I love the kids.” But she will find plenty to occupy her time: writing her parents’life histories, scrapbooking, gardening, sewing, its own natural beauty, not try to traveling, manipulate the voice into being something it isn’t,” said Ronald Staheli, director of choral activities at BYU. “She's a scientist, too,” Skidmore said. “She has broughtin a plagued with.” hefle Soft Shade Sale 110 West 600 South ‘Salt Lake City 35% OFF NEW Design Studio 4381 So. HighlandDr. spending more time with her children and grandchildren, eventually serving an LDS Churchmission with her husband, maybe evenwriting a book. “Spare time is nothing I've ever been Historical Society Seeking Nominations for Honorees TheUtah State Historical Society is accepting nominations of groupsorindividuals to be recognized for their contributions to the cause ofstate andlocal history. 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