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Show D2 The Salt Lake Tribune ARTS Sunday, February 18, 2001 An Olympic Opportunity: The Intersection ofFilm, Sports Could Handle MoreTraffic Is there another human endeavor more suited for the movies than The glaefsport. wth ths harbotes flexing and straining to the ultimate degree,is naturally photogenic. A competition, whether againsta clock or a rival team, is i is its rifices athletes make — the time spentin training,th: sweat expelled and the pain endured — Oe man dimension that no murder eo ae can each by the Utah Symphony and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, plus visual artists, commissioned plays, poetry readings and a rodeo. Representing the art offilm? A living legend: Bud G yan, who has the Olympics for 40 years and madetheofficial films ofOlympics from. Los Angeles in 1984 to Sydneylastyear, will present three shows next February at the SEAN P. MEANS Peery’s Egyptian Theatre in Ogden. match. eee Hewill produce a half-hour preview Some ofthe greatest dialogue film, “See Youin Salt LakeCity, ever uttered on film has been from Utah,” sponsored by Delta Air Lines sports movies, whether it’s the pep and the Utah Travel Council. His imtalk in “Knute Rockne, ages ofpast Games will be shown as a can” (“Rock, sometime when the backdropfor “Keepers ofthe Flame,” team is up against it and the breaks: a Cultural Olympiadproduction by are beating the boys, tell them to go Utah musicians Kurt Bestor and Sam out there with all they’ve got and Cardon. Andhelikely will be at his win just one for the Gipper”) or MOVIES usual spot behind the cameras,his James Earl Jones’ monologue in eS glasses perched onhis bald pate, to “Field ofDreams” (“America has capture the 2002 Games themselves. rolled by like an armyofsteamrollers.It’s been The Ogdenshows will notbe limited to erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. Greenspan's Olympic work,the filmmakersaid last week at the Olympic Arts Festival announcement. Butbaseball has marked the time”) or Burgess Meredith’s training regimen for Rocky Balboa “We're auditioning the world’s best sports directors,” (“You're gonna eatlightnin’ and you’re gonna crap Greenspan said, “to send efforts to me that they think thunder!”). are representative of what should be shown in the So whyis film underrepresented at the biggest sports event anyof us in Utah are likely to see in our lifetimes, the 2002 Winter Olympics?, At last week’s unveiling ofthe Olympic Arts Festivai, the arts-and-culture adjunct to the Games, dates United States.” Thefilms will not necessarily be documentaries, or specifically tied to the Olympics, Greenspan said. One movie Greenspan has his eye on is a Norwegian filmmaker’s documentary on Sonja Henie, the Osloborn figure skater who won medals in three Olympics were announced for 10 dance troupes, four concerts Bartok Close to ooS Heart, Mind and became 20th Century Fox’sstar performer in the 1930s and ’40s. The film gets beneath Henie’s “ice queen” image and“does an extensive, marvelous job offinding outwhata pill she really was,” Greenspan said. Notthat Greenspan likes to dwell on the dark side ofsports.“I tell everyone I'd rather spend100 percent of mytime on the 95 percentthat’s good,” Greenspan said, “anda lot of my colleagues spend 100 percentof their time on the 5 percentthat’s no good.” Greenspan’s positive view of the Olympics — that triumphs are not necessarily measured by the medal count — is summed upin the story ofJean Stephen Akwari. The Tanzanian runner camein deadlast in the 1968 Olympic marathonbuthefinished, entering the stadium in Mexico City bloody and bandaged long after the medals had been awarded andthecrowdleft. “Mycountry did not send me 9,000 milesto start the race,” Akwari told Greenspan,“they sent me 9,000 miles to finish the race.” One hopes that whenit comes to showing sports on film, Greenspan is not the only show in town next winter. The Sundance Film Festival,for one,will be too busy dodging the Olympiconslaught. Thefestival will reschedule to a weekearlier than usual, Jan. 10-20, to avoid overlapping with the Games. But Nicole Guillemet, festival co-director and the SundanceIn- stitute’s vice president(whois attending the Berlin Film Festival this week), says there are no plansfor any sports-related programs during thefestival. Pity. You couldfill an exciting slate ofsportsthemed movies,just from stuff taken from thelast de- Bud Greenspanhas filmed Olympics for 40 years. cade of Sundance films: maybe “Hoop Dreams” and “Love and Basketball” as a doublefeature,or a night of boxing documentaries with “When We Were Kings,” “On the Ropes” and “Southpaw.” Sundar.ce could even dustoffRobert Redford’s 1969 skiing drama “Downhill Racer,”the first movie Redford produced independently. If Sundance doesn’t step up, here’s hoping someonewill. The world ofsports andthe world of movies are big enough for more peopleto join the party. Got a question about the movies? Send it to movie critic Sean P. Means:The Salt Lake Tribune, 143 S. Main, thirdfloor, Salt Lake City, UT 84111, or e-mail at movies@sltrib.com. UTAH VIEWS By Jack Goodman BY CATHERINE REESE NEWTON @ AbravanelHall ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Violinist Kyoko Takezawa happened upon one of her signature pieces almost by accident. Takezawa did not have much The Utah Symphony and violinist Kyoko Takezawa perform Fri- interest in 20th-century music un- p.m. in Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City. Tickets are $15 to $35. Kyoko Takezawa ofthe bestthings I've learned.” Her first teacher, an assistant to Suzuki, “also taught methe pure joy of music.” But while she believes the Shesaid she is drawn to Bartok’s “great “energy” and strong rhythms, and she hears similarities between Hungarian folk music, upon which Bart6k drew method is well-suited for young children beginning musical study, heavily, and the folk music of her Takezawa,34,felt there were gaps homeland,Japan. Takezawa recorded the Bartok and performed it on her debuts with several orchestras,so “it has wonderful memories,” she said. Utah Symphony music director Keith Lockhart, whowill conduct this weekend’s concerts, said ‘Takezawa “owns this concerto.” Takezawatook upthe violin at age 3 as a student of the Suzuki Method, which emphasizes ear training, repetition and parental involvement. She continued in the method for seven years, the last two orthree as a student of movementfounder Shinichi Suzuki. “Every kid loved him,”she said of Suzuki, who died in 1998. “Every lesson was about the sound,” she said. “My ear was trained enormously. That was one between Shostakovich’s “Babi Yar” Symphony, the Mahler, the “Eroica” and the upcoming Richard Strauss “Alpine” Symphony, “we've really given the orchestra a February of their dreams — or nightmares.It's great to play that kind of music week in and week out.” Aside from the well-known story about Beethoven withdrawing the work’s dedication to Napoleon after the general had himself in her training — left-hand technique, three-octave scales, note crowned emperor of France in reading. “For about one year, I had to concentrate on technical skill,” she important because it is “the first Romantic symphony. It’s different 1804, Lockhart said the “Eroica”is said. “I learned it is very, very important to read a score.” Now, whenshe is learning a newpiece, she alwaysstudiesthe scorefirst. This weekend's concerts pair the Bart6k with oneof the staples of the symphonic repertoire, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 (“Eroica”). The “Eroica” is a “herculean” work, Lockhart said, though after the Mahler Third Symphony, which the orchestra played this past weekend, “it seems almost a chamberpiece.” “It's a workout for the orchestra,” said Lockhart, who noted that from the Classical period with its clean lines and contained emotions... “The first two [Beethoven symphonies] are definitely Beethoven, but they are clearly in the same stylistic court and subject to the same regulations as Haydn and Mozart. Then suddenly Beethoven turned on the afterburners and broke all the boundaries ... not just in length, but in harmonic language.[Thi: | Jand the Fifth took us out of 18th-century Vienna and into 19th-century SURVEYING THE KAYSVILLE LANDSCAPE This unusual house is in Kaysville, at 172 W. 100 South, and was designed by architects Hyrum Pope and Harold Burton.Their client: artist LeConte Stewart, oneof the most distinguished landscape painters of his time. 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Holden Street (S05 West) * Midvale + (801) 562-1933 * Mon - re A 4 TIVS AVG S.LNAGIS gets together,it’s really fantastic.” day and Saturday at 8 eRe Oce Rae ete ecmd til her midteens, when she heard the Bart6k Violin Concerto No. 2 on theradio. “It grabbed my heart and mind,” said the violinist, who will perform the concerto with the Utah Symphonythis week. “It's not an easy piece; it’s quite challenging for the violinist and the orchestra,” said Takezawa, who last played with the Utah Symphony in 1995. “But when it |
