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Show The Sa t Lak © Tribune D2 ARTS sunday Novernber 1( 202 Winston Opens Musical Doors Latest album pays homage to ’60s icons animated children’s videos. The Doors arrangements evolved BY MICHAEL N. WESTLEY THE SALT LAKE THINUNE from Winston's dance performances a concert format he been work In a musician's world, sometime an album comes out of the blue and just needs to be made, produced solely for the pleasure of the ing to perfect. Winston his own solo piano style for about three hours nonstop in a gallery or dance studio. 1 play everything from ‘Summer time’ [and] ‘You Send Me‘ to ‘Light My Fire, ca, and they manifested into piano solos.” George Winston Will appoat at Abravanel Hall, 123 WSouth Temple, Salt | ake City, Wednesday al 7p. Tickets are $1750 lo $27 50) al all Atttix Otllets Winstson, 94, has been a of oriline at www artlix.org and “Bird | approach each sone with the question: What dof want to say’ I'm working While slower songslike “Summer's Almost Gone" and “1 Can't See Your Face in My Mind” work well for solo 19205 and“Ws. [n 1972, he recorded his “Ballads and eight solo albums, plus solo piang and four of the Doors music is not captured well in this format. But solo piano is the way Winston ay.” said Winston Blues y Since 190, Winston has recorded for MyWild Lave” of Prey committee with me being the final and Teddy Wilson dating from the soundracks obscure compositions like ing for the piano. It's like a ‘70s, when hebeganlistening to recordings of Thomas “Fats” Waller «lo guitar “The Crystal Ship,” “People Are Strange” and “Riders on the Storm” with more for the song. I'm also work solo pianist since the early first solo plang album, said Winston The 15 tracks he chose for his new album are a mix of Doors classics such as “The conceptualization Abravanel Hall [for this album) came about kind of took them for grant od. They're like a part of you from growing up in Ameri Most of the perfor mances are benefits Hall ayear and a halfage, but it been brewingfor 36 years, said Winston. “The songs arejust a part of me. 1 just wil play spe cial arrangernents of pop standards in artist Such i the case with Georve Winston'slatest album“Night Divides the Day ‘The Music of the Doors.” Winston will share his Doors inter pretation with Salt Lake City on Wed hesday night at Abravanel makes music. And heis a true nisi “I've been listening to the Doors for 45 years, sincetheir first album came out in 1967,” said Winston. Hecites the Doors as theinspiration for many of his conceptual alburris, especially cian at heart “That's what 1 do,” said Winston plano, faster pieces like “Light My “It's either that or it doesn’t get done. Fire” end up sounding part carnival and part lullaby. The dark undertone Mostof thepieces I play weren't piano pieces to begin with. “Autumn.” “| interpreted them as | wanted to interpret them. It has kindof evolved on its own. They're the hardest composers to interpret that I've ever tried, that’s for sure.” Winston has a healthy love affair with the musicin his life. He is con sciously awareof the songs that are developing inside him “If the song isn't in your blood, it’s just going to be playing a finch of notes,” said Winston. Multiplex Destiny: Why Some Movie Theaters Deserve to Die and smelly, had terrible sound and ev ehind The Salt Lake Tribune’ s Offices, the Promised Valley Playhouse for B merly the Orpheum Theatre turned from historic vatidey ie hotise movie Wie toa mound of bricks. dank ery 0 ther seat either sqjueaked or sent a and spring tip your be ys sad to see an old movie theater die but J eannot weep too much for the Play house, its glory days were long before my time was happy to see shut tered include the Trot ley Square Cinemas a parking garage/shopping center hehind the theater'sfacade maititainsits historic character as if flashlight bearing usherettes will guide cars to upholstered parking spaces. (in the Bitch ished three years later.) (now hometo improv comedy and a hypniotist act) andthe twin ers ‘The demand for amenities reclining seats, swinging armrests, stadium seating, digital ste reo and, yes, those plastic cupholders prompted the chains to build moreand bigger multiplexes. ‘The older multiplexes just couldn't compete a Sketch view of architectural history among Salt Lake City power that he. this is what passes for preservation) terrors of the Cotton: Look at the South Towne Cinemas in Sandy. Whenthat theater opened in 1990, it was state wood Mall 4 and the Creekside 6-67 across Highland Drive. Inthe nearly 10 years | have had this job, a Jot of movie theaters have come and gone along Oneold theater I do miss is the Trolley The: atres, the rustic looking fourplex just outside of-the-art. Within a few years, when Larry Miller built the massive Megaplex 17 at Jordan Commons, the South Towne theaters looked rinky-dink in comparison. (The South Towne the Wasatch Front. | dont weep for most of them, either, especially the prefabricated multi plex monstrosities of the “70s and Ws. They deserved to die. the main Trolley Squarebuilding. The wrought buildingis now being convertedinto an RET andtan murals of classic movies(similar to those still up at the Trolley Corners across the SEAN MEANS iron railings were charming, and the brown ‘Throw of the worst were the cavernouspits street) were 4 cool backdrop. The building stuck it out briefly as the Wooden Dog, a combination downstairs in the Crossroads Vlaza in down town Salt Lake City. These monsters must have been all the rage in 1980 when the mall opened (One of the first movies that played there was “The Blues Brothers”: the ad that ran inthe Tri bar/theater/performance space, before being convertedinto an Eddie Bauer (The Wooden Dog was one of three places my wife and | went on our first date; two ofthem, the Dog and £.1.8.0.'s restaurant, are now de. bune and the Deseret News changed the movie's Sometheaters, ones with some character and uniqueness, have endured through hardtimes. The Trolley Corners, withits aircraft-hangarof a main auditorium, is one such survivor. Most miraculous is the continued survivalof the Villa Theatre — one of the last curved Cinerama screens in the nation, and oneof the few single-screentheaters left in Utah. ners game in the Kingdome, which was demol So what killed the old multiplexes? Cuphold. hind. Other multiplexes| Jean laugh when its owners claim that building rehearsal lunch areall out of business. During our horieymoon, we attended a Seattle Mari tagline from “They're on a mission from God to “They're ona mission from above“) The Crossroads Cinemas had a good rin even sualties left by our romantic history the bar wherewe had our seconddate, the restaurant playinghost to a few opening nights of the Sun dance Film Festival but by the end they were where we told her parents we were engaged and the restaurant where we held our wedding funct. We have a running joke about all the ca store.) Somechains kept theolder theaters open becausethey were stuck in long-termleases, but the chainslet theoldfacilitiesfall into disrepair. Eventually, many overextended chains went bankrupt and started closing theaters left and right Loews Cineplex, for example. went from being the biggest theater ownerin Utahto having only one multiplex, the Layton Hills9. Some theaters, ones with somecharacter and uniqueness, haveendured throughhard times. ‘The Trolley Corners, with its aircraft-hangar of a mainauditorium, is one such survivor. Most miraculous is the continued survival of the Villa Theatre oneof the last curved Cin. eramascreensin the nation, and one of the few single-screen theaters left in Utah. If you don't think it matters where you see a movie,sit throughafilmin oneof the smaller rooms at our average multiplex. Then go to the Villaor thebig room at Trolley Corners andsee the difference between an adequate theater and a charming one. Got a question about the movies? Sendit to movie critic Sean P. Means: TheSalt Lake Tri bune, 144 8. 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