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Show VDAY. JANUARY 22. 1995 BOOK REVIEWS JACK GOODMAN Page E-2 Singer Returns to Salt Lake, But This Time Brings a Baton By Lance S. Gudmundsen THE SALT T LAKE TRI BUNE The ancient microfilm enlargement is yellowing But the photo clearly shows a lithe young manin bell-bottoms, ambling along a path — accompanied by two mongrel dogs, Charles and Ivee. lention the September 1978 article in The Salt Lake Tribune, and Bobby McFerrin responds It Lake Tribune Goodness gracious! It was the now-legendary McFerrin’s first newspaperinterview — written around the time Don Edwards travels to Elko this week for CowboyPoetry Gathering. inner voice” told himhe should switch frompi playing to singing. A couple of years later emerged as a self-contained audio synthesizer. Or as one critic called him 1 Ci Is the interviewer still at 7h during a telephoneconversation Yes. ThE art COWELL S “Wow! Be sure and tell her heilo for me says the superpersonable superstar Fifteen-plus years ago, he was playing for peanuts at Crompton’s, a beer-and-hamburger pub up VOlck Emigration Canyon. On Saturday, he will stride onto the stage of Abravanel Hall as the featured performer during the Utah Symphony's major sea- son benefit McFerrin’s journey betweensuch disparate ven- Don Edwards Lends Authenticity to His Sagebrush Serenades ues — the tiny tavern and theconcert hall — is, as they say, history ‘Ten Grammys. Sold-outgigs to wildly enthusias- tic audiences from “Arsenio Hall” to Carnegie Hall. Collaborations with the likes of classical cellist Yo-Yo Ma andjazz-piano icon Chick Corea Critical acclaim aroundtheglobe. By Judy Magid He has returnedto Utahseveral times — notably the 1988 appearances at a benefit for the RirieWoodbury Dance Company (for whom hehadbeen an accompanist a decade before) and a one-man show at Abravanel Hall “We made a lot of friends,” says McFerrin, reyears helived in Utah HE SALT Cowboy-mus wards ry TRIBUNE ebrush desert of from the high northeastern Ne: a It’s the most important thing ever happenedto cowboy mu: Sic been singing cowboy songs a’ I But the successofthef tement to sayhis stay here didn’t begin amicably. Hearrived as part of a jazz trio hired — sight unseen — by the owner ofa Salt Lake Citylounge. 1985 surprised me. It to cowboy poetry. It tri When the proprietor learned the “piano man” was also a black man, the trio got the boot birth of cowboy music That same week, he and his wife. Debbie, were evicted from their small South Salt Lake apartment. Reason: The landlord frowned oninterracial during a recent concert st Lake City Edwards, couples his wife. Kat op Ih bunchof their friends — W idie ell, Baxter Black and RW. He npton. to yound th name a few — are week forthe 11th annual Cowboy Those times, McFerrin says, “certainly weren't enjoyable — andwerereallyquite tough.” “But wejust decided to hang out [in Salt Lake City] because there are a lot of people whoaren t prejudiced,” he explains On Saturday, audienceswill see McFerrin in the relatively new mantle of guest conductor. He @ See MCFERRIN, E-3 Gathering LAKE trot adour Don Ke ko’s first Cowboy Poetas “heaven's blessing ry Gathering. with a crowd than 8.000 expected Edwards is winnerof the 1992 Cow @ See EDWARDS, E-4 When Bobby McFerrin lived in Salt Lake he played bars. Now he plays concert halls. February 8 to February 25 -— Fae, <a #x\ +} 3 4a? w air D Twelfth Night 3 : “Hmusic be the food of love, FEBRUARY 3 AND 4 CAPITOL THEATRE ririe ‘woodbury Dana Company FERS) 7.00PM FEB 4) 2:00 PM 50 WEST 200 SOUTH / SALT LANE CITY 355 - ARTS play on...” By William Shakespeare fer a shipwreck, headstrong and self-reliant Viola washes up on the shores of {Ilyria. Diswuising herself asa boy. she becomes the confidant of the beautiful hut aloof noble-woman Olivia who promptly falls in love with the “boy” she believes Viola to be! Filled with music. merry madness and improbable passions. Tivelfth Night has long been one of Shakespeare's most appealing comedies. American Express, MasterCard. VISA and Discover accepted. 581-6961. BPIONEER ie : THEA KE COMPA NY |
