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Show The Salt Lake Tribune Lets Loose In S.L. Show By Lance S. Gudmundsen } AKE Facing less-than-packed HE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Whatever misconceptions any one may have had about Lenny Kravitz before his performance Monday night at Abravanel Hall were washed away in a tide of poppyfunk. gentle soul and more funk Kravitz's so-called retro style isn't a cold copy of decades past Instead, he has borrowedthosein fluences and created his own ex pression. At his funky best, Kravitz played the and is at once heart-wrenching String Quartet was joined by pia- Cardon’s playing was particularly nist Akiko Nakamura in two mainstays of the romantic reper- and apprehensive. Cellist Karen houses. the organizers of two con memorable, good sports. Thank you for comingout for movement and while collaborat ing with violinists Rosalee Keddington and John Englund andvi certs on Super Bowl Sunday were By Martin Renzhofer dreadlocks flying. Super Playing Bowls Over Audiences our Super Bow! music,” said Au both in the solo first olist Lynn Rilling in the tension- drey Terry in prefacing the last in a series of four concerts present fraught second movement Consortium in Nunemaker Place made his home in Utah for a dozen years before his death in 1984 ed by the Contemporary Music on the campus of Westminster College of Salt Lake City Later that afternoon, Gerald Elias of the Abramyan String Quartet told an audienceofabout 100 at the Salt Lake Art Center that the Super Bowl folks — fearing a slump in ticket sales — called to ask us to change our Three Movements for Five Winds” by Ramiro Cortes, who was highlighted by playful exchanges by The Prevailing Winds ensemble: flutist Laurel Ann Mauer, oboist Amy Brough, clari- pieceband, completewith sax and cal concert left disgruntled fans. exotic birds from atop their limbs trumpet. grooved around him Just the opposite The CMC's final in a rain forest Kravitz worked and reworked rapid. low-rumble chueka™ guitar. ‘‘chucka This allowed the band, whichfeaturedlead guitar ist Craig Ross, to take each song such as Tunnel Vision’ or “Rock and Roll Is Dead” and “Are You Going My Way.” wherever it fan cied in swirling colors of sound In his personal, acoustic mo. ments, “Can't Get You Off My Mind” or “What Goes Around the tempo may havebeen slower salute to Utah's Statehood Centennial be- gan liams’ with 26-year-old Jay Wil “Taiko Rhythms,” based on dance music of the ancient Japa- nese festival of the dead, Ryun Louie’s precise. subtle drumming — first with flutist Kristen Gygi was especially intriguing. The 4- and seusuous third movement Bossert. tet No, 3 is subtitled Ann Hankinson’s String Quar- “Lament(s) Keddington, Harlow and Terry joined Mossinthis elegant eloquent and genuinely listener. Fauré — joined the ensemblefor soon dissipated as the ensemble and the guest artist took the audience on an almost-magical jour- ney — at times haunting or pascoordination between the strings andthe pianist. All carriedit off with style, polish and aplomb $2.00 Before 6 PM Walt Disney Family Fun JUMANSI(PG) 5:20 7:30 9:40 * MR. HOLLAND'S OPUS (PG) 6:35 9:35 GRUMPIER OLD MEN (PG-13) 5A5 7:15 9:25 TOY STORY (G) 5:00 7:00 9:00 * EYE FOR AN EYE (8) 5:40 7:25 9:30 txy SENSE & SENSIBILITY (Pa) don't want to get hurt 4:40 4:30 BPP h) Twa toeoosoen) 40.00 DOLBY STEREO INO PASSES) His plea was answered, andthe SOUTH TOWNE CTR energetic guitarist left the stage and communed with his audience eventually standing in the third level, conducting a huge singalong Called back for an encore. Kravitz rocked out, sending a happy ajURY| 42:20 2:45 5:40 745 9:35 a3 [NO PASSES OR DISC.) —— Her JUMANO| (PG) GRUMPIER OLD MEN (PG13) + SCREAMERS(R) * BIG BULLY (Pq) * SABRINA (R) group into thefalling snow. BIO-DOME (PG13) toTH T ll shows $1.50 before 6PM SUDDEN DEATH (R) oll shows $4.50 all doy ‘* Wheelchair accessible SEVEN HEAT (R) * EYE FOR AN EYE (R) 12 MONKEYS (R) BALTO\) band was highlighted by a cellist. who took the place of a lead guitar, leaving the guitarist to play more rhythmthanlead Poe's voice and range are suited to moody, atmosphericpieces. For now, she may lack that cer- tain stage spark. but she is also someoneto keep an eye on “TOM OPEN YEAR ROUND SAT. & SUN 9 AM TO 3 PM FOR INFO. CALL 973-6060 incense — preacher Lenny con- “FI Still. her debut songs, Away.” “Dolphin” and “Trigger Happy Jack.” are well-crafted HUCK” (PG) 5:45 7:45 ) OCIMeet SAT. AT 9:15 PMI jay's Showtimes Only! 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And while her performance provided flashes of promise, Poe requires morestage experience and small Richard Dreyfuss Mr. Holland’s note-perfect. yeoman service throughout the piece, whosehall- and harpist Lynette Wardle vered The textures saxman Harold mosphere Withthestageset up to resem- First performedin Utah a year ago Jeff Manookian’s four-movement Quintet for Piano and Strings gets better with every hearing. Pianist Jed Moss did minute piece also called on the but the band’s intensity never wa: ing hot for “Freedom Train” or offering introspective solos drenched in 2 a.m., rainy-night at- the instruments converse — like mark is sassy sophistication, interjected with a 10-minute lush considerable talents of violists Leslie Harlow and LauraBossert andcellist Terry Todd and trumpeter Michael Hunter gave each song addedto the performance, whether blow- as Hall linist Elias and violist Scott Lewis The Abramyan’s other player. violinist Lynnette Stewart — the first-movement tentativeness honey. All played meticulously The piece is replete with playful Assembly ‘Radio Macbeth."* Art Barn Lane in Reservoir Park (1350 § Ticket ited b “The Pinates of Penzance. tre. Harris Center. Brigham Young Universi Provo, 7:3 Tickets, $10, f \tkin and bassoonist Joyce Ma- exuberance and even jocularity Or Tut Year! “Dixie — The Last 100Years," pravanel, Hall ene. ee piano, “Rod Stewart adult conter Delta Center. 7:30 pm. Tickets cool. But her playing exuded warmth, whether collaborating withcellist John Eckstein, orjoin ing in thebrilliant finale with vio- the Dvorak quintet, An. initial concert date. i “One OF THE Best PICTURES the bench was poised — almost netist Scott Harris, hornist Linda heck out of simple, yet hypnotic guitar riffs while his excellent six Unlike Tempe, Ariz., neither lo: toire: Fauré’s Piano Quartet in CMinor and Dvorak’s Piano Quintet in A. In the Fauré, her demeanoron HAPPENING TODAY TESTE T ETT E TEESE EE Ee Ere rrr rrr LennyKravitz FOOD & GARDEN Wednesday, January 3 1 1996 WE'RE LOADED WITH EUREKA BIGAt. 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