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Show BYU Jazz Festival Better-than-O.K. chorale Weekendfestival gathers local singing groups The BYU Jazz Legacy Dixieland Band and the BYU Synthesis Big Band will combine forces this week to present the BYU Jazz Festival, which will continue through Saturday. Directed by SteveCall, the Jazz Legacy Dixieland Band will perform a free concert today at 5:30 p.m.in the Madsen Recital Hall. The BYU Synthesis Big Band will provide the finale ofthe jazz festival with guest artists Friday andSaturday at 7:30 p.m. in the LoganMolyneux DAILY HERALD de Jong Concert Hall. The Friday-night concert will early 300 singers will gather in the Provo Tabernacle on Saturdayto participate in feature The Four Freshmen, a popular 1950s-era vocal jazz the Wasatch Choral Festival, will feature New York City guestartist Bill Charlap playing quartet. The Saturday concert presented by the Utah Valley ChoralSociety. “The thing aboutliving in Utah County is you have such a wealth of musical tal- his Gershwin-style jazz piano. All three concertswill take place in the Harris Fine Arts ent,” said Joyce Parker, a memberof the Center, on BYU campus in Provo.Tickets for the Synthesis Utah Valley Choral Society board oftrust- ees. “And people wantto perform and wantto use their talent.” concerts are $9 for adults or $6 with BYUorstudentID.Call The Wasatch Chorale, the Utah Valley State College Masterworks Chorale, the 422-4322orvisit performances. byu.edu for moreinformation. — Ashley Banks Springville High School Concert Choir, the Mapleton Chorale, and the Lehi High School Choir If will participate in clinics Friday and you yougo Saturday and Wasatch Choral then perform Sains Hee i Festival Brady Allred, When: 7:30 p.m. the director of choral enery Saturday Where: Provo Tabernacle, 90 S. ee of Utah, will lead the clinics Miuvetsny Avenue Tickets:$5 at the door and conduct Info: 375-6930 the combined choirs in three D THE CHARTS Weekly charts for thenation’s best-sell ingrecorded music as they appear in next week's issueof Billboard magazine Reprinted with permission Hot100 1. JamesBlunt, You're Beautiful 2. Beyonce Featuring Slim Thug, Check On 4.Nelly FeaturingPaul Wall, Ali & Gipp, Grill 5. Mary J. Blige, Be Without You 6. T-Pain Featuring Mike Jones,I'm N Luv (Wit A Stripper) pieces they. will perform Saturdaynight. “It soundslikeit mightbe difficult (to conduct so many singers), but everyone’s intentis to make something very beautiful, so] think it works,” said Dyanne Riley, Who.cdndutts the Wasatch Chorale and the UVSC Masterworks Chorale. “The pieces that Dr. Allred has selected are large pieces, so with the 300 voices if you don’t work with le every week,” she said. Riley said the Wasatch ale is made up of people whogre ve licated to learning and perfectingthe art of chair singing. Clyda Thurman,who took over ace as president of the Utah Valley this Choral Society Board of Trustees,said she joined the chorale because ofher love of music. “I needed a diversion in mylife, and I needed it to be music,” she said. “So I just Hot Country 1. Josh Turner, Your Man 2.Brad Paisley FeaturingDolly — Parton, When | Get Where 'm Going 3.Kenny Chesney, Living in Fast Wasatch Chorale Brady Allgwill conductcl tics, and then be a guest conductor and lead the combinedchoirs in three pigces during theWasatch Choral Festival on Saturday. onto the choir.” ion statement of the chorale-_ and the chord sityis to encourage choral singing in Utah Valley, Thurman said, andthe choral festival is one way to do that. The choralealso gives other performances throughout the year, including an upcoming performanceof Beethoven's Ninth Symphonywith the Utah Valley Symphonyon April 5 and 6. Riley said the Beethoven workis a challenge,a that the choir has been singing extremely well and she expectsit to rise to the challenge. “They're very.teachable,” she “They love music, and they love ee Forward 4. Rascal Flatts, What Hurts TheMost 5. Keith Urban, Tonight | Wanna Cry 6. Carie Underwood, Jes,Take The, 7. Montgomery Gentry, She Don’t Tell Me To ey 8. TobyKeith, Get Drunk’And Be Somebody” 9 Segre Just Might(Make Me 10.oe Shelton, Nobody But Me 5 _ 9002‘6 YEW‘Aepsinyy‘pjesay Ajieq that are singing them,it will just be thrilling,”she said. Riley said it’s good for her to learn from the guest conductor: Although, she said,it is interesting to note that often the guest conductor will say the samethings she has been sayingto the choir, but the choir is quickerto respond to the guest. “Somehow you havea little more clout |