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Show . ... THE ARTS T~ UNIVE9.S1TY roURNAL • SOUTHERN U TAH UNIVERSITY • FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1998 AND ENTERTAIN MENT ~·~ ><. An O Qk R 1•age d ay L"J.1 CV • ),._ • • hf Say what you will about the Oak Ridge Boys and country music in general, but they do know how to put on a concert. Riding the crest of their 25th anniversary tour, the Oak Ridge Boys (below) entertained southern Utahns last night in the Centrum. Performing some of their biggest bits, as well as a few lesser known favorites, they had fans rocking and dancing to all of them. Local band "the Younger Brothers" (right) opened the concert, and they served well in exciting the audience into an Oak Ridge frenzy. One could tell they had a following in the area, because of the volume of applause when they came on, and left the stage. Earlier in the day, members of the Oak Ridge Boys spoke at Convocation while (belo w right) children's book author and lead singer Jon Bonsall signed copies of his books at the SUU Bookstore for such fans as Char Gilbreth, a sophomore from Las Vegas, Nev.• maiorjng in family and consumer sciences. and Chad Stone, a freshman elementary education major from Sandy. DJg Display features faculty art By JIM ROBIN SON CAM UPS EDITOR Bart Shanklin leads the men of Concert Choir in a song they will sing at the Dixie Center in St. George at 8 p.m this evening. Choirs to sing at Dixie By VERONICA GARNER SENIOR STAFF WRITER This everung, SUU Concert Choir, and Opus will be performing at the Utah Music Educator Association (UMEA) Mid-Winter Conference in St. George. "It is a great honor for these groups to be invited t0 perform at this event, along with University of Utah's wind ensemble," said Ban Shanklin, music department chair. "Each year, only select groups are invited to perform. We're very excited to be presenting our musical groups." Some 700 music teachers from across the state, at both secondary and university levels, will be attending the annual conference this weekend at the Dixie College Dixie Center. During the two-day conference, the educarors will be attending workshops and sharing ideas. Concen choir will be performing several different pieces for the conference, including "Exsultate Justi," by John Williams, and Opus, a chamber choir, will sing"My Spirit Sang All Day, 11 by Gerald Finzi, along with other music selections from the renaissance period. Shanklin stated that students are welcome to come and watch the groups perform in the Dixie Center at 8 p.m.; there will be an admission fee. Art created by using computer m anipulation and photocopying, plus recent works by faculty members of the SUU art department, are now on display at the Braithwaite Pine Arts Gallery . Both of the exhibits will run through Feb. 27 at the gallery located in the Braithwai te Liberal Arts Center on the upper SUU campus. Admission is free. The Gallery is open from noon-7 p.m. Monday th rough Friday. "The faculty exhibit has become a popular tradition at the university," Lydia Johnson, director of museums and galleries at SUU, explains. "There is considerable community interest in what is being created by members of t):ie art department faculty. Each year the exhibit represents an interesting diversity oi media and approaches." About SO works are expected in the faculty exhibit. Among the participating artists are Perry Stewart, ch airman of the art department, Arlene Braithwaite, Eric Brown, Susan Harris and Ph il He rmansen. 11 Artists in the Copy Center" is the title of a second exhibit, which was o rganized by Wayne Ch ubin, a Salt Lake City artist. 27 Utah artists were in vited to create w orks of art which in corporate m edia developed fo r com mercial business purposes. Among the imaging techn iques the artists adapted to their works were compu ter manipula tions and a variety of photocopies. "T he ability and compulsion of artists to adapt and exploit non-traditional art media to express and communicate is demonstrated in this interesting exhibit," Johnson said. "Essentially, the artists have used office technology fo r their unique art creations. Materials and services for the exhibit were donated by Kinko's Inc." The exhibit is being sponsored in part by the Utah Arts Council Traveling Exhibition Program. As a sidelight to the copy center exhibit, gallery visitors will have an opportunity to create their own works of art utilizing office equipment which will be available at the gallery. "Xerox and Colette Cox, a sales representative for Xerox, have helped us add a little fun to the exhibit, 11 Johnson said. " People should enjoy a chance to express themselves through copy center art, .'The faculty exhibit has become a popular tradition,' said Lydia Johnson, SUU director of museums. II |