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Show - ---- ____ _:;__ --~ 111i THE ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT -THE UNIVERSITY fOURNAL • SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY • WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1998 .. ~- I Hirsch to give final poetic reading The show choir Centennial Singers will pe.rfo(ln its musical revue, 'Today' at the Hunter Conference Center Tuesday, May 26 at 7:30 p.m. Show choir to perform at SO The University of Wyoming Centennial Singers will perform Tuesday, May 26, at 7:30 p.rn. in the Hunter Conference Center Gilbert Great Hall. Tickets are $5 for adults and $2 for ch ildren 12 years and under, and arc available at the Hunter Conference Center, 586-7850. The Centenn ial Singers are a touring company whose dedication, precision, talent and show manship as they s ing and dance are known t hrough out the United States. For the 1998 season, the show group has produced a musical revue weaving contemporary music into a tapestry of song and dance simply entitled, Today. McArthur Hambrick is the choreographer for Today and a new addition to UW's department of dance. His extensive credits include roles in t he Broadway productions and national touring casts of Miss Saigon and Cats and Phantom of the Opera. He has s tudied with th American Ballet Theatre, Dance T heatre of Harlem and the Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre, and received his BFA from T exas Christian University. He also holds an Actor's Equity card, is a member of the Screen Actor's Guild and AFTRA. Fellowship, an fngram Merrill Award, the Edward H irsch, a renowned poet and lecturer, will be at SUU Tuesday, May 26, Rome Prize and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and for a lecture and poetic reading. Letters. T he lecture, on his pamphlet "How to Hirsch currently teaches at the R ead a Poem," will be held in the Humanities Room of the Brait hwaite University of Houston in t he Creative Liberal Arts Center at 2 p.m . He will read Writing Program, writes a regular column some of his original poetic works at 6 p.m. on poet ry for American Poetry Review and in the same room. works as the poet ry editor of DoubleTake Hirsch was born in .--- -- - -- -....--- - - - - - . magazine. Chicago in 1950 and Unlike several of the received his education past readings this year, at Grinnell College Hirsch's purpose for .being here will not be and the Un iversity of Pennsylvania. for a particular class. He has asked to come He has published here because of SUU's five books of poems which ~re For the. · well-known poetry program. Sleepwalkers (1981), This will be the last Wild Gratitude (1986), w hich won the reading foi: the 1997-98 Nat ional Book Crit ics academic year. Other readings this year were Award, The Night Parade (1989), Earthly by Kate Boyce, Measu res (1994) and a Lawrence Coat es, recently published Leslie Norris, Sam collection entitled On Green, Ken Brewer and Love (1998). His book Gary Short. · The upcoming on reading poet ry, reading is co-sponsored Message in a Bottle, will be published in by the Literary Guild, the language and 1999. The fin al poetic readingof the year, by literature department Hirsch has received and the Utah Arts an NEA, a Ed Hirsch, will be in the Braithwaite Council. Center Tuesday at 6 p.m. G uggenheim It's the Purchase of a Lifetime ... Don't spend a lifetime paying for it. Before you invest your savings in a diamond, check out what Parke Diamond Co. has to offer: • Available financing • Diamond appraisals by an independent appraiser. • Lifetime warranty on all diamonds • Free men s ring with purchase of an engagement ring. 1 Call today for an appointment C a ll Steve Parke 867-0651 590- 2641 1-800-622-1063 P a rkes@ s tude nt.suu.edu Concerto/aria winners perform with orchestra Four student soloists will perform during a May 2 1 concerto/aria concert to be presented by the SUU Symphony Orch estra. Each of the featured soloists was a winner in the university's concerto/aria compet ition. Winners performing with the symphony are cellist Sara Kelly, Salt Lake City; violinist Sheri Larsen, Cedar City; soprano Kara Frost, Sandy; and pianist Ana lee Carpenter, from San Diego, Calif. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Frank A. Thorley Recital Hall in the SUU Music Building. No admission will be charged, and the public is invited to attend. " We will be presenting a concert designed to delight all ages," Philip Baldwin, director of university orchest ras at SUU, said. "We will open the program with Schubert's ' Rosamunde Overture,' and we will also perform Bruch's ever-popular 'Violin Concerto in G minor."' Also on the program are the "Cello Concerto No. l" and "Piano Concerto No. 2," both by Saint-Saens, and arias by Mozart and Copland. Stage II celebrates women Stage II productions presents Women, A Celebration. T he program will be presented by several women of SUU in the Starlight Room in the Sharwan Center, tomorrow evening at 7:30 p.m . "It's an opportunity for women to perform anything that they feel expresses themselves," said Melanie Nelson, the program director and coordin ator for the performance. For the past three years the female students involved in Stage II productions have produced this program in con junct ion with National Women's Week held in March. Nelson said they wished to put on the program although representatives of SUU decided not to involve SUU in the observed week this year. T he even ing includes poetry,stories, monologues, some music and two oneacts, all w ritten, directed, produced and performed by women. One of t he one-acts entitled A bsolution was written by SUU student Darcy Hogan, and directed by Jenny Bates. The other one-act is entitled Th e Most Massive Woman Wins. Other performers include Casey Weidner, Vanessa Harvey, Katie Wecker, Megan Dunn, Marcine Lake and Sharla Lundberg. |