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Show THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1999 fAROUMDlDAVISl CLIPPER TODAY A2 world tenor U.S., travels Davis 'D' operatic gives Option Legacy new life join its chorus. That's when my real operatic training began, Dyer said. I started watching the performers...Being an opera singer is about performing and becoming the character. The music is fine on its own. When you get an actor and voice you get a whole pack- Rising star had part of Gabriel in Lex de Azevedos production of Gloria BY MELINDA WILLIAMS Clipper Today Staff Writer BY IVEUSSA K. CAMSELL Clipper Today Correspondent The Legacy Parkway may be one step closer to reality as legislators and the Army Corps of Engineers consider a new route, the D alignment, a d combination of the C alternative and the A' alternative, the one most likely to be approved by the corps. We're encouraged the discussions are taking placed said Carlos Braceras, who leads the Legacy Highway Development Team for the Utah locally-preferre- Department of Transportation. The alternate route has been discussed by state legislators, led by Layton Legislator Kevin Gam who has spoken with local governments, environmental groups and representatives of the Army Corps of Engineers to find a way to get the highway built The highway has been considered in one form or another since the 1960s, according to Braceras, but it's been in the last three years a concerted push has been made for the highway, which proponents believe is one of the necessary elements in alleviating traffic congestion through Davis County. While UDOT has had no formal direction to develop the D alternative, Braceras said its consistent with what UDOT has been saving for two and a half years; that the final route would be a combination of other alternatives. About 60 percent of the d route follows the alternative. Some of the rest follows the B alternative and two pieces are new to the plan. Braceras said his department's only involvement has been to provide maps and other information about the locally-preferre- highway to Gam. The locally preferred alternative would be built as close to the Great Salt Lake as possible, keeping developable land mainly intact for the cities. The route preferred by the Army Corps of Engineers is more and cutting easterly, paralleling into land that cities would like to develop as industrial or commercial areas. The major stumbling block to the road has been the amount of wetlands destroyed to make room for it. If the alternative were built, 156 acres of wetlands would be eliminated and that is unacceptable to the corps and environmentalists. If the route preferred by the corps is built, 111 acres of wetlands would be destroyed. The D plan would cut into 117 acres of wetlands. The D route may fall within the corps guidelines and is. at least a little, more acceptable to environmental groups. Attorney Cullen Battle, repre- - locally-preferr- Davis students t help lead TRAFFIC SNARLS could get help from a new Legacy route proposal. the Farmington Bay senting Advocates, said the group may sign off on the road if it avoids the Great Salt Lake flood plain. But Sierra Club representatives haven't backed down from their stand that no highway should be built in the area. Instead, they believe increased mass transit and other options can handle the traffic problems. Nearly all Davis County government leaders endorse the road, believing it is necessary, not only to relieve congestion in the long haul, but to provide an alternative for motorists should be shut down because of an accident or other problems. Gam believes the road is important enough that even if the local governments dont get exactly what they want, at least the road will be built, if there is a compromise on the route. A problem with any of the proposed routes is in Centerville, where the new proposal avoids an existing power substation, but cuts into land the city has zoned for a future industrial park. City fathers prefer the road run west of the substation, where it would take 15 acres of wetlands. To compensate for the wetlands which would be destroyed if the alternative were built, Centerville has offered to preserve 100 acres just west of the highway that would not likely be developed. But even with the compromise, the highway is definitely not a done deal. In addition to the corps reluctance, the Environmental Protection Agency has raised its own red flags about the project. And the federal government could still put the kibosh on it. Last January EPAs Regional Director William Yellowtail wrote UDOT asking the the 1999-200- 0 D HAIR EXTENSIONS Do You Want Longer or Thicker Hair? Call Monique for details The Tonsorial Parlor 405 S. Main, Bountiful 292-620- 1 Classiads!!! Call technique. FOR YOU? A FREE Public Seminar with Feature Speaker Larry knew the business side besides the vocal, he said. He told me w hat to do with business and took me by the hand. In 1995, Gee told Dyer he was ready to audition for Miller and others. Gee helped Dyer make an audition tape and sent one out to Miller, New York City Opera as well as other music people he knew. Dyer was invited by the New York City Opera and Miller to audition. He was offered a contract on the spot after singing, La Donna E Mobile, from Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi. All together Dyer did two productions with the New York City Opera in 1996 and one production in 1997 I have no formal training besides voice lessons, he said. I guess I was meant to do it. I attended a community college in Roanoke after my mission for one semester. My intentions were to continue out here. More recently, he just finished work on "Gloria which was shown in between the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saint General Conference sessions on Sun., Oct. 3 on KSL Channel 5. Dyer played the Angel Gabriel. The concert was the creation of Lex n de Azevedo, a LDS comfilmed in the old city was and poser, portion of Jerusalem at the Citadel. Negotiations are underway with PBS to rebroadcast the performance at Christmas time with actor, James Earl Jones, hosting it, according to well-know- GEORGE DYER of Kaysville the country tournament in his career. at Brigham is a professional opera singer who travels Young University, which he didn't win that year. However, the experience Dyer said changed his life.' It was like magic, he said. The voice, sound and orchestra together. It was like catching a good virus. I was infected by the opera virus. I started learning and buying anthologies. I was into the heavy dramatic...rather than the lighter Mozart stuff. I started learning all the wrong music first. As he became more proficient. Dyer entered more contests and even won a few. Following a competition at the Utah State Fair which he didn't even place in, he was asked by members of the Utah Opera Company to Dyer. Currently, he is performing in Mozart's The Magic Flute in Winston-SaleNorth Carolina this month. Future projects include: Eugene Onegin in Feb. 2000 in Kansas City, La Traviata in Sept. 2000 and Cosi Fan Tutte in Oct. 2000 in Ohio. nnr ii ii ii ii ii 547-980- 0 WHICH IS RIGHT ij-inn- Please join us at the Halloween Harvest Food Fest Saturday, October - n:oo 16 a.m.-6:o- o p.m. Attorney Del B. Rowe and Attorney Robyn Rowe Walton Oct 18 12:00 P.M. Joanies Restaurant, 286 North 400 West, Kaysville Monday. Lunch included. Seating Limited. Call for reservations 298-06- Oct Monday. 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Lacee Anderson, Centerville, serves as spirit director; Sara England, Layton, is the student association's special events chair; and Tiana Tew, Centerville, has been elected to the SUUSA Student Senate from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. England's duties as special events chair include oversight of several annual campus events including Parents Weekend and activities centered around Thanksgiving and Christmas. She also assists with numerous other special events. Tew acts in a legislative capacity in creating SUUSA legislation; administering student funds; making recommendations to the universitys administration; and representing the students in the academic departments in the College of Humanities and Sciences, one of five academic divisions of the university. All that changed when Dyer moved to Utah after serving an LDS Mission in Argentina. He decided to take voice lessons from Ruth Melville of Orem. My first music teacher was as strong as they come from German stock, he said. I auditioned for her...and she asked me, what do you want to do with your voice? I said I really want to sing. I want to see if I can provide a living as a singer of Adult Contemporary music. I felt that was all I was suited fofi She then asked me, Have you ever considered opera, classical music, or oratorio? I had had no exposure to that but through Looney Toons cartoons and commercials. I thought it was cool, but wasnt for me for two reasons: I didnt think I could do it, and I wasnt interested Dyer said after six months of lessons, Melville decided it was time for him to learn opera and classical music. She entered him in a vocal department to consider evaluating alternatives, including mass transit and improvements to His letter is important, because even if the corps should approve a road, the EPA has the ultimate say in the matter. CEDAR CITY Three students from Davis County high schools are among the elected and appointed officers of the Southern Utah University Student Association for While with the Utah Opera Company in 1992, Dyer met John Miller, who was a talent agent. Miller told him that hed been listening and the look and said, Youve got it all voice... You need to study voice with someone. You need a technique. In two years, get back with me. Dyer said he hooked with Larry Gee of Salt Lake City, who coached him and helped him to develop a split up. He said that ended any lessons for the future. Any further musical training I had was in high school and church choirs...Ive always been able to sing and never had to work at it. locally-pref- at SUU SUUSA age. My ideal is Placido Domingo. He's a great performed The toughest part of being a professional opera singer for George Dyer of Kaysville isnt the singing. In fact, he says it is being away from his wife, Clarisse, and four children. It is tough to be awayf he said. They seem to be use to it...I dont want my kids to resent me. I try to keep them involved in my career. When I'm home, theyll come in and listen when I practice. My kids love it. They all love music and like it. W'ell see what happens (in the future.) For almost four years, the tenor has been singing professionally and traveling all over the place from New brk City to Jerusalem, Israel. He has only lived in Kaysville for about a year, but has lived in Utah since 1985. He grew up in Roanoke, Va. singing with his three older sisters, but he credits any talent he has to his parents. Dyer says his father is a radio announcerbaritone and his mother is a beautiful soprano. Music was important in his home growing up; however, Dyer had only one year of violin lessons and four months of piano before his parents ill II II II IIJUUIJI.I |