| Show E The Salt Lake Tribune Sunda 1 John Paul Brophy For The Salt Lake Tribune Ihe orld of guitarists one of the more prominent has always By ' i — Brazilian but there really isn't a category to describe it I like all kinds of players — Pat Metheny John Scofield Paco- De Lucia and Egberto GismontiBensusaifs debut album "Pres de Paris- earned him the Prix du Disque in 1976 at Switzer lands Montreux Festival He followed that with Pierre Bensusan but unfortunately received little distribution for either album label Windham Hills Lost Lake Arts combined the two for an 86 LP compilation "Early - and also acPierre Bensusanquired the distribution rights for his 1979 album "Musiques" Bensusan had an explanation for the long delay between those records and the new CBS Masterworks release his first on a major label "I spent six years writing my guitar book ILivre de Gudare by Pierre Bensusan Hal Leonard Publishing Corp'" he stated "and when that was finished I was out for two years touring going to Japan Israel and North Africa When this tour is over I'm going to spend some time at home with my wife and do some recording I'll also be touring Europe after which I'll try to get some time to play the harp guitar I just had built The way everything has been going on I haven't had any time to play it with its 23 strings its like a wild animal Local audiences can again sample Bensusan's brand of music Thursday at 8 pm at the Salt Lake Art Center Sculpture Court 20 W South Temple The weekly Brown Bag Twilight Series is free to the public I '' i'4: '' been the late Jean Baptiste RoInhardt kmiwn for '? '' '' his playing in the legendary hot ChM Ill Paris Another young artist from Franco Pierre Bensusan otk ho readily admits to an influ 111(1 from that great Gypsy Way-alshas been making a name rot himself the last few years vith hts unusual guitar style FFOni a phone at a school in Northern California t here he was ' ') - ' - : 4' - 7' ':'14 ' t ::' 1 '' I ' 4ePte'e7" teaching a seminar earlier this ieek Bensusan spoke about some of The mfluences in his life that led to) his most recent LP Spices I started with studies in classical piano kyhen I was seven" he I said and when I was taught self how to) play guitar We were living in a rough neighborhood where no one liked hearing the piano so) my parents sold it and bought a guitar to keep up my interest in music With no lessons Ion guitar my playing had a keyboard approach that is still with r :::: ' g 4 4 ' ''c" 4 Is''4 4 :''':'''-!- :r 4: 444471 44ti-- o ":t 'tt'''''' el t1 Ni k :$4 p 1 " 40: 1"44 902 -- : 6 ' V 5i i :::V' i: : '' ''''''H:- i '': "Iiit ft44 4::: 'Hy :::::!i::' i T' '' ::' '!'" I14'ioe': ''': ::fr' 5‘:: ::::' ::i:: :io ' l' I t ü 444o4::': di)644::-:-- - Pierre Bensusan performs Thursday at 8 pm in Brown Bag Twilight Series at Salt Lake Art Center Sculpture Court said i bring something of that area to my music Everyone in my family is also very musical — my mother sang Oriental songs my father played musette the French accordion music one of my sisters liked English pop rock and another sister was into classical and jazz All that gave me a wide exposure that made me find my own world in music By the time he was 16 Bensusan was playing folk guitar in Parisian nightclubs which eventually led to a more active participation in the music scene "I got in with a friendBensusan related -- and we started booking music for a 11ensusan is the featured artist Thursday in the Brown Bag Twilight Series Those who heard him t hen he was here a levY years ago as the opening act for Montreux know of the artisis unique style format augmented of electronics that ith his fingerpicking technique yields zin incredibly evocative rich sound Because I was horn in lgeria the guitarist in North Africa' 'an open tuning yyith subtle use ' '''oe couple of the clubs The environment in Paris at that time had a lot of folk artists and through all the live music I got to hear players like Big Bill Broonzy Mississippi John Hurt Rev Gary Davis as well as English guitarists such as Martin Carthy and John Renbourn The blues and folk styles come through strongly in Bensusan's playing but so does a decided jazz feel "I lean toward jazz" he explained because of my choice of notes sound and improvisation but I don't really play jazz as such I feel my music is more a combination Of classical folk jazz and ''''' '' O'Ai''''' Music notes: Bernstein celebration concludes — : : A 'list of classical music concerts ithis4"eek follows: The Utah Symphony concludes its' 'prnstein Celebration" Sunday al 4 pm at Snowbird Associate conductur Christopher Wilkins leads the :program which features episodes music front'On the Town- - ballet -the Symphonic Free" 'root Suite- from -- On the WaterfrontDances- from 'WC! Side Story : Tirkets are $14 and may be put- the Symphony box office 123:7 South Temple and at all Smith s Tix outlets A limited num bet of resemql seats are available for Po Symphony's program for the upemmng weekend features Sousa at the Symphony iSee related story on this page The Assembly Ilall Concert Se ries continues on Temple Square with free vocal recitals in conjunction with the third annual International Summer Vocal School at Promised Valley Playhouse The Mormon Tabernacle Choir presents its ''Music and the Spoken Word — 60th Anniversary" program conducted by Jerold (Miley Sunday at 930 am in the Salt Lake Tabernacle The concert ill be broadcast live in a program on KS1- TV and the audience should be seated by 915 am soprano Loh guest soloist with the choir in the July 23 "Music and the Spoken Word- concert in the Tabernacle at 930 a m ikins Szinetar stage director for the International Vocal School will introduce actress and singer Ildiko Ilamori child actress Dora Szinetar and Scottish pianist Emily Muir for a Chinese-Malaysia- n Siew-Tua- is n combined performance of "Sunrise Sunset" Tuesday at 7:30 pm in the Assembly Hall The trio will also present pieces by Mussorgsky "Night Prayer" and "Hopak" — and a variety of Hungarian folk songs International Vocal School par ticipants will present "An Evening of Voice" Wednesday and Thursday at 7:30 pm in the Assembly flail The evening's performance is under the direction of Myer Fredman the Miklos school's artistic director Szinetar and coach Peter Lockwood with pianists Jed Moss Denise Farrington Debbie Griffiths and Robert Nakea Participating vocalists and their programs will be announced during the concert A "Gala Concert" by Vocal School participants will be presented Friday and Saturday at 7:30 pm on the Mainstage at Promised Valley Playhouse 132 S State Tickets are IA and may be purchased at the Play- house Cellist Janice Duffey Yee and pianist Jonathan Purvin will give a recital Wednesday at 7:30 pm at the Newman Center 1327 E 2nd South Their program features Bach's Sonata No 1 Prokofievs Cello Sonata (Op 119) and Brahms Sonata in E Minor (Op 38) Yee who has appeared as a soloist with the Salt Lake Symphony is currently studying cello privately Admission is free A reception will follow the program Pianist Karlyn Bond performs Friday at 7:30 pm in the Assembly Hall on Temple Square Her program includes music of Mozart Beehoven Chopin and Liszt Winner of a number of scholarships and music performance awards Bond will begin graduate work this fall at the University of Southern California Admission is free Identity crisis grows on Oregon Bach fest By Martin Bernheimer Los Angeles Times Writer EUGENE Ore — Eugene is an Oregon provides housing money and a personnel nucleus Many of the participants come from other locales however most notably Southern California A few jaunt here in- teresting place a paradoxical place It is depending on one's perspective a ery lug lovvn or a rather little city The area proudly produces among other important commod- lumber Wine fish rain and II harbors an excellent university the greenest greenery in the great ontdoors and a population of 107485 dominated by ruggedly enthusiastic individualists And for a fey weeks every summer for 20 increasingly ambitious years it has been home to a music festival This is no everyday gardenvariely lestiv al It is On its best days a so phisticated project that can comparison with the finest in this ciumtry and in Europe tin its worst days it flirts a bit with local boost eosin and tends to con fuse artistic endeavor with education Perhaps the discrepancies don't matter The large and faithful audi ences alvv avs respond with standing ovations The festive mirage began in 1970 with a nmdest choral workshop sponsored bv the university music school plus an organ recital held in a nearby church The impresario was a faculty visionary named Royce Saltzman The inspired protagonist was an inspiring visitor from Stuttgart: the celebrated conductor and Baroque specialist Helmuth Rdling Bolstered by considerable communit v and academic support Saltzman and Killing are still going strong So is their vastly enlarged Oregon Bach Festiv al All I hrPe words of the title howev er have become somewhat tmsleadim! ities runners kith-stan- from Germany Bach is always part of the agenda but not necessarily the central force This year Rifling had his reasonably enlightened way with three other Bs: Beethoven Brahms and of all composers Boit° The maestro also conducted the world premiere of a conservative commission from Stephen Paulus Otherwise the repertory turned eclectically from jazz to choral to chamber-musito gospel to bluegrass to symphony to concerts In between one could frequent lectures picnics children's programs and mime shows not to mention star turns by such disparate luminaries as Garrison Keil lor and Met mezzo-divFrederica von Stade The festival label usually connotes extraordinary quality as well as extraordinary quantity Nevertheless Eugene sometimes has to encourage the home team while hoping for the best In the process standards can get compromised by sentimentality Moreover the sheer quantity of unrelated events threatens to obscure the aesthetic focus in this context For all its obvious success this festival may be facing an identity cric sis Saltzman is im are of the problems It you'd be nice if we could do more Bach- - he admits in a casual chat between concerts -- But we don't want this to be a cloistered festival I'm not sure we can afford the luxury of doing that Bach remains the thread that connects" It is no coincidence that the biggest attraction this summer was not a concert devoted to good old Johann Sebastian but a concert dominated by the beloved bard of Lake Wobegoty Saltzman has a lot of tickets to sell In 1982 the festival moved many of its activities from its intimate university quarters to the new ilult Center downtown The move made the festival look glamorous but it created a different sort of housing probbox-offic- e lem Everyone soon got used to the stylistic and architectural contradictions of the complex It looked stark modern and majestic on the outside fussy old and on the inside Keil lor reportedly stepped on stage and gazed first at the ornate boxes Then he gazed at the greenand-beige walls decorated with simulated deck-chai- r webbing He sighed and said he thought the theater looked just like a bible-schoemporium Ile felt right at home That got a big laugh from a full house The dilemma facing Eugene on most nights involves the challenge of filling all 2500 seats in the acoustically uneven Silva Concert Hall It is too small for lucrative rock concerts and too big for most of the classical concerts And its vast luxurious open spaces make the house seem formal and forbidding even when it happens to be sold out Under the circumstances Saltzman has to play to the masses Ile can continue to use the stately 500- seat Beall Hall on campus for chamber events Ile can use the gaudy mock-operati- c d t Soreng Theatre in the Hu It Center microphones and all for speevents He can use cial small-scal- e the multileveled lobby for free noontime serenades and a subterranean studio-gallerfor cabarets What he needs and doesn't have is a 1000- seat hall for standard musical fare - he "Sometimessays "we play to 1500 people That is plenty That number would fill most European halls But an audience of that size looks small at the Hull It creates a C011111111 See 500-sea- E-- 7 1' 4 'i 1 I '" - 1 - 4'" 1 NA - :e et( in a '0 t ' - FICUS TREE Basket 7999 Reg HURRY CACTUS ARRANGEMENTS ) Starting at: Mom stOes to tRiose from 6? 1 95 Cottonwood Mall 1879 In 2 7 SI4-'111a - t1 W $1 NOW - -- - 0 Violinist Carla Moore a Utah native won first prize in the 1989 Erwin Bodky Competition sponsored by the Cambridge Society for Early Music in Boston Moore performs the Baroque violin with a number of leading early music ensembles in the United States Canada and Europe including the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra Waverly Consort and Mostly Mozart Orchestra of Original Instruments She first studied violin with Utah Symphony member Jack Ashton graduating from East High School in 1979 She later studied the Baroque violin with Stanley Ritchie at Indiana L -- wArftlAD A 1 ' I ' Ø I kl 995 IV i: 4 - (f1771 f A ' - q' I I 4 t 4 43z e A i''' 1 fJ I Keith Brion returns to conduct the Utah Symphony in an program of the type Sousa himself would have led Sousa look-alik- e returns to conduct Symphony ment was the violin Sousa introduced the music uf Wagner R Strauss Respighi and others to many American cities The Sousa Band began touring America in 1892 before many cities had their own symphony orchestras The Sousa Band rehearsed on the stage of Carnegie Hall and inmany great irchestral musicians from both Europe and America The Sousa band rarely peroutdoors It ippeared mostly in concert halls and opera houses Sousa's Band marched only four times in its existence Sousa was the first American to compose a successful Broadway show — Capitan' in 1896 Sousa created "secret arrangements- of his marches for his own performances These arrangements which are rarely heard today have I been restored by Keith Brion and are -Sousa featured throughout Brioifs at the Symphony- - program Because Sousa's programs very the Utah Symphorarely nys weekend concerts will include a mixture of light classics novelties instrumental and vocal solos with Sousa marches played as encores Soloists include soprano Kathryn Wright who will sing arias by Rossi-Utaand Puccini and Symphony members Larry Zalkind trombone and Michael Vance piccolo Tickets are priced from $10 to $17 for Fridays concert at 8 pm in Sym- phony Hall: $12 in advance or $14 the day of the concert for the programs Saturday at 7:30 pm at Deer Valley (outdoors) and July 23 at 4 pm at Snowbird The Symphony's Plazafest precedes Fridays concert at Symphony Hall Patrons may enjoy a light din-pcatered by beginning at 6:30 Shenanigans Restaurant or Maxi's (Red Lion) while listening to musical entertainment on the Symphony hail plaza The Utah Symphony continues its summer season Friday through July 23 with a "Sousa at the Symphony" e Sousa Keith program Brion returns for the second time to conduct an program of the type Sousa would have led Brion a resident of New Haven Conn is former director of the Yale University Band He currently is a free-lanc- e conductor and has appeared frequently with many major and regional symphony orchestras in the United States His portrayal includes Sousa's conducting mannerisms and stage appearance replicas of the baton he used and uniform even right down to Sousa's white gloves According to Brion Sousa's concert programming included unantimnounced encores with rapid-firing As applause began for a big piece Sousa would bow count rapidly to 10 and whirling around give the downbeat for the encore The title of the encore was supplied by a drummer who rose and either held a placard aloft or placed one on a stand "The concerts really moved they had pace as well as color — and that added to all the excitement: Brion says his "Sousa at the Symphony ' pro- grams are a fulfillment of 'Brion's ambition to take a fresh look at America's musical traditions He has undertaken extensive research in libraries newspapers museums conducted interviews with former Sousa band members and studied old recordings to recreate programs of the period Special attention has been given to a revival of Sousa's appealing programming techniques Some of the facts Brion has uncovered about Sousa include: Sousa was the father of the modern pops concert His programming and showmanship greatly influenced Arthur Fiedler Sousa concerts were never devoted entirely to marches Sousa's own performing instru 40-ye- e a h WEBER STATE six-wee- k 1 or It41 COLLEGE km CENTENNIAL ---!'- c0" LA - b FINALE 4 - s 09 43 otOtt tol! - '2tf'- ' '' ' 1 1 I I - - 4 -- 1: rX14 0 Ir'rt't 't ESPLAIIADE ORCHESTRA JOHN WILLIAMS ( ' WEDNESDAY AUGUST 2 N 1995 16 — 7BOST011 POPS CONDUCTOR DIEFFENBACIA eaS44 ' t ii 8:00PM DEE EVENTS CENTER OGDEN UTAH only $1399 rlORAL ARRANGEMENTS Drastically Reduced t ' 1774 No Univ Parkway - t ! ) ffl414h et 4 across the United States Top musicians composers and music educators coach participants school which beyduring the annual ear-old July 6 The Congress of Strings is free to students who are accepted and is fundby the Detroit nphony Chicago Symphony Philadelphia Orchestra Los Angeles Philharmonic as well as businesses and private individuals University Early Music Institute where she earned a master of music degree Two Utahns won spots in the 1989 Congress of Strings held this year at the University of Northern Colorado at Greeley Martha Thompson of Raysville and Joel Belgique of North Salt Lake are attending the Congress along with students from Israel Puerto Rico Canada and 500 So Tropical Silks Provo (Dou Mow n) 1 i 4 ilk I NOW Dieffinbacia tkis: containers ' i' Reg $6995 140 - - Utah native students receive music awards Beautifully arranged in a wicker basket r 5400 S 280 (Behind Blockbuster Video) Basement) 5' 0 ASST PLANTS in solid brass 4 wit 4 t 14-- ' 1404i I o4 '''' - DOOR CRASHER!! —711 2988"i' ‘ 4 vcv it Iktl1rkil' real wood trunks $099 4 ht s":44r‘ 672 leaf first quality' Reg $3999 t - 6 12' Beautiful t 4 I buy at beliaw wholesale prices HANGING PLANT ' V' sa I Silk Plant Liquicitators - ' ' it A i0' a ' -- save up to 70 "4 t look-alik- : - 1989 1989 1989 Pierre Bensusan: A guitarist of many styles Diango - - - - Alik0AmwalPAA‘"aPgoft |
