| Show y TlK" m MrMA44jNM mn1 Guitarist chooses pop over classical By Graham Rockingham I'nited Press International VANCOUVER British Columbia Threq years ago Liona Boyd had everything going for her Recognized as one of the world's leading classical guitarists she had toured the finest concert halls performing for kings queens presidents and prime ministers But she was bored — bored with her hair bored with her clothes and most of all bored with Bach So she teased her hair traded her chiffon gowns for leather tights and plugged in her guitar It was time to crossover into the world of pop The result is "Persona" a newly instrumental album featuri cleaned Eric Clapton and ing rock demi-goPink Floyd s David Gilmour "I was starting to get turned off by classical concerts There were so many guitarists all playing the same pieces" Boyd said recently during a break in a cross Canada tour that took her from Labrador City Newfoundland to Vancouver in less than five weeks ' I'd go to see my teacher (Alexandre Lagoya) in Pans and he’d still be doing the same program he was pet forming 20 years before I want to do something different leave my own mark on the guitar world I've always liked pop music It was just a matter of finding the right producer” Bob Ezrin a record producer from her hometown of Toronto recommended Michael Kamen a classically trained musician known for his work with Pink Floyd David Bowie and the Eurythmios ' I wAs somewhat apprehensive at first" Boyd recalled "I had never heard of Michael Kamen and I figured he would drown me out with all sorts of wailing electric guitars But as soon as I talked to Michael I knew Music calendar Patti Merrill soprano Robert Bradford pianist Christmas songs Utah Museum of - 1 ! 1 ij if n d Bored with Bach Liona Boyd crossed over from classical to world of pop in new album w ith Eric Clapton David Gilmour all the conflicting styles and personalties came together without destroying the subtleties of Boyd's careful technique "Persona" has been widely praised by critics and after just two months in the record stores has already outsold most of Boyd’s 12 previous efforts "Persona" has been labeled "new age" a broad category of high-tecmood music that sometimes includes Somehow h ' An- dreas Voilenweider and Phillip Glass Boyd rejects the categorization "To me new age is something you’d use as background music My music has more feeling more shape more definition I would get bored listening to a whole concert of new age ” The biggest challenge was presenting the new Liona Boyd to the concert world Her traditonal audience was familiar with a lone figure perched atop a stool delicately interpreting the works of Brahms Bach and Debussy The concert tour like the album d has been a success d mayouths line up with trons after each show to ask for autographs “The key is to mix things up Start out solo do a duet and then bring out the band" Boyd says "I suppose I’ve lost some of my traditional audience work" it would Jane ’Jean-Mich- Vangelis Kamen assembled some of the best musicians in the business — Clapton and Gilmour on electric guitars Dean Garcia of the Eurythmics on bass and Andy Newmark known for his work with John Lennon on drums Boyd added renowned cellist o Ma and Canadian guitarist-compose- r Richard Fortin was Boyd especially eager for an opportunity to record her own compositions something the classical world had always frowned upon She penned three of Persona’s song and has several more waiting for future albums Kamen added two more songs and ollaborated with Boyd on another rock Yo-Y- Jean-jackete- mink-coate- Sunday December? The Salt Lake Tribune But so many people have come up to me saying ‘we were afraid it was going to be a rock show but we loved it We liked the variety”’ Boyd is looking forward to spending Christmas at the new lakeside home she shares with boyfriend Joel Bell one of Canada's leading economic analysts before taking the band on a US tour in January Bell was an advisor to former Ca- nadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau another Boyd admirer "Pierre and I are ancient history now so I don’t mind talking about it" Boyd says "We dated secretly for six years He was my boyfriend and noIt’s so body ever really found out nice now with Joel we can be open with our relationship" But Boyd’s first love remains the guitar In February she plans to return to the classical stage with a solo tour of India "I don’t think you could crossover (to pop) so easily with other instruments” she says “A lot of rock musicians come to my shows Maybe they don't like the classical music so much but they like the technique There is something about guitar Somehow it links us all” Fine Arts University ot Utah rompjs Sunday 3pm Free University ol Utah Music Department s Christmas Festival Klngsbuiy Mall U of U compos Sunday 8pm Tickets S3 S2 Salt Lake Children's Choir and Ralph Woodward Chorale Christmas conceit Cathedral of the Madeleine 331 E South Temple Sunday 7 30 pm Free Christmas Chorus Utah State Hospital Chapel 1300 East Center Piovo Sunday 6 pm "Messiah Smg-ln- " Austad Auditorium Browning Center Weber State College Ogden Sunday 8pm Holldoy concert Bountiful Davis Art Center 2175 S Main Bountiful Sunday 4pm USU Christmas Spectacular Kent Conceit Hall Chose Center Utah State University Logan Sunday 7 pm Black 'n Blue with Saxon haid rock Salt Palace Exhibition Hall Sunday 7pm Pep Peters Quartet azz Painted Word 401 S 400 West Sunday Mel Hall Band with the Great Dane Karen Thomsen contemporary music Trolley Square Amphitheatre Sunday 2 to 4 pm Belairs rock Zephyr 301 S West Temple Sunday 9 pm Stanyon Sheet 255 E 400 South Friday and Saturday 9 pm Vicki Veltn Quartet azz D B Cooper's 10 E 200 South Monday 8 30 p m midnight Dave Mason pop Zephyr 30 S West Temple Monday 9 pm Lorry Morton electronic keyboard Bees-le- y Music 1760 S 1100 East Tuesday 730 pm Free Workshopdemonshatlonon mu slcal education with keyboards ond comput ers 10 a m Steve Oldroyd pianist Player's Lounge Sheraton Hotel 255 S West Temple Tues day 5 to 9 p m New Spam rock Zephyr 301 S West Tern pie Tuesday 9 pm “New Sounds for Christmas" new Christ mas music by Utah composers Steinway Holl 156 S Main Wednesday 730 p nv Sponsored by the Composers Guild "Amahl and the Night Visitors" Opera West Sprlngvllle High School Auditorium Wednesday through Saturday 8 pm Tick ets $5 S3 or $15 tor family pass Spaces rock and blues Zephyr 301 S West Temple Wednesday 9 p m The Meet Ing Place 6061 S State Thursday through Saturday 8 30 pm Bop Street Zephyr 301 S West Temple Thursday ond Friday 9 pm Amnesia Duo original contemporary lozz Harvey's 206 S West Temple Thursday 8 pm to midnight Handel's “The Messiah" Ralph Wood ward Chorale Ralph Woodward conducting Assembly Holl Temple Square Friday 730 p m Free USU Chorole Christmas Concert Gerald Ottlev conducting Logan Tabernacle Fri- day 8 8 "Soturdoy's Voyeur" Salt Loke Acting 2 ond 7 through Saturot 8 26 27 31 Jan day and Dec p m Dec 14 2 2 Jan 4 at 7 p m Matinees Dec 14 21 28 2 pm Tickets $12 50 to $25 "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Marigolds" Performing Arts Center 269 S State Sunday and Friday Saturday and Dec 14 8 pm Presented by Performing Arts Company formerly the Players Tickets S5 $4 seniors free "A Christmos Carol" Hale Center Theater 2801 S Main Mondays through Saturdays through Dec 23 8 p m Matinees Saturdays pm continues pm Free "You Might As Well Live" The Painted Word 401 S 400 West Tuesday Wednesday Thursdov 730 p m Also Saturday at midnight "Scrooge" Promised Valiev Playhouse 5 2 pm 30 Monday ot the Movies "Beauty ond the Beast" Salt Loke City Public Ubrorv 209 E 500 South 2 ond 7 pm Thursday Dec 11 "Pioneer Profiles Christmos” Museum of Church History ond Art 45 N West Temple 7 p m museum docents recoil early pioneer Christmas activities In the Salt Loke Valley Continues Frldoy Dec 16017 7 p m “Laser Jon" loser show Hansen Planetarium 15S State 8 45 pm Continues Saturday 315 p m Friday Dec 12 Kitchen Chemistry Children's Museum of Utah 840 N 300 West 3 pm Admission 50e "Loser Zeppelin" loser show to the music of Led Zeppelin Hansen Plonetarlum 15 S State 8 45 ond 10 p m Continues Saturday Saturday Dec 13 "Holiday Under Wraps" moke your own wrapping poper Children's Museum of Utah 840 N 300 West 3 pm Admission 50c "Sky Pirates" star show for young children Honsen Planetarium 1 5 S State 1 1 a State Tuesdovs through Saturdays 8 pm Matinees Dec 13 20 through Dec 20 - 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