| Show - It - music The Salt Lake Tribune Winner of 1991 Bachauer contest Melodious McFerrin won't stay put in a pigeonhole returns to Utah I 13 Continued from By E-- 1 JD Considine THE BALTIMORE SUN 110 Where would you file Bobby McFerrin? That question has been tormenting people — music fans in general and record store clerks in particular — for years now Given his Grammy awards for jazz singing it's tempting just to put him in that pigeonhole and let his reputation rest on albums like "The Voice" and "Spontaneous Inventions" But that overlooks the pop success he had with "Simple Pleasures" the album which produced "Don't Worry Be Happy" And now with "Hush" a collaboration Ma that finds with cellist McFerrin singing "Flight of the Bumblebee" and Rachnaaninoff's "Vocalise" the singer is moving into the classical market Or is he? "I was at a record store today here in New York" he said "and they had 'Hush' in the jazz section of the store Which is kind of interesting I understand in some stores they have it in the pop bins and it's in the classical bins" Isn't that kind of confusing? No answers McFerrin "It just means that more people will see the re- lin in the Chicago Symphony her brother David four years younger is also a violinist Her first teacher was her mother Eloise "Apparently I asked for piano lessons when I was 2" the pianist said She started lessons at age 4 and at 8 she won a youth audition and played a movement from a Haydn concerto with the Chicago Symphony The pianist has a master's degree from the Juidliard School of Music in New York where she studied with noted teacher Adele Marcus As winner of the Washington International Competition for Pianists she made her solo debut at Washington's Kennedy Center in 1988 Other honors include the Best Accompanist Award at the 1986 Tchaikovsky International Violin Competition This weekend's programs with the Utah Symphony will also include Massenet's Overture to "Phedra" Hindemith's Yo-Y- o "Sym- on Metamorphoses Themes by Weber" and Strauss' "Death and Transfiguration" phonic Associate conductor Kirk Muspratt who is also affiliate conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony will lead the orchestra in his last scheduled Utah Symphony ap- cord" categories don't mean much to this singer "I never thought of myself as a pop performer or a classical one" he said "In the beginning I thought of myself as a jazz singer because I was singing a lot of jazz But even then I always had my sights on just music in general" Perhaps that's why it's so easy for him to distance himself from the extreme reactions — positive and negative — that sprang up in the wake of "Don't Worry Be Besides pearances Concerts are Friday and Saturday at 8 pm in Symphony Hall 123 W South Temple Tickets are $10 to $30 with $5 student tickets Mr Muspratt will give lectures at 7:15 both nights The program will also be presented as a Finishing Touches dress rehearsal Friday at 11 am Tickets are $6 pre-conce- rt Happy" a song that was embraced by George Bush (over McFerrin's objections) and attacked by Public Enemy (in the single "Fight the Sunday March 1 birthday and I loved it So I've been doing some guest conducting and I decided that if I can conduct about 15 to 20 orchestras a year I'd be happy" McFerrin admits that he doesn't have a lot of time to devote to studying orchestral scores iliti t 4441 111-44 - 1 i 1 fe--stiltt- f GLOP! 0 it Lt-Laii- ifql ' Fun to McFerrin's way of thinking should be at the heart of That's not to say that all music should be and frivolous of course Far from it But what he asks is wrong with actively enjoying the act of mak- Pura-S- Championships' ki Jackson Hole Ski Area 3fl7 7312292 making t Morch d light-hearte- Town Downhill 'Combined' - Snow Xing Ski Area:307-733443- March 14 ing music? - Dual Slalom Race ' "I talk about Mozart along these very lines" McFerrin said "I say 'How can you say that when you listen to Mozart and this guy's having so much fun with music?' It's amazing He's just beside himself with joy in his music You're saying I'm having too much fun? You should go check Mozart" McFerrin's interest in Mozart goes beyond that The singer has spent the last several summers at Tanglewood studying conducting "It was a fantasy" he said "I did it the first time for my 40th -- 141arch ken Snov: King Ski Jackson Hole Cowboy Ski Challenge 15 14 r - Jadtson Hole Sid ken Judcon Hole Rodeo Grounds Base of Snow King Mountain 12h Annual Marc1115 'Super 0" - USSA - 21 - Race Intermountain Division Championships ken Snow King Ski 20 Celebrity Ski Extravaganza - - ' Jackson Hole Ski Area March 2t- - 22 ' Torghee Ski ken Grid litardl 19 - 20 ' Pro Am Dual Slalom Race ' - Giant Slalom Race ' 1 - - tOSA Intermountain Division - tharnplo'nships Snow King Ski kea 11)Nic()LLINs - f7 ''''' 0 u UULA-11- ' March 7 - 8 music-- ' - 11'147!8- LI 'd ' troto u0122' n Li Li that" wkfyylid Ift ipPrinr11L"I rit:dritlir:e?Illp8p17012rri N'' - - 9 can you not smile when you're conducting something like the 2nd movement of Tchaikovsky's 6th or the Eine kleine Nachtmusik? "I mean I smile and the reaction I get from the musicians is 'Oh it's so wonderful to see a conductor smiling on the podium!'" IMIflIMIMINEEMEMEEMO "It was just a very simple tune that I wrote one day out of the blue" he said "It took off People latched onto it it was played to death Most people don't think of me beyond that In fact it would surprise you how many people think I'm from Jamaica just because I used that accent in the tune Especially now that I have dreadlocks "Certainly there's been some backlash" he acknowledged "But what amazes me the snost is the backlash I get from people who think that I have too much fun onstage They can't take me seriously because I have too much fun That blows me away Like I've got to tone my fun down a little bit I've actually read articles about : 0 "Even in the conducting I like to have fun" he said "One of my teachers says 'Oh you shouldn't smile because if you smile they won't take you seriously' Now how can you not smile when you're conducting the third movement of Beethoven's 7th Symphony? 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