Show 4''V''''mtP'WwW16'1 - : I 4 ri ati3altrakeZtibunt WEEKEN II 0 Entertainment Desk: 237-207- 0 Ci OA t By Terry Orme 3 r - 1 I 4 it kK474--k:- 0 r - l'f- - ' THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE The T'ohdineezhee Singers also dance Just ask anyone who lives on the Navajo reservation where the indigenous group has been performing for more than a decade Or better yet spend today and the rest of the weekend in the company of "Voices Salt Lake City WEST" a three-dacelebration in praise of music you will not find on morning drive time The T'ohdineezhee (a Navajo word meaning toater spread out in many di rections) will be one of eight traditional music groups from the urban and rural West featured in this second festival sponsored by the Western Folk-lif- e Center Hal Cannon the center's artistic director and a musician himself said many Navajo songs are sacred and only sung seasonally However the Tiohdineezhee have traveled from their home in Monument Valley to present a public "Song and Dance' an event that has become increasingly popular on the reservation in the past five years In this event a group sings as others dance There also exists a nonsocial "Song and Dance" a four-da- y sacred healing ceremony traditionally known as a N'daa or "Squaw y Dance" Lonnie Yazzie one of the group's six members used to accompany his father to the sacred N'daa and as a small boy learned the songs he now sings Subjects are universal: love broken hearts stormy relationships They can be sung humorously or tenderly and sometimes the words are improvised Mr Yazzie says the "Song and Dance" resurgence is a positive thing a resurgence of Navajo identity "All those Navajo things that were disappearing are now returning Navajo are proud of being Navajo They come together renew our clan's ties dress in traditional clothing and hear the language Susan Auerbach an ethnomusicologist from Pasadena Calif suggests attending the "Voices WEST" programs will find their lis that-audienc- "Retr" box-offic- - ' -- 1 4 C r - 1:1 I 1 1 - az A0---- 400--- iii:- --- -- -- -- -40 - ': - - 43§ ' - I ' singer-songwrit- if i - - V' Z' i - - - One of classical music's greatest hits Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is on the Utah Symphony's program tonight and Saturday in Abravanel Hall Salt Lake City Music director Joseph Silverstein will conduct the orchestra Utah Symphony Chorus and soloists Earlier in the evening the maestro will give the Utah premiere of Mark Neikrug's Violin Concerto (with the composer on the podium) and solo in Beethoven's Romance No 2 a -- :01---lit- 10e From the lumberjack area of New Hampshire Cormac McCarthy to perform comes two shows in Utah this weekend The folk artist will be at the University of Utah Social Work Auditorium tonight and at the Great Salt Lake Guitar Company 361 S Center St in Provo Saturday Both concerts begin at 7:30 pm Tickets are available at the door 00-5- : - 0 J eq ode ro ' ' ktwf'iF a - ske-------- ":- I et--' Music: t ''' ell'7-77:'N-v- 4 t a - '''e—: '' - r 1) '' --- ' ':- -- ' : ' - ' - ' - - Different: Something Midvale will close its Main Street r r ' S while Salt Lake City's Mexican Civic Center (Centro Civic° Mexicano) 155 S 600 West will open its doors Saturday for Cinco de Mayo The annual Mexican celebration will feature Mexican dancing and music with food and game booths Salt Lake City's activities which include carnival rides begin at 11 am both Saturday and Sunday Most of the activities will be in the civic center or on the center grounds There will be an honor guard and the singing of Mexican and US national songs Ribbon-cutting ceremonies to officially open the celebration are at 1 pm admission is $1 for adults and free for those under 17 Midvale whose sister city is Piedras Negras Mexico will start its celebration at 6 pm although booths will be open by 4 This free event features programs students by Midvale's elementary and middle-schoMexican music and street dancing and food and craft booths rVA:F - - tirarl 'or ''' '14 '' ' i f ' 4 k k - — Garrison Keil lor raconteur and songster says he still loves the radio after being on the air for almost two decades Ile's coming to Salt Lake City to sing with the Hopeful Gospel Quartet guided Mr Keillor for the past two decades through 13 years of "Prairie Home Companion" and four years of "American Radio Company" Mr Keil lor writing for the New Yorker magazine was preparing a story on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry when struck by the notion of creating a live variety show "A Prairie Home Companion" was born at Minnesota Public Radio in 1974 tuned Listeners in for virtuoso performances by such musicians as guitarists Chet Atkins and Leo Kottke as well as the latest news from Lake Wobegon "where all the women are strong all the men are and all the children are above average" (The fictional Lake Wobegon it has been speculated is actually Anoka Minn the city coast-to-coa- st good-lookin- g where Mr Keillor grew up It is 20 miles north of the Twin Cities) In 1987 Mr Keillor bid farewell to "Prairie Home" Feeling that the show had become too big and that he had become too much a public figure he moved to Denmark the homeland of his new bride Ulla Skaerved At the final broadcast he told the audience: "I'm going to miss you a lot more than you're going to miss me See there's a lot of funnier people around and a lot of better singers and you're going to find another show But you're my only audience When I leave you I'm all IF You Go Television: The Colorado River takes center stage Sunday night at 7 with an encore presentation of "River of Stone" KUED's documentary retracing John Wesley Powell's historic expedition down the untamed What: Garrison Keillor and the Hopeful Gospel award-winnin- Quartet When: Sunday 7 pm At the Movies: University of Utah e movies are a dime a dozen so it's rewith intelligence one treats teen-ager- s when freshing and compassion That's the case with "Flirting" an outimport from Australia about two boarding-schoo- l casts — one because of her race the other because of his quiet intelligence The film won four of Australia's equivalent to the Academy Awards Coming-of-ag- Tickets: Reserved seats $25 Available at Kingsbury Hall box office too much Garrison and Ulla returned to the United States after a year They compromised on New York as their home a place where The time off— "for good behavior" Mr Keillor says now — didn't last long Feeling like a stranger in a strange land and missing the radio and his audience See Column E-- 4 Looking back to the '50s and '60s is the trend in movies right now But most are sugarcoated remembrances "This Boy's Life" is different The film based on a memoir by Tobias Wolff acknowledges the truth of growing up: It's hard Ellen Barldn Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio star Part of the film was made in Utah 1 CP2'114'4111'' "'te - tening skills broadened The harmonies found in the falsetto singing of Richard and Solomon Ho'opi'i from Hawaii the Ruze DalmatinkeCroatian Ensemble from Washington or Nevada's Shoshone-Paiut- e Handgame Singers will be new to many audiences Ms Auerbach says harmony is in the ear of the beholder it all depends on " 1' t ' 4 i: '"51 'es j I: ' e-- t 1 org t i - A è ' IN 4 i- I - ' - 00go"- k ilt tIll' Tit) 't 1 -- 4- f' ''''''r 241t From sorrowful symphony to sumptuous Sarah Brightman 4 4 0-- 006iStIM41ltik ! 1 ! 4 tt lk S ) : -- AN - 4 1- ' a r: ' t " 14 hand-gam- es second appearance with "Voices WEST" having regaled audiences in 1991 at the first celebration in Abravanel Hall Performing in an indigenous Tongan style the singers clap shout and use intricate hand gestures to relate their stories with multiharmony Also from Salt Lake the multiethnic New Pilgrim Baptist Church Mass Choir will perform religious mucommunisic of the ty in particular the old hymns that are deep expressions of simple beauty There will also be contemporary gospel music performed by Just a Portion a Salt Lake ensemble Brian Hesleph directs the group which incorporates the chords found in jazz with rhythms of popular music styles Chatuye is a music ensemble from Los Angeles carrying on the tradition of the Garifuna culture The Garifuna also known as Caribs Black Caribs Black Carib Indians and Garinagus are said to be descendants of shipwrecked African slaves The drumming style used by Chatuye is reminiscent of the Ga people of West Africa African-America- n - '—' '' ' 'il 1 ' - ' ' S1 - 4 - ' '4'- -' ' Members of Salt Lake City's Cannon 2nd Ward Tongan Singers will be performing tonight along with other ethnic folk groups but also includes Puerto Rican and Cuban rhythms Santos and Luzmila Arrambide who moved to the United States in 1989 are descendants from Quechua-speakinPeruvian Indians Orphaned as children they grew up in the high ranching lands of the Andes with their grandparents Their repertoire includes their own compositions as well as regional Peruvian folk songs Mr Arrambide performed for several years with his brothers in Lima appearing on television and also on recordings Since moving to Ogden the singers have been active in perpetuating their Peruvian heritage performing at various cultural events They were also featured at the January Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko the annual event also sponsored by Western Folklife Center Archie Green founder of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress will give the keynote address Friday at 1:30 pm at the Grand Theatre on the South City Campus at Salt Lake Community College He will also serve as the emcee for the concerts In addition to the evening programs "Voices WEST" has a full schedule of free programworkshops on Friday and Saturday from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm at the Grand Theatre for schoolchildren as well as the public A noon devotional concert will be offered Sunday featuring most of the g — - 'A - ' ' Henryk Gorecki Symphony No 3 Dawn Upshaw soprano with the London Sinfonietta and conductor David Zinman (Erato) — It has to be Dawn Upshaw How else to explain the -- ----astounding popularity of 10"5c14 Henryk Gorecki's Third ' Symphony subtitled the of Sorrowful "Symphony 1 Songs"? This recording v I has sold more than 250000 v 1 copies (most of them in I t 1 t Great Britain) dominated t'' i ' US and British classical — charts for nearly a year and even peaked at No 6 on Britain's pop charts A video — directed by Peter Sellars no less — is due soon The symphony composed in 1976 and recorded three times before now is hardly the sort of music let alone a crossone expects to become a over hit For one thing it has grim associations with the Holocaust the song in the central movement comes from a few lines scratched on the wall of a Polish girl It is Gestapo prison by an the And an hour performance is long though nearly good it is decidedly short on fireworks: The first ostinato movement is little more than a crawling resolutely up the scale and finally back again with a short song in the middle The single best thing about this recording is Miss Upshaw whose radiant voice brings life and color to the mostly gray tonal landscape (Anyone who heard the soprano's recent Logan recital can attest to her first-rat- e musicality) One can only hope that the Gorecki Third phenomenon piques listeners' interest in other classical recordings — such as Miss Upshaw's two Grammy-winnin- g f do- - - -: cultural experience and personal taste How people sing has a direct correlation to their heritage The tunes and vocal delivery found in American Indian music may seem repetitious to the untrained ear but Ms Auerbach says the careful listener can delight in following the intensity of the tune "Their strongly accented singing centered on the drum almost paints a picture of the dance steps" She said it is also helpful to visualize the singing as part of a bigger social event such as rodeos or the powwows where the Shoshone-Paiut- e and skip dances are performed The Cannon 2nd LDS Ward Tongan Choir from Salt Lake City makes its g waters of the Green and Colorado rivers Where: Kingsbury Hall ' alone" 'E0ST' By Nancy Melich - - o - Pioneer Theatre Company turns up the heat a notch with a fiery and highly theatrical interpretation of e "Evita" which already is breaking previous records for the company Excellent staging and superb performances make this the musical-theate- r event of the season Tonight at 8 tomorrow at 2 and 8 with performances continuing for this extended run through May 22 Tickets $9 to $2750 See review r ' f f:' 07 '- -- - Theater: Atr i 41ti Singing forth with spoken" El i - - ? i edgraA a 71 - THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Garrison Keil lor isn't sure how or when the Hopeful Gospel Quartet was born One story has it that Mr Keillor and fellow songsters Robin and Linda Williams and Kate McKenzie started harmonizing simply to pass the time It was in the early '80s backstage at the World Theater in St Paul Mimi between skits of Mr Keillor's groundbreaking radio program "A Prairie Home Companion" "We have known each other for a long time" says Mr Keilior filing through his memory to come up with the details of the group's genesis "But the origins were occasional There was never a big decision to make a quartet" Yet a quartet exists and has sung in Carnegie Hall Radio City Music Hall the Universal Amphitheatre and of course on the radio on "Prairie Home" and its successor "The American Radio Company" On Sunday the foursome's show comes to Kingsbury Hall on the University of Utah campus Along with the gospel repertoire Mr Keil lor — always the raconteur — can be counted on to spin a tale or two Pianist Bob Fisher the leader of the Coffee Club Orchestra and a regular on "The American Radio Company" will be on hand too "We love to sing together" Mr Keil lor says of the simple joys of being part of the Hopeful "We last got together out on my farm in Wisconsin and sat around for the better part of three days and sang At our age however a person needs a plausible excuse for doing the things you want to do You can't just go off and do them because you want to do them And so we go on tour and we make recordings to lend a sense of purpose and dignity to what we are only doing for fun" That philosophy seems to have 0 - ) The fun of work the work of fun 0 1 MOVIE REVIEWS CLUB SCENE FRIDAY April 30 1993 8 4 0 0 tii IF YOU GO What: "Voices WEST" (Western Ensemble Singing Traditions) When: Tonight 7:30 Saturday 7:30 pm Sunday noon Also free programs and demonstrations today and Saturday 9:30 am to 4:30 Pm Where: Grand Theatre Salt Lake Community College South City campus 1575 S State Salt Lake City Tickets: $8 and $10 available at SLCC box office and Salt Lake's Phillip's Gallery Smokey's Records best-sell- te efforts or perhaps even Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time" which was written in a German prison camp — Catherine Reese Inter- mountain Guitar and Banjo and A Woman's Place bookstore in Foothill Village Sarah Brightman "Dive" : 414' '' ! k if -- WEST" (A&M) — The crafting that went into the making fL eight groups The Western Folk life Center was founded in 1980 under the auspices of the Utah Arts Council In 1985 the Western Folk life Center in Nevada began sponsoring the poetry gathering and has continued to expand its programs which now includes the folk and ethnic singing groups of "Voices er 7-- ' lc - ‘e- - tt N41 '- - - It - of stage diva ("Cats" and "Phantom of the Opera") Sarah Brightman's "Dive" is probably its undoing To be sure Ms Bright- man's debut pop album is but it technically first-rat- e lacks heart The press notes reveal that "Dive" was a year in the making recorded in studios in London Madrid and Tokyo to fit the singer's schedule It sounds like it 0 See E-- 5 Column 1 11WWeiMIT'11MT i I Mk 44444k '4 &--- 54-- mk ks lb a - |