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Show Tabernacle Choir To Kick Off "Spirit Of Dixie" A pops concert by the world famous Mormon Tabernacle Choir will kick off St. George's "Spirit of Dixie" celebration, according to, Cheryl Vause, executive director for the event. The concert, which will be the Celebration's free gift to the community, will be presented in the Dixie Center Burns Arena on February 23, at 7:30 p.m. "The 'Spirit of Dixie' celebration is a host of late winter and early spring activities under one exciting umbrella," said Vause. "It replaces the previous years' "Dixie Secession," but spans a much greater time frame. We are also activities scale." producing the larger on a much The events, under the sponsorship of Dixie College, the Washington County School District, St. George City, and the Chamber of Commerce, are designed to help promote the beautiful St. George area and give residents and visitors some additional activities in which to participate. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir Concert, free to the public on a first come' - first served basis, will feature a variety of popular music, Celebrity Concert Series Presents "Carmetjlf Michelle Picklesimer Staff Writer The Western Opera including broadway style tunes, patriotic numbers, Theatre is proud to present "Dixie, and a grand finale the musical "Carmen." The opera is about a that will leave everyone young girl, Carmen, who gets into trouble with the law and Finale," she said, "the flirts her way out of going to Tabernacle Choir will be jail. Don Jose, the guard who joined by the Dixie College freed her, is taken to jail and Chamber and Concert Choirs, released a month later to find and the Southwest Symphonic Carmen waiting for him. Chorale, and the choirs from Carmen convinces Don Jose to Pine View and join her band of smugglers, Dixie, Hurricane High Schools. The and desert the army. Don Jose combined choirs will sing is unhappy with the outlaw's under the direction of Ron way of life, but he doesn t Wilcott, choral director at want to leave Carmen. I think it will Dixie College. One night, when Don be one of the most exciting, Jose is left to guard the loot, memorable evenings of the Micaila, a young girl who Don if. V,- i V,V standing, affirmed Vause. "For the Grand year," Vause concluded. Prior to the concert will be a Salmon Bake Dinner with the Tabernacle Choir in the Smiths Convention Hall and Dixie Center Patio. Cost of the dinner is $9.50 per person and includes a ticket in the reserved seating section for the concert. Moreover, a special "Good Dixie Morning Breakfast" will be hosted the next day on February 24, at Continued on Page 12 'ik V v . "X ' Vi- Jose's mother suggests he marry, comes to beg him to return to his dying mother. He leaves with Micaela, telling Carmen that he will see her again. Later, when Don Jose comes back. Carmen is seeing I someone else. He begs her to flee with him, but she refuses. 'A performer fromBIzet's Carmen", the Western 0p In frustration he draws a knife Theatre production for the 1989-9- 0 National Tour. and stabs her. She sinks to Photo Cradlt: Larry Markla sale at the Dixie Center: the ground, mortally performed on Saturday, wounded. February 17, at 8:00, in the Office. This musical will be Dixie Center. Tickets are on ' rmrismm Sttfdent&FRE hir jhku3 |