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Show 'V rts & Page 11 December 9, 1998 ntertainment 'Editor: Jennie Squire squireinfowest.com 23rd Army Band and Dixie Symphonic Band Play in a Holiday Performance By Jennie Squire sunsun, ti. dixie, edit The 23rd Army Band, along with the Dixie College Symphonic Band, performed in a duo Christmas concert that proved to be one of the liveliest and entertaining performances of the season. This presentation, m honor of the Dixie Rotary Bowl, featured Miss Utah, Michele Mobley, who amazed the audience with her echoing voice by singing Glitter and be Gay from the operetta This was the same piece which Mobley performed at the 1998 Miss Her resonant voice Utah Competition. knocked her gold, horse-sho- e shaped earing onto the floor and had the audience in suspense at the end of her performance on whether or not she could recover the plunging earing. Luckily, she found it. Director Gary Caldwell and the two bands combined, followed Miss Utah by playing a piece by Francis McBeth, A This three part piece Sailors Wells depicts a dark, haunting, and exciting musical theme, which tells the story of Moby Dick. The band portrays Moby with light whimsical music of leaving home and going off to sea in the first movement. The second shows fast and slow jazzy beats that move into all encompassing final movement of suspense. The 23rd Army Band, stationed at the E. J. Garn Aviation Armory in West Jordan, Utah, plays approximately 30 concerts and clinics a year for community, military, and school functions. This special event featured part of its 55 active members who are civiliansol-dier- s from all walks of life, with the majority being music educators, but Candid.e including aerospace engineers, attornies, accountants, physicists, law enforcement officers, teachers graduate and undergraduate students, and others. Army Band Director, Michael Cottam, whose been in the Utah National Guard for 32 years, started the holiday theme off with Christmas Fantasia. This piece featured a variety of classic holiday songs like; The First Noel, Joy to the World, and O' Little Toivn of Bethlehem.. fT "' . - ' f ( One highlight of the evening was a special performance by the Dixie . . College Flute Choir, directed by Launa Whitehead. The group, composed of 12 female two students, played pieces, Cantata, by Mendelson and Holiday Fantasy ... t "I've never laid ears on such incredi ible instruments grouped together," said General Watts, a member of the Army Band, "The group is truly amazing " One ery lively piece, Sabas and Sambas, composed by David L. Holt of Austin, Texas, shook up the audience f with a fun peiformance of percussion, i 4' jovial yelling and Michael Cottam's hip sU.VNKVVS St R ICES shaking moves. The crowds favorite piece was per- The 23rd Army Band performed in the Avenna Center in honor of the annual Rotary Bowl formed by Larry Wadsworth's, entitled events. The Typewriter, by Leroy D91s DJ auction Anderson. Wadsworth a the crowd gave on Thursday, December 10 at noon U A- laugh by practicing 'yTTT"' in the Gardner Center Ballroom .Uu.e. o ait wJe New l llw finger exercises and AtXAs f or LOG to rv.d dance - - - . tirr?. U I 4 h t jokingly prepping for his concert on the typewriter. Cottam would say, "Give me an A," hoping to help get Wadsworth geared for his spectacular presentation. It was truly amazing to hear the choreography of the army will benefit Dixies Angel Tree fund. Flowers and Fooc HUGE Kjrok C ?d$Ud Crowd Sponsored Praaa A trSgaAnw Dances band and typewriter simultaneously playing and all the while Wadsworth is building the rhythm to a faster and faster pace. Guest director, Denny Saunders, a UVSC music student, led the band with an enthusiastic performance of King Cotton. Following the piece the Army Band Quintet played. The Quintet features two trumpets, a french horn, a trombone, and an Euponium. Soloist, Matt Dean, along with the Quintet gave an outstanding performance. The audience was gasping for breath when Dean, on the trumpet, looked as if he was going to pass out from lack of air. His technique and style were wonderful. The audience was very much apart of the evenings presentation. Everyone in the Avenna Center sang a chorus of age old Christmas song. The evening was finished off with the announcement of Steve Stout and Norm Wendel's retirement. Norm Wendel directed the 23rd Army Band in The Star Spangled Banner. His final performance was spectacular . The band showed an exuberant performance and the audience followed with a long standing ovation. PICK HER UP EMPTY HANDED AND YOU COULD END UP A WALLFLOWER. SO START THINGS OFF RIGHT. GIVE HER A NICE CORSAGE AND SHELL BE BY YOUR SIDE ALL NIGHT LONG. (Eameo Hoorn HUoriBt "Flowers For All Occasions" (435) 628-26695 EAST TABERNACLE ST. GEORGE, UTAH 84770 32 |