Show The Herald JoumalCache Sunday December 11 IMS— PW9 Choral Society to present concert at USU By Katie Breedlove staff writer The Northern Utah Choral Society will appear in concert at I pm Friday in the Kent Concert Hall of the Utah State University Chase Fine Arts Center Tickets for the performance are S3 and are available at the USU Ticket Office and at the Book Table in downtown NUCS Will KesUng is conducted by who also organized the society and gave Its performances the necessary polish to become the internationally known musical group It is today The choral society began as an informal Christmas of valley residents and college students who gathered to sing Handel's “Messiah” Since then NUCS has been ealled a “musical explosion” After performing for only five years the have appeared at Fisher Hall in New York's get-togeth- er Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts with the Americas Symphony the Men lean National Symphony and in two Public Broadcasting" Sendee specials The NUCSis currently Invitations from the National Orchestra of Brazil The National Orchestra of eon-sideri- ng Pern The Manhattan the London Philharmonic The group is composed of between ISO and 110 stagers at least a dozen of whom are profusions! singers — fctf their living in Ihe world dl music Thee are known for PhUharmottia clarity cleanliness and The Northern Utah Choral Society will perform in concert Friday' warmth of sound which is Carlos Sabedo is con'1 reminiscent of the EngHsh older the master harpist in the choral tradition hut with more woril After studying with mature women voices aproz-imatf- gofer n—tu iM the effect of English Adens Bradley harpist for the choirboys The centerpiece of the Choral Utah Symphoiy After her ’s performance at USU marriage she lived in Pen' wUl be “A Ceremony of where she studied Paraguay an Carols" written forehoral loft harp which requires an voiess and solo harp Carolyn mUfn QBRWH 1BCMU8W Paxmaa Bentley is being She has been a harpist with fee USU Symphony Idaho State featured as harpist Beatloy studied under Symphony and the Idaho Falls r a protege of Civic Symphony Bentley also hgd ng By Suaan Allan comfort with a neighboring farm lass With the Artist'i defection McMullen HffMfd to ehsrdw her' broadcasting y career and take over the operation of the-- farm herself Her about her charming but not always adventures and those of other fvhFfri rural typos eventually became the idyllic life on a smallwelsh farm It is hard life for a woman to handle subject matter of her popular alone full of impossible weather British radio program “My 8m barnyard tragedies mountains of mnch Country Living In both books McMullen tolls us and the constant threat of financial disaster but McMullen a former BBC entertaining tales about her incredible broadcaster tells even her most har- assortment of animals We become with Doll a bored old rowing stories with humor and com- draft horse who developo a bewildering In 1971 on assignment for the BBC assortment of ailments which in- McMullen was IravuUlag with her variably disappear as soon ss Bertie friend the Artist when she fell in love EUls fee vet snows up There’s Blossom an emotional pig with the tiny white farm nestled on the aide of a hill in a breath takingly whom McMullen has decided not to beautiful Welsh valley On impulse she mate — she doesn't like the idea of bought the farm snd began to commute selling any of her animals for slaughter from London on weeaends while the and sne figures one pig is more than enough for ner little farm But Blossom Artist' coped with their growing menagerie of dogs cats ducks goats sheep has other ideas: She longs for offspring geese and horses The isolation howev- and satisfies this longing by kidnapping er did not suit the Artist who found baby lambs thereby causing panic day-toda- : weB-aequsInt- aaVi tjtm ( a 'k teaehee beginning harp locally lesling said the purpoee of a musical experience with the NUCS is art both for the audience sad the participants The purpose of this choir is to raise ourselves to the level of art" said Keeling “I’m always trying to expand the and the i of fee el audience It's when we climb the ladder to reach art that we crow not by trying to pull art down to us — because it wont budge The only way you can getfeit is climb” But while the audience as well as the NUCS- - will be expected to expand to now BQfllPM the u artistic unfamiliar “1 dent think there’s a thing on the program anyone would have any trouble listeniug to” said KesUng “There will be lots of familiar carols things they can hum along to” among the eives We feel great empathy when McMullen describes the premature death of her beloved whippet Merlin who like aU the best dogs had a sixth sense when it came to understanding her owner's every thought and mood McMullen's efforts to run the farm by herself are intermittently relieved by the presence of her eeeentric psychic mother who was once a midwife on the Australian outback Too frail to help with the outdoor chores Mrs P takes over the cooking begins munerous projects and serves as an anchor of faith and optimism for her beleagnred daughter She also mothers a senes of fri farm infants In her warm and treats all the animals as well as her daughter with hgr endless supply of herbal concoctions There will never be another James Harriot but fans of the good Yorkshire vet will find much to savor in “My SmalfCountry Living" and “Wind in the Ash Tree” Both bows are available at the Logan Library apredatioo 2 |