Show Thn Herald JournalCache Sunday December 24 198D-Pa- ge9 ‘Swan Lake’ is a treasure ‘Glenn Miller’ band highlights usu event BySmanAltn By USU Information Services An historic simulation of Capt Gknn Miller and Ms Army Air Corps Band takes the stage in February at Utah State University The theme is Sunburst Club Canteen to honor die men and women who have served in die nation's armed forces The annual evening of dining dancing and flootsbow enter tsinment comes to life this year as a simulation of an entertainment site set up for troops in the European Theater of Operations during World War H : According to USU's Derek Fhrch who is in charge of the i Published this monthis treasure of a book that retell (he legend of Swan Like Marik Hebrin has written tee imaginative poetic text while tee hatmtingly beautiful illustration were done by Chris Van ADsbcrg Swan Lake is a story familiar to all lovers of classical ballet Pint performed at tee Bolshoi Theater in Moscow in 1877 this great classical ballet with its masterful score by Peter Hick Tchaikovsky is baaed on a German legend about a maiden who is turned into a swan by an evil twgIHaw Mark Helprin has taken this familiar tale and fleshed it out giving us a saga of love and betrayal Helprin sets the story in a land far away and long a place where “tee mountains held within tern walls a forest so high and so graceftiUy forgotten teat it rode above the troubles of the world as easily as tee blinding white clouds that sometimes catch on jagged peaks and musically unfurl " Helprin frequently digresses from the main tale with wonderful observations about real and imagined worlds but he also provides convincing motives behind tee actions in tee story and eliminates supernatural contrivances The remit is a story teat has £tf greater emotional impact than toe bank which must depend on magic to keep toe plot moving What Hdprin gives us in Ms retelling of tee legend of Swan Lake is sad and moving story aboutuve wisdom and human values This is tee fixst children’s has written Hs other books include A Dove at tee East & Other Storke Refiners’ Fire Ellialalmd& Other Stories and Winter’s Tate He is a frequent contributor to the New Yorker tee Auntie Monthly tee Wall Street Journal and tire New York Times The illnstrations for Helmin' romantic tala am indeed lovely Chris Van AUsburg probably best known as tee author and illustrator of 7he Attar multi-generatio- Hampton's StageStop Auditions will be held at die to noon Saturday for its Ford west of Logan and scripts log comedy production will be available at teat time ive an a Honeymoon Soni Barrus is directing tee AH ports are open which day which will be in rehearsal 4 one girl during tee monte of January and include one boy six males and females mid-t- o will be staged Feb 3 through s or early 20s one 'March 3 on Mondays Thursdays woman in her late 20s or early Fridays and Saturdays 30s one mm and one woman in For more information call 0 Adr 3040s and a grandmother Banus at (801) 10-1- 7-- 10 late-teen- 257-733- portray die dazzling beauty of bote the matHnade a recurring Van Allsburg’s books have won all of tee major illustration awards for children's books indudmg the New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Yew tee American Book Award and two Caldecott Mwlil Swan Lake written by Mark Hdprin and illustrated by Chris Van AUsburg is n gorgeous book wMch I highly recommend for bote cmldmn (ages 10 sod up) and adults It is of course available at the Log11 library by Mario Vans Llosa terns by Helen Une (Farxm Steam Giroux 246pp) novd One of tee persistent toemei of tee tee Action's itself of novd is test of and its role in consttncting and reflecting tee culture in ' which it exists Often teis obsession can lead to a brittle a mannered and somewhat pretentious tee at expense of story There are some of those centering But mnmunte in MiHn Vargas LJosa's 7he mixed (Ms and n toll also can Llosa good stay Vargas bag of a novd has many of teose moments uwdl Story-Tell-er rn Story-Tell- er begins In Italy when its scholarly of primitive Peruvian a nanta spots picture of s gramforest tribesmen from me Amazon ndn Msdiiguena The a striking who bean picture includes a staytdkr resemblance to die narrator's old friend a Peruvian Jew wmoH Sit Inrmtna The question in this novd is how and why Sad gives up Ms promising life to become to the extent possible a storyteller And of MacMgueca and tee course it is a meditation on storytelling The tale is told in alternating chapters in tee scholar-narratstraightforward formalist narrative of tee and more obliquely that of Sad as the storyteller Saul’s chapters which are redly Vargas Uou’s philosophizing on tee nature of storytelling are often demanmng and sometimes ponderous They demand more attention man the structure of the story will bear and the The Ford ill hold open auditions from 9 StageStop Theatre at Hampton’s - post-mode- 730-113- StageStop to hold auditions story-Heb- rin Ha show 1940s apparel and military uniforms are encouraged The production takes place Feb 1 2 3 8 9 10 14 13 16 and 17 These are Thursdays Fridays and Saturdays and during die last week there will also be a Wednesday production Tickets can be purchased in person beginning Jan 4 from 3:30 to 9:30 pjn in the Taggart Student Center Ballroom and each working day after teat from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm in TSC Room 311 Telephone reservation may be made beginning Jan 3 at 9 am 7 at Ticket prices are $1993 and $2193 plus tax per person Story-Tell-er semi-sacre- d or Ballet company receives grant The Cache Valley Civic Ballet recently received a $2000 grant from tee Adviaaty Committee of tee Maniner S Bedes Foundation of which Mrs ManinerSEccles is chair according to a news release The funding will be utilized to bring in a guest artist for tee local ballet troupe1! Hiring production of Cinderella scheduled to be presented March 24 and 26 1990 in tee USU Kent Concert HalL The Cache Valley Civic Ballet is under tee artistic direction of Sandra Emile many Mg themes alluded to do not have room for Keith Johnson a Vietnam POW through the actions of Overall however The Story-Tellis a fascinating three men escapes For those three men this is extremely meditation on how one important novelist sees his role in bad news tee world Reviewed by DeriiB Andaman Johnson is listed as killed in action and is a min who wants to haunt those three men whose plan is to find to get teem to destroy themselves CJ Cherryh is s mister storyteller equally it home in ways This isn't a realistic novel it's a revenge opera science fiction and fantasy with such operatic effects is dungeons and Her new book Rnsalka is firmly grounded in complete rivals A flamboyantly unbelievable dens ex Russia where ignorant peasants believe in intermarrying machine gives Johnson the megabucks Ms plan needs wizards ghosts and spirits that live in the house md yard Newspaper people willingly set aside their own ethics to and field aid must be propitiated advance Ms plot and tee author's His Vietnamese captor Pyetr Kochevikov knows such things could be played with tee right makeup by Vincent Price ire nonsense until he becomes tee scapegoat in a young Richard AeUen's last book Redeye is being developed woman's plot to do away with her rich elderly husband movie Qux should be sung at La Seals Reviewed by Kochevikov takes to the road badly wounded only steps Howard Dicus thMi of Ms pursuer and accompanied by s stsbleboy whose kindness mikes Mm murder suspect as welL The Art of Dance by Harvey Edwards (Bulfinch 144 pp) The forest into which toey flee is haunted by a beautiful Harvey Edwards is one of the premiere photographers of a wizard She also is a of dance best known for Ms tee elegant fine art posters of nselka a ghost who draws tee energy she needs from tee tom Mg warmers and worn ballet slippers images that living tee way a vampire draws blood with an equally convey the incredible amounts of hard work that go into fatal result performance Out of teis Chenyh creates a love story and an This coffoetaMe book contains 83 color and 22 adventure almost itnrwoihk to put down Her wizards Edwards images teat celebrate the can’t afford to have their attention diverted when balding beauty form and power of ballet and modem dance Aitftol images of wanning up practicing rehearsals and evil and its hard not to fear teat something horrible will own book in divert teis if tee to your you people performance are combined with brief written reflections happen food or sleep Reviewed at dancers and attention for such trivial things companj directors to give a sense of tee i dance world Reviewed fcy Ken Franckliag bySberonMUler develop er Man-about-to- us i black-and-wh- u ite |