Show 1991 Senior Honor Band and Choir heid at CEU’s Geary Theatre Feb 16 Many of Utah's most talented high school musicians and singers will converge on the College of Eastern Utah campus in February to participate in the 1991 Senior Honor Band and Choir The students and their instructors from schools across the state will participate in a two day clinic which concludes with a free public performance at 4 pm February 16 in CEU's Geary Theatre According to CEU band instructor Dcrral Siggard each high school in Utah is invited to se- lect their outstanding senior music students to participate Choir and band instruc- "The students however are the ones who display their true talents at the concert” Siggard said "When they all arrive they are strangers to one another But after only a few hours they are playing and singing as though they've been performing together for years” Band selections for the concert include "Variations on a Korean Folk Song” by John Bamcs Chance "Legend and Sundance” by Jim Cumow and Percy Granger's "Irish Tune from 'JWhen the students arrive they are strangers to one another But after only a few hours they are playing and singing as though they've been performlngtogether from for years" each school also take an active part in the clinic and performance Robert Bowring band director at San Juan High tors Reed's "Ballade for Saxophone and Band” school will conduct "Invicta Overture” by James Swearington as the featured high school band conductor this year Rhonda Rhodes who directs Hurricane High School's band will appear as a guest soloist at the concert to perform Alfred Country Deny” Siggard and fellow CEU instructor Brad Flinders will organize and direct the band's performance while the choir will be under the Russell director choir CEU direction of Wilson The CEU Music Department will also name the recipient of its 1991 Outstanding Music Alumni award at the Saturday afternoon concert The event is sure to draw a large crowd so patrons are encour- April Lancaster tunes up her string bats to practice for the 1091 Senior for the best seats Honor arrive to Band and Choir a two day clinic which concludes with a free early aged Feb 16 4 pm In the Geary Theatre performance photo by Gordon Jensen IWfKl Tale of a bandit produced in “Rashomon” to be performed at the Geary Theater by Kristin Kohlmeler Starr Writer The College of Eastern Utah Theater Department will be putting on the production of Rashomon at 7:30 pm Thursday March 7 through Saturday March 9 in the Geary Theater in Price jBS35’jeaeafiA 40 "Unison with Nature” le now on display at CEU’s Gallery East featuring featured photo They were original fragments of buildings Including the door panels celling designed between 1881 and 1919 Ineluding pedlmente Louis H Sullivan who won the AIA acroens elevator grilles and windows works of art Gold Modal la the architect who designed these ornamental At Rashomon Gate in Japan a samurai and his wife are walking through the woods when a bandit is awakened by a slight breeze and sees the samurai's wife He decides that he wants the beautiful samurai wife for himself The samurai trying to save his damsel in distress is slain by the bandiL The bandit is arrested for the murder and during the trial four different accounts of the murder are explained to the magistrate The four accounts come from the bandit the wife the samurai through die character of the median and a anonymous observer According to its director Dian Henderson the play is full of action suspense and intrigue It's a human fairy tale when it goes back in time recounting a story It adage lha uhe proves the age-ol- d truth is seldom what it first appears to be "It's an emotional tapestry that takes the characters through sword fights laughter tears and ultimately a hope for a better life” (continued on page S) |