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Show Page 4 The Ogden Valley news Volume XXIII Issue XVII February 15, 2016 Ogden Regional Medical Center & Chamber Orchestra Ogden Opera Guild to Prime Opera Lovers for Utah of Aida at February Symposium Ogden Team up to Present the Annual Red Dress Concert Opera’s Production In Ancient Egypt, production, Jennifer Check (the Ethiopian prin- It’s that time again, time for the fourth annual Red Dress Event in celebration of American Heart Month! On February 27, Ogden Regional Medical Center (ORMC) and Chamber Orchestra Ogden will again team up to present this popular concert. ORMC’s Director of Communications Craig Bielik once more spearheads this annual concert. The concert will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Browning Theater of Ogden’s Union Station. Admission to the concert is only $5, and tickets will be available at the door. Active military and their families may attend free, as may music students in seventh- thru twelfth-grade. Well-behaved children eight and older are welcome to attend the concert. Be sure you wear your red for the concert. This is the only concert of the year where the orchestra appears in something besides black. The concert’s guest soloists are Brad Richter, guitar; and Viktor Uzur, cello, known collectively as the Richter Uzur Duo. Brad and Viktor collaborated on writing a duo concerto, and the performance of it at this concert will be the Utah premiere of their Concerto for Cello, Guitar, and Orchestra. Felix Mendelssohn’s majestic Symphony No. 5, Opus 107 will open the concert. Although numbered as 5, it was actually written second, followed by symphonies numbered 4, 2, and 3. The number 5 actually refers to the order of publication. The fourth movement is based on Martin Luther’s chorale Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (A Mighty Fortress Is Our God) The Richter Uzur Duo is in great demand worldwide, and is known for performing its own special brand of music. Wes Brustad, President/CEO of the State Theatre (New Jersey) commented on the performers, “Two highly skilled artists, classically trained and street-savvy, have pooled their love for music of all genres to satisfy every musical whim while simultaneously leaving an audience to marvel at their individual virtuosic prowess. These guys are the real deal, each a soloist capable of holding their own on a symphony orchestra stage or matching licks with a road house band. From Led Zeppelin to Bartok . . . from the Beatles to RimskyKorsakov . . . from Gershwin to their own unique tunes . . . the music sashays all over the planet and back again, satisfying audiences all the while.” The final concert of the season will be held May 7, and will include a silent art auction. In August of 2016, the orchestra will collaborate with Good Company Theatre for performances of the musical Pirated, which was written, and will be directed, by Jim Christian, Professor of Theatre at Weber State University. For more information, call 801-624-9232, email mpalumbo45@gmail.com or visit chamberorchestraogden.org or facebook.com/chamberorchestraogden or @OgdenMusic. Chamber Orchestra Ogden is a501(c)3 non-profit organization sponsored in part by George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation, R.A.M.P., Weber Arts Council City of Ogden, Union Station Foundation, Utah Arts and Museums, and National Endowment for the Arts. February Fun @ the Ogden Valley Branch Library After School Program – Wednesdays @ 2:30 p.m. Join our After School Program where you can learn science, math, technology, and art skills. This free program is recommended for children in kindergarten thru 6th grade, and is offered throughout the school year. Discovery Time – Mondays @ 10:30 a.m. Children who start kindergarten ready to learn to read have greater success throughout their school years. The Weber County Library can help! FREE Discovery Time programs featuring stories, music, and learning activities designed to teach the five best ways to help your child get ready to read. Learn easy, fun ideas to help your child develop pre-reading skills at home. The programs, developed for infants and children up to five years, are presented in seven-week blocks. Registration is not required. Please call 801-337-2660 for more info! Senior Lunch Program – Wednesdays @ 12:00 p.m. Senior lunches are served in the Community Room. There is a suggested donation of $3 for seniors, and $6 charge for patrons 59 and younger! Special activities such as Bingo, Wii Games, and Fitness Classes follow Senior Lunch Programs throughout the month. Call 801-337-2660 for more information. Zumba @ Your Library – Saturdays @ 10:00 a.m. Are you ready to move to a new beat? Our Zumba class taught by a certified instructor is an exhilarating, effective, easy-to-follow, Latininspired, calorie-burning dance fitness program that is moving millions of people toward joy & health. Youth Chess Club - Tuesdays, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. This club is not just about creating good players; it’s also about creating great thinkers. Children and teens ages 4 to 18 are invited to learn and play the ultimate intellectual game. All supplies included. Players of all skill levels are invited to join the Weber County Library Youth Chess Club. Computer Classes @ Your Library with the E-Team! Feeling lost in the growing world of online resources and electronics? Sign up for one-on-one technology instruction. Beginner instruction is offered on Microsoft Word, Email, Internet, resumes and eMedia. To sign up for one-on-one, 30-minute sessions from the E-Team (24 hours’ notice required), call Ben for instruction at the Ogden Valley Branch library at 801-337-2660, or Krista at the North Branch at 801-337-2650. Films @ Your Ogden Valley Branch Library –Tuesdays, 7:00 p.m. Movie Madness in the Valley! February 16 – Jurassic World (PG-13) Cinema Saturdays – 2:00 p.m. February 13 – Max (PG) February 20 – Pan (PG) February 27 – Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (PG) a captive Ethiopian Princess is torn between her love for the Egyptian commander and her loyalty to her own father and country. Do the schemes of a fiercely jealous Egyptian princess part the lovers; does true love trump honor and duty? Ogden Opera Guild will prime opera lovers for Utah Opera’s next production, Guiseppe Verdi’s beloved Aida, at a symposium to be held February 27. Christopher McBeth, Artistic Director for Utah Opera, will make the introductions and Dr. Carol Anderson, Principal Coach, will detail the storyline. Principal singers from this cess, Aida), Mark Heller (the Egyptian commander, Radames), and Katharine Goeldner (the Egyptian princess, Amneris) will sing selections from the opera to the delight of all present! This event will be held at Holy Family Catholic Church Social Center (1050 E. 5600 S. in South Ogden). The social time for the symposium will begin at 5:15; the music will follow and a light buffet will wrap up the evening. Reservations are required by February 24, and may be made with Jackie McCleary by calling 801-776-6605 or Judy VanderHeide at 801-479-8977. Aida will run March 12 thru March 20 at the Capital Theater in Salt Lake City. Tradition & Teaching: A perfect combination for Valley Potter Maggie Nylander By Sheryl J. Brown When Mountain Arts and Music, a local non-profit arts organization, opened the Art Space in Eden Center this January, its focus was on creating a center for local Ogden Valley artists and artisans to show and sell their work. Maggie Nylander of Sweet Pea Pottery & More is one of the artists featured in the Art Space. She not only grew up in the Valley, but also learned her craft from other area natives. That might not be remarkable if she weren’t as good an artist as she is, which in turn reflects on the talented artists and teachers she learned from who call the Valley home. Maggie is both a potter and an art teacher. She integrates both vocations into a gift for teaching kindergarten through sixth-grade students at GreenWood Charter School in Harrisville, Utah. Maggie’s desire to make art her vocation arose during Jennifer Sorensen’s art classes at Snowcrest Junior High in 2004 and 2005. Though Sorensen was her first academic mentor, Maggie’s father Ron Nylander, also a Valley native, had already taught her to love and practice art for its own sake. A painter, architect, and technical illustrator, Ron taught his children the skill of seeing detail and using structure as art. For instance, he whipped up Maggie’s pottery display in the Art Space out of tree limbs in two days. Maggie says that her two brothers also follow the skills practiced and taught by their father. Maggie honed her fine art skills at Weber State University under another Valley resident, David Cox, who is well known for his finely finished pottery. She says that the skills she learned from Cox have inspired her work. One need only notice her exacting qualities of shape and glaze—as fine as an eggshell. Inspecting Maggie’s pottery, one sees the high standards she sets for herself. Her pottery shows painstaking techniques from using baby eyedroppers to apply a decorative glaze around the edge of a bowl to following the Anasazi practice of white glazes with black markings. Each piece is perfect in shape, weight, and glaze. The Anasazi-like painted pieces, although displaying a lot of whimsy, require a steady hand to paint the fine dark marks on the white background. There’s no “oops” room. What stands out about Maggie, aside from how skilled she is at her young age, is her passion for what she does. I’m not talking about her pottery so much as her teaching. While she may have Jennifer Sorensen to thank for showing her how to teach her passion, Maggie’s passion is all her own. She explains that she teaches children that art is the lens through which they can understand mathematics, science, history, etc. She showed me an excellent drawing of a bee by one of her students. Her students were studying the particulars of bee life. As part of their study, they had to illustrate all the parts of a working bee. The students had to see and render light values on the parts of the bee, that is to say shadowing. Students went through many renderings until their final one was realistic. In the meantime, the students had “seen” and understood bees more than they would have from any science class. That is called teaching. Maggie is grateful for the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Arts Program that allows her to teach in such a holistic way. The Sorenson Arts Program (http://btsalp.com) is a twenty-yearold grants program in Utah that recognizes the importance of teaching the arts in school, and it must be reapportioned each year by the state legislature. Maggie’s brand of teaching depends on the state refunding of the grant. She is says she is also grateful for the recent efforts of Mountain Arts and Music to bring exposure to artists like herself, and draw attention to the many very good artists in the Valley. She believes strongly that art brings a community together. She openly expresses her gratitude for the mentoring she’s received from Valley artists and wants to be part of paying it forward to the next generation. Mountain Arts and Music and the Art Space want to help her do just that. You can see Maggie’s pottery at the Art Space in the Eden Center Thursdays and Fridays, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Saturdays, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.; and Sundays, 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Works by several other Valley artists are also on display. Come support Mountain Arts and Music’s mission to identify, organize, and promote Ogden Valley artists through events and workshops. Each month the Art Space offers an open house to meet the artists and to hear live music. March 18 is the next open house and open mic event. Please join us. Join Mountain Arts and Music, also, on the first and third Wednesday of each month for Open Studio and Music Circle, where artists bring their art projects to work on with others. An art facilitator (either Jennifer Sorensen or Maggie Nylander) will be on hand to give tips and provide guidance and encouragement. Musicians are also there sharing their musical talents with other musicians and the artists. Open Studio starts at 6:30 p.m. at the Eden Community Center located at the Eden Park, 2100 N. 5600 E. The Art Space at the Eden Center is located at 2612 N. Highway 162, also in Eden. Build your dream home on one of these beautiful properties. B. A. C. D. E. A. 3667 W Ridges Rd. Peterson, UT 84050 — 6.44 Ac. | $425K B. 4780 N 2900 E Liberty, UT 84310 — 30.67Ac. | $599K C. 1481 Basinview Rd. 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