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Show Friday, October 27,2006 THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE Utah Philharmonia to haunt audience with Halloween concert Ark" and "Jurassic Park," "Witches' Sabbath" from Ttw Daily Utah Chronicle Hector Berlioz's Symphonie The Utah Philharmonia Fantastique, Gluck's "Orpeconcludes its annual Hal- us," selections from Disney's loween concert tonight in "Hercules" and other fearthe U's Libby Gardner Con- some favorites that axe sure to please the audience cert Hall. "The Utah Philharmonia T*his spooktacular event offers "Music from Beyond Halloween concert is a camthe Grave" and will be per- pus favorite, featuring the best of Halloween-inspired formed tonight only. This year's program fea- classics and pops music," tures a spirited selection of said Robert Baldwin, direcmusic, including John Wil- tor of orchestral activities at liams' "Raiders of the Lost theU. ,-. Jenny Lieber Tonya Fullmer, a graduate conducting student, plays the trumpet in the orchestra and will also conduct a few songs. "My favorite song in the Concert would have to be the suite from Hercules," she said. "It has some trumpet parts that the orchestra doesn't usually get to play. It's a nice change." Not only will spectators get an earful of spooky music, but an array of orchestra members in ghoulish costumes will be a feast for the That's Sir Lindsey of Buckingham to you Quick-picking guitarist releases first solo album in 14 years Under the Skin, the fourth solo album from Lindsey Buckingham (former guitar virtuoso for Fleetwood Mac and nominee for greatest name in all of rock history), has already been hailed by • many as a "new pop masterpiece." Well, maybe—but not quite. With the opener "Not Too Late," Buckingham reminds listeners immediately who he is: a guy that can pick a mean guitar with a quickmoving, rapid style that : plays * like a Bach composition or...well, something you'd come to expect from Lindsey Buckingham. And, honestly speaking, on first listen the album sounds much like the gestated stepchild of Buckingham's early Fleetwood Mac work, particularly reminiscent of songs like -.Mac's "Never Going Back Again." On second listen, however, Buckingham's recording plays more like Elliott Smith on Prozac with a reverb machine. After picking up speed with the album's title track "Under The Skin," a melancholy yet enchanting number that sounds like Buckingham recorded in- showcasing Buckingham's ability to employ a quickUnder the Skin moving picking hand and Reprise Records sing a Robert Plant falsetto Four out of five stars as easily as a scratchy postmodern Dylan. •••• One thing that's never in side a cave, he gives justice doubt throughout the durato one of the Rolling Stones' tion of the album is the man's all-time classic numbers, "I musical abilities (BuckingAm Waiting." ham plays nearly every in"It Was You," a melodic strument on the album) or tribute to waiting for true the musical capacity of his love, employs what could be voice. termed the vocal equivalent Among the album's failof a classical fugue—which, ures, however, is the aforefor those unacquainted with mentioned reverb effect, the sound, translates into which makes certain tracks "something really, really play as though recorded cool." outside the Grand Canyon "To Try For The Sun," or inside a recording booth "Someone's Gotta Change without sound-absorbing Your Mind" and "Down On walls. The effect drags on a Rodeo" stand out as the number of songs and makes album's other high points, the length of certain tracks (most songs on the album average more than four-anda-half minutes each) drag even further. With a shorter average song length and less reverb effect, the album would play much better—which is not to say the album plays poorly. It's just that as it stands, the album is shy of being deemed a "masterpiece." Danny Letz Lindsey Buckingham eye. The audience is also encouraged to come dressed in costume. In concerts past, costumes such as a punk rocker, Austin Powers, pirates, the Village People, Batwoman, a Jedimaster, Napoleon Dynamite and the classic Frankenstein have been spotted. One of the concert's bestkept secrets, as well as most anticipated, is what festive attire the evening's conductor, Robert Baldwin, will be wearing. "Here's a hint," Baldwin said, "it's royalty, in a way." Senior teleperformance major Richard Dawson plays the cello in the Utah Philharmonia and said the concert will be fun for everyone. "The music is familiar and people can relate to it," he said. "It's a fun concert—we put away the tuxes." The Utah Philharmonia is a full orchestral ensemble made up of 85 members who were chosen from a competitive audition. It is the core SCISSORS' WON'T MAKE THE CUT ARTOOMSTS WANTED! continued from Page 4 ing bowel movements. His wife, Agnes (Jill Clayburgh), watches vampire soap operas and eats kibble. Daughter Hope (Gwyneth Paltrow) randomly sticks herfingerin the Bible for direction (the word "awakenings" tells her that fish-sticks will be acceptable for dinner). The other daughter, Natalie (Evan Rachel Wood), straps Augusten to an electro-shock therapy machine on their first meeting. And Neil Bookman (Joseph Fiennes), an orbiting patient of Dr. Finch's, engages Augusten in a pedophilic, homosexual relationship. These characters are written as larger-than-life, but on film, their idiosyncratic melodramas have been made too literal to be taken seriously. The Finch family in particular comes off as just another cuckoo decoration in a house of overly art-directed emotional shambles. And yet I pinch myself and remember that someone claims to have lived this life. Poor soul. We're supposed to laugh at a lot of what happens in "Running with Scissors," and we do, but I responded more to Augusten's need to shoulder through this mess and come out unscathed on the other side. That much is convincing, if the rest is not. a.a\len@ chronicle.utah.edu symphonic group at the U. The "Phil's" appearances include performances at the Utah Arts Festival, Utah Music Educator's Conference and an upcoming tour in Austria in 2006. The concert will be held tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Libby Gardner Hall. Admission is $7 for adults and $3 for students and children. 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