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Show 7 Friday, January 14, 2011 ARTS www.dailyutahchronicle.com Concert stresses need for music education in elementary schools • .,1110"'" NATHAN SWEET/The Daily Utah Chronicle The Ladies in Red will perform tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Libby Gardner Concert Hall. Jamie Rankin STAFF WRITER To introduce students to classical music, the Ladies in Red from the School of Music will put on a concert for the Piano Area Outreach Program. During the past several years, the School of Music Piano Area at the U has partnered with Daynes Music, Rotary International, Alfred Music Publishing and Galileo softwarecompany to begin new after-school piano lab programs. Piano instruction will be offered to students at Title-I schools, including Franklin and Newman Elementary schools and East High School. "(The U) is so involved with the community," said Cassandra Olsen, a member of the Ladies in Red and director of the outreach program. "(Ladies in Red) is a very obvious representation of this by directly targeting underprivileged elementary school kids." The Ladies in Red have performed as a whole and in smaller groups throughout Salt Lake City, including Libby Gardner Hall and Franklin Elementary School, and they are dedicated in raising awareness of the need for music education in schools. The group was founded three years ago by piano students at the U who wanted to put on a fun fundraising event for the outreach program. The different members of the group are pursuing advanced degrees in each of See LADIES IN RED Page 8 `Hornet' strives to break conventions Sandy Schaefer STAFF WRITER Screenwriters Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg scripted their celluloid adaptation of "The Green Hornet" with the intent of delivering an unconventional, masked vigilante tale that still entertains as a bit of blockbuster fun for the moviegoing masses—and for the most part, they succeeded. Following a short prologue that pokes fun at some standard comic book tropes, "Green Hornet" introduces 2o-something Britt Reid, played by Rogen as a rich, selfabsorbed and shallow hedonist. Following the unexpected death of his father—The Daily Sentinel newspaper mogul James Reid—played by Tom Wilkinson, Britt at last meets his father's personal auto mechanic—a techno whiz and martial arts extraordinaire—Kato, played by Asian pop star Jay Chou. The pair bond in part over their mutual dislike of Britt's noble-minded but insufferable dad and are eventu- 1RJ-c1) [AL \DAR Friday—Broadway show, "Spring Awakening" at Kingsbury Hall, 8 p.m. on Friday, and 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Saturday. Friday—"Faces," an exhibit of classic and modern pieces of pop art at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, runs through Feb. 13. Friday—Comedian Kevin Hart performs at Abravanel Hall at 8 p.m. Friday—"Yayoi Kusama: Decades," an art exhibit at UMFA, pieces of work done by Kusama, an accomplished Japanese artist, runs through Feb. 13. Friday—Concert at Kilby Court featuring Sea Swallowed Us Whole, The Sakai Incident, If We Start This Fire, Feed Me to the Poor and Dismemberment of Me. Doors open at 6 p.m. Saturday—"Embracing the Dream Concert;'a tribute performance in remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at Cathedral of the Madeline at 1 p.m. Saturday—A fi lmed performance of"Hamlet" by the National Theatre company in London shown at the Post Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Saturday—Utah Opera's "Hansel and Gretel" at the Capitol Theatre at 7:30 p.m. JAIMIE TRUEBLOOD/Associated Press Seth Rogen plays the lead character in "The Green Hornet;' which attempts to satirize the comic book genre and still provide an entertaining flick for the masses. ally inspired to do something radiof super-heroic deeds. The film often cal—form a masked crime fighting feels like an off-kilter parody of the team to clean up the streets of L.A. comic book movie genre. by pretending to be law-breakers who Rogen's knuckle-brained slackster want to control all gang operations in shtick works in the movie, and Chou the City of Angels themselves. does well playing the film's unusual "Green Hornet" is a peculiar straight man. Christoph Waltz delivconcoction of a PG-13 action-comedy ers a darkly comedic performance as that generally plays fast and loose, the crime lord Chudnofsky, but Reid's which occasionally both satirizes and See GREEN HORNET Page 8 examines the real-life consequences Saturday—Broadway show, "Spring Awakening"at Kingsbury Hall, 8 p.m. on Friday, and 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Saturday. Sunday—NOVA Chamber Music Series: Music of Beethoven, 3 p.m. at Libby Gardner Hall Comp e y Mo amma A am |