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S 49. 95 Staff Writer • * Christmas is coming and it's time to get some holiday cheer. Luckily, the Utah State University Women's Choir is giving it out in doses this Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. "The Women's Choir is open enrollment and we have a broad spectrum of abilities. These ladies are incredible. Some would expect a lower degree of excellence from them for that reason and their expectations would be wrong," Lane Cheney, director of choral music at Utah State, said. Lindsay Clark, a senior in choral education and the choral education assistant, said,"Music is not about sounding good. It's about conveying feelings and emotions. That is what this choir . can do — plus the bonus of sounding good as well." Clark said the whole concert will only last about 45 minutes. "We understand that finals are coming up and the semester's ending," Clark said. "People want to get that holiday tradition in and we're making that possible." The selection of music is also a factor for drawing students and other community members in for the show. "We're going to have the Christmas favorites that everyone expects to hear, but for the majority of it, we'll be singing traditional English carols that don't get a lot of play in this country," Cheney said. "You know, those songs that really bring a good spirit to us when we hear them." Many of these songs are ones prepared by Sir David Willcocks, he said, who was an Englishman knighted by Queen Victoria for his contributions toward bringing forward reli- giousness in the carols. Cheney said he wants the group to become like a community, not just a performing group. "I want this group to become a community. That is literally what happens to these women. ; We start out each session by giving backrubs \ and it's really like one large family," he said. "I love the Women's Choir. I've been in it for five semesters and I couldn't imagine leaving : it," Clark said. "As a community, we are sharing everything we have. Singing is not like playing an instrument. If you do a bad job at a concert, you can blame it on your horn not being warm or some other thing. With singing, it's just you, i and we need to lean on each other for support in! our weaknesses as well as our strengths." j In addition to this season's music, women's I choirs have a long and extensive history, \ Compared to other genres of music, vocal or ; instrumental, there is more than 900 years of work to look through, Cheney said. "Hildegard von Vingen was one of the first composers, woman or otherwise, to have specific scores of music associated with her name," he ! said. "It's with this background that we're able to have a lot to work with. Her works are the ' bedrock of the art, so, unlike some areas that ; can only date back a few hundred years, we have quite a bit more to work from." With just a little under two weeks left for the rest of the semester, Cheney and Clark said they want to encourage everyone not to miss this good opportunity for a bit of Christmas cheer. "For those who have been to a bad concert or never been at all, this is the one you'll want to come to. We expect that those who come will go away changed and a little bit more in the holiday spirit," they said. . —nebu tler@cc us u. edu > BLUEBIRD From page 7 7 ONLY $Q95 WINTER CONTRACTS Qoing Jast! James Schultz/s<hultz@ccusu.edu LEAH ROPER measures out candy for a customers the Bluebird in Logan. Uld JKain View 644 & 500 DC(l/2 6/ocA/rom campus) everything on the menu. * Wood said that her favorite:, menu item is the Monterey ' '? chicken. It is a chicken breast;., covered with mozarella cheese, avacado, shrimp and crab meat. , She said that other cus, tomer favorites include the , prime rib and the strawberry , chicken. Wood said that sometimesit customers are hesitant to y order Chinese food at The :, Bluebird however but they ., shouldn't be. [{ The Bluebird is a popular , place for parties especially .' during the holidays. Olsen said the resturant can hold about 400 people when it is at capacity and dur-r ing the Christmas season, that is not uncommon. Most of ., the rooms are already booked t with holiday parties. "Reservations are recom- , mended," Olsen said. The Bluebird is located at 19 North Main in Logan. It is open MondayThursday from 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. and is closed Sundays. ~nnaylor@cc.usu.edu • MACBETH From page 9 Laundty erated Conditid Underground Parkin •£" Dishwasher Microwave Firepl Maint ampus LOGAN PREFERRED PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 435.752.5000 ext. 2 WWW.KAMPUSKORNERAPARTMENTS.COM king who rises and falls on the prophecies of some shrewd Highland witches. The play opens with the witches who, dressed like acid-scarred vixens from the Pussycat Lounge, prepare- to meet with Macbeth. Though only written into three scenes, the witches, under Linford's direction, appear throughout the play controlling the actions of their puppet king and his bloody ambition. The scene moves with little explanation to a large battle where Duncan (David Ebert), the true king of Scotland, puts down traitorous usurpers. After the battle, Duncan discovers the betrayal of one Thane of Cawdor, whom he orders executed. Macbeth (Brandon Pearson) enters the play with his good friend and partner in arms, Banquo (Luke Bybee), and is hailed by the hags as Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor and one who will be king hereafter. Banquo seeks ana receives a prophecy that while he won't be a king, his children will one day sit on the throne. The witches disappear and Macbeth discovers he has been appointed Thane of Cawdor, fulfilling the first part of the prophecy. At the urging or Lady Macbeth (Rebecca Johnson), who, clad in a black, gothic coat and hooker boots, looks like an uncanny double for Trinity from 'The Matrix/ Macbeth stabs the King and then blames the murder on his chamberlains. Suspicion falls on the king's sons, Malcolm and'Donalbain, who, fearing their own lives might be lost to the usurper's blade, flee to other corners of the British Isles. Shortly after he takes the throne, Macbeth drenches the stage in a bloodbath in order to keep his ill-gotten crown. Macbeth, troubled by his bloody conscience, seeks out the witches again who, long anticipating his arrival, show him visions of an armed head, a bloody child and a crowned child who prophesy that, while Macbeth should rear Macduff, he cannot be killed by anyone born of woman and, even then, not until the forest of Birnam moves toward Dunsinane (Macbeth's castle). Lady Macbeth gives in to her troubled conscience, goes mad, and commits suicide. At the same time, a large force, led by Malcolm and the English general Siward, moves against Macbeth's castle where a large severalscened battle takes place. Macbeth, having escaped death and fearing no man born of woman, finally meets up with Macduff who, declaring that he was "untimely ripped" from his mother's womb (and is therefore not of woman born), cuts off the usurper's head. -• Though Shakespeare ends the play here on a note of <possible triumph and cleansing, Linford again touches up i the interpretation by bringing • out the witches again, who repeat the opening lines of the play in a twisted chiasmus, suggesting the foul • destruction of the Scottish < nobility will continue. This i last interpretation is perhaps the most exciting of the play. * Overall, the main charac- i ters are extremely capable u actors, capturing the emo- } tions of murderous retches and betrayed innocents. However, the supporting cast, with a few notable exceptions, including Mike Garainer and John Belliston as the piss-drunk porters of Dunsinane, is lackluster at best and a far shot from the support necessary to make the play a triumph. Purposeful or not, the play is a mixture of foul and fair with more to offer the Shakespeare veteran than the first-timer. But, if you've got the urge, the time and the ticket (preferably in the middle at about trie third row), you'll probably enjoy trading and trafficking with "Macbeth" and its riddFes and affairs of death. Matt Wright is a theater critic for the Utah Statesman. Questions and Comments can be sent to him at ma ttgo @cc. usu. edu. |