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Show C-4 Sat/Sun/Mon, December 21-23, 2019 The Park Record PARK CITY FILM.ORG CREATING COMMUNITY THROUGH FILM THE TWO Free Screening! POPES Rated PG-13 DEC 20 DEC 21 DEC 22 Fri 8pm Sat 8pm Sun 6pm Underwritten by Julie Hopkins, Keller Williams Real Estate IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE Not Rated C Kurt Bestor celebrates a decade S of Park City Christmas concerts a m Performances have become local traditions s L P e SCOTT IWASAKI DEC 23 Mon 7pm The Park Record Come early for the Nuzzles & Co's Snuggle Lounge (aka puppies!), hot cocoa, crafts, cookies and Santa! Presented with Park City Library and underwritten by Wasatch & Wool. Admission is free. Emmy-winning composer Kurt Bestor is celebrating two musical anniversaries this holiday season. It’s the 32nd year he’s performed his big-production Christmas concert run in Salt Lake City, and it’s also been 10 years since he started performing his stripped-down acoustic performances at the Egyptian Theatre on Main Street. In fact, Bestor said, the anniversary for the Park City concerts, which will run this year from Dec. 21 through Dec. 25, seems like a “bigger deal.” “I think a decade in Park City is more significant, because it’s like ‘the little concert that could,’ you know,” Bestor said. When the composer, known in the Intermountain West as “Mr. Christmas,” started the Egyptian Theatre concerts, the idea was to play two nights — Christmas Eve and Christmas — with just a piano and flugelhorn. Over the years, the concerts have grown in a couple of ways, according to Bestor. “We’ve added more dates, and I began bringing a band with me,” he said. Even with a band, the concerts remain “cozy,” Bestor said. “I’m able to tell stories and play music in a setting that is right there in the moment, because the audience is sitting close to the stage and there isn’t a lot of space between us,” he said. “That’s something that is impossible to duplicate at the Salt Lake City shows.” This year, Bestor decided to make another musical change in the programs. “I started making Christmas music in 1987, and yet, I don’t play a lot of music from that album very much,” he said. “Over the years, I’ve heard from a lot of people that they want to hear songs from that first Christmas album, so I’m doing a retrospective.” Bestor’s plan is to perform songs from each of his albums, whether they are Christmas-oriented or not. As in the past, he will bring in some guests to help with his JIM SANTY AUDITORIUM 1255 PARK AVE PARK CITY • 435.615.8291 a m r t G A K A S a t a f O N r B PHOTO BY MICHAEL MANGUM Emmy Award-winning composer Kurt Bestor, known for his sweeping Christmas concerts in Salt Lake City, has made a 10-year tradition of performing acoustic holiday concerts at the Egyptian Theatre. This year’s performances will run from Dec. 21-25. signature single, “Prayer of the Children,” an a cappella number about hope. “I have performed and presented that song differently over the years,” he said. “I’ve sung it through a vocal machine, and I’ve had some of my special guests sing it.” This year, Bestor decided to have children sing it. “We had two kids sing it in a concert I did in St. George the other night, and it was everything that I wanted,” he said. “To hear children from a country where they have the opportunity to attend school, the security of healthcare and other things, sing about the plight of children from Syria or other places in the world that aren’t as safe, is a powerful statement.” Bestor knows some adults will try to politicize the song, but said the song isn’t about them. “At the end of the day, the kids are going to be here cleaning up after us,” he said. Bestor is happy to know the Park City concerts have become a tradition for local residents and visitors over the years. “I’ve been able to look into the audience at Park City and see this family who has come P Kurt Bestor When: 8 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 21; 6 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 22, Monday, Dec. 23, Tuesday, Dec. 24 and Wednesday, Dec. 25. Where: The Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main St. Cost: $34-$50 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Christina Iverson of Ames, Iowa, is a stay-at-home mom with an almost-2-year-old and a child on the way. She started solving puzzles only in the summer of 2018. She found it was an easily interrupted activity when her baby was constantly waking up in the evenings. Also, ‘‘Crosswords met my need for something more intellectually stimulating than reading ‘Goodnight Moon.’ ’’ Soon she made it a goal to have a puzzle published in The Times. Her collaborator, Jeff Chen, is a writer and professional crossword constructor in Seattle. They met through Jeff’s daily column on the website XWord Info. — W.S. 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S “I mean, I’d understand if I was playing on Dec. 26, but o the 25th is the perfect time.” o In addition to spending f Christmas night at the Egyptian Theatre, Bestor said there C are other perks of performing W in Park City. “My wife and my daughter S come up and stay in Park City, and after the Christmas Day o concert, we go sit in a hot tub a at Deer Valley and enjoy some c of the Park City food,” he said. r BY CHRISTINA IVERSON AND JEFF CHEN / EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ 18 ( f K s No. 1222 DOING A DOUBLE TAKE f n A y 65 58 66 59 60 E 67 m 68 69 70 76 71 77 90 87 92 100 101 93 102 107 110 115 116 83 86 91 117 74 79 82 85 114 73 78 81 89 72 94 118 84 88 103 104 108 109 112 119 120 80 95 111 121 105 122 128 129 130 131 132 80 Derrière 82 India’s smallest state 83 Orange Sesame Street monster 86 It’s a start 88 Founder of the Ottoman Empire 89 “That’s odd …” 90 Chits inits. 91 Wet firecracker, e.g. 93 Genre akin to goth 94 ____ fly 95 Finish of three U.S. state names 97 Flash-drive port 96 97 98 99 123 124 125 126 106 113 127 70 Florist’s cutting 72 Weather phenomenon whose double lights were said to represent this puzzle’s subjects 73 Baseball double play, in slang … or a hint to understanding the 12 Across answers that have circles 74 Like a “mwa-ha-ha” laugh 75 Freedom 77 Abbr. on a keyboard key 75 98 The big eau 99 Org. that began welcoming girls in 2019 101 California’s ____ National Forest 102 Wiped 105 Seasoning in a yellow-and-blue tin 106 Disgusting, quaintly 111 Picks, with “for” 113 Near impossibilities on par-5 holes 114 Fig. watched by some dieters 115 Bit in a feedbag 116 Some fraternity-row letters 117 G.R.E. administrator 119 Coastal inlet 120 “The pond”: Abbr. 121 Here’s the kicker! 123 Marks out 124 Its seeds whirl to the ground 125 Hit 2011 animated movie 126 Pusher of green eggs and ham |