If you missed our awards reception at Finch Lane Friday night you were not privy to the winners of our new program “Utah’s 15 Most Influential Artists”. These past couple months we asked our readership to nominate the artists they felt have changed the cultural landscape of our fine state. You responded in a big...
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Mendelssohn’s Long Weekend
You may not have realized it, but this has been a season of Mendelssohn for the Utah Symphony. Music Director Thierry Fischer programmed Felix Mendelssohn’s five symphonies for the 2012-2013 season and this weekend the Symphony will conclude the performance cycle with a concert featuring the first and last symphonies by the composer. One of...
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Making Music: Morris Rosenzweig
“Writing music has to do with your version of what you think music is — and it’s hard to have it taken at just that,” explains Salt Lake City composer Morris Rosenzweig. “People often think you’re trying to make some kind of point, but I don’t think that’s what it’s about at all; it’s about...
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Say “Si” to Mexican Opera
This Saturday, The Utah Opera is presenting Florencia en el Amazonas — their first ever opera sung in Spanish. Mexico’s Daniel Catán was first performed in 1996 as a commission for Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera and Seattle Opera and was the first Spanish-language opera to be commissioned by major United States opera houses. The two-act story tells...
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DIDO AND AENEAS, next on ET
by Laura Durham, 15 Bytes Music Editor This Friday and Saturday Westminster will showcase its first fully-staged opera. Written by Henry Purcell in 17th Century England, the opera is 400 years old, but you wouldn’t know it watching this particular production. Those familiar with the story know Dido as the queen of Carthage in ancient...
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Better Off With the Blues
Its small size can seem like one of our art community’s drawbacks, but it can also be one of its advantages. Small size means a tight community, and here it doesn’t take long to feel like you know everyone. Or if you don’t actually know them, you get the sense you are only one or...
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‘Tis the Season for Singing
‘Tis the Season for Singing Have you decked your halls? Do you have frosted windowpanes? Is it cold outside, Baby? Well then. In the air, there’s a feeling of Christmas. As tempting as it is to stay inside, roasting chestnuts on an open fire with your cocoa and DVD player, the holidays are about spreading...
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Thierry Fisher’s Bolero, and a tribute to Elliot Carter
by Camille Pack “Oh, yes. It was one of my favorite of the year,” said the woman boarding a shuttle outside Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake’s first major snow storm. She was referring to the performances of Thierry Fisher, the Utah Symphony, and a celebrated Argentinian pianist. With several standing ovations throughout the night, it...
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Luthier Peter Prier
Cindy Grigg takes us inside the Violin Making School of America to talk with luthier and composer Peter Prier.
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Utah Chamber Artists’ Shadows & Light at the Cathedral of the Madeleine
Cathedrals are magnificent structures; they are grandiose, full of symbolism and offer a sense of sanctuary. Stepping inside a cathedral is a humbling and reverence-inducing experience — you’re surrounded by stained glass, sculpture, paintings, and, if you visit at the right time, music. On Monday, September 17 at 8 PM, the Utah Chamber Artists will...
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Michael Jackson & the Deer Valley Music Festival
You gotta love summer evenings outside: warm temps, fresh air, listening to music while lying on a blanket with a drink in hand instead of trapped in an uncomfortable seat. And for some reason you can talk to the person next to you without suffering a disapproving glare from the person in front of you....
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Gerald Elias Is Back
Gerald Elias, winner of last year’s Utah Book Award for his musical mystery novel Danse Macabre, is back with the fourth novel in his series featuring amateur sleuth and cantankerous violin teacher, Danile Jacobs. Death and Transfiguration was released by Minotaur Books last week and the local launch party is this Friday, June 29, at...
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Our Readiness For Contemporary Music
Camille Pack describes her experience at the Utah Symphony's World Premiere of Michael Jarrell's Emergences (Nachlese VI).
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Frances Darger: A Life in Music
A profile of violinist Frances Darger, who has been performing with the Utah Symphony for 68 years.
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The Utah Phillips Songbook
by Laura Durham Starlight on the Rails: And Other Songs is an expanded version of U. Utah Phillips’ earlier songbook published in1973. This new version (released in November 2011) contains 84 songs, complete with chords, lyrics, and background stories written by Utah himself. Bruce Duncan “Utah” Phillips (1935-2008) was a folk singer, storyteller, poet and...
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