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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The Russians Are Coming
Russian composers are among some of the most beloved musicians in history. Their music has a romantic and intense quality that can simultaneously touch and break your heart. On Monday February 27, Utah Chamber Artists will present their “Psalms & Symphonies” concert. On the program is Igor Stravinsky’s famous “Symphony of Psalms” which Time magazine...
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Chamber Music Society of Salt Lake
It was a dark and stormy night The Chamber Music Society of Salt Lake City was born at a Halloween party in the fall of 1966. Some friends had gathered in the Avenues and founding member Gale Dick recalls discussing chamber music with another guest at the party. Dick had just arrived in Utah from...
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J.A.C. Redford’s Rest Now, My Sister
Utah Chamber Artists Executive Director Becky Durham sends us a post about the premier this Monday and Tuesday of a new work by composer J.A.C. Redford based on the brutal murder of the composer's sister-in-law last December.
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Stephen Voorhees’ String Quartets Win Competition
Two new pieces have been added to the lineup of the Utah Chamber Artists’ Chant & Contemplation Cathedral Collage concert, featured in this month’s edition of 15 Bytes. In a first-ever partnership, Utah Chamber Artists (UCA) and the Salty Cricket Composers Collective put out a call to commission to short works for string quartet. They...
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John Adams’ On the Transmigration of Souls
The Utah Symphony plays John Adams' On the Transmigration of Souls, honoring the victims of the September 11th attacks.
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Utah Chamber Artists’ Collage Concert
Jennifer Napier-Pearce previews the Utah Chamber Artists' Collage Concert this month at the Cathedral of the Madeleine.
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Serious Listening
If you want to hear music by Benjamin Britten that is almost never performed and music that offers sounds you have rarely heard, then you will want to attend Intermezzo’s concert on Monday, July 11th.
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