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• Calendar

  - 2008-04-25

  MUSIC/DANCE Craig Morgan, country, today, 7:30 p.m., Centrum Arena, Cedar City, $20-$40 (467-8499, 800-888-8499 or www.smithstix.com) "Joseph Smith the Prophet," Spire Chorus and Orchestra, today, 7:30 p.m., Salt Lake Tabernacle, free but tickets required (801-570- 0080 or www.lds.org/events) Junction City Big Band Dance, today,...

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• Concert calendar

  - 2008-04-20

  Note: Children younger than 8 will not be admitted to concerts in the Temple Square Assembly Hall. A Tapestry of African-American Song, Madeleine Festival, Salt Lake Chamber Singers, soprano Christina DeVaughn, today, Cathedral of the Madeleine, free Lake Bonneville Community Symphony and the Wasatch Master Chorale,...

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• Paradigm, ensemble to perform 'Magic Flute'

  - 2008-02-17

  Mozart's music was never fully appreciated by many of his contemporaries. It wasn't until well after his death in 1791 that his genius was finally being understood. Fortunately today, Mozart's music has found universal appeal among musicians and audiences alike. That's perhaps nowhere more evident than...

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• 'Just One Step Beyond' wonderfully texture

  - 2008-02-11

  Sundays@7, Libby Gardner Concert Hall, University of Utah, Sunday Morris Rosenzweig has written quite a large body of chamber music for a wide array of instrumental combinations. And now he can add the cimbalom to his list. His "Just One Step Beyond," for viola and cimbalom,...

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• Violinist does masterful job on masterpieces

  - 2007-10-22

  DAVID PARK, VIOLIN, Dumke Recital Hall, University of Utah, Sunday The six sonatas and partitas for solo violin that J.S. Bach wrote test the mettle of any violinist. One's technique and musicianship must be of the highest order to give these masterworks their due. And a violinist of...

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• Dazzling concert a preview of U. Singers' European tour

  - 2007-07-12

  UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SINGERS, Libby Gardner Concert Hall, University of Utah, Tuesday The University of Utah Singers have become a seasoned touring ensemble since Brady Allred arrived at the school to become director of choral conducting. In the four years he's been here, the group has...

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• Dazzling concert gives preview of U. Singers' European tour

  - 2007-07-11

  UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SINGERS, Libby Gardner Concert Hall, University of Utah, Tuesday The University of Utah Singers have become a seasoned touring ensemble since Brady Allred arrived at the school to become director of choral conducting. In the four years he's been here, the group has...

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• Cellist ready to debut Prokofiev masterpiece

  - 2007-06-17

  Sergei Prokofiev wrote his Sinfonia Concertante in 1954 for his close friend Mstislav Rostropovich. A revised reworking of his earlier First Cello Concerto, the Concertante is one of the most demanding works written for the instrument. For years the domain of the late, great Russian cellist, it has...

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• U. concert to feature revised 'Raven'

  - 2007-04-08

  People know Gerald Elias as the associate concertmaster of the Utah Symphony or as the first violinist of the now defunct Abramyan String Quartet or as a frequent guest performer on the NOVA Chamber Music Series or as part of the Canyonlands New Music Ensemble. But some also...

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• Les Ballets Africains making a return to Utah

  - 2007-02-23

  The world-renowned dance company Les Ballets Africains has completed four U.S. tours since it last visited Utah. Saturday night, the group will return to Salt Lake City after a decade-long absence. "We haven't been to Salt Lake for a long time -- at least 10 years," Africains production...

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