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| Miriam Wagstaff is the current Utah State Fiddle Champ in her age division and performs in the Sept. 17 recital. |
The Orchestra of Southern Utah invites
you to the 17th annual Fall Recital Series. Performances are every Tuesday
in September, 7:30 p.m. at St. Jude’s Episcopal Church, 70 North 200 West in
Cedar City.
The
opening recital “From Baroque to Broadway”, on Tuesday, September 3, is
directed by Jackie Jackson.
Broadway is brought to you by Jacob Phosander with music from Les
Miserables and Parade. Adam
Lambert, Jackie Riddle Jackson and Teresa Redd perform Handel’s Gospel classic
“Let the Bright Seraphim.” Sadie
Leavitt provides Pop with “Dream a Little Dream Medley.” Village Voices brings
you Film Music (“Moon River”), Chorale (“When Allen-a-Dale went a Hunting”) and
Big Band (“A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square”). Cellist
Deb Vradenburg provides the Classical element with “Sarabande” by LeClair;
harpist Kendra Leavitt adds “Chanson La Nuit” by Carlos Salzedo; and Ashlee
Rowland sings the Opera Aria “O Mio Babbino Caro” and music from Phantom
of the Opera.
September
10 celebrates “All That Jazz,” an evening of jazz and cinema classics. Robert
Gordon’s Jazz Ensemble starts off with movie music. The Southern Utah
Quintet performs “Echoes of Harlem” by Duke
Ellington, as well as “Love on the Rocks” and “Hello Again” by Neil
Diamond. Vocal group Common
Ground shares Gershwin’s “Summertime”. Haley Jean Dodgion highlights The Sound
of Music. Violinist
Sara and Ruth Ipson play “Schindler’s List Theme” by John Williams with Mary Anne Andersen. David Bolsover and Adrianne Tawa
perform “Notturno” by Grieg and the Allen Family presents a movie medley.
“Musical Stories” highlight
September 17. Common Ground performs “Always on My Mind,” “Land of the Navajo”, and
“Nowhere Man.”
Southern Utah String Quintet plays music by Dvorak while Marin Colby and
Mary Anne Andersen perform the finale of the César Franck’s romantic violin
sonata. Pianist Jack Vickers plays
“Cuentos del Matador” by Rocherolle.
Champion fiddler Mariam Wagstaff performs a traditional Irish jig,
and a‘Texas Old-Time Fiddle Style”
contest set. Festival City
Singers, vocalist Fred Dunnell, and pianist Teri Kenney complete the program.
The
recital series winds up with a musical whirl-wind trip “Around the World in 80
Minutes”. “Fandango” by Michael
McLean features violin duo Tori Calamity and Jessica Chamberlain with pianist
Heather Carroll. Debra
Vradenburg and Linda Brimhall bring you music by Telemann. Local composer Hal Campbell’s “Three
Somewhats and an Almost” will be performed by LuAnne Brown, Colleen Dowse,
Caroleen Lee, June Thorley, Carol Ann Nyman, Benjamin Lee, and the composer
himself. Halle and Jack Vickers
join for “Russian Sailors’ Dance” by Reinhold. Brown, Dowse, Thorley, Nyman and clarinetist Sarah Solberg
perform Mozart’s “Quintet in A Major, K 581. Ben Bradshaw, Mike Wallace and Virginia Stitt play “Bassoon
Trio No. 2 in G minor” by Francois-Rene Gebauer. The Reed Trio performs “Tango and Co” by Helga Warner-Buhlmann.
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$5 donation for adults and $3 donation for students is appreciated; children
over the age of six are welcome at all Orchestra events with adult
supervision. For more information,
visit www.OrchestraofSouthernUtah.org
, email osucedarcity@gmail.com, or
contact Sara Penny at 586-2286.
