Free Concert, Masterclasses & String Quartet Programs in Summit Co.

Muir Quartet

Utah Symphony | Utah Opera Offers

Free Concert, Masterclasses and

String Quartet Programs

Utah Symphony | Utah Opera invites Summit County residents to attend several free education events held in conjunction with the Deer Valley® Music Festival and the organization’s Emerging Quartets and Composers program.

Among these events are string quartet master classes on July 15 and July 27 at 4:30 p.m. at the Utah Conservatory in Kimball Junction near Park City, as well as a community concert featuring two string quartets at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Park City on July 30 at 1 p.m. The participating quartets, Publiquartet from New York City and Iris Quartet from Boston, are taking part in the intensive Emerging Quartets and Composers training program this summer.

The three-week program consists of demanding rehearsals and master classes with professional coaching by the renowned Muir Quartet and Pulitzer prize-winning composer Joan Tower. During their time in Utah, the two semi-professional quartets will work on classical repertoire and premieres of new music by young composers also involved in the program. This year, the quartets will premiere “Double Helix” by Maxwell McKee and “Thyme” by Antonin Fajt.

These emerging artists will also spend time during their final week in Utah at the Lyceum Music Festival summer music camp coaching young local musicians at the Zermatt Resort in Midway.

An integral part of Deer Valley® Music Festival’s education programs since its founding in 2003, the Emerging Quartets and Composers summer program actually began in 1989. It has had various homes in Utah, including Snowbird as well as Park City, but has always been a project of the Muir String Quartet and Joan Tower.

ABOUT THE MUIR QUARTET:
The Muir Quartet features founder Mike Reynolds, cello; Peter Zazofsky, violin; Steven Ansell, viola; Lucia Lin, violin. Now in its 31st season, the Muir String Quartet has long been acknowledged as one of the world's most powerful and insightful ensembles, distinguishing itself among audiences and critics with its "exhilarating involvement" (Boston Globe),"impeccable voicing and intonation" (San Francisco Examiner) and "unbridled musicality" (American Record Guide).

Winner of the 1981 Naumburg Chamber Music Award and 1980 Evian Competition, the Muir String Quartet was greeted with rave reviews and an extensive feature in the New Yorker. They were soon featured on the internationally acclaimed PBS broadcast, In Performance at the White House for President and Mrs. Reagan.

ABOUT JOAN TOWER:
Joan Tower is widely regarded as one of the most important American composers living today. During a career spanning more than fifty years, she has made lasting contributions to musical life in the United States as composer, performer, conductor, and educator. Her works have been commissioned by major ensembles, soloists, and orchestras, including the Emerson, Tokyo and Muir quartets, soloists Evelyn Glennie, Carol Wincenc, David Shifrin, John Browning, and the orchestras of Chicago, New York, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and Washington DC among others.

Tower was the first composer chosen for a Ford Made in America consortium commission of sixty-five orchestras. Leonard Slatkin and the Nashville Symphony recorded Made in America in 2008 (along with Tambor and Concerto for Orchestra). The album collected three Grammy awards: Best Classical Contemporary Composition, Best Classical Album, and Best Orchestral Performance.

In 1990 she became the first woman to win the prestigious Grawemeyer Award for Silver Ladders, a piece she wrote for the St. Louis Symphony where she was Composer-in-Residence from 1985-88. Other residencies with orchestras include a 10-year residency with the Orchestra of St. Luke's (1997-2007) and the Pittsburgh Symphony (2010-2011).

Tower studied piano and composition at Bennington College and Columbia University. Her earliest works were serial in concept, but her music soon developed the lyricism, rhythmic drive, and colorful orchestration that characterize her subsequent works. She is currently Asher Edelman Professor of Music at Bard College, where she has taught since 1972. Her music is published by Associated Music Publishers.


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Chris Botti & Von Trapp Children at Deer Valley

The Von Trapp Children

Utah Symphony | Utah Opera’s

Deer Valley® Music Festival Welcomes

Chris Botti & The Von Trapp Children

Utah Symphony | Utah Opera’s Deer Valley® Music Festival will bring its second week of summer festivities to Park City with the Von Trapp Children singing tunes from “The Sound of Music” led by Utah Symphony Principal Pops Conductor Jerry Steichen on Friday, July 22 at 7:30 p.m. and jazz trumpeter Chris Botti on Saturday, July 23 at 7:30 p.m. Both acts will perform with the Utah Symphony at the Deer Valley Snow Park Outdoor Amphitheater.

The Von Trapp Children with the Utah Symphony
July 22, 2011 (Friday)
7:30 PM
Deer Valley Snow Park Outdoor Amphitheatre
Jerry Steichen, Conductor

The Sound of Music captured the hearts of millions when the film debuted in 1965. Now, forty years later, the von Trapp’s family legacy is born anew. Meet Sofia, Melanie, Amanda, and Justin von Trapp. They are the great-grandchildren of Captain von Trapp, father of the famous singing family whose story captivated the world in the musical “The Sound of Music.”

                     ----------------------------

Chris Botti with the Utah Symphony
July 23, 2011 (Saturday)
7:30 PM
Deer Valley Snow Park Outdoor Amphitheatre
Kelly Corcoran, Conductor
Chris Botti, Trumpet

Chris Botti

Festival patrons will enjoy an evening with Jazz trumpet master Chris Botti as he plays a wide range of jazz, pop and classical music with the Utah Symphony. Since the release of his 2004 critically acclaimed CD “When I Fall In Love,” Botti has become the largest-selling American jazz instrumental artist. His success has crossed over to audiences usually reserved for pop music and his ongoing association with PBS has led to four #1 Jazz Albums, as well as multiple Gold, Platinum & Grammy Awards. Over the past three decades, he has recorded and performed with the best in music; including Frank Sinatra, Sting, Josh Groban, Michael Buble, Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, John Mayer, Andrea Bocelli, Joshua Bell and Aerosmith's own Steven Tyler.

TICKET PRICE BREAKDOWN BY PERFORMANCE

Friday, July 22:
$20 lawn seats, $10 for students and youth, $60 for families (max of 2 adults and up to 4 children under the age of 18), $50-$65 for reserved seating.

Saturday, July 23:
$30 lawn seats, $15 for students and youth, $90 for families (max of 2 adults and up to 4 children under the age of 18), $60-$85 for reserved seating.

Maximum chair height at the venue is nine inches from the ground. Please call the USUO ticket office in advance for limited wheelchair or other accessible seating: (801) 533-NOTE (6683). Gates open to all ticket holders approximately two hours before the performance begins. Patrons must be present to save a spot in line, and unattended items will be removed from their locations. Valid picture ID required to pick up tickets at will call. No ticket reprinting is available for general admission seating. Outside food and drinks are allowed at the venue, and there are a variety of concessions services at the venue offered by Deer Valley Resort.


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UMFA Special Exhibition: LeConte Stewart

UMFA Special Exhibition
LeConte Stewart:
Depression-Era Art
July 21, 2011 - January 15, 2012


In a groundbreaking collaboration, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts and Church History Museum have partnered to stage the largest exhibition ever mounted by famed Utah artist LeConte Stewart (1891-1990). The shared effort focuses on the most creative and skilled period of Stewart's long career. With a combined total of over 200 paintings and works on paper selected from museums and private collections across the west, these joint exhibitions will feature masterworks that have rarely been seen.

LeConte Stewart, Smith's House, oil on canvas
Gift by bequest of Kay H. Blood
Collection of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts

The UMFA’s exhibition, LeConte Stewart: Depression Era Art, explores themes of isolation and loss during the Great Depression, a period when the artist examined thematic images of progress juxtaposed to the human consequences of economic upheaval. Farms and homes that had been depicted in his earlier work at a warm distance are replaced in the 1930s with stark urban scenes devoid of human activity, using bold shapes and unfamiliar lighting to capture a mood of isolation in his subjects. Stewart was not a WPA artist and was therefore free to paint the "...raw side of life" as he once commented. His vision of the Great Depression sets his work apart from his peers and places it within the broader context of American Scene painters of the time.

The Church History Museum’s exhibition, LeConte Stewart: The Soul of Rural Utah, will reveal the beauty of Utah’s early rural works on paper and paintings with an emphasis of rural Utah. Farmhouses, barns and fields are depicted in rich tones with thick impasto and loose brushstrokes. They are familiar scenes of the western environment. It is a backdrop in which Stewart found not only the isolation he sought throughout his life, but a spirit in the land that was of solace to him.

Utah Museum of Fine Arts
University of Utah Campus
Marcia & John Price Museum Building
410 Campus Center Dr.
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112

Museum Hours
Tuesday - Friday: 10 am - 5 pm
Wednesday: 10 am - 8 pm
Saturday and Sunday: 11 am - 5 pm
Closed Mondays and holidays


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HEAL Utah July Community Night

HEAL July Community Night:

"How To Become a Rocky Mountain

Rabble-Rouser"

Each of us does what we can to make our world safer and cleaner: Perhaps we drive a fuel-efficient car, bike when we can, and choose to live near where we work. Maybe we keep the thermostat a bit lower in the winter and a bit higher in the summer.

All are important steps to green our lives. However, many of us don’t think much about an action we take each month with an even greater impact: Paying our electric bills. The power we consume – and the dollars we pay for it – may have more to do with how we shape our public health and the environment than anything else. However, we rarely have direct influence over that power: We don’t get to pick our utility. And most of us don’t have the tools to know how to convince our utilities to clean up their act.

Until now. HEAL Utah is pleased to invite you to our July Community Night, a special strategy session devoted to prepare for a one-time only public hearing where you can make your voice heard, and put the pressure on Rocky Mountain Power to move in a cleaner, greener direction. This exciting Community Night, “How To Become a Rocky Mountain Rabble-Rouser,” is this coming Wednesday, July 20, at 6 p.m. (Details below.) We then hope that some of you, newly equipped, will then be able to attend Rocky Mountain Power’s rate case hearing the following week, at 5 p.m. - July 28. (Details below.)

That hearing is when Utahns have the opportunity – which precious few of us exercise – to let the company know what we think of its request for the largest rate hike in its history, mostly focused on its aging coal fleet. The utility is seeking a massive $232 million increase that if approved by state utility regulators would raise the typical Utah homeowner’s payment by nearly 14 percent, or $120 a year.

Here’s what troubles us most about that rate hike increase – much of that money will go to retrofit outdated, polluting coal plants. Rocky Mountain Power wants to spend tens of millions of our money to put expensive pollution controls on dirty coal plants which darken our skies and sicken our children.

That’s bad news – but the good news is that this is our chance, as empowered citizens, to let them know we demand they go in a different direction. That it’s time to lay the groundwork to transition Utah’s old and dirty coal plants to renewable energy, not sign up for billions of dollars of retrofits. It’s time to take that same investment and put it toward renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Please join us on Wednesday to find out more about Rocky Mountain Power’s costly coal power retrofit rate hikes – and what you can do about it.

What: HEAL Utah’s July Community Night,
       “How To Become a Rocky Mountain Rabble-Rouser.”
When: 6:30 PM - Wednesday, July 20.
Where: The Washington Square Cafe, 451 S State Street.
       Located on the lower level of the Salt Lake City/County Building
       and one-half block west of the Library Stop on the University
       TRAX Line.

And, mark your calendars now for the public hearing where you can make your voice heard.

When: 5 p.m., Thursday July 28
Where: Room 403 of the Heber M. Wells Building
       160 East 300 South, Salt Lake City

See you Wednesday!

Christopher Thomas
Executive Director
HEAL Utah


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SLCo Animal Services - $17.76 Dog Adoptions & Free Cats!

Salt Lake County Animal Services

Celebrates 1776 Independence Day

with $17.76 Dog Adoptions and Free Cats!

Salt Lake County Animal Services will be celebrating Independence Day with $17.76 dog adoptions and FREE cat adoptions through the entire month of July!

“The summer months are our busiest time of the year with many animals coming into the shelter” says Shawni Larrabee, Director of Salt Lake County Animal Services. “July brings special challenges with very large numbers of pets ending up in shelters when they become frightened by fireworks. We want to bring attention to both shelter adoptions as well as encourage pet owners to take special care to keep their pets safe during the summer holidays.”

If you were thinking about adopting a pet this summer NOW is the time!!!

All adoptions include sterilization, microchip and vaccinations. The $17.76 Dog Adoption special will run through July 30th. The Free Cat Adoption program is year round.

Salt Lake County Animal Services
511 West 3900 South
Salt Lake City UT 84123
801-559-1100
www.slcoanimalservices.org


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REEL Stories Premiere at Tower Theatre

What's Your Story?

5 new short documentary films written and produced by Utah teens will be shown this evening at Salt Lake Film Society's Tower Theater at 7 p.m.

REEL Stories Premiere
Wednesday, July 6th - 7:00 pm
Tower Theatre
876 East 900 South

Admission is FREE

REEL Stories, Spy Hop’s Youth Documentary Workshop, is an intensive program that gives Utah high school students the opportunity to work with some of the country’s best documentary filmmakers. Each participant comes out of the program having created a documentary short on the subject of their choosing. Past pieces have explored issues such a male body image, mental illness, the meaning of femininity, and the process of coming of age in different cultures. All the Reel Stories shorts are screened free to the community upon completion. The screening provides a wonderful opportunity to see the talent and creativity alive in our local youth community.

**Spy Hop’s Youth Documentary Arts Program is funded by Zoo, Arts and Parks of Salt Lake County; the National Endowment for the Arts; Salt Lake County; American Arts and Recovery Act; Adobe Youth Voices; George and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation; UBS; Morgan Stanley; and the Salt Lake City Arts Council.


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Free Utah Symphony | Utah Opera Concert at Gallivan Center

David Cho

Utah Symphony |  Utah Opera

Offers Free Concert

at the Gallivan Center

Utah Symphony | Utah Opera offers free concert at The Gallivan Center in recognition of support from the RDA.

Utah Symphony | Utah Opera is partnering with the newly renovated Gallivan Center and Utah Lyric Opera to present a free performance on the plaza featuring the Utah Symphony and several locally-based opera singers, July 14 at 7 p.m.

The Utah Symphony will be led by Associate Conductor David Cho with guest artists Melinda Ammons, Darrell Babidge, Millinee Bannister, Christopher Holmes, Isaac Hurtado, Chad Millar and nationally-renowned soprano Jennifer Welch-Babidge. Together they will perform a variety of orchestral highlights and scenes from popular operas such as “Die Fledermaus,” “La Boheme,” “The Marriage of Figaro,” “Carmen” and “The Barber of Seville.”

As part of the Gallivan Center’s new season of summer events, this performance will give attendees a look at the plaza’s renovations, including a relocated ice skating rink with a state-of-the-art chilling system, an expansion of the amphitheater viewing area, and the addition of a new multi-purpose building along 200 South. This new building will contain ice rink services, a concession stand, permanent restroom facilities and a second floor, glass-enclosed space for parties, meetings, weddings and other private events.

The concert is also being offered in recognition of the Redevelopment Agency (RDA) of Salt Lake City and its support of Utah Symphony | Utah Opera.

In the fall of 2003, the Utah Opera Production Studios (336 N. 400 W.) reopened after extensive expansion and remodeling funded in part by the Salt Lake City RDA. The Production Studios – which houses Utah Opera’s costume shop, scenic shop, rehearsal facilities, coaching studios, dance studio and administrative offices – have since been able to support better production capabilities, better communications and efficiency among staff, and expansion of Utah Opera’s set and costume rental enterprises.

The facility also serves as a gathering place for community groups and other non-profits, and allows Utah Symphony | Utah Opera to rehearse and prepare for its extensive educational and outreach programs that serve the community at large.

No tickets are necessary for this free event.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW:

July 14 | 7 PM Gallivan Plaza
       David Cho, Conductor
       Melinda Ammons, Soprano
       Darrell Babidge, Baritone
       Jennifer Babidge, Soprano
       Millinee Bannister, Mezzo Soprano
       Christopher Holmes, Baritone
       Isaac Hurtado, Tenor
       Chad Millar, Tenor

Gioachino Rossini
       Overture to Il Barbiere di Siviglia [The Barber of Seville]
       "Zitti, zitti" from Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Gaetano Donizetti
       Act II Scene and Sextet, No. 9, “Chi mi frena”
              from Lucia di Lammermoor

Giuseppe Verdi
       "Bella Figlia dell' amore" No. 12 (Quartet, Act III) from Rigoletto

Giacomo Puccini
       "Quando m'en vo" from La Bohème, "Musetta's Waltz"

Georges Bizet
       Suite No. 1 from Carmen
              I. Prélude (Prelude to Act I)
              Ia. Aragonaise (Prelude to Act IV)
              V. Les Toréadors (Introduction to Act I)

INTERMISSION

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
       Overture to Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492 [The Marriage of Figaro]
       "Cosa sento!" (Trio, Act I) from The Marriage of Figaro
       “Alla bella Despinetta” (Sextet, Act I) from Cosí fan tutte

Johann, Jr. Strauss
       Overture to Die Fledermaus
       "Mein Herr Marquis" from Die Fledermaus
       "Du und Du" (Finale Act II) from Die Fledermaus
       Overture to The Gypsy Baron
              "Tempo di valse"


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Public Hearings for Millcreek Incorporation Feasibility Study

Millcreek
Incorporation
Study Findings



Salt Lake County Council has accepted the Millcreek Incorporation Feasibility Study, and set two meetings to present the study’s findings to the public and gather feedback.

Public Hearings - Millcreek Incorporation Feasibility Study:

       July 19th, 7-9 p.m.
       Christ United Methodist Church
       2375 East 3300 South

       August 2nd, 7-9pm
       Evergreen Jr. High
       3401 S 2000 East

The full study is available on the Mayor’s Office website at: mayor.slco.org. The site also contains more information about the incorporation process: mayor.slco.org.

In January, Salt Lake County certified a petition from residents of the Millcreek Township for an incorporation feasibility study. The petition, which required signatures of owners of 10% of the property in the area, called for a feasibility study to consider incorporation. The petition was certified by the Salt Lake County Clerk’s Office.

As required by state statute, Salt Lake County then hired a consultant, Lewis, Young, Robertson & Burningham, to conduct a feasibility study of the incorporation plans. The consultant had 90 days to complete the study.

The study concluded that incorporation is feasible, but would result in significant negative fiscal impacts to Salt Lake County’s Municipal Services Budget.

After the two public hearings to present the study’s findings and hear from residents, incorporation proponents must then determine whether to proceed with the process. They would have 18 months to acquire signatures representing one third of the value of land and one third of the land area in the township. If that requirement is met, the final step to incorporation would be a vote during either a statewide primary or general election to determine city status.

“I support self determination for the people of Millcreek, either by remaining unincorporated residents or creating a new city,” said Mayor Peter Corroon. “It is clear, however, that the study shows regional services are more efficient and cost effective. I have long believed that providing services on a regional basis will help control government spending, create excellent local services and provide wider options for future growth.”

Millcreek Township is bounded by Salt Lake City, South Salt Lake, Murray and Holladay cities and on the east by Millcreek Canyon. The Township’s 65,000 residents live in four communities: Millcreek, Canyon Rim, East Mill Creek and Mount Olympus.


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