15 May 2013

OverDrive's Big Library Read

OverDrive's Big Library Read

OverDrive's Big Library Read ~ May 15 - June 1, 2013

Salt Lake County Library is pleased to participate in the Big Library Read presented by OverDrive from May 15-June 1, 2013, when libraries worldwide will encourage their patrons to read the same eBook. The program is designed to create a global “library book club,” with book lovers all reading The Four Corners of the Sky by Michael Malone. The novel received rave reviews, including starred reviews from People and Kirkus. It is a novel of love, secrets, and the mysterious bonds of families. The author brings characters to life as only he can, exploring the questions that defy easy answers: Is love a choice or a calling? Why do the ties of family bind so tightly? And is forgiveness a gift to others…or a gift we give ourselves? The downloadable eBook will be available from the library's website for OverDrive Read, Kindle, EPUB and PDF.


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Ririe-Woodbury Names New Artistic Director

Daniel Charon

Ririe-Woodbury Names New Artistic Director

On the eve of its 50th Anniversary, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company is proud to announce the appointment of Daniel Charon as Artistic Director. Charon becomes the second full-time, and first male, artistic director after Shirley Ririe and Joan Woodbury stepped down in 2008. Charon has been based in New York since 1995 and has worked with such prestigious companies as Limón Dance Company, Doug Varone and Dancers, Dance Kaleidoscope and Doug Elkins and Friends. He’s been choreographing since 1998 and led his own project company from 2004 to 2011. Since then, he has completed his MFA in Choreography and Integrated Media from CalArts.

The 50th Anniversary Season will feature an unprecedented nine new commissions. In the fall Ririe-Woodbury will take a look back at the formative works of the Company by Joan Woodbury and Shirley Ririe, as well as a look forward with a new creation by Daniel Charon. In December, six prominent alumni from the Company return to set their new works on the Ririe-Woodbury Dancers and fellow alums. In January and February, the new show for all ages by circus and dance maestro Tandy Beal, takes what is before us and turns it inside out and upside down, revealing unexpected delight or mystery. In April there will be three new premiers – a new multi-media collaboration between New York choreographer Doug Varone and University of Utah professor and filmmaker Ellen Bromberg, a new commission by Sweden-based Ririe-Woodbury alumnus Miguel Azcue, as well as a new work by Daniel Charon. Season tickets for the 50th Anniversary Season will be available at www.ririewoodbury.com on June 3rd.

Quotes:
“It is with great enthusiasm that I welcome the opportunity to take on the role of artistic director for the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company. I am eager to give my full attention and effort as the ambassador and artistic leader of this respected organization.”
       ~ Daniel Charon, Artistic Director

“I believe the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company proudly fits on this world stage as a dance organization of the highest caliber. It combines a strong educational initiative with outstanding goals toward artistic vision by performing historical repertory, commissioning world-class artists, as well as supporting the work of an artistic director. Success and longevity in these multiple facets is truly unique. Salt Lake City is extremely fortunate to be the home of such an amazing company.”
       ~ Daniel Charon

“Looking forward, my goal is to continue this great legacy that is inclusive of all audiences, while pushing the boundaries of contemporary dance. My aim is to continue to bring great artists to Salt Lake City, to expose a variety of quality choreographic perspectives, to expand the national and international presence of the company, and to continue to inspire meaningful conversation about humanity through the art of dance.”
       ~ Daniel Charon

“Daniel brings experience and a fresh point of view in contemporary dance to Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company. We are extremely excited to introduce a new artistic voice to the Utah, national and international community. We would like to thank our Artistic Director Search Committee, Boards and public for all of their support.”
       ~ Jena Woodbury, Managing Director

“As a choreographer, Mr. Charon’s dances have a beautiful sense of craft and design. He has a tremendous eye for how bodies can move in special relationship with each other, gently shifting the emotional balance of a work.”
       ~ Doug Varone, Artistic Director, Doug Varone & Dancers

About Daniel Charon
Daniel is a dance artist who has been active as a choreographer, teacher, and performer since 1995. His performing and choreographic career spans 17 years in which time he performed with numerous dance, opera, and theater companies. He choreographs extensively throughout the country and maintains a project-based company. His substantial background in teaching spans more than 20 years. Daniel is a B.F.A. graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts and a 2013 M.F.A graduate in Choreography and Integrated Media at the California Institute of the Arts.

Daniel was a full-time member of Doug Varone and Dancers for ten seasons (1999 – 2010). As a member of the company he was part of over 20 new works and served as the rehearsal director. He was a member of the Limón Dance Company for three seasons (1996 – 1999) where he was featured in work by choreographers such as José Limón, Anthony Tudor, and Jirí Kylián. Additionally, he performed with Doug Elkins and Friends, the Metropolitan Opera, the Aquila Theater Company, the Mary Anthony Dance Theater, Opera Colorado, Minnesota Opera, Music Theater of Wichita, Mordine and Company, and Dance Kaleidoscope (Indianapolis).

Daniel’s choreographic career encompasses a variety of experiences. His work has been produced by the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Festival, the Inside/Out series at Jacob’s Pillow, the Dance Complex (Cambridge, MA), and by East Tennessee State University. He has also presented two full evening concerts at Joyce SoHo (NYC). Daniel has been commissioned to choreograph new work for many companies, universities, and festivals; including the Summer Stages Dance Festival (Concord, MA), the VIA Dance Collective (NYC) , the d9 Dance Collective (Seattle) and most recently the Zenon Dance Company (Minneapolis) where his piece Storm was named “Best Dance Performance of 2012” by Minneapolis City Pages. He received a choreographic fellowship from the Summer Stages Dance Festival and has been the artist in residence at the Silo at Kirkland Farm three times. Daniel is a recipient of Dance Theater Workshop’s Outer/Space Creative Residency and of Topaz Arts Solo Flight Creative Residency. He has created over 15 new works on students in workshop situations.

Since 1996 Daniel has been teaching in New York at respected studios such as the Limón Institute, the 92nd Street Y, Peridance Center, 100 Grand, Dance New Amsterdam (formerly Dancspace Center), and University Settlement. He regularly teaches master classes and workshops around the country and has taught at the Metropolitan Opera, the Bates Dance Festival, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts Summer Comprehensive, the Varone Summer Dance Workshop (2000 – 2009), and the Limón Summer Workshop (1996 – 1999). He has been a guest artist at numerous universities and was an adjunct faculty member at Hunter College (NYC) as well as the California Institute of the Arts.


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Utah Symphony Concludes Season with Music by Dvořák and Brahms

Utah Symphony Concludes Season with
Music by Dvořák and Brahms

The Utah Symphony presents Dvořák and Brahms in Abravanel Hall.
Friday, May 24, 2013, 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, May 25, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

Utah Symphony Associate Conductor Vladimir Kulenovic brings the Utah Symphony’s 2012-13 Masterwork Series to a spectacular close by conducting two master composers’ stunning works.

Vladimir Kulenovic has led the Utah Symphony in many education, family, and pops concerts throughout the state of Utah but will for the first time lead the orchestra in a performance on the Masterworks Series in Abravanel Hall. The May 24 and 25 performances will begin at 8:00 p.m. with the sophisticated Symphony No. 2 by Johannes Brahms. The concert will also include two exciting works by Brahms’ Czech contemporary, Antonín Dvořák. These include his “Slavonic Dances” op. 72 nos. 2 and 3 as well as the Violin Concerto in A minor with international soloist Augustin Hadelich.

Repertoire
After finishing the momentous task of writing his first symphony, Brahms produced his second symphony with ease. Brahms’s Symphony No. 2 is almost pastoral in its light-hearted passages and careful structuring. The symphony is often compared to Beethoven’s “Pastoral” because of its form and its sophistication of melodic and harmonic writing.

The vivid and colorful “Slavonic Dances” brought Dvořák international recognition and launched his world-wide career. His original set of “Slavonic Dances” was written in response to Brahms’s “Hungarian Dances.” The second set was written at the request of Dvořák’s publisher, who insisted on more due to the success of the first set. Both sets of dances are now among his most beloved works.

Dvořák’s Violin Concerto in A minor was dedicated to Hungarian violinist Joseph Joachim, who was also a mutual friend of Brahms. While Dvořák was composing the concerto, Joachim wasn’t fully pleased and asked for multiple revisions. After the revisions were made, still to Joachim’s disapproval, the piece was premiered in Prague by a different violinist. The piece retained the original dedication to Joachim although he never performed it.

Pre-concert Chat
Associate Conductor Vladimir Kulenovic, Vice President of Artistic Planning Toby Tolokan, and guest artist Augustin Hadelich will present a free pre-concert chat each night, one hour prior to the start of the performance on the orchestra level of Abravanel Hall.

Tickets can be purchased by calling 801-355-2787, in person at the Abravanel Hall ticket office (123 W. South Temple) or by visiting www.utahsymphony.org.

Guest Artist
Consistently cited in the press for his “gorgeous tone,” “poetic communication” and “fast-fingered brilliance,” Augustin Hadelich has confirmed his place in the top echelon of young violinists. After performing a stellar debut with the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood in August playing the Barber Violin Concerto, he has recently played an equally impressive subscription debut with the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center playing Lalo’s “Symphonie espagnole.”

Among Mr. Hadelich’s 2012/2013 season highlights are debuts with the Buffalo Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, National Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Saint Louis Symphony, San Francisco Symphony and the Toronto Symphony, as well as re-invitations to the Colorado, Houston and Jacksonville symphonies. This summer he will appear with the Britt Festival Orchestra, Chautauqua Festival Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl and the New York Philharmonic at Vail. Among his upcoming worldwide engagements are the BBC Philharmonic, SWR Orchestra/Stuttgart and the Tampere Philharmonic.

In the United States, Augustin Hadelich has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pacific Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, and the symphonies of Alabama, Atlanta, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Colorado, Columbus, Florida, Fort Worth, Houston, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Louisville, Nashville, New Orleans, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, Syracuse, Utah, Vancouver and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Festival appearances include Aspen, Blossom, Bravo! Vail Valley, Chautauqua (where he made his American debut in 2001), Hollywood Bowl and Tanglewood.

Mr. Hadelich has recorded two CDs for AVIE: Flying Solo, a CD of masterworks for solo violin (including the Bartók solo sonata); and Echoes of Paris, which features French and Russian repertoire influenced by Parisian culture in the early 20th century. For Naxos, he has recorded Haydn’s complete violin concerti with the Cologne Chamber Orchestra and Telemann’s complete Fantasies for Solo Violin. A new CD, Histoire du Tango will be released in the spring of 2013.

The 2006 Gold medalist of the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, Mr. Hadelich is the recipient of Lincoln Center’s Martin E. Segal Award (2012), an Avery Fisher Career Grant (2009) and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship in the UK (2011).

Born in Italy in 1984, the son of German parents, Augustin Hadelich holds an artist diploma from The Juilliard School, where he was a student of Joel Smirnoff. He plays on the 1723 “Ex-Kiesewetter” Stradivari violin, on loan from Clement and Karen Arrison through the generous efforts of the Stradivari Society.

Program
The Utah Symphony presents:
       Dvořák and Brahms
              Vladimir Kulenovic, Conductor
              Augustin Hadelich, Violin

Antonin Dvořák
       Slavonic Dances, op. 72
              No. 2 in E minor: Allegretto grazioso
              No. 3 in F major: Allegro
       Concerto in A minor for Violin and Orchestra, op. 53
              I. Allegro, ma non troppo
              II. Adagio, ma non troppo
              III. Finale: Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo
                     Augustin Hadelich, Violin

Intermission

Johannes Brahms
       Symphony No. 2 in D Major, op. 73
              I. Allegro non troppo
              II. Adagio non troppo
              III. Allegretto grazioso (Quasi andantino)
              IV. Allegro con spirito


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