The Utah Symphony concluded its regular season this past weekend with a program featuring three contemporary works: Fanfare Ritmico by Jennifer Higdon, Fandango by Arturo Márquez, and Symphony No. 3 by Aaron Copland. Guest conductor Giancarlo Guerrero and violinist Anne Akiko Meyers joined the symphony for these concerts. I attended Friday evening's performance, and I... Continue Reading →
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Life became busy and took me in several different directions, keeping me from writing about the performing arts events I was attending. I am happy to be back writing about The Good Life, so let's jump in! I decided on a whim to attend Saturday evening's Utah Symphony concert, featuring two composers' interpretations of Scheherazade.... Continue Reading →
Ballet West delivered an outstanding performance of Swan Lake on its opening night, Friday, February 9, 2024. Swan Lake is an inherently beautiful ballet as it depicts a classic fairy-tale set to Tchaikovsky's music, and Ballet West's dancers, orchestra, costume designers, and set designers created a particularly magical rendition that enchanted me from beginning to... Continue Reading →
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Utah Opera is currently staging Rachel Portman and Nicholas Wright's The Little Prince, having debuted this opera in January of 2019. I was fortunate to see and fall in love with the debut production,... Continue Reading →
I was delighted to attend the matinée of Ballet West's The Nutcracker on Wednesday, December 27, 2023, the final day of this season's production. Ballet West's co-founder, Willam Christensen, originally choreographed this version of The Nutracker, the first full-length production in the United States, in 1944 during his tenure with the San Francisco Ballet. He... Continue Reading →
Ballet West continued its 60th anniversary season with a mixed repertoire program titled Firebird that included three shorter works: Igor Stravinsky's The Firebird, choreographed by Willam Christensen; the world premiere of Fever Dream, composed and choreographed by former Ballet West Demi-Soloist Joshua Whitehead; and George Balanchine's Stars and Stripes, set to music by John Philip... Continue Reading →
Audra McDonald, versatile star of stage and screen, joined the Utah Symphony for two performances this weekend at Abravanel Hall. Having attended her concert with the Utah Symphony in the spring of 2018, I knew that she would deliver a fantastic performance, so I was excited to hear her again on Friday night. Her singing... Continue Reading →
The 2023-2024 season marks Ballet West's 60th anniversary, and the company is celebrating that milestone by staging several beloved fan favorites. Ballet West began the season at the end of October with a production of Dracula, and several colleagues and I attended its last performance. The story opens in the crypt of Count Dracula's castle... Continue Reading →
I have a long-standing aversion to horror films that stems from negative experiences watching horror movies when I was younger. However, when I learned that this year marks the 50th anniversary of The Exorcist and local theaters would be showing it during October, I decided that it would be worth it to see this classic... Continue Reading →
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