It was a dark and stormy night The Chamber Music Society of Salt Lake City was born at a Halloween party in the fall of 1966. Some friends had gathered in the Avenues and founding member Gale Dick recalls discussing chamber music with another guest at the party. Dick had just arrived in Utah from...
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J.A.C. Redford’s Rest Now, My Sister
Utah Chamber Artists Executive Director Becky Durham sends us a post about the premier this Monday and Tuesday of a new work by composer J.A.C. Redford based on the brutal murder of the composer's sister-in-law last December.
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Stephen Voorhees’ String Quartets Win Competition
Two new pieces have been added to the lineup of the Utah Chamber Artists’ Chant & Contemplation Cathedral Collage concert, featured in this month’s edition of 15 Bytes. In a first-ever partnership, Utah Chamber Artists (UCA) and the Salty Cricket Composers Collective put out a call to commission to short works for string quartet. They...
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John Adams’ On the Transmigration of Souls
The Utah Symphony plays John Adams' On the Transmigration of Souls, honoring the victims of the September 11th attacks.
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Utah Chamber Artists’ Collage Concert
Jennifer Napier-Pearce previews the Utah Chamber Artists' Collage Concert this month at the Cathedral of the Madeleine.
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Serious Listening
If you want to hear music by Benjamin Britten that is almost never performed and music that offers sounds you have rarely heard, then you will want to attend Intermezzo’s concert on Monday, July 11th.
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Park City Film Music Festival
Some films are as well-known for their scores as they are for any moving images or dialogue. Think Jaws or Indiana Jones. But far too often the film score is neglected by the public, critics and award ceremonies. With the Park City Film Music Festival, which runs at the end of May, Leslie Harlow is...
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Brian Stucki
In this month's edition of 15 Bytes Laura Durham introduces us to the unique story of a globetrotting tenor.
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Utah Chamber Artists: Bernstein, Mozart and the Miraculous Case of the High “C”s
by Crystal Young-Otterstrom Once upon a time I hated all music written after 1900. That statement was true for all music including pop and classical. Shocking, I know. Little by little I happened upon pieces of music that blew my mind, until I finally became the music nerd I am today — wildly obsessed with...
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