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A mixed Filipina filmmaker adrift about her identity in American society: Melissa Leilani Larson’s Mestiza, or Mixed, set for Plan-B Theatre premiere June 9-19

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In Melissa Leilani Larson’s newest play Mestiza, Or Mixed, thirty-something Lark Timon is a struggling filmmaker hoping to make a big break with one of her six screenplays. Lark, who identifies as a mixed Filipino female, believes her script set in the American West is a sure bet. Lark describes her female protagonist as Reyna, … Read more

It’s all about connections: NOVA Chamber Music Series announces 2022-23 season

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The word “connections” would be an ideal one-word summary for the 2022-23 season of the NOVA Chamber Music Series. As music directors, in programming the six Libby Gardner Hall concerts and the two Gallery Series concerts, the Fry Street Quartet has assembled an impressive lineup. The season includes world and Utah premieres and with the … Read more

With some new features, more than 90 cultural groups, 17 food vendors, Living Traditions Festival set for May 20-22 in downtown Salt Lake City

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There is no doubt that Utah’s population, especially within the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, is becoming more diverse and cosmopolitan. In the 2020 census, one out of every three individuals in Salt Lake County identified their ethnicity as other than white. And, a large majority of the state’s current population of more than 60,000 … Read more

NOVA Chamber Music Series set to close momentous season of songs with Songs of Migration

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It has been a momentous season of exquisite songs for NOVA Chamber Music Series, and the closing concert will cap it properly. Songs of Migration (May 1, 3 p.m.,Libby Gardner Hall) offers a sample of familiar works and pieces that deserve widespread attention – all of the selections signifying cross-cultural fertilization in music.  No NOVA … Read more

A delightful musical journey for families: Bachauer set to close its 2021-22 concert season with Hsiang Tu’s The Ivory Menagerie

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Pianist Hsiang Tu knows how to play to an audience, especially when it involves, as he describes it, 50 third-graders. Professor Tu, who currently is on the Virginia Tech faculty and previously taught at Utah Valley University and Snow College, was inspired to curate a recital of short piano works based on animal themes, which … Read more

Repertory Dance Theatre set to present new production of Six Songs from Ellis, highlighting stories of immigration

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Oral histories are among the most prized resources in historical research. They capture stories that otherwise might not have been written or lost. Chronicling the history of immigration in the U.S. is enriched by the stories of those who decided to leave their homelands, travel great distances often in difficult circumstances and arrive in a … Read more

NOVA Chamber Music Series’ Songs of the Americas features works by Clarice Assad, Gabriela Lena Frank, Anthony R. Green, Charles Ives, Jessie Montgomery

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A truly contemporary landscape representation animates the upcoming NOVA Chamber Music Series concert Songs of the Americas (April 10, 3 p.m., Libby Gardner Hall at The University of Utah). The concert, which celebrates not just the U.S. but the whole diasporas of the entire American continental geography, will feature works by three composers already represented … Read more

Pianist Jason Hardink’s Concord/Revisited Project set for Westminster College, featuring world premieres by 4 composers, Ives’ Concord Sonata

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“Sometimes, on Sundays, I heard the bells, the Lincoln, Acton, Bedford, or Concord bell, when the wind was favorable, a faint, sweet, and, as it were, natural melody, worth importing into the wilderness. At a sufficient distance over the woods this sound acquires a certain vibratory hum, as if the pine needles in the horizon … Read more

Two major concerts coming to Salt Lake City: Bachauer presenting Ching-Yun Hu in all-Liszt program; NOVA Chamber Music Series’ Songs of Play with world premieres by Stephanie Ann Boyd, Luke Dahn

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Two concerts in Salt Lake City this coming weekend highlight outstanding programming options by major institutions.  GINA BACHAUER INTERNATIONAL PIANO FOUNDATION: CHING-YUN HU, CONCERT OF LISZT Pianist Ching-Yun Hu remembers how the stereotypes about Franz Liszt were ingrained in her as a child when she was studying music. “This was not a composer we were … Read more

Once again, the audience has the voting power: Repertory Dance Theatre’s Regalia available this week in streaming video on demand format, as 4 choreographers set their sights on commission prize 

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While Repertory Dance Theatre (RDT) is holding Regalia, its largest annual fundraiser, online for the second year ago, the event is no less audacious than its usual in-person format.  Four choreographers are assigned a group of dancers to create a short work (usually five but less than 10 minutes in length) in just four hours. … Read more