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The International Music Camp's 2018 Festival of the Arts concert series in the International Peace Garden kicks off June 8. All events begin at 8 p.m. and are free and open to the public except where noted. All concerts will be held in the Burdick Center for the Performing Arts unless otherwise noted.
The Game Of Thrones star will narrate the famed composer's musical homage to former US President Abraham Lincoln alongside the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra who gave the world premiere of the work in 1942. Written for narrator and orchestra, the work sets the speeches and writings of Lincoln against orchestral composition to create a musical portrait of the former president.
"I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty": John F. Kennedy's words, carved in the white marble cliffs of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in Washington, D.C., have always seemed more wistful than hopeful. These days, with brutality and ugliness in the ascendant, they have a critical edge.
On a cold, wet January night in 1973, Richard Nixon and his entourage descended upon the Kennedy Center Concert Hall to hear Eugene Ormandy conduct the Philadelphia Orchestra. The concert was one of the highlights of Nixon's second inaugural, and though Washington's National Symphony Orchestra usually performed at such events, the president had a particular love for the Fabulous Philadelphians, as the storied ensemble with the plush string sound and bright, resonant brass was once known.
THURSDAY 6/22 Salt Lake Acting Co.: Saturday's Voyeur 2017 There are years when Saturday's Voyeur - Salt Lake Acting Co.' s annual satirical musical comedy revue - is certain to focus on specifically local headlines.