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Barlow Bradford tries to bring a new twist to his Utah Chamber Artists' popular Collage Concert at the Cathedral of the Madeleine each season. This year, it's dance.
Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company artistic director Daniel Charon is creating new choreography to pair with the choir and chamber orchestra's performance of J.A.C. Redford's "Rest Now, My Sister," a tribute to the composer's murdered sister-in-law. UCA gave the piece its world premiere five years ago on the Collage Concert. Bradford had been thinking of reviving it, and in conversations with Charon about a collaboration, it felt like a good fit for dance. Ririe-Woodbury company members also will dance on two short pieces by Seattle composer Donald Skirvin.
The concert's centerpiece will be Brahms' Alto Rhapsody, seldom performed because of the unusual forces it requires — male chorus, orchestra and alto soloist. When Bradford, who directs choral studies at the University of Utah, learned that mezzo-soprano Kirsten Chavez was joining the faculty, "everything came together." Chavez will sing another Brahms song and a selection from Bizet's "Carmen" as well.
Other featured performers on the program, which strings together shorter musical selections by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Herbert Howells and other composers throughout the cathedral in a continuous flow of sound, are cathedral organist Gabriele Terrone and Utah Symphony violinist David Porter.
Where • Cathedral of the Madeleine, 330 E. South Temple, Salt Lake City
When • Monday, Sept. 26, 8 p.m. Organizers recommend arriving early for this perennially popular concert.
Admission • Free; suggested donation, $5
Catherine Reese Newton