Catherine Reese Newton

Copy editor

A graduate of Granger High School and Utah State University, Cathy joined the Tribune staff in 1988. She has been a copy editor, hyphenating compound modifiers and eschewing the serial comma, since 1989; she also has written about music since 1990. Other skills include speaking Spanish, throwing Harry Potter-themed parties and baking lemon bars.

(Courtesy photo by Kent Miles for Utah Opera) Eisenstein, played by Daniel Belcher, tries to flirt with a Hungarian countess at a party — unaware that she's actually his wife, Rosalinda, played by Sara Gartland, in a scene from Utah Opera's "Die Fledermaus."

Raise a glass to four decades of Utah Opera with bubbly ‘Die Fledermaus’

By Catherine Reese Newton | May 12, 2018, 2:29 p.m.

(Chris Detrick | The Salt Lake Tribune) Barlow Bradford conducts members of the Utah Youth Orchestras & Ensembles perform "The Apotheosis of Aristides," during a rehearsal at Utah Opera Saturday, January 13, 2018.

A little-known Holocaust hero saved thousands, including a boy who became a University of Utah professor. Hundreds of Utah teen musicians will tell the story.

By Catherine Reese Newton | January 26, 2018, 2:32 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Cast of Utah Opera's "Moby-Dick," Roger Honeywell as Captain Ahab, Musa Ngqungwana as Queequeg and Joshua Dennis as Greenhorn, the narrator, who, unlike in the novel, doesn't ask us to call him Ishmael until the very end of the opera, come together on the large set.

‘Moby-Dick’ opera transforms a massive novel into a human-scaled epic

By Catherine Reese Newton | January 25, 2018, 11:04 p.m.

From 135 chapters to under 3 hours of epic adventure, here’s the story behind Utah Opera’s new read on ‘Moby-Dick’

By Catherine Reese Newton | January 14, 2018, 12:38 p.m.

Peter Miller | Deutsche Grammophon

Hilary Hahn, Violinist.

Hilary Hahn, one of the world’s best-known violinists, is flawless in first of two weekend performances with the Utah Symphony

By Catherine Reese Newton | January 6, 2018, 5:44 p.m.

(Steve Griffin | The Salt Lake Tribune) Masa Fukuda directs the One Voice Children's Choir during a concert at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building in Salt Lake City Friday December 8, 2017.

How a Utah choir director is taking 140 young singers to create One Voice — and teach lessons of music and life

By Catherine Reese Newton | December 15, 2017, 6:50 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas extravaganza kicks off with Broadway star Sutton Foster and "Downton Abbey's" Hugh Bonneville at the Conference Center on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017.

Sutton Foster, Hugh Bonneville thoroughly charm the crowd at Mormon Tabernacle Choir concert

By Catherine Reese Newton | December 15, 2017, 6:30 a.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune)

Ron Gunnell, Mormon Tabernacle Choir.Thursday, November 30, 2017.

How does the Mormon Tabernacle Choir land top-notch guests? Here’s the man to ask.

By Catherine Reese Newton | December 14, 2017, 2:55 p.m.

(Courtesy of Nick Briggs/Carnival Film & Television Limited 2015 for Masterpiece) Hugh Bonneville as Robert, Earl of Grantham, in "Downton Abbey."

From ‘Downton Abbey’ to downtown Salt Lake City, Hugh Bonneville joins Mormon Tabernacle Choir for Christmas shows

By Catherine Reese Newton | December 13, 2017, 7:11 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Richard Elliott snaps his fingers as he plays "Go Tell if on the Mountain" with his feet.

Meet the Mormon Tabernacle Choir’s secret weapon: organist Richard Elliott

By Catherine Reese Newton | December 10, 2017, 6:11 p.m.