There’ll be a free Rooftop Concert sponsored by cjaneprovo.com on Friday, October 1, at 8 p.m. on top of the parking structure at 100 N 100 W in Provo, Utah. The concert will feature The Lower Lights: A Hymn Revival, a group organized with the hope of strengthening testimonies through hymns.
New Play Project, who we featured in Issue 1, has a Best of New Play Project show running this week in Provo:
Plays in the set include: Davey Morrison’s “Adam and Eve,” Matthew Greene’s “Foxgloves,” Eric Samuelsen’s “Gaia,” Melissa Leilani Larson’s “A Burning in the Bosom,” and James Goldberg’s “Prodigal Son.”
NPP is also selling copies of its new anthology, Out of the Mount: 19 From New Play Project.
For more information, check out the New Play Project website or the Facebook event page.
Upcoming BYU concert celebrating Mormon composers:
An evening showcasing composers who are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will take place at Brigham Young University’s Madsen Recital Hall Thursday, Sept. 23, at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets are $10 for students, $5 for children and $20 for a family pack. Tickets are available by visiting the Fine Arts Ticket Office, byuarts.com, or by calling (801) 422-4322.
The concert, titled “A Celebration of Mormon Music: From Crawford Gates to Trevor Matthews,” will celebrate the vibrant LDS composers of the past and present. Music by LDS composers like Crawford Gates, Marie Nelson and Robert Manookin will be performed, as well as pieces from recent BYU graduates like Trevor Matthews, Mark Daniel Witmer and Benjamin Taylor. Works by BYU faculty will also be performed.
Music from LDS composers living outside the United States will also be represented, including works by Australian composer John W. Grant and Kuwait-based English composer Harriet Bushman.
The concert is hosted by the LDS Composers Trust, an organization that promotes the discovery, performance, recording and promoting of classical or concert music by Mormon composers.
For more information, contact Glenn Gordon, chair of the LDS Composers Trust, at glenn.gordon7@bigpond.com.
Eric Forsyth is an acoustic pop folk artist from Boulder, Colorado. He’s releasing his second album, The Thick of Thin Things, on September 25. You can preorder it on his website or attend his CD release show in downtown Boulder, Colorado, for free. Check out his Facebook page for more details.
The Deseret News has put together a comprehensive schedule for many of Utah’s arts concerts through the end of the year. Two well-known Mormon artists will perform during this time:
Check each venue’s website for ticket details.
The Church is looking for actors to be a part of a film project re-creating stories from the New Testament. The films will be available to members and aid them with teaching situations, gospel study, and missionary opportunities. Filming will begin in the spring of 2011 in Salt Lake City.
Shaun Barrowes, who we featured in Issue 5, will kick off his Live for Music tour at 7:00 p.m. on September 8 and 9 at Maple Mountain High School in Spanish Fork, Utah. Tickets are $10. Go to Reverbnation for more information about tickets and other upcoming locations.
Each performance includes students from the hosting high school for a local flair. The schools receive 75% of the profits, and the other 25% goes to Child Cause, a support system for teens that have been affected by substance abuse. Be sure to check out the tour website for more information.
I Am Jane is Margaret Blair Young’s award-winning stage play about Jane Manning James, an early black LDS pioneer who survived the mobs at Nauvoo, the westward trek to the Salt Lake Valley and the societal prejudices of an unforgiving era with unyielding faith, courage, and tolerance. Historically accurate, the play explores the challenges Jane and other black Mormons faced within the LDS Church, especially during the settlement and establishment of what is now Utah.
For an extensive review by Mahonri Stewart, see A Motley Vision.
For thoughts from the playwright, see Dawning of a Brighter Day.
For tickets, visit http://www.coveycenter.org.
If you’re in the Provo area, be sure to check out Melissa Leilani Larson’s new play A Flickering, which closes this weekend.
Quoting from the press release: “Set against the turbulent early twentieth century, A Flickering is the story of a young woman, Max Edwards, trying to break into the infant movie industry while her best friend, Samantha, is on her way to a theatrical acting career. Controversy fuels the success of Max’s first picture, but at the risk of Samantha’s reputation — and their friendship.”
When: Friday @ 7:30pm, Saturday @ 2:30pm and 7:30pm, and Monday @ 7:30 pm
Where: 105 E 100 N, Provo, UT
How much: $12 general, $10 student/senior
Tickets: http://www.provostage.org
Photos: A Flickering
The We Are Women Project is collecting photographs to accompany essays on the divine attributes of women. The deadline is January 12, 2010, and the submission guidelines are available at http://applehandmades.blogspot.com/2009/11/we-are-women.html. The essays and photos will be published in a book with all proceeds going to the Campaign to End Fistula.
