CENTERPOINT LEGACY THEATRE, “South Pacific,” through May 19, 7:30 p.m., $20 general, $19 student, Barlow Main Stage, Davis Center for the Performing Arts, 525 N. 400 West, Centerville, 801-298-1302, www.centerpointtheatre.org.

WASATCH THEATRE COMPANY, “Chapter Two,” by Neil Simon, through May 19, 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday 2 p.m. matinees on May 12 and 19, Studio Theatre, Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, $15, 801-355-2787, 888-451-2787, www.arttix.org.

PYGMALION THEATRE COMPANY, “ In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play),” by Sarah Ruhl, through May 19, 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays, Leona Wagner Black Box, Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, $20, 801-355-2787, 888-451-2787, www.arttix.org.

PIONEER THEATRE COMPANY, “Man of La Mancha,” book by Dale Wasserman, music by Mitch Leigh, lyrics by Joe Darion, through May 19, matinees at 2 p.m., evenings at 7:30 p.m. or 8 p.m., $36-$57 ($5 higher when purchased on day of performance), 801-581-6961, www.pioneertheatre.org.

HALE CENTRE THEATRE-WEST VALLEY CITY, “Father of the Bride,” through May 26, 7:30 p.m., 12:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. matinees, $24-$26 adults, $15-$16 children (children under 5 not permitted), 801-984-9000, www.halecentretheatre.org.

THE GRAND THEATRE, “Xanadu,” music and lyrics by Jeff Lynne and John Farrar, through May 26, 7:30 p.m., $10-$24, The Grand Theatre, Salt Lake Community College, 801-957-3322, www.the-grand.org.

HALE CENTRE THEATRE-OREM, “The Secret Garden,” adaptation of the 1911 novel by Francis Hodgson Burnett, through June 2, 7:30 p.m., 3 p.m. matinees, $16-$20, $12-$16 children, 801-226-8600, www.haletheater.org.

TERRACE PLAZA PLAYHOUSE, “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” through June 2, 7:30 p.m. Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays, 99 E. 4700 South, Ogden, $10-$12 general, $9-$11 seniors and students, $7-$9 children (12 and under), call box office at 801-393-0070 for tickets/reservations.

DESERT STAR PLAYHOUSE, “The Princess Brides Maid” by Ed Farnsworth, Scott Holman artistic director, through June 9, 6 p.m., 7 p.m. or 8:30 p.m., 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. matinees, playhouse prices $13.95-$17.95, $13.95 students, $12.95 seniors, $9.95 children, dinner theatre prices $38.95-$42.95, $14.95 children, no senior or student discounts, 801-266-2600, www.desertstar.biz.

THE OFF BROADWAY THEATRE, “Greece is the Word,” May 18-June 16, 7:30 p.m., $8-$16, 272 S. Main, 801-355-4628, www.theobt.org.

UTAH REGIONAL BALLET, “Once Upon A Time: Swan Lake,” May 17-19, 7:30 p.m., 2 p.m. matinee, SCERA Showhouse II, SCERA Center for the Arts, 745 South State Street, Orem, $10 general, $8 children (3-11 yrs.), $8 student (w/id), 801-255-2787, www.scera.org.

MOUNTAIN WEST BALLET, “2012 Midsummer Night’s Dream,” May 18, 8 p.m., May 19, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., May 21, 7:30 p.m., Sandy Amphitheater, 1245 E. 9400 South, seating categories, $10-$14 premium, $8-$12 priority, $7-$11 regular, 801-467-8499, 800-888-8499, www.smithstix.com.

BALLET WEST, “Innovations 2012,” spotlights some of America’s most up-and-coming choreographers, featuring works by Michael Bearden and Susan Shields, May 18-19 and 23-26, 7:30 p.m., 2 p.m. matinees, Jeanné Wagner Theatre, Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, $45 general, 801-355-2787, 888-451-2787, www.arttix.org.

THE SALT LAKE SYMPHONIC CHOIR, Spring Concert, “Music: That Old Time Religion,” Erin Pike Tall, music director, May 16, 8 p.m., Libby Gardner Concert Hall, University of Utah, $10, at the door, www.saltlakesymphonicchoir.org.

UTAH SYMPHONY, Finishing Touches, “Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1,” Thierry Fischer, conductor, Nelson Goerner, piano, May 18, 10 a.m., Abravanel Hall, $15, 801-355-2787, 888-451-2787, www.utahsymphony.org.

SALT LAKE CHORAL ARTISTS, Young Choral Artists, “Let There Be Music,” Joan Brinton, John Walker, conductors, May 18, 7 p.m., Murray High School Auditorium, 5440 S. State Street, $5 general, $15 family, www.saltlakechoralartists.org.

Nelson Goerner (Photo: Brice Toul)

UTAH SYMPHONY, “Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1,” Thierry Fischer, conductor, Nelson Goerner, piano, May 18-19, 8 p.m., Abravanel Hall, $17-$65 general, $10 students (tickets are $5 more on the day of the performance), 801-355-2787, 888-451-2787, www.utahsymphony.org.

BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY, Faculty Artist, Alexander Woods, violin, May 19, 5:30 p.m., Madsen Recital Hall, Harris Fine Arts Center, free.

SALT LAKE SYMPHONY, “Exploring Personality,” Robert Baldwin, conductor, May 19, 7:30 p.m., Libby Gardner Concert Hall, University of Utah, $10 general, $5 students and seniors, call 801-532-7501 for tickets or at the door, www.saltlakesymphony.org.

Richard Hatch, Rosemary Kimura Hatch, Jonathan Hatch

THE HATCH ACADEMY OF MAGIC AND MUSIC, “Matinée Enchantée: An Enchanting Afternoon of Magic and Music at the Mansion,” Richard Hatch, deceptionist, Rosemary Kimura Hatch, violin,  Jonathan Hatch, piano, May 19, 2 p.m., Thatcher-Young Mansion, Logan, $10 general, $8 children under 12, call 435-932-0017 or email info@HatchAcademy.com for more information, www.hatchacademy.com.

THE CATHEDRAL OF THE MADELEINE, Madeleine Festival, Cathedral Choirs, music by Tavener, Bach and Britten, May 20, 8 p.m., call 801-994-4663 for complimentary seating pass, www.utcotm.org.

EXPOSITIONS::SLC CONCERT SERIES, Larry Blackburn, organist at First Presbyterian Church of Salt Lake City, featuring favorites from the organ repertoire, May 20, 3 p.m., First Congregational Church, 2150 Foothill Dr., tickets at the door with a suggested donation of $5 general, $20 per family, www.slcexpositions.weebly.com.

UTAH VOICES, “Broadway Bingo 2012,” May 22, 7:30 p.m., Libby Gardner Concert Hall, University of Utah, for more information, www.utahvoices.org.

Robert Baldwin

Starting the program will be the suite from Leonard Bernstein’s score to the 1954 film On the Waterfront, starring a young Marlon Brando.

After intermission, the orchestra will play Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations, a set of clever musical vignettes depicting a number of Elgar’s family members, friends and acquaintances. One of these variations, Nimrod, is frequently heard by itself in concert and is without question one of Elgar’s most moving pieces.

The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. and takes place in Libby Gardner Concert Hall on the University of Utah campus. Tickets are $10 for general admission and $5 for seniors and students and are available by calling 801-531-7501 or at the door.

For more information log on to the Salt Lake Symphony’s website here.

The concert begins at 4 p.m. and ends around 10 p.m. and will feature several local performing groups.

Starting things off will be the Christian/country band Joshua Creek, followed at 5:30 p.m. by Caleb Chapman and his Voodoo Orchestra playing swing music from the 1930s and ‘40s.

At 7:30 p.m. the Choral Arts Society of Utah and the Utah National Guard 23^rd Army Band, conducted by Denny Saunders, will take the stage. They’ll perform a variety of American music, including patriotic favorites, and ending with a fireworks display accompanied by John Philip Sousa’s Stars and Stripes Forever.

The event is free and no tickets are required.

Aubree is a member of the Gifted Music School Orchestra and has given numerous concerts with various ensembles. She was also recently on From the Top, the nationally syndicated radio show that spotlights young talent from around the country.

The concert will also include a number of talented high-school-age area musicians who will sit side by side with members of the symphony. These young instrumentalists represent a number of schools and youth orchestras.

Besides the Tchaikovsky concerto the program also includes the Polonaise from Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin; a movement from Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet; Siegfrieds Tod und Trauer-Marsch from Wagner’s opera Die Götterdämmerung; and Sibelius’ tone poem Finlandia.

Vladimir Kulenovic will conduct.

Tickets are $8-$20 and available by calling 801-355-2787 or 888-451-2787 or logging in to www.utahsymphony.org.

What makes concerts by Utopia Early Music such a joy? For one thing it’s the group’s extensive repertoire that isn’t exclusively limited to “early music.” it extends beyond that to even include the first decades of the 19^th century.

For another it’s the enthusiasm that co-founders Christopher LeCluyse and Emily Nelson show when performing. It’s obvious they have a deep love for the music of the middle ages, renaissance, baroque – and beyond. And that enthusiasm is infectious; it carries over and embraces the audience. LeCluyse and Nelson certainly know how to reach out and touch their listeners.

Utopia closes out its third season this weekend with a delightful program of Italian baroque vocal music. It’s a musical tour of the country that encompasses a large number of composers – Girolamo Frescobaldi, Claudio Monteverdi and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi among the better known composers – but also a few who are relatively obscure today. Among the latter are Andrea Falconieri, Virgilio Mazzocchi, Barbara Strozzi and Francesca Caccini. The last two are women – a rarity for the time, but whose music showed them to be equals to their male contemporaries.

Much of this music is absolutely gorgeous and moving. Monteverdi, the master of the early baroque, could draw out the emotions of a text and paint a vivid musical portrait like no other composer of the period. Among his pieces on the program that are striking are “Damigella tutta bella” (“Oh damsel most beautiful”) and “Pur ti miro” (“I gaze upon you”), the closing duet from the opera L’incoronazione di Poppea.

LeCluyse, a tenor, and Nelson, a soprano, sang the majority of the pieces. They have wonderful voices that are well suited for the music of this period. Both sing with fluid, lyrical phrasings and delicately crafted expressions that bring out the melodic and harmonic subtleties of the music.

Joining them on a few of the pieces are tenor Tyler Nelson and bass Ricky Parkinson. They, too, did full justice to the music.

The singers were accompanied by Pamela Palmer Jones, harpsichord, and Frances von Seggern Bach, baroque cello, and, in a few pieces, by Lisa Chaufty, recorder and flute. The latter two were also featured on a number of purely instrumental works. Chaufty played several shorter pieces interspersed between the vocal numbers, and also played a sonata for recorder (op. 5, no. 4) by Arcangelo Corelli. In each, her playing was remarkably vibrant.

Von Seggern Bach was also featured in the Sonata III for Cello and Harpsichord by Antonio Vivaldi, where she exhibited some wonderfully expressive playing.

This is exactly the kind of program one has come to expect from Utopia Early Music and this reviewer for one is certainly looking forward to next season.

The Lyceum Philharmonic is made up of young musicians from around the state and range in age from 13 to 18. The orchestra is part of the after school music program hosted at the American Heritage School in American Fork. The ensemble has been named “Best Youth Instrumental Group” four years running by Best of State Utah, and has been recognized as one of the country’s premiere youth performing ensembles. Among soloists who have appeared with the orchestra are Jenny Oaks Baker, Michael Ballam and Peter Breinholt.

• CONCERT INFO:
• What: Lyceum Philharmonic, Kayson Brown, conductor
• Venue: Libby Gardner Concert Hall, University of Utah
• Time and Date: 8 p.m. May 12
• Tickets: $10, senior and student discounts available
• Web: www.American-Heritage.org/Show

The six are: pianists Conlan Miller, Delta, and Jasmine Weiss, Orem; violinist Rachel Ostler, Provo; and baritone Ross Coughanour, Provo.

Among the youngest competitors, pianists Alicia Liu, 12, from Salt Lake City, and Mary-Frances Oldham, 8, from Fruit Heights, won the right to perform with the orchestra. They’ll each play a movement from J.S. Bach’s Concerto in A major.

Other works on the program are movements from Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No . 2 in G major; Johannes Brahms’ Violin Concerto; and Camille Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 4. Coughanour will sing an aria from Gaetano Donizetti’s opera La Favorita.

Also at the concert will be a Mother’s Day themed silent auction. Among the items to be auctioned are gift baskets, personal services and spa packages. For more information visit the orchestra’s website at www.omsymphony.org.

• CONCERT INFO:
• What: Oquirrh Mountain Symphony
• Venue: Midvalley Bible Church, 13985 S. 2700 West, Bluffdale
• Time and Date: 7 p.m. May 12
• Tickets: $10 general, $5 seniors, students, children
• Phone: 888-239-6237
• Web: www.omsymphony.org
• Email: tickets@omsymphony.org

Christopher LeCluyse

The concert spotlights the music of Claudio Monteverdi. “(It) forms the backbone of the program,” LeCluyse wrote. “While he didn’t invent the baroque, he did a lot to develop the new style and exerted an immeasurable influence on other composers.”

The musical style that emerged in the years around 1600 and which came to be called the baroque differed significantly from the preceding era. “What makes baroque music baroque is the use of basso continuo, part of the process that relegated the bass line to harmonic support and the top line to melody,” LeCluyse wrote, unlike the renaissance, where “all voices held equal importance musically.”

Expressions also began to play a greater role. “The musical language became more emotionally expressive and rhetorical.” The baroque era, which is traditionally considered to cover the years from around 1600 (the period when Monteverdi was composing) to around 1750 (the year of J.S. Bach’s death), is divided into three periods – early, middle and late. And LeCluyse pointed out that there is a distinct difference between the works from the early and late periods. “Early baroque music is more passionate and experimental, while the late music is more structured and refined.”

Besides Monteverdi, the program will also feature two women composers, Barbara Strozzi and Francesca Caccini. “They were famous in their own time and remain some of the greats in the history of music,” LeCluyse wrote.

Also on the program will be music by Arcangelo Corelli (“the father of the late baroque,” wrote LeCluyse), Giovanni Batista Pergolesi and Antonio Vivaldi.

Emily Nelson

Singers joining LeCluyse, who is a tenor, and fellow Utopia co-founder Emily Nelson, soprano, are tenor Tyler Nelson and bass Ricky Parkinson. Instrumentalists performing on the concert are Lisa Chaufty, recorder and flute; Pam Jones, harpsichord; and Frances von Seggern Bach, cello.

LeCluyse believes the concert will be appealing for the audience. “All of this music really puts it out there. The pieces cover the full range of human emotions, sometimes in the same work.”

• CONCERT INFO:
• What: Utopia Early Music, “Generous Beauty: A Musical Tour of Baroque Italy”
• Venue: St. Marks Episcopal Cathedral, 231 E. 100 South
• Time and Date: 8 p.m. May 11, 5 p.m. May 13
• Tickets: Free, but donations accepted (suggested donations $15 general, $12 seniors, #10 students)
• Web: www.utopiaearlymusic.org