Popular Westminster Bell Choirs to Perform Saturday May 18

Using four octaves of English handbells and three octaves of chimes, the Westminster Bell Choirs will the fill the Logan Tabernacle with the sound of everything from classical to contemporary favorites at 7pm Saturday May 18th.  

The performance will include Andante: from Vivaldi's "Concerto is G Major," the spiritual "Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho" and Ladya Gaga's "Just Dance."  The audiernce will ber encouraged to dfrum along with the African brat of "Bwana Asifiwe! (Praise the Lord)" and enjoy the Cinderella story anew through Westminster ringer Jill Bowers" newest composition, "Cinderella's Escape."  

The 20 ringers of the two Westminster Bell Choirs will be joined by Claire Cardon on violin, Emma Cardon on cello, Nathan Hult on percussion and Colleen Gordin on bass guitar.

Cathy Ferrand Bullock is the director the choir.  You may like to see a short YouTube video of the Handbell Choir by clicking here.  

Check April and March Posts for Summer Noon Music info and also an upcoming Organ Festival with four of our immensely talented local organists on Friday, May 24th, Karla Axtell, Kelvin Smith, Jonathan Rose and Harry Heap.

The Logan Tabernacle Concert and Lecture Series is associated with Cache Community Connections and appreciates the support of the Cache County RAPZ tax.

NOON MUSIC SERIES June 3 through August 9th

You may click on the capitalized bolded Dark Red names for websites

There are two more Logan Tabernacle Concerts planned for the month of MAY.  The Westminster Handbell Choir will perform on Saturday May 18th at 7pm.  An Organ Festival is planned for Friday May 24th at 7pm.  Click here for prior post with more info. Also plan to join us THIS SUMMER at the Logan Tabernacle for summer musical experiences at NOON in DOWNTOWN LOGAN!


DATES
The dates for Noon Music at the Tabernacle will be from June 3rd-August 9th, 2013.  Concerts are Mondays through Fridays at 12 Noon and all concerts are FREE to the public.    There will be NO concerts on June 12-14 as that is when SUMMERFEST activities will be  on the Tabernacle grounds. The Tabernacle building will be closed. 

SCHEDULES
By May 25, the plan is to have the daily schedule of performances on this blog so you can download a copy for your own.  Flyers of the schedule will be placed at the CACHE VALLEY VISITOR BUREAU, several Motels and businesses around town, and will be handed out at SUMMER CITIZEN ORIENTATION on May 30th.  You will also be able to pick up a schedules in the Logan Tabernacle on the first day of performances which is Monday, June 3rd. Each week, the HERALD JOURNAL will have information in the HAPPENINGS section of the newspaper and on Friday, the CACHE MAGAZINE will give the list of performers for the next week

PERFORMANCES
We are excited for the performances this year.  Members from UTAH FESTIVAL OPERA & MUSICAL THEATRE will perform on Mondays starting June 10th.  Other popular regulars will be the OLD LYRIC THEATRE members (4 times) Corey Christiansen, Lightwood Duo, FryStreet Quartet, and Banjoman & Co. among several other favorites.  There will also be new performers joining our repertoire for the summer. 

The Concert and Lecture Series is sponsored by  Cache Community Connections and is sponsored in part by the RAPZ TAX and the Cache Valley Radio Group .  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints allows free use of the tabernacle.

April and May Events at the Tabernacle

After presenting lectures for January, February and March of this year, Spring brings several musical concerts to the Logan Tabernacle.  Be sure to put the dates on your calendar.  All of these concerts are FREE to the public.

(Click on each organizations name to see their websites.) 

April 5th, 2013
Friday at 7pm  
The Imperial Glee Club is in it's 97th consecutive year in Cache Valley eagerly anticipates celebrating it's centennial in 2016.  The Magic Philharmonic is celebrating it's 30 year anniversary by combining with the Glee Club for performances in the Logan tabernacle on April 5th and King Fine Arts Center in Burley, Idaho on April 12th.  "Greatest Hits" will be performed, including selections from Les Miserables, patriotic songs, and other familiar favorites. 

April 19th, Friday at 7pm

From The Caine College of the Arts and Utah State University, the University Chorale and the Women's Chorus, under the direction of Dr. Michael Huff, will present a program of choral music, a cappella, accompanied by piano, and accompanied by instrumental ensembles.

Dr. Michael Huff

May 18th, Saturday at 7pm 

The Westminster Handbell Choir sponsored by the First Presbyterian Church of Logan will be presenting their Spring Concert  this evening.  They are always a popular event in the Valley and at the Tabernacle.  Plan to attend this always popular concert under the direction of Cathy Ferrand Bullock.  

May 24th, Friday at 7pm   (notice change of date from earlier post)

A Spring Organ Concert will held Friday, May 24^th at 7:00 pm at the Logan Tabernacle.  The concert will feature four organists: Karla Axtell, Kelvin Smith, Harry Heap, and Jonathan Rose.

Karla Axtell traveled to Italy in 2011 with the USU University Choirs where she accompanied the choirs at the organ in various cathedral performances.  She is currently studying organ with Lynn Thomas. Karla received her bachelor of music degree with piano emphasis from Utah State University.

Kelvin Smith received a Master’s Degree in 1992 from Brigham Young University in Organ Performance, studying under Parley Belnap. Kelvin is currently a Guest Organist at the Salt Lake Tabernacle for the noon organ recital series. His family enjoys a 39 rank pipe organ in their home.

Dr. Harold Heap, (alias Harry Heap), served as Organist and Choirmaster at St, John’s Episcopal in Logan for 20 years and has performed and directed choral and organ concerts in the Logan Tabernacle.  He earned a Bachelor’s Degree with Honors in voice at the University of Iowa, a Master’s Degree Cum Laude in conducting, and a Doctorate in Choral Literature and Conducting at the University of Illinois.

Jonathan Rose joined the musical staff of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Logan in 2009 as organist and choirmaster. He studied organ with R. Shane Fellows, James M. Drake and Lynn W. Thomas at USU and received a BA in Organ Performance in 2012.  He serves as Dean of the Cache Valley Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.

The Logan Tabernacle Concert and Lecture Series is sponsored by  Cache Community Connections and appreciates the support of the Cache County RAPZ tax.  The use of the Historic Logan Tabernacle is allowed free of charge by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

An Evening with Logan Law Enforcement Responders

The Logan City Police Department, in the wake of numerous active gunman scenarios has developed a brief educational program they would like to present to business or management employees or church congregations.  The program is put together in such a way as to direct the most appropriate action/reaction to the active gunman scenario and to educate listeners as to what they can expect from their local law enforcement responders.  The program will take about an hour to hour and a half based on a question and answer period.  

Cache Community Connections members felt this would be an important informational lecture and wanted to sponsor it as part of their Concert and Lecture Series.  Therefore a presentation is planned for  March 8th, Friday, at 7pm in the Logan Tabernacle.  

Police Chief Gary Jensen

As Chief Jensen states in his letter about the presentation to Business and Ecclesiastical leaders in our community, "Knowledge is the key to the most favorable outcome in these types of events. Understanding creates presence of mind and will help minimize the chaos and the injury and mortality rate."



The Logan Tabernacle Concert and Lecture Series is sponsored by  Cache Community Connections and appreciates the support of the Cache County RAPZ tax.

An Evening with the Stars: Cache Valley's Role in Space

Friday, February 8, at 7:00 p.m. in the Logan Tabernacle and it is free of charge.

The next event in the Logan Tabernacle Concert and Lecture Series is one back by popular demand. An Evening with the Stars: Cache Valley’s Role in Space tells the history of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission, USU’s involvement, and will show on the Tabernacle’s large screen many of the stunning images captured by the WISE instrument. 

The presenter is JOHN ELLWELL, the program manager for the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, built by USU’s Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL). The WISE telescope was created by SDL for NASA to survey the whole sky. Launched into orbit in December 2009, WISE scanned the entire sky in infrared wavelengths, taking millions of spectacular images, and discovered distant galaxies, comets and brown dwarf stars, and thousands of previously unknown asteroids.

Mr. Elwell holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in electrical engineering, and has spent the last 25 years working on space instrumentation. He has been involved in a variety of NASA and military programs, ranging from upper atmospheric research looking at aurora, to monitoring global earth systems with the NASA Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer, and most recently managing the WISE program for mapping the entire universe in infrared light.

After spending his childhood taking apart old radios and TVs, Elwell entered college only to be disappointed to find that vacuum tubes were no longer part of the curriculum. In his spare time, he still enjoys working on vacuum-tube radios, a hobby that both his wife and dog consider harmless.

Anyone who enjoys looking at the night sky will be delighted with this presentation.   The presentation, first given a year ago, is one of the most talked events in recent Tabernacle series history and the Series committee unanimously voted to bring it back this year.

The Logan Tabernacle Concert and Lecture Series is associated with Cache Community Connections and appreciates the support of the Cache County RAPZ tax.

February Event Coming Up.

Please put February 8th, Friday Night at 7pm on your calendar for another terrific Concert and Lecture Series event at the Logan Tabernacle.  Doug Thompson is preparing this event which will feature the Space Dynamics Lab at USU.  More details to come.

3rd Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration

CACHE COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS

INTERFAITH AND CIVIC COUNCIL

INVITES YOU  TO THE

Logan Tabernacle

Friday, January 11th, 7pm 

 Keynote Speaker

Darren Parry

Darren Parry is the Vice-Chairman of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation.  Mr. Parry is the third great-grandson of Chief Sagwitch who was instrumental in building peaceful relations with the settlers in the latter half of the 19th century, especially in the years following the Bear River Massacre in which hundreds of his tribe were killed by a contingent of the US Federal Army known as the California Volunteers.  Chief Sagwitch himself was injured in the attack. January of this year marks the 150th anniversary of the 
massacre. 

Chief Sagwitch shared a tradition of peaceful advocacy with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King.  In spite of many opportunities for a different response, Chief Sagwitch always encouraged peace.

"I have been intimately acquainted with the white man from my childhood, and I appeal to any white man, when have I played false with him? Whom have I killed or even threatened to kill? I have ever been an advocate for peace. I abhor war to-day. I want peace. I sue for peace to-day. I want to be at peace with all men . . . The white man roams the mountains all over, hunting for the gold and silver that belong to the Indian until he sells the land. When have I interfered with him? The railroads pass through my country and have scared the game all away. Still I have made no objection to this, nor do I want to. I want all men to have the privelage [sic] of doing as they like, undisturbed, and make all the money they can, and all I want is peace and to be allowed to make a farm in a small, very small, portion of the country I have always lived in and still want to live in."

Chief Sagwitch, August 31, 1875 

Also performing for the event will be an interfaith gospel choir led by Buffy Evans of the First Presbyterian Church of Logan.  Musical numbers may include:

The Huron Carol - Written by Jean de Brebeuf, arranged by Michael J. Oczko. This is a Canadian Christmas Hymn written by a missionary living among the Huron people near Lake Ontario in 1643. It will be accompanied by Brandon Clayton on organ.
Earth Drum Dance - This arrangement by Will Schmid is a celebration of the Earth and its beauty. It contains the Navajo Enemy Way Song, "Yo-shi nai," a social dance meaning "Come and dance." The Enemy Way is a healing ceremony originally for warriors returning from a foreign war. The round, "I Walk In Beauty," is based on a Navajo text and uses a traditional melody. This will be accompanied by drum (Chandler Poulson) and recorders or synthesizer by  keyboardist by Karen Tew.
Shoshone Love Song (The Heart's Friend) - Based on a traditional Native American poem, this popular choral piece is arranged by Roger Emerson. Pianist is Karen Tew.
Praise His Holy Name - Written by Keith Hampton, this is a rousing Gospel Style piece that will feature Chandler Poulsen on drums and Karen Tew on piano.

Kathy Chudoba represents St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church on CCC and is the chairperson for this event with help from Dan Judd and Richard West, also from the CCC.

The Concert and Lecture Series is sponsored by  Cache Community Connections and is sponsored in part by the RAPZ TAX and the Cache Valley Radio Group .  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints allows free use of the tabernacle, as well as providing financial support.