www.the-grand.org
for more information.Life
1575 South State Street Salt Lake City
For tickets call:
(801) 957-3322
schools, and community centers across the
Performing Arts
Utah boasts
state. The Council’s Visual Arts Program
preserves and promotes Utah’s artistic heritage,
love the performing arts. But instead of tiny
professional
collecting, preserving, documenting, and
spare social halls, Utah’s performing arts are
theatre,
exhibiting much of the state’s heritage art.
showcased in facilities like the modern 2,800-
opera, and
The Utah Museum of Fine Arts on the
seat Abravanel Hall/Art Center Complex and
campus of the University of Utah is home to
the plush 1,943-seat Capitol Theatre.
modern dance
the Intermountain West’s largest collection of
world art. If your tastes are more eclectic still,
reputation and the quality of the Utah
try Salt Lake City’s Gallery Stroll. An average of
Symphony orchestra has attracted a veritable
15 galleries participate each month, so the stroll
who’s who of conductors and guest conductors
represents a broad spectrum of artistic media
including Maestro Joseph Silverstein, Keith
and expression.
Lockhart, and its current musical director,
Thierry Fischer, a Swiss conductor and flautist.
There are more than 25 art galleries and
Like the pioneers before, Utahns today still
companies.
Since the death of Maurice Abravanel, the
museums along the Wasatch Front (an area
with a population of just 2.1 million people)
its management with the Utah Symphony
including the Salt Lake Art Center; Springville
in a bold move to bring Utah even higher
Museum of Art; Museum of Church
artistic standards… has stirred the souls of
History and Art; and Museum of Utah Art
Utahns since 1978. Together, the Utah
& History.
Symphony & Opera serve more than 450,000
Utah Opera… which in 2002 combined
25