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Music To contribute to call 337-3181, ext. 638, Monday-Friday. Fax items to 339-7342. Ramsey Lewis and Billy Taylor, 8 p.m. April 18, Hancher Auditorium.

For tickets, call 335-1 160 or (800) HANCHER. Iowa City Press-Citizen 3B SATURDAY, April 5, 1997 Datobook Young pianist found music easy 7 Helene Grimaud French pianst Helene Grimaud will perform at 3 p.m. Sunday at Hancher Auditorium. She will play three sets of compositions by Brahms the Fantasies, opus 116; the Intermezzi, opus 117 and the Six Pieces, opus 118, and Beethoven's Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major, opus 110.

Tickets cost $28, $24 and $21, with senior citizens, University of Iowa students and children under 17 receiving discounts. In brief Free parenting workshops set "TurnofftheTVnow." "Why? Because it's time to eat." "Did you hear me? Turn off that TV right now!" Does this type of scene go on in your house on a daily basis? About all kinds of issues? If so, help is on the way! The International Network for Children and Families is presenting a free parenting workshop entitled, "The Art of Preventing Power Struggles" on Tuesday at the Iowa City Public Library. The workshop will be repeated on April 16 at the Montessori School of Iowa City, 374 Holiday Road, Coralville. Both workshops run from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. No preregistration is necessary.

The workshop will focus on how to eliminate "nagging," how three minutes a day can change your relationship with your children, how to cure "parent deafness," why giving a child more appropriate power is less work for the parent, how to deal effectively with kids fighting and the difference between praise and encouragement. The workshop is targeted to new parents, old parents, parents-to-be, professionals involved with teaching, child care or giving medical care to children and to business people who want to eliminate non-productive power struggles with co-workers, management or employees. The workshop will be presented by Carol Kline, certified instuctor of the Redirecting Children's Behavior course, experienced self-esteem facilitator and full-time stepmother. Kline has been teaching the course in Iowa for four years and has had overwhelmingly enthusiastic response to the workshops and companion five-week parenting course (which will be starting in Iowa City in late April and continuing through May). For any further information about the free workshops or the five-week parenting course, call Carol Kline at (800) 380-0107.

Datebook is a calendar listing of cultural activities in the Iowa City area. It appears Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays on this page. Information for Datebook must be submitted one week before the event. MUSIC: Dan Knight Trio, 6-11 p.m. tonight, Wetherby's, 1220 First Coralville; no cover.

MUSIC: Ruvane Kurland, 9-11 tonight, Awakenings, 509 S. Gilbert no cover. MUSIC: Pompeii Kelly Orange Hair, Sugar Engine Red, 9 tonight, Gabe's Oasis, 330 E. Washington cover. MUSIC: Instrumental Jelly, 9 p.m.

Monday, Gabe's Oasis, 330 E. Washington cover. MUSIC: Eulogy, Bo Bud Greene, Teardrop Red, 9 p.m. Wednesday, Gabe's Oasis, 330 E. Washington cover.

MUSIC: Citrus, Sam Van, 9 tonight, Gunnerz, 123 E. Washington cover. MUSIC: Grinch, Family Groove Company, 9 p.m. Sunday, Gunnerz, 123 E. Washington cover.

MUSIC: Atoll, 9 p.m. Tuesday, Gunnerz, 123 E. Washington cover. I MUSIC: Shade of Blue, 9 tonight, The Mill Restaurant, 120 E. Burlington cover.

MUSIC: Dave Moore, 9:30 tonight, The Sanctuary, 405 S. Gilbert cover. THEATER: Fool for Love, 8 tonight, Riv-'. erside Theatre, 213 N. Gilbert call 338-: 7672, tickets: adults $15, students and seniors $13, youth 18 and under $8, members $8, college rush tickets $8 15 minutes prior to showtime.

KIDS: Safety Days, today and Sunday, Sycamore Mall hosts the Iowa City Police and Fire Departments, Johnson County Ambulance Service, Mercy Hospital Safe Kids and Safety Village. Children can participate in various activities. For information, call 338-6111. By David Lee The Press-Citizen When Helene Grimaud's parents took her to her first group piano lesson in France at age 9, everyone else there was 3 years old. However, after two weeks of sing-alongs, the teacher of the school felt Grimaud was gifted, and she quickly moved past her classmates, she said.

"It came easily and faster, but I never felt like a child prodigy," said Grimaud, who added that it took five years of studying and training before she reached the level of playing that turned heads. But Grimaud, 26, always had that urge to do something extra, and piano appeared the only thing that would work. She'll show why on Sunday when she performs at 3 p.m. in Hancher Auditorium. Tickets cost $28, $24 and $21, with senior citizens, University of Iowa students and children under 17 receiving discounts.

Grimaud will perform three sets of compositions by Brahms the Fantasies, opus 116; the Intermezzi, opus 117 and the Six Pieces, opus 118. She also will perform Beethoven's Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major, opus 110. In elementary school, Grimaud was so bored that her parents tried to find other ways for her to Helene Grimaud expend energy. They introduced her to sports and martial arts, but it was the piano that she wanted to pursue, as it required a mental energy rather than a physical one, she said.

When Grimaud studied at the Paris Conservatory in her teens, she wanted to study fewer works deeply rather than many works at just the "surface" level, she said. And when they said she wasn't old or mature enough, she fought that by entering a Tchaikovsky competition against her teacher's will. "I went through more in training six months for the Tchaikovsky competition," she said, "than three years at the Paris Conservatory." But she added that it was the system's fault, not the teachers who worked there. The competition, along with interactions with musicians like Daniel Barenboim, brought Grimaud to the next level of performance a level that brings her critical acclaim all while still in her teens. Even as a 26-year-old professional pianist, however, Grimaud still likes to have fun.

In fact, she came to Iowa on Friday and stayed with a friend so she could visit the state, not just stop at Hancher and perform, she said. "I saw Field of Dreams, so I always wanted to see (Iowa)." UI Symphony, combined choirs to present 'Sacred Service' directs the graduate choral con udes based on a unifying five-note ducting program, conducts choral ensembles in the School of Music and frequently appears as music director of productions by the UI Opera Theater. He has published materials on choral skills and choral arrangements, and he appears frequently as a choral clinician For additional information, contact the UI School of Music at (319) 335-1667. motive. These interludes take the place in the service of responsive readings and are designed to provide opportunities for meditation or silent prayer.

Musically, they give unity to the total work by tying together the many changes of mood found in the text. Hatcher has served as director of choral activities at the UI School of Music since 1988. He The score calls for baritone andor cantor, mixed chorus and large orchestra. It is divided into five parts, following the liturgy of the Sabbath morning service. Bloch made use of a traditional cantorial chant that Cantor Rubin Rider of Temple Emmanuel had sent to him, Tsur Yisrael, as well as themes from some of his earlier works on Jewish subjects.

The choral portions of the Sacred Service are punctuated with a series of short instrumental prel than an individual Hebrew service. As he expressed it, the completed work encompassed "the Laws of the Universe a dream of stars, of forces (and) a 'private affair' between God and me. Virtually the only complete setting of the Sabbath morning service, Sacred Service has become a work of universal ificance, receiving frequent performances in both synagogues and concert halls. vice was commissioned in 1929 by the Temple Emanuel Congregation of San Francisco. At the time, Bloch, a native of Switzerland, was director of the San Francisco Conservatory and a naturalized American citizen.

Although he had written an earlier Jewish Cycle, a series of large-scale works that have Biblical or Jewish subjects, Bloch used the commission as an opportunity to explore his Jewish heritage with extraordinary thoroughness. He left his position in San Francisco and returned to Switzerland to compose. Working in seclusion, Bloch immersed himself in the text of the Sabbath service and soon was able to report: "I can write (the whole service) in Hebrew from memory. I know its significance word by word. But what is more important, I have absorbed it to the point that it has become mine and as it were, the very expression of my soul." Upon its completion in 1933, Bloch felt that the score was more Stained Glass Bus I our Miniature Magic Dollhouse Shop The University of Iowa Symphony and combined choirs from the School of Music will present the 'Sacred Service' of composer Ernest Bloch for their choral concert, at 8 p.m.

Wednesday in Hancher Auditorium. The performance will be led by William Hatcher, director of choral activities for the UI School of Music. It will be free and open to the public. Rabbi Edward Chesman of Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids will be the reader, and baritone Stephen Swanson of the UI School of Music faculty will perform as cantor. Other soloists for the performance will be mezzo soprano Katherine Pracht, an undergraduate student in the UI School of Music, and soprano Jennifer White, a UI graduate student.

UI School of Music groups participating in the combined choirs will be Kantorei, which is directed by Hatcher; Camerata Singers, directed by Richard Bloesch; University Choir, directed by Hatcher; and the Women's Chorale, directed by Melanie Jacobson. 1'- A musical setting of a Jewish Sabbath service, the Sacred Ser js JJTE We pick up what your dog leaves behind. EARLY VEGETABLES, Weekly Rates BROCOLLI, CABBAGE $50 HERBS ySlL 1a Brenneman Seed i Pet Center 1 Call I See 108 Authentic Stained Glass Windows By Tiffany April 26 Leaving Coralville 7:30 a.m. plus enjoy Mathias Ham House LunchTour 4th Street Shopping (31 shops at Cable Car Square), Dubuque Deadline April 10 (Limited Seating) Stop By or Call for Reservations 319-341-5866 Stained Glass Designers 871 22nd Coralville Hrs. 10-6 Tues Sat.

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