Our adventure for the day was a trip to the Utah Arts Festival, which is held at Library Square. It's a huge event featuring performing as well as visual arts. Poetry and fiction are included in "performing arts" along with music, dance, street theater, and film. Lots of children's activities were offered too.
After browsing some of the booths, we headed to the Library Urban Room for an organ performance by Richard Elliot, principal organist for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. The Urban Room is a large, multistory open space, and the organ music from 23 speakers perched on the third level filled the space. Elliot's fingers danced on the keys as he played by heart a 40 minute concert of Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition," a very diverse work.
Then we went to a Fear No Film event at the Library auditorium. We saw a showing of eight short films, finalists in the Utah Short Film of the Year competition. The audience got to vote, and our votes counted 49% with a jury's votes carrying 51%. Ken and I voted for entirely different films. Several were definitely eye catching; all were original; some were confusing to us. It will be interesting to see which one wins.
We went to the Plaza Stage to listen to Stonecircle, a Celtic Fusion band. We'd have enjoyed their music more if the sound from the nearby Amphitheater hadn't drowned parts of it out.
Earlier in the day we had done some chores around the rig. Ken checked tire pressures and sprayed silicone spray as needed.
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