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Symphony Nights
Join us at the Alta Club for dinner prior to the symphony, then take our shuttle to Abravanel Hall.
BEETHOVEN’S FIFTH
Friday, February 3, 2012
The four most famous notes in music history will sound as Maestro Fischer presents Beethoven’s dramatic 5th Symphony. Also featured are three works of French Composer Gabriel Faure and the world premiere of Swiss composer Michael Jarrell’s Cello Concerto.
Van departs 7:30 p.m.
MENDELSSOHN’S VIOLIN CONCERTO
Friday, February 10, 2012
Mendelssohn’s extremely popular masterpiece for the violin shares the program with Bruckner’s romantic 4th Symphony, a celebration of life, nature and beauty.
Van departs 7:30 p.m.
RACHMANINOFF & BEETHOVEN
Friday, February 17, 2012
Celebrated pianist Andre Watts returns to Abravanel Hall to perform one of the world’s most popular concerti, Rachmaninoff’s 2nd Piano Concerto. It is a lush and expansive work highlighting the abilities of soloist and orchestra alike. The season-long Beethoven symphony cycle resumes with the lyrical 4th Symphony.
Van departs 7:30 p.m.
Member Night
GETTING ACQUAINTED OVER DINNER
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
6:00 p.m. Grill
Members Only
Reservations are required for this event
RSVP to frontdesk@altaclub.org or 801-322-1081
We invite you to join us for an evening dedicated, quite simply, to meeting and becoming better acquainted with other Alta Club members. At the Member Table in the Grill, you’ll gather ‘round to meet and socialize with other members while enjoying an Alta Club style meal. Chef Brian has prepared some fabulous dinner specials for Member Night in the past, and February Member Night specials will be equally as delicious.
This is quite an intimate affair dedicated to conversation and good food. Your dinner entrée is complimentary. Please join us for this charming evening and begin to forge new friendships and enrich those already established. Please RSVP by calling the front desk or by e-mailing us. This is an exclusively “members only” event. Sorry, no spouses or guests.
Ski with the Manager and Ex-Manager
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Alta Ski Resort
Please order a box lunch in advance if you’d like one.
12:00 p.m. Meet in the AC parking lot if carpooling
12:15 p.m. Carpools leave AC for Alta Resort
1:00 p.m. Meet at the Albion ticket window
We’ll meet for a last run before gathering at Carol Browning’s cabin for Après skiing.
Please RSVP. We don’t want to leave anyone behind
We hope you’ll join us for a fantastic afternoon of skiing. Your RSVP is important to us as it will help us coordinate the events of the afternoon. Please let us know if you’re interested in carpooling, if you would like a box lunch, and if you plan to join us for Après skiing as it will certainly help our hostess prepare for our visit. See you on the slopes!
Sweetheart’s Dinner
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Cocktails
6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Dinner reservations available
Dancing to the music of the Joe Muscalino Band
Price: $45.00 per person. Tax and service charge apply.
Alcohol additional
Reservations required for this event. RSVP to frontdesk@altaclub.org
or call 801-322-1081 no later than February 12
Special guestroom rate for those attending: $80.00
Making someone feel special, enfolded within a perfectly memorable event is often a matter of focus. At the Alta Club we are dedicated to helping you focus all your attention on your sweetheart. We’ll handle most of your Valentines Day’s pertinent details—like providing the intimate ambiance, serving an unforgettably delicious dinner, suggesting and pairing wines to compliment your entrée choices, rolling out a dance floor and setting up the band so you and your sweetheart can wine, dine and dance. Want to keep the magic of the evening going? Our guestrooms await you at a special rate of $80.00. Flowers and candy, we leave to you.
In order to provide you with a perfect romantic evening, all of our attention will be focused on the Sweetheart’s dinner in the Main Dining Room. The Bar & Grill will be back to its regular schedule Wednesday, February 15.
Sweetheart’s Dinner Menu
Connecting Nature to Family and Community
A LIBRARY FORUM EVENT
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
6:30 p.m. Social Reception
7:00 p.m. Presentation
Please join us for dinner either before or after the presentation. The Bar & Grill opens at 5:00 p.m.
RSVP to frontdesk@altaclub.org or 801-322-1081
Richard Louv is a journalist and author of eight books about the connections between family, nature and community. His new book, THE NATURE PRINCIPLE: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder, offers a new vision of the future, in which our lives are as immersed in nature as they are in technology.
Louv’s book, LAST CHILD IN THE WOODS: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder, has been translated into 10 languages and published in 15 countries, and has stimulated an international conversation about the relationship between children and nature. Louv is also the founding chairman of the Children & Nature Network (www.childrenandnature.org), an organization helping build the movement to connect today’s children and future generations to the natural world. Louv coined the term Nature-Deficit Disorder® which has become the defining phrase of this important issue.
In 2008, he was awarded the Audubon Medal, presented by the National Audubon Society. Among other awards, Louv is the recipient of the 2008 San Diego Zoological Society Conservation Medal, the 2008 George B. Rabb Conservation Medal from the Chicago Zoological Society, and the 2009 International Making Cities Livable Jane Jacobs Award. He also serves as Honorary Co-chairman, with artist Robert Bateman, of Canada’s national Children and Nature Alliance. Louv has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Times of London, and other major publications.
CLUB NIGHT FEBRUARY 2012
EVOLUTION, EXERCISE, & HEALTH
with guest speaker David Carrier
Thursday, February 23, 2012
5:30 p.m. President’s Reception
6:15 p.m. Presentation
7:00 p.m. Prime Rib Buffet
8:00 p.m. Card games in the Card Room
RSVP to frontdesk@altaclub.org or 801-322-1081
Special guestroom rate for those attending: $80.00
In less than 100,000 years, humans migrated out of Africa and successfully settled in most every terrestrial habitat on the planet. Associated with this variety of habitats, a great diversity of anatomical and physiological variation evolved among human populations. Three functions that are likely to have been important to the evolution of human diversity are (1) economical locomotion, (2) survival of periods of low food resources, and (3) physical competition among individuals and groups. Traits that make an individual particularly good at one of these functions, however, appear to limit performance in the other two. We refer to these three mutually conflicting functions as the Foraging, Fasting and Fighting Tradeoff Trichotomy. This tradeoff trichotomy may help explain the great diversity of body types observed among populations of modern humans. It may also help us understand why some individuals are more susceptible to the chronic diseases associated with the modern epidemic of physical inactivity, such as obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes and depression.
Join us for Club Night where Dr. Carrier will discuss how the foraging, fasting and fighting tradeoff trichotomy has influenced the evolution of our species and its impacts on health given our modern lifestyle of physical inactivity.
Dr. Carrier is a professor at the University of Utah. His research specializes in Functional Evolutionary Morphology, as well as Comparative Physiology.
AC Engineering Breakfast Forum
UTAH COAL: WHAT’S AHEAD
Fourth in the Engineering Breakfast Forum Series on Energy
Thursday, March 1, 2012
7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.
Breakfast, presentation and discussion
Complimentary for members and their guests
Please RSVP to frontdesk@altaclub.org
or call 801-322-1081 no later than February 28
Utah coal has been part of our economy for over one hundred years, but the future is unclear. Our coal is mostly underground mined as opposed to the massive open-pit mines of Wyoming. But our coal is low sulfur and high BTU value, thereby making it high quality and more valuable. Mine safety, economic practicability, and environmental considerations will all determine the future of Utah coal. This is a complicated interaction that is important to our Utah economy.
A Guest Panel will review and lead our discussion.
Lead Panelist
Professor Kim McCarter
Professor of Mining Engineering, University of Utah
Panel
Ken May
General Manager of SUFCO Mine of Arch Coal, Inc.
Jim Kohler
Retired Branch Chief, Utah State Office of BLM
Dave Tabet
Geologic Manager, Utah Geological Survey
Sidney Green, Forum Co-Chair, will give a brief summation on our four Forums on Energy:
Hydraulic Fracturing: Tight Shale Gas Recovery
Iraq, War, and Oil
Nuclear Waste Disposal: Risks, Opportunities and Utah
Utah Coal: What’s Ahead
The Scotch Malt Whisky Society Tasting
FIVE RARE WHISKIES WITH FIVE FABULOUS COURSES
Thursday, March 1, 2012
6:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Reception
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Tasting and Dinner
Price: $95.00 per person, includes tax and service charge
Jackets preferred
Reservations are required for this event
Please RSVP no later than Monday, February 27
to frontdesk@altaclub.org or 801-322-1081
Special guestroom rate for those attending: $80.00
In collaboration with The Scotch Malt Whisky Society of America, the Alta Club is honored to host the Salt Lake City 2012 Scotch Malt Whisky Tasting event. The SMWSA will present five of its rare and unique single cask, single malt Scotch whiskies. The select expressions will be paired with a fabulous five course dinner created by Chef Brian Edwards. Alta Club members are invited to participate in this unique and prestigious evening. Please join us.
Scotch Malt Whisky Tasting Menu
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