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Mother’s Day Celebrations
Sunday, May 11, 2008
MOTHER’S DAY MORNING BRUNCH MOTHER’S DAY AFTERNOON BRUNCH
10:00 a.m. Social Reception 12:30 p.m. Social Reception
Children’s Activities Children’s Activities
10:30 a.m. Mother’s Day Brunch Buffet 1:30 p.m. Mother’s Day Brunch Buffet
MOTHER’S DAY GRAND DINNER BUFFET
4:00 p.m. Cocktail Reception
Dinner reservations available for 4:30 p.m., 5:00 p.m., and 5:30 p.m.
Attire: Best Dress—No Jeans, shorts, or golf or T-shirts please
Please RSVP or confirm any changes in your reservation by May 7th.
No-shows will be billed
Why Media Matters
AN EVENING WITH GERALYN DREYFOUS
A LIBRARY FORUM EVENT
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
6:30 p.m. Social Reception
7:00 p.m. Presentation
8:00 p.m. Please join us for dinner
Please RSVP
Please join us for a lively conversation about the role of film in contemporary culture. Using film clips from productions currently underway of both local and international interest, Geralyn Dreyfous, Executive Director and Creative Director of the Salt Lake Film Center will take the audience on an intimate tour of her important work. The emerging role of film as a tool for engaging socially responsible action has been led in large measure by Ms. Dreyfous. As a founding member of the Social Venture Network, part of Geralyn’s ongoing work is to inspire a community of business and social leaders to build a just economy and sustainable planet.
Geralyn has a wide background in the arts, long experience in consulting in the philanthropic sector and is active on many boards and initiatives. She founded the Philanthropic Initiative in Boston, which guides families of wealth in strategic giving opportunities. In the film arena, Geralyn taught Documentary and Narrative Writing at Harvard University and was a founder of the DoubleTake Community Service Corporation which publishes DoubleTake Magazine. She also founded the DoubleTake Summer Institute that brought educators, activists and emerging storytellers together to explore the connections between service, moral inquiry and storytelling.
In 2002 Geralyn helped found the award-winning SLC Film Center which offers free community screenings of films rich with meaningful social content and artistic excellence along with discussions, outreach programs, and visiting artists and professionals. Most recently she has founded IMPACT PARTNERS, a social interest cinema fund.
Geralyn recently produced The Day My God Died, a documentary on the global trafficking of children for sex. In 2004, she produced the Academy Award winning documentary, Born Into Brothels about the children of Calcutta’s prostitutes. This work spawned the Kids with Cameras Foundation which sells the children’s photography and thus allow them to attend school and leave the brothel. Already in 2008 her award winning films include In a Dream, Kick Like a Girl, Waiting for Hockney, and Project Kashmir.
We look forward to seeing you on May 13th for what promises to be another engaging evening.
Classical and Jazz
BRIDGING THE GAP
AN IMPROMPTU LIBRARY FORUM
Thursday, May 15, 2008
6:30 p.m. Social Reception
7:00 p.m. Presentation
8:00 p.m. Please join us for dinner
Please RSVP
A two-pianist performance that transcends genre, resulting in a blend of styles and backgrounds stirring the classic and jazz into one musical recipe. Simon Tedeschi and Kevin Hunt have played throughout Australia to great acclaim, receiving rave reviews. The two met on tour with American Maestro of the Mouth Organ, Larry Adler.
The program features composers Fats Waller, Chopin, Shostakovich, Keith Jarrett, Prokofiev, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Debussy and Ravel, with compositions and arrangements by Kevin Hunt.
Simon Tedeschi
Described by pianist Leslie Howard as one of the finest musicians of his generation worldwide, Simon Tedeschi was named the Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year performing Ginastera’s Piano Concerto No.1 with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and first performed a Mozart Piano Concerto at age 9 in the Sydney Opera House. In 1996, he had a private audience with Luciano Pavarotti and performed for him. That same year he was featured as the hands double in the movie, Shine.
Mr. Tedeschi has performed for the Dalai Lama at his fund-raising concert in London in December, 2000. He also appeared at the Edinburgh Festival and St. John’s, Smith Square – performances which moved Larry Adler to comment that “...he is one of the finest Gershwin exponents I have seen...reminds me of the young Rachmaninoff...”. He also performed that year for the Crown Prince and Princess of Denmark.
Kevin Hunt
Kevin Hunt is a popular and versatile jazz pianist. Over the last 16 years, he has shared the stage with international artists including: Herb Ellis, Billy Cobham, Joe Williams, Louis Bellson, Buddy DeFranco, Emily Remler, Sheila Jordon, Mark Murphy, Don Radar, and Larry Adler. He has also recorded and performed with most of Sydney’s prominent jazz artists.
In 1997, he formed ‘Kevin Hunt’s JS Bach Trio’ that recorded the CD Kevin Hunt Plays JS Bach which was nominated for the Aria award for ‘Best Jazz Release’. In 1999 he was awarded the Mo Award for “Jazz Instrumentalist Performer of the Year” and in 2003 was nominated again. His baroque/jazz composition Have Mercy Air and Joy was commissioned and performed by the Marais Project.
In 2005 Mr. Hunt commenced lecturing at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in jazz history, keyboard, ear training and improvisation.
CLUB NIGHT
MAY 2008
DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT
With guest speaker Vasilios Priskos
Thursday, May 22, 2008
5:30 p.m. President’s Reception
6:15 p.m. Speaker, Vasilios Priskos
7:00 p.m. Prime Rib Buffet
RSVP Please
Vasilios Priskos is the founder of InterNet Properties, Inc., established in 1994. Founded with an entrepreneurial spirit that still thrives today, InterNet Properties is a full-service real estate firm, capable of adapting quickly to the needs of clients and able to execute a broad array of commercial real estate services including Development and Construction Management. InterNet Properties is considered the foremost downtown real estate brokerage.
As InterNet Properties Principal Broker, Vasilios is in constant communication with Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County officials concerning downtown issues and is considered an active force in the challenges related to the development and redevelopment of downtown real estate. With the vast knowledge and associations Vasilios has acquired, his views are often sought after by downtown property owners, investors, bankers, other real estate brokers and appraisers. At May’s Club Night, Vasilios will be speaking specifically about the City Creek Development Project, the proposed Arts & Cultural District Master Plan, as well as other downtown developments.
Born in Greece in 1964, Vasilios immigrated to the United States, and directly to Salt Lake City, Utah, in
1966. He became a citizen in December of 1990. In 1981Vasilios and his father founded The Royal Eatery on 400 South and Main Street in downtown Salt Lake, now operated by his brother. Vasilios received his Bachelors in Finance from the University of Utah in 1990, and received his SIOR designation (Society of Industrial and Office Realtors) in 2005. Vasilios has been a member of the Alta Club since 1993 and currently serves on the Board of Directors.
Symphony Nights
While getting ready for the symphony for us means preparing the Bar & Grill for your arrival, and anticipating the needs and desires of those joining us for dinner, your preparations should include a wind down period. A time to slow down and begin to notice the sights and sounds—even tastes, that one tends to block out during a hectic business day. That’s why the Alta Club works so hard prior to the symphony to create the perfect atmosphere in which you can relax and open your senses to the evening ahead. We will also provide transportation to and from Abravanel Hall. It’s a great evening at the Alta Club. Please RSVP if you’ll be joining us for Symphony Nights.
Friday, May 23, 2008
Beethoven Piano Concerto
Larry Rachell conducts, Robert Levin, the featured pianist. Prokofiev’s Symphony No 5 completes the evenings performance.
Friday, May 30, 2008
When Larry meets Joey
Beloved Maestro Joseph Silverstein collaborates with Principal Trombone Larry Zalkind for a very interesting concert; including a Sibelius symphony.
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