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Fallen leaves and dry ground: An autumn con- cert for a drought-stricken state will be held at 3:15 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 16, in the Shasta College Theatre. Conducted by Dr. Rich- ard Allen Fiske, the fall concert of the Shasta Youth Symphony will include Jap- anese Lullaby for strings by Keiko Yamada, Vince Gas- si's DNA for strings, and Adagio from Mozart's Clar- inet Concerto in A Major, K. 622. The full orchestra will perform Bach's Fantasy on Sleeper's Wake, March from Psalm 19 by Benedetto Mar- cello, Mouret's Rondeau, from Masterpiece Theatre, Wagner's Grand March from Tannhauser, Varia- tions on a Korean Folk Song by John Barnes Chance, and Egyptian Legacy for Or- chestra by Soon Hee New- bold. Tickets are $3, available in advance at www.shasta- college.edu/youth_orches- tra/ or at the Shasta College Box Office one hour before the performance. For more information call the Division of Arts, Communications, Con- sumer & Social Sciences at 242-7730. SHASTACOLLEGE YouthSymphonyfall concert set for Nov. 16 REDDING British choral music and poetry will be the focus of A British Choral Concert, presented by the Simpson University Music Department at 3 p.m. Sun- day, Oct. 26. The Simpson Chorale and Trinity Repertory Singers will present the free concert inside the Heritage Student Life Center on campus, 2211 College View Drive. It will feature famous works from British cho- ral music, venturing into genres that include motets, madrigals, catches, an- thems, and more. Featured composers in- clude Stanford, Handel, Byrd, Britten, Morley, Vaughan Williams, and Rutter. In addition, Britons who live in the Redding area will read British poetry aloud. The event will culminate with an English tea recep- tion. For more informa- tion, call 530 226-4507 or email sumusic@simp- sonu.edu. SIMPSON 'A British Choral Concert' slated RED BLUFF The Wild & Scenic Film Festival in Red Bluff on Nov. 1 will feature a showcase of local orga- nizations, businesses and sports outfitters working on and around the Sacra- mento River. One of these groups, the non-profit Rivers for Change, will be there to promote the upcoming California 100, an annual paddle race from Redding to Chico that draws com- petitive athletes, enthusi- asts and supporting volun- teers from across the state. The course is 100 miles of moving water, and puts the magnificent scenery and wildlife of the northern Sacramento River on dis- play each May. Matt Palmariello, the race director, says he is ex- cited that Rivers for Change will be at the inaugural Wild & Scenic Film Festival in Red Bluff, where the Cal- ifornia 100 stages a man- datory aid stop for partic- ipants every year. Matt describes his or- ganization as "a group of river enthusiasts dedicated to changing the way peo- ple think about and inter- act with water," and hopes that the Red Bluff commu- nity will embrace not only the film festival, but the need to conserve the incred- ible natural resources of the Sacramento River and its watershed. John Hunt, Executive Director of the Northern California Regional Land Trust, will also be at the event. The Land Trust is dedi- cated to "keeping working lands working, and wild lands wild," supporting the kind of intergenerational land stewardship depicted in several of the films. The Northern Califor- nia Regional Land Trust has been instrumental in conserving valuable farm lands, open spaces, and wildlife habitat in Te- hama, Glenn and Butte County. In a recent interview, Hunt said that conserv- ing land resources "greatly protects the property val- ues, quality of life and aes- thetic values of our local landscape," a sentiment echoed in the feature film of the evening, Running Wild: The Life of Dayton O. Hyde." General admission tick- ets to the film festival are $10, and include a free raf- fle entry. Giveaways range from a signed copy of Bob Madjic's beautifully illus- trated book, The Sacra- mento: A Transcendent River, to all-day kayak rentals from local spon- sor Headwaters Adven- ture Company. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. for the 6-9:30 p.m. show. Tickets are available through the event web- site at WildAndScenicRed- Bluff.weebly.com. Member- ship packages with a pair of tickets and native plant sale coupon can also be purchased from the Sacra- mento River Discovery Cen- ter at 1000 Sale Lane, Red Bluff for $25. Tickets will not be sold at the door. The Resource Conser- vation District of Tehama County and the Sacra- mento River Discovery Center extend their sin- cere gratitude to local Wild & Scenic Film Festi- val sponsors Rolling Hills Equestrian Center, Cali- fornia Outdoor Properties, St. Elizabeth Community Hospital, The Copy Cen- ter and Headwaters Ad- venture Company. WILD & SCENIC Paddle race to be featured at film festival COURTESYPHOTO The California 100paddle race will be promoted during the Wild & Scenic Film Festival in Red Bluff on Nov. 1. Chico State's Sym- phonic Wind Ensemble's fall concert, Evolutions, will include musical mas- terpieces composed be- tween the pre-1900s and the early 2000s at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1 in Harlen Adams Theatre. Director Royce Tevis anticipates the concert will be exciting, challeng- ing and provocative. "I look for music that goes together well and music that will continue to educate our musicians and our audience," Tevis said. "The music we will be performing contains a nice balance of classical band with modern band sounds." Compositions per- formed during Evolutions will include "First Suite in E-flat for Military Band" by Gustav Holst, "From Tropic to Tropic " by Rus- sell Alexander, "Silence Overwhelmed" by Brian Balmages and "Sinfonia V" by Timothy Broege. The Wind Ensemble is the elite performance group of the Chico State band program. Members of the Wind Ensemble are select and multitalented musicians who are chal- lenged to create music at the highest of artistic lev- els. "This concert will shine a spotlight on our talented musicians and is sure to excite people interested in the contrast between early band music and 21st-cen- tury music," he said. Advance tickets, $15 for adults, $13 for senior citizens and $6 for stu- dents and children, are available at the Univer- sity Box Office at the cor- ner of Third and Chest- nut streets. Tickets are also available online or by phone, at 530 898-6333; there is an additional $4 handling fee for phone and online ticket pur- chases. Add $2 for tickets purchased at the door. For special needs seat- ing, please call 530-898- 6333. CONCERT Chico State Wind Ensemble to perform COURTESY PHOTO Chico State Wind Ensemble. NASHVILLE Al Simmons, a "tour-de-force of inge- nious, charming silliness," says the Globe and Mail, will bring his highly in- ventive and wacky one- man show at the Cas- cade Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5. Single tickets for this event are $40 for adults and $20 for students, avail- able through the Cascade Theatre box office or on- line at www.cascadethe- atre.org. Season tickets for the Shasta Live! four-concert series are $80 adults, $40 students and $200 fami- lies. For more information, or to purchase season tick- ets, call 530-247-7355 or visit the association online at www.shastalive.com. COMEDY Al S im mo ns w il l pe rf or m in R ed di ng o n No v. 5 The Associated Press NEWYORK Bradley Cooper will contort his limbs into uncomfortable positions for eight shows a week when he begins his run in the Broad- way revival of "The Ele- phant Man." That means he'll need to take extra care of his body to stay limber. "I have an inversion ta- ble. That's a new thing, it goes like that," Cooper said while using hand motions to show the up and down tilting of his body on the table. He'll use it twice a day and have a chiroprac- tor nearby. The play by Bernard Pomerance, which pre- miered at the Booth The- atre in 1979, shows some two dozen snapshots in the life of the grotesque Joseph Merrick, tracing his jour- ney from an abused circus freak to a curiosity of Lon- don's high society. Cooper won't use prosthetics, opt- ing instead to imply disfig- urement through facial ex- pression and twisted pos- ture. Cooper, an Academy Award nominee, already knows the physical de- mands of portraying the character onstage from a short run at the William- stown Theatre Festival in 2012. "I got to research the real guy and I just fell in love with who he was a hu- man being, as a man," Coo- per said. "It's been a won- derful, eye-opening experi- ence into that world of the late 1800s in London and Leicester and what he went through." Cooper became fasci- nated by Merrick's life af- ter seeing the 1980 film ver- sion by David Lynch, which he cites as the catalyst for wanting to pursue a career in acting. But he wasn't acquainted with the stage production until much later, when he was studying at the Actors Studio Drama School in New York. "It wasn't until grad school where we had to choose a thesis and I came across Bernard Pomerance's play," Cooper said. 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