(bright music) - Utah Chamber Artists is presenting its free Collage Concert at the Cathedral of the Madeleine, April 28th.

Artistic director, Barlow Bradford, it's here to tell us more about the performance.

Hi, Barlow.

Welcome back.

Always lovely to have you.

- It's great to be here.

Thank you.

- So why the Collage Concert?

- This is a format we've been doing for many, many years at the cathedral.

It's been very, very popular with our audiences.

We put the choir in various places in the cathedral, we have some of our finest instrumentalists from Salt Lake City also doing solos in this concert, and it's a surround sound aural experience for our audience.

This year, we decided to do something rather specific where we chose the theme of solace, trying to find solace in times of difficulty.

And I talked to my choir about this and we came up with pieces that have texts that talk about places that we as people will go to find solace in our life.

For instance, at nature, people will go into nature, or they'll go to the stars, or they'll go home to family, they'll turn to God.

And we're talking about these various things in the pieces that we're doing there with the hope that people can come and have an experience and actually walk out of there and say, you know, "For one moment, I was able to feel just solace in this space."

- Ah, I love that.

I love that.

- I think it's going to be a great success.

And the one other thing with that choir, it sort of doesn't matter what we sing, the sound of that choir enough, it makes people just go, "Oh, I love this," you know?

- Oh, yes.

- It gives some peace.

So I think it will be a very successful concert.

- Well, and in the cathedral, I love that venue and I love it when you move the performers around in there.

- It's great.

That place is something special.

We're very, very lucky to have that here in Salt Lake City.

- Oh, I'm so glad you're doing this.

Very timely, and thank you so much.

Thank you.

- Thank you.

- And if you'd like to know more about the Collage Concert solace from Utah Chamber Artists, it's April 28th at eight o'clock at the Cathedral of the Madeleine.

Go to utahchamberartists.org.

That's utahchamberartists.org.

I'm Mary Dickson, thanks for watching Contact.

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