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Show concert: Stravinsky's "Apollo" and "The Fairy's Kiss," excerpts from Alban Berg's opera "Woz-zeck" "Woz-zeck" (successfully presented at the Metropolitan Opera last season), sea-son), and Wesbern's "Six Pieces for Large Orchestra." The Symposium of Western Composers March 30 and April 1 in Music Hall on the university campus will be free to the public. pub-lic. This is made possible by a grant from the Music Performance Perform-ance Trust Funds of the Recording Record-ing Industries with the cooperation coopera-tion of Local No. 104 of American Ameri-can Federation of Musicians. In the two days of informal readings, Maestro Abravanel and members of the Utah Symphony will premier works of selected local and regional composers. According to Dr. A. Ray Olpin, U. of U. president, "Salt Lake music patrons have already gone far beyond the average in their appreciation of fine music. For this reason, the University of Utah considers it appropriate to invite the public to attend special spe-cial Utah Symphony concerts designed to provide an acquaintance acquaint-ance with compositions rarely heard except in the world's large . musical centers." U. Extension Unit Readies Two Musical Events Two special concerts, featuring works of contemporary composers, compos-ers, will be presented Jan. 15 and Feb. 23 by the Utah Symphony Sym-phony orchestra, followed by a two day symposium March 30 and April 1 concerning works of selected local and regional composers. com-posers. The Festival of Contemporary Music will be presented by the University of Utah Extension Division, Department of Music, and the student faculty committee commit-tee on Assemblies and Convocations. Convoca-tions. The January and February concerts will be in Kingsbury Hall on the U. of U. Campus. There will be no charge for university uni-versity students and faculty with activity cards. Tickets for the general public will be available from the University of Utah Extension Ex-tension Division. The two concerts will feature five leading contemporary composers' com-posers' works, none of which has been performed on the Utah Symphony's regular subscription series in the Tabernacle. Maestro Abravanel, personal friend of Darius Milhaud, leading lead-ing composer of famed French "Six," will conduct the Utah Symphony in that composer's "The Creation of the World," and "Nothing Doing Bar" at the January concert. The program also will include compositions from Sergei Prokof ief f renowned Soviet composer. These will be "Romeo and Juliet," "Lieutenant "Lieuten-ant Kije" suite and the suite from his opera, "The Love for Three Oranges." More controversial works wil be presented on the February |