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Show 0 tabard DESERET NEWS, Asians SearcIi For TltE Good Life T3 Saturday, January 30, 1971 - i,.'- V$ i ',, A By PEARL S. BUCK The nnmixable character of East and West Is legend, yet the brash young West continues to swagger among the hallowed temples, traditions and taboos of the inscrutable Orient. Has the show of Western affluence seduced strugand hungry Eastern man? Nobel gling, often g and Pulitzer author Pearl S. Buck a legend herself, spanning cultures East and West examines the goals of those Orientals whonf she has known so well since her Chinese upbringing and her classical novel, The Good Earth. Prize-winnin- " The new year faces us again. Western style, it is the year of Our Lord, 1971. Asian style, it is the Year of the Boar. All the worlds people are longing for the good life and so, longing, they search for the good life. We see the search everywhere. What about Asia, where most of the worlds peoples live? We are a minority, we peoples of the West, particularly we white people. Most of the worlds peoples are Asian, and it is of them I think first in this Year or the Boar, not only because I know them so well, but because upon their decisions rest our solutions. If we suffer from the generation gap here in our own country, it is slght indeed compared to the generation gap between Asia and the West. Our American couple of centuries make us an infant compared to the five thousand years of China, for example. Long, long ago, thousand of years ago, again for example, China rejected aggressive war as a means of settling differences between nations. By Imperial command, gunpowder, a Chinese invention, was forbiddtr. as a weapon and it was afterward used only as an amusement for people to enjoy in firecrackers and beautiful fireworks. Today. Asia is face to face with the young West in modem industries. In her past, she had highly developed industries of her own. Fine craftsmanship, exquisite objects of art, superb paintings, a pride in perfection which extended tn the simplest instrument of daily life had built in Asian countries these industries based upon high ideals of beauty combined with usefulness. I think of Japanese friends of mine, a family who for five generations have made lacquer ware for the Imperial family of Japan. Their market today is the world. It is not enough to continue as lacquer ware makers for the Imperial family. They will be compelled to make lacquer ware that the common man in the West tco, can enjoy and buy. Yet looking forward in the new year, 1971, the Year of the Boar, I find myself thinking of the two countries who face most sharply the necessity to find the way to the good life, each for itself. I think of beautiful Thailand, always independent, never a colony, influenced much by India and somewhat by China, yet always herself, rich in the midst of Asian poverty, free in the midst of colonialism in Asia, maintaining her own exquisite culture e en now. J'r But the most troubled souls of all are perhaps to be found in the prosperous Islands of Taiwan. What will hapk pen to them when The Old Man Cniang dies? Taiwan has seen many rulers, Chinese and Portuguese, Chi- nese and Japanese, and now Chinese and American. Some or will they? And when day the Americans will go away if they go, will Japan come back? And if not, they go will China take them back entirely? And what is China now old or new? Where oh where is the good life for the people of Taiwan? They do not know, they cannot tell. Kai-she- mm Perhaps this is true of all of us. We search, we all search, for the good life. The past is gone, the old ideals no longer hold. We search for tne new that will guide and save us. East and West, we search. The Year of the Boar, 1971, may provide the answer to the world's question. Perhaps perhaps! If we have if we have peace! peace i I ' t v "We search, we all search, for the life. The past is gone, the old ideals no i f if- vN, - s. longer hold," believes famous author Pearl S. Buck. ADAPTION OF GREEK PLAY n O ' 4 1 : j ' YoiiTk : r'-- ; WSC SIates 'AwriqoNE1 Gitoup A seasoned actor holds one of the leading roles in the Weber State College production of Jean Anouilhs Antigone, opening Feb. 2 at 8 To PI Ay The Northern Youth Symphony Orchestra will present its first concert of tl v 1970-7season Sunday at 3 p.m. in the Chase Fine Arts Center Concert . Hall. r, ,v LOGAN p.m., WSC Cellar Theater. Ralph William Allred is described by director Ivm A, Crosland as perhaps the outstanding thespian at Weber State. He is cast as Chorus, a demanding role. The story of Antigone is a modem version of an ancient Greek play about the daughter of the late King and Queen Wasatch 1 .''1 The public is invited- and there is no admission charge. Ralph Matesky, professor of music at Utah State University, will conduct the orchestra, which is made up of young musicians from area schools and is iu its eighth season. of Thebes. Antigone bad two brothers who have killed each other, in Dr. A. Ray Olpin, left, will be honored by arts patrons like Wiliam Christensen, Ballet West director; composer Dr. Leroy J. Robertson, and Maestro Maurice Abravanel. CkAMbER SViysic FestwaI At U. To Hokjor OlpiN CoNTRibuTioNs By HAROLD LUNDSTROM Deseret News Music Editor Long one of Utahs most notable cultural assets, Dr. A. Ray Olpin, president emeritus of the University o! Utah, is being appropriately honored for creating an atmosphere in which the arts could flourish on campus. The 23id annual Chamber Music Festival, which begins Sunday, is dedicated to Dr. Olpin. Three chamber music concerts of wide interest will be presented Jan. 31 and Feb. T and 14 in the Music Hall on campus. The concerts are under the direction of Prof. Louis Booth, chairman of chamber music In the' music department They will begin at 3 p.m. Following the second concert, Feb. 7, Dr. and Mrs. Olpin will be honored public reception. In the midst of a great increase in the number of students and an accelerated construction program, Dr. Olpin successfully provided a permanent home for the revived (following World War H) Utah Symphony Orchestra and its new conductor Maurice He attracted to the University of Utah Wiliam Christensen, founder and director of the Portland Ballet and founder and director of the San Francisco Ballet, and created one of the first Departments of Ballet at an American uni- versity. Both the famed Utah Symphony Orchestra and the Ballet Department (whose graduates have gone on to national acclaim, first in the Utah department head. And not only was Dr. Olpin Civic Ballet that has now become Ballet West) are two successful in building the perprominent aspects of our state forming and theater arts, but in which every Utahn can he also was successful in take pride. development of the fine arts. Dr. Olpin also was able to Dr. Avard Fairbanks, one of secure Dr. Leroy J. RobertUtahs most noted sculptors, son, Utahs most celebrated returned to Utah and became the head of the art department. who won composer, All of this detail is only a Award a $25,000 Reichhold year later for his composition hint of Dr. Olpins activities for and in behalf of all the Trilogy, to serve as chairman of the Music Depart- cultural arts during his tenure as president. Dedication of ment It was these three-- men the 23rd Chamber Music FesMaurice tival, indeed, couldn't be to a Robertson, Leroy more deserving community Abravanel, and Wiliam Christensen, who refused to yield to leader. The program for the first anything that was not of the concert Sunday will include highest cultural standards. Serenade Mozarts in C With Dr. Olpins encourage(K. ment, the theater arts also de- Major for Woodwinds, Serenade for 388); Dvoraks veloped, and the Pioneer MeWoodwinds in D. Minor, morial Theater was constr uctand Brahms 44; ed, with Dr. C. Lowell Lees as Opus Piano Quartet No. 3 for and Strings in C Piano Minor, Opus 60. The performers will include Louis Booth, Jon Bush, oboes Martin Zwick, Frank Calendar 1 CBS ra iio Mormon Tabernacle Choir . and TV' broadcast in the Tabernacle, 9:30 n.m., Jan 31; rehearsal, 7:30 p.m., Feb. 4. Free. The Cherry Orchard Pioneer Memorial Theater, 8 p.m., Jan. 30, and Feb. 1 through 6; also 2 p.m., Feb. 6. Plaza Suite Theater 138, East, 8:30 p.m., Jan. 30 and Feb. 5 and 6. Maxfields Theater, 8 Fanny Girl p.m., Jan. 30, and Feb. 5 and 6. Silver Dangerous Dan McGrew Wheel Theater, Parir City, 8 p.m., Jan. 30, and Feb. 5 and 6. BYJ-S.Vincent Price Forum series lecture. Assembly Hall, Temple Square, 8 p.m;, Feb. 4. Dick Gregory Lecture, Weber State College Celebrity Series, Fine Arts Center, 8 138-2n- d Utah Opera Company Don Giovanni nd Utelr Symphony Orchestra, Kingsbury Hall, 8:30 p.m., Feb. 3, 5 and 6. , Lob Mus-grav- e, clarinets; 'Indies Tabajaras, guitarists Brigham Young University DeJong Concert Hall, 8 p.m., Feb. 4. Northern Wasatch Youth Symphony Utah State University Fine Arts Center, 3 p.m., Jan. 31. Stop the World, I Want to Get Off -Utah State University Theater . nd Music Department, Fine Arts Center, 8 p.m., Feb, 3 through 6. Weber State College Cellar Antigone. Theater., 8 p.m., Feb. 2 through 6; also 2 g.m., Feb. 6. p.m.. Feb. 3. Life Beyond the Earth Star Chamber program, Hansen Planetarium, 15 S. State, daily except Sunday. Free admission to museum and exhibit hall. T 'Douglas Craig, Mitch Morrison, bassoons; Edward Allen, Jaames Peterson, French horns; Lynn Larsen, Susan McKeever, cello; Patrick Zwick, string bass; Richard Kay, violin; Barbara Sudweeks, viola; Carolee cello and Grubb, Tricia Thomas, piano. The program for the second conert will be played by the student It quartet-in-residenc- will play Beethovens String Quartet No. 8 In F, Opus 9, No. 1, and Francks Piano Quintet in F Minor for Pianos, Two Violins, Viola and Cello. The string quartet will be joined by Hyrum Adams, pianist. The third and final concert will feature the University Chamber Orchestra with Christian Tiemeyer as civil war. Her unde has assumed the position of king and decreed thut one of the brothers was a rebel against the state and that his body must lie unburied. Antigone feels it her moral obligation to give him proper burial. When Jean Anouilh wrote the play in France, it was the time of the German occupation. Anouilh saw in the characters of Euripides Greek political play the same oppression of the will of man that existed in his time. The WSC production makes the symbolism of these characters reflect world conditions today, the struggle between the establishment, seeking to make the world safe for democracy, and idealistic youth, seeking to make the world safe for humanity, said Crosland. Allred won the best actor award at WSC last year for his performance of Fancourt Baberly in Charleys Aunt. His memorable roles include The in p e r f o rmances The Lesson, and Seagull, The New Tenant. Cast in the title role is Leslie Anne Haws, a graduate of Ogden High School and a sophomore theater major at Weber. She was last seen as Mrs. Upson in Marne at WSC last spring. Kristin Rose performs the The Northern Wasatch Jun- ior a training perform (first movement), and Leslie Anne Haws, left, as Antigone, shows defiance as Creon, Lee Scanlon, mistreats her. role of Ismene, beautiful sister of the plain Antigone. She has been in numerous Weber productions, including the muand Charsical Marne, ley's Aunt. Guest artist Lee Scanlon, playing the role of Creon, is a Ph.D. candidate at Brigham Young University and has performed in community theaters nationwide, including the Potomac Players in Washington, D.C. He has also directed plays such as A The Man For Ail Seasons. Odd Couple, and Twelfth Night. Others in the production Music Teachers from five Western States will attend the Division of the Southwest Music Teachers National Association (MNTA) conference at BYU in Provo Monday and Tuesday. lectures, panel discussions, recital demonstrations, and scholarship auditions. Highlighting the conference will be a piano recital by Dr. Barbara Men CrocKett, a former BYU student who received her doctorate from the University of Illinois. here are nearly Plenty Of Phones SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) as many -T- tel- as people in San Francisco. Pacific Telephone Co. reported that on Jan. 1, 1970, there were 84.4 phones per 100 San Franciscans. However, the telephone ratio here is still lower than In where D.C., Washington, phones outnumber people. ephones Dr. Crocketts recital will be presented in the Harris Fine Arts Center, Monday at 8:15 p.m. The convention will feature A Family Evening at . . . MAXFIELDS 3 Miles up Big Cottonwood Canyon Every Monday Evening 7:45 p.m, LIVE THEATRE n "Mont effective teaching method musical that porBring your family to a and family unity. trays love, good principles Buddy Young, Dee VVinterton, Producer-Directd or Adults $1.25 RESERVATIONS Kids 50o 272-057- 2 are: Thomas Wertz as Hae mon, Allan V. Lykins as the comical first guard, Tim in the role of messenger, Rebecca Jones as the nurse, Reta Lee Perry as Queen Eurydice, Aaron Rountree is the musician, and Jim Lazenby and Bob Dawson are the guards. Performances will be Feb. 6 at 8 p.m. and on Feb. 6 at a 2 p.m. matinee. The matinee and evening performances on Feb. 2 and 3 are $1.50 for all seats and the remaining performances $2. Tickets are available at the WSC Theater Box Office. Dun-cans- 2-- Sym- phony No. 5 (Reformation) by Mendelsrohn (fourth move- ment). Mendelssohns Fifth Symphony is called the Reformation because he uses Martin Luthers theme from A the hymn known as Mighty Fortress In the symphony. Soloists in the Bach concerto will be David Daines, Kirk Beecher, Marilyn Christine Carter, Alan Aiired and Linda Larsen. The junior orchestra Is made up of 60 string musicians. The Northern Wasatch Youth Symphony Orchestra is a full orchestra with 84 members. It will also perform in Youth the Utah Orchestra Festival in Febra-iry and present a second concert in April, Prof. Matesky said. Cro-sha- All-Sta- FINAL TWO SHOWS Music Teachers Plan Meet At Y. fun-fille- Orchestra, group conducted by Warren L. Burton, assistant professor of music at USUf will also on S und a ya program. Prof. Matesky will conduct the NWYSO In Overture to Egmont, Beethoven; by Concerto for Two Violins and Orchestra, by J. S. Bach TONIGHT 7:30 & 9:45 P.M. |