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Show inB He Gambled And Won O Pope t December 3, 1964 By LOWELL DURHAM RETROSPECT; No one says It quite like Mahler! sums up last week's major event. A conductor takes a calculated risk In programming Mahler or Bruckner. Particularly Is this true of the formers least performed - SEVENTH - symphony which comprised the entire program for last weeks Utah Symphony outing. Maestro Abravanel reduced the risk by programming It for the U. of U.s Sixth Annual Festival of Contemporary Music. For the Thanksgiving Eve crowd was not the usual Utah Symhard-co- re devotees, phony crowd. Rather, It was the latters of fans music of U. U. and, course, contemporary young plus the Mahler-Bruckn- er clacque The latter are considered extremists by the musical maintwins stream. They are noisy In praise of their gold-du- st whose symphonies save for the late Bruno Walter, may have he disappeared from the repertory. Almost as we such Mahlers and hear the gems good fight, fought Second, Fourth, Eighth, and Song of the Earth nowdays as a result. Walters successor as Mahler champion may well be Maestro Abravanel. Following the critical success of Vanguards recording of the EIGHTH (Utah Symphony - U. Choruses and six soloists) Abravanel was hailed by HIGH FIDELITYS We have discovered a new Mahler conductor R. C. Marsh: of stature and sympathy In a day when such men are precious Indeed. Certainly his stellar podium role In last weeks SEVENTH was remarkable particularly by his orchestra which remained seated and joined in the audiences ovation. His dedication and sympathy for the music at hand was evident throughout, In his great care with details of tempo, dynamics and balance. I was pleasantly surprised at the warmth of the audiences diet. My mentor response. I grew up on a Mahler-Bruckn- er Philip during graduate school studies was composer-conductGreeley Clapp, recipient of the M ahler medal for promoting performances of Mahler. During four years under his wing I had opportunity to perform In his Seventh ("Resurrection), Fourth, Fifth, and Eighth Symphonies, as well as his "Song for king-si- ze of the Earth and "Songs of a Wayfarer orchestra and vocal soloist. Mahler has been much maligned by fellow composers, some conductors, and most critics. Most common complaint concerns his symphonies length. Admittedly they are long. Almost any of them can take up an entire program. The SEVENTH has Its weaknesses, most notably in the opening movement which seems to struggle to jet airbourne Even so, it has lovely moments of nostalgic tenderness. The middle three movements compensate for any such weaknesses however. Each Is a distinctive nocturnal tone poem. The ensemblee of over 100 performers Is used by composer as a rich tonal pallette capable of producing minute differences of timbre. In a sense, the SEVENTH is a giant concerto grosso. It emphasizes the versatility and virtuosity of the orchestras flrst-cha- lr artists. Alternating with noisy tuttl (Continued on Page 9) single-handed- o ly the Fimwa or is Sw sv' S s v s '. ;Y u X Mrs. Clea Jensen Bruce McDaniel 1771 Laurelhurst Garland, Utah Housewife Situation To Be Filled Mrs Wayne Despaln Drive 1035 Sales representative "I certainly dont think It S me should be left Idle Industry will probably come In and make use of it. The Many Mood s oj Will Lucas .... t "Im an man, so 1 think the Uni should use It East 7575 Soutn Housewife vers It) hate to see it go, but know what they can do with It I I dont OPINION PLEASE QUESTION- - What do you think should be done with Dumas of Fort Douglas? by Will Lucas There for one anxious moment, I thought I was Whewllll I mean, you can Imagine going to be replaced with a want-a- d. the terror I went thru when I heard that the Review was To protect my space In the actually giving away want-ad'-s. newpaper I humbly submit this: Situation wanted: Highly lntellectural, stimulating, re conditioned columlnst-dls- k Jockey desires vast subjective audience to share his objective satirical views on provincial Must be willing to titter while encommunity happenings. during sharp barbs at most sacred cows (Example: Is there really any coorelation between the John Birch Society in Washington and ATree Grows In Brooklyn??? 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DEFINITION The difference between a philosopher and a scientist, as told to Flo Winerlter by Charlie Dickson of First Security Bank during a recent lunch: A pholosopher Is a man who knows a little bit about many things and studies hard to know less and less about a man who knows a lot about a few things ...then studies hard to know more and more about less and less until he eventually knows everything about nothing!!! I ran Into another one... another person with a different point of view. His name Is Emil Matalic. Emil Is a Minnesota farmer who is running for President of the U.S.A. and he Is doing his campaigning In Salt Lake C lty now The planks on Emils presidential platform Include: absolute control of the worlds population to the maximum of three billion. To Insure that the worlds total population stay at 3 billion, the maximum family will have He also protwo children. mises (if elected) to remove everybody from the citys and give each family two and one half acres of farm land for He their total subsistance. would Institute his Robin-Hoplan... taking from the rich and giving to the poor so everyone has equal wealth. He would abolish all penal and mental health Institutions. He all law and would abolish order and revert back to the laws of nature. (The laws of nature as he sees them) And that Is Just the beginning of his campaign. Emil says it's Just a metter of educating the world popu- -, latlon to the positive aspects of his plan before It takes At this point, Im effect. positively thankful for education. to Oh, and happy want-aall thy readers. California 8? 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