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Show Cellist to play Bach in grove Synphony from Dr. Edgar Feder of New York City. The place of the recital, Cottam's Gulch, is the small grassy glenn just above University Universi-ty Street, between 2nd and 3rd South, extending up to just behind be-hind the Museum of Natural History. Student and general public are invited to the free concert, but are advised to bring their own blankets, so they may be more comfortable sitting on the grass. Lawn chairs would be acceptable, accept-able, and in the event of rain, the program will be moved to the Ballet Studio in the University Universi-ty MusicIIall. The Gulch itself carries historical histor-ical significance on the University Universi-ty campus. It originated in the 1930's, when Dr. Walter P. Cot tarn, professor emeritus, turned it into a home for a rare tree and plant collection, which now includes specimens of our local mountains, the largest giant Sequoia tree in Utah and even exotics native to the Orient. This collection, however, has spread over the entire campus with more than 7,000 trees of over 300 kinds on the more than 1,000 acre campus. This collection collec-tion and the whole campus were made the official Utah State Arboretum in 1961 by the State Legislature, and has since received receiv-ed national recognition, and donated specimens to many other collections. Music calling for peace after generations of war is the theme of Bach's "The Six Suites for Violinccllo" which are being presented pre-sented in an outdoor concert by David B. Freed. The program entitled 'Bach Is Love" is siatcd for Thursday at 7 p.m. in Cottam's Gulch , on the University campus. The program is under the sponsorship of the University String Workshop directed dir-ected by Noima Madsen, in cooperation co-operation with ASUU. David Freed, adjunct associate professor of music at the University Univer-sity and associate principle cellist of the Utah Symphony Orchestra. notes that the six suites he will perform, were Bach's "peace program." All six were written in the space of 2-3 years just following the Thirty Years war that ended in 1648 in Europe. Mr. Freed explains that musicians in those days traveled from public place to public place for their living, and often the people asked to hear music of the people in other countries. As Bach made the excursions through the European countries, which Mr. Freed adds "would today be equal to six trips around the world," the interchange inter-change of music, and the culture of different nationalities that the music typified, helped to ease the hostilities caused by generations genera-tions of war and removed some of the hatred. Relating it to the present, "Perhaps this music is an insignificant insigni-ficant way to peace," states Mr. Freed, "but, multiplied many times, it could help in the seeing of love and friendship, and the rcvcaMng of the best side of people everywhere." Besides the esthetic and his-1 his-1 torical value of the suites, Mr. Freed noted the six, no two of which are written in the same key, have musical significance as a set "with a grand design of symct ry the aspects of that design to be appreciated and explored." The instrument used for the program will be a Guadanini cello, name equal in reputation to that of a Stratavarius violin. The Cello is gift to the Utah |