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Show I ; - - T - - .... . PaRe Seven '- 111 ' " I 1 j- i v ... .. w rj v . t SLC has 'musical giants' Avenging Angel and Icabod Crane," were the works performed per-formed by the orchestra which the Salt Lake Audience was also able to hear at the farewell performance. Wilson said of Clark's work "Creatures," "A fascinating and somewhat bizarre work." The audience gave Clark's work a standing ovation. Clark, a Uni versity student, was commissioned commis-sioned by Downbeat, the jazz magazine, to write "Creatures" for the festival. Although the jazz students were unable to convince the University's Department of Music of its outstanding talent and future, they were, as national reviews seem to indicate, able to convince the rest of the nation. Blind Melon Chitlin', acclaimed ac-claimed by the Washington Star tor giving a startling good show-demonstrating show-demonstrating wit, intelligence and control in command of untapped reserves of skill and energy at the American College Jazz Festival, returned to Salt Lake to give the first of a series of concerts planned for this summer. sum-mer. The concert held in the Park City Recreational Resort building proved to the standing-room-only crowd that "Salt Lake City is harboring musical giants." Since Ladd Mcintosh's Farewell Concert, Blind Melon has continued to work on new music as well as adding new innovations to those works heard by the audience that night. Old memories of hard, useless work wavered through the crowd involved in trying to save the jazz department from the clutches of a "venemous" faculty as Melon worked its way through "Mescalito" "Boston Baked Beans" and "Sure Enough." Five of the eight members of Blind Melon Chitlin' are also members of the University of Utah Experimental Jazz Band and Rock Garden which received outstanding reviews following their performance ast the College Jazz Festival held in the Kennedy Ken-nedy Center in Washington, D.C. Len Cohen of the Washington Star said of the band, "... all the fine music was eclipsed by the performance opf the Utah Experimental Ex-perimental Jazz Band under the direction of composer-conductor Ladd Mcintosh and composer Merrill Clark. Suffice it to say in this brief space that Mcintosh and Clark draw from an apparently ap-parently bottomless well of color and variety with this orchestra. or-chestra. The orchestra demonstrated demon-strated its suppleness in that it plays with authority amd strength for both composers. This orchestra would have MInweH Mcintosh of the edge of the world if he had asked it of them. The music was simply breathtaking." John S. Wilson of the New York Times said, "The University of Utah last night dominated the final evening of the two-day American College Jazz Festival at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts." He goes on to say that the orchestra or-chestra "gave the most imaginative and completely realized performance of any of the 15 college groups that played at the festival." "The Fallen Warrior," a warmly melodic work dedicated to President Kennedy, which focused on superb alto saxophone passages by Glenn Garrett, and a massively programatic piece i |