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Show ., .- '-. ('- v Q lis J o l VV jA: if- : IK I ir mi I il I m .mi -iiiH-ryMHMFntffrfcwiiin m illim, mniKwi ITZHAK PERLMAN With Symphony For the first subscription concert of the new year,, Maurice Abravanel and the Utah Symphony will perform the brilliant and familiar works of Stravinksy, Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn Mendels-sohn in the Salt Lake Tabernacle Taber-nacle on Saturday, Jan. 14. The program will include the appearance of Israel-bom violinist, Itzhak Perlman. THE SAME program will be presented in Ogden's Weber State College Fine Arts Center on Friday, Jan. 13. Since winning the 1964 Leventritt Competition Itzhak Perlman, violinist, has appeared ap-peared in the major music capitals of the world for orchestral and recital appearances. ap-pearances. Last season found him with a sold-out American tour of orchestral and recital dates, a tour of Japan and three tours of Europe. AMONG THE greatest of the world's violinists, Mr. Perlman annually appears in more than 100 concerts around the globe. This will be his second appearance with the Utah Symphony. He first performed with them in January 197a Famed for his warmth of tone and phenomenal technical tech-nical facility, the effect he creates when he performs prompted a Philadelphia Inquirer Critic to write, "Itzhak Perlman breathes a new life into the violin recital." reci-tal." BORN IN Tel Aviv in 1945, Mr. Perlman doesn't remember a time when he didn't want to play the violin. Even when he was stricken with polio at the age of four, the illness and year's convalescence con-valescence left his musical ambitions unchanged. His first studies were at the Tel Aviv Academy of Music. , In 1958, Ed Sullivan brought him to the United States to appear on his television show. Only 13, Mr. Perlman decided to stay in the United States and with the help of scholarships from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation and the Juilliard School, he studied at Juilliard. He made his first Carnegie Hall appearance in 1963 and the following year won the Leventritt Competition. Competi-tion. MAESTRO Abravanel and the orchestra will open the program with Stravinsky's Apollon Musagete. The ballet Apollon Musagete was premiered in Washington with choreography by Adolph Bolm in 1928. It was later recreated re-created in Paris for Diaghilev by Balachine in whose com-. com-. pany's repertoire it has since . remained. "Apollo" is scored solely for strings and offers a depth of infinite tenderness, serenity and tranquility. Tchaikovsky's "Romeo and Juliet" is one of the composer's com-poser's works recorded by Maestro Abravanel and the Utah Symphony. The love melody, translated into popular song, is known to millions. "Romeo and Juliet" was written in 1869 when the composer was young, vigorous and romantic. Composed Com-posed at the suggestion of Balakirev, it received its premiere performance March 16, 1870. VIOLINIST Itzhak Perlman wHI join Maestro Abravanel to complete the program with a performance of Mendelssohn's Mendels-sohn's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra. The composer wrote the entire first solo appearance ap-pearance of the violin on the E string. Throughout the work the solo part never loses its position of prominence. There is something essentially essen-tially and exquisitely feminine about the concerto. Tickets for the Salt Lake concert are available at the Utah Symphony box office, and outside the south gate of the Tabernacle, one hour before the performance. IN OGDEN, contact the Ogden Symphony Guild, 2580, Jefferson Avenue, or Weber State College Fine Arts Center one hour before the performance. |