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Show aw Maurice Abravanel and the Utah Symphony Orchestra will present the works of composers Griffes. Saint-Saens Saint-Saens and Schubert (or their concerts to be held in the Salt Lake Tabernacle on Friday, Feb 6.8 p.m. and in Logan on Thursday. Feb. 5. 8 p m. at Utah State University's Chase Fine Arts Center. MAKING his first Utah appearance, ap-pearance, Lonn Hollander, piano soloist, will join Maestro Maes-tro Abravanel and the orchestra for the Sail Lake and Logan concerts. A 20th anniversary season at the age of 31 is a rara occasion, oc-casion, but internationally renowned pianist Lonn Hollander is commemorating his during the 1375-76 season, appearing with 20 maior orchestras in the United States and Canada. His second Far Eastern tour is scheduled for the spring of 1976. GRIFFES' familiar The White Peacock will open the program. Taken from a group of pieces for piano solo entitled "Four Roman Sketches," it is the first of four pieces which were written after poems of William Sharp during the years 1915-16. It was later orchestrated by the composer into the form the Utah Symphony will present for these concerts. m SOLOIST Lonn Hollander will join Maestro Abravanel and the Utah Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Samt-Saens' Piano Concerto No 5. The last of Saint-Saens' piano concertos, it has been nicknamed "The Egyptian." Exotically colored, this concerto contains references to oriental rhythms and modes. Written in three movements, the finale ends with an immense bravura passage covering the whole range of keyboard and concludes in a veritable display of fireworks. SCHUBERT'S Svmphonv No. 9 in C Major ("Tlx Great") will complete the program. Schubert didn't hear this symphony performed. per-formed. It remained for Schumann and Mendelssohn to bring posthumous glory to the composer. Constructed in four movements. the first movement gets underway as horns and trombones announce an-nounce the brilliant theme. The slow movement is based upon two contrasting themes, one rather playful and the other more sustained and lyrical. THE Scherzo is in three-part three-part form with a trio reminiscent of the "Viennese Waltz" or "Lander." The finale proceeds at breakneck speed with a driving rhyth- mical impetus. Tickets for the Salt Lake concert are available at the Utah Symphony Office, 55 West First South, or at the ticket booth located outside the south gate at the Salt Lake Tabernacle, one ho,, , the concert. ' . IN LOGA.N, t,ck, purchased at the r? ' Arts Center, i .S University atl S Y. |