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Show Utah Symphony Readies Free "Pops" Concerts The Utah Symphony orchestra will present three free "pops" concerts again this season as part of the holiday season, according ac-cording to Herold Gregory, manager man-ager of the symphony. The concerts have been scheduled sched-uled in Salt Lake at the Tabernacle Taber-nacle on Friday, January 2; at Logan on the George Nelson Field House on Thursday, Jan. Once again the concerts are being sponsored by the Utah Oil Refining Company and free tickets tick-ets will be available with no obligation at all Utoco Service Stations. Anyone unable to get tickets may secure them by writing writ-ing the Utah Oil Refining Co. in Salt Lake City. Maestro Maurice Abravanel will conduct all the concerts. Parents are urged to make it a "night at the symphony for the whole family." The programs have been arranged to please young and old. Concerts will start at 8 p.m. in Salt Lake and Provo and 8:15 in Logan. The program will open with the Rossini "Thieving Magpie Overture" and be followed with selections from Tschaikowsky's Swan Lake Ballet. Grieg's Piano Concert with Carl Fuerstner as soloist and the well known Jo-hann Jo-hann Strauss "Blue Danube" will complete the first part of the program. After intermission, the orchestra will present selections selec-tions from "Porgy and Bess" by George Gershwin and the popular popu-lar "On the Trail" and "Cloudburst" "Cloud-burst" movements from Ferde Grofe's Grand Canyon Suite. |