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Show O T Miss Jean Preston, soloist, and Maestro Maurice Abravanel prepare for Utoco free "pops" concerts as wind-up to holiday season. Wei! Known Soprano Will Be Soloist At Pops Concerts Jean Preston, well known soprano, so-prano, will be soloist with the Utah Symphony orchestra in the four ' ;ops" coicerts which will conclude the holiday season in Utah. I The "pops" concerts are sched-) uled in Salt Lake at the Taber- i nacle on January 5; Provo at the' BYU Field House on January 6; Ogden at the Tabernacle on January Jan-uary 11; and Logan at the Utah State University Field house on January 12. Masetro Maurice Abravanel will conduct all four concerts. For the third straight year the concerts are sponsored by the Utah Oil Refining Company, and free tickets are available now ati all Utoco Service Stations, ac-J I cording to Herold L. Gregory, symphony manager. Miss Preston will sing Puccini's Puc-cini's "Musette's Waltz" from La Boheme and "Vissi D'Arte" from : Tosco in the first half of the ' program and "The Last Rose of ; Summer" by Flotow and "My Hero" by Oscar Strauss in the last half. The capable young soprano was soloist with Paul Whiteman at the Gershwin concert of the Utah Symphony last year. She also performed in the University of Utah Summer Festival and the Utah Symphony University of Utah presentation of "Joan of Arc at the Stake." Masetro Abravanel has planned a program that will be of interest in-terest to everyone, including the selections from "The King and I" by Rogers and Hammerstein; Leroy Anderson's "Sleigh Ride," "Sandpaper Ballet" and "Fiddle Faddle"; Prelude to "Meister-singer" "Meister-singer" by Wagner; Meredith WHlson's "Music Man" and John P. Sousa's rousing "Washington Post March." The requests for tickets to date indicate capacity or near capacity capa-city crowds at all concerts. Those who plan to attend the concerts are urged to get tickets early from any of the Utah stations in their area. Their is no obligation for the tickets. |