Show Symphony Cli Climaxes I I Top lop Season Without the aid of an assisting soloist loist Maurice Abravanel and the Utah Symphony clima climaxed ed their current 20 20 week week season on Saturday Saturday Satur Sat day with one of the finest and best received concerts yet to be heard If the concert was intended intend intend- ed to spur on the forthcoming symphony drive then it accomplished accomplished accomplished just that and if It was intended to please one and all it did that too Chosen works were of such a nature that there was something to appeal to any goer concert-goer whether musically trained or not The orchestra technically turned in a marvelous performance and pia plaudit u d i t again go to to Maurice Abravanel who seems to know I what he wants in his music and I who manages to get what he wants from his players Program opener was Mozart's Overture to the Marriage of Figaro which was given its best playing by the orchestra The strings were in perfect harmon harmony and the balance between all aU sections sections sections sec sec- was very ery fine Heaviest part of the evening musically speaking came during the playing of Beethoven's Symphony Symphony Symphony Sym Sym- phony No 6 known as the Pastoral Pastoral Pastoral Pas toral symphony but it was also a work that showed off our sym sym- I phony Beethoven ran the gamut of emotion from light passages In Inthe j I Ithe the beginning on through the boisterous boisterous bois bois- storm passages an and back to the song of the shepherds happy after the storm and Mr Abravanel and company seemed to follow right in his mood The musicians fairly danced along with their th ir con conductor d u c tor through the merr merry gathering of the peasants and fresh in spirit was the second movement scene at the brook After Saturdays Saturday's performance of the work there is bound to be more fans for Beethoven Beethoven Beethoven Bee Bee- and the Utah Symphony Second half of the program hit the top mark in both appeal and playing perfection It was such works as On ton the Moldau Finlandia Finlandia Finlandia Fin landia The Little Train by Villa Lobos and Strauss' Strauss Emperor Emperor Emperor Em Waltzes that caused the near-capacity near audience to rise to toI its feet in an ovation for Abravanel I I nel and the orchestra I Very short but to the point was the season-end season thanks given by Abravanel to the audience with his added hope that through completion completion completion com com- of the progress fund the orchestra would be able to con con- With the concerts as have been given this year particularly the Saturday evening concert it would be a tragedy for the symphony symphony symphony sym sym- phony to cease for our orchestra has ri risen en to great heights the past season Deserving of praise are members members members mem mem- bers of the symphony board particularly particularly particularly par par- Mrs John M. M Wallace as president and all symphony personnel personnel personnel per per- should be mentioned if space permitted Each section of the m u si c a 1 l organization has proved its capabilities beyond be rond a doubt And to Maurice Abravanel should go much credit for two symphony seasons worthy of the best praise Hope for the future is that the progress fund will soon be completed completed and and Mr Abravanel Abra will continue his musical work in Salt Lake |