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Show 'A' STUDENT, TOO S. L. Girl Cellist, 1 7, Is Symphony Veteran BV TED SHRRWTJf A tr rht "A" student In arhnnl she does' not confine her Interests to music, but loves to ski and dance, and spends what spare time she has tn playing with a trio and a string quartet "There's a man in my life, too," she confessed, "and he's terrific!" The object of her affections is an ex-soldier she met a year ago, who returned to Utah to attend the university. "Because he Hked the climate,"! she said slyly. Former residents of Seattle, the Carpenters moved here in 1944 and that winter Qlenna played her first concert in the second performance of the symphony Now she is saving sav-ing her imoney to buy a really good instrument to further her musical mu-sical education. "It's true that musto is the universal uni-versal language," she declared, "and I know musle has msde it possible for ma to meet and mix with people much more easily than It would have been otherwise." She Is enthuelastio about the steadily growing Interest in serious musle and thinks there is a big future in musto for young people. The Utah symphony orchestra's youngest musician, 17-year-old Glenna Carpenter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Carpenter, 1139 Herbert ave., Is a veteran of the organization, or-ganization, this season being her third with the orchestra. The talented and charming young cellist is one of two Utahns in the six-cello section, and although al-though she has the last chair In the section, her playing has won outstanding praise from many members of the orchestra. "My mother started me in piano when I was three," she related, "but I gave up practicing after three years." She still plays piano for Sunday school and for her own amusement, but her chief interest is In the cello, which she has stud-led stud-led "with half a dozen teachers" sines she waa 12. A senior at East high school, the pretty dark-haired cellist Is looking forward to graduation In January and enrollment at the University of Utah for the spring quarter. . "I Intended to start at the U. In January," she explained, "but then I got this contract with the symphony, sym-phony, and the season will end just in time for me to enroll for the last quarter." Miss Carpenter said the is looking look-ing forward to the next concert, Jan. 4, when the symphony orchestra or-chestra will play an all-Tschaikow-sky concert, including "Romeo and Juliet," "Nutcracker Suite" and Tschaikowakys "Symphony No. 6." The popular composer is one of her favorites, she said, because his music is "so uninhibited that you can feel everything he meant to be conveyed by his music." |
