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Show " Burl Brings Out Forgotten Music "It Is a pity that so much poetic and musical material goes to waste because It lies and Is kept in a place where it cannot be " heard except in that section where it originates," states Burl Ives, who fulfills a concert engagement engage-ment In Salt Lake City at Kings-. Kings-. , bury hall Monday and Tuesday at 8:15 p.m. If Ives has accomplished anything any-thing cultural, most probably it has been to ferret out and make known this heretofore unknown material. It is fortunate that there exist In our time so many , mean of making these songs known, i Of these media, the concert con-cert stsge is the most Important, Burl contends, because here the artist may disclose the songs In their full beauty. But he credits radio and records as serving a high function in making them known. Burl Ives elucidates that they should also be sung by the people, as popular songs are, "because these songs which have been written writ-ten by and for the people and which have been preserved because people through the years have wanted to keep them alive. Poetry and content and beautiful melodies melo-dies are what people moat want in their art, . and those songs abound in those qualities. |