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Show Fine Arts Guild Pushing For Her Patrons in Drive A campaign for Individual Fine Arts Patrons and Business Busi-ness Fine Arts Sponsors is being conducted by the Southeastern South-eastern Utah Fine Arts Guild prior to the Utah Symphony Orchestra concert to be held here April 1. The concert will be the first event in a season of presentations presenta-tions and special events sponsored under the Guild umbrella. It will be presented in the Middle School gym with Maestro Maurice Abravanel conducting. The program will feature two works by Johannes Brahms and the Symphony No. 5 in E Minor by Peter Dyich Tchaikovsky, as major work. Opening the program will be the Brahms Tragic Overture, Opus 81, followed by his Symphony No. 3 in F Major. Tickets will be on sale this week from Guild Board members mem-bers and at the Times-Independent and KURA Radio. As in past years, all students will be admitted free of charge. Tickets for adults will be $3.25 each for the performance. The Business Fine Arts Sponsors and Individual Fine Arts Patrons campaign was undertaken by the Guild Board to develop a broad-based community support for a' variety of events which have been sponsored, or co-sponsored by the Guild during the three years of its existence, and to provide a means to finance more such concerts, programs, exhibitions, etc. A $25 membership contribution contribu-tion which is tax deductible because the Guild is a npn-profit corporation, will entitle the patron to a free admission to the symphony concert, to each of 3 Moab Community Theatre productions, produc-tions, and to other special activities developed for Guild Patrons during the membership member-ship year. In addition, Patrons will be given a 20 percent discount on purchase of additional tickets to Guild events for their family members. Business Fine Arts Sponsors are being asked to pledge an annual amount for contribution contribu-tion to the Fine Arts Guild. It is hoped that through this means one single contribution pledge will take care of a year's activities, rather than going to the businesses each time there is a special event, since ticket sales rarely cover costs. Several years ago the Community Concerts program was active locally. However, it was felt by the Art Guild board of directors, composed of 15 citizens representing many facets of the community, that to sponsor events locally would save money. The Guild board serves voluntarily and the Guild is a non-profit corporation, corpora-tion, whereas other culturally oriented programs, such as Community Concerts, are profit-making organizations taking money from the community. com-munity. If enough business sponsors and individual fine arts patrons pa-trons can be developed, it is planned to bring such pres-tigeous pres-tigeous groups as the Utah Symphonic Chorus, Pioneer Memorial Theatre, Ballet West, etc. to Moab. In addition the Moab Community Com-munity Theatre and newly-formed newly-formed Bicentennial Chorus will benefit from monies raised. The Bicentennial Chorus Chor-us was formed under the auspices of Utah State University. Univer-sity. It is composed of a group of local people who are interested in performing choral chor-al works on a continuing basis, and plans to present a number of programs each year. This group needs funds to buy music for this purpose. The Moab Community Theatre is also composed of local citizens who have presented pre-sented theatre productions for a number of years here. Ticket sales do not usually meet production expenses, and this group needs funds to continue offering quality theatre productions. pro-ductions. In addition, the Theatre group, in cooperation with the Art Guild, sponsored the popular Everyman production produc-tion last year, presented by a touring group of the Guthrie Theater. It is hoped that more such productions can be brought to Moab. |