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Show Famous Utah Symphony Here Next Wednesday Evening The appearance of the Utah Symphony Orchestra In Moab, Mo-ab, for many years the cultural cul-tural highlight of the spring season here, will be Wednesday Wed-nesday evening, April 16, at 8 p.m. In the Grand County Coun-ty High School gym. Directing will be Maestro Maurice Abravanel, who with a 27-year tenure with the orchestra has one of the longest histories with one orchestra of any U. S. conductor. con-ductor. Little did he realize when he signed for one year with the Utah Symphony In 1947 that he would stay to make Utah his adopted home or that he would build the Utah Symphony Into the major orchestra or-chestra it is today, playing some 170 concerts annually and serving a combined land area of over a quarter million mil-lion square miles. Maurice' Abravanel Is widely wid-ely admired for his active encouragement of young, talented tal-ented musicians, a number of whom he has launched on successful professional careers. car-eers. A vital part of his energy Is devoted to school and youth concerts, to choral chor-al and orchestral concerts Involving hundreds of students stud-ents with the orchestra. One program which Implements Im-plements this dedication Is the offering of musical workshops work-shops conducted by orchestra orches-tra members in schools where concerts are played. When the orchestra played in Moab last March, the Southeastern South-eastern Utah Fine Arts Guild, sponsors of the concert, con-cert, arranged for a band workshop with Moab's junior jun-ior and senior high school band members and 4 orchestra or-chestra members. The possibility pos-sibility of another such workshop this year Is being looked Into. Tickets for the concert can be obtained from The Times-Independent or from KURA Radio; or from members mem-bers of the Art Guild Board. Cost Is $3 per person with students admitted free, and children to be accompanied by an adult. ThA nrncrrfl m will Inning The Adventures of Mercury, by Satle; Symphony No. 8 in D Minor, by Vaughan Williams; Wil-liams; and Symphony No. 7 In A Major by Beethoven. The Satle has been recorded record-ed by the orchestra, and Is among over 60 works which have been recorded on Vanguard, Van-guard, Vox and Westminster Westmins-ter labels. The famous Utah Symphony Orchestra will play in Moab April 16 at 8 p.m. at the Yn;li school Tiiolr Spring Tour through Utah and Colorado will take them to Roosevelt, ""-rand Junction, Moab, Durango, Blandlng, Grand Canyon Can-yon and Kanab for concerts , before returning to Salt Lake City and final preparations for a European Tour. |