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Show Pixie College Fine Arts Festival Evokes Enthusiastic Response 1 S Music, Pictorial Art and Literature Emphasized at Festival Music Programs Feature Wednesday's Programs With Gerrit de Jong As Main Speaker; Literature Theme of Thursday With Beaux Art Ball As Climaxing Event on Friday Night With the finest pictures on display that have been brought to Dixie by the Fine Arts Festival, the third annual event of this great art treat got underway Wednesday at the Dixie junior college. Three days, December 1, 2 and 3, are being devoted to Music, Literature and Pictorial Art with each day featuring these three divisions of art in the order named. As the feature of the first day. Kvhich was devoted to music, Gerrit Ger-rit de Jong, dean of the Fine Arts college at the Brigham Young university, spoke on the "Appreciation "Apprecia-tion of Music". Today Gail Plum-mer, Plum-mer, of the university speech department de-partment presented a number of interpretive readings and tomorrow tomor-row Dr. Adam S. Bennion. assistant as-sistant to the president of the Utah Power and Light company will speak on the "Art of a Finer Life." Professor de Jong, who was the speaker on the day of music at last year's Fine Arts Festival, said that he appreciated the lienor of having been invited to come again and participate on the music program. pro-gram. He told the assembly of students and townspeople, that the only way to appreciate music is to hear it. "Everybody can't know everything every-thing about everything," he stated, "so everyone can't appreciate all types of music, but anybody can improve or develop music appreciation apprecia-tion by study." According to Professor de Jong the nieihod used in former ye,.is of teaching music in public schools has been wrong. "Most people are music consumers, not professional performers," he said, "Therefore students should be taught music appreciation, instead of trying to teach them how to become professional pro-fessional musicians." Classifies Music The speaker classified music Into In-to two types, descriptive music, which describes something and pure or absolute music, which takes a series of tones or a theme and works it into a certain musical musi-cal form. He explained that it takes much less training to ap-Continucd ap-Continucd on page eight) Fine Arts Festival v ! i (Continued from first page) preciate descriptive music than it i does absolute music. j Following his talk Professor de j Jong and Miss Clara YVoodhouse, ' piano instructor at the Dixie college, col-lege, played the first and second movements of Beethoven's Con- certo. Two violin solos were pre- j sented by Donald Olscn, head of j the orchestra and band Work at the B.A.C. Two selections, "Blue Danube Waltz" by Strauss, and "Goodnight Beloved", were given by the Dixie junior college mixed chorus under the direction of Joseph W. McAllister. Earl J. Bleak, Shirl Pitchforth and Lloyd Bleak gave a trumpet solo, entitled "Three Solatires." The program was concluded with a song by Noma Andrus. The assembly was sponsored by the Delta Phi Alpha, a music fraternity and was under the direction di-rection of Carlos Schmutz, chairman chair-man of the fraternity. Present Play The play "Lena Rivers" will be presented in the Dixie college auditorium audi-torium tonight at 7:30. A small fee is being charged with no reserved re-served seats, according to Verde Washburn, chairman of the Lambda Lamb-da Beta Theta, literary sorority, which is sponsoring the production. The cast which is made up of Dixie college students is: Lena Rivers, Avonell Reber, of Hurri-1 cane: Granny Nichols. Alice Lowe, of Salmon, Idaho; John Livingstone. Living-stone. Allen Barker, of Escalante; Mrs. Livingstone, Adelie Hall; Caroline Livingstone, Verde Washburn, Wash-burn, of Blanding: Anne Livingstone. Living-stone. Emilv Brooks; John Junior, Flovd Atkins; Frank Graham, Cle'll Covington, of Hurricane; Mrs. Graham, Elaine Hafen; Durward Belmon, Jach Rencher; Malcolm Everett, Clayton Prince; Aunt Millv, Lela Sullivan and Old Ceaser, George Jay, of Tooele. The plav is directed by Dr. D. Eldon Beck, assisted by Miss Af-ton Af-ton Peters. Stage properties and decorations are under the direction of Oliver Stratton. Gives Interpretive Readings Gail Plummer, of the university of Utah speech department presented pre-sented a number of Interpretive readings and an introduction to different types of literature, in the second assembly of the Fine Arts Festival, held in the Dixie junior college auditorium today. Professor Plummer will be remembered re-membered for his interpretive readings here last year when he presented a selection, of compositions composi-tions entitled, "From the Ridiculous Ridicu-lous to the Sublime in Literature." Professor Plummer is manager of Kingsbury Hall, cultural center cen-ter of the University of Utah, and has charge of the public speaking work at that institution. |