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Show BETH LEFFINGWELL, LUCILE SMITH ! TO PRESENT PIANO-CELLO CONCERT K nation. Next week Lucile will leave for Logan, having been awarded one of the two USAC scholarships scholar-ships tendered to graduates of the Branch Agricultural College. Col-lege. Elizabeth Leffingwell and Lucile Smith have been enjoy1-ing enjoy1-ing playing together since the Leffingwells moved to Milford early in 1948. Friday, Sept. 16th, Miss Lucile Smith, pianist, and Mrs. Elizabeth Eliza-beth Leffingwell, violincellist, will be presented in recital by the Milford Methodist Church. A program of 10 numbers has been arranged, featuring compositions com-positions by such renowned composers as Haydn, Faure, Debussy, De-bussy, Popper, Rachmaninoff, Grieg, and others. Miss Smith and Mrs. Leffingwell Leffing-well are well known locally for their proficiency with their chosen instruments. The city is indeed fortunate to be privileged privi-leged to hear these two accomplished accom-plished musicians on the same program. Elizabeth Leffingwell began her music studies at the age of 5, with piano lessons from her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Stiles of Denver. At 9, she began cello i lessons, and by the time she began be-gan attending the Lamont S.chool of Music at the University Univer-sity of Denver she had appeared as celloist with the Junior Symphony Sym-phony Orchestra, the Denver University Orchestra, the Denver Den-ver Women's String Ensemble, and in many solo recitals, radio appearances, as well as chamber music and orchestra concerts. t After two years at the Uni-verstiy Uni-verstiy of Denver, she received a scholarship to the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. Here she received her Bachelor's degree in 1945 and a fellowship for graduate study toward a Performer's Certificate Cer-tificate and Master of Music degree de-gree in 1947. Addiitional schol- arships permitted summer studies at the Yale Music School and at the Boston. Symphony's Berkshrie Music Center at Tanglewood, Mass. During the war years she participated in many USp entertainments, which with recitals and other solo activities made her playing familiar in many cities and towns of New York as well as her home state of Colorado. At the time of her marriage to Myron B. Leffingwell of Denver, Den-ver, she was assistant principal cellist with the Denver Symphony Sym-phony Orchestra. But since her husband's work with the American Amer-ican Telephone and Telegraph Company has kept them "on the go," her musical activities I have been limited by the localities locali-ties in which they have lived. Miss Lucile Smith, daughter of Mayor and Mrs. E. L. Smith, needs little introduction to Milford Mil-ford residents. The name of E. L. Smith has been synonymous I with Good Music in Milford for many years. Like Mrs. Leffingwell, Lucile also began piano lessons, studying study-ing under her mother's tutelage, when only 5 years old. For the past two years she has been attending at-tending the Branch Agricultural College in Cedar City. Many of the residents of the Milford area and Southern Utah will remember remem-ber her regular Saturday morning morn-ing broadcasts over radio station KSUB during 1948 with Vernie Anderson, soprano. Her appearances as soloist and accompanist have brought her recognition throughout the entire en-tire southern part of the state. In 1947 she attended the National Na-tional Music Camp at Inter-lochen, Inter-lochen, Mich., a mecca for gifted high school musicians and famous music instructors from the length of breadth of the |