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Show Choral Concert Scheduled Maestro Abravanel conducting. Soloists for the evening will be Blanche Christensen, Christina Po-litis, Po-litis, Thomas East and Don Watts. With the exception of East, who is a newcomer to Utah, all have previously pre-viously performed as soloists with the Utah Symphony. The Chichester Chiches-ter Psalms also calls for the voice of a shepherd boy, which will be sung by Gordon Ottley, a student at Granger High School. Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 is probably the most loved of all orchestral-choral works. It was completed com-pleted in 1824 with first performance perform-ance in Vienna under Beethoven's baton. Whereas modern audiences consider this symphony by itself a fairly full musical evening, it was one of four works performed at that premiere. The Chichester Psalms was commissioned com-missioned for its summer music festival by the Cathedral of Chichester Chich-ester in England, hence the name. . . It was performed there on July 31, 1965, as originally written for male voices only. First performance, however, was a revised version for mixed voices in New York City on July 15, 1965, with composer Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic. Tickets for this final concert for 1967 are on sale at the Utah Symphony Sym-phony box office at 55 West 1st South, telephone 328-5626, and at ZCMI Downtown and Cottonwood. In keeping with a long-standing tradition, the Utah Symphony will join hands with the University-Civic University-Civic Choral for Saturday, Dec. 9 in the Salt Lake Tabernacle at 8:30 p.m. The major work for the evening will be Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor with Choral Finale for orchestra, soloists and chorus, with Maestra Maurice Abravanel conducting. Opening the concert will be another an-other orchestral-choral work, Chi-dester Chi-dester Psalms for mixed chorus and orchestra by Leonard Bernstein. Bern-stein. Director of the University-Civic Chorale is Dr. Newell B. Weight. His assistant director is John Marlowe Nielson. Both are at the University and are well-known in Utah's world of music. The University-Civic Chorale is the official choral arm of the Utah Symphony and has performed for many concerts con-certs and recordings with the orchestra. or-chestra. This concert will be the third time Beethoven's Ninth has been included in-cluded in Utah Symphony's concert series. The first time was in 1947-48 1947-48 and the second in 1961, with |
