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Show Utah Symphony Madame Bachauer, Princess Irene-royal talent Didn't dig the Salt Lake Beehive Bee-hive Statesmen at all. I guess some of the older folks there did. From the applause, yeah. "Lots of fun," said a guy in back. Barbershop Quartet The Evans Quartet came on with the line "We bring you greetings from the go-go boys of the Stone Age." This group was different, a real barbershop quartet. quar-tet. Dug it. The Bountiful Chordbusters was a real winner. Haven't seen so much corn since Charlie Chaplin. The conductor was cuttin' up all over with a little help from one of the guys in the chorus. The Barbershop Symphonic Medley was strange. It looked really weird with four hands flying around up there telling all those people what to do. Turk Evans was conducting the com bined choruses and Ardean Watts was conducting the orchestra. The blazers of the choruses didn't go very well with the tuxes and formal gowns of the orchestra (yeah, a fashion critic now too). Altogether, the ordeal was too stuffy and formal for me. The audience didn't seem to get involved in-volved in the music any more than just listening and some tiling like this should involve moe Next Concert The Spotlight on Youth concert con-cert is coming up on January 30. This year's concert will feature the choral groups from South, Granite, Bonneville and Carbon High Schools singing along with the Utah Symphony, under the direction of Maurice Abravanel, in three great orchestral-choral works. Tickets are now on sale at 55 W. First South. They're $2 for adults, $1 for students and $1 for senior citizens (discrimination!). some barbershop choruses and having a kind of jam session in which each could do their own thing and in which they also did some things together. It was almost entirely that "good ol' time" music. I liked the high sustained notes on the violins in Humperdinck's Evening Prayer and Dream Pantomime Panto-mime from "Hansel and Gretel." It was fairy feeling. At the beginning of Strauss' Blue Danube Waltz it was like one was sitting in an open-air park with the orchestra playing right beside the river. You could almost feel the water moving. It made you want to get up and dance. Then, when the most famous part of the waltz was reached, the sound got harsh. The mood was lost for the rest of the piece. Oliver Medley The Oliver medley was nothing like the soundtrack. But, then, the medley was written for a large orchestra. From the response given by the audience at the end of the piece I guess it must have been bearable to someone. After the orchestra, the barber-ship barber-ship choruses and quartet came on and did their thing. The first chorus had their hats on. They swung their arms and really got moving. I liked the lines from one of their songs: "If you can't get a girl in the summertime you can't get a girl at all. Don't miss a kiss in the summertime or you won't kiss a miss in the fall." Crazy huh? That was the Utah Valley Skyline Chorus. II BY FRANK RUNNER ' Entertainment Staff tJk Mme. Gina Bachauer, "Queen disc, 0f the piano," and her royal student stu-dent Princess Irene of Greece will i be performing in concert with the 1,1 (. Utah Symphony in the Tabernacle si,on Saturday at 8 p.m. The pro-igram pro-igram will feature "Symphony No. 4' 3 5 in D Major" and "Concerto for I:' Two Pianos" by Mozart, "Capric-4i-cio Espagnol" by Rimsky-gleiKorsakov Rimsky-gleiKorsakov and Grieg's "Piano 'till iConcerto in A minor." I; Madame Bachauer is an Elfe honorary citizen of Utah. This (presentation was made by Senator intl Moss at the American embassy in feist, Athens, Greece in 1966. It was she who first suggested that the 'Die Utah Symphony demonstrate its Die jtalent around the world; specifi-xot specifi-xot cally at the Athens Festival in 1966. And what was the Athenians' reaction to the orchestra's orche-stra's first performance abroad? "They loved them," according o Mme. Bachauer. Qfl These concerts with the royal .adies (there was one here last ear too) have a special signifi-:ance signifi-:ance for Maurice Abravanel, con-luctor con-luctor of the Utah Symphony, midie maestro was born in Solonka. Terrible Time 4 IT. sfc: "We live in a terrible time and aulilihe young people feel that," e'iRiladame Bachauer said, com-I com-I alimenting on young composers, in a asbress conference Wednesday. She efolaid that young composers have etoti'very right to write the tense sertaijiusic that they're writing today :d Kiecause we are living in times of i tension and composers usually ieifirite about what is on their I poir.iinds. Speaking for Princess Irene and eisfcerself at the p.c. Mme. Bachauer bljiaid, "We don't like avant-garde lfapnusic)." jdisi The Princess never had any aui:prmal piano training until she theruck up the relationship with jjjiL-Ime. Bachauer a few years ago. j.jpf her practice now, Her Royal e j,:!ighness said, "I try to get in at torast six hours a day." Music is very important to her. "Music comes first and everything else gets fitted around it." The Princess Prin-cess and the Madame may keep up with their practice during their stay at the Hotel Utah with the pianos provided for them in their rooms. Armed with 10 concertos, the royal pair are making a tour of the States which will continue until May 10. Of tomorrow night's Concerto for Two Pianos in E-flat major, Mme. Bachauer, who has studied under the great Rachmaninoff, commented, "It's one of Mozart's most beautiful concertos It's so extraordinarily well orchestrated." or-chestrated." The piece was written when Mozart was in low spirits stemming stem-ming from the recent death of his mother and the disappointment of his first love. Princess Irene will be accompanying the Madame on this piece. Utah Symphony The symphony orchestra will be on their own with Mozart's Symphony No. 35 (Haffner) and R-K's Capriccio Espagnol. Mme. Bachauer will perform with the orchestra the Grieg Concerto Con-certo in A minor. There will be a reception after the concert. Dress for the affair will be semi-formal. A buffet supper will be served. Reservations Reserva-tions can be made any time until the Utah Symphony office closes on Friday. Reservations can be made by phone by calling 328-5626 which is also the number num-ber to call if you wish to reserve tickets for the concert. Tickets for the concert may also be purchased at the door. Tickets for the reception recep-tion are $7 per couple. Tickets for the concert are $3-10. Last Concert I went to the January Pops Festival last Saturday. This thing consisted of the Utah Symphony Orchestra getting together with |