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Show Symphony, Chorale present 'Childhood of Christ' in song encompassing in that it tells the whole story of Christ not excerpts, ex-cerpts, but the totality of his life experiences. Soloists for the performance will be Christina Krooskos, contralto; con-tralto; Robert Peterson, baritone; Thomas East, tenor, and Don '; Watts, bass. The performance will be Saturday Satur-day night at 8:30 p.m. in the Tabernacle. Tickets are on sale at 55 West 1st South or ar the door. For the culmination of its season, sea-son, the Utah Symphony will combine forces with the University Univer-sity Civic Chorale for presentation of Berlioz's "Childhood of Christ." The chorale, directed by Prof. Newell B. Weight and J. Marlowe Neilsen, has already worked with the symphony earlier this season in an earlier presentation of Beethoven's Bee-thoven's Ninth. An integral part of the symphony, sym-phony, the chorale was founded in June, 1950, by Dr. Neilsen, one of the purposes being to allow the symphony to present choral works. This chorus of 130 University singers and outlying community voices is considered the official chorus for the symphony, and comprise the choral parts in all its recordings of choral works. Berlioz's "Childhood of Christ," selected for applicability to the Easter season, was the composer's only work well-liked by his contemporaries. Still popular popu-lar today, Dr. Neilsen commented that one of the reasons for its fame could be in the precision setting of voices. Not pretentious or extended, each separate piece is an integral part of the complete whole, he added. It is all- |