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Show Students honored at Concert The Utah Symphony presents concerts for school children across the state every year. In the 1988-89 school year, 51 performances were given by the orchestra to some 65,000 students throughout the state. The Symphony's first performance perfor-mance was on May 8, 1940 in Kingsbury Hall on the University of Utah campus, under the baton of Hans Heniot. Maurice Abravanel directed the Utah Symphony for 32 years and is credited with guiding it from relative obscurity to national and international prominence. In 1986, the Utah Symphony performed per-formed its 5,000th. concert and released its 125th recording. Nine students of Valley View Elementary School have been selected to be honored at the Utah Symphony's 50th Anniversary Commemorative Concert for students to be held in the Salt Lake Mormon Tabernacle Saturday, May 12. They are Andrew Ferguson, son of Blaine and Kathy Ferguson; Heidi Ferguson, daughter of Blaine and Kathy Ferguson; Megan Green, daughter of Larry and Ruth Ann Green; Stacie Griffin, daughter of Dan Griffin; Heather Jackson, daughter of Ronald and Wylma Jackson; Jason Steorts, son of Scott and Kathy Steorts. Also Rochelle Terry, daughter of William and Jolean Terry; Steven Terry, son of Verlan and Sharol Terry; and J ill an a Watson, daughter of Brent and Claudia Watson. The names of all students selected will be published in an honor list in a commemorative program pro-gram book. These students were chosen because of their musical interest in-terest and ability. Joseph Silverstein, Utah Symphony's Sym-phony's musical director since 1983, will conduct the concert. Expected Ex-pected to speak to the students in a brief program before the concert is the Right Honorable Edward Heath, former prime minister of Great Britain, who was selected Britain's No. 1 Parliamentarian in 1988. |