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Show Doc brings symphony to life Park Record Thursday, August 9, 1990 Page C3 by JACK FORISKA Record staff writer The Utah Symphony may have changed the way some Utah concert con-cert goers view the symphony forever. Doc Severinsen, the flambouyant musical director of the Tonight Show was the featured guest conductor on Saturday night at Deer Valley, and a large and diverse crowd was treated to a night of excellent music, good conversation, snappy one liners and Severinsen's incomparable in-comparable virtuosity on the horn. Arriving early with picnic baskets brimming with cheeses, salads, fruits and wines the laid back crowd was prime for the musical "Pops pourri" that Doc had designed for the evening. "That's right," he said, "we can do anything we want." And the audience was treated to just about anything and everything. The program began with the Overture to Candide by Bernstein. A traditional symphonic piece that fooled the audience into believing they were in for just another symphony with a guest conductor. The tradition stopped there. The second piece was a rendition rendi-tion of Rock and Roll great Eric Clapton's Round Midnight arranged arrang-ed by Tom Rizzo, that led into Severinsen's introduction and the expulsion of Associate Conductor Kirk Muspratt from the podium. "If you are going to share the podium with me, you have got to be wearing sequins," said Severinsen. "I'm going to send you to the Liberace school of conducting," con-ducting," he said throwing his head back in true Liberace style. "Sequins are my life." Muspratt left not to return until the end of the night dressed in sequined tails and a truly outrageous pair of "cheap sunglasses" that only Liberace could have appreciated. Amid thunderous applause and roaring laughter from the audience au-dience Severinsen said, "He must have raided the closet in my dressing room." The program included a variation varia-tion on the Saints Go Marching In arranged by Frank Proto and a powerful energetic number by Argentine composer Ginestera called Estancia The symphony ended the first half of the program with a medley of pop's tunes. The number began with You ain't nothin but a hound dog, where Doc shakin' his hips Elvis style gave new meaning to the term conducting. A rendition of Th Orange Blossom Special where the violin section got a chance to let their hair down and do a little kickin. And ended with Severinsen's dreamy rendition of the Beatle's Hey Jude. The second half of the concert was a little more traditional with the Tritsch Tratsch Polka by J. Strauss Jr. and Memories a Broadway show tune that Severinsen said so moved him the first time he heard it that he stood up and said, "Hey, that tune should be played on the trumpet." They subsequently asked him to leave, he said. It was in the middle of the classic Polovtian Dances that Muspratt made his "entrance". They finished off the night with another medley. This time from the "Big Band" Era. "I was raised rais-ed in Oregon and all I could get was KSL on the radio. I thought Salt Lake was the great jazz Mecca Mec-ca in the east," he said. Severinsen who played with some of the great "Big bands" also said he played at the old Salt Aire Pavillion. Playing the Lawrence Welk Theme song in the middle of the medley, Severinsen, impersonating imper-sonating Welk, said, "Dis is a very distinguished audience. So, I want you poys in the pand to pe on your toes." A rousing ending to what was a very enjoyable evening featured Roland Wilcox on the drums in a salute to Benny Goodman. The hillside was swinging and even my eight year old daughter was boppin' to the Gene Krupa style drum solo that was rockin Deer Valley. Very few of the crowd left for the parking lot early on this night as the appreciative crowd gave the Utah Symphony and Severinsen a standing ovation and swooned to his encore performance perfor-mance of MacArthur Park. All in all it was a night to remember. One that was pleasing to young and old alike. IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT IMMIGRATION AND EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION, CALL THE OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL COUNSEL AT 1-800-255-7688 (1-800-227-2515 TDD). "You Don't Have to be Bom in America to Work in America!" Park City's Fly Fishing Specialist! Complete Guide Service Local & Green River Fly Fishing equip & gear Fly Fishing instruction available Free fly tying classes start luly 18th THE FLY SHOP 645-8382 649-6760 532 Main Street in Silver Queen Hotel Heber Avenue side i ll.'U.'.H:l!U!UU.n Holiday Village Mall M9-I541 1 ALL SHOWS START FRIDAY A THRILL-OMEDY! 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