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Show Page BIO Thursday, January 30. 19Mb Park Record UtahS The l'tah Symphony will toe tnemorate a historic milestone 'hen it performs its j 0""'.h concert r. l-ch 1 with world renowned y ue-1 soprano Leontyne Price The concert will hog in at 8 p m a! the Salt Lake Tabernacle, which served as home to the l'tah Symphony Sym-phony (or more than three decades The conductor w ill Ik- music director Joseph Silverstein While it took nearly V years lor the orchestra to reach the 5.000 concert con-cert mark, it will take just 19 years lo i each number lO.ooo at the symphony's sym-phony's current rate of some 2W concerts annually. Several musical ensembles of arious types and sizes helped lay the foundations for today's L'tah Svmphonv. As early as 1HK5. there was an organization called the Deseret Philharmonic Society. This altruistic group sought to provide l'tah pioneers with performances ot t lie great masters up to that time. There were also militia bands, theater orchestras and sinfoniettas ismall symphony orchestras). The immediate predecessor of the Utah Symphony was the WPA Orchestra organized in 1936 during the Depres- vmohonv to celebrate ..i A In l'tah m- 5.000 r th concert In Clt.e: ;: :o prov :d:r.i tr.ucti :,,n-.e::t I't-'h niasi- -.:-. orchestra periormed ;h.jut t.'.e state, er.richir.g the if citizens ot even the smallest jr.ii tow r- In 14 the L'tah State Sy mphony orchestra Association was formed w ith a goal of establishing a permanent perma-nent s mphony orchestra in L'tah. In conjunction w'lth the L'tah State Institute In-stitute of Fine Arts-forerunner of the l'tah Arts Council-the association associa-tion mounted its first performance at Kmgsburv Hall on the University ot Utah campus on May 8. 1940. w ith a :2-piece orchestra under the baton of Hans Heniot. From 1940 until the present, the Utah Symphony has operated without interruption. It is from that first concert that the orchestra's performances are numbered. The 1946-47 season marked the orchestra's or-chestra's transition to a professional organization. By that time, the number of regular players had reached 70 and the season had been expanded to include a subscription series of 10 concerts plus a number of runout and tour concerts. The phonv and its concerts were moved to the Salt Lake Tabernacle through the generosity of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which provided the hall without charge for 52 years. Hans Heniot was music director from 1940 to 1945. Following a season of guest conductors. Werner Janssen was appointed music director of the newly launched Utah Sympyhony in 1946. After his brief tenure. Maurice Abravanel was engaged as music-director music-director and conductor in 1947. a position he held for 32 years. It was under Abravanal that the orchestra evolved from a part-time community orchestra to one of North America's 33 major orchestras. or-chestras. Since that time, the Utah Symphony has made more than 120 commercial recordings and undertaken under-taken five major international tours with the sixth planned lor this fall. The Utah Symphony began its un-paralled un-paralled recording programs in 1957 with Westminster and has since recorded for Vanguard, Fox, Angel. CBS Masterworks. RCA. Varese Sarabande and Pro Arte. Some two million L'tah Synphnny recordings have been sold throughout the free world. The orchestra's first international tour in 1966 was expanded from an invitation to appear at the prestigious Athens Festival with a sendoff New York concert inaugurating in-augurating Carnegie Hall's 75th year To date, the Utah Symphony has performed in 21 countries in Kurope. North America and South America. That vear the orchestra also started an extensive regional touring tour-ing program and presently serves a vast area of about a quarter million square miles -regularly visiting California. Wyoming. Idaho, Montana. Mon-tana. Colorado. Arizona. Nevada. New Mexico and L'tah. It was in 1966 that the Utah Svmphonv. Svm-phonv. due in part to a SI million matching endowment grant from the Ford Foundation, was able to move from a 28-week season to become a year-round operation. During the next decade orchestra musicians found their Utah Sym- 7 r a MAIN-STREET FMALL 333 Main Street Park City "Every Store, Every Floor, Something For Everyone!" - Level 1 i i-V. I s n -'.f-i,;f.- . 1:, :i 'Ft BENETTON012 Italian Knitwear for men, women and children PARK CITY WARM UP'S... 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PROFESSIONALMco see phonvactivit.es shitting from a pa. t- time to a full-time occupation. Such a move, of course, meant that the orchestra would be per 01 tiling til-ing more concerts. Presently the orchestra or-chestra performs more than 10 of Us. 260 annual concerts outside the Sa Lake Citv aroa-and performs ,0 in the state's public schools. Appiv .matelv one-half of the state s pubi c school enrollment hears a live pu formance of the full orchestra even year. The Utah Svmphonv regularly joins forces with Ballet West and the Utah Opera, and in earlier years, it performed with musical theatei companies. Since 1982, the orchestra has hosted the L'tah Symphony Gina Hachauer International Piano Competition Com-petition everv second year, attracting attrac-ting the cream of the world s young key board artists. In 1979. the vear in which the Utah Svmphonv moved into Symphony Hall. Maurice Abravanel resigned as music director on the advice of his doctor. He was succeeded by Varujan Kojian. who occupied the post for three seasons, beginning in HMD. Joseph Silverstein. concert- master of the Boston SympU more 20 years and assistant c'1 tor for 13 years, was named" director in September 1933 tract was recently extended Silverstein has already m. positive imprint on the 1-1,1. , ' pnony. ciiuii ins direction ih"" tistic level of the orchestra cJea' to rise He has nviH.i iu. , " w l"ree 1,,, rtimis nn the Pin Ah il . doctor and violin soloist September, he will take the 1. Symphony on its first intern,, tour under his direction. The tm, muiiwi 1 ionr will take which the svmnlinm, - c uans, uhonv will be the first iirch.v,..'- i . "noevt .v, F.., ucoi.. Loneens in L East and West Berlin. At the mid-point of the L'tahSt, pnony s 4iu 11 continuous season .k .,tll. f.,.. 11 f..l : ' 1 w .huioui iui me uiiuie is verv p 'l-lii nrr'hpcti':) ntii, . the lives of thousands with iu.,1" expanding artistic, educational a-c ciuci laiiiiiiciR i esources. For ticket information 533-6407. 1 . - " r : ! -':-!i-S' h. Is'' - . '. ,.: 1 : - ; Cv'- .... . WW 1 1 Lett to riglit: Jonathan Stowers. Duane V. Stephens and James Horrocks sing to Michelle Stevens in the swashbuckling musical. "The Three .Musketeers." Swords sing as 'Musketeers' save queen on S.L.C. stage The swashbuckling heroic musketeers will fight for queen and country when a musical version of Mexandre Dumas' -'The Three Musketeers" opens on The Mainstage of the Promised Valley Playhouse in Salt Lake City on Jan. 30 It's a real old-fashioned romance lull of adventure." said director Dennis Ferrin. "It's not one of those dry classics either. There are plenty ol moments of comic relief." In William Anthony McGuire's adaptation of the famous historical romance, d Artagnan travels to Paris in ifi2:, to join the ranks of the best blades in France, the musketeers of King Louis XIII. He falls in love with Constance, the queen's seamstress, and agrees to help thwart the powerful and corrupt cor-rupt Cardinal Richelieu's plans to discredit the throne. The queen, pledged to a political marriage with Louis when she was a child, has given the Duke of Buckingham Buck-ingham a diamond brooch as a token of her love. But she warns him she will never be disloyal to the king When a spy reports their clandestine meeting to Richelieu, he requests that the king throw a sumptuous ball and ask the queen to wear the diamond dia-mond brooch he gave her as a wedding wed-ding gift. Then he sends an accomplice to London to steal the jewelry. It's all lor one and one for all as I'Artagnan and the musketeers set out to recover the jew-els and see that virtue triumphs over evil. Czech composer Rudolf Friml composed the melodious score full of swaggering marches and romantic ballads "1 can't write music unless there are romance, glamor and heroes," he once said. Clifford Grey and P.G. Wodehouse wrote the lyrics to songs that impressed im-pressed New York and London audiences au-diences in the late "20s and early ':i()s. "There's this wonderful sense of fair play and chivalry through the musical." said Ferrin. "And it's just solid action-people are leaping off high platiorms, nuns are singing vespers in the audience. The stabb-mgs stabb-mgs in the brawls look real. "It scares me to death," he said with a laugh. Fight choreographer Alex Nibley pent two months teaching the cast to work magic on stage. "We work a little bit like magicians. We create illusions." he said. He studied and taught stage fencing fenc-ing and combat at the American ( onservatory Theatre in San Francisco. Fran-cisco. "The audience thinks they see a near miss, wheni in realjlyi & tar miss. In a good stage fight, you'll never see the blade go near anyone's During the 1930 run at London's nruryLano Thonlrowhich js jden ticalto the old Salt Lake Theatre-. bit of d'Artagnan's sword broke d-' ing a particularly active fight a' sailed out into the audience, lazuli laz-uli a lady's lap. "She "took her souvenir home.;; before the nervous managed though they would receive a la-u the lady had written a kind letters quiring whether she could keep memento," wrote Richard Traitf in a. Theatrical History. Niblev, who also plays Ro savs safetv is his foremost cc'; when he choreographs reai." fights for stage. "I don't let my fencers even c. ; swords with each other until ttif';; or sixth lesson," he said. lighting is really not at all fighting. You don't consider . -partner an opponent-he is r ner. The person taking the J '; leading 'the dance.' Wefff ' sense of relaxation on stage- Cast members include Sater. L. Michelle Stevens;; Horrocks. Duane V. Stephen-Jonathan Stephen-Jonathan Stowers. ; "Musketeers" will operand oper-and run Wednesday througn - , day a. 7:30 p.m. through. Matinees will be on Feb. 8 a Opening. 'eekef rf. p.m are THIS IS THE PLACE! Book of Famous Quotations 8 -oni: "I had a lasting relationship once." Jennifer & Dixie: "Really? When?" Loni: -Last weekend in my Cundo .. -iiliI Feb. 14 inv ted to a rei'-y, L show to meet the cast and" ,0Tieke,sareavanablea. l ice. 132 S. State St.. 364-"- Pizza il Delivery of quality pizzas sandwiches an d s openuntilnii f 649-Uuu 649-6693 |