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Show SPECIAL CHRISTMAS EDITION Millard County Chi onicle-Thursday, December 24, 1970 0 5? . , W CHRISTMAS 0!! Five major Christmas musical musi-cal events will highlight Christmas on Temple Square this 1970 season. All events are free to the public and everyone is cordially invited to attend.. Visitors also will enjoy the 1970 editionof TempleSquare's famed Christmas lights, which transform the center "block of Salt take City into a Yule centerpiece of Christmas sound and light, in commemoration commemor-ation of the birth of the Savior. Good Cheer, A Very Merry Christmas To All Maverick Service Barney Davis Manager Q? Friends! mm $u o TEMPLE SQUARE The Christmas season attractions at-tractions are bringing ever-increasing ever-increasing numbers of visitors to the Crossroads of the West. Last year, December for the first time was second only to August in total number of visitors to Temple Squr.:e. August 1969 counted a total of 409,684 visitors, while Dec. logged 374,442 visitors. And this year of 1970 is running well ahead of 1969. August, 1970, for example, recorded , ,"Jil i ,L b t Lilllli l-!r A t nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn? ADC Plumbing and Heating Petrolane Gas PACE MOTOR 463,096 visitors on Temple Square. Lead off the event this year will be the annual Christmas concert of the Mormon Youth Symphony and Chorus. Their "Glad Tidings from Temple Square" program will be heard in the Tabernacle Friday evening, eve-ning, Dec. 11 at 7:00 p.m. Musical director and conductor Dr. Jay Welch has prepared a sparkling holiday offering featuring excerpts from "The Messiah," "Berlioz", "The ChL'dhood of Christ," Benjamin Ben-jamin Britten's "Ceremony of Carols" and other favorites, including traditional and contemporary con-temporary Christmas Carols. Featured will be the 100 piece Youth Symphony Orchestra and the 320-voice Mormon Youth Chorus. The organizations, composed of Mormon youth ages 15 to 28 from as far away as Provo, Logan, Heber and Tooele, are by no means untrained. So me of the talented youth have upwards of 15 years musical experience. The groups were organized In 1969 to record appropriate music for Church programs goingout weekly to more than 500 radio and television stations In the U. S. and Canada. Consequently they are rapidly gaining an international in-ternational reputation. Critics and composers alike have lauded their professional polish, which will be evident in Friday night's concert. Second of the five events occurs Saturday night who' more than 5,000 high school youth of all creeds and races jam the Tabernacle for the Annual Youth Songfest. Time is 8 p.m. Musical director this year Is Armont Wlllardsen, veteran Salt Lake high school vocal teacher. Accompanying the singers from 49 schools, . ranging from Payson to theSo. to Weber on the North, will be the BYU Symphonic Orchestra under the direction of De. R under the direction of Dr. Ralph Laycock. The program will be i telecast live by KBYU, Channel 11, Provo, and re-braodcast at a later hour by KALL radio and KQMU-FM. Sunday afternoon, Dec. 13, KSL-TV, Channel 5, will present pre-sent an hour-long program including in-cluding 30 minute segments of each of the Friday and Saturday night events, running from 4:30 , p.m. to 5:30 p.m. The third musical attraction "pmbines music with drama and another rich helping of the Spirit of Christmas In an offering which Is becoming a Christmas favorite of many Mountain " West families. Amahl and the Night Visitors' as is i C SCW, INC. H It's always a pleasure to wish our friends happiness! Stoney and Son Conoco Each of us here send to each of our many loyal customers the warmest wishes of the Yule Season . . . "Serving you has been a real pleasure." NEIL'S CHEVRON will be presented In the Tabernacle, Taber-nacle, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, Dec. 14, 15, and 16, at 8:00 p.m. As in previous years, this light opera by Clan-Carlo Menottl will be produced by the University of Utah Opera Company, under the musical direction of Ardean Watts. The light opera tells the touching story of a crippled shepherd boy who wants to send a gift to the Christ child In Bethlehem. Scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 17, at 8:15 p.m. In the Tabernacle Taber-nacle Is the fourth major musical musi-cal event the annual Christmas Christ-mas Concert of the Tabernacle Choir. Richard P. Condle, Choir musical director, has prepared a special program featuring many Christmas season favorites. The 375-volce 375-volce world reowned Choir will be accompanied by Dr. Alexander Alex-ander Schrelner at the console of the great Tabernacle Organ. Choir, President Isaac M. Stewart Ste-wart reports the Tabernacle door will open at 7:45 p.m. for the concert. Final "Christmas on Temple Square" event is scheduled for Sunday, Dec. 20, at 2:00 p.m. when the Salt Lake Oratorio Society presents its 55th annual, an-nual, rendition of Handle's beloved be-loved "The Messiah." As in all other events, admission is free to this inspiring program presented by the volunteer, non-profit Oratorio Society but tickets are necessary and can be obtained at Skaggs Drug Centers and at the Visitors Center on Temple Square. Guest director this year is the celebrated nationally known conductor Walter Susskind. The 1970- version Temple Square Christmas lights will be turned onofficlallyby President Pres-ident Joseph Fielding Smith of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, at the beginning be-ginning of the Youth Songfest in the Tabernacle, Saturday evening, Dec. 12. Emphasis has been given this year to the Nativity Scene which has been a perennial favorite of the Christmas visitors to Temple Square. The special Christmas lights w will remain on every evening from Dec. 12 through Sunday, Jan. 3, 1971. Parents are encouraged en-couraged to bring all members of the family to TempleSquare events and features to witness again the Christmas story of the birth of Jesus the Christ. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Dec. 11, Friday, 7:00 p.m. Annual Christmas Concert of Mormon Youth Symphony and Chorus. Dec. 12, Saturday, 8:00 p.m. Annual Youth Songfest, featuring featur-ing more than 5,000 high school youth from 49 schools. (The Temple Square Christmas Christ-mas lights also will be turned on officially at the start of this program by Pres. Joseph Fielding Smith. Lights will remain on through Sunday, Jan. 3) Annual Christmas Concert of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Dec. 20, Sunday, 2:00 p.m. Fifty-fifth annual presentation presenta-tion of Hanrlol's " The Messiah" by the Salt Lake Oratorio Society. (All above events will be held in the Tabernacle on Temple Square.) We hope Christmas is joyful for you! Killpack Motor Lodge MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ONE AND 7- bWi Christmas Greetings Dan's Texaco with I OF mikt a. mm. mm & mill i MERRY CHRISTMAS, FRIENDS! DELTA MOTOR CO. Ford Dealer TERRELL'S MEAT COMPANY 1 V Y esc, inc. 4 I THE 7 e sew. inc. CSC. INC. ALL FROM |