Show Concerts Family at 2 The King 5er State College Dee 'arts Center 8 pm Tickets at ZCMI £ available Weber State Cen- - and Rascals — Wasatch 3 Utrrfblk music 8 30 pm m- Corkroom in the I of U Union at U the $150 ni(jets available at the iff ORCHESIS- - jec Modern 8 p m in performance iicestudioRm 215 in HFER $1 available filing Tickets and in U C base- a: the door iance Dolly 8 Oec Parton at the Tic'race Ballroom 8 p m at the ks $55041 50 available M office ZCMI Odissey 10 c Centers and Records Tower at of Power U of C Ligsbury Hall at 6 pu Tickets $550-- 8 50 availa- Odyssey Records " ofU box office and Hill ble at the ir Force Salt pm Tickets avaJable after Dec 3 at (!-:e- i Records and the box 5 Palace Kansas at the 8 7 Student Life Wednesday Concert preview November 30 1977 Page 9 ENTERTAINMENT Cellist to perform 3 with Utah Symphony On Friday in the Salt lake Tabernacle Maurice Abravanel and the Utah Symphony will present an program that will be highlighted by the Orchestra’ premiere perform- ance of Sinfonia Concertante for Cello and Orchestra with Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich as soloist In addition the Symphony will perform Prokofiev’s March and Scherzo from "Iove For Three Oranges" and Symphony No 5 Serve Prokofiev dedicated Sinfonia Concertante for Cell and Orchestra to his colleague Mstislav Rostropovich who played as soloist for the work’s premiere performance by the Moscow Youth Orchestra in 1952 Mrs Rostropovich also soloed in the first American performance with the New York Philharmonic in 1956 Now he will appear as soloist for Maestro Abravanel and the Utah Symphony's premiere performance of this work Mstislav Rostropovich dis- tinguished cellist conductor and pianist and Music Director-elec- t of Washington D C ’s National Symphony beginning in the 1977-7season is acknowledged as one of the most extraordinary musicians of our day Music critics look for new superlatives to describe the artistry of Mr Rostropovich “A giant among musicians" "miraculous into the inI 8 ) credible" and "unchallenged of the cello” are just a few of the accolades to date A member of a family of distinguished cellists Mr Rostropovich was born in Baku Azerbaijan At the age of four he master started piano lessons with is mother and shortly after studied cello under his father At the Conservatory of Music in Moscow he was accepted as cellist and also as a composition students under the great Shostakovich Two years after his American debut he set a milestone in cello history — he performed at Carnegie Hall the entire literatim for cello and orchestra in a two week period and one-haThis undisputed master has had works composed for him by lf lYokofiev Shostakovich Kaba- dramatic with a touch of satire levsky Bernstein and Britten He throughout has received honors from goverMr Rostropovich will join nments and music institutions of Maestro Abravanel and the SymItaly England Canada Scot- phony to complete the program land France and the U S Mr with a performance of ProkoRostropovich has been awarded fiev’s Sinfonia Concertante for his homeland's highest honor — Cello and Orchestra The “Symthe People’s Artist of the USSR phony Concertante” is the comMaestro Abravanel and the Or- poser’s last major work Its princhestra will open the program cipal themes are "borrowed” with Prokofiev’s March and from his “First Cello Concerto” Scherzo from "Ixive of Three which he first sketched in 1933 Oranges" One of Prokofiev’s and did not complete until 1940 In most familiar pieces its jaunty the magnificent theme of “Sinsatirical tune is familiar as the fonia” there is a heroic sweep a onetime theme music for "The passionate love for life and an FBI” series on television The ecstatic abandon to melody score is an opera based on the From the singing lyricism in the Russian fairy tale "Ixive for Andante to the soaring energy in Three Oranges" the closing passage of the Coda it The second work of the evening would be difficult to find another will be Prokofiev's Symphony melody of such unusual breadth No 5 Many critics have called and emotional power in all of this "the greatest symphony of Prokofiev’s music the 20th century” The Fifth Tickets for the December 2nd Symphony received its first concert are available at the Utah performance in Moscow in Symphony Box Office 55 West 1945 with the composer conFirst South or outside the South and was an im- Temple Gate one hour before the ducting mediate success It is now performance considered part of the standard repertory of all major orchestras This work is broad and WEDNESDAY NOON Ballet tickets to go on sale office Take Stock in America Buy United Savings States Bonds In order that students will be able to attend the always sold-operformance of The Nutcracker ut tickets for the Jan 9 performances at Utah State University will go on sale Dec 5 Ballet West will perform the popular holiday ballet at both a matinee and evening performance The Utah Symphony will play for the evening concert at 8 p m The matinee will begin at 3 p m Matinee student tickets are $1 75 for the lower concourse and - (Double for the upper concourse Tickets for the evening perform$1 50 ance are $2 for the lower concourse and $175 for the upper Pauline D) -- will dance NITE live music with Loose Ends The Nutcracker will be performed in the Fme Arts Center Concert Hall CACTUS CLUB Bring your friends — grab a pillow and come on down to a Tonight November 30 at 7:30 pm UC Ballroom Featuring: More Jazz with from Denver - the GBJ Band plays jazz - folk music that is unique and very soothing Hot Sounds Unlimited And More A FULL NIGHT OF JAZZ AND FOLK MUSIC |