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Show IflM 4C JUNE 27, 1977 Yankee band Arts Festival a great summer trip X donee review By Harold Lundstrom Deseret New music editor What with the fuel crisis and today's inflationary prices, it could very well tie that the best trip many people will take this summer was to the Salt Lake Festival of the Arts that closed Sunday packs 'em in By F.mll Svellls night. The Nitty Gritty Dirt RIGA, Latvia (UPI Band has broken the Soviet Unions rock barrier. In an unprecedented tour, the band packed the houses from the Black Sea to the Baltic. A the first US. rock group to make a Soviet tour, the band found a warm response aside from minor problems like the theft of most of their tape cassettes and all 38 of the troupe's harmonics. This has been a very interesting and educational experience for us, said lead singer Jeff Hanna. All the officials have been more than nice and we have been received well. y ' V"1 DESERET NEWS, MONDAY, After their first concert in Riga the group came out of a side entrance of the sports hall to find their bus surrounded by about 30 police barring about 15 quiet fans patiently waiting for autographs. Johnny McGuen, the group's leader, finally picked his way through the police lines and started signing autographs. This broke the ice and the police gradually melted away and soon all seven band two borrowed from another group members for the Soviet tour were signing programs. Hanna said their reception in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, was quite different from the Latvian crowd. The Yerevan people were more like the ones back home. During our last performance they packed 5, 7(H) people Into an outside stadium which was supposed to hold 4,000. We heard that there were several thousand more outside. In Riga, the audience was well controlled and even too polite. For a band which in almost any Western country would draw a crowd with 90 percent under the age of 30, the Riga audience seemed to be a well selected 65 percent over the age of 50. Many of the first concert tickets had been snapped up by party and city officials. At this concert as soon as someone in the crowd would whistle or shout after a number, watchful police stationed throughout the audience would stare them down. The group was unknown in the Soviet Union, except through the Voice of America which broadcast selections from its albums just before and during the tour. In each of the cities where concerts were scheduled, brief announcements appeared in local newspapers just before the group's arrival, but there were no pictures or mass publicity. We were playing a concert in Washington, D C. last year when there apparently were some representatives of the Soviet Embassy in the audience,! he said. Later we got a call that they would like for us to play in the Soviet Union. After that it was up to the Soviets and the Americans to make the arrangements. Hanna noted that in the United States many people think of the Soviet Union as one country. You think of them only as Russians. We have been here three weeks already and only now are we coming to Russia. For three days, and most of the nights, the Festival of the Arts proved to be a merrily arbitrary mishmash of music, dance, various other performing arts, and a couple of dozen booth of fine art. The entire festival has given artistic eclecticism a good name to our city, nationally noted for its achievement and dedication to th cultural arts. And, naturally, a host of people in addition to the performers and exhibitors, were responsible. Serving as of the festival were Bruce Beers and Margaret Smoot, with a dozen committees headed by: Dick Tomey, production; Skip Branch, communications; Rhees Ririe, finance; Bob Bradford, performing arts; Bob Bradford and Ed McKay, performing arts; Allen Dodworth, visual arts; Andy Kauffman, Childrens Art Yard; Craig and Toni Carter, concessions ; Joan Smith, volunteers; Ray Kingston, design; and Tom Sobchaek, film festival. Friday everyone was sent home with the pleasant fare of the Utah Symphony Orchestras summer pops concert, commendably conducted by Harold Gnttfredson, as mentioned in Saturday's column. And If you think the Friday concert audience was large, then you should have seen the size of the audience that turned out for Ballet Wests concert Saturday night and on the hottest day of the year. It was enough to make balletomanes and Ballet West devotees of the doubters, in case there still are any. The program was varied and disclosed the wide talents of these seemingly always fresh dancers. The program included the balletic, Symphony In C; "Mobile, by a former member of the company, Tomm Rudd; the Pax de Deux from the Flower Festival in Genanzo; and Song of the Valley, director of by Bruce Marks, Ballet West. Craig Stephenson sang artistically the Aaron Copland cycle, Old American Songs, to which Marks has choreographed his balletic tribute to the Utah pioneers. The impact of Bruce Marks and his wife, the distinguished ballerina of the Royal Danish Ballet, Toni Marks, was very much a part of Ballet Wests performance. Marks himself danced a lead role In the beautiful Symphony in FOR MORE PEOPLE at LOWER COST than any other form of advertising! In fact, the stage was so hot. that Linda Smith, long one of the stars of took a RI)T in one of her improvisation and water with filled small paper cup she poured little puddles in which daneed to cool her feet. It was both artistically appropriate and clever. An RDT's program was titled was a Event, and, indeed, it was. It 4Vminutc continuous dance to a tape of electronic tunes and sounds prepared by Terry Riley. The dance Included excerpts from such standard RDT fare as Brood, Music for the first three items on the program was played on tape, and David Van Alstyne played the piano score of cycle that Craig the Copland Want Ads DO MORE THINGS Stephenson sang. Though the audience Sunday afternoon was not a large as the two previous audiences mentioned, it was enthusiastic nonetheless, just a for the concert by the Repertory Dance Theatre (RDT). One reason, for sure, for the size of the audience being a bit smaller was the heat. Poe," WANT ADS 5 Dial 521-353- andCrazy Synapsis, Rhythms," and was all of a piece held together by improvisations danced by the company and by solos, duets, and trios. 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