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Show The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, April 15, 1962 Week Marks Comedy Near Symphonic Choir Event At Playbox; Salt Lake The Symphonic Choir, under the direction of Armont Willard-een- , will perform lta 13th annual Spring 'Concert Saturday at 8:15 p.m. in the Highland High, School Auditorium. The first half of the concert will be devoted to religious music by such masters as Bach, Gretchaninoff, Palestrina and Dette. Numbers to be heard will include Praise to the Our Father. Lord," "Listen to the Lambs" and Soon-AWill Be Done, a Negro spiritual. Secular music will dominate the second half of the Spring Concert with such favorites being sung as When Johnny Comes Aura Marching Home," "Breathes There a Lee, Man by Lorin Wheelwright, a Salt Lake composer, and selections from the famous Broadway musical, "My Fair Lady." Originated in 1949, the Salt Lake Symphonic Choir is the largest Independent traveling choir in America and has presented over 350 concerts. The choir performs innumerable concerts each year for television, civic and professional organizations, religious congregations and lyceum programs in high schools, colleges and universities throughout the western United States. h -- f The Devils Rainbow, by J. C. Furnas; Harper, New York; 841 pp. $4.95. The Marriage-Go-Rounda comedy of martial life, to be performed April 19, 20, 21, 27 and 28 at 8:30 p.m, will mark the final event of the University of Utah Play-boseason. In the roles played with success on Broadway by Charles Boyer and Claudette Colbert, director Ralph E. Margetts has cast Eugene Tedd and Helen Home as Professor and Mrs. Paul e Both Mr. and Mrs. are educators, he a professor of cultural anthropology, and she dean of women at the same university. This happily-marrieintelligent and enjoying their life together . are rocked off balance by a visiting house guest who falls in love with Professor Delville. Played by Lucretla Wry, the house guest, Katrin Sveg, is the daughter of a colNobel Delvilles. the of league The fourth player in this revealing and witty exploration of the ties that bind is Ross Barnett, a bachelor member of the faculty of the game university served by the Delvilles. This role is portrayed by Robert Ingalls. Helen Horne . . . Stars In The Marriage Go Bound. Del-vill- Del-vill- X couple-- d ; S mature, ' 4 .3- - prize-winnin- Eugene Tedd . . . Plays professor in Playbox offering. 64 Utah" Colleges Piisli Spring Shows 0. Martin Utah colleges ars at work By Richard n spring productions, and one is even projecting its program summer the to of 1964. The College of Southern Utah, which this summer will launch its long - awaited S h a k espear Festival in Ce- dar has secursd the Mr. Martin services of a world authority City, on Shakespeare as a lecturer and, director during the summer of 1964. Fred C. Adams, festival director, reports that A. J. R. Master, O.B.E, governor of the Shakespeare Theater in Englands Stratford-on-Avon- , will be present at the Cedar City festival summer after next. Mr. Master, a member of the Order of the British Empire, was also the founder of Penneys Over the years Indiapa-boJ. C. Furnas has earned reputation as a popular writer. If not a scholar, particularly with his biogra-phie-s Voyage to the Windward" (Robert Louis Stevenson) and The Road to ," x CSU Pulls Out Plum for " Devils Rainbow Grotesque Caps Season 130-voic- e 3 25-2- Mr. (Bentley terms the Harpers Ferry (John be sure which episodes art not firmly based . , . ." . There is an enormous amount of basic historical material available on this subject. It is one thing to interpret critically even unfavorably while adhering to the facts as available. It is quite another to treat history mischievously and irresponsibly even under the guise of humor. The Devils Rainbow is at best a ribald and grotesque' caricature of a people. Mr. Furnas has added nothing to literature or to his stature. E.HL. their leading critics. "Among St her things, he doesnt like the architecture of the Salt Lake Temple. A defensive attitude is registered, in several places, notably a statement early in the book by Joe Pomeroy: By now I aint too sure whether every last bit of It happened the way I was telling it or Whether I imagined some of it like a body will when a yarn gets spinning. But this is the best of my recollection In the afterword, Furnas says: "Only persons well versed in Mormon lore can Brown). With this background and the publishing houses prestige, the reader is led to expect much from this book which the publishers blurbs call amusing, authentic and magnificently bold." Seen Mischievous 9 Actually, It Is Irresponsibly bold and, one suspects, mischievous. It was inevitable that the central character, an illiterate farm boy with an abominable Hoosier dialect, should be compared with Huck Finn. But Joe Pomeroy of the Devil's Rainbow is about as much like Mark Twains classic character as he Is Phyllis Curtin, New York City Opera soprano, to be soloist Chester of the Marshal DilTabernacle Choir concert. for Philadelphia Orchestra lon series. And the "humor" and poetry" said to abotnd in the volume are not In evidence to this reviewer. Joe Pomeroy tells his story, U. when an old man bpt largely from the viewpoint of a callow orphan youth who lived with the family of Uncle A concert of chamber muJoe Smith, a latter-dasic will be presented Sunday prophet. The world renowned Philaat 3 p.m. in the Music Hall, One Weakness delphia Orchestra will Join University of Utah campus, One weakness is that the under the direction of Prof. the Tabernacle Choir to present two concerts of Brahms Louis W. Booth. Richard perspective swings back and forth from that of the imDickson will act" as student Requiem in Utah during mature,, lad enacting the conductor. May. drama to a malevolent old The concerts, to be conFeatured on the program ducted by Eugene Ormandy, man, recalling it years later. will be Richard Allen, cellist, And the tall tales of life In conductor of the Philadeland a freshman at the unibottles to take him Orchestra since 1938, frontier communities of Cyrano do Bergerac used who will phia perform versity, Western Reserve are for the through space, described In translation, of 1657 edition. Vivaldis The Concerto for are scheduled at the Salt most part bizarre. Fictional Lake Tabernacle Saturday, Cello and Orchestra. Joe Pomeroy tells dispasIn a premiere performance, May 19, and at Brigham s an original composition by Young Universitys George sionately about ihe and other tribulations Burnet Tuthill, retired head Albert Smith Fieldhouse in in Kirtland, Ohio; Independof the University of TennesProvo, May 21. ence County, Mo., and Nau-voFeatured soloists In see Music Department, will HL, and witnessed asBrahms Requiem will be Feshighlight the concert sassination in the Carthage Phyllis Curtin, leading- sotival 'Prelude for Brass In"Voyages to the Moon" from" the sun drew' them Jail. His matt er-o-f fact story and the Sun, by Cyrano and him struments and Organ." prano of the New York City up above the is a strange one, dosing with de Bergerac; Orion Press, clouds. Opera, and Jerome Hines, the narrator bowing out De Bergerac also made a distinguished Metropolitan Inc, New York. $6. after taking with him $30 bass. to the moon, using an Opera trip OES Sponsor It took many men and equally fantastic method. from the pocket of the slain Debut Six Years Ago more dollars to put astronaut Hyrum Smith. But the story of the two Miss Curtin has perEnds Ties John Glenn Into orbit, makTogether voyages is not one of advenformed more premieres of At the close of fictional ing him a piker compared to ture, but is rather a satire modem operas than any Pomeroys colored tale and Cyrano de Bergerac who, in on the manners and morals other soprano now before the American public. In her crackerbarrel philosophizing, the 17th Century, made a of his times, as the famous Ihtmas, the author, steps out trip to the sun using only wit and soldier used converdebut six years ago, her reJ sations with the denizens of todew. on and the ties stage pertoire has grown to more Tho Salt Lake City Pops the sun and moon to offer Cyrano, who Is wider gether the loose ends. In this than 40 operatic roles. She Concert, performed by the has also been comments he' could not known for his swordsmanreported to afterword, the author sheds otherwise have done. nose his for all and than of Salt Lake Philharmonic Orpretense ship objectivity have come to the rescue of his space exploration, filled Interesting and informachestra under the direction the Vienna State Opera by and poses as the authority tive reading. Everything Is bottles with dew, attached on the early history of the of Eugene Jelesnik, will be singing Madame Butterfly Latter-dato heat and them Saints also the and himself, go with Cjrano. RH. withon three hours notice presented May 11 at 8:30 out a rehearsal and without p.m. at the Highland High having studied the score in School Auditorium. more than four months. In its 12th consecutive Mr. Hines, who launched Limited time only! his current season singing year, the Pops Concert will at President Kennedys first be sponsored by the Order of State Dinner of the year for the Eastern Star Home Fund the Peruvian President In cooperation with the Music Prado, is well known to radio and television audiences Performance Trust Funds of for his guest solo appearthe Recording Industries, acances on many top musical cording to Mrs. Myrtice C. programs. grand-matroMatson, worthy Scores Abroad OES. In addition to his sucAs in previous years, the cesses at the world famous Pops Concert audience will Wagner festival In Baysee and hear Mr. Jelesnik reuth, Mr. Hines has scored conduct his orchestra and inabroad at La Scala, Milan, strumental and vocal 6oloists Buenos Aires, the Munich in a program of light musiState Opera and at the Edinalong with many other recordings monaural and stereo cal comedy, and operatic and and burgh Glyndeboume melodies. hit parade For the first time this year, festivals. NEW ANDY WILLIAMS' The first symphony ever the program will feature a to record own Its under of premiere performance MOON RIVER Andy sings Academy Fair Winds and Smooth name and its own conducin 1917, under Leopold tor, writa award winner, Moon River, from "Breakfast Sailing, composition Stokowski, the Philadelphia ten by Mr. Jelesnik In collaboration with one of Tirr Orchestra has the largest Pan Alleys composers of recorded repertoire of any existing orchestra. popular music, Jack MeskilL Tickets for the Salt Lake Star The Pops Concert isjfree Rag. 4.9S. e to the"ptf&ncT and thefree 'Tabernaererc'Oricerr ar e'avafl-ablat Utah Symphony Ortickets are now available NEW RAY CONNIFF'S CONTINENTAL at 246 South Main Street in chestra office, 55 W. 1st S. be Salt Lake City or from any (100 South). Tickets can Alobtained at the George Ray Conniff orchestra and chorus to thrill-yoEastern Star member, acbert Fieldhouse Smith ticket cording to Mrs. Marcella Finwith Wbiffenpoof Song, Beyond the Sea, office for the Provo concert lay, concert chairman. Lisbon Anttqua, Sunday Concert At Offers Chamber Music Choir to Join Orchestra For Concerts dew-fille- Heaton of Kanab, and Gay-lyn- n Sherratt of Cedar City. Also on the spring roster is an ambitious production at Dixie College in St. George. Rehearsals Well Along Marion J. Bentley, chairman of the Fine Arts Division of the college, reports rehearsals began several weeks ago on West Side Story, which will no doubt be a popular choice. Dates are April This musical play will be a high point of the theater departments first year in the new Dixie Fine Arts Auditorium. the East African Shakespeare Festival ' His presence at the coming festival was made possible through arrangements by Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Crichton of Cedar City, who are personal friends of Mr. Master. Mr. Crichton heads the festival committee for the Cedar City Chamber of Commerce. In regard to this summers festival activities, Mr. Adams reports that performances of The Taming of the Shrew," The Merchant of Venice and "Hamlet will be presented from July 1 througn July 14. He says that several contracts have been signed with actors wh6 will play in the three productions. Another Offering The College of Southern Utah will have another offering for theatergoers whose tastes run to classical theater in early May, as well. The Campus - Community Theater will present Sophocles "Antigone May 10, 11 and 12. Leading roles have been assigned to Wendell W21 pro- duction one of the most ambitious to date from the technical standpoint, and reports costumes and scenery are being prepared completely by students. He reports more tharrlOO students will be involved in the production. West Side Story will be the schools final offering of the current season. DAYS ONLY! BEGINS MONDAY mob-bing- Journey of Cyrano to Sun Required a Bit of Dewing Pops Concert Set May 11 . y ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS RECORD SALE! 318 393 -- 318 others. Stro IV H ci: V Beautiful 5x7 4.9S-- 393 . WEST SIDE. STORY NEW Original sound track that won the Academy v Award for best scoring of photograph, tor only Non-glar- Rag. 1 musical best well Hi-- fi achievement in sound. Rag. 4.91 .. 388 Starao Rag. 3.9S.. o picture 478 i'ThwSu! lights giOt natural miles. Do your baby-braggin- tiful photo g . . . with a beau"worth more .than a D.i.rot Book Company 44 Eait South T.mplo Salt lak City, Utah thousand words. 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