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Show mrnij' fame Found Abroad Try Lack in Europe By Franz Hitzenberger United Press Internationa One day in 1949 a young man Los froir Angeles Oice Ladd McIntosh, in Vienna, full-tim- pibtnu saxo- facul- e ty of the Unis' e r s i t v of Utah Depart ment of Music Jazz Studies for program In the best tradcion O.eoige London. 29 at the time, ro:el a triumph. Two tears lain he made his debut in the same opeia at tr.e Metropolitan in New Yoik. h e 1970-7- Music 1 scnool year. Dr. William L. Fowler. pr- Sudden Summons of ofessor music and jazz coordinator announced Saturday. now London, with New jsalt akf jazz phonist. composer, arranger and conductor, has been added to the was asked u hether he could sing the role of Amonasro that night in Ve. tils "Aida" at the Vienna State Opera because the baritone had a cold. studying pf One I. Staff To associated York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, smiles now reminiscently when he recalls that sudden summons to one of the world's great opera houses. And his triumph is an story among aspiring American opera singers who flock to Vienna and other European centers seeking fame and for- - Mr. teach jazz theory, improvisation, scoring for the jazz ensemble and will lead ihe Experimental Jazz EnMcIntosh second-yea- oft-tol- d will Other jazz faculty members are Dr. Fowler and Loel Dr. Fowler, m jazz, r will teach theory, Hep-wort- h. George London Could He? Absolutely! Memphis Men graduate harmony, survey of jazz and guitar. Mr. Hepworth will direct the jazz performing unit area, lead the University Stage Band, teach stage band techniques, group study in reeds and saxophone and Perform The Blues You really can't get as fair a chance for a fast career after solid training anywhere else, he said. Impressarios from the world over come here and there are auditions almost continuously. A By Juan J. Waite United Press International blues still goes on in that Mississippi delta flat cotton country south and v.est of Memphis. It made its way to Chicago long ago, then crossed the Atlantic and came back to America, where it is now a key element of the current k scene. But the blues never really left the delta. Joe Willie Wilkins blues band proved that this past week in a concert near the Washington Monument on a hot summer afternoon. The the clarinet. was they come Hutton Why explained by Mervin of Atlanta. Ga. And The Salt Lake Municipal Band, under the baton of Marvin H. Strong, will present another in a series of summer concerts Sunday at 7 p.m. at the Liberty Park Bandstand. Baritone Dick is soloist Johnstun. A trumpet trio, composed of J. Keith Smith, L. Alan Palfreyman and David J. Wilkins, will be featured and C. N. Millward will co n d u c t his Ceremonial March No. 1. another thing, CALL PfoYO OR ANy Q THEATRE 131 111 S. 34 L Ark. Bottleneck Guitarist There are Houston a bottleneck guitarist reminiscent of James, bass Willie guitarist Kilgrew, drummer Fat Theophllles Hurd Hessensla, and harmonica player Lee Sonnv Siack-hous- e, Blake. Stackhouse and Blake also singers. Blake, playing an ampuLed ha:p that rivals onie of the best Hues harmonica players heard today, the group's outstanding Ark. ' Their last song ws Stand- at the Crossroads, writ-te- n by James 20 years ago, Iut made famous as Crossroads by the British rock ing Cream group only three years ago. After it was all over. Fat Hurd. the drummer, stepped UP to the microphone and told the crowd: We are Just country boys who love to play the blues. We hope you like em too. They r pre.-e- rt of 47 i on-ce- rt Friday at 4 p m. at the park. Soloist wT be Gene M. Larsen, who is currently singing the lead role of Jed in the summer production of Promised Valley. Mr. Larsen will sing Without a Song, Oh, What a otfi-cial- Conductor for this concert will be Thomas H. Maxwell, assistant director, who will take over the baton irom Director Marvin H. Strong, who will be out of town. 6-- and 4--8 O: ho course, Dionne Warwick, has turned so many works into hits (and who, not surprisingly, wrote the introduction to this book:, can make it all seem eav but it's still an awkward serg, with nothing going for it but a well- mounted high-notending. It is ironic that the two weakest B-- products are this work and one of the simplest, the Oscar- winning "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head. Thete is nothing in this husk of corn and catchy (harming that could not though it is have been gro. nd cut during the '40s. On the other hand, no award-- - weie ever handed out for "Wives And Lovers, which is perfect in every respect. Bacharach and David belonged together from the start like bacon and eggs. The difference today is that now they are caviar and champagne. Bacharach-Davi- d e over-compl- All participating stores in Utah, Idaho, Oregon Saw the movie? Taw FIRST TIME ON STAGE IN SALT LAKE! IX haven't seen Cactus Fowerl" Double the Lafftl UNDfftOROUND i & xfc.Aw'v v ! UNO NOT AD MITT 10 STRINDBERG'S "GHOST SONATA" FRI. A SAT. 11:30 $2.00 WAYS TO PUT YOUR for fun. . for heslth Let's ploy GOLF! Sittner said that about 30 percent of the American opera hopefuls who pursue their careers in Europe attain success, and another 20 percent are able to make a . . . maybe every day's not sunny . . . but enjoy, enjoy at Demman's 3 Par Golf Course and living. HANDS ON CASH WITHOUT BORROWING... it ... ' I i all." Hutton, like mot of the stu- dents, lives in a private Vienna home. He pays the equivalent of $30 a month rent. He finds food cheaper, too, than at home. 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Queen Nancy Jackson ana attendants Jane Rasmussen and Linda F.omnev. will be honored at the Friday roncett, along with lelchiation 3-- Sounds Easy Gem of Siniplirit.v At the other end of the spectrum is a gem of simpluitv, "Ed You Know the Way to San Jose?" Here we find the Bacharach device of using instrumental vamps or interludes that are important enough to become an part of the song. Bacharach does not toy around with tht beat nearly as much as you might guess. No less than 27 of the songs are in straight, common time throughout; throe aie waltzes. The other seven have odd changes of time. Sometimes this is a delightful gimmick. as in the suddenly rushed end of the phrase in I'll Never Fall in Love Again." achieved by cutting two beats out of one bar. On the other hand, this freedom can be unnaturally abused. "Promises. Promises." bulges around its midsec Beautiful and Morning." Come, Come Ye Saints." 3--4. CURTAIN TIME 1:30 PAR. 322-003- 1 Driving Range!) in b-- verse-and-chor- 6-- Stop already ! The contrivance seems deliberate as if defying the average singer to follow its jerky contours. 40-b- 32-b- 3-- 5-- 4. 4 4. 3-- TUES. THRU SAT. Italy, the home of grand opera, is less generous to the I guess young Americans. they still have prejudices Hutton sid. against us, Some of the houses still find It hard to believe Americans want to sing their tunes at made Mountain View Chordettes Ladies Chorus directed by Turk Evans, also will perform. tion with one bar each successively in " playing: Less Generous "ar II recordings There is no more admirable example of their technique and stvle than Alhe. It has no verse; just an oddly assembled chdrus, in which melodic the main theme is heard in the opening bars and reappears at bar 11 and bar 27. In between, the melody and chords veer off onto unpredictable hywajs. pai tnership is illustrated in engrossinglv The Bacharach and David Bock" and i Simon Song Schuster, $7.501 . More than Lennon and McCartney more than any ether writer or pair, this team has succeeded in drawing the popular song away from the chorus fordiearv old a and away from mat (a tradithe tion. while retainirg and extending the system of i hords and their relationships that is at least as old as Tin Fan Alley. peerless O Vibrant, Modern Wilkins and his men were among those who amplified their Instruments some 23 years ago, but their music sounds as vibrant and modern as that played today by the bands of their Sonny Boy Williamson. In fact, all five said they had at one time or another played with the late Williamson on his famous post-Worl- d Leonard Feather O Feu Opera Companies he In the United States. said, there are just too many talented young singers for the there few opra companies are. In Europe it is different. The small companies in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and France and Spain as well, always need newcomers who will accept small pay at the beginning. hard-drivin- E Los Ar.geles Times Writer Burt Bacharach and Hal David began writing songs together in 1957. Their first hit. The Story of My Life, was primitive in every respect. Structurally, it was a restrain with an eight-ba- r lease; melodicaliy and harit lesembled a monically thousand other hits. Lyrically n had even cliche from tne moment when jour lips met mine" 'o never, never mere to part " The progiess cf their now 0 PBinccarc $ mitFoassW a O 0 0 O O e 0 o o Hut- now Hans Sittner, president of the Academy, agreed young singer probably has a better chance to score in Euin the United rope than States. five-piec- From Bacon and Eggs lo Caviar and Champagne 374-B44- & 1ST SECURITY BANK. 40 AM NUTTS FROM SALTIAKC, IN PPQYOCANyoN. the - E5 The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, July 19, 1970 OTUES. Fast Career d white Imitators. e The band plays with the g beat of the ejectric guitars and the wailing amplified harmonica style that was pioneered in the 1940s and 1950s by such delta bluesmen as Elmore James. Jimmy Reed and m C7 Doing Their Thing While Wilkins was playing his blues, three amplified other bluesmen were doing their thing just across the Washington mall. Mance Lipscomb, an almost legendary bluesman In his late 70s, sang about did blues in Texas on his string guitar. He was preceded by Big Boy Arthur Crudup of Virginia and Sherman Ward of Arkansas. Wilkins is a guitarist and singer in the best delta blues tradition. Hes a rought-cu- t version of Chicago's Muddy Waters, another delta-borbluesman. nick-blu- V 0 ! young my O SmmtCEStWtEMmSEBE O THRU SUN. 8PA. ton added with a laugh, Vienna still Ls a fair cheap place to live. and while vcu'ie waiting for vour chance that important." Hutton has a baritone voice, but also think he might seek a career as a conductor. n up Full Program Slated for Park Concert firsi-vea- Darstellende Kunst" (Academy for Music and the Performing Arts), 13 of them budding opera singers. The Americans comprise the second largest group of voice students, r.ext to West Germans, who number 82. Altogether ti.19 foreigners from 5S counties are students at the Vienna Acacemy. gi r semble. Today there are 71 Americans studying at Vienna's Akademie fuer Musik unter 'njt'iif Bacharach and David Belong Together Jazz Faculty Aspiring Opera Singers Adds mj - Theyll Write 5 Ad the Ad. a Motor . ir SN 0. S? - -- , Sell r: - a.. a i House r: Last year people placed over 1 million Classified Ads in Salt Lake newspapers. ..Proof that they sell and sell and sell Daily S-- 5, Sat. S1, Sun. 9-- 1 2 ii 4 |