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Show it 6 E ' jf ; The Sail Lake Tribune, Sunday , March (I I f V ) 1973 f "T v wy The Utah Symphony Orchesannounced its 1973-7season concert dates seand soloists. The nes will include nine guest tra Saturday 4 '' "4 r i A J .x Vermeer Quartet to perform Mu hie notes salt itl;c gfibtinf slated for center usic The Blind Melon Chitthn will be featured at the Salt Lake Jewish Community Centers annual Music Festival this week. The group, consisting of seven members Nyle Steiner, Walt Fowler, Steve Fowler, Albert Wing, Stu Goldberg, George Souza and Ralph will perform conForbes temporary jazz, classical, rock val in California. Recital today Beverly Peck, assistant organist at St. Marks Episcopal Cathedral, 231 E. 1st South, will present an organ recital Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in the cathedral. The recital is part of the St. Mark's concert series and is free to the public. Featured on the program will be Bachs Prelude and Fugue in F minor, the Sonata II by Hendennth, and Adler's and Recitation, Toccata, Postlude. Concert slated A concert featuring the JunOrches- ior Youth Symphony tra, under direction of Ronald S. Archibald, East High School music director; the Hillside Junior High Boys Chou-- , directed by Julie Hayes; and the Northwest Junior High Concert Band, conducted by Jim Loveless, will be Thursday at 8 p.m. in Highland High School auditorium. The performance is free to the public. Oratorio planned Special to The Tribune Mendelssohns St. LOGAN Paul Oratorio will be performed Sunday at 3 p.m. in the Utah State University Fine Arts Center oy the 17u voice USU Choir and soloists. Professor Stephen A. Simmons directs. The public is invited to the free concert. 8 Performances The Ogden Symphony Guild also announced its next season with eight Utah Thursday Symphony performances planned for the Weber Fire Arts Center. Also announced for 1973-7were two orchestral-chora- l concerts with the Utah Chorale. The Verdi Requiem is programmed for Dec. 5 while Maestro Abravanel, who is considered one of tiie great in conductors the Mahler world, has included the Mahler Symphony No. 2 (Resurrection) for the climax of next season on April 13. Van Cliburn will be returning next season for another performance with the Utah Symphony. Chbum, who is recognized around the world as one of the great pianists of this time, made his orchestra 4 , sif Dr. Hoggard i V' ? Miss W Mary Costa, lyric coloratura artist, will come to Utah for the first time. Miss Costa is well known to New York Metaudiences, ropolitan Opera has performed extensively with the San Francisco Opera and is currently starring in the film musical, The Great Waltz. ' - . 7 t E d A f I ' V- 1950s. 4 Acclaimed as one of the greatest keyboard giants of his generation, Russian pianist Vladimir Ashkenazv has been a favorite with Utah audiences. Ashkenazy made his North American debut in 1356 and has been a leading pianist ever since. He regularly tours North America as well as keeping a heavy concert schedule at home and in Europe. Joseph Rosenstock Guest Conductor Mary Costa Soprano Soloist Claudio Arrau Symphony Guest an Cliburn isiting Pianist V v j r i - AV4 1 Young Musician ( After 64 years at the keyArrau Claudio is board, unmatched in his technique and interpretive passion. He has one of the largest concerto repertoires, numbering over 70, of any of the piamstic giants, and is revered by the music world as a genius of a virtuoso. Arrau will be performing with Maestro Abravanel and the Utah Symphony again after an absence of 12 played with moijt of the major orchestras in the country, including a highly successful New York debut which launched him on his career. the Salt And, charming Lake audience with her size and temperament will be Lilit Gampel, pert little violinist who made music his- - Jazz artist draws sxl'oncert Westminster date ' , I V, 4 j ' -- .a, 47-7 $ N , - U i i i .. , ;- - is Lilit Gampel Young Yiohnlst Angel Romero Guest Guitarist tory as she placed first in the Young Musicians Foundation Competition in Los Angeles in 1970. She is a genius of a kind which comes along once in an era. The orchestra also plans to continue two cosponsoring concerts with contemporary the University of Utah in the Festival of Contemporary Vladimir Ashkenazy Russian Pianist Music. But, next year, one set will be presented iif Kingsbury Hall and one in the Tabernacle. Conducting the contemporary concerts on campus will bo Associate Conductor Ardean Watts, who shares the heavy conducting workload with Maestro Abravanel. ; Guest artist at that contemporary concert will be Angel Gregor Piatigorsky Renowned Cellist . Romero, young classical i enstock, who made his performance with the Utah Symphony this season in ' " recent contemporary concerts. Rosenstock is a former direc-- , tor of the Metropolitan;-Oper- a and the New Symphony Orchestra in Japan. The symphony will open its ' 7 season with two orchestral . concerts. pre-mie- gui- tarist who has made his fame with his guitarist family, the Romeros Quartet. He favors works of Bach and Scarlatti and was the only member of his family to make his debut in the United States. The Tabernacle Contenjpo-,rar- y concert will feature guest conductor Joseph Ros Snow slates Soloist dates Jean Ann Wolbert, alto soloist and pianist, will be featured singer at the annual spring choral concert March 18 presented by the Salt Lake .Oratorio Society in the Salt I Lane Tabernacle. Directing will be Dr. Lara Hoggard, processor of music at the University of North Carolina. Miss Wolbert sang the alto solos in the Western Hemisphere premiere performance of Bachs The Passion According to St. Mark, in 1967 in Odessa, Midland and Big 'Spring, Texas. years she served as director at the Stroudsberg First PresbyteriFor 15 organist-choi- r She has studied Mrs. LoRean privately a former stuis and Hodapp, dent at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, N. J. an Church. wuth Dr. Hoggard serves as director of choral activities for the Festival of 1 hree Cities in Vienna. He is former musical director and conductor of the Midland-OdessSymphony. The Salt Lake concert will feature the Passion according to St. Mark and Beethovens a Mount of Olives. by cellist Special to The Tribune EPHRAIM, Sanpete County Snow College - Sanpete Community Concerts presents Gilbert Reese Monday at 8 p.m. in the college auditorium, in a program of classical numbers for cello. The jazz musician will teach trombone improvisation and composition during sessions at the college and high school students are invited, William L. Fowler, jazz teacher at Westminster, said Saturday. Mr. Reese, opening with Johann Sebastian Bachs and Bourree in C Major, also will play numbers by Cesar Franck, Luigi Boccherini, Manuel de Falla and David Popper. He will perform on a lolincello made by Antomus Amati m Cremona, Italy, in 1615. A native of California, Mr. Reese received his masters degree in cello from the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris. His accompanist is Ralph a graduate of Yale who received a master's in music from the University of Southern California. Sar-aban- Mr. Byers, filmwriter and television personality, is responsible for Count Basies style and has arranged many recordings for him. His early training was in the classics, but in 1949 he boarded a bus for New York and joined the Benny Goodman Band. Mr. Byers has played and written for most of the big band leaders including Buddy Rich, Quincy Jones, Charlie Ventura and Duke Ellington. Mr. Byers, now a resident . of Los Angeles, has arranged for Della Reese, Frank Sinatra, Steve and Edyie Gorme, Andy Williams, Little Richard, Tom Jones and B. B. King. :. concert Billy Byers, composer, conductor, arranger and trombonist, will be at Westminster College as part of the schools visiting jazz faculty Sunday through Saturday. 7 -i- - tens deve" awng yea (asc'n Pnses.'nt' Lenses' - lenses au' pnw9,x,.o ago. a' da'ke 85 ? '65 Lenses,. - ,a 9!'he jvjai'ab'e SO Jazz Msitor Ricks to present Together they have presented concerts in Pans, London, Berlin. Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Madrid, as well as throughout the United Mates and Canada. 2 operas classic, folk Pbovosvin nO'N pnoi9'aV it a In Salt Lake City: University Club Bldg. 857 E. Second So. O 4695 Holladay Blvd. In Murray: Cottonwood Medicol Cantor Robert Powell will produce the two operas which are being staged by the Ricks music and drama departments. Dr. LaMar Barrus is musical director with Prof. Lynn Benson as the stage di- Logan, mezzo soprano; Bruce Conn., Norwalk, Shadbolt, tenor, and Charles Marston, Kemmerer, Wyo., bass. rector. Cavallena Rusticana rustic chivalry is in the London musicians perform in China Italian operatic tradition of "verismo or realism, and attempts to become emotional (Dispatch of Times, London) London Philharmonic Orchestra will give five concerts in China be- Alma Trio iit USU The Alma Trio appears at Itah Mate Iniver-sitv'- s Fine Arts Center Theater Tuesday at 8 p.m. Trio, Andor Toth, violinist, Gabor Rejto, cellist, and William Corbett Jones, pianist, has toured the U.S, and Europe. i with man's common everyday problems The opera is set in a village in southern Italy, and deals with the rather pnmitive moral codes of villagers "Down in the Valley. a folk and with melodies opera stories coming from Vmeiican folklore, deals with death in a much less tragic aspect than that portrayed in Cavallena Rusticana " hid i.i - ji- .ihit,) - , ! i 5 S 'V ' a l nas. dJ,k" 20 Lin-sle- Billy Byers ndoots .r. itoma"c Special to The Tribune -IDAHO REXBl'KG. Ricks College is presenting two operatic contrasts Cavallena Rusticana'' and PerDown in the Valley. formances begin ednesday and continue through Saturday m the Kirkham Auditorium. Curtain is 8 p m prano; Louise Cuthbert, an March tween informed source in Peking said Saturdav The orchestra, conducted by John Pritchard, is expected to Beethoven Brahms, play WiVaughn Haydn, Elgar, lliams and Dvorak to audiences in Peking, Canton and Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, credited with bringing about a cello renaissance, making it an accepted solo instrument, will be making one of his few concert appearances with the orchestra. Piatigorsky, uncon-testeas the greatest living cellist, currently devotes a great deal of his time to teaching master classes at USC, writing his second book and playing chamber music with his friends. He appeared with the orchestra in the early f ; fj Salt Lake City, soprano. Marlene Smith, Malad. Idaho, so- The .1 olbert John Sato will be accompanist for the choir concert and soloists will be him Duncan, PEKING 4 i k. years. 'debut at 12 and now makes Daniel Heifetz, a young viomore than 60 appearances a linist and graduate of Curtis year, including an extensive Institute of Music, has already international schedule. made a significant impact on Rare Appearance the musical world, having and blues music. The performance will be held Sunday at 8:30 p.m. at the Jewish munity Center, 2416 E. 1700 South. The group has received outstanding credits, and won the 1972 Intermountain Jazz Festival. They also won the honor to perform at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Three of the members were featured artists at the 1971 Monterey Jazz Festi- Symphony Music Director Maurice Abravanel has invited pianists Van Cliburn, Claudio Arrau and Vladimir Ashkenazy, violinists Lilit Gampel and Daniel Heifetz, cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, soprano Mary Costa, guest conductor Joseph Rosenstock and guitarist Angel Romero. Four of them will be making their premieres with the Utah Sym phony. - The Vermeer Quartet appears In concert Sunday at 8:30 p.m. In the Utah Museum of Fine Arts Auditorium at the University of Utah. Salt Lakes Chamber Music Society is sponsor. Members of the quartet include Pierre Menard and Shmucl Ashkenazi, violinists; Ronald Leonard, cellist, and Scott Mckranz, viola. Rock, blues f Symphony slates 14 new concerts , nine guest soloists s? &' I II, ' a, f |