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Show MAGNA TIMES. July 1 2. 1 979, Pag festive held annually 3 Siinnrcrjsr Three outstanding Shakespearean directors combine talents this summer to produce the 18th summer season of the Utah will Shakespearean Festival. Held annually on the campus of Southern Utah State this seasons College, productions will run from July 12 through August 18, according to Fred C. Adams, producing - director and founder of the Festival. Two veteran directors will return, Sabin Epstein, well known to Cedar City audiences several years ago, will direct MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, and Howard Jensen, who has been Symphony to feature conductors associated with the Festival in both acting and directing capacities, will direct KING LEAR. Joining the Festival for the first time will be Jim OConnor, director of several outstanding productions in Utah, who will oversee ALLS WELL THAT ENDS WELL. In addition to directing overall operations of the Festival, Mr. Adams will be in charge of staging and costuming for the twice-weekl-y afternoon program of Elizabethan court music. Sabin Epstein is currently an Associate Director of the American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco. He has worked with the Pacific 0 Conservatory of the Per: forming Arts, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the New Zealand Drama School, serving in both ac- and ting directing capacities. He has been associated with the Utah Shakespearean Festival as an actor, as movement coach and as director of AS YOU LIKE IT in 1968 and A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM in 1989. Howard Jensen, who began his theatre career at Southern Utah State College, has previously directed TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA and JULIUS CEASAR for the Festival. He is currently Assistant Professor head of the and Acting and at Directing Program Indiana State University, July, with its celebrations of the fourth and the twenty-fourtis a time to stop and consider our wonderful good fortune to be citizens of this fine land. It is easy to forget. We busy ourselves with thenecessity to earn our daily bread, and raise our children to be productive, God loving, law abiding citizens. We worry about high taxes, inflation, the energy crisis, violence and bureaucracy. BUT it is still the best place in the world to live, free to choose our own life style, free to get an education, and free to complain loudly if we dont like the way things go. Constantly we must remind ourselves that with these advantages are responsibilities. Be informed and speak out. Along with schools and the news media, libraries will help. To read THE UNTOLD HISTORY OF ISRAEL is to participate in one of the most human and heroic adventures of the 20th Century. This is the full account of the forming of secret. Wholly unbiased, well researched and indexed, this book is history in action. News Journalists, Jacques Derogy and Hesi Carmel have done a fine job. How many of you are tennis fans? In THE GAME: MY FORTY YEARS IN TENNIS, Jack Kramer, granddaddy of shares with us the all of tennis on and off the court. Tennis fans and others will love it. Civilizations? Isaac Asimov, Are there renowned physicist and author believes so. Read his EXTRATERRESTRIAL CIVILIZATIONS and learn his theories. It differs vastly from others youve heard. Looking for a novel that is unusual? SANJO, this new and special story by Evelyn Wilde Mayerson, will make you ponder as you discover an entirely fresh and heartening approach to n mental retardation. SANJO is a warm and real sheltered and protected by her elderly parents. of thirty-fou- r, Here is her story and the story of wonderful and un- -' forgettable characters in her world. Sometimes comic, always dramatic, we see not this womans abnormality, but her humanity. This is a fine first novel for Dr. Mayerson, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of South Florida Medical School. SEE YOU AT THE LIBRARY! h, pro-tenni- The Utah Symphony has announced the names of four additional guest conductors for its 1979-8subscription series concerts in the new Symphony Hall in Salt Lake City. To date, nine of the fourteen guest conductors planned for the upcoming season have been announced. Kenneth Schermerhorn will conduct the Utah Symphonys pair of subscription concerts on Friday and Saturday, October 12 and 13. His program will include the Mozart No. 35, Haffner, and the Mahler Symphony No. 1. Under the director of Schermerhorn for the past 11 seasons, the Milwaukee has established itself as one of Americas major orchestras. In addition to taking his own orchestra on eight national tours including appearances at Carnegie Hall, Schermerhorn has guest conducted such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, Cincinnati, Seattle, Detroit, Pittsburg, San FYancisco, etc. Varoujan Kbdjian will conduct the next pair of concerts Friday and Saturday, October 26 and 27, in the new Symphony Hall and also the Ogden subscription concert on Thursday, October 24 in the Val A. Browning Center for the Performing Arts. He has selected for his program the Beethoven Fourth Symphony and the Shostakovich Fifty Symphony. Kodjian is presently principal guest conductor of the Swedish Royal Opera in Stockholm and a frequent guest conductor in Europe and America. While still in his teens, he joined the Bloomington, and holds a Ph.D. degree from Wayne State University. Jim OConnor is known to Utah audiences for his productions with the Pioneer Memorial Theatre in Salt Lake (Sty. He has also been associated with Utah State University in Logan, and is currently a Professor of Theatre University, at Purdue Lafayette, Indiana, where he serves as director of the Performance Program. He has an extensive acting and directing background, and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Penn State University. This is his first production with Utah the Festival Shakespearean summer this Again and production acting seminars, backstage tours, a Shakespeare movie and and preshow dancing madrigal singing will be featured each evening preceding the performance. Replacing the afternoon matinee this summer will be a program of Renaissance Court music played on authentic Elizabethan instruments, and staged in an manner the of Elizabethan Court performance. Each program will feature the costuming and pomp of Elizabeths court, and the music will be prefaced by an explanation of the musical forms and instruments to be used. For ticket information, or write phone .Utah Festival, Shakespearean Cedar City UT 84720. yrii-pho- Philharmonic as assistant concertinas ter and at the Los Angeles urging of Zubin Mehta went to Vienna in 1970 to study conducting, com course in only nine pleting a four-yemonths. Lawrence Smith has been engaged to conduct the Marh 7 and 8 (Friday and Saturday) concerts at Symphony Hall and the following week will accompany toe orchestra on a three-daNevada tour to Elko, Reno and Ely on March 10, 11 and 12. His program will include the Five Orchestra Piece from Romeo and Juliet by Berlioz and Mendelssohn's Third (Scotch) Symphony. Since 1973 Snith .has served as music director and conductor of the Oregon Symphony. Under his leadership the orchestra has seen a period of unprecedented growth. All classical concert series have been sold out on a season basis during this period. For three years, he was assistant conductor of the Metropolitan Opera. Daniel Lewis is scheduled to conduct the January 25 and 26 (Friday and Saturday) pair of subscription concerts at Symphony Hall and the Ogden subscription concert on Thursday, January 24. His program will include the world premiere performances of In Celebration by Ramiro Cortes, the Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2 with Jerome Lowenthal as soloist, and the Schumann Symphony No. 3, Rhenish. Lewis, who has conducted the orchestras in Los Angeles, Oakland, ar y Phoenix and elsewhere, is music director of the Pasadena Symphony which, although it has a relatively limited scope, is one Atlanta, Aspen, of the most respected orchestras in the nation. In addition, he is head of conducting studies and a conductor of the symphony and opera at the University of Southern California. 1979-8-0 is going to be an exciting and most unusual season, said Herald L. Gregory, executive director of the Utah Symphony is releasing foe names of the four guest conductors Following Maurice Abravenels decision to retire, the logical course of action was to engage guest conductors for the orchestras 15 subscription concerts. Five have announced-Stanislbeen Skrowaczewski, James DePreist, Henri Lazarof, Roger Wagner and Ardean Watts (two concerts) --and as soon as we have signed contracts on foe other five their previously names will be announced also. Mr. Gregory noted that same of foe guest conductors for foe coming season are being chosen from among those under consideration by foe Music DirectorConductor Search Committee in order to afford symphony patrons and players an opportunity to observe them in action. We must emphasize, however, exthat our plained Mr. Gregory, engaging a guest conductor in no way commits foe Search Committee or even implies that said conductor is a front runner in foe election of a successor for Maestro Abravand. O bviously we had to move ahead in filling out foe season program long before the search could reach any decision. The opening pair of subscription concerts in foe Orchestras new home is set for Friday and Saturday, September 14 and 15, at 8 pm. According to the symphony announcement, season ticket sales are moving briskly. Tickets are on sale now at 55 West First South, Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 (telephone s, Extra-terrestri- al (Mg child-woma- using natural gas wisely. The Pirate swim club Scotty Holfeltz, Shelly brought home 3rd place Killpack, Jason Hayes, Julie team trophy from the 4th Annual Cottonwood Heights held invitational Thursday, Friday last and Saturday. Derek Forsgren brought home a AA time in his 100 IM which allowed him to travel with some of the team members to Regional at Championships New Mexico. 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