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Show wygff Ti'tiiftfpwgBiiili gf,y 'Tiy If piTrlin, nim'Tiinnm'rt jftjftfij wiyiwyprWWiPiwas DTHjgr The Sail Lake Tribune, Sunday, February Harold Gottfred.son. longtime symphony bass tmmlxmist, property manager and peps coi duetor. will lead the orchestra in a program ot old favorites including Ijeroy Andersons "Irish Suite," Dublin honi Victor Herbert's "Irish Rhapsody," and Gaelic Gallop," a piece by Gerard Victory, music director of Radio Telefis Erieann. And, of course, there will be renditions of Mother Maehree" and "Danny Boy" featuring tenor soloist Alan Edwards, known to local audiences through his performances with Utah Opera, Pioneer Memorial Theater aod Promised Valley Playhouse. Tickets go on sale Friday at Sy mphony Hall ( )pura hamier opera jut for fun with a comic touch will he staged by Opera Piccola of Canada Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the Browning Center Little Theater at Welter State College, Ogden. Daiiitd Martino, director of cultural affairs at WSC, has taken the lead in bringing touring opera companies to Utah in recent years. Tuesday night the program will consist of two one-ac- t works, Rossini's "The Marriage Contract" and Waltons "The Bear." Opera Piccola's director is Pierrette Alarie, a former member of the New York City Opera. The company was founded in 1.978 with the goal of presenting "The Marriage Contract" and "The Bear" at the Victoria (Canada International Festival in August of that year. The ensemble includes six singers, an accompanying instrumental chamber group and conductor William Shookhoff Tickets ure available at the Dee Events Center on the WSC campus Piano pair plan program team Ferrante and Tetcher, tin' popular which has popularized duo transcriptions of motion picture themes, will perform at Symphony Hall March 5 at 8 p.m The pianists' first lug success was a rei ordmg of the theme from "The Apartment" in 190 Since that in albums tune the pair has sold 14 gold records and four million-selle- r singles The two met when they lxith were six years old and studying in the preparatory program of the Juilliard School m New York Tickets arc on sale at the Salt Palace and all Z M I two-pian- stores CIuuiiImt unrmll and fritnl The Salt Lake Chamber Ensemble will lie joined by five guest artkts for the fifth concert in the Nova chamlier music series Monday at 8 p m in the Salt Lake Art Center, 20 S. West Temple The ensemble Erich Graf. Ilute, John Thompson, violin, Patrick Zwick, viola da gamba. Peter will be joined by Nicole Wolf, harpsichord Henderson, violin. Stephen Emgrson. cello. Holly Gornik, oboe. Douglas Craig, bassoon, and conductor Robert Henderson in a program of works by Carl Stamitz. Corelli. Telemann, Vivaldi and the premiere the "Little Suite" by Salt Lake Ramiro Cortes of City composer audition: Fridas Met Broadway The final round of the Metropolitan Ofx-rAuditions, Utah Division, will take place Friday at 7 45 in the Utah Museum of Fine Arts p m Auditorium at the University of Utah Judges will include Maurice Ahravanel. Donna Dalton, a member of the vocal faculty at Brigham Young University, and Ernesto Alorda, a niemlier of the board of directors of the Seattle Opera A reception will follow the competition March d Book-of-th- two-yea- . . hone ked down a d iHai mosl hook dubs have staff editors who turns to a board choose otferings, of judges The current members include Clifton Fadimaa. Wilfrid Shccd, Merdecai Bidder and John k Hud'en .. literary highbrows ail Literary Taste 111 I he of view puhli'hiug hands. Boek-ol-th- e Month is decniely more literary in its taste than the Literary Guile1 "They will use Ixioks we won't even consider usinq." F itzgerald says. "Their range goes much lower than we do Our strength is nonfiction. They are interested in entertaining fiction A book tor the like Sophies Choice' would lx unheard-o- f " Literary Guild Tile Guild, like Doubleday its corporate parent, disdains i ommenting on such matters But Roger of Farrar. Straus & Giroux, says Straus Jr,, pie-deWhile . the Spring i. 1 London -- Stratford Theatre 10 Guild Tour May 3l-u- ne lout ondon. Stratford and the sues of Hampton Court. Canterbury, plus see eight theatre perlomiant es in London's Wiest End d strut. National Theatre and Sfrat-ton- f s Royal Shakespeare Theatre Paris and the Southwest of France June 8 ly March 14-- 22 Our nation's capital awaus you m a springtime loui ol its museums historic buildings and national monuments Also a stay in colonial Williamsburg Directed by Frank Sanguinetti and Donald Hague The University of Utah music department will present concerts Sunday (today) and Feb. 17. Today's concert will feature the department's symphony orchestra, under the direction of Jason Klcun. in performances of Alan Hovhaness "Fantasy of Japanese Woodrpints." fhe Schumann Syms Capriccio phony No 2 and Espagnol " The third selection will he conducted by Robert Weingart, a graduate student of instrumental conducting T'ne free program will begin at 3 p.m. in FOR MORI 23-u- om Dr. Richard Cummings on this Gallic holiday in France. Tour Paris, the Chateaux of the Loire, Orleans, Tours, imoges Bordeaux Biarritz, lo"iouse. Nimes, Marseilles and Aviy non 1 INFORMATION IT I CONTACT ASF Kimball Travel Consultants Rimsky-Korsakov'- 261 fast Bioadway. 2 Salt Lake City, Utah 841 KOI he U of U. Music Hall 533-972- or 20 I 458o H00-45- Feb 17 the university's Faculty String Quartet and guest pianist Gladys Gladstone will present a program of Brahms and Dohnanvi The free concert will begin at 8 p.m m the Utah Museum of Fine Arts Auditorium on the campus Ethon Allen Winter Sole surgery on selections. They have managed to winnow a novel called "The Dollmaker" down t ) 411 pages, though that's uncommon, The lengthiest excel pt has 392 pages, carved from Herman Wouks huge "War and Remembrance." Although the dub's member'hip has shrunk to several hundred thousand below is peak, the Digest says that the duh does very well." that the Guild has told him that it plans to take more quality titles, because its computer reimrt' on members enable it to isolate its literati Indeed, many publishing monitors sense that the two dubs are converging in their tastes, thus accounting for the escalation in auctions Oddly enough. Fitzgerald previously presided at tile Literary Guild, and w'as instrumental in nursing it into a rival of his current employer. Early on. the Guild mainly offered women's romances to a fairly constricted audience. One of the first meetings Fitzgerald attended when he joined the Guild in lSWO was called to discuss whether to bury the dub. Instead, it now boasts more than 1.5 million memliers (though requires four purchases from a member the first year, those in the Guild camp have a lifetime" to fulfil! their obligation, which leads one man to call the membership claim of the Guild "a joke"). Growing Membership According to Robin Smith, president ol all the Doubleday book clubs, membership in each of the clubs has been grow ing steadily in the last five years, but particularly in the Literary Guild and the Double-dar Book (Tub 'a club that books at low prices!. features decidedly mass-markHowever, she suspect,' that the growth of book dub' is leveling off "There is also evidence of increased selectivity and sophistication among members," she says "They are definitely looking for good value for their substantial txjoks. substantial discounts " money The Guild offers slightly lower book prices than Book-o- f However, whereas produces exact replicas ol bookstore copies. books usually Literary Guild issues standard-siz- e printed on cheaper paper and in smaller type. Biggest Operation Strictly in terms of members, the biggest hook oMration is Readers Digest Condensed Rixiks. which has more than two million subscribers. However, it is a completely different dish of porridge For one thing, it's not competitive, and will take the same and the Guild Rather titles as than using a negative option, Reader's LTigest automatically sends members five volumes a year, each containing four or five versions of current hooks No minimum purchase is required ird the contract may he canceled at any time. As a conie-on- . one volume is offered free, and a pood many people take the free volume and quit A crew of at least four editors perforins the Save 10 to 20 575-pa- on o superb selection of home fashions! Specialty (Tubs One of the broadest a'semblages of specialty book It has 27 dubs that clubs is owned by Prentice-Hail- . says, together lxast 400, Olio members. Prentice-Hal- l and tix.k in about $12 million in sales last year, a 14 percent advance over 1978 "If you waul two wards to define our books, they 're how to, " says Robert Morse, the director of the dubs. The horde inc ludes a dub earmarked for secretaries, another for teastma.Mers and public speakers. one for teachers of kindergarten through llorci grade and one for home hobbyists The largest W.ihki members stiong - is the Behavior duh Book 111 dilute One of the bigger individual dubs is the Playboy Book (Tub. which currently has ion. Don members, almost ail of them male It's recently appointed director. Irma Hddman. reports that the dub has moved somewhat from a sexual orientation toward a more general approac h to selections, and is hoping to hecome a mole prominent presence 'We are verv bullish on the future." she says Probably the most bedeviling problem plaguing Ixxik dubs is the roc keting cost of postage Most dubs have simply passed increases on to members. Robin Smith of the Doubleday clubs notes that in 1971 the bcxik rate for an average package was 21 cents Tcxlay it's 81 cents. To deal with this, she said. Doubleday has been lobbying in Washington and doing more selective marketing. Bixk-o- f Fitzgeraid thinks that the future of book dubs may lie in paperback ciubs Accordingly, six years ago he began the Quality Paperback Bcxik Club, thought to be the country's only paperback dub. According to Fizgerald, it now lists ii'il.noo memlxrs and has turned a profit the last two years "It's the jewel of our future." he says Simply through the sheer force of economic'. paperback books are going to become a more powerful force in bcxik distribution in the future. That's going to change the face of the book dub business, and I think you'll see more and more paperback dubs. (Copy right i th million-membe- much-abridge- In 13 Washington, D.C., Heritage Tour Book ciubs ring up record sales, profits Continued from Page E-- 2 affording to Time Inc., about half what publishing pundits figure the Doubleday dubs tooK in Why the improvement? Last year, for the first time, the dub ran TV commercials throughout the $5 million campaign. country in a Fitzgerald credits the TV ads for the new members. The promotions returned to TV several weeks ago. has been branchWhats more. ing out. In recent years, records have been featured in its mailings. A Christinas catalogue of gifts sueh as a porcelain cat, a Peruvian blanket and a suede tennis racket cover has been sent out for several years. Last year, a Valentine's Day catalogue was begun, to be followed this March by still a third mailing. Mr. Fitzgerald feels that the added shower nf goods will increase membership value and hold subscribers in the dub longer. Membership Upheaval e Month member acquires The average r period. There is constant eight books ever a upheaval in lub membership, and the trick is to ding in memliers "The jierson who comes in under our null rad to buy four books in a year and then quits -we'd break even cn him.'' Fitzgerald says "Wc have nothing to enmpi.ei, ibmii but then again nothing to rejoice alxiut s some indie: mu nf ige discounting nfleied by a iuh. "The Brethren" costs $1 i 9r in lv 'tores, Rook-o- f the Month otic - it for SI 1.95 though at $12 95. hut 'K iptfe'' Ch nee" was pnbli'heii Book i: the Mouth luis it for ili 55. Title' hearing pubhshtis ; rice' of $.1 !5 nr $8 95 arc generally 6-- Stay at the elegant New York where you'll see six top Broadway performances, plus sightsteing shopping anti a week in (he glomcis "Big Apple." Sundas offering at U. I - Tour Washington, D.C., New York, London or France Theyll play for St. Paddy at Symphony Hall The Utah Symphony will celehrale the Weariif o' the Green with a special St Patrick's concert March la at H p.m m Symphony Hall 10- rxyy . Choose from 8 stunning living rooms 's d dimetles Special Sale! eimMinmMed 7 magnificent dining rooms... 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