| Show low The Salt LaSe Trlbnnd Suhday November Seven Concerts In Week Set By Symphony Messiah Chorus Takes Shape Over 200 years ago George Frederic Handel mounted the podium in a little music hall in Dublin Ireland to lead his chorus of 22 voices and orchestra of 30 in the first triumphant performance of “The Messiah" This year will see the 41st annual performance of Han del’s great oratorio in Salt Lake pty with a chorus of or450 voices and a chestra "The Messiah" is scheduled for presentation in the Salt Lake Tabernacle on Dec' 23 Guest Conductor Guest conductor named for the annual production by the Salt Lake Oratorio Society ie Viennese conductor Karl Kritz famed for his handling of choral and opera groups Mr Kritz who began his career in 1927 at the Nurem-bur- g Opera House has served as conductor at the Berlin State Opera House the New York Metropolitan Opera the City and a special University of Utah presentation made up' the busy schedule the orches- tra has already completed Next week the orchestra has no concerts scheduled but the following week seven concerts are booked for the group from Nov 26 to Dec 1 The next regular subscription concert given by the symphony at the Tabernacle is slated for Wednesday Nov 28 This will be an event which many Utah patrons prefer to guest artist appearances Conductor Abravanel has arranged a program which will open with the first performance of the Kabalevsky overture to “Colas Breugnonv This is one of the works of the contemporary Second program repertoire number will be the Shostako- Symphony Orches- t Pittsburgh tra and the Pittsburgh Cjvic Light Opera Assn For the past 12 seasons he has been conductor with the San Francisco Opera Co Shand Directs ’ Handling recruitment and rehearsals for the Messiah presentation again this year ' Attend Rehearsals He said it was especially important for choral balance that all chorus members who have sung the Messiah in previous years begin attending all present rehearsals The Salt Lake "Messiah" chorus is traditionally open to all singers regardless of creed race or religion and has always been a production of major civic significance Camera Clubbers' Name Three As Prize Winners prizes in a photographic contest were announced Thursday by Mattie Three C Sanford executive secretary Council of Utah Camera Clubs First prize in the competition sponsored jointly by the council and Saltair resort was awarded Ralph Welsh University of Utah student Second went to Alma Woodbury vice president of the camera club council while third was won by Mrs Leila Bafford Salt Lake Photochrome member Literature Fete Due Monday Annual BYU Festival of Literature Is scheduled "Monday at 8 pm in the Joseph Smith building according to Chairman Clinton F Larson The hour-lonfestival will inclOde songs an interpretive dance based on an Emerson poejp and poetry by 1956 Nobel prize winner Juan Roman Jimenez and German 19th century poet Heinrich Heina ‘ 11e Literature festival ' is sponsored by BYU English and Modern Language departments i v AA JOSEPH ROSENTHAL Jwlltord Ideal af Mink fradaata m percaauea (Snare Dram Marimba Tymponi) it providing mart lima for hn taednnf adiakala That opamnft anil ka filtak aa an ability bain an fy Call Elm Elgin A 5 -- at 2 pm - is Dr David Shand director of the U of U Music Colony Dr Shand well known in Salt Lake City 'is also associate conductor of the Utah Symphony Orchestra Dr Shand is conducting Messiah choral rehearsals each Sunday at 2:30 pm in Barrett HalL Auditions for the chorus are practically completed Dr Shand stated I The Utah Symphony Orchestra opened its season less than three weeks ago and already has played 11 concerts to Utah audiences The complete program this year will include nearly 50 concerts from Cedar City to Idaho In the 2t weeks of the season Maestro Maurice Abrava-ne- l and his 80 musicians have played two regular subscription concerts in Salt Lake City one atOgdep pnd am other at Cedar City Busy Week The first of three AG youth concerts was1 presented at the Tabernacle similar concerts were given at Ogden and American Fork“Three other school concerts in Salt Lake e — — 1956 “H L Annual Yuletide Concert 18 most-playe- Dr David Shand 3tmlah choral director goes over score with veteran chorus members I Marjorie Whitney left and Joannette 'Black "The Messiah” will be presented on Dec 23 vich Symphony No 1 which according to many critics is the finest work from living Russian composers The third and final work scheduled for th? third concert will be Symphony Pathetique by Lyric Soprano Sings Tonight H6-I- C bury Hall This writer for one is full of brief lull One basic principle of musical form that of alternating tension and relaxation is true of life generally Certainly it is true of such an abstract thing as a “music season” in order to have good form a music season must have periods of relaxation which tend to heighten the more climactic moments of tension The reviewer’s task is an imposHenri ing one in many respects Temianka of the Paganini Quartet writes an interesting article in this vein in the current issue of Esquire entitled "Don’t Shoot the CriticV’ — He writes in answer to the question “What do you think of the music critics?”: "Music critics arje sometimes human "Music critics aiie sometimes competent "Music critics are sometimes unprejudiced "Music critics are sometimes independent "I know several critics who are human competent unprejudiced and independent’' Mr Temianka cleverly points out that most concert performers are proud and vain and do not like criticism: "Once I said to Albert Goldberg of the LA Times: ‘I wish you would Write a bad review about me once just so I could shock you with the kind of note you have never received before’: ‘Dear Albert: You are absolutely right— T played like a pig last night’ ” Goldberg’s gracious repartee was: "You would first have to give me occasion to write such a review” f Temianka has no uie lor the venomous critic "the one who is witty at the artist’s expense I would marinate him in pickled vinegar pan brown him in ancid butter to seal in c A brass knuckle to his critical juices who obliterates with a review of two sentences saying: “Mr Zcbulon Schlivovitz gave a recital in Town Hall last night "Why?” Or: "Yesterday Miss Curly Jones played Brahms In Carnegie Hall Brahms lost” “A singer who had a sold out house thanks to her social connections and fabulous wealth received the following notice: ‘As was proved once again last night money talks but It can’t sing!’ ” Schumann Top Critic Temianka acknowledges former NY Herald Tribune critic Virgil Thomson as a "knowledgeable critic” but opines that “In Thomson’s book almost all artists with French passports This sometimes makes it tough automatically goto heaven for those who have been careless in this respect like Sibelius” Most performers from this writer’s experience expect th “music critic “to play the violin better than Heifetz the piano better than Horowitz the cello better than Casals to sing better than Pinza to conduct better than Toscanini and to compose better than Stravin-sky- " Miss Lozada also will Include a special group of Spanish songs in her concert here A native of Mexico City the young singer began her career with an appearance with a symphony in San Luis Potosi Since then she at Julliard School of numerMusic and won ous scholarships and talent has-studi- awards Scholarships to hep credit include a full tuition scholarship for graduate studji at the Julliard School and a private vocal scholarship with Povla Frijsh ' "g Of course such a person hot exist Coming’ closest no doubt was Robert Schu-ma- n German- and -- used —it to spread the fame of othets whoso talents he discovered-SchubeChopin— Mendel“ ssohn Brahms” rt here on Nov 27 are Emmett Yokes Herbert Rogers Moreland Korikamp and Ada Kopetz More-ian- d Moritz Bomhard For their performance here the quartet will feature numbers by both modern and master composers Julliard Studies All four quartet members received their training in this country and studied at the Julliard School of Music In addition to regular recitals the quartet has appeared with the Buffalo Philharmonic and Oklahoma Symphony Orchestras and ' has played for tKreelveeks at New York’s Roxy Theatre All four quartet members have given successful individual concerts Solo Artist New York-borAda Kopetz studied and later taught at the Julliard School of Music She has played solo and ensemble concerts throughout the country has appeared in Carnegie and Town Halls in New York and has been a with the New City Symphony and in City Music Hall soloist Miss Kopetz York Radio been a has guest artist with Manila and Hong Kong orchestras and played many USO recitals during World War II Moreland Kortkamp of Alton Illinois began her piano studies at the age of nine She won the Southern California Allied Arts contest for two straight years and then r w'on a scholarship at six-yea- the Julliard Graduate SchooL European Tours After her graduation she toured North Africa and Italy as a member of the first concert group to be sent overseas She made tours of Germany Austria France and England and has made many recital appearances in this country A native of New Jersey Emmett Vokes studied at the Julliard School of Music He received the Olga Samaroff Award and the Frank Award there Mr Vokes has appeared in recital and with orchestras throughout the East and Midwest Native Texan Herbert Rogers studied first in Texas then at Julliard and later with Olga Samaroff at the Philadelphia Conservatory Dam-rosc- h In Theater-in-the-Roun- been a solo- orche- stras of Houston Dallas SMU YVichita Falls and Julliard and has played recitals throughout the Southwest He won Dallas’ famous Dealey Award and the International Recording Prize of the National Guild of Piano Teachers The official musical ctor of the Kentucky Opera Association iq Louisville He was formerly conductor of the Princeton University Orchestra and Glee Club and director of New Lyric Stages In addition to his arrangements for the Quartet Mr Bomhard has composed two a suite for several sonatas Next in Seriej' Next attraction for Granite Arts Assn patrons will be symphonies and strings veteran world traveler Wi- lliam Harris who presents a travelogue entitled "Lands of the ber East” Near on Decem- 4 Mr Harris ‘who narrates his original color motion picture travelogues himself from Dartmouth College the University of Madrid the University of Munich and Italy's Arcangeli holds degrees Institute from the action Thi of seating provides accommodations for only about away type 70 persons each performance Mr Gledhill said Cast in the leading role of Tommy Turner Midwest college professor is Chet Harris Claudia Woolsten portrays Mr Turner’s wife Ellen Others in the cast are Joe Ferguson Judy Nelson Paul Anderson M W" Smith Ron- ald Minson Jed Richardson Josephine Meyer R Max Rog- ers and Carol Waymen Beautiful Small :N PIANO SPECIALS GULBRANSEII V AND OTHERS SPECIAL CLOSE-OU- T -- THIS WEE- KRtductd $59900 Shelley Hyde left and Harold Wolf work on a difficult passage with Conductor Maurice Special Abravanel during "Thanksgiving" holiday of Utah Symphony following a busy three weeks $35000 Vocal Student Will Present Opera Scenes Vocal students pf Miss Barbara Eldredge Bedenkoff will present an evening of opera excerpts Saturday at the Ladies Literary Chib 850 East So Temple J The performance slated to begin at 8:00pm will feature sketches — from operas by -- Presenting the opening excerpt the duet finale from Act 3 of Verdi's well known "Aida” will be Doris and Phillip jOrcgorson Alice Richards and Baibara Piatini will sing a scene fipm s of Verdi's "Othello portraying Desdemona and Efnilia Act 4 ” Mozart's “Bastien and an opera in one act written when the composer was 12 will be sung by a cast which includes Ann Petersen Bas-tienna- Agnes Knowlton and Alfred — Schmidt Other number? set for the Saturday program are a duet from Bizets French opera "DjamilehA and the Tosca and Cavaradossi duet from “Tosca” by Puccini The excerpts will be presented jn costume and the "Tosca” duet will fcaturp a Magdalena sketch by Francis -- Zimbeaux Public is invited no admission charge There”is TAKE THE Dre (I Jsta WAY TO USED BETTER DANCING SPINETS - 4i p ' f V DA 1 TO II'IHI HAPUlk j DANCE STUDIOS 4M tot! 4rt 2W1 OirMtor NOW WITH PIANOS-ORGA- NS South - 4 hl -- Y’V OO $45900 A GULUANStNI ' TERMJt music shop N K GALLACHER Open Till 6:30 pm Monday Till 9 pm - $495 STAITSPECIAl KINGS drcdlsta re C VMN YATll WAS - 350°°" fi ar- ranger for the quartet Moritz Bomhard is at present dire- d - "The Male Animal” first 'Vv I Mr Rogers has ist with the symphony BYU Slates ‘Male Animal’ “a r e n a” production ever staged at BYU is scheduled for presentation Monday through Saturday at 8:15 pm in the campus Arts Building Extended play dates of the BYU performance of the Broadway hit are necessary because of limited seating space according to Director Preston R Gledhill Since the play is an arena production persons will be seated in a circle around the stage no more than three rows Voor-hec- “ publication e Classical and light music arranged for four pianos will be featured by the Philharmonic Piano Quartet in a Gtanite Arts Association performance set for Nov 27 at the Granite High Auditorium The piano quartet is composed of Ada Kopetz Kortkamp E tn m e 1 1 Vokes and Herbert Rogers each a piano artist in liis oVn right Ensemble arrangements for the quartet are all especially arranged by composer 'N cini romantic “He understood composer music criticism in Its noblest and richest moaning lie founded his own musical great Tab-erhacl- I Granite Arts Presents Piano Quartet r Verdi Mozart Bizet jand Puc- - y I t llimW-- the-cuti- -- does Tschai-kovsk- Off to Logan Before presenting the Salt Lake concert the orchestra will go to Logan for two concerts on Nov 26 Music fans in southern Idaho will Tiear the symphony at Pocatello on Nov 29 A special youth concert for students will be playecj at Pocatello on Nov 30 and Ricks College students at Rexburg will hear the orchestra the same evening The second of five Ogden concerts will be played by the orchestra Dec 1 Miss Zara Nelsova guest cellist for the Utah Symphony's second Salt Lake concert last week said the orchestra is !one of the line orchestras in America” after her Wednesday evening concert with the symphony appearance 1 r ' - By Lowell Durham The local music world gains a brief respite from the season's whirl of activities during the coming week The reason— the Thanksgiving holidays Only one concert agency will field a visiting attraction— when the University's Lecture and Concert Series presents Lycette Darsonval and her Paris Ballet Tuesday night in Kings- thanksgiving for the Lyric coloratura Angelica Lozada gives a concert Sunday afc 8 pm at College of St Mary of the Wasatch The pretty young soprano currently on a US tour hs scheduled compositions by Mozart Verdi Straqss Brahms and Debussy for her Salt Lake ever-popula- Members of the Philharmonic Piano Quartet set for Granite Arts Association performance Owner |
