| Show y8S& j 1 J The Salt Lake Tribune Sunday November 24 1963 Freedom From Uniformity Variety Show Pianists Develop Subtleties Takes Stage AtCSUDecl - “Choral By Jim Fitzpatrick The appearance of Gary Graffman Wednesday with the Special to The Tribune CEDAR CITY Varieties’’— 1963 version— wUl Utah Symphony marked the start of Salt be presented at College of Southern Utah Dec 3 it was announced by Dr Blaine Johnson CSU choral ’director The evening of ntusic will Include a variety of numbers from antiphonal renaissance choral offerings to folk singing and dancing Drama will be offered in sketches performed by Eldon (Pinky) Webster Cedar City and Walter Price Lake 1 Mr appearances of three of the outstanding “postwar” American pianists the emer- gence of which has been one of the marked as- spects of music in the last 15 or pling of top work of the young pianists Harold C Schonberg critic for the New York Times in his book “The Great Pianists from Mozart to the Present” notes American of the younger school its “Electicism”—that is its picking and choosing among music techniques and 18 years Fitzpatrick Yet to appear on the regular symphony season are Van Diburn and Byron Janis who will appear respectively with the orchestra Jan 29 and March 6 In addition it is hoped that Utah-bor- n Grant Johanresen may be persuaded to give a concert as he did last year thus offering the Utah listener a generous sam- - Bountiful The combined chorale of the college will sing a group of classic and romantic songs and the male chorus will sing Qienoweth’s “Vocalise” with Claire Thurston Hurricane as soprano soloist Two teams comprised of Cleo and Neil Petty Joanne Duncan and Nancy Claire Johnson all of Cedar City will be featured duo-pian- o post-seaso- n Readies Virginia Tanner children for Ynle dance B i Dance Group Elects Two To Top Posts i Our entire stock of Fall and REDUCED OTO FUR TRIMS JEWEL TRIMS SELF TRIMS ALL SALES FINAL PLEASE J Eugene Bryson and Mrs Philip 0 Boyer were elected to fulfill unexpired terms as president and first vice president 'Of the Contemporary Dance Council at a meeting Wednesday in the Conservatory of Creative Dance at the University Other officers elected were Mrs Victor Bullock second vice president Miss JoAnne McCrea third vice president Mrs Willard Wilkinson secretary Allan R Sloan treasur er Mrs Jed W Shields publicity and Mrs Frederick L communications Rynearson The board of coordinator directors are Mrs Alan Carter Mrs Grace S Webb Ted Brown Mrs J Spencer Bateman Mrs Earlene C Voor-hee- s and Mrs Dwayne Schmidt business the Fallowing Tanner meeting! Virginia gave the commencement address which won her an honorary doctorate from Wilson College Chambersburg Pa last June Opan Friday and Monday Till 54 South Main save 25 WIG “The Electicism in itself need not necessarily be bad and in fact is part of the equipment of all great artists You only have to consider Shakespeare’s heavy debt to his sources for Instance or the deliberate eclecticism of TS Eliot Ezra Pound and other modern English poets to see how intelligent use of other peoples discoveries within a single work can in the hands of a master add depth and meaning to the work The postwar American pianists— the top drawer ones anyway— do take pride in an astonishingly wide range of music which Mr Schonberg also points out they study assiduously with special reverence for the composer’s intent Too Blurred in the uniformity which Mr- - Schonberg finds I think the younger pianists are developing subtleties seldom before realized in performances and are elucidating hitherto incomprehensible section of keyboard music which were only too often blurred over by less conscientious earlier “virtuosos” Mr Schonberg observes— and rightly of course— that the ladies in the audience do not swoon when Johannesen Graf-ma- n or Dibum performs as they did for Liszt The point of the matter is the audience today is really more interested in the music than in the manner of a concert and all those sweating ecstatic gatherings “Golden Age” in the of pianists seem embarrassingly like revival meetings (to put the kindest interpretation on them) Genuine Interest The only uniformity of such diverse artists as Mr Johan-nesse- n and Mr Graffman— to take the two most recently heard in Salt Lake City— is their genuine interest in presenting a work as nearly as as the composer possible wrote it This approach leaves obviously an enormous area in witfch the pianist’s own musical personality can func- A more commonplace approach to a biography of the Shaw was to tell of his life in relation intimate or otherwise to women n 4 j This volume is in fact poorly titled While it does concern itself in order with the women Shaw loved it concerns Itself more particularly with all of the women in his life t Cuts Raven I McDavid Mencken work to bite size SALE 11955 13P5 “The American Language” by H L Mencken Fourth Edition and two supplements abridged by Raven thusiasm was whetted by the example of the pioneer But says McDavid “That private correspondence has pot con1 McDavid Jr Alfred A tinued with me” thus concedYork Inc New Knopf ing a personal limitation but $1295" at the same time establishing — Henry Louis Mencken wrote this Individuality as an editor on everything under the sun No Serious Faults and more often than not his “The American Language” judgments were faulty This came from the press in 1919 was particularly true of his as a book of modest proporpolitical writings though he tions But Mencken's diligence fancied himself as a political and enthusiasm was such that reporter of great acumen In the fourth or basic edition some fields 'however he did was a whopper Then the two very well His literary critiwere added one supplements cisms are still worth reading-h- e in 1945 the other in 1948 Now had a knack for reminishas been rethe whole cence and when he rode his duced to thing propormanageable hobby which was philology tions and brought up to date he left the experts of those And so well has McDavid perdays far behind formed this that although Material Condensed Now as was certain to hap"The American Lanpen guage” by Mencken a massive 800 pages plus the equally massive “Supplement One” “The Short Stories of W and “Supplement Two" have Somerset Maugham” album been to date and brought up in the process condensed into a single volume The editor Raven I McDavid Jr is both a professor and a PhD Since the late Mr Mencken was contemptuous of pedantry it is possible such gings on might distress him even beyond the grave There is however no mention of 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by -- John Brewster Llliraphone 16 Greenwich Con $795 Devotees of W Somerset are sure to be Maugham thrilled by this talking book album In which the voice of accom- cause of Du Cann’s mosphere of Park City the plished personal talent dta Salt Lake Community Playtions which induce healthy ers will present their current" laughter over healthy life sit“Gold in the melodrama uations are frequent Hills" Dec 20 and 21 in the Nor is the interest limited new sports and recreation cento those attracted to life of the ter Lou Arnold manager of the theater Biographies of the Players said the show great men in any toarea of would be given ih the Silver prominence appeal large Wheel Theatre in Park City segments of the reading pubOther playing dates for later lic many of whom will appreproductions will be scheduled ciate "The Loves of George after the Christmas and New Bernard Shaw" — Jim Bald- Year holidays he added win afic!:-do- s may a bit grumble they will not be able to find any serious faults Publisher’ Weekly)' Mencken’s language Comes (Compll4 by Fiction through unaltered “with upTHE GROUP— Mary McCarthy dating where necessary and THE SHOES OF THE FISHER- “ MAN— Morrli 'West'" editorial comment at critical CARAVANS— Jame Mlchener The been has goal points" THE LIVING REED— abridgement not revision And Pearl Buck THE BATTLE OF THE VILLA as McDavid notes with beFIORITA — Rumer Godden coming modesty “I am not THE VENETIAN AFFAIR— Mencken and make no preHelen Maclnnes tensions of arrogating to myCITY OF NIGHT— John Rechy Nonfiction self his unique contributions to linguistics” J FK: THE MAN AND THE — Victor Lasky There is another point in the THE MYTH AMERICAN WAY OF abridgement’s favor It has DEATH— Jessica Mltford unity Material from the two THE FIRE NEXT TIME— James Baldwin supplements appears In proI OWE RUSSIA 1200— Bob Hop per sequence MY DARLING CLEMENTINE— Editor McDavid and PubJack Fishman lisher Knopf have successfully RASCAL — Sterling North THE EDUCATION OF AMERI- put old wine into a new bottle CAN TEACHERS— —Theodore Long James Bryant Conant Mencken Best Sells the late John Brewster Broad- way and television actor-readgives a special depth and intimacy to five of the master story-teller’- complete short s pieces of fiction Maugham may have achieved greater international fame with his longer novels such as “Of Human Bondage” and “Moon and Sixpense” but his short stories have a special He Is thrifty with quality words dramatic and penetrating Just Incidents After a diet of conjemporary stories that aren’t1 really stories but incidents with no beginning or end featuring anatomical descriptions and with despair and human deterioration Maugham is like a canyon breeze Not that he avoids baser emotions He describes them with graphic clarity yet r avoids the over-usedewords and tails always handling situations with delicacy and integrity His descriptions of women whether young pretty middle-ageor doudy are especially effective and Brewster’s 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Monsen Houghton Mifflin publishers $425 In century the United States tends to be equated with capitalism just as the Soviet Union is identified with communism The world today is essentially a battleground of these two competing systems Thus ideas are weapons in the world battle for the hearts and minds of men The strengths and weaknesses of America’s explanation of i t s system of capitalism to itself and to the world is the basic subject of this book In this volume Dr Monsen points out that our system is far from monolithic or simple There are a variety of philos- are nigh Quality One need not be incapitated or a student to enjoy “reading by ear” The talking book furnishes an excellent substitute to the era custom of reading aloud in family or other groups This reveiwer has had numerous Inquiries- - as to where “audio books” may be obtained The Salt Lake Public Library has a limited stock but the few records available and the sorry condition of many of them speak volumes O Do pooplo 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capitalistic System Here is a clear and illuminating survey of these Ideologies and the positions into which they divide our defense of capitalism With an understanding o f these matters the individual American is in a better position to make up his own mind as to what he believes and why about our national des- 4 the Spinet that is a of two ophies which V g r w man citedL Talk Album’ Airs Best of Maugham But within that framework the modern pianist is challenged much as was the poet when the sonnet was de rigeur The strictures of the poem— or any piano composition— are the “givens” for the poet or the modern pianist It is in observing these strictures and still producing a living' interestng performance that the best young pianists of our day are working And with gratifying results if Mr Johannesen and Mr Graffman are examples Wln sister and the including a mother he held in contempt Editor Compiles Essence Of Mencken Writings quality human hair wigs SALE rarely to women are Numerous 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