| Show t r1 "T ' 14 W Ihe Salt Late Tribune Sunday February — i k Some Experts Say Yes Provo Hears ’Annual Official — By Alvin Steinkopf Associated Presk Writer ‘'LONDON — Are some art masterpieces partly the1 result of poor eyesight? Did some of out greatest painters develop styles and mannerisms because of eye disease and defects? Are some artists great' only because they didn't see ' well? i4 f These are questions being hotly debated by Britons since an unnamed eye sur visit of Utah Symphony Orchestra to Provo will be made Saturday when the group1 ap- pears In George Albert Smith Fieldhouse under sponsor-shi- p of Brigham Young Concert Assn Maestro Maurice Abrava-ne- l will begin the performance at 815 pm with "Morning Mood" and "Solveg’s Song” from Edvard Grieg’s "Peer Gynt Suite" The pro Jupiter” Civic Music Assn Offering gram vasses he had never- - met ’he (spe-- " cialist decided the artist was partially color 'blind Investigation proved that he was Master’s Touch Eyeballs of many 'artists said the surgeOn are not per- feet spheres So images are distortions the pointed out sometimcsare accepted as a master’s caprice — a mannerism In which he indulges A more likely reason for the distortions-theye surgeon argued is that he records the scene as it appears to his defective vision The elongated figures' of The surgeon told of a German colleague who studied the canvasses of an artist ’These broadcaster and Brahms’ "Sec- Next regular subscription concert in Salt Lake be Feb 18 e U of U Kingsbury Halt The concert under spon- sorship of "Salt Lake Civic Music Assn will begin at 815 pm “I Musici" literally trans- - Patriotic -' - n ’ Musical Arts Club Thurs day at 4 pm at the home-o- f Mrs Marion Bodine 1467 E 13th South Student Recital Four students of Blanche M Christensen will be pre- sented in a vocal recitalspon bv the University sorpd of Utah department of music Monday evening parts By Lowell Durham The name of Thomas Giles will always rank high among those who have distinguished themselves by significant contributions to our cultural life His death last week In Southern California at the age of 77 saddened former students colleagues and local citizenry alike — all of whom benefitted directly or indirectly from his life of (Meated ”Stservice to music If there is a phrase that most aptly characterized this man it is "young In heart” He possessed the knack of remaining forever young and exuberant I had the pleasure of walking around the U campus with him only last summer and he bounded up and down stairs like a teenager Perhaps this Is why he was able to reach so many Dr Durham young people effectively as an ad- vocate of good music He knew their problems he spoke their language This I know because I was one of them As a student In his classes and member of his Men’s Glee Club I was constantly amazed' at his boundless energy enthusiasm and vitality It was he who encouraged me to continue graduate study and lit fact paved the way by "arranging" scholarship assistance at a mldwesfern university where he had previously taught as a guest faculty member ’’ Saw l Music Faculty Grow He served as head of the U of U music department for 35 years (1913 1948) during which time it grew from a faculty of two members (Prof Giles and Edna Evans) to 19 When he retired from this post it was a retirement In name only Thomas Giles Just wasn’t the type to retire If anything the succeeding decade found him more active than ever as he continued his extensive piano studio work church mpsic assignments and puhlic concerts in his new surroundings in southern California According to lournalistic accounts of the day he presented the first student production of grand opera west of the Mississippi During his second year on the campus he produced three performances of "Pagliacci" in the old Salt Lake Theatpr (1914) The next three years saw "Traviata" “Aida” and “Hansel and Gretel" World War I resulted in a tern- porary stispension'of the opera program but it waarenewed with- full force annually after the war until World War II halted activities once again Highlights were the 1916 pei formances of "Aida” with Edna Evans Johnson in the title role and a Metropolitan — Opera tenor "imported’as— guest artist — One newspaper headline hailed-i- t as “bewildering in its magnificence scores big success” Another termed it a "royal success” Reads Like Met Standard Repertory A' list of operas presented under the Giles baton reads of A performance like the Met’s standard repertory “Natoma" presented outdoors found the Los Angeles Philharmonic playing the orchestral score and the 1938 "Aida" presentations caller for a total of more than five’ hundred student performers "coming in contact with great operatic V’ to quote fnusid (and in most cases meeting it head-oProf Giles’ own humorous account of the project Just prior to his "retirement" in 1948 Prof Giles told me he had taught the astonishing figure of 1462 private piano students No doubt he added a few-- hundred to this total during his last 10 years in California He also organized piano enserqbles of eight and often 12 performers which roncertized and initiated a scries of "piano concerto cons certs" which afforded opportunity to perform annually with Ml orchestra His Men’s Glee Clubs toured the western xtales each year and during one series of at a Los Angeles theater sang to more than 40000 people He had more available information about opera at v his finger-tip- s than anyone I have eveT known He touched the lives of many to their advantag’e- - For he was not only a well traincdand distinguished musician he —was a genuine person with a broad outlook and philosophy of life— a true gentleman Who understood people as well as his craft an enviable combination readings and the slate for on Ihe program to be presented at the meeting of the Junior lated means "The Musicians” The groupjs now in the midst of its third tour or the United States and Canada The ensemble plays in traditional manner for chamber music performers without a conductor with each member of the ttrrrr about in the performance of both solo and ensemble The Members of the group which includes 11 strings and a pianoforte are Felix Ayo Maria Teresa Garrati Italo Vincenzo Altobelli Colartdrea Anna Maria Lucio Buccarella Mario Centurione Carmela Franco Walter Gallozzi Robert Micheluccl Luciano Vicari and Alfonso Ghedm All are individually acclaimed artists in European concert circles “I Musici" made its formal debut at the Aecadenua di Santa Cecilia in Rome in Carol Kendall soprano Con nie Sherman mezzo soprano tenor: Cowan Ray Shanks baritone with Marie Morrison and Mary Warr as accompanists Date Opera Auditions Operatic talent of Utah is as yet unrepresented in applications to compete In the Rocky Mountain Regional Auditions of the National Council of the Metropolitan Opera Assn which will be held in Denver Thursday and 1952 Friday Mrs Kenneth M Altken left Mrs Richard G Bennlon and Itrs Joseph S Bollinger are Junior League Is to encourage young ers fjthlrd annual art juried show spons- with voices of operatic potential and to create further performance opportunities for them in their com- ored ior League March 22 11 n 1st charts Fredell Lack Will Play March sifications: piano violin woman's voice man’s voice and rhambpr music The winner of the auditions will perform at the district audition which will be' ? Fredell Lack violinist will perform in SaifLake City Wednesday at Granite High Auditorium 33rd South and 5th East under sponsorship of Granite Arts Assn The concert will begin at held in Sait Lake March 15 winners will be heard by national judges District Further information may be obtained from Mrs Bradley ta h 123 Adine R St (1050 East d Oakridge Country Club will be scene Saturday for the annual Valentine Ball sponsored by Oakridge Ladies organization x Mrs Edward M Mabey is entertainment chairman Exliibit at U Features Early Scenes x kt artist will be hung in the Art Barn 54 Finch Lane (35 An exhibition of paintings - South St) Paintings will be received at the Art Barn Feb 25 26 and 27 Mr Thomas who ar featuring scenes from daily life of about 100 years ago will be on display at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts top floor of the University of Utah Park Building through Feb 26 The paintings 'are on loan from several museums of the United States to the American Federation of Arts which arranged fof the touring display Associated Utah Artists will launch a new exhibit Monday in the ballroom of UtalT Historical Society 603 E South Temple Gallery hours are 9 am to 5 pm weekdays and 9 a m to 1 pm Saturday The gallery is closed Sunday New members whose work will be shown are Jean Powers William J Peters Henry Groen Ronald Cros byrJonathan Fairbanks Lil lian Allgood Mary Warnick R V Bulough Farrell Col lett David H Mann Earl C Stanfield Ferrin Whitaker Faye Woolston Richard Van Wagoner and David Max-fiel- Mmt By Ray Clark It Is doubtful whether anyone living or dead has done more for the cause of “music for chi ldren” d St) pm Miss Lack who has been acclaimed as "the leading young female concert violinist in the United States” has appeared In tours throughout Europe Canada Hawaii and Central America Now making her home in Houston Texas with her family Miss Lack - is the founder and a member of the Lyric Arj Quartet a fre quent soloist with the Houston Symphony and has helped establish the Barb-Socinumerous chamber mysic concert series and the Young Audience Chamber Music concerts for children ''' 1 Musicans may be auditioned in the following clas- SL Concert 8:15 musicians to file applications to participate in the Utah Federation of Music Clubs "Young Artist” Auditions which will be held Young concert U New Exhibit 15 n or ah former old Valentine Ball The show will be officially launched with a reception March 8 Directing arrangements are Mrs Kenneth Ait-keMr Frances P Hoag-lanand Noal L Betts The show which is open to the work of any-Ut- getting prizes 9 St) Utah rives h " Feb 27 will judge the entrus Feb 28 No honorary awards will be given and previous winners are eligible for prizes A $300 first prize will be given $150 second prize and four $25 through Artists Ready Young ex- plained in this manner El Greco’s celebrated portrait of the Grand Inquisitor Don Fernando-Nin- e de Guevara which many viewers feel to be over long from top to bottom becomes truly propor£ tioned when it is photographed with a lens correct) ing astigmatism thfe surgeon ' related "Hans Holbein the young- er who tends to broaden his paintings along the horizontal axis as In Ihe familiar painting of a very wide King Henry VIII Is a better instance because we find that - his tendency to horizontal elongation is equally apparent with recumbept figures who become therefore tall and thin and not like Henry VIII broad and fat” Some See Red The myopic — short-sighte—artist also was discussed Objects at some distance become increasingly blurred to myopes 3ind colors tend to run together the surgeon said Distant objects losing detail take on geometric shapes so that myopic Artists may have a physical as well as an artistic impulse to be— come cubists To them much of the world becomes a srene of lines and apgles which those of normal sight may have difficulty recognizing Myopes with long eyeballs also seem to have a different sense of rolor values than persons of norma eyesight it was argued Their eyes were said to focus better on colors produced by the longer wave lengths of light— the ' red end of the spectrum Cataracts in the eyes of artists may also mislead art critics it wassuggested What seems to be a deliberate change in the style of an artist as he matures may not be a new style at all but merely evidence that he is -- Jun- Mrs Young Artist Auditions Fredell Lack the by Salt Lake munities Upton Ramsey 1151 Augusta Way (2900 East arrangements for the third annual for Entries Calls Edward B Thomas of the Seattle Art Museum has been named juror for the sing- Qualified young people recommended by accredited schools and teachers in Colorado Wyoming andUtah will undergo preliminary screening by a panel of judges which will include Richard Crooks of the Metropolitan Those who pass will be heard on Friday by John Gutman assistant director of the Metropolitan Further Information may be Obtained by contacting directing Junior League juried art show March Seattle Expertto Judge Art Exhibit Purpose of the auditions have until Feb Spanish 1 recital will be given In Room 203 oty Music Hall at 8 pm Participating students are Jim 16th qentury d City will Junior Musical Arts music are the master El Greco ihe might be -- Is scheduled to perform for students at Bear River High School auditorium bury Hall Monday under the sponsorship of the Civic Music Assn Is shown jbt rehearsal orrhes-tnrtaktng- artist-student- a little distorted on their retinas and the distortions are recorded on their can- ond Symphony In D Major" On Thursday the orchestra I Musici’ Will Play Monday “I Musici’’ a group of 12 Italian virtuosi who special-h- e ip the performance of 17th and 18th century chamber music willV presented In a concert Monday In geon analyzed artists' eyes on the British Broadcasting Corp’sf' weighty Third Pro- also Includes Mozart’s 41: "The '"Symphony No A sectioa of the Atrlng section of the "I Musici" group which will appear In Kings - Do Faulty Eyes Great Artists Make? 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