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Show fHE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1965 Full Moon is Key to Determining Harpist Will Solo With Symphony Date on Which Easter Comes You can look to the sky instead of your calendar to find the date of Easter. The full moon is the key to determining the date of Easter, which can come as early as March 22 or as late as April 25. Not any full moon, of course, but the first one after the vernal equinox, which occurs about March 21. Easter then falls on the first Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox. This year Easter is scheduled for April 18. Other confusing dates, such as Ash Wednesday, can also be figured out easily. Ash Wednesday, March 3 this year, comes 40 days before Easter, excluding Sundays. It is the beginning of Lent and of the Easter season. In the early Church, ashes were sprinkled on the heads of persons who repented their sins on Ash Wednesday. The ashes were obtained from the burning of palms consecrated on Palm Sunday of the previous year and were to remind the faithful that man is but dust. In the Christian Church, Lent is the period of penitence, prayer and fasting in preparation for Easter. The Lenten season extends from Ash Wednesday until Holy Saturday, day day before Easter, and commemorates Jesus Christs 40 days of fasting and prayer in the desert. During Lent, which comes from an old English word for spring, Christians are required or encouraged to fast, avoid amusements, and engage in special worship. Holy Week in the Christian church is the week preceding Easter and is observed as a time of devotion to the last days of Jesus Christ and to his death on the cross. Holy Week, the most important of the Christian year, begins with Palm Sunday which commemorates the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. Maundy Thursday is the anniversary of the Last Supper and Good Friday recalls the Crucifixion. Holy Saturday is the day before Easter and the end of Lent. Easter is the festival celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It symbolizes the keystone of Christian faith and hope the immortality of man. The crucifixion of Jesus occurred at the time of Jewish Passover. The early Christians, being Jewish, observed Easter as part of Pass-ove- r. s came Later, as into the church, some Christians insisted that Easter should be celebrated on Sunday, the day of Resurrection. Western churches generally celebrated the festival on Sunday, while eastern churches followed the Jewish tradition. New Standard Encyclopedia points out that the first ecumenical council, the Council of Nicea in 325 decided Easter should always be on Sunday and adopted the rule for establishing non-Jew- the date. Easter derived its name from Eastre, the Anglo Saxon goddess of spring andi many of the Easter festival customs were incorporated from heathen rituals to welcome the spring season. The egg has long been a symbol of Easter. But long before the birth of Christ the ancient Egyptians and Persians had the custom of coloring and eating eggs during their spring festival as a symbol of fertility and of renewed life. The Christians paraphrased this ancient significance of the egg as a symbol of new life, and the egg became a symbol of resurrection. The sunrise service so much For the first time in its history the Utah Symphony will feature a harpist as soloist at the orchestras next subscription concert Saturday, February 27, in the Salt Lake Tabernacle. An the harpist will be no less than the world famous Zabaleta, uncontested king of the harp- 25-ye- ar a part of Easter is also rooted in antiquity. According to an old superstition, the sun rising on Eastern morning danced in the heavens. This belief has been traced back to the old heathen festival when the spectators danced in honor of the sun. The Easter Parade, seeming entirely worldly, may be traced to an old belief that it was unlucky not to wear some new article of clothing or personal adornment on Easter. Or it may stem from the universal feeling that the Eastertide is the time of casting off the old and the beginning of the new. Those families who, by cus-to- f, eat ham on Easter Sunday are unwittingly following an old practice of the Roman Catholics of England who ate a gammon of bacon on Easter to show contempt fo rthe Jews, to whom pork is forbidden. Its nice to be pampered with luxury, especially when it costs no more. Next time youre shop-in- g for a foundation garment, ook for the makes that feature Maid-Rit- e garter grips in a new plastic material Delrin acetal resin. Theyre smooth and warm to the touch, kind to skin, strong yet flexible, and ists. Mr. Zabaleta will also appear with the Utah Symphony Friday, February 26, in the Ogden Tabernacle, on that citys regular series. Both concerts begin at 8:30 p.m. and both programs will be identical. In addition to the Handel Harp Concerto, Zabaleta will perform with Maestro Abravanel and the Utah Symphony two other works that feature his unusual instrument: the very brilliant Mozart Concerto for Flute and Harp, in which Eugene Foster will share the spotlight with Mr. Zabaleta, and Ravels Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet and Strings, in which Martin Zwick will play the clarinet solo. Fridays and Saturdays concerts will open with the Haydn Symphony No. 88 in G Major, the Finale of which has for its theme a popular street song of the time. Ravels La Valse, one of the most brilliant works of the contemporary repertoire, , will conclude the program. Office These concerts will provide City Attorney music lovers an opportunity to Raps Work Plan hear three different styles of Of Traffic Judge compositions for harp which cover the entire gamut of this (Continued from page 1) fascinating instrument. Nicanor Zabaleta was bom in the city ordinances or state staSan Sebastian, Spain. He began tute which gives a judge authorhis musical studies at the age ity to create the relationship beof six and gave his first public between employer-employe- e tween ofand such traffic city concert in his native city at nine. fenders. Later his musical education Instead, the attorney contiwas developed in Paris, where nued, city ordinances provide he studied harp with Marcel that any prisoner committed to Tournier and counterpoint and fugue with Eugene Cools and city jail as punishment or in Marcel-SamuRousseau. It was default of fine or costs shaU be during the first years of his required to work for the city but career there that he won from such work on public projects Maurice Ravel the praise, In shall be designated by and perZabaleta the artist is a great or even greater than the harpist. formed under the direction of After his successes in Europe, the chief of police. Zabaleta took his harp and his career to Latin America and to may be purchased at the Bertha the United States. A measure Eccles Art Center, 2580 Jefferson of his success and demand is the fact that he has already given Ave., Ogden, Utah. about 2,000 concerts around the world. FOR SALE: Jeeps $68.50, Boats Zabaleta has played as soloist $6.18, $4.15, Airwith more than 90 symphony planes Typewriters $72.20, Autos, Farm Tracorchestras. He has also been in tors, and many others too nudemand for important music merous to mention. Direct from festivals in Europe and Japan. U. S. Government. For complete Tickets for Saturdays concert directory where to buy in your are on sale at the symphony state, send $1.00, or $1.75 for National to Blaketag office, 55 West First South. For Surplus,Directory, P. O. 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