Show k CS C'S S CORNER By LINNIE M. M FINDLAY UTAH urAH CIVIC BALLET r We sometimes forget that there are sincere students of the arts who spend their lives The results of their many hours and days and years of constant discipline and hard work was apparent in the flaw- flaw less opening number presented by the Utah Civic Ballet at Snow College Auditorium on March 30 This perfectly synchronized chorus of women dancers moves as as' one every movement in unison unison unison uni uni- son to begin a ballet to the music music music mu mu- sic of popular Serenade For Strings As the dance progressed the tempo of the music became faster and the group broke into segments and individual dancers and finished with a sensuous and sinewy folded Blind Dance of two women and one man Con Amore a swashbuckling swash buck ling comedy of Lady Amazons determined to live independently independent independent- ly who found delight in pursuit of the male camp thief was full of fun and chicanery and won the audience completely The audience which filled every seat and sat on chairs and on the floor in the aisles and stood at atthe atthe atthe the bank of the auditorium were enthusiastic in their appreciation and the dancers responded with increased freedom giving themselves themselves themselves them them- selves fully and completely to the art Familiar me me- odies of kowsky's Nutcracker Suite was the musical accompaniment of dances from the second movement movement movement move move- ment from the Nutcracker Ballet Ballet Ballet Bal Bal- let which h Mr William Christensen Christen- Christen sen choreographer pher for th the Ut Utah h Civic Ballet informed us is extremely extremely extremely ex ex- ex- ex popular in America and Europe Costumes of the dancers added added added add add- ed to their beauty The soft petal- petal led skirts with leafed green-leafed waists of the dancers in the Waltz of the Flowers the gleaming j jeweled bodices with sheer Arabian pantaloons the full Red uniforms of the Cossak dancers complete with black Fez and polished boots the thep p pointed umbrella skirts of the Chinese ladies Who vho danced with their are a few of the costumes that added much to the beauty of the evening These were climaxed by the final dance by a couple who performed with ith exquisite grace and charm This couple p performed with such skill sk as to render a final tribute to the art artof of ballet t where even the curtain calls and there were many throughout the evening evening evening eve eve- ning were executed as part pat of the dance Perhaps in ballet everyone's dream of youth and beauty is realized perhaps we dont don't as some early explorers did go looking for the fountain of youth but surely displayed in perfect coordination and control the youth and beauty of these excellent excellent excellent ex ex- dancers lifted us all for fora a moment from the cares of every day ur UTAH All VALLEY SYMPHONY What can they bring another year that can possibly y be as Continued on page four CRITIC CRITIC Continued from page one good as the lyceums weve we've had this this' year This comment made by one of the large audience that attended the performance of the Utah Valley Symphony Orchestra Orches Orches- tra on Monday evening expressed express express- ed the appreciation that patrons have felt for the fine offerings of the 67 1966 Snow San College-San- Pete Community Concert Series The Symphony with Lawrence Sardoni conductor and Richard Nibley of the Snow Colle College e faculty faculty faculty fac fac- as soloist presented four se se- The first two were the Prelude to Die and Prelude to Lohengrin by Richard Wagner The third number number number num num- ber the premier performance of Orchestra Orchestra Orchestra Concerto for Violin and estra was composed by Tabernacle Tabernacle Tabernacle Taber Taber- nacle Organist Robert Cundick with the violin solo by Prof Nib- Nib ley The concerto was in three movements the first allegro spoke in short quick sentences that moved rapidly back and forth between the low tones and the high notes of the violin with the flutes and the rest of the orchestra giving good support and harmonic The tempo of the second movement men Larghetto was somewhat somewhat somewhat some some- what less rapid but still moved quickly p per perhaps e r h hap a p s indicating something of the contemporary world in in which we live where no one ever really slows down The third movement allegro became again very fast although the phrases seemed longer and more thoughtful than the first It developed into an almost frenzy in the final moments exhibiting exhibiting exhibiting ex ex- ex- ex the great dexterity and skill of Mr Nibley The audience which had burst into spontaneous applause at the finish of each of the movements rose to its feet to applaud the fine performance performance performance per per- of Mr Nibley Mr Sardoni and the orchestra and Dr Cundick were greeted on the stage during the applause The final overture by N. N Rim- Rim sky sky-Korsakoff entitled Russian Easter Overture brought t to a close an evening of fine entertainment entertainment entertainment enter enter- an evening which had passed much too quickly |