Show I Scores Remarkable Success A new era in the development of music in Southern Utah was ushered in last Friday evening when hen the Branch Agricultural College School of Music presented Verdis Verdi's masterpiece II Trovatore Tro William II H. Manning directed the opera Praise e cannot annot be lavished too highly high high- I ly on the performance both from the point foint of view as to wh what t it augurs for the future and as an ach achievement in itself Truly a new culture Is taking taking taking tak tak- ing root lOot in the sparsely settled southern south south- ern part of the state More than eighteen hundred persons will have seen the opera after it has been presented presented presented pre pre- in Cedar City three nights and St. St George Parowan and Beaver one night each The principals have worked for a year to prepare it and they showed a finish that was declared by competent competent competent com com- critics to be of professional character Hazel Dalley Dailey Granger effective as Azucena both vocally and histrionically histrionically histrionically histrionic histrionic- ally succeeded in gripping her audience audience audi- audi ence nee In unfolding the tragic story of her mothers mother s death and its i I ence Annette Webster Bettenson made a beautiful presentation of Leonora with a vo voles voice c flexible and full of rich coloring she proved that she Is one of Utah's coming sopranos L L. L A. A Luke as Manrico gave as brilliant a performance as one will hear from any professional Jack Wright was a magnificent Count di dl Luna and displayed a voice that ranks among one of the foremost fore fore- foremost tore tore- most in the country ad promises a great future for him in opera Ann Jones Gardner as Inez Will Macfarlane as Ferrando and L. L L M M. Jones as Ruiz are others who deserve special mention A chorus of twenty-four twenty persons picked from Cedar City's best talent was one of the fine features of the production The chorus work in the Anvil chorus and the convent scene was especially noteworthy Members of the chorus were Dr Albert Sargent Sargent Sargent Sar Sar- gent Ray Cosslett Sam Sara B. B Jones Will Jones Gardello Hunter M M. M J JUrie J. J Urie Uric Hillman Dalley A A. A T. T Jones Leo Palmer John Macfarlane Sylvia Jones Jane Thomas Mamie Gardner Bertha Petty Helen Foster Mary l Orton Lona Lana Watson Hattie Maughan Myra Dalton and Roma Foster |