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Show Unusual Music Arts Program Announced Coinciding with the 1941-42 membership mem-bership drive of the Music Arts Association of Cedar City comes the announcement of the unusual program being offered to Music Arts patrons. Hazen Cooley, secretary of the committee which was appointed by the Cedar City Coordinating Council to handle the Music Arts program for the town in cooperation coopera-tion with the Branch Agricultural College and Cedar City high school, announced the year's program as follows: The headline number, which will bring nine nationally known and accomplished musicians in a bril liantly new method of presenting opera, is the Nine o'clock Opera Company. This unique organization will present the famous opera, "The Marriage of Figaro," translated into English by the famous English 11b-rettest 11b-rettest and critic, Edward Dent. Its presentation is based on the idea of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town," utilizing a narrator who explains the scene and sets the stage. This group has been acclaimed by all the leading music critics of the New York papers. The New York Herald Tribune notes, "remarkably good"; the New York Times records re-cords "a most entertaining show." "This group, composed of young musicians sponsored by the Julliard School of Music, will alone be worth the membership ticket entitling patrons pa-trons to the other five numbers," explained Hazen Cooley. The other five numbers listed for the year In elude Jan Cherniavsky, pianist, who has already built a reputation In Cedar City, where he has appeared four previous times, and who will appear the latter part of October: the Guardsmen Quar tet of Hollywood, which has, since 1930, appeared In radio and movie programs supporting such famous stars as Lawrence Tibbett, Jeari-nette Jeari-nette MacDonald and Grace Moore, will be Included; a play presented by the Theta Alpha Phi, sponsored spon-sored by the University of Utah, will probably follow the Guardsmen Quartet. The Justly renowned Utah State Symphony Orchestra under the direction of the brilliant conductor, con-ductor, Hans Heniot, which plays for $2,000 a night in Salt Lake City. Is a number most Cedar City music lovers will not miss. Representing the dance, Virginia Johnson and her famous dance group will appear with a new group of brilliant num-bers. num-bers. Dr. N. A. Petersen, dean of the school of arts and science of the Utah State Agricultural College Col-lege will be presented in a program late In the year. The Music Arts Association committee com-mittee Is composed of, besides Secretary Secre-tary Hazen Cooley, Dr. L. V. Broad-bent, Broad-bent, chairman; Ernest Macfarlane, finance; Mrs. Virginia Larsen, music; mus-ic; Mrs. Alice Wright, drama; and Mrs. Fae Dix, the coordinating council representative. |