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Show TO APPEAR HERE v t .1 t - KU ! 4 ' - '"V -,, 7 I..,.-' , . vj ,. .-- ''' . ' ' " i v - M , i 4 . h fe v. v i " - " 1 ' it' ' i 1 . "r , ' - .V , u' . . . . . ... ... "V : ft .::. A.A: k ' Hi ! v . . , : ... ., v; ..V. i . v....... . . . .,.1' " , S ? . J r . . f ' " .' ' , v- " 1 f - - ' ' "A ' -a - - . - rr RICARDO ODNOrOSOFF, VIOLINIST 0DN0P0S0FF, VIOLINIST, APPEARS ON MUSIC ARTS SERIES Due to appear in Cedar City In concert on Monday, February 23, on the Music Arts Association series, the world famed violinist, Rlcardo Odncposoff, although Just over the turn of his third decade, can record more than a quarter century of musical achievement. He can't remember re-member the beginning, but has ' heard his family tell of his first musical adventure, when he followed fol-lowed a band of street musicians. Odnoposoff will appear at the public pub-lic school auditorium with his concert con-cert opening at 8:15 p. m. The young vlollnlst-to-be had Just learned to walk: when a passing parade lured him with Its music. He toddled after the sounds and his parents found him several hours later In a circle of bandsmen, trying try-ing to make music from Instruments Instru-ments twice his size. When he .wos four his father bought hkn a quar; ter size violin at a ba7aar, and on this miniature began the great career car-eer which has brought beauty to the lives of millions of music lovers. lov-ers. At the age of five Rlcardo Odnoposoff Od-noposoff created his first concert sensation. Citizens of his native Uucnos Aires who hud come to benignly approve the efforts of a child went Into raptures over the discovery of nn artist. Every year thereafter Mie young Rlcardo, then studying with a pupil of Leopold Auer. gave a concert in Argentina, until, at twelve, he left his native country for Germany, where he was placed under the tutelage of the fumous Carl Flesch, Hungarian teacher whose school was then ha Berlin. European honors too, came early, for while Odnoposoff was still a student he was chosen by the distinguished dis-tinguished Erich Kleiber as soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Or-chestra. And again be created a sensation. In 1D32, Rlcardo Odncposoff won first prize in the International content con-tent ut Vienna, then began concert con-cert tours, visiting South America to fulfill in maturity the promise of his prodigious childhood, then returning to Europe to cover more than 10,000 miles of concert circuit. In 1937, with a reputation already well-established, he won the highest high-est uward a violinist can attain . . . State prize in the Brussels, Belgium "Concours International Eugene Ysaye". Season after season success followed and he has played with every major orchestra and conductor conduct-or of the European continent and South America. But It was not until February of 1044 that the North Amerclan continent con-tinent had opportunity to hear the master violinist so highly praised abroad. Arriving In New York City Just a week before his Carnagle Hall debut and Just a week after an extremely strenuous tour of South and Central America, Odnoposoff drew critics kj well as public under his spell with the first stroke of his bow. The world Is literally Rlcardo Od-noposoff's Od-noposoff's stage, with three continents con-tinents bidding for his entrance. Yet while audiences go wild with appreciation, he qulety devotes himself to his art, giving his best wherever he ploys; affirming and k ro affirming his true greatnest I |