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Show Symphony Director Pays Tribute to Cedar Music Lovers Maurice Abravanel, musical director di-rector and conductor of the Utah Symphony orchestra paid high tribute Friday to the people of Cedar City for their appreciation of fine music. He praised the city for its enthusiasm and support of outstanding musical programs, and for being able to create sufficient suf-ficient interest to bring such an organization as the Utah Symphony Sym-phony back year after year, and attract large enough crowds to Justify the program. His remarks came at the close of the concert presented in the Branch Agricultural college field-house field-house Friday night by the Cedar City Music Arts Association. The crowd of more than a thousand people, with a generous sprinkling sprink-ling of young people, had enthusiastically enthu-siastically applauded the orchestra orches-tra and the leader at the close of the performance. The large crowd, after being thrilled with Wagner's prelude to "Die Mcistersingers", and Mo- sart's Concerto for flute and harp with the orchestra, with Samuel and Louise Pratt ' as soloists, seemed to, reach the greatest enthusiasm en-thusiasm in the orchestra's presentation pre-sentation of Strauss' "Emperor Waltz". However, the climax of the concert was the final selection, Johannes Brahm's "Symphony No. 1 in C Minor". The extent of the audience's appreciation for classical music was evidenced when Mr. Abravanel Abrav-anel asked the audience If it wanted that type of program or would prefer a program of lighter light-er numbers. The applause definitely def-initely signified the preference of the crowd for the type of program pro-gram to which it had just heard. |