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Show Final Cedar Music Arts Number To Present University Ballet A troupe of 3f from the University of Utah Theatre Ballet unde!r the able direction of William F. Christensen, director and choreographer, will perform in Cedar City Saturday evening, April 11 as the final number of the 1958-1939 1958-1939 Music Arts Series. The ballet will be staged at the College of Southern Utuh auditorium beginning at 8:15 p. m. according to Dr. Blaine Johnson, secretary. Season tickets to the Music Arts will be honored for this show, the last of the current season, however, how-ever, individual tickets for this j ballet performance will be avail- I able at the door Saturday evening. eve-ning. Four Numbers Four outstanding selections will be presented, offering variety varie-ty in dance Introductory number will be an illustration of a dancer preparing prepar-ing for a performance. Narration will be by Mr. Christensen, accompanied ac-companied by Jerry Powell on the piano. Following the progressive progres-sive development from the simple sim-ple pile to the complicated and demanding center work culminating culmin-ating in the molding of the plas-tique plas-tique techniques Into a finished product the dancers will perform to the first movement of the "Haffner" Symphony, No. 35, by Mozart. Humor Is certainly expelled in the second number of the company, the "Nothing Doing Bar." Music for this number Is by Le Boeuf Sur Le Toit Darius Milhaud with costumes by Serita Jones and Robert Sharp has prepared pre-pared the ucenery. "Nothing Doing Bar" depicts a speakeasy during prohibition days. Included in the cast will be Yo-yo the doorman, Joe the bartender aj;u Weasei the bookie book-ie all on hand to welcome the ritzy Van Snoopers. There are also such characters as the ex-fighter, ex-fighter, Punchy, along with Joe College and Fanny Flapper, Shady Sha-dy Sadie and Pay-off Mo. Top Rated Danza Brilliante from Mendols-son Mendols-son Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, opus 25, has been rated by Conrad B. Harrison, music editor edi-tor of the Deseret News, as the company's top performance. In his recent review of the number he describes it as follows: "Here we find ballet patterns expertly interwoven with the music, and exploiting the technical development develop-ment of the dancers." Fourth and final number of the evening will be Parranda taken ta-ken from Morton Gould's Latin-American Latin-American Symphonette. In this number the performers attempt to create a diversion in which Latin-American dance rhythms are treated in a stylized ballet in the spirit and mood of the original. orig-inal. Parranda is a festival or carnival depicted by the troupe. |