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Show Young Artists Stage Concert Here By Howard L. Levin and Mark Lundstrom Friday evening, February 23, more than 100 people enjoyed the talents of William Brown and Lenora Ford, pianists, and Jo Ann Ottley, lyric soprano (joint winners of the 1967 Utah Concerts Council College Division Competition), when they were sponsored in recital by the Cedar Music Arts Association As-sociation at the CSU auditorium. auditor-ium. I, The concert opened with the Mozart Sonata in C Major for four hands, played by Brown and Miss Ford, Miss Ford displayed dis-played a great technical agility agil-ity and dramatic flair, and program was being made ready for some performance in the future. Be that as it may, Miss Ford, whose technique was most impressive, shows great promise. Mrs. Ottley's second offering offer-ing was a group of Spanish and American songs. The Spanish songs, pat of a cycle by Poaquin Rodrlgo, innately playful and charming, were somewhat of a disappointment disappoint-ment as performed by Mrs. Ottley. In the second song, "De los alamos vengo, madre," there appeared to be some timing problems that robbed it of its sparkling quality. (Perhaps the songs were new- oftimes dominated the performance; per-formance; though there were times when the clarity and precision exhibited by the two young artists made one feel that a single force governed gov-erned the four hands. The performance per-formance was, however, marred mar-red by applause between the movements. The Mozart sonata was followed fol-lowed by a group of Schumann nd Schubert songs performed by Jo Ann Ottley, most ably assisted at the piano by Bonnie Bon-nie Winterton. Mrs. Ottley demonstrated a great sensitivity sensi-tivity to the German texts as well as to the music. Schumann's Schu-mann's "Auftraege" was more coy than the playful badinage badin-age it should have been. Schubert's Schu-bert's "Du bist die Ruh" was the highlight of the group, if not of the evening. Mrs. Ottley's Ott-ley's beautiful Interpretation of this song so moved the audience aud-ience that it remained silent for a moment before breaking out into enthusiastic applause. "Gretchen am Spinnrade" was interpreted with both intelligence intel-ligence and feeling. In her performance of "Merce, dilette amlche," from Verdi's "I Ves-prl Ves-prl Sicilian!," Mrs. Ottley demonstrated de-monstrated the fine artistrv I Ottley did, however, show herself her-self to be a distinguished interpreter in-terpreter of American songs in her performance of compositions com-positions by Duke and Eage-man. Eage-man. William Brown closed the program with two pieces by Liszt: "Valse Oubliee No. 1", and "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6." Performing pieces which ar.?, perhaps, beyond the range of his maturity, the 20 year old pianist did, however, exhibit ex-hibit a great sensitivity to the music as well as flashes of techncal acuity. Summing up, in spite of the fact that this performance may have had some dress rehearsal re-hearsal qualities about it, the appearance of these three young artists in Cedar City, under the auspices of the Cedar Ce-dar Music Arts Association, gave local concert-goes the opportunity to experience, first-hand, some of the fine young talent being produced in Utah. We are sure the audience aud-ience will agree with us when we say that there will always al-ways be a place for young talent on the Cedar City con-cort con-cort stage. that won her first place in the 1964 Metropolitan Opera Contest Con-test After Intermission, Lenora Ford returned to play pieces by Liszt and Chopin. One does not often see such a charming charm-ing young lady attack the bombastic and difficult "Para-phrase "Para-phrase on Themes from Rigo-letto," Rigo-letto," by Franz Liszt As far as playing the notes was con-oerned, con-oerned, Miss Ford acquitted herself more than honorably. One felt, however, that had she concentrated in her hands the emotions inspired in dramatic dra-matic bodily movements, her performances would have taken tak-en on a more sensative, and therefore, professional air. The i Chopin Polonaise was choppy and, at times, rather muddy j in sound, due, in some degree to overuse of the pedaL Here, perhaps, was the first cast of suspicion that this particular |