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Show Utah Orchestra Prepares Kern's Symphony Seventy of Utah's picked professional pro-fessional instrumentalists will em- j ploy their talents to give Jerome Kern's "Showboat Symphony" a thrilling presentation, when the Utah State Symphony Orchcestra in cooperation with the WPA Music Project plays this new-work new-work for the first time in the west at Kingsbury Hall, Wednesday. Wednes-day. February 25, 8:20 p.m. To the conventional orchestra of strings, woodwinds and brasses, the composer com-poser has added four saxophones. ' a guitar, a banjo, a xylophone, ' a celeste, a third trumpet and a third flu.e. Taking such universally popular tunes as "Old Man raver," "Can't Help Lovin' That Man" and others oth-ers from the musical comedy "The Showboat," for which Edna Ferber contributed the story, the composer has constructed a sym-I sym-I phonic work of genuine power and thrilling effect. "The popularity of this new composition," said Conductor Hen-iot Hen-iot "is a healthful symptom of what a strong hold symphonic music is securing upon the American public. There is little reason why America should noti have thoroughly American sym- phonies built on American melodies. melo-dies. Many of these melodies are first class. Like those of Schubert, Schu-bert, Wagner, and Verdi, they are being hummed and whistled the world-over, wherever music is known. ''It is not the origin of a melody mel-ody alone nor the fact that dance bands only play it, which sets its value. It is the treatment treat-ment of the melody and its presentation, pre-sentation, which ultimately de-ermines de-ermines ils artistic worth. Many of the melodies, now a part of classical music, first grew out of the music of the people. Here in America we are developing a new idiom. When it develops to full maturity. America will have truly American music." |