Show Letters to the Editor Editor's Letters must be submitted to the editor no later than p.m. on the day preceding Length limit is and the Chronicle reserves the right to edit letters to adapt to space Letters must be signed and include the writer's student No Dear Concerning the 16 article on the Junior It seems that the editors feel that Previn does not merit the that he I DO NOT claim to know a great deal about the but I do know that pianists who travel and go on tour select a piano that has the action and tone they desire for their particular style of New strings may slip out of even within 24 hours of if they are played thus explaining the need for immediate I am sure that out of the many Baldwin concert grand pianos I have seen on the campus the University will have no problem in finding one that will fulfill Previn's Why should he come all the way to Utah without knowing whether or not he will have a suitable The editors seem to feel that these are unusual and see the demands as to mock and make fun It seems to me that these are only a guarantee that Previn will be able to give us a concert that maintains his high circumstances of TOM PARKER Someone Agrees I think you were correct in questioning Andre Previn's standing as an In the 1959 Jazz Previn placed fifth behind Oscar Dave and Errol Peterson collected almost three times as many votes as did SINCE DAVE BRUBECK gladly tickles the ivories of the old before a standing audience at the Previn is demonstrating unwarranted vanity in specifying a seated audience and untouched special make of piano for the Junior As for his piano in is singularly his piano technique is but his style is boringly I have yet to hear him play a selection where he does not modulate into a minor key at the end of every Previn cannot play at least does not a driving melody of nor does he weave a but still inspired His playing is aimless and with all the flourishes of If you've heard him you've heard him a thousand Previn may be an excellent composer and All the more power to him if he has won Academy Awards and conducted the are but his as a pianist is HENRY R. Dear As a transfer student I am somewhat confused by the local custom on this campus of referring to the Daily Utah Chronicle as the your comments relating to the artistry of especially your reply to Miss Schuman's letter in the January have helped considerably in clarifying this CRAIG VOLMAR Death 9 Dear In reply to the editor's note Previn is invited to play with the Utah Symphony in stead of the Junior Prom her talk of merit a closer may y We We state the EITHER THE editor did read Shuman's letter stated that Previn with various composed chamber works n and a 0 The editor feels Symphony is greater than any of the symphonies which Mr has performed including 52 New York the Angeles and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra We would o quote from William Fowler of the mu sic He of the thines necessary for a musician's greatness are general musical insight and It seems to us Mr possesses these the idiom in which a person performs is not necessarily the deciding factor of this person's For there are folk singers who have attained We might add that there is a harmonica Larry who has performed with major SUZANNE FORSBERG ELEANOR KNAPP MARILYN MAW |