| Show Isaac Stern Joins Symphony I This weeks week's concerts of the Utah Symphony Orchestra under under un un- der the baton of Maurice I Abravanel wIn will mark the long awaited appearance of Isaac Stern Stem as soloist with the or or- chestra In the last few years Mr l Stern has been recognized as one of the worlds world's leading vIolinists TIlE PROGRAM l rs IS scheduled scheduled sched sched- for 22 at p. p pm p.m. in the Salt Lake Tab Tali ema cle and it will also be given en the previous evening Fri day Feb 21 at pm pm p.m. in inthe inthe the Ogden Tabernacle as part of the orchestras orchestra's regular series ser ser- ies fes in that city In both concerts cOl Mr Stern Stem will wUl perform with the Utah Symphony the Third Violin Concerto in G Major by Mozart Mozart Mo Mo- and the romantic Bruch Violin Concerto Fir s t Symphony which the composer compos er wrote before he was 19 and which immediately established hIm as a composer of great originality but firmly rooted I in tradition will be gIven its first hearing bearing in some seven years The F Fir I r s t Symphony is a very dramatic lyric and romantic work that was first performed outsIde RussIa by Bruno Walter Waiter with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1927 and in in AmerIca by Sto Sto- and the Philadelphia Orchestra the following year and has remained in the rep ever since OPENING work of the concert conS con cert wIn will be the ever sparkling Overture to The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart Saturdays Saturday's concert wIn will be bethe bethe the tenth in the utah Symphony's Symphony's Sym Sym- phony's regular subscription series of 13 concerts in the Salt Lake Tabernacle It willbe will be the fifth number on the Ogden Og- Og den series ISAAC Stern was born July 21 1920 in Russia Ills his parents brought him to San Francisco when he was I less than one year old At six he began studying the pIano but two years later h e swItched to vIolIn hIs interest being aroused by the incessant incessant inces inces- sant practicing of a next door neIghbor Mr Stern Stem was launched on i the concert route after his promising New York debut in 1937 With hIs Carnegie concert on Jan 12 1943 he rocketed into the sparsely popS pop realm of flight first vi vi- SEASON alter after season in New York and major cities of the world critics have echoed unstinting enthusIasm T The h e eLondon London Times saId recently lie belongs to that great company corn com pany of virtuosI around whose names legends have grown in inthe Inthe the course of history The recipient of this tribute is a modest working hardworking American who takes his job of makIng musIc with complete seriousness plays well over a hundred concerts a season and appears almost annually with the major orchestras in this country and abroad liE HE HAS lIAS made s several eve r a I around the world concert tours appearing in virtually every country of the world where concert musIc is heard In August 1953 he played four concerti wIth four different major orchestras at Scotland's Edinburgh Festival for both the Friday concert in Ogden and the Saturday concert in Salt SaU Lake has been heavy There are are however still excellent seats for both concerts according ac ac- cording to Herold Gregory utah Symphony manager |
