Show Will Sing O I Martha the world renowned singer of songs of many lands will perform at the Bountiful High School auditorIum auditorium auditorium auditor auditor- ium on Friday April 7 at pm p.m. This concert will he be the third in the Bountiful Community Community Community Concert series this season MISS appearance appearance appearance appear appear- ance In Bountiful should prove to be one of the most outstanding ing musical treats ever to be heard here She has a communicative communicative communicative ability hard to equal An Internationally est esteemed e erne d singer once expressed it so Martha has a communicative communicative communicative com com- I power that cannot I fail to move More than a ment this I I II I k t I I. 4 r i w fp 4 I 1 w F IJ 2 i i i i I i t Y 4 S r- r 1 4 r Y Yi i I I I I I b bs I s MARTHA is an Insight into why Martha can sing In 12 languages and still make her songs compel compel- ling IN HER SINGING there is a asymmetry asymmetry asymmetry symmetry of essence and ele ele- ele gance Her materials are the most basic of the guileless poems to poems to n sic of the folk yet her expression of them in a rarefied soprano is of the sublime The combination of an exceptional exceptional vocal gift and a coincidental coincidental coincidental dental love of folk music has given her great ability as an artist MARTHA as a young child in Vienna would sing In her fa fathers father's fathers father's fathers father's fa- fa ther's restaurant staged on the top of or the dining table It ItIN ItIN ItIN IN 1938 THE Nazis chased her family from Austria Each departed de deI departed de- de I parted separately One forgets about singing in such times Martha says and not until her family was reunited in England I at the time England entered the war did Martha learn her music was not merely an idle I gence Bence During the bombing of Liverpool Liverpool Liverpool Liver Liver- pool Martha saw some frightened fright fright- I ened children crying She gathered gathered gathered gath gath- ered them around and sing sang to them foi them forgetting getting her own fears and the childrens children's as well That kind of experience she says the kind that makes you feel you can soothe and cal calm others mothers convinced me then that singing would play an an important part in my life HER PROFESSIONAL career began at the Players Theatre in London where she sang in variety va variety variety va- va shows She also sang for forthe forthe forthe the BBC In l 1948 48 Martha emigrated emigrated emigrated emi emi- grated to the United States her parents are still sUll living in England England England Eng Eng- land and began to sing in joint recital with a French musicologist musicologist musicologist ogist named Alfred Martha does her folk songs in the manner of a concert singer rather than a folk singer She takes great liberties with them adapting songs to her own voice ALL BOUNTIFUL Community Community Community Concert ticket holders are reminded to attend this wonderful wonder wonder- ful evening of folk music on Friday April 7 at pm p.m. at atthe atthe atthe the Bountiful High School audi audi- I tori urn The final concert in this years year's series will be held the following Friday April 14 at atthe atthe atthe the Bountiful High School audi audi- Toshia Eto anese violinist will appear |