Show I I Symphony Berlioz The last concert of Utah Symphony's Symphony's Symphony's Sym Sym- phony's current season in the Salt Lake Tabernacle will be performed on Saturday April 12 at pm p.m. THE TIlE OCCASION will mark the premiere performance in Utah of Berlioz Requiem Conducting Conducting Conducting Conduct Conduct- ing this remarkable work which calls for enlarged orchestra orches orches- tra large chorus four brass ensembles and tenor soloist will be Maestro Maurice anel The University-Civic University Chorale director of which is Dr Newell B. B Weight is the official choral chor chor- al arm of the Utah Symphony and will provide the choral support support sup sup- port together with the University University University sity of Utah a capella choir TENOR SOLOIST will be Thomas East who has appeared frequently as soloist with the Utah Symphony and in University University University Uni Uni- opera productions This Requiem Mass for large chorus and orchestra was in Berlioz words a prey I had long stood in ambush for In 1837 he was commissioned to compose a Mass to commemorate commemorate commemorate orate the seventh anniversary of the Revolution of 1830 He had a three month deadline to complete the work which he did working feverishly only to have the performance can can- celled I THE TIlE OPPORTUNITY for a performance finally came in 1837 in the chapel of St. St Louis at the in Paris as part of the funeral service for General To compensate for the slow reverberation time in m the chapel he divided the brass instruments into four separate choirs placed in strategic locations locations loca loca- rather than in the midst of the orchestra The Requiem i I had a profound influence on later composers SINCE the work calls for massive orchestra and chorus it is seldom performed hence this Utah premiere should prove to be the orchestral-choral orchestral highlight highlight highlight high high- light of the current season Mr Abravanel had this to say This monumental masterpiece masterpiece masterpiece mas mas- of Berlioz is in celebration celebration celebration cele cele- bration of the anniversary anniversary sary of his death It has uttered uttered uttered ut ut- ut- ut sounds never heard before before before be be- fore or since with pictures of the day of judgment passed It presents so many problems of great magnitude that even the New York Philharmonic Philharmonic Philharmonic Phil Phil- harmonic only this season came around to performing it TICKETS are on sale at the Utah Symphony Box Office 55 West 1st South and at Downtown and Cottonwood |