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Show Yoel Levi to conduct symphony Jan. 1 7-1 8 Romanian-born Yoel Levi will make an encore appearance with the Utah Symphony in subscription concerts con-certs at Symphony Hall Jan. 17 and 18. Guest violinist Miriam Fried will join him at the Salt Lake City concert con-cert hall. The program will include "The Moldau" by Bedrich Smetana (1824-84), "Symphony No. 5 in E-flat Major" by Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) and "Concerto for Violin in D Ma-; Ma-; jor" by Peter Ilytich Tchaikovsky (1840-93). - "Moldau" describes the course of the River Moldau with a compelling melody that is reminiscent of a Czech folk song. "Symphony No. 5 in E-flat Major" was written before World War I and was first performed in 1914. Sibelius revised the composition, finishing the job in 1919. He himself conducted,, the first performance of the revised version in 1921. Tchaikovsky's violin concerto is one of the most popular of concert works, ranking with those of Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Brahms. Levi recently concluded a six-year stint as resident conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra. He graduated from the Tel Aviv Academy of Music under Mendi Rodan. In 1978, he captured first prize in the prestigious conductor's International Interna-tional Competition in Bescancon, France. In recent seasons, he conducted con-ducted the major orchestras of the world. A Munich newspaper critic recently wrote, "Beethoven's 'Eighth Symphony' under Levi became a harmonically-living mosaic of rapturous melodies, clear accents, arresting liveliness and iaely-differentiated "bringing-out'of themes and formal repetitions. (He is) a conductor one would like to hear more often in Munich." Fried has established herself as one of the major violinists of our time. In 1968, she won first prize at the Paganini Competition and them went on to win the Queen Elisabeth ""Competition in Brussels. As a result, her career has grown dramatically. New York Post critic Robert Kimball Kim-ball said, "(She is) one of the best violinists of her generation and she keeps getting better all the time." Tickets, at $10 and up, are available at the box office (123 West South Temple). For more information, informa-tion, call 533-6407. |
