Show Contemporary For Utah Symphony For its fourth subscription the Utah Symphony joins hands with the University of Utah Music Department to present the Annual Festival of Contemporary Music on Thursday and 18 and at p.m. at Kingsbury MAESTRO Maurice Abra-vanel will relinquish his podium to Associate Conductor Ardean Watts for this pair of Gladys Gladstone will appear as-piano Miss Gladstone is highly respected in-the music being man of the Piano Depart-i ment at the University Of the two pairs of contemporary concerts this the November 18 and 19 concerts would have to be considered the more while the February pair will be more avant Both are exciting and popular features of the symphony THIS week's program is and It includes four pieces never before performed by the Utah Symphony by Dmitri It is not one of the composers more familiar having been more or less eclipsed be his Fifth and Seventh Symphonies which are among his most the Sixth Symphony contains innovations which were to become hallmarks ol his later THE OPENING work will be the Utah premiere of the Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra by the late Igor whose recent passing was marked by an all-Stravinsky memorial concert by the Utah Symphony last In his the composer exercised considerable freedom of each particular movement having its own but with all the motives woven together in a certain A WORK with an unusual Quiet will introduce the name of a previously unknown composer to the Utah musical Michael It is one of the most charming and clever orchestral pieces of recent Colgrass is a young man of 39 years who hails from Chicago and is now active in New York as a As Quiet was commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation and first performed in 1966 at Tangle-wood by the Berkshire Music Center Orchestra under Gunther Schuller's Schuller will be remembered as guest conductor-composer on last season's Contemporary Music LEONARD a master of all musical has several successful Hollywood scores to his which attest to his His score in the Elia Kazan-directed the is noteworthy for the mood and effect it This piece will round out the evening's Tickets at regular prices are on sale now at the Utah Symphony 55 West First Salt Lake University of Utah students man obtain on campus tickets with their student ID and a small |