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Show INew concert series slated i - - si ' 1 The Utah Symphony, under the lirection of Charles Ketcham, will jta jresent the third concert of its New "udience Series on Saturday, Feb. 11, at 8 p.m. in Symphony Hall, in a program of traditional symphonic S:avorites. Tailored to the new ;oncert-goer, this series is offered it special low prices. Guest soloist jvill be pianist Reid Nibley. Repertoire for the concert includes: in-cludes: Mozart's masterpiece, the .Overture to the opera "Don i4 jiovanni," Rachmaninoff's Concerto Con-certo No. 2 in C minor for Piano and Drchestra, a popular work because J )f its lovely melodic lines and L-itrong emotional appeal; and rtjJrhams', Symphony No. 4 in E mninor (recorded by the Utah Symphony with Maurice Abravanel W conducting on the Vanguard label in 1976). Presently a professor at BYU, ' Seid Nibley was for 10 years the )fficial pianist of the Utah Sym-if Sym-if )hony. He appeared as soloist over 10 times, playing more than 20 :oncerti. Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" and Concerto in F, recorded by the Utah Symphony with Maurice Abravanel conducting and Mr. Nibley as soloist, are given special mention in Isaac Goldberg's classic biography of George Gershwin. He has appeared in concert with such celebrated musicians as the Roth Quartet, the Paganini Quartet, Marie Kurenko, Herva Nelli, Tossy Spivakovsky, George Zukerman and others. Preceding the New Audience concert will be a lecture on the composers and their works at the Salt Lake Art Center's Main Gallery at 7 p.m. This lecture, funded in part by a grant from the Utah Endowment for the Humanities, will be given by Paul Banham, noted music historian and critic. Admission is free. " This concert is made possible in part by Mervyn's through a generous grant from the Dayton-Hudson Dayton-Hudson Foundation. Tickets for the New Audience concert are $4, $6, $10 or $24 for a family ticket. For more information call 533-6407. 1 BmfflWTrnwrrriTWniiniiiiiMmiTT-"l " & 4w.y.vt KKII) NlBI,KY...fjuosl pianist. |