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Show Utah Valley Symphony announces coming season Utah Valley Symphony opens its 31st season Oct. 12 with its gala opening concert in Provo Tabernacle Taber-nacle and without any salary problems symphonies across the nation are having this year. Utah Valley Symphony's 90 members are unpaid and completely volunteers who meet for the joy of playing. Conductor Dr. Ralph G. Laycock begins his 11th year as musical director and conductor. "My aim," says Laycock, "is to give the community an orchestra which is the best and most professional possible." Business Manager Beverly Dunford says, "I sympathize with the financial problems of professional orchestras because our yearly expenses run $45,000 and our board and guild work extraordinarily ex-traordinarily hard together with the symphony members to raise the expense money needed to cover cover our concert season. All concerts begin at 8 p.m. in the Provo Tabernacle and are scheduled this year for Oct. 12, Dec, 7 and 8, Youth Artists Jan. 25 and 2fi, Spring Concert March 15, and Pops Concert April 19. Cynthia Vance Richards will play the "Tchaikowsky Violin Concerto in D Major" at the opening concert. The evening will be all Russian music including Stravinsky's "Firebird Suite" and Rimsky-Korsakov's Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Tsar's Bride." Christmas will include traditional Christmas carol singing, the Hallelujah Chorus and Benjamin Britten's "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra," narrated by Conductor Con-ductor Laycock. Young artists chosen by audition will perform Jan. 25 and 26. Spring concert will feature Dr. David Dalton hs guest conductor and a piano duo from Austria, Susanne Neumuller and George Kem, doing I he Mozart Double Concerto. The orchestra will also perform the "Gayne Ballet Suite" by Kat-chaturian. Kat-chaturian. Pops concert lovers will hear Daron Bradford on the saxophone April 19. Season tickets can be obtained by calling Beverly Dunford. 377-6995, or contacting any board, guild or symphony member |