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Show Reid Nibley To Play With Symphony Reid Nibley, brilliant young concert con-cert pianist, will bring- another "first to Provo" when he plays the Beethoven 4 th Piano Concerto on December 8th with the Inter-mountain Inter-mountain Symphony Orchestra un. der the direction of Allen Jensen. The orchestral gToup, under its dynamic young conductor, has brought a number of first performances per-formances to Utah in the past and according to Mr. Jensen, will continue con-tinue to do so during the present season. Previously performed wera Respighi's "Aria" which was a world premiere performance, the "Sinfonia" by the young American, Peter Mennin, and premieres of compositions of two young Utah composers "Main Street" and "Pastoral", by Sam Pratt and Glen Dalby's "David and Bathsheba." Yet to be heard for the first time in Utah are the "Folk Overture" of Peter Mennin, Sam Pratt's "Symphony No. 1," and "Suite for Orchestra" by Crawford Gates. The latter two works are being written especially for first performances per-formances by the Intcrmountain Symphony. Reid Nibley is a Westerner, born and brought up in Los Angeles. He has played the piano since he was a child, making his debut with symphony orchestra at the age of 12. At 17 he was featured as soloist solo-ist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Phil-harmonic Orchestra. After studying study-ing for 12 'years with Liborius Hauptmah on the West coast, the young man spent three years in New York city, where his last teacher was Frank Sheridan. Possessor of a dazzling technique tech-nique combined with a sensitive delicate and yet powerful faculty of interpretation, Mr. Nibley scored scor-ed a success in his Town Hall recit. al in New York in 1947 and has met with acclaim on extensive concert con-cert tours of the West Coast, the Intermountain States, the East and the South. The New York Times spoke of his "fluent technique, strong fleet fingers . . . power and brilliance, and accurate and transparent trans-parent playing." The Musical Cour. ier commented about his "unusual "unus-ual technical equipment and reverent rever-ent fidelity to his texts," and the Los Angeles Herald-Express reported re-ported that he "performed with sensational brilliance." Mr. Nibley is well-known in Utah, Ut-ah, having been a member of the faculty of Brigham Young University Univer-sity and being now a faculty mem. ber of the University of Utah. He has performed numerous times in Utah, one of his outstanding successes suc-cesses having been his remarkable er Mennin's "Folk Overture" (first in Utah), Debussy's "Petite Suite," and Rimsky-Korsakow's "Russian Easter, Overture." Tickets will be on sale at Hedquist Drug Store No. 1 in Provo an at the Tabernacle Taber-nacle Box office on the evening of the concert. Preceding the regular Wednesday Wednes-day evening concert will be another an-other of the series of school concerts, con-certs, on Tuesday afternoon. December Dec-ember 7th. High School and junior jun-ior high students are admitted to these concerts free of charge under the cooperative plan of the Intermountain Inter-mountain Symphony Socity. the Provo City school system and the Provo Federated musicians. The school concerts are also held in the Provo Tabernacle, performance of the Rachmaninoff 2nd Piano Concert last season with the Intermountain Symphony. At that time he received such an extraordinary ovation that he has been re-engaged by the Symphony. Of the five concerti that Beethoven Beeth-oven wrote for piano and orchestra the No. 4 in G Major, which will receive its first performance in Provo by Mr. Nibley is often ranked rank-ed as the greatest. The slow movement move-ment has been called by one critic "among the most beautiful things in all music." The concerto was composed when Beethoven was a-bout a-bout 35 years old, at which time his deafness had already become severe. Mr. Jensen, musical director of the society, announced that in addition ad-dition to the Beethoven concerto, the December 8th concert would would feature performances of Pet- |