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Show BUILD YOUR FUTURE 1 A IN UTAH VALLEY J Iy rn j dure, rather than to heartily enjoy the program. In the face of possible criticism, we should like herewith to offer our definition of good music. "Music "Mu-sic is good if people like it,.and can understand it." It is just as simple as that. We avoid and often resent that which we do not understand. Many of the so-called classical works of the old -masters and also the contemporary composers are beautiful. Someof the great symphonies sym-phonies are majestic and profound, but others are so far above the heads of the common folk that they have .little or no artistic or emotional appeal. The recent overwhelming response re-sponse to the Romberg Concert should serve as a reminder to those who prepare musical programs. pro-grams. People will respond if they are given an opportunity to listen to the things they enjoy. The population pop-ulation of Utah Valley being what it is, the Community Concerts could be enjoyed by many more of our music lovers that has been the rue in the past. Perhaps a little more consideration for the rank and file might solve the problem. In raising the level of music appreciation ap-preciation of the masses, the fundamental fun-damental things is to get them to the concerts. A little more of the music they enjoy might just do that. Karl Banks Seven thousand people can't be wrong. What was perhaps the largest lar-gest audience ever to assemble in Utah Valley to enjoy a musical program, filled the BYU Field-house Field-house on the evening of Monday, October 11. The attraction was the first offering of the Community Concert Association for the year 1954-55. The program featured a group of operatic stars singing excerpts ex-cerpts from the light operas of Sigmund Romberg. The program was enthusiastically ' enjoyed by everyone present. If there was ever any doubt regarding re-garding the type of music folks really enjoy, these apprehensions should be removed now. People like melody; they like harmony; they like songs about love, and home and country. When that kind of music is produced by able performers, per-formers, folks will come to listen. Having been patrons of the Community Concerts for many years, we have attended "classical concerts" given by the "long-haired" artists with only a handful of people in the audience. In many instances these few seemed to en- |