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Show Swedish Choir To Perform! At Symphony Hall Thurs. f The Swedish Radio Choir, one of the most prestigious choral ensembles in the world, will sing in Symphony Hall on March 3 at 7:30 p.m. ANNOUNCEMENT came Saturday from Dr. Ed Thompson, Thomp-son, chairman of the University Universi-ty of Utah department of music, who said that the concert con-cert was part of the choir's second tour of the United States. The Swedish Radio Choir (SRC) performs a broad range of choral repertoire but, because be-cause of the remarkable skill and extraordinary training of its singers under Eric Ericson, focuses on contemporary arrangements of traditional choral music. MR. ERICSON was trained as a church musician at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and later studied in Basel, Switzerland; and in Germany, England and the United States. His professional career began be-gan in 1945 with the formation of the Stockholm Chamber-choir. Chamber-choir. Six years later he became be-came conductor of the Swedish Swed-ish Radio Choir and the Orphei Dranger, a male chorus based in Uppsala, Sweden. In the following fol-lowing year, he was named a lecturer in choral conducting at the Royal College of Music and obtained his professorship there in 1968. DURING HIS entire career, Ericson has fostered widespread wide-spread appreciation of choral conductors as persons and of choral conducting as an art. "He has put his indelible stamp on Scandinavian choral music for more than a quarter of a century," Dr. Thompson said. "In recent years he has worked with several conductors conduc-tors in the United States and elsewhere, so that his techniques techni-ques have been shared outside of Sweden." HIS CHOIRS have appeared throughout the world, mostly on the strength of the 15 international inter-national tours that the SRC has made since 1965. The SRC also has recorded for EMI, RCA and Telefunken, often with famous soloists. One such album was awarded the German Recording Record-ing Prize in 1971 and the Dutch Edison Prize in 1972. Widely recorded elsewhere both acap-pella acap-pella and with orchestras or small ensembles, the choir also recorded some of the soundtrack sound-track for Ingmar Bergman's film production of Mozart s "The Magic Flute." DR. JEROLD Ottley, director direc-tor of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, said that he had changed his regular Thursday night rehearsal to another night so that members of the Choir could attend the concert. con-cert. "We'll change rehearsal night for a world war, a cricket invasion or the Swedish Radio Choir," he laughed. Another famous choral director, Norman Luboff, also is lavish in his praise of the Swedish Radio Choir. When contacted recently in Sweden, he said, "One of the finest ensembles en-sembles in the world, the Swedish Radio Choir has set new standards for choral music and choral singing in this century." THE SRC'S 32 singers are all highly trained soloists with many years of vocal and musical study to their credit. They are superlative musicians musi-cians who rehearse an average of 30 hours per month and work under annually renewed contracts. As part of the program Dr. Thompson calls "challenging," "challeng-ing," they will sing Bach's "Singet dem Herrn ein Neues Lied," (BWV 2151., Edlund's "Elesi" r ',1'' Gunnar EkeloQ; W Poulenc's "Liberie" ii "Figure Humaine;" A7 i do Pizzetti's "Tre cl zioni Corali" (based Sf Biblical texts); Heinz w Zimmermann's "Wach,, ruft uns die S.imme! Sven-David SandsirJ?' ' "Agnus Dei." " RESERVED seat tickJ on sale in advance at K bury Hall, weekdays faSf,, a.m. to 5:30 p.m., priced" i $6, and $7. They also sold at Symphony Hall 90 J nutes before the concent March 3, Dr. Thompson! V, |