Show Promised Valley to be presented at MIA was presented during Centennial the musical play which was produced as the major production of Utah's pioneer centennial in will be presented again this year a feature of the 1961 MIA June The with book by Arnold and music by Crawford will be produced by the general boards of the Mutual Improvement Associations of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Composer Crawford one of Utah's most gifted young will be the producer of this June Conference festival The other major festiVal event of this year's youth leadership conference will be the traditionally spectacular dance The production for June Conference Will be complete with a full chorus and Gates announced this and talent for the production is being recruited from throughout the This musical play us a dramatic rendition of the epic story of the movement of the Mormon pioneers from to the Salt Lake Following the June Conference production in Salt Lake City is scheduled to be produced in all of the stakes of the Church during the summer of A simplified version of the script and musical score has been who was commissioned to write the book for this musical is a well known He has just been commissioned by G. Schirmer Publishing one of America's major music publishing to write the libretto for an operetta to be published by the firm as a feature of its centennial Music for this new work is to be under by Alec The operetta is to be for the high school age Prominent among his other credits are plays included in the Plays for and He has written such plays as in The and Wake which was just recently revived in an off-Broadway Crawford the is currently chairman of the Music Department at Brigham his first major was readily and enthusiastically he has composed music for the Hill Cumorah pageant from the Book of Symphony which has been so well received that a second pressing is currently being Gates was author and composer of the recent June Conference production Ye the and also composed the music for the musical play in Their with book by Don produced by BYU in 1959 and In connection with crime just remember that not every crime is |