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Show young conductor wlio had formerly for-merly been an assistant to Hall Johnson. Under his inspired leadership they have now become be-come one of the most important impor-tant professional choruses of the time. f Their novel programs include music of the many lands they visited ini their Army tours much of it new to the concert stage), songs of World War II, modern arrangements of art songs, and music of different faiths and spirituals. GRANITE ARTS The de Paur Infantry Chorus, which will be heard here on March 8, 1950, at 8:15 p.m., in the Granite High School auditorium, audi-torium, may emphatically be called the most successful new attraction in the concert business. busi-ness. Since its civilian debut two. years ago after four years' service in uniform the Paur Chorus has given more performances both seasons than any attraction on the lists of Columbia Artists' Management, which brings them to Salt Lake. Last season's tour broke all existing records in the concert business and their forthcoming tour is expected to exceed this signal accomplishment. The chorus, which opened its season in Wilkes-Barre, October 6th, will give more than 175 con certs before the tour concludes, April 16th, in Baltimore. The tuneful ex-GI's will have sung their concerts from the tidewater tidewa-ter country of Virginia to the wheatfields of Manitoba. The de Paur Chorus was the first important musical aggregation aggre-gation to spring from World War II. This unique group was organized in 1942 by men of the 372nd Infantry Regiment stationed at Port Dix, N. J. A succession of notable appearances appear-ances to stimulate War Bond sales led the Army to set the chorus up as a morale unit to entertain other troops and, during dur-ing the next three years, the chorus sang for American armed forces all over the world. When the war was over the singing infantrymen decided to stay together under the direction direc-tion of their leader, Captain Leonard de Paur, brilliant |