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Show "concert in the Salt Lake Tabernacle Taber-nacle with Maurice Abravanel. musical director and conductor, and Jerome Kasin, as violin soloist. solo-ist. Among the numbers presented in this concert was Symphonic Allegro, by Crawford Gates, with the composer conducting. Others were Mother Goose Suite, by Ravel; Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso for violin and orchestra, by Saint-Saens, with Jerome Kasin, as violin soloist on this number with the orchestra orches-tra playing the background music; Torgot Dance, by Riis-ager, Riis-ager, and Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, from the New World Symphony, by Anton Dvorak. This number won wide- acclaim, and was fully appreciated by all in attendance as one of the great symphonies ever written. It was performed excellently by the orchestra, and proved to be a great success, on the concert program, with its four entirely different parts portraying first an Adagio-Allegro Molto movement, move-ment, and then the famous Largo movement, next came a Scherzo, and last the Allegro con fuoco, to bring the concert to a dramatic climax. The next concert is set for January 9, 1952, when Oscar Levant, one of the most extraordinary extra-ordinary personalities in American Amer-ican music, and a featured player in the new motion pie-ture, pie-ture, "An American in Paris," nimble star of topflight radio and TV shows, brings to the concert platform a personality of amazing versatality and appeal. ap-peal. His appearance with the Utah Symphony promises to be one of the great musical events in many years. THE MESSIAH Sunday afternoon, December 13, will be an afternoon well remembered re-membered by over 10,000 people, who packed into the great Tabernacle Taber-nacle on Temple Square, to hear the Thirty-Sixth annual rendition rendi-tion of "The Messiah," by Geo. Frederick Handel, taken from the text of The Holy Scriptures. This rendition proved to be one of the most brilliant and successful suc-cessful ever presented. Dr. Thor Johnson was guest conductor for the concert. The soloists were Maude Nosier, soprano, so-prano, from Chicago ; who was a newcomer to Salt Lake this year, but nevertheless, a great success, her beautiful soprano voice blended with the solo parts, with an unusual clearness and tonal quality, appreciated by all. The alto role was taken again this year by Lillian Chookasian, from Chicago. Her rich contralto con-tralto voice blended in rich tone quality as it did last year, when she came to Salt Lake for the first time to perform on The Messiah program. Alexander Haggar sang the tenor roles, and JMICRC By Irene Levant to Appear The most extraordinary personality per-sonality in American music, Oscar Levant, will be guest soloist sol-oist with the Utah Symphony orchestra in the next concert, scheduled Wednesday, January 9, at the Salt Lake Tabernacle. Levant, who was recently featured fea-tured in the movie "An American Ameri-can in Paris," has delighted American radio and TV" audiences audi-ences for years with his fabulous fabu-lous memory and his verbal adroitness. His dual role as musician mu-sician and wit has brought him motion picture fame. But with all his activities, Levant Le-vant is first and foremost a musician mu-sician of the highest caliber. He has appeared as guest soloist with the finest symphonies in America and will add to that list with his first appearance with the Utah Symphony. For his appearance in Utah, Levant will paly an all-Gershwin concert, and critics admit there is no one who can. play Gershwin better than Levant. Wednesday evening, December 26, was another memorable night for music lovers and music enthusiasts who heard the Utah Symphony orchestra present a is a former University of Utah student, now studying in the East. Another newcomer this year was Yi-Kwei-Sze, who sang the bass role, and did it complete justice. An orchestra of fifty-two, fifty-two, with Reginald Beales as concert master, Alexander Schreiner, organist, and Keith Smith as trumpeter, completed the marvelous concert. This annual presentation is truly a dream come true, for back in 1921, Squire Coop dreamed that, "In a great auditorium audi-torium sat the choirs and the ' minister of all the churches. . With them were 10,000 and more men and women from every part of the city. They knew no sect, no religious distinction, they had no thought of material affairs . . . "Outside the trees bowed reverently, re-verently, burdened under white mantles. The moon covered all with a Halo of Light. Peace pervaded per-vaded the air such peace as one feels in the mountains or on the sea. "Then arose the great chorus singing 'Glory to God in the highest, peace on earth, good will toward men.' " SQUIRE COOP |