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Show UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY-CREATIVE OPPORTUNITY FORYOUNG MUSICIANSConducted by Dr. Leroy Robertson, the University Symphony affords the music students an excellent opportunity to gain valuable ex-perience in the symphonic repertoire. With numbers ranging from the great masters of the past to some of the great contemporaries, the orchestra practices and presents its spring concert to the students. The orchestra is, for many of its members, a stepping stone to the Utah Symphony. The orchestra has honored several of its members by premiering their works, thus giving the budding composers an opportunity to hear their own efforts of composition and orchestration under live conditions. Under Dr. Robertson's direction, the University Symphony has become a completely student organization. The numerous appearances of the Symphony showed that the students not only enjoyed the experience of playing in a symphony orchestra, but also enjoyed the satisfaction of doing a job well.Carrying on a great tradition, the University Chorus, under the direction of Dr. David Shand, this year took on the Herculean task of learning and performing four monumental choral works. Beginning in October, the chorus learned the Brahms Requiem, which they performed with the Utah Symphony in December. Later in the season they gave a memorable rendition of the great Beethoven Ninth Symphony.In the Spring, the Chorus lent its efforts, with the University Opera Workshop, to the western hemisphere premier of the long lost Scar-lotti "Mass of Cecelia," found by Maestro Abravanel in Europe two years ago. Later in Spring quarter, the chorus presented a performance of Dr. LeRoy Robertson's "Book of Mormon Oratorio", for the L.D.S. Conference in the Tabernacle, which finished the chorus' regular season. As a post-season special, they worked for eight days recording both the Scarlotti "Mass of Cecelia," and the "Book of Mormon Oratorio" for Vanguard Records with the Utah Symphony. |