Word: deseret
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...melody. He is, in short, a musical square. But Kastle is a gifted composer of song cycles and choral works, and a man with ideas about opera. This week Composer Kastle and his ideas re ceived a nationwide airing: in a two-hour telecast the NBC-TV Opera gave Deseret, the first work to be given its premiere on the show since Stanley Hollingsworth's La Grande Bretêche four years...
...Deseret derives its title from the state established by Brigham Young and his Mormons in the Salt Lake Valley...
...variation on an incident from Young's life: a young girl brought to him to become his 25th and last wife falls in love instead with a non-Mormon Union Army officer; in a sacrificial gesture Young renounces his claim on her and sends her forth from Deseret to marry the man she loves. In a somewhat overwrought revelation, Young sees the lovers' departure as an omen of the day when "Deseret too will go out into the great world . . ." Composer Kastle provided a surgingly lyrical score admirably suited to the moods of the text...
...Opera Company (NBC, 3-5 p.m.). First presentation of Leonard Kastle's Deseret, an opera about Brigham Young. Color...
...Deseret News got out of the Sunday field. The Tribune, which in 1930 had bought the News's afternoon rival, the Telegram, now sold it to the News (which became the Deseret News and Salt Lake Telegram). Then the once-bitter rivals joined hands by forming the Newspaper Agency Corp., through which both papers share the same printing plant and the same advertising, circulation and distribution organizations. They remain rivals-and staunch rivals-only editorially. President of the combined operation: John Francis Fitzpatrick...