Legendary composer John Williams has penned a letter in the effort to save Abravanel Hall from possible demolition amid a\u00a0redesign of downtown Salt Lake City\u00a0centered around sports and a new Utah NHL team.<\/p>\n
Recently, tens of thousands of Utahns have\u00a0risen in support of Abravanel Hall\u00a0amid its uncertain future. A petition has even been created in the effort to save the hall, and it\u2019s nearing its next goal of 50,000 signatures.<\/p>\n
Williams, who has written some of the most recognizable and critically-acclaimed film scores in the history of cinema, has joined in on the cause.<\/p>\n
\u201cI knew Maurice Abravanel, whom I admired greatly both as a person and as an artist, and I\u2019ve been privileged on many occasions to conduct in his namesake concert hall in Salt Lake City, where I recorded my musical theme for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games with the Utah Symphony and your magnificent Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and where I conducted the Boston Pops Orchestra on several visits to your great city,\u201d Williams opened in the letter.<\/p>\n