UMS Concert Program, January 15, 1923: The Detroit Symphony Orchestra --

Season: 1922-1923
Concert: FOURTH
Complete Series: CCCLXXXVI
Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan

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F. W. KELSEY, President
Albert Lockwood, Acting Director of the University School of Music Eaei, V. Moore, Acting Director of the University Choral Union
FOURTH SEASON FOURTH CONCERT
No. CCCLXXXVI COMPLETE SERIES
THE DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
VICTOR KOLAR. Conducting
KATHRYN MEISLE, Contralto, Soloist
MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1923, AT EIGHT O'CLOCK HILL AUDITORIUM, ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN
Overture, "Tannhaeuser" ....
Spring Song from "Samson and Delilah" .
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Caucasian Sketches ..... I. In the Mountains II. In the Village
Solo English Horn--Mr. Rey Solo Viola--Mr. Kolodkin III. Procession of the Sirdar
Intermission Treasure Waltz from "The Gypsy Baron"
Les Filles de Cadiz ......
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Scenes Napolitaines ..... La Danse
La Procession e l'Improvisateur La Fete
(Played without pause)
Wagner Saint-Saens
Ippolitov-Ivanov
Johann Strauss Leo Delibes
Jules Massenet
The Mason and Hamlii is the official Piano of the Detroit Symphony Society
Overture, "Tannhaeuser" ....... Wagner
When this overture was first heard it excited a measure of ridicule difficult for us to comprehend. One critic saw in it a "representation of Chaos," another an "incursion of the Huns," while "the field" welcomed it as a favorable opportunity for the display of wit through various inane comparisons. A writer in the London Athonaeum says: "There is not an English student of harmony of one year's study who could not have produced it." Many years have passed since this deliverance and the world is still looking for that "English student of harmony." None are more amused by this quotation than the modern Englishmen, who may, in our generation, prove decisively that in creative activity Great Britain is renewing its youth. Witness the work of Hoist, Williams, Bax, and others.
To those who are acquainted with the plot of Tannhaeuser this score is an open book. To others, the principal incidents, musically depicted in the overture, are as follows: I, Pilgrims' Song1; II, Venus Music; III, Tannhaeuser's Song in Praise of Venus; IV, The Triumph of the Power that Makes for Good (Pilgrims' Song).
Spring Song from "Samson and Delilah" .... Saint-Serins
The Spring with her dower Of bird and of flower
Brings hope in her train; Her scent-laden pinions From Love's wide dominions
Drives sorrow and pain. Our hearts thrill yith gladness, For Spring's mystic madness
Thrills through all the earth. To fields doth she render Their grace and their splendor--
Joy and gentle mirth.
In vain I adorn me
With blossoms and charms! My false love doth scorn me,
And flees from my arms! But hope still caresses
My desolate heart-Past delight yet blesses!
Love will not depart!
When night comes, star-laden, Like a sad, lonely maiden, I'll sit by the stream, And mourning, I'll dream. My heart I'll surrender
If he come today, And still be as tender As when love's first splendor
Made me rich and gay:--
So I'll wait him alway.
--English translation by Nathan Haskell Dole.
Caucasian Sketches, Suite for Orchestra, Opus 10 Michael Ippolitox-Ivanov
These three out of a suite of four movements are remarkable examples of picturesque tone-painting, the titles being the key to the pictures the composer desires to convey.
I. In the Mountain Pass (Allegro moderato). The horn-call is guiding the long mule train through the heart of the mountains and over difficult trails.
II. In the Village (Larghetto; Allegretto grasioso). Intimate village episodes in southeastern Europe. The features are the cadenza for English horn and solo viola (muted) and the persistent drum-beat underlying the second part.
III. Procession of the Sirdar (Allegro moderato; Tempo di marsiale). The brilliant setting is for the martial procession, adorned with the colorful symbolism of the East, and of which the central figure is the Sirdar, or high military chief.
Treasure Waltz from "The Gypsy Baron" . . . Johann Strauss
This waltz is perhaps today the only memento of one of the most, popular of the operettas composed by Strauss and which, at the time, carried his fame from the Theater an der Wien to all thq the theaters, large and small, within range of his music. These operettas soon were known all over the world and were sung everywhere, as in our own day popular music becomes familiar to the people. But in the case of Strauss there was a sufficiently good reason to justify the popularity, for not only did he possess the secret of alluring melody, but all he wrote was music in the best sense of the word.
Les Filles de Cadiz........Leo Delibes
Three youths and maidens, we did go
To see the bulls a-fighting; The sky was blue, the breeze did blow, We danced1 the joyous bolero,
In mirth our hearts delighting.
Neighbor, tell me, pray,
If my face is fair,
Does this dress I wear Become me well today My waist, you say, is lithe and slender My waist, you say, is lithe and trim;
Ah!
We maidens of Cadiz like well to hear such words,
Ah! We maidens of Cadiz like well to hear such words,
La ra la la la.
-But we danced another day
A bolero together; There came a cavalier that way, With lace of gold his cloak was gay,
And in his hat a feather.
If thou wilt be mine,
Lovely, dark-eyed maiden,
Soon with jewels laden Shall thy fingers shine.
Nay, go your way, O gallant suitor! Nay, go your way, O suitor gay--Ah!
The maidens of Cadiz such words don't understand,
Ah!
The maidens of Cadiz such words don't understand, La ra la la la.
--Alfred de Musset (1810-1857) Translation by Arthur Westbrook.
Scenes Napolitaines ....... Jules Massenet
As in all Massenet's orchestral suites, the titles tell everything, and the compositions are tone-pictures of events that have impressed the mind of the composer which he endeavors thus to transmit to his audience. This suite with two others come at a time when the composer was particularly prolific and successful. The first scene is the public dance, enriched with the color of Neapolitan costume and unconscious abandon. The second is the festival procession and the crowd surging around the extemporary speaker. The third is the carnival, with which all such semi-devotional events conclude. It has been remarked of this work that few equal it in buoyancy of atmosphere, suggestive of fair Italian skies and the reflective waters of the famous bay.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
THE IMPRESARIO, a musical comedy by Mozart, under the direction of William Wade Hinshaw, will be presented in the Choral Union Series, January 24.
THE DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, OSSIP GABRILOWITSCH, Conductor, MAURICE DUMESNIL, Pianist, will give the next concert in the EXTRA CONCERT SERIES, Monday, February 19.
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