UMS Concert Program, March 7, 1932: Fifty-third Annual Choral Union Concert Series -- Rosa Ponselle

Season: 1931-1932
Concert: Tenth
Complete Series: 2007
Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan

UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY
CHARLES A. STNK, PRESIDENT EARL V. MOORE, MUSICAL DIRECTOR
Tenth Concert 1931-1932 Complete Series 2007
Fifty-Third Annual
Choral Union Concert Series
ROSA PONSELLE, Soprano
Assisted by Stuart Ross, Pianist Monday Evening, March 7, 1932, at 8:15
HILL AUDITORIUM, ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN
PROGRAM
Aria, "O divina Afrodite," from the opera "Fedra" ..............Romano Romani
Miss Ponselle
Star vicino al bEll' ídolo......................................Salvatore Rosa
A Pastoral .........................................................Veracini
TraumE .............................................................Wagner
Chanson de la cigale ................................................Lecocq
Miss Ponselle
Nocturne, Opus 48, No. 1 ............................................Chapín
PrEludE in A Minor................................................Debussy
Mr. Ross
Aria, "Bel rággio lusinghiér" ..........................................Rossini
Miss Ponselle
Intermission
The Harmónica Player ........................................David Guión
The Girl with the Flaxen Hair ...................................Debussy
A Chínese QuarrEl ................................................Niemann
Mr. Ross
On Wings of Dream ................................................Arensky
Eros ..................................................................Grieg
Lullaby.............................................................Sadero
Come unto these yellow sands .....................................La Forge
Miss Ponselle
Management: Metropolitan Musical Bureau
The Steinway Piano and the Skinner Organ are the official concert instruments of the University Musical Society.
ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS
Thirty-Ninth Annual
MAY FESTIVAL
FOUR DAYS -:SIX CONCERTS
May 18, 19, 20, 21, 1932
Goeta Ljungberg (pronounced Yóta Yungbairg), Sensational Metropolitan Opera Swedish Soprano
Juliette Lippe, Covert Garden Opera, Soprano Ruth Rodgers, American Oratorio Singer, Soprano Gladys Swartout, Metropolitan Opera, Contralto Beniamino Gigli, Metropolitan Opera, Tenor Frederick Jagel, Metropolitan Opera, Tenor Nelson Eddy, Philadelphia Opera, Baritone John Charles Thomas, Chicago Civic Opera, Baritone Chase Baromeo, Chicago Civic Opera, Bass Gitta Gradova, Stellar American Pianist Palmer Christian, Organist
Earl V. Moore and the Choral Union will present the American premiére of the "Legende of the Invisible City of Kitej" by Rimsky Korsakoff, "The Psalms" by Strawinsky, and the "Creation" by Haydn.
Gustav Holst, British Composer-Conductor, guest conductor in the American premiére of his own "Choral Fantasia." Words by Robert Bridges.
Frederick Stock and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra will particípate.
Juva N. Higbee will direct the Children's Festival Chorus.