UMS Concert Program, October 24, 1939: Sixty-first Annual Choral Union Concert Series -- Sergei Rachmaninoff

Season: 1939-1940
Concert: First
Complete Series: 2691
Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan

UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY
CHARLES A. SINK, PRESIDENT EARL V. MOORE, MUSICAL DIRECTOR
First Concert 1939-1940 Complete Series 2691
Sixty-First Annual
Choral Union Concert Series
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF, Pianist
Tuesday, October 24, 1939, at 8:30 Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan
PROGRAM
French Suite in E major............. Bach
Allemande--Courante--Sarabande Polonaise--Bourree--Menuet--Gigue
Sonata, Op. Ill............Beethoven
Maestoso. Allegro con brio ed appassionato Arietta. Adagio molto, semplice e cantabile
The Trout............Schubert-Liszt
Impromptu in A-flat minor..........Schubert
INTERMISSION
Etude-Tableau in A minor........Rachmaninoff
Four Etudes, Op. 25............Chopin
Three Etudes...............Liszt
a) D-flat major
b) Waldesrauchen
c) Dance of the Gnomes
Note: Mr. Rachmaninoff has been heard in the Choral Union Concert Series on previous occasions as follows: November 11, 1920; February 13, 1929; February 10, 1931; January 18, 1934; November 6, 193S; and October 27, 1937.
Mr. Rachmaninoff uses the Steinwav piano
The Steinway piano and the Skinner organ are the official concert instruments of the University Musical Society
ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS
Coming Musical Events
HILL AUDITORIUM
Choral Union Concerts
8:30 p.m.
Fritz Rreisler, Violinist.......
Alexander Kipnis, Bass.......
New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra
John Barbirolli, Conductor
Jussi Bjoerling, Tenor........
Boston Symphony Orchestra.....
Serge Koussevitzky, Conductor
Kirsten Flagstad, Soprano.......
Robert Vtrovai, Violinist.......
Bartlett and Robertson, Pianists .... Artur Rubinstein, Pianist.......
Monday, November 6 Monday, November 13 . Monday, November 27
Monday, December 4 Thursday, December 14
Monday, January 15 Thursday, January 25 Wednesday, February 14 Wednesday, March 6
School of Music Concerts
Given without admission charge
Sunday, October 29, 4:15 p.m., Hill Auditorium . . Orchestra Concert Mabel Ross Rhead, Pianist, soloist. Thor Johnson, Conductor
Wednesday, November 1, 4:15 p.m., Hill Auditorium......
Tom Kinkead, Organist
Wednesday, November 8, 4:15 p.m., Hill Auditorium......
Frieda Op't Holt, Organist
Wednesday, November 15, 4:15 p.m., Hill Auditorium.....
William Barnard, Organist
Sunday, November 19, 4:15 p.m., Hill Auditorium . . Faculty Concert Kathleen Barry, Harp; Maud Okkelberg, Piano; Hardin Van Deursen, Baritone.
Wednesday, November 22, 4:15 p.m., Hill Auditorium.....
Palmer Christian, Organist
Wednesday, November 29, 4:15 p.m., Hill Auditorium.....
Helen Crozier, Organist Eastman School of Music
Wednesday, December 6, 4:15 p.m., Hill Auditorium......
Allan Callahan, Organist
Sunday, December 10, 4:15 p.m., Hill Auditorium . Handel's "Messiah" Choral Union--University Symphony Orchestra--and Soloists Thor Johnson, Conductor
Wednesday, December 13, 4:15 p.m., Hill Auditorium.....
Palmer Christian, Organist
Carillon Recitals--Recitals will be given by Percival Price, University Carillonneur, on the Charles Baird Carillon, until further notice, as follows: Thursday evenings at 7:00 o'clock, and Sunday afternoons at 4:15, except when concerts are held in Hill Auditorium, when an earlier hour will be set. The recital Sunday, October 29, will be given at 2:45. Short informal recitals will also be given each day except Sunday at 12:00 o'clock.
Notices: The right is reserved to make such changes in the dates and artists announced as necessity may require. While wide and prompt publicity is given to dates thus changed, to avoid inconvenience it is suggested that, so far as possible, out-of-town guests confirm the dates in advance.
The School of Music Concerts are given without admission charge; for obvious reasons small children will not be admitted.