UMS Concert Program, November 7, 1940: Sixty-second Annual Choral Union Concert Series -- Rudolf Serkin

Season: 1940-1941
Concert: Second
Complete Series: 2807
Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan

UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY
CHARLES A. SINK, PRESIDENT THOR JOHNSON, CONDUCTOR
Second Concert 1940-1941 Complete Series 2807
Sixty-second Annual
Choral Union Concert Series
RUDOLF SERKIN, Pianist
Thursday Evening, November 7, 1940, at 8:30 Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan
PROGRAM
Fantasia and Fugue in C major (K.V. 394)......Mozart
Sonata in G major (K.V. 283)..........Mozart
Allegro Andante Presto
Sonata in F minor, Op. 57 (Appassionata)......Beethoven
Allegro assai
Andante con moto
Allegro ma non troppo
INTERMISSION
Variations and Fugue on a Theme by G. Ph. Telemann, Op. 134 . . Reger
Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 14.........Mendelssohn
Two Caprices............Paganini-Liszt
E major A minor
Note: Rudolph Serkin has been heard in the May Festival Series on one previous occasion as follows: May 11, 1939.
The piano used is a Steinway.
The Steinway piano and the Skinner organ are the official concert instruments of the University Musical Society
ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS
Choral Union Concerts
HILL AUDITORIUM
8:30 p.m.
Don Cossack Chorus........Monday, November 18
Serge Jaeoff, Conductor
New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra
John Barbirolli, Conductor . . . Sunday, November 24, 3:00 p.m. (International broadcast over facilities of the Columbia Broadcasting System)
Richard Bonelli, Baritone.......Tuesday, December 3
Boston Symphony Orchestra.....Wednesday, December 11
Serge Koussevitzky, Conductor
Vladimir Horowitz, Pianist......Wednesday, January IS
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra.....Tuesday, January 28
Dimitri Mitropoulos, Conductor
Budapest String Quartet.......Thursday, February 20
Georges Enesco, Violinist........Tuesday, March 4
The UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY announces a Chamber Music Festival of three concerts to be given by:
THE MUSICAL ART QUARTET OF NEW YORK
Sascha Jacobsen, First Violin William Hymanson, Viola
Paul Bernard, Second Violin Maria Roemaet-Rosanoff, Violoncello
The concerts will be given Friday evening, Saturday afternoon, and Saturday evening, January 24 and January 25, 1941, in the Main Lecture Hall of the Rackham Building.
MAIL ORDERS for season tickets (three concerts) at $2.00 each, or for individual concerts at $1.00 each, will be filled in sequence in advance.
All remittances should be made payable to the University Musical Society and mailed to Charles A. Sink, President, Burton Memorial Tower.
All remaining tickets will be on sale over the counter on and after Monday morning, November 25, at 8:30, at the offices of the University Musical Society , in Burton Memorial Tower.
The FORTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL MAY FESTIVAL (six concerts) will take place May 7, 8, 9, 10, 1941. The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, Conductor; Saul Caston, Associate Conductor; The University Choral Union, Thor Johnson, Conductor; The Young Peoples' Chorus, Juva Higbee, Conductor; and an imposing list of soloists, both vocal and instrumental, will participate.
"MESSIAH" by Handel will be given Wednesday evening, December 18. The following will participate: Thelma von Eisenhauer, Soprano; Joan Peebles, Contralto; William Hain, Tenor; Richard Hale, Bass; Palmer Christian, Organist; The University Choral Union; The University Symphony Orchestra; Thor Johnson, Conductor.
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.