UMS Concert Program, March 4, 1941: Sixty-second Annual Choral Union Concert Series -- Nathan Milstein

Season: 1940-1941
Concert: Tenth
Complete Series: 2819
Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan

UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY
CHARLES A. SINK, PRESIDENT THOR JOHNSON, CONDUCTOR
Tenth Concert 1940-1941 Complete Series 2819
Sixty-second Annual
Choral Union Concert Series
NATHAN MILSTEIN, Violinist
ARTUR BALSAM, Accompanist
Tuesday Evening, March 4, 1941, at 8:30 Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan
PROGRAM
Adagio and Rondo.........' Karl Stamitz
Prelude and Gavotte in E major (for violin alone) .... Bach
Sonata in F major, Op. 24 ("Spring Sonata") . . . Beethoven
Allegro
Adagio molto espressivo ,
Scherzo (Allegro molto) Rondo
INTERMISSION
Meditation...........Tschaikowsky
Burlesque............Josef Suk
Concerto in A minor, No. 5 . . . . ... . . Vieuxtemps
Allegro non troppo Adagio--Allegro con fuoco
Note: Nathan Milstein has been heard in the Choral Union Series on one previous occasion as follows: January 16, 1933.
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
MAY FESTIVAL PROGRAMS
Wednesday, May 7, 8:30
Soloist: Lawrence Tibbett, Baritone
Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy, Conductor
PROGRAM
Concerto for Orchestra ... Handel-Ormandy Recitative and Aria, "Bring Me Cross and
Cup" from "St. Matthew's Passion".. Bach "Arm, Arm, Ye Brave" from "Judas
Maccabaeus" ..................Handel
Lawrence Tibbett
Symphony No. 7 in A major .... Beethoven Cassio's Dream, from "Otello"l y
Credo, from "Otello" J.......
Mr. Tibbett Four Excerpts from "Die Meistersinger" . .
Wagner
Thursday, May 8, 8:30
Soloists: Jarmila Novotna, Soprano; Norman
Cordon, Bass; and Gregor Piatigorsky,
Violoncellist
University Choral Union; Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra Eugene Ormandy and Thor Johnson, Conductors
PROGRAM
Alleluia ..............Randall Thompson
University Choral Union
Requiem ........................Brahms
Jarmila Novotna, Norman Cordon, and the
University Choral Union "Don Quixote" Variations for Violoncello
and Orchestra..................Strauss
Gregor Piatigorsky
Friday, May 9, 2:30
Soloists: Suzanne Sten, Mezzo-Soprano;
Jose Iturbi, Pianist Youth Chorus; Philadelphia Symphony
Orchestra Saul Caston and Juva Higbee, Conductors
PROGRAM
Overture to "The Flying Dutchman" .....
Wagner
"St. Mary Magdalene" .............d'Indy
Suzanne Sten and Youth Chorus
Suite from "The Fire Bird".....Stravinsky
Songs: The Cricket ]
To a Crocus .......M. Gillett
A Mouse in the ClockJ
Youth Chorus
Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major .......Liszt
Jose Iturbi
(Conducted from the pianoforte by the performer)
Friday, May 9, 8:30
Soloist: Dorothy Maynor, Soprano
Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy, Conductor
Suite from "The Water Music" .........
Handel-Ormandy
Pamina's Aria from "The Magic ]
Flute" [. .Mozart
"Non mi dir" from "Don Giovanni"J
Dorothy Maynor Symphony "Mathis der Maler" .. Hindemith
"San Juan Capistrano" Nocturnes .......
Harl McDonald
Michaela's Aria from "Carmen" "1 Bizet Les Adieu de l'hotesse Arabe j" '
Miss Maynor
Reflets dans l'eau .......Debussy-Ormandy
La Valse .........................Ravel
Saturday, May 10, 2:30
Soloist: Jascha Heifetz, Violinist
Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy, Conductor
PROGRAM
All-Sibelius Program Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 105 Concerto in D minor for Violin and Orchestra
Jascha Heifetz Symphony No. 1, Op. 39, in E minor
Saturday, May 10, 8:30
Soloists: Jarmila Novotna, Soprano; Suzanne Sten, Mezzo-Soprano; Enid Szantho, Contralto; Charles Kullman, Tenor; Mack Harrell, Baritone; and Norman Cordon, Bass.
The University Choral Union; Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra
Thor Johnson, Conductor
PROGRAM
Episodes from "Eugene Onegin" Tschaikowsky Cast:
Larina ....................Suzanne Sten
Tatiana ................Jarmila Novotna
P&pina}..................Enid Szantho
Eugene Onegin ............Mack Harrell
Lenski ................Charles Kullman
£l'nCr Ge.min}...........Norman Cordon
The Captain J
Peasants, Ball-guests, Landowners .......
Choral Union
Programs subject to necessary or advisable changes.
Season Tickets (6 concerts): $8.00--$7.00---$6.00. Tickets for individual concerts: $2.50-$2.00--$1.50--$1.00. May be ordered by mail. Orders will be filled in sequence and mailed out in April by regular mail at patrons' risks, unless 18 cents postage is enclosed for registering. Address: Charles A. Sink, President, University Musical Society, Burton Memorial Tower, Ann Arbor, Michigan.