UMS Concert Program, December 10, 1941: Sixty-third Annual Choral Union Concert Series -- Boston Symphony Orchestra

Season: 1941-1942
Concert: Sixth
Complete Series: 2832
Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan

UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY
CHARLES A. SINK, PRESIDENT . THOR JOHNSON, CONDUCTOR
Sixth Concert 1941-1942 Complete Series 2832
Sixty-third Annual
Choral Union Concert Series
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Serge Koussevitzky, Conductor
Wednesday Evening, December 10, 1941, at 8:30 Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan
PROGRAM
Symphony in D major ("Haffner") K. 385.....Mozart
Allegro con spirito Andante Menuetto
Finale: Presto
Symphony No. 3 (In two parts and four
movements).........William Schuman
I. Passacaglia II. Chorale
Fugue Toccata
INTERMISSION
Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98......Brahms
Allegro non troppo Andante moderato Allegro giocoso
Allegro energico c passionato
Note.--The Boston Symphony Orchestra has been heard in the Choral Union Series on previous occasions, under respective conductors, as follows: May 16, 1800, May 5, 1891, and May 10, 1892, Arthur Nikisch, Conductor; May 19, 1893. Franz Kneisel, Conductor; January 31, 1913, Otto Urack. Conductor; January 26, 1917, Karl Muck, Conductor; October 17, 1931, October 25, 1932, October 24. 1933, December 11, 1934, December 11, 193S, December 10, 1936, December 8, 1937, December 7, 1938, December 14, 1939, and December 10, 1940, Serge Koussevitzky, Conductor.
The Steinway is the official piano of the University Musical Society
ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS
Second Annual Chamber Music Festival
January 23 and 24--In Rackham Lecture Hall THE ROTH STRING QUARTET
Feri Roth, Violin Rachmael Weinstock, Violin
Julius Shaier, Viola Oliver Edel, Violoncello
First Program--Friday, 8:30: Quartet in D major (Haydn); Quartet in F (Ravel); Quartet in A minor (Schumann).
Second Program--Saturday, 2:30: Quartet in D major (Tchaikovsky); Andantino, En Bateau, and Menuet (Debussy); Quartet in G minor (Boccherini).
Third Program--Saturday, 8:30: Quartet in D major (Mozart); Four Preludes and Fugues (Harris); Quartet in F major (Beethoven).
Series tickets (including tax), $2.75 and $2.20; single concerts, $1.10.
Annual "Messiah" Concert
Sunday, December 14, 4:15 p.m. SOLOISTS
Marie Wilkins, Soprano Edwina Eustis, Contralto
Ernest McChesney, Tenor Douglas Beattie, Bass
Palmer Christian, Organist
University Symphony Orchestra
University Choral Union
Thor Johnson, Conductor
Tickets, including tax: Main floor, 55 cents; balconies, 28 cents.
Special Concert
Alec Templeton, Pianist, will be heard in a special concert Thursday, February 26, at 8:30, in Hill Auditorium. Reserved seat tickets, including tax, as follows: main floor, 95 cents; first balcony. 75 cents; and the top balcony, 55 cents. Counter sale begins Monday, January 11, at offices of the University Musical Society, Burton Memorial Tower.
Choral Union Concerts
Robert Casadesus, Pianist.......Monday, January 19
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra.....Tuesday, February 3
Dimitri Mitropoulos, Conductor
Program: Overture, "Academic Festival" (Brahms); Symphony No. 3 in F major (Brahms); Suite, "Le Tombeau de Couperin" (Ravel) ; Toccata No. 1 in C major (Bach-Weiner).
Joseph Szigeti, Violinist.......Thursday, February 19
Vronsky and Babin, Pianists.......Tuesday, March 3