UMS Concert Program, January 24, 1942: Second Annual Chamber Music Festival -- Roth String Quartet

Season: 1941-1942
Concert: Second
Complete Series: 2836
Lecture Hall, Rackham Building Ann Arbor, Michigan

UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY
CHARLES A. SINK, PRESIDENT THOR JOHNSON, CONDUCTOR
Second Concert 1941-1942 Complete Series 2836
Second Annual
Chamber Music Festival
ROTH STRING QUARTET
Feri Roth, Violin Julius Shaier, Viola
Rachmael Weinstock, Violin Oliver Edel, Violoncello
Saturday Afternoon, January 24, 1942, at 2:30
Lecture Hall, Rackham Building
Ann Arbor, Michigan
PROGRAM
Quartet in D major, Op. 11.......Tchaikovsky
Moderato e semplice Andante cantabile Scherzo Finale
"Rispetti e Strambotti".........Malipiero
INTERMISSION
Quartet in G minor, Op. 33, No. S......Boccherini
Allegro comodo Andantino
Minuetto con moto Allegro giusto
(Over)
THE THIRD CONCERT in the Chamber Music Festival will take place this evening at 8:30 o'clock.
The Steinway piano and the Skinner organ arc the official concert insirumenls of the University Musical Society
ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS
PROGRAM NOTES
Quartet in D major, Op. 11.......Tchaikovsky
The famous Russian's contribution to chamber music embraced three quartets, a string sextet, and several trios for piano, violin, and violoncello. The quartet programmed here is his first work in this form. It is rich in melody and harmonization, and closely observes the traditional quartet structure. Most beloved of all chapters in string quartet literature is the second movement with its typical Slavic melancholy.
"Rispetti e Strambotti".........Malipiero
The title chosen by Malipiero for this extraordinarily colorful quartet defies exact translation, according to those who know. The "rispetto" is sort of an old Italian love song, and "strambotto" is a term given to imitations of it by cultivated poets. Strictly modern, Malipiero dispenses with customary musical form, and instead, in this work, composes a long chain of tiny, contrasted, independent movements which he calls "stanzas." There are twenty "stanzas" in this quartet, which, incidentally, was the prize-winning quartet at the 1920 Pittsfield Festival.
Quartet in G minor, Op. 33, No. S......Boccherini
Boccherini was a contemporary of Haydn. He brought a certain romantic element in the very classical feeling and form of his time.
CONCERTS
Alec Templeron, Pianist, will be heard in a special concert Thursday evening, February 26, at S:30. Reserved seat tickets, including tax: 95c1. 15. and 55.
Choral Union Series. THE MINNEAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, DIMITRI MITROPOULOS, Conductor, will be heard Tuesday evening, February 3; JOSEPH SZIGETI, Violinist, Thursday evening, February 19; and VITYA VRONSKY and VICTOR BABIN, Pianists, Tuesday evening, March 3.
The Forty-Ninth Annual May Festival consisting of six concerts will take place May 6, 7. S, and 9. The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, Conductor; Saul Caston, Associate Conductor; The Choral Union, Thor Johnson, Conductor; and the Youth Chorus. Juva Higbee. Conductor, will participate. Choral works will include Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, and Honegger's "King David." Negotiations are pending with distinguished soloists, both vocal and instrumental.
For further information, please communicate with the University Musical Society, Charles A. Sink, President, Burton Memorial Tower.