UMS Concert Program, February 10: Sixty-fifth Annual Choral Union Concert Series -- Mischa Elman

Season: 1943-1944
Concert: Ninth
Complete Series: 2881
Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan

UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY
CHARLES A. SINK, PRESIDENT THOR JOHNSON, CONDUCTOR
HARDIN VAN DEURSEN, ACTING CONDUCTOR
Ninth Concert 1943-1944 Complete Series 2881
Sixty-Fifth Annual
Choral Union Concert Series
MISCHA ELMAN, Violinist
LEOPOLD MITTMAN at the Piano
Thursday Evening, February 10, at 8:30 Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan
PROGRAM
Sonata in A major...........Handel
Adagio cantabile Allegro deciso Largo assai
Allegro (giga)
Sonata in D minor...........Brahms
Allegro (moderato) Adagio
Un poco presto e con sentimento Presto agitato
Concerto in A minor.........Glazounow
INTERMISSION
Poeme.............Chausson
Old Irish Song and Dance.........Spalding
(Based on tunes of "Norah O'Neill" and "Foggy Dew")
Hebrew Melodie...........Achron
Caprice No. 24 (Variations)......Paganini-Auer
Note: Mischa Elman has been heard in the Choral Union and May Festival Series on previous occasions as follows: Dec. 13, 1915; Oct. 24, 1922; and May 23, 1925.
The Steinway piano, furnished through the courtesy of Grinnell Brothers, is the official concert instrument of the University Musical Society
In service.
ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS
MAY FESTIVAL
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, May 4, 5, 6, 7
PERFORMERS
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AT ALL CONCERTS BIDU SAYAO, Metropolitan Opera .... Soprano ROSE BAMPTON, Metropolitan Opera . . . Soprano THELMA VON EISENHAUER,
Chicago Civic Opera.......Soprano
KERST1N THORBORG, Metropolitan Opera . Contralto CHARLES KULLMAN, Metropolitan Opera . . Tenor LANSING HATFIELD, Metropolitan Opera . Baritone SALVATORE BACCALONI, Metropolitan Opera . Bass NATHAN MILSTEiN, Russian Virtuoso . . Violinist GREGOR PIATIGORSKY, World Renowned
Performer.........Violoncellist
GENIA NEMENOFF 1 . . . . Two-piano Team PIERRE LUBOSHUTZ
EUGENE ORMANDY .... Orchestra Conductor SAUL CASTON . . Associate Orchestra Conductor HARL McDONALD . . Guest Orchestra Conductor HARDIN VAN DEURSEN . . . Choral Conductor MARGUERITE HOOD . . Youth Chorus Conductor
HIGH SPOTS
Symphonies: Mahler, "Das Lied Von der Erde"; Brahms, No. 4; Beethoven, No. 7; Mozart, No. 35; Tchaikovsky, No. 6.
Concertos: Brahms Concerto for Violin and Violoncello; McDonald Concerto for Two Pianos.
Choral Works: Songs of the Two Americas, arranged by Eric DeLamarter (Youth Chorus); Mendelssohn's "Elijah" (Choral Union and soloists).
TICKETS
(including 10 tax)
Season Tickets: $8.80--$7.70--$6.60. For purchasers who present Festival Coupons from season Choral Union tickets, prices are reduced to $5.50, $4.40 and $3.30 each.
Address orders with remittances to cover: Charles A. Sink, President, University Musical Society, Burton Memorial Tower.
Prices subject to any additional tax effective before purchase of tickets.