UMS Concert Program, March 6: Sixty-fifth Annual Choral Union Concert Series -- Ezio Pinza

Season: 1943-1944
Concert: Tenth
Complete Series: 2882
Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan

UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY
CHARLES A. SINK, PRESIDENT THOR JOHNSON, CONDUCTOR
HARDIN VAN DEURSEN, ACTING CONDUCTOR
Tenth Concert 1943-1944 Complete Scries 2882
Sixty-Fifth Annual
Choral Union Concert Series
EZIO PINZA, Bass
GIBNER KING, Accompanist
Monday Evening, March 6, at 8:30 Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan
PROGRAM
Aria, "Cara Sposo" from "Rinaldo"......Handel
Aria, "Si Tra I Ceppi," from "Berenice".....Handel
Aria, "Dormi, Amore" from "La Flora" .... Da Gagliano
II Maritino (folksong).......Arr. by Sinigaglia
Novara la Bella (folksong)......Arr. by Sinigaglia
Trois jours de vendange..........Hahn
L'Heureux vagabond..........Bruneau
Plaisir d'amour...........Martini
Au pays.............Holmes
INTERMISSION
The Lament of Ian the Proud........Griffes
Winter.............Harris
To One Unknown..........Carpenter
Do You Remember..........Levitzki
Cato's Advice (Eighteenth Century Drinking Song) . . . Huhn
I Due Tarli . . ......... . . Zandonai
La Serenata.............Tosti
Non Ho Parole...........Sibella
Aria, "II Lacerato Spirito" from "Simon Boccanegra" . . . Verdi
Note: Ezio Pinza has been heard in the Choral Union and May Festival Series on previous occasions as follows: Oct. 19, 1935; May 14, 1937; May IS, 1937; May 12, 1939; and Nov. 18, 1941.
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
SIX CONCERTS FOUR DAYS
may 4, S, 6, 7,1944
THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AT ALL CONCERTS
THURSDAY, MAY 4, 8:30
Soloist: Salvatore Baccoloni, Bass Eugene Ormandy, Conductor
Symphony No. 7, Op. 92 . . Beethoven
"Le regazze che son di vent'anni"
from "Astuzie Femminili" . Cimarosa "Son imbrogliato io gia" from
"Serva Padrona" .... Pergolesi Osmin's aria from Act I, "Die Entfuehrung
aus dem Serail" .... Mozart
Salvatore Baccaloni "Non piu andrai" from "Marriage of
Figaro".......Mozabt
"Udite, tutti, udite" from "Matrimonio
Secreto"......Cimarosa
"La Calumnia" from "Barber of Seville" Rossini Mr. Baccaloni
Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun Debussy Waltz: "Tales from the Vienna Woods" J. Strauss
FRIDAY, MAY 5, 8:30
Soloists: Kerstin Thorborg, Contralto Charles Kullman, Tenor
Eugene Ormandy, Conductor Symphony No. 35 in D major . . Mozart "Das Lied von der Erde" (The Song of the Earth), A Symphony for Tenor, Contralto, and Orchestra . . Mahler Kerstin Thorborg and Charles Kullman and The Philadelphia Orchestra
SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2:30
Soloists. Pierre Luboshutz, Pianist Genia Nemenoff, Pianist
Festival Youth Chorus Saul Caston, Harl McDonald and
Marguerite Hood, Conductors Suite from the "Water Music" Handel-Harty Songs of the Two Americas (Orchestrated by Eric DeLamabter)
Youth Chorus
Overture, Roman Carnival , Op. 9 . Berlioz
Pavane Faure
Concerto for Two Pianos and
Orchestra McDonald
Pierre Luboshutz and Genia Nemenoff Conducted by the composer
SATURDAY, MAY 6, 8:30
Soloist: Bidu Sayao, Soprano
Saul Caston, Conductor Overture to "Die Meistersinger" . Wagner
"Revenez, revenez, amour" from "Thesee" Lully Serpina's Aria from "Serva Padrona" Pergolesi "Den vieni" from "Marriage of Figaro" Mozart "Una voce" from "Barber of Seville" Rossini
Bidu Sayao Interlude and Dance from "La Vida
Breve".......deFaixa
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, for Soprano
and Violoncellos . . . Villa-Lobos "Come serenamente" from "Lo Schiavo" Gomes Mme. Sayao
Symphony No. 6, Op. 74 . . Tchaikovsky
SUNDAY, MAY 7, 2:30
Soloists: Nathan Milstein, Violinist
Gregor Piatigorsky, Violoncellist Eugene Ormandy, Conductor
ALL-BRAHMS PROGRAM
"Academic Festival" Overture, Op. 80
Concerto in A minor, Op. 102, for Violin, Violoncello, and Orchestra Nathan Milstein and Gregor Piatigorsxy
Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
SUNDAY, MAY 7, 8:30
Soloists: Rose Bampton, Soprano
Thelma Von Eisenhauer, Soprano Kerstin Thorborg, Contralto Charles Kullman, Tenor Lansing Hatfield, Baritone
University Choral Union
Palmer Christian, Organist
Hardin Van Deursen, Conductor
Elijah (a dramatic oratorio) . Mendelssohn Soloists and Choral Union
Assisted by University Women's Glee Club, backstage. Wilson Sawyer, Director.
MAY FESTIVAL TICKETS
SPECIAL NOTICE: The new Federal tax law effective April 1 provides that the tax on concert tickets shall be increased from 10 to 20 per cent. Accordingly, the prices of May Festival tickets will continue until that date as follows: season tickets, $8.80, $7.70, and $6.60; individual concert tickets, $2.75, $2.20, $1.65, and $1.10.
Beginning April 1, the prices, including the increased Federal tax, will be: season tickets, $9.60, $8.40, and $7.20; individual concert tickets, $3.00, $2.40, $1.80, and $1.20. Checks should be made payable to the University Musical Society and mailed to Charles A. Sink. President, Burton Memorial Tower, Ann Arbor, Michigan.