UMS Concert Program, March 19: Sixty-sixth Annual Choral Union Concert Series -- Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Season: 1944-1945
Concert: Tenth
Complete Series: 2902
Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan

UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY
CHARLES A. SINK, PRESIDENT THOR JOHNSON, CONDUCTOR
HARDIN VAN DEURSEN, ACTING CONDUCTOR
Tenth Concert 1944-1945 Complete Series 2902
Sixty-Sixth Annual
Choral Union Concert Series
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
DESIRE DEFAUW, Conductor
Monday Evening, March 19, at 8:30 Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan
PROGRAM
Ballet Suite from "Cephale et Procris"......Gretry
Tambourin
Menuetto
Gigue
(Arranged for concert performance by Felix Mottl)
"The Birds"--Suite for Small Orchestra.....Respighi
Prelude, after B. Pasquini
The Dove, after Jacques de Gallot
The Hen, after Philippe Rameau
The Nightingale, after an anonymous English composer
The Cuckoo, after B. Pasquini
Symphonic Poem--"Stenka Razine," Op. 13 ... Glazounow
INTERMISSION
Symphony, B-flat major, Op. 20.......Chausson
Lent, allegro vivo Tres lent Anime
Selections from "The Damnation of Faust" .... Berlioz
Invocation
Dance of the Will-o'-the-wisps
Dance of the Sylphs
March--"Rakoczy"
(over)
ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS
MAY FESTIVAL
MAY 3, U, 5, 6, 1945
THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AT ALL CONCERTS
BIDU SAYAO, Soprano ELEANOR STEBER, Soprano BLANCHE THEBOM, Contralto ROSALIND NADELL, Contralto FREDERICK JAGEL, Tenor NICOLA MOSCONA, Bass EZIO PINZA, Bass PAUL LEYSSAC, Narrator ZINO FRANCESCATTI, Violinist
THURSDAY, MAY 3, 8:30
Soloist: Ezio, Pinza, Bass
Eugene Ormandy, Conductor
Overture to "Der Freischutz" .... Weber
Symphony No. SO, D minor .... Haydn
"Qui sdegno non s'accende" from "Magic Flute" . . . ... . .. . 1 Mozart
Madamina from Don Giovanni . { Monologue, Farewell, and Death Scene
from "Boris Godounoff" . . . Moussorgsky Ezro Pinza
Rosenkavalier Suite...... R. Strauss
FRIDAY, MAY 4, 8:30 Soloist: Oscar Levant, Pianist
University Choral Union
Eugene Ormandy and Hardin Van Deursen,
Conductors
Chant of 1942 ........Creston
Cantata, "A Free Song".....Schuman
Choral Union
Concerto in F major.....1 Gershwin
Rhapsody m Blue......J
Oscar Levant
SATURDAY, MAY 5, 2:30
Soloist: Zino Francescatti, Violinist
Paul Leyssac, Narrator
Festival Youth Chorus
Saul Caston and Marguerite Hood, Conductors
Fantasie, "Kamarinskaya".....Glinka
Cantata, "Fun of the Fair" .... Rowley Youth Chorus
"Peter and the Wolf".....Prokofieff
Paul Leyssac, Narrator
Concerto for Violin No. 1 .... Paganini Zino Francescatti
RUDOLF SERKIN, Pianist OSCAR LEVANT, Pianist EUGENE ORMANDY, Conductor SAUL CASTON, Conductor HARDIN VAN DEURSEN, Conductor MARGUERITE HOOD, Conductor PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA UNIVERSITY CHORAL UNION FESTIVAL YOUTH CHORUS '
SATURDAY, MAY 5, 8:30
qnlnkteB'du Sayao, Soprano soloists, j Rosain(j Naden Contralto
Women's Chohus from Choral Union
Saul Caston and Hardin Van Deursen,
Conductors
Symphony No. 1.......Beethoven
"Blessed Damozel".......Debussy
Bidu Sayao, Rosalind Nadell, and Women's Chorus from Choral Union
"Batti, Batti" from "Don Giovanni" . Mozart
"Ah, non credea" from "Sonnambula" . Bellini
Mme Sayao
Symphony No. 2........ Brahms
SUNDAY, MAY 6, 2:30 Soloist: Rudolf Serkin, Pianist Eugene Ormandy, Conductor Chorale Prelude, "O Mensch, bewein
dein: Sunde gross" . . . Bach-Ormandy Symphony No. 5 (Reformation) . Mendelssohn
Concerto No. 2........Brahms
Rudolf Serkin
SUNDAY, MAY 6, 8:30
Soloists:
Eleanor Steber, Soprano
Blanche Thcbom, Contralto
Frederick Jagel, Tenor
Nicola Moscona, Bass
University Choral Union
Eugene Ormandy and Hardin Van Deursen,
Conductors
"Te Deum Laudamus".....Bruckner
Choral Union
Symphony No. 9.......Beethoven
Soloists, Choral Union, and Orchestra
PROGRAMS
SEASON TICKETS (tax included): $9.60--$8.40--$7.20. SINGLE CONCERTS: $3.00--$2.40--$1.80--$1.20.
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