UMS Concert Program, November 24, 1947: Sixty-ninth Annual Choral Union Concert Series -- Westminster Choir

Season: 1947-1948
Concert: Fifth
Complete Series: 2961
Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan

UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY
CHARLES A. SINK, PRESIDENT THOR JOHNSON, GUEST CONDUCTOR
LESTER MCCOY, ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR
Fifth Concert 1947-1948 Complete Series 2961
Sixtyninth Annual
Choral Union Concert Series
WESTMINSTER CHOIR
JOHN FINLEY WILLIAMSON, Conductor
Monday Evening, November 24, 1947, at 8:30 Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan
PROGRAM
Stabat Mater (Motet, for Double Chorus) . Palestrina (1526-1594) Be Not Afraid (Motet for Double Chorus) . . Bach (1685-1750)
Benedictus qui venit (Missa choralis) . . . Liszt (1811-1886) Good Is It To Thank Jehovah .... Schubert (1797-1828) Valley, Deep Valley...... di Lasso (1530-1594)
O Savior, Throw The Heavens Wide
(Motet, Op. 74, No. 2).....Brahms (1833-1897)
The Crusaders.......MacDoweli. (1861-1908)
To Be Sung of a Summer Night on the Water . Delius (1863-1934) At Montserrat............Nicolau
Haste Thee Nymph.......Handel (1685-1759)
(Arr. Carlton Martin)
INTERMISSION
Note.--The University Musical Society has presented the Westminster Choir on one previous occasion: February 11, 1945.
(Over) ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS
AMERICAN FOLK SONGS
There Is a Balm in Gilead .... Arr. William L. Dawson Soldier, Soldier (Virginia Folk Song) . . . Arr. John Powell
Poor Wayfaring Stranger (Early American White
Spiritual) . . . Arr. George Jackson and E. J. Catwood
St. Louis Blues........William C. Handy
Arr. Haix Johnson
Ezekiel Saw de Wheel.....Arr. William L. Dawson
Lane County Bachelor (Traditional Cowboy
Song) .... Artells Dickson and Geoffrey O'Hara
Skip To My Lou (Early American Square
Dance).......Arr. Harry Robert Wilson
Go 'Way From My Window (Kentucky
Mountain Ballad)......John Jacob Niles
Deaf Woman's Courtship (Virginia Folk Song) . Arr. John Powell One World.........Geoffrey O'Hara
?Arranged for Westminster Choir
Chamber Music Festival
Paganini String Quartet--Three concerts, January 16 and 17, 1948 Henri Temianka and Gustave Roeseels, Violins; Robert Courte, Viola, and Robert Maas, Violoncello. Tickets (inc. tax): $3.60 and $2.40
Friday Evening at 8:30
L'Estra Harmonico......... Vivaldi
Quartet, Op. 130 ........ Beethoven
Quartet No. 1, Op. 7........Bartok
Saturday Afternoon at 2:30
Quartet, Op. 64, No. 3..........Haydn
Quartet No. 5 .........Chevreuil
Quartet, Op. 18, No. 4.........Beethoven
Saturday Evening at 8:30
Quartet, Op. 64, No. S ("The Lark")......Haydn
Quartet No. 2 ......... Milhaud
Quartet, Op. 132 ........ Beethoven
MAY FESTIVAL season ticket orders will be accepted beginning as of December 1, and filed in sequence--Unclaimed seats in Block A, $12.00; Block B, $10.80; Block C, $9.60; Block D, $8.40--at University Musical Society, Charles A. Sink, President, Burton Memorial Tower.