UMS Concert Program, November 16, 1949: Seventy-first Annual Choral Union Concert Series -- Italo Tajo

Season: 1949-1950
Concert: Fifth
Complete Series: 3013
Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan

UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY
CHARLES A. SINK, PRESIDENT THOR JOHNSON, GUEST CONDUCTOR
LESTER MCCOY, ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR
Fifth Concert 1949-19S0 Complete Series 3013
Seventy-first Annual
Choral Union Concert Series
ITALO TAJO, Bass
ROBERT TURNER, Pianist
Wednesday Evening, November 16, 1949, at 8:30 Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan
PROGRAM
Mentre ti lascio, o figlia.........Mozart
Un Bacio di mano...........Mozart
"Madamina" from Don Giovanni.......Mozart
Caro mio ben............Giordani
Come raggio di sol...........Caldara
Nina..............Pergolesi
"The Truth is Suspected" from A Life for the Tsar . . . Glinka
The Song of the Flea.........Moussorgsky
The Two Grenadiers.........Schumann
INTERMISSION
Rondo a capriccio, Op. 129 ("Fury Over the Lost Penny") Beethoven Valse oubliee
Etude in D-flat ("Un Sospiro") ........Liszt
La Campanella (after Paganini) J
Robert Turner
"La Mort de Don Quichotte" from Don Quichotte . . . Massenet "Vous qui faites l'endormie" from Faust......Gounod
Russian Picnic..........Harvey Enders
Pilgrim's Song..........Tchaikovsky
Three for Jack............Squire
Cetra-Soria Records--RCA Victor Red Seal Records
The Steinway is the official piano of the University Musical Society
ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS
CONCERTS
Tossy Spivakovsky, Violinist . . Tuesday, November 22, 8:30
Adagio (Cadenza by Spivakovsky).........Mozart
Chaconne (for violin alone)............Bach
Sonata in D minor, Op. 108, No. 3.........Brahms
Hommage a Chopin.............Rathaus
Etude (posthumous) .........Chopin-Spivakovsky
Caprice No. 24 (violin alone)..........Paganini
Roumanian Dances.............Bartok
Valse--Scherzo.............Tchaikovsky
Rise Stevens, Mezzo-soprano . . . Monday, December 5, 8:30 Carroll Glenn, Violinist
and Eugene List, Pianist .... Friday, January 6, 8:30
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra . . Tuesday, January 17, 8:30
Thor Johnson, Conductor Myra Hess, Pianist......Friday, February 17, 8:30
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra . Thursday, February 23, 8:30
Paul Paray, Guest Conductor Chicago Symphony Orchestra . . . Sunday, March 12, 7:00
Fritz Reiner, Guest Conductor Zino Francescatti, Violinist . . . Monday, March 20, 8:30
Single Concerts (inc. tax): $3.00--$2.40--$1.80
Christmas Concerts
"Messiah" (Handel)--Saturday, December 10, at 8:30 p.m., and a repeat performance, Sunday, December 11, at 2:30 p.m. Chloe Owen, Soprano; Anna Kaskas, Contralto; David Lloyd, Tenor; Oscar Natzka, Bass; University Choral Union ; Special "Messiah" Orchestra ; Mary McCall Stubbins, Organist; Lester McCoy, Conductor.
Tickets (inc. tax): 70 cents and 50 cents.
Chamber Music Festival
Budapest String Quartet--Three concerts, January 13, 14, and IS, 19S0. Josef Roisman, First Violin; Jac Gorodetzky, Second Violin; Boris Kroyt, Viola; and Mischa Schneider, Violoncello.
Friday Evening, 8:30 p.m.
Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 76, No. 4................................Haydn
Grand Fugue, Op. 133 .......................................... Beethoven
Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 67 ..................................... Brahms
Saturday Evening, 8:30 p.m.
Quartet in E-flat major, K. 428 ..................................... Mozart
Quartet No. 3 ...................................................... Piston
Quartet in F major, Op. 135 ..................................... Beethoven
Sunday Afternoon, 2:30 p.m.
Quartet in F major, Op. 18, No. 1 ................................Beethoven
Quartet, Op. 22, No. 3...........................................HrNDEMTTH
Quartet in D minor .............................................. Schubert
Season Tickets: $3.60 and $2.40. Single Concerts, $1.80 and $1.20.
For tickets or for further information, please address: Charles A. Sink, President, University Musical Society, Burton Memorial Tower.