UMS Concert Program, February 17, 1950: Seventy-first Annual Choral Union Concert Series -- Maryla Jonas

Season: 1949-1950
Concert: Eighth
Complete Series: 3023
Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan

UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY
CHARLES A. SINK, PRESIDENT
THOR JOHNSON, GUEST CONDUCTOR
LESTER MCCOY, ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR
Eighth Concert
1949-1950
Complete Series 3023
Seventy-first Annual
Choral Union Concert Series
MARYLA JONAS, Pianist
Friday Evening, February 17, 1950, at 8:30 Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan
PROGRAM
Passacaglia in G minor .
Capriccio in D minor
Sonata in D minor, Op. 31, No. 2
Largo, allegro Adagio Allegretto
Kinderscenen, Op. IS
Of Foreign Lands and People
A Curious Story
Catch Me
Pleading Child
Happiness Enough
An Important Event
At the Fireside
Handel W. F. Bach Beethoven
.....Schumann
Knight of the Hobby Horse
Almost Too Serious
Frightening
The Child Falling Asleep
The Poet Speaks
Reverie
INTERMISSION
Nocturne
Three Mazurkas
Two Waltzes
Grand Polonaise in E-sharp minor, Op. 44
Chopin
Pittsburgh Symphony, Paul Paray, Guest Conductor, Thursday, February 23, 8:30. Chicago Symphony, Fritz Reiner, Guest Conductor, Sunday, March 12, 7:00 p.m. Zino Francescatti, Violinist, Monday, March 20, 8:30.
The Steinway is the official piano of the University Musical Society
A R S
L O N G A
VITA
B R E V I S
MAY FESTIVAL
MAY 4, 5, 6, 7, 1950
r." the PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AT ALL CONCERTS
LJUBA WELITCH, Soprano NORMA HEYDE, Soprano BLANCHE THEBOM, Mezzo-soprano MARIAN ANDERSON, Contralto JAN PEERCE, Tenor HAROLD HAUGH, Tenor MACK HARRELL, Baritone NATHAN MILSTE1N, Violin ALEXANDER HILSBERG, Violin WILLIAM PRIMROSE, Viola
WILLIAM KINCAID, Flute WILLIAM KAPELL, Piano JAMES WOLFE, Piano EUGENE ORMANDY, Conductor ALEXANDER HILSBERG, Conductor THOR JOHNSON, Conductor MARGUERITE HOOD, Conductor UNIVERSITY CHORAL UNION FESTIVAL YOUTH CHORUS
PROGRAMS
THURSDAY, MAY 4, 8:30 Eugene Ormandy, Conductor Soloist: Ljuba Welitch, Soprano Overture and Allegro from
La Sultane .... Couperin-Milhaud "Or sai chi l'onore" from Don Giovanni . Mozart "Voi che sapete" from
Marriage of Figaro.....Mozart
Ljuba Welitch
Symphony No. 7 in C major. Op. 105 . Sibelius Closing Scene from Salome . . . Strauss
Miss Welitch
Symphonic Poem, "Death and Transfiguration" ....... Strauss
FRIDAY, MAY 5, 8:30 University Choral Union Thor Johnson, Conductor
Soloists:
Norma Heyde, Soprano William Primrose, Viola Blanche Thebom, Alexander Hilsberg,
Mezzo-Soprano Violin
Harold Haugh, Tenor William Kincaid, Flute Mack Harrell, Baritone James Wolfe, Piano "Brandenburg" Concerto No. 5, for Piano,
Violin, Flute, and Strings . . . Bach Concerto for Viola and Orchestra . . Bartok
William Primrose "Magnificat" in D major .... Bach
Choral Union and Soloists
Alice Lungershausen, Harpsichord
Mary Stubbins, Organist
SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2:30
Alexander Hilsberg and Marguerite Hood, Conductors
Festival Youth Chorus Soloist: Jan Peerce, Tenor
Overture to Benvenuto Cellini . Berlioz
"The Walrus and the Carpenter" . Fletcher
Youth Chorus
"No, oh Dio" from Alceste Handel
Love Has Eyes..... Bishop
"Enjoy the Sweet Elysian Grove"

Jan Peerce
Tomb Scene from Lucia dt Lammer-
moor........ Donizetti
"0 Paradiso" from L'Africana . Meyerbeer
Mr. Peerce
Symphony No. 2..... Schubert

SATURDAY, MAY 6, 8:30
Eugene Ormandy, Conductor
Soloist: William Kapell, Pianist
Prelude to Khovantchina . . Moussorgsky Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 for
Piano and Orchestra . . . Rachmaninoff Allegro ma non tanto Intermezzo: adagio Finale
William Kapell Symphony No. 5 in E minor,
Op. 64......Tchaikovsky
Andante; allegro con anima
Andante cantabile, con alcuna iicenza Valse: allegro moderato Finale: andante maestoso
SUNDAY, MAY 7, 2:30
Thor Johnson, Conductor
University Choral Union
Soloist: Nathan Milstein, Violinist
"Schicksalslied" ("Song of Destiny"),
Op. 54........Brahms
Symphony No. 4, "The Cycle" for Chorus and Orchestra . . Petes Mennin
Choral Union Concerto in D major, Op. 77, for
Violin and Orchestra .... Brahms Allegro non troppo Adagio
Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace Nathan Milstzin
SUNDAY, MAY 7, 8:30
Eugene Ormandy, Conductor
Soloist: Marian Anderson, Contralto
"Classical" Symphony in D major,
Op. 25.......Prokofieff
Kindertotenlieder......Mahler
Marian Anderson
Two Hispanic Pieces .... McDonald Jeanne d'Arc au Bucher .... Liszt
Miss Anderson Symphonic Poem, "The Pines of Rome" Respighi
The Pines of the Villa Borghese
The Pines near the Catacomb
The Pines of the Janiculum
The Pines of the Appian Way
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