UMS Concert Program, March 20, 1950: Seventy-first Annual Choral Union Concert Series -- Zino Francescatti

Season: 1949-1950
Concert: Tenth
Complete Series: 3026
Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan

UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY
CHARLES A. SINK, PRESIDENT THOR JOHNSON, GUEST CONDUCTOR
LESTER MCCOY, ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR
Tenth Concert 1949-1950 Complete Series 3026
Seventy-first Annual
Choral Union Concert Series
ZINO FRANCESCATTI, Violinist
ARTUR BALSAM at the Piano
Monday Evening, March 20, 1950, at 8:30 Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan
PROGRAM
Sonata No. 2..........Paul Hindemith
Lebhaft--ruhig und gemessen
Im Zeitmass und Charakter eines geschwinden Tanzes
Partita No. 2 (for violin alone).......J. S. Bach
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Gigue
Chaconne
INTERMISSION
Suite............Darius Milhaud
Gigue
Sailor's Song Hornpipe
Havanaise............Saint-Saens
Zigeunerweisen (Gypsy Airs)........Saeasate
Note.--The University Musical Society has presented Zino Francescatti on one previous occasion as follows: May 5, 1945.
The Steinway is the official piano of the University Musical Society ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS
MAY
MAY 4, 5, 6, lw 1950
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 M1LSTEIN, 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 . . . Stbauss
Miss Welitch
Symphonic Poem, "Death and Transfiguration" ....... Stuauss
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 Hough, 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 . . Bart6k
William Primrose "Magnificat" in D major .... Bach
Choral Union and Soloists
Alice Luncershausen, 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"
from Alceste......Handel
Jan Peerce Tomb Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor........Donizetti
"0 Paradiso" from L'Ajricana . . 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 licenza 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
"The Cycle," Symphony No. 4 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 Milstein
SUNDAY, MAY 7, 8:30
Eugene Ormandy, Conductor
Soloist: Marian Anderson, Contralto
"Classical" Symphony in D major,
Op. 25.......Pbokofieff
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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