UMS Concert Program, October 5, 1950: Seventy-second Choral Union Concert Series -- Helen Traubel

Season: 1950-1951
Concert: First
Complete Series: 3033
Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan

UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY
CHARLES A. SINK, PRESIDENT THOR JOHNSON, GUEST CONDUCTOR
LESTER MC COY, ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR
First Concert 19SO-19S1 Complete Series 3033
Seventy-second
Choral Union Concert Series
HELEN TRAUBEL, Soprano
Coenraad V. Bos at the Piano
Thursday Evening, October 5, 1950, at 8:30 Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan
PROGRAM
Gottes Macht und Vorsehung.......Beethoven
Freudvoll und leidvoll J from E t.....Beethoven
Die Trommel geruhret )
"Divinites du Styx" from Alceste.......Gluck
Der Atlas 1
Nacht und Traume .........Schubert
Jager ruhe von der Jagd J
Morgen )............Strauss
Zueignung
INTERMISSION
Polonaise in C-sharp minor.........Chopin
Waltz in G-flat............Chopin
Coenraad V. Bos
Isolde's Narrative from Tristan und Isolde.....Wagner
Go Down, Moses ) Spirituals
Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen )
Sea Shell............Carl Engel
I'm Wearin' Awa', Jean........Arthur Foote
Upstream.........Albert Hay Malotte
Note.--The University Musical Society has presented Helen Traubel on three previous occasions: May 8, 1942; November 4, 1944; and May 8, 1947.
The Steinway is the official piano of the University Musical Society ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS
PROGRAM NOTES
Gottes Macht und Vorsehung (God Is My Song) . . . Beethoven
"My song is to God! Great is His name and great are His works. All Heaven ' does His bidding."
Freudvoll und leidvoll (Joyful and Sorrowful),
from Egmont..........Beethoven
"Happiness and sorrow, longing and pain . . . Joy comes only to the soul that lives."
Die Trommel geriihret (The Drums Loudly Beating),
from Egmont..........Beethoven
"With drums and fifes and flying flags, my lover goes away. Oh, had I a uniform, I'd follow him. What joy to be a man!" (sung in English)
"Divinites du Styx" (Ye Gods of Night Profound),
from Alceste............Gluck
"Ye gods of endless night that wait on death, I appeal no more to your mercy . . . Gods without pity for my grief and woe!"
Der Atlas (Atlas)...........Schubert
"Ah, me, o'er-laden Atlas! All the world, the endless world of woe, is now my burden; I bear the insupportable and in my bosom my heart is breaking."
Nacht und Traume (Night and Dreams).....Schubert
"The night descends, bringing dreams that soothe to rest the aching heart. Descend again, oh holy night, and bring us dreams that have no ending."
Jager ruhe von der Jagd (Hunter, Rest Thee from the Hunt) . Schubert
"Huntsman, sleep, nor dream how your gallant steed lay dying. The chase is done. Rest! Sleep! At dawning there will be no hunt."
(Lyric from Sir Walter Scott's The Lady of the Lake)
Morgen (Tomorrow)..........Strauss
"Tomorrow the sun will shine again. Together, wrapped in the heavy silence of our happiness, we will go hand in hand toward that distant shore."
Zueignung (Devotion)..........Strauss
"Ah, you know, sweet, my anguish ... in your absence I languish! Live, its sorrow imparts. Thanks, sweetheart!"
Isolde's Narrative from Tristan und Isolde.....Wagner
Tristan, a valiant Cornish knight, is taking Isolde, princess of Ireland, to be the bride of his uncle, King Mark. As the ship nears Cornwall, Isolde, growing indignant at Tristan's persistent refusal to see her and desperate at the thought of her enforced loveless marriage, relates the events that led to her departure for Cornwall:
How once she had healed Tristan with her art of herbs and balsam--though under the name of "Tantris"--and then sought to wreak revenge on him for slaying her betrothed, Sir Morold; but, powerless against his anguish, she continued to tend him. Soon he returned, under his true name of Tristan, as an emissary to demand the hand of Isolde for his uncle, King Mark. Believing that this alliance would end the strife between Ireland and Cornwall, her parents assented; and Isolde, grieving bitterly, was compelled to follow the knight to Cornwall. So, in her shame, she declares vengeance and death on Tristan and herself.
Christmas Concerts
"Messiah" (Handel) . . December 9 and 10, 1950
Nancy Care, Soprano Eunice Alberts, Contralto David Lloyd, Tenor
Oscar Natzka, Bass
Choral Union and Orchestra
Lester McCoy, Conductor
Tickets (tax inc.): 704 and 50tf (either performance). On sale beginning October 16.
Chamber Music Festival
Budapest String Quartet--Three concerts, February 16, 17, and 18, 1951.
Josef Roisman, First Violin; Jac Gorodetzky, Second Violin; Boris Kroyt, Viola; and Mischa Schneider, Violoncello.
Friday, February 16, 8:30 p.m.
Four Fugues from "The Art of the Fugue" ............................ Bach
Quartet, Op. 17, No. 2 ............................................. Bartox
Quartet in C minor, Op. SI, No. 1 ................................ Brahms
Saturday, February 17, 8:30 p.m.
Quartet in D minor, K. 421 ........................................ Mozart
Chaconne ........................................................ Purcell
Movement, Op. posthumous ...................................... Schubert
Concertino.....................................................Stravinsky
Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131................................Beethoven
Sunday, February 18, 2:30 p.m.
Quartet in D major, Op. 20, No. 4....................................Haydn
Quartet in F major.................................................. Ravel
Quartet in A major, Op. 41, No. 3 ............................... Schumann
Season Tickets: $3.60 and $2.40 Single Concerts: $1.80 and $1.20
On sale beginning October 16, at offices of the University Musical Society, Burton Memorial Tower.
CONCERTS
Short Extra Series
(All concerts begin at 8:30 p.m.) Lauritz Melchior, Tenor......Tuesday, October 10
Boston Symphony Orchestra .... Wednesday, October 25 Charles Munch, Conductor
Myra Hess, Pianist.......Tuesday, November 14
Don Cossack Chorus......Monday, January IS
Serge Jaroff, Conductor
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra . . . Tuesday, February 20 Thor Johnson, Conductor
Season Tickets: $8.40--$7.20--$6.00 Single Concerts: $3.00--$2.40--$1.80
Choral Union Concert Series
(All concerts begin at 8:30 p.m.)
Boston Symphony Orchestra.....Sunday, October 22
Charles Munch, Conductor
Cleveland Orchestra......Sunday, November 5
George Szell, Conductor
Solomon, Pianist.......Monday, November 20
Polytech Chorus of Finland .... Tuesday November 28 Ossi Elokas, Conductor
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra .... Sunday, December 3 Sir Thomas Beecham, Conductor
Erica Morini, Violinist......Thursday, January 11
Horowitz, Pianist........Friday, January 19
Chicago Symphony Orchestra .... Sunday, March 4 Rafael Kubelik, Conductor
Heifetz, Violinist.......Wednesday, March 14
Single Concerts (inc. tax): $3.00--$2.40--$1.80
For tickets or for further information, please address: Charles A. Sink, President, University Musical Society, Burton Memorial Tower.