UMS Concert Program, May 3, 1952: Fifty-ninth Annual May Festival -- The Philadelphia Orchestra

Season: 1951-1952
Concert: Fourth
Complete Series: 3082
Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan

UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY
Charles A. Sink, President Thor Johnson, Guest Conductor
Lester McCoy, Associate Conductor
Fourth Concert 19S1-1952 Complete Series 3082
Fifty-ninth Annual
MAY FESTIVAL
THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA EUGENE ORMANDY, Conductor
Soloists
ASTRID VARNAY, Soprano SET SVANHOLM, Tenor
Saturday Evening, May 3, 1952, at 8:30 Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan
PROGRAM
Compositions of Richard Wagner Overture to Die fliegende Hollander
Act I, Scene III, from Die Walkiire (Siegmund and Sieglinde) Astrid Varnay and Set Svanholm
INTERMISSION
Prelude to Tristan und Isolde
Night Scene--Act II, Scene II, from Tristan und Isolde Miss Varnay and Mr. Svanhoim
The Fifth May Festival Concert will take place Sunday afternoon at 2:30 and the Sixth May Festival Concert will take place Sunday evening, May 4 at 8:30.
ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS
1952--UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY CONCERTS--1953 Seventy-fourth Annual Choral Union Series
Richard Tucker, Tenor......Wednesday, October 8
Yehudi Menuhin, Violinist.....Wednesday, October 22
Danish State Symphony.....Thursday, November 13
Vladimir Horowitz, Pianist .... Wednesday, November 19
Bidu Sayao, Soprano.......Monday, December 1
Vienna Choir Boys.......Friday, January 16
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra . . Thursday, February 12
Gershwin Concert Orchestra .... Monday, March 2
Artur Rubinstein, Pianist.....Thursday, March 12
Boston Symphony Orchestra.....Tuesday, May 19
Season Tickets: Remaining unclaimed seats in Block A, $15.00. Block B, $12.00. Block C, $10.00.
Seventh Annual Extra Concert Series
Rise Stevens, Mezzo-Soprano.....Friday, October 17
Cleveland Orchestra......Sunday, November 9
Claudio Arrau, Pianist......Tuesday, November 25
Heifetz, Violinist.......Tuesday, February 17
Boston "Pops" Tour Orchestra .... Monday, March 23 Season Tickets: Block A, $7.50. Block B, $6.00. Block C, $5.00.
Annual Christmas Concerts
"Messiah" (Handel)......December 6 and 7, 19S2
Nancy Carr, Soprano James Pease, Bass
Eunice Alberts, Contralto Choral Union and Orchestra
David Lloyd, Tenor Lester McCoy, Conductor
Tickets: 70c1 and 50tf (either performance). On sale beginning October 15.
Thirteenth Annual Chamber Music Festival
Budapest String Quartet .... February 20, 21, 22, 1953 Josef Roisman, Violin Boris Kroyt, Viola
Jac Gorodetzky, Violin Mischa Schneider, Violoncello
Season Tickets: $3.50 and $2.50. On sale beginning October 15.
Sixtieth Annual May Festival
Six Concerts.......April 30, May 1, 2, 3, 1953
The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, Conductor, and Alexander Htlsberg, Guest Conductor; University Choral Union, Thor Johnson, Guest Conductor; Festival Youth Chorus, Marguerite Hood, Conductor. Soloists to be announced.
For tickets or information address: Charles A. Sink, President, University Musical Society, Burton Memorial Tower.