UMS Concert Program, February 19, 1955: Fifteenth Annual Chamber Music Festival -- Budapest String Quartet

Season: 1954-1955
Concert: Second
Complete Series: 3151
Rackham Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan

UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY
Charles A. Sink, President Thor Johnson, Guest Conductor
Lester McCoy, Associate Conductor
Second Concert 1954-1955 Complete Series 3151
Fifteenth Annual
Chamber Music Festival
BUDAPEST STRING QUARTET
Joseph Roisman, First Violin Boris Kroyt, Viola
Alexander Schneider, Second Violin Mischa Schneider, Violoncello
Saturday Evening, February 19, 1955, at 8:30 Rackham Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan
PROGRAM
Quartet in D major, K. 499............Mozart
Allegretto Menuetto Adagio Allegro
Quartet No. 2..............William Denny
Tranquillo; brioso; tranquillo Giocoso; tranquillo
INTERMISSION
Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2.........Beethoven
Allegro Molto adagio Allegretto Finale: presto
Columbia Records
THE THIRD CONCERT in the Chamber Music Festival will take place tomorrow-afternoon at 2:30. Robert Courte will participate in this concert.
The SUinway u the official concert piano of the University Musical Society. A R S L O N G A VITA B R E V I S
MAY FESTIVAL
MAY 5, 6, 7, 8, 1955 -SIX CONCERTS PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA THROUGHOUT
THURSDAY, MAY 5, 8:30 P.M.
Rudolf Ssrkin, Pianist, in the Concerto No. 2 in B-flat (Brahms). Prelude and Fugue in C minor (Bach-Onnandy), and Symphony No. 5 in C minor (Beethoven), Eugene Ormandy, Conductor.
FRIDAY, MAY 6, 8:30 P.M.
Missa Solcmnis in D (Beethoven) with Lois Marshall, Soprano; Nell Rankin, Contralto; Leslie Chabay, Tenor; Morley Meredith, Baritone; and University Choral Union, Thor Johnson, Conductor.
SATURDAY, MAY 7, 2:30 P.M.
Viennese program--Jean Mitchell, Violinist, in Mozart Concerto in A major. Mozart Sinfonia Concertante, with John deLancie, Oboe; Anthony Gigliotti. Clarinet; Sol Schoenbach. Bassoon; and Mason Jones, Horn. Overture, "Donna Diana" (Reznicek); and Symphony in B minor (Schubert), Eugene Ormandy, Conductor. Viennese Folk and Art Songs by Festival Youth Chorus, Marguerite Hood, Conductor.
SATURDAY, MAY 7, 8:30 P.M.
William Warfield, Baritone, in songs by Handel, Brahms, and Aaron Copland. Overture and Allegro from "La Sultane" (Couperin-Milhaud); Epigraph (Dello Joio); and Concerto for Orchestra (Bartok), Eugene Ormandy, Conductor.
SUNDAY, MAY 8, 2:30 P.M.
Grant Johannesen, Pianist, in Concerto No. 3 (Prokofleff). "Carmina Burana" (Carl Orff), with Lois Marshall, Soprano; Leslie Chabay, Tenor; Morley Meredith, Baritone: and University Choral Union, Thor Johnson, Conductor.
SUNDAY, MAY 8, 8:30 P.M.
Rise Stevens, Mezzo-soprano, in operatic arias. Concerto Grosso for Strings (Ernest Bloch); Symphony No. 4 in F minor (Tchaikovsky), Eugene Ormandy, Conductor.
Programs subject to necessary changes.
ZINO FRANCESCATTI, Violinist .... Monday, March 7
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA,
Herbert von Karajan, Conductor . . . Tuesday, March 15
WALTER GIESEKING, Pianist .... Tuesday, March 22 NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC-SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA,
Dimitri Mitropolous, Conductor (2:30 p.m.) . Sunday, May 22
For tickets or for further information, address: Charles A. Sink, President, University Musical Society, Burton Memorial Tower.