UMS Concert Program, February 20, 1955: Fifteenth Annual Chamber Music Festival -- Budapest String Quartet

Season: 1954-1955
Concert: Third
Complete Series: 3152
Rackham Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan

UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY
Charles A. Sink, President Thor Johnson, Guest Conductor
Lester McCoy, Associate Conductor
Third Concert 1954-1955 Complete Series 3152
Fifteenth Annual
Chamber Music Festival
BUDAPEST STRING QUARTET
Joseph Roisman, First Violin Boris Kroyt, Viola
Alexander Schneider, Second Violin Mischa Schneider, Violoncello
Assisted by Robert Courte, Viola
Sunday Afternoon, February 20, 1955, at 2:30 Rackham Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan
PROGRAM
Quintet in C major, Op. 29...........Beethoven
Allegro moderato Adagio molto espressivo Allegro Presto
Quartet, Op. 7, No. 1..............Bartok
Lento; attaca Allegretto; attaca Allegro vivace
INTERMISSION
Quintet in G major, Op. Ill............Brahms
Allegro non troppo, ma con brio Adagio
Un poco allegretto Vivace ma non troppo
Columbia Records
The Stemway is the official concert piano oj the University Musical Society. ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS
MAY FESTIVAL
MAY 5, 6, 7, 8, 1955 -SIX CONCERTS PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA THROUGHOUT
THURSDAY, MAY 5, 8:30 P.M.
Rudolf Serkin, Pianist, in the Concerto No. 2 in B-flat (Brahms). Prelude and Fugue in C minor (Bach-Ormandy), and Symphony No. 5 in C minor (Beethoven), Eugene Ormandy, Conductor.
FRIDAY, MAY 6, 8:30 P.M.
Missa Solemnis 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 (Bart6k), Eugene Ormandy, Conductor.
SUNDAY, MAY 8, 2:30 P.M.
Grant Johannesen, Pianist, in Concerto No. 3 (Prokofieff). "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 IS 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.