UMS Concert Program, February 18, 1956: Sixteenth Annual Chamber Music Festival -- Budapest String Quartet

Season: 1955-1956
Concert: Second
Complete Series: 3176
Rackham Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan

UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY
Charles A. Sink, President Thor Johnson, Guest Conductor
Lester McCoy, Associate Conductor
Second Concert 1955-1956 Complete Series 3176
Sixteenth Annual
Chamber Music Festival
BUDAPEST STRING QUARTET
Joseph Roisman, First Violin Boris Kroyt, Viola
Alexander Schneider, Second Violin Mischa Schneider, Violoncello Robert Courte, Guest Viola
Saturday Evening, February 18, 1956, at 8:30 Rackham Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan
PROGRAM
Quartet in G major, Op. 18, No. 2......Beethoven
Allegro
Adagio cantabile Scherzo
Allegro molto quasi presto
Quartet in E minor, Op. 116, No. 1 ("From My Life") . . Smetana
Allegro vivo appassionato
Allegro moderato a la polka Largo sostenuto Vivace
INTERMISSION
Quintet in G minor, K. 516.........Mozart
Allegro
Menuetto: allegretto
Adagio, ma non troppo Adagio, allegro
Columbia Records
THE THIRD CONCERT in the Chamber Music Festival will take place tomorrow
afternoon at 2:30.
ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS
MAY FESTIVAL
MAY 3, 4, 5, 6, 1956
THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AT ALL CONCERTS
THURSDAY, MAY 3, 8:30 P.M.
EUGENE ORMANDY, Conductor INGE BORKH, Soprano
Concerto for Orchestra,
A major .... Symphony No. 7 . Cleopatra's aria from Julius Caesar "Abscheulicher wo eilst du hin"
from Fidelio.....
Inge Borkh
Monologue from Elektra . . Miss Borkh Symphonic Variations, "Paganiniana'
SATURDAY, MAY 5, 8:30 P.M.
EUGENE ORMANDY, Conductor ZINO FRANCESCATTI, Violinist
Handel-Ormandy Sibelius Handel
Beethoven R. Strauss . Blacher
Overture to Oberon Symphony No. 1 in C major Concerto in D major, Op. 77, for Violin and Orchestra
Weber Bizet
Brahms
SUNDAY, MAY 6, 2:30 P.M.
THOR JOHNSON, Conductor UNIVERSITY CHORAL UNION
LOIS MARSHALL, Soprano
MARTHA LIPTON, Contralto
RUDOLF PETRAK, Tenor
HAROLD HAUGH, Tenor
LAWRENCE WINTERS, Bass
ERIKA VON WAGNER STIEDRY, Narrator
"Gurre-Lieder" . . Arnold Schoenberc
University Choral Union and Soloists
SUNDAY, MAY 6, 8:30 P.M.
EUGENE ORMANDY, Conductor BYRON JAN IS, Pianist
"Cantus animae et cordis"
for String Orchestra . . . Yardumian Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30,
for Piano and Orchestra . . Rachmaninoff
Byron Janis Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 . Brahms
SEASON TICKETS: $13.00--$10.00--$9.00--$8.00
SINGLE CONCERTS (on sale beginning March 12):
$3.50--$3.00--$2.50--$2.00--$1.50
FRIDAY, MAY 4, 8:30 P.M.
UNIVERSITY CHORAL UNION THOR JOHNSON, Guest Conductor
LOIS MARSHALL, Soprano JANE HOBSON, Mezzo-soprano
RUDOLF PETRAK, Tenor VRONSKY and BABIN, Pianists
Overture to The Magic Flute . . . Mozart
"Davidde penitente".....Mozart
Choral Union and Soloists
Concerto in F major.....Mozart
Vronsky and Babin
SATURDAY, MAY 5, 2:30 P.M.
EUGENE ORMANDY, Conductor HILDE GUEDEN, Soprano
FESTIVAL YOUTH CHORUS MARGUERITE HOOD, Conductor
Adagio and Fugue .... Mozart
Aminta's Aria from Re Pastori . Mozart
"Non temer amato bene" Mozart
HlLDE GUEDEN
Songs by Robert Schumann
Festival Youth Chorus
Zerbinetta's aria from Ariadne . R. Strauss
Miss Gueden
Concerto for Orchestra von Kinkm
Toronto Symphony Orchestra Artur Rubinstein, Pianist . Teresa Stich-Randall, Soprano Virtuosi di Roma . Walter Gieseking, Pianist .
Wednesday, February 22
Thursday, March 1
Friday, March 9
Tuesday, March 13
Postponed to Wednesday, May 16
TICKETS: $3.50--$3.00--$2.50--$2.00--$1.50
For tickets or information address: Charles A. Sink, President, Univer?sity Musical Society, Burton Memorial Tower.