UMS Concert Program, February 19, 1956: Sixteenth Annual Chamber Music Festival -- Budapest String Quartet

Season: 1955-1956
Concert: Third
Complete Series: 3177
Rackham Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan

UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY
Charles A. Sink, President Thor Johnson, Guest Conductor
Lester McCoy, Associate Conductor
Third Concert 1955-1956 Complete Series 3177
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
Sunday Afternoon, February 19, 1956, at 2:30 Rackham Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan
PROGRAM
Quartet in D major, Op. 18, No. 3......Beethoven
Allegro
Andante con moto Allegro Presto
Quartet in F major, Op. 96 ("American Quartet") . . . Dvorak
Allegro ma non troppo Lento
Molto vivace
Finale: vivace ma non troppo
INTERMISSION
Quintet in D major, K. 593.........Mozart
Larghetto allegro Adagio
Menuetto
Finale: allegro
Columbia Records
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.....Handel-Ormandy
Symphony No. 7......Sibelius
Cleopatra's aria from Julius Caesar . Handel "Abscheulicher wo eilst du hin"
from Fidelio.....Beethoven
Inge Bokkh Monologue from EUktra . . . R. Strauss
Miss Borkii Symphonic Variations, "Paganiniana" . Blachek
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 11 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 Einem
SATURDAY, MAY 5, 8:30 P.M.
EUGENE ORMANDY, Conductor ZINO FRANCESCATTI, Violinist
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 Schoenberg
University Choral Union and Soloists
SUNDAY, MAY 6, 8:30 P.M.
EUGENE ORMANDY, Conductor BYRON JANIS, Pianist
"Cantus aniraae et cordis"
for String Orchestra . . . Yarduuian 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
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.