UMS Concert Program, October 3, 1957: Seventy-ninth Annual Choral Union Concert Series -- Rise Stevens

Season: 1957-1958
Concert: First
Complete Series: 3215
Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan

UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY
Charles A. Sink, President Lester McCoy, Conductor Gail W. Rector, Executive Director
First Concert 1957-1958 Complete Series 3215
Seventy-ninth Annual
Choral Union Concert Series
RISE STEVENS, Mezzo-Soprano James Shomate at the Piano
Thursday Evening, October 3, 1957, at 8:30 Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan
PROGRAM
"Where'er you walk," from Setnele.......Handel
"Voi che sapete," from The Marriage of Figaro .... Mozart
Water Lily
Morning Dew I G
The First Meeting
A Dream
Alle Dinge haben Sprache........Erich Wolff
Begegnung............Hugo Wolf
Dein blaues Auge...........Brahms
Nichts.............R. Strauss
"Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix," from Samson et Dalila . Saint-Saens
INTERMISSION
Prelude in A minor..........Debussy
Menuet..............Ravel
Impromptu in A-fiat major, No. 3.......Faure
James Shomate, Pianist
The Fragrance of Song........Cecil Cowles
The Pasture.........Charles Naginsky
Wild Swans...........John Duke
Monastery Evening ).......Reginald Boardman
Arcady )
?Excerpts from Carmen..........Bizet
Habanera Sequidilla "Chanson Boheme" (Gipsy Song)
RCA Victor Records Rise Stevens is heard this evening instead of Lily Pons, who is ill.
A R S L O N G A VITA B R E V I S
1957 UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY CONCERTS 1958
Twelfth Annual Extra Concert Series
The Marriage of Figaro......Sunday, October 6
Mozart's comic-opera to be sung in English in a concert version (in costume) by the NBC Opera Company, Peter Herman Adler, Music Director.
THE CAST
Count Almaviva........Walter Cassel Basilio ................ Luigi Vellucci
Countess Almaviva. Marguerite Willauer Don Curtio...........Fred Cushman
Susanna...............Judith Raskin Bartolo ................ Emile Renan
Figaro .................Mac Morgan Antonio ...............Eugene Green
Cherubino ............ Regina Sarfaty Barbarina ............. Berte Goapere
Marcellina ............. Ruth Kobart Crier................Richard Krause
Florence Festival Orchestra .... Thursday, October 24 Carlo Zecchi, Conductor
Rudolf Serkin, Pianist......Friday, November 15
Vienna Choir Boys (2:30 p.m.) .... Sunday, January 12 Mantovani and his New Music .... Tuesday, March 11
Single Concerts: $3.50--$3.00--$2.50--$2.00--$1.50
Seventy-ninth Annual Choral Union Series
Boston Symphony Orchestra .... Thursday, October 17
Charles Munch, Conductor
Yehudi Menuhin, Violinist.....Tuesday, October 29
The Cleveland Orchestra.....Sunday, November 10
George Szell, Conductor
William Warfield, Baritone .... Tuesday, November 26 Detroit Symphony Orchestra .... Monday, February 17
Paul Paray, Conductor
Obernkirchen Children's Choir . . . Tuesday, February 25 Chicago Symphony Orchestra.....Sunday, March 2
Fritz Reiner, Conductor
Myra Hess, Pianist.......Saturday, March 8
Vienna on Parade........Wednesday, April 2
Capt. Julius Herrmann, Conductor
Singh Concerts: $3.50--$3.00--$2.50--$2.00--$1.50
Annual Christmas Concerts
Messiah (Handel)......December 7 and 8, 1957
Tickets: 75c and 50c (either concert). On sale beginning October 15.
Eighteenth Annual Chamber Music Festival
Budapest String Quartet .... February 21, 22, 23, 1958 Season Tickets: $3.50 and $2.50. On sale beginning October 15.
For tickets or information, address: University Musical Society, Burton Memorial Tower.