UMS Concert Program, May 3, 1959: Sixty-sixth Annual May Festival -- The Philadelphia Orchestra

Season: Eightieth
Concert: Fifth
Complete Series: 3265
Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan

19S8 Eightieth Season 1959
UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Charles A. Sink, President Gail W. Rector, Executive Director Lester McCoy, Conductor
Fifth Concert Complete Series 3265
Sixty-sixth Annual
MAY FESTIVAL
THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA
THE UNIVERSITY CHORAL UNION
THOR JOHNSON, Guest Conductor
SOLOISTS
LOIS MARSHALL, Soprano
ILONA KOMBRINK, Soprano
HOWARD JARRATT, Tenor
AURELIO ESTANISLAO, Baritone
Sunday Afternoon, May 3, 1959, at 2:30 Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan
PROGRAM
Solomon, an Oratorio for Two Sopranos, Tenor,
Baritone, Chorus, and Orchestra........Handel
The University Choral Union and Soloists
Marilyn Mason, Harpsichord
Mary McCall Stubbins, Organ
Cast
Solomon........Aurelio Estanislao
Nicaule, Queen of Sheba) T _,
Second Woman ..... Lois Marshall
The Queen } T T,
First Woman ....... Il0NA Kombrink
Zadok......... Howard Jarratt
Priests, Priestesses, and Israelites . . . Choral Union
Observing the 200th anniversary of the composer's death.
The Steinway is the official piano of the University Musical Society. The Lester Piano is the official piano of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS
1959 UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY CONCERTS 1960
Eighty-first Annual Choral Union Series
Glenn Gould, Pianist........Monday, October 12
Boston Symphony Orchestra......Saturday, October 24
Charles Munch, Conductor
Irmgard Seefried, Soprano......Thursday, October 29
Richard Tucker, Tenor.......Friday, November 6
Pamplona Choir from Spain .... (2:30) Sunday, November 15
Luis Morondo, Conductor
Jan Smeterlin, Pianist.......Tuesday, November 24
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra .... Monday, February 8
Antal Dorati, Conductor Bach Aria Group (including Eileen Farrell and
Jan Peerce), William H. Scheide, Director . Tuesday, February 16 Giulietta Simionato, Mezzo-soprano . . . (2:30) Sunday, March 13 Chicago Symphony Orchestra......Monday, April 4
Fritz Reiner, Conductor
Season Tickets: $18.00--$15.00--$12.00--$10.00
Fourteenth Annual Extra Concert Series
Boston Symphony Orchestra .... (2:30) Sunday, October 25
Charles Munch, Conductor Note: Second attraction in this series to be announced.
Witold Malcuzynski, Pianist......Friday, January 15
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra .... Monday, February 29
William Steinberg, Conductor Lamoureux Orchestra (from Paris) .... Thursday, March 24
Igor Markevitch, Conductor
Season Tickets: $9.00--$7.50--$6.00--$5.00
Annual Christmas Concerts
Messiah (Handel).........December 5 and 6
Saramae Endich, Soprano Yi-Kwei Sze, Bass
Gladys Kriese, Contralto Mary McCall Stubbins, Organist
Charles O'Neill, Tenor Lester McCoy, Conductor
Choral Union and Musical Society Orchestra
Tickets: $1.00, 75c1 and 50. On sale beginning October IS.
Twentieth Annual Chamber Music Festival
Festival Quartet (three concerts).....February 12, 13, 14
Victor Babin, Piano William Primrose, Viola
Szymon Goldberg, Violin Nikolai Graudan, Cello
Season Tickets: $4.00 and $3.00. On sale beginning November 2.
Sixty-seventh Annual May Festival
Philadelphia Orchestra (6 concerts).....May 5, 6, 7, 8
Eugene Ormandy, Music Director; William Smith, Assistant Conductor. University Choral Union, Thor Johnson, Guest Conductor, and Lester McCoy, Conductor. Soloists and programs to be announced.
For tickets or information address: University Musical Society, Burton Memorial Tower.