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

Season: Eightieth
Concert: Sixth
Complete Series: 3266
Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan

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Eightieth Season
1959
UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Charles A. Sink, President Gail W. Rector, Executive Director Lester McCoy, Conductor
Sixth Concert
Complete Series 3266
Sixty-sixth Annual
MAY FESTIVAL
THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA EUGENE ORMANDY, Conductor
SOLOIST
Giorgio Tozzi, Basso
Sunday Evening, May 3, 1959, at 8:30 Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan
PROGRAM
Symphony No. 39 in E-flat major, K. 543......
Adagio; allegro Andante
Menuetto; allegretto Finale; allegro
"Se vuol ballare" from Le Nozze di Figaro......
"Madamina, il catalogo e questo" from Don Giovanni .
Giorgio Tozzi
INTERMISSION
"Paganiniana," Divertimento for Orchestra, Op. 65 ...
Allegro agitato Polacchetta Romania
Tarantella
"II lacerato spirito" from Simon Boccanegra.......Verdi
Pilgrim Song............Tchaikovsky
Mr. Tozzi
Mozart
Mozart Mozart
Casella
?Suite No. 2 from the Ballet Daphnis et Chloe......
Daybreak Pantomime General Dance
Columbia Records.
The Steinway is the official piano oj the University Musical Society. The Lester Piano is the official piano oj the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Ravel
A R S
L 0 N G A
VITA
B R E V I S
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 IS
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 IS
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra .... Monday, February 29
William Steinberg, Conductor Lamoureux Orchestra (from Paris) .... Thursday, March 24
Igor Markevitch, Conductor
Season Tickets: $9.00--$7.SO--$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, 75tf and 50(. On sale beginning October 15.
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; WnxiAM 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.