UMS Concert Program, May 8, 1960: Sixty-seventh Annual May Festival -- The Philadelphia Orchestra

Concert: Fifth
Complete Series: 3294
Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan

1959 Eightyfirst Season 1960
UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Charles A. Sink, President Gail W. Rector, Executive Director Lester McCoy, Conductor
Fifth Concert Complete Series 3294
Sixtyseventh Annual
MAY FESTIVAL
THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA
THE UNIVERSITY CHORAL UNION
THOR JOHNSON, Guest Conductor
SOLOISTS
LEONTYNE PRICE, Soprano
FRANCES BIBLE, MezzoSoprano
ALBERT DA COSTA, Tenor
KIM BORG, Bass
Sunday Afternoon, May 8, 1960, at 2:30 Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan
PROGRAM
Requiem Mass.............Verdi
Composed in memory of Alessandro Manzoni For Soli, Chorus, and Orchestra
Requiem et Kyrie........Chorus and Quartet
Dies irae
Dies irae, dies ilia............Chorus
Tuba mirum...........Bass and Chorus
Liber scriptus proferetur......Contralto and Chorus
Quid sum, miser!..........Trio and Chorus
Rex tremendae majestatis.......Quartet and Chorus
Recordare, Jesu pie........Soprano and Contralto
Ingemisco, tamquam reus.........Tenor Solo
Confutatis maledictis...........Bass Solo
Lacrymosa dies ilia........Quartet and Chorus
INTERMISSION
Domine Jesu............Quartet
Sanctus...........Double Chorus
Agnus Dei.......Soprano, Contralto, and Chorus
Lux actcrna.......Contralto, Tenor, and Bass
Libera vie.........Soprano and Chorus
The Sleinway is the official piano of the University Musical Society. The Lester Piano is the official piano of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS
1960 UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY CONCERTS 1961
Eightysecond Annual Choral Union Series
Hilde Gueden, Soprano.......Thursday, October 6
Boston Symphony Orchestra.....Saturday, October 29
Charles Munch, Music Director
Van Cliburn, Pianist.......Wednesday, November 2
Branko Krsmanovich Chorus of Yugoslavia (2:30) Sunday, November 6
Artur Rubinstein, Pianist......Monday, November 14
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra . . . Wednesday, January 18
Witold Rowicki, Music Director
Henryk Szeryng, Violinist......Tuesday, February 14
Jussi Bjoerling, Tenor.......Tuesday, February 28
Dallas Symphony Orchestra......Friday, March 10
Paul Kletzki, Music Director Toronto Symphony Orchestra.....Wednesday, March IS
Walter Susskind, Music Director
Season Tickets: $18.00--$15.00--$12.00--$10.00
Fifteenth Annual Extra Concert Series
Jerome Hines, Bass........Monday, October 17
Van Cliburn, Pianist........Monday, October 31
Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra . . . Thursday, January 12
Robert Shaw, Conductor
Zino Francescatti, Violinist......Tuesday, March 21
Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam . (2:30) Sunday, April 23
Eugen Jochum, Conductor
Season Tickets: $9.00--$7.50--$6.00--$5.00
Special Concerts
I Soloisti di Zagreb (Rackham Auditorium) . . Monday, November 7 Messiah (2 concerts in Hill Auditorium) .... December 3 and 4 Phyllis Curtin, Soprano Donald Bell, Bass
Evelyn Beal, Contralto Mary McCall Stubbins, Organist
Walter Carringer, Tenor Lester McCoy, Conductor
Choral Union and Musical Society Orchestra Budapest Quartet (Rackham Auditorium) . (2:30) Sunday, March 26
Chamber Music Festival
Vienna Octet (3 concerts).......February 17, 18, 19
Ann Arbor May Festival
Philadelphia Orchestra (6 concerts).....May 4, 5, 6, 7
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 and information address: University Musical Society, Burton Memorial Tower