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

Concert: Sixth
Complete Series: 3295
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
Sixth Concert Complete Series 329S
Sixtyseventh Annual
MAY FESTIVAL
THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA EUGENE ORMANDY, Conductor
SOLOIST
LISA DELLA CASA, Soprano
Sunday Evening, May 8, 1960, at 8:30 Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan
PROGRAM
Toccata and Fugue in D minor.........Bach
(Transcribed for Orchestra by Eugene Ormandy)
"Mi tradi" from Don Giovanni.........Mozart
"Dove sono" from Le Nozze di Figaro.......Mozart
Lisa Della Casa
Symphony No. 2..........Ross Lee Finney
Allegro tempestoso Adagio con moto Allegro scherzando Allegro giocando
INTERMISSION
Monologue from Capriccio.........R. Strauss
Miss Della Casa
Suite from Der Rosenkavalier........R. Strauss
Columbia Records.
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
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 or 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