UMS Concert Program, March 26, 1961: Budapest Quartet --

Season: Eighty-second
Complete Series: 3317
Rackham Auditorium, Ann Arbor

1960 Eighty-second Season 1961
UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Charles A. Sink, President Gail W. Rector, Executive Director Lester McCoy, Conductor
Special Concert Complete Series 3317
BUDAPEST QUARTET
Joseph Roisman, Violin Boris Kroyt, Viola
Alexander Schneider, Violin Mischa Schneider, Violoncello
Sunday Afternoon, March 26, 1961, at 2:30 Rackham Auditorium, Ann Arbor
PROGRAM
Compositions of Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet in A major, Op. 18, No. 5
Allegro Menuetto Andante cantabile Allegro
String Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 130 Adagio ma non troppo; allegro Presto
Andante con moto, ma non troppo Allegro assai; alia danza tedesca Cavatina; adagio molto espressivo Finale: allegro
INTERMISSION
String Quartet in C major, Op. 59, No. 3
Introduzione; allegro vivace Andante con moto quasi allegretto Menuetto: grazioso Allegro molto
Columbia Records
Note.--The University Musical Society has presented the Budapest Quartet on 30 previous occasions since 1933.
The Steinway is the official piano of the University Musical Society. ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS
MAY FESTIVAL
4, 5, 6, 7,
THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AT ALL CONCERTS PROGRAMS
THURSDAY, MAY 4, 8:30 P.M.
EUGENE ORMANDY, Conductor BIRGIT NILSSON, Soprano
All-Wagner Program Overture to Die iieistersinger Etsa's Dream, from Lohengrin Prelude to Act I, and Love-Death, from
Tristan and Isolde
Excerpts from Die Gotterdtivimerung: Siegfried's Rhine Journey Siegfried's Death and Funeral Music Brunnhilde's Immolation Closing Scene
BlRGIT NlLSSON
FRIDAY, MAY 5, 8:30 P.M.
THOR JOHNSON, Conductor
UNIVERSITY CHORAL UNION
and Boy Choir
Program
"JOAN OF ARC AT THE STAKE"
Dramatic oratorio--music by Arthur Honegger;
poem by Paul Claudel.
Joan of Arc.....VERA ZORINA
Brother Dominic .... HUGH NORTON JANICE HARSANYI, Soprano
FRANCES GREER, Soprano
MARY MacKENZIE, Mezzo-soprano
DAVID LLOYD, Tenor
ARA BERBERIAN, Bass
Other speakers: Nancy Heusel,
Jerrold Sandier, and Marvin Diskin
SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2:30 P.M.
WILLIAM SMITH, Conductor
AARON COPLAND, Guest Conductor
ANSHEL BRUSILOW, Violinist
LORNE MUNROE, Cellist
Program
Overture to Colas Breugnon . . Kabalevskv Orchestral Variations .... Copland
Conducted by the composer Concerto in A minor, Op. 102 . . Brahms
Anshel Bkusilow and Lorne Munroe Suite, from The Tender Land . . Copland
Conducted by the composer Suite No. 2 from the Ballet, Daphnis
and Chloe.......Ravel
SATURDAY, MAY 6, 8:30 P.M.
EUGENE ORMANDY, Conductor ROBERT NOEHREN, Organist JOHN BROWNING, Pianist
All-American Program
"Toccata Festiva" for Organ and
Orchestra.......Barber
Robert Noeuren
Symphoy No. 7......Piston
Concerto No. 2 in D minor, for Piano
and Orchestra .... MacDowell
Rhapsody in Blue.....Gershwin
John Browning
SUNDAY, MAY 7, 2:30 P.M.
THOR JOHNSON, Conductor
UNIVERSITY CHORAL UNION
JANICE HARSANYI, Soprano
MARY MacKENZIE, Mezzo-soprano
DAVID LLOYD, Tenor WILLIAM WARFIELD, Baritone
Program
ELIJAH, a dramatic oratorio for Chorus, Soloists, and Orchestra,
Op. 70......Mendelssohn
Universitv Choral Union and Soloists
SUNDAY, MAY 7, 8:30 P.M.
EUGENE ORMANDY, Conductor EUGENE 1STOMIN, Pianist
All-Rachmaninoff Program Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14
Concerto No. 2 in C minor Modcrato Adagio sostenuto Allegro scherzando
Eugene Istomin
Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 Largo; allegro moderato Allegro molto Adagio Allegro vivace
TICKETS: $3.50--$3.00--$2 .SO--$2.00--$1.50
CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA OF AMSTERDAM
(Extra Series).......8:30, Sunday, April 23
Program: Tone Poem, "Don Juan," Op. 20.....R. Strauss
Symphonic Music, Op. 59.......Flothuis
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55 ("Eroica") . Beethoven
1961-1962 CHORAL UNION SERIES and EXTRA CONCERT SERIES Orders for season tickets accepted and filed in sequence beginning May 8, at which time the list of concerts will be available.
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