UMS Concert Program, October 23, 24, 25, 1964: Chamber Dance Festival -- Jean Leon Destine

Season: Eighty-sixth
Rackham Auditorium Ann Arbor, Michigan

1964 Eighty-sixth Season 1965
UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Charles A. Sink, President Gail W. Rector, Executive Director Lester McCoy, Conductor
Chamber Dance Festival
THE PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY
JEAN LEON DESTINE
and his HAITIAN DANCE COMPANY
THE FIRST CHAMBER DANCE QUARTET
October 23, 24, 25, 1964
Rackham Auditorium Ann Arbor, Michigan
Third Program Complete Series 3441
ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS
THE FIRST CHAMBER DANCE QUARTET
LOIS BEWLEY BILL CARTER
JANICE GROMAN CHARLES BENNETT
Sunday, October 25, 1964, 2:30 p.m.
PROGRAM
Recollection of an Age......Francois Adrien Boieldieu
Boieldieu (1775-1834) lived just prior to the time when Marie Taglioni became the leading ballerina of the classical romantic style of ballet dancing. The composer was married to a ballet dancer Clotilde Malfeury and was conductor at the Imperial Opera in St. Petersburg. Undoubtedly Boieldieu witnessed a great deal of dancing during his lifetime, but he is not known to have composed a work especially for the ballet. His harp concerto, however, brings to mind the sweetness, vivacity, and vitality of the ballet's golden romantic age.
Allegro brillante.........Miss Groman and Mr. Carter
Lento attacca.........Miss Bewley and Mr. Bennett
Rondeau . . . Miss Bewley, Miss Groman, Mr. Bennett, and Mr. Carter
Impressiones intimas.........Federico Mompou
Pass by, do not think of my life, leave me slender and submerged . Mr. Carter What do you feel in your mouth scarlet and thirsting . . . Miss Bewley Past my garden of flesh and moonlight
Proud and bitter black hair went by........Miss Groman
He seeks for his confident profile and the dream bewilders him . Mr. Bennett
Summer Pergola..........Luigi Boccherini
(Quintet in C major, Op. 25, No. 3)
Miss Groman, Miss Bewley, Mr. Bennett, and Mr. Carter
INTERMISSION
Inner Obstacle.........Dimitri Shostakovitch
(Quartet No. 3, Op. 73)
"If the way which, as I have shown, leads hither seems very difficult, it can never?theless be found. It must indeed be difficult since it is so seldom discovered; for if salvation lay ready to hand and could be discovered without great labour, how could it be possible that it should be neglected almost by everybody But all noble things are as difficult as they are rare."--Spinoza
Miss Groman, Miss Bewley, Mr. Carter, and Mr. Bennett
INTERMISSION
Five Songs...........Robert Schumann
(From the Dichterliebe)
. . . There dances her wedding dance The beloved of my heart . . .
Miss Groman, Miss Bewley, Mr. Carter, and Mr. Bennett
When I hear the little song
that once my sweetheart sang,
I feel as if my heart would burst . . .
Miss Groman and Mr. Bennett
The rose, the lily, the dove, the sun, I loved them once with the rapture of love I love them no more, I love alone The little one, the fine, the pure, the only one
Mr. Carter
. . . There whisper and speak the flowers, but I walk silently. ... Be not angry with our sister You sorrowful pale man.
Miss Bewxey and Mr. Carter
The old wicked songs . . . Let us bury them now . . .
Miss Groman, Miss Bewley, Mr. Carter, and Mr. Bennett
Hr2..............Edgar Varese
Mr. Carter, Mr. Bennett, and Miss Bewley
Under Green Leaves.......George Phillipp Telemann
(Concerto in G major for Viola and Continuo) Miss Groman, Miss Bewley, Mr. Bennett, and Mr. Carter
Credits: Choreography, Costumes, and Lighting
Summer Pergola...............William Carter
Recollection of an Age, Impressiones intimas, Under Green Leaves . Charles Bennett Stage Manager for the Quartet, Dean Francis
UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY
INTERNATIONAL PRESENTATIONS OCTOBER
28 SOCIETA COEELLI
NOVEMBER
4 Leonid Kogan, Violinist
9 Irina Arkhipova, Mezzo-soprano (American debut) 14 Raduga Dancers, from six Soviet Republics
17 New York Chamber Soloists
20 Die Fledermaus (Strauss) New York City Opera Company
22 Merry Widow (Lehar) New York City Opera Company (2:30 p.m.)
22 Faust (Gounod) New York City Opera Company
JANUARY
20 fSEGOviA, Guitarist
30 Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan, Conductor
FEBRUARY
8 Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra,
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Conductor 14 Paris Chamber Orchestra
23 Polish Mime Theatre
27 Netherlands Chamber Choir
MARCH
1 Rosalyn Tureck, Pianist 7 Chicago Little Symphony 12 Robert Merrill, Baritone 30 Solisti di Zagreb
APRIL
3 National Ballet of Canada
Tickets: $4.50--$4.00--$3.50--$3.00--$2.25--$1.50 Standing room only t Sold out
Messiah (Handel).........Saturday, December 5
and (2:30 p.m.) Sunday, December 6 Tickets: $2.00--$1.50--$1.00--$.75 (Now on sale) (All presentations are at 8:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted.)
In Rackham Auditorium CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
Budapest String Quartet . . February 17, 18, 19, 20, (2:30 p.m.) 21 Beethoven cycle (5 concerts)
Series tickets: $12.00--$9.00--$7.00
Single concerts: $3.50--$2.50--$2.00
(On sale November 5)
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