UMS Concert Program, November 14, 1964.: Raduga Dancers --

Season: Eighty-sixth
Concert: Fifth
Complete Series: 3445
Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan

1964 Eighty-sixth Season 196S
UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Charles A. Sink, President Gail W. Rector, Executive Director Lester McCoy, Conductor
Fifth Program Eighty-sixth Annual Choral Union Series Complete Series 3445
RADUGA DANCERS
Ballet and Folk Ensemble
Saturday Evening, November 14, 1964, at 8:30 Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Shamil Yagudin, Vsevolod Nemolyaev,
Yuri Zhdanov, Nina Chistova......from the Bolshoi Ballet (Moscow)
Lydia Ustinova, Eleanora Vlasova,
Vladimir Chigirev, Yuri Grigoriev .... from the Stanislavski Theatre (Moscow)
Vachtang Chabukiani, Eteri Chabukiani, Zurub Kikaleishvili,
Vera Tsignadse .... from the Georgian Theatre of Opera and Ballet (Tbilisi)
Valeri Mironov, Lydia Riazhenova . from the Byelorussian Theatre of Opera and Ballet Velta Viltsin, Harald Rittenberg . from the Latvian Theatre of Opera and Ballet (Riga) Bernara Kareeva . from the Tashkent Theatre of Opera and Ballet "Navoi" Uzbek S.S.R.
Grigori Beradze, Anzor Beradze,
Yason Zedashidze, Zaour Akhvlediani .... from the Georgian Folk Ensemble
Ludmilla Zikina.............Contralto Folksinger
Eugene Avksentiev..............Balalaika Soloist
Nikolai Krilov, Anatole Shalayev............Bayans
RAVsnAN-BEK Akbarbekov...............Doira
Maria Gorodisctieva, Michail Bank............Piano
ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS
PROGRAM
Pas de Deux from the Ballet, Nutcracker .... Tchaikovsky Nina Chistova, Yuri Zhdanov
Autumn.............Kalnin
Velta Viltsin, Harald Rittenberg
Esmeralda.............Pugni
Eleanora Vlasova, Yuri Gricoriev
Russian Duet............Liadov
Lydia Riazhenova, Valeri Mironov
The Swan............Saint-Saens
Eteri Chabukiani
Pas de Deux from the Ballet, Corsair.......Adam
Vaciitang Chabukiani, Vera Tsignadze
"Joy" Waltz............Igenberg
Velta Viltsin, Harald Rittenberg
Romance...........Shostakovitch
Eleanora Vlasova, Yuri Grigoriev
"Spring Waters".........Rachmaninoff
Nina Chistova, Yuri Zhdanov
Excerpt from the Ballet, Walpurgis Night.....Gounod
Bacchus: Vachtang Chabukiani
Satyr: Zurab Kikai.f.ishvili
Nymphs: Lydia Riazhenova, Velta Viltsin,
Eteri Chabukiani, Eleanora Vlasova,
Nina Chistova
Youths: Yuri Zhdanov, Valeri Mironov,
Harald Rittenberg, Yuri Grigoriev
INTERMISSION
Balalaika Solos--
Dance............Andreyev
Two Folksongs..........Avksentiev
"Luchinushka" "Kak na Gorke"
Eugene Avksentiev, Balalaika Virtuoso
Lyana (Moldavian Folk Dance).......Traditional
Lydia Ustinova, Vladimir Chicirev, vsevolod nemolyaev
Rivalry (Georgian Dance)........Traditional
Gricori Beradze, Yason Zedashidze Anzor Beradze, Zaour Akhvlediani
Bayan (Accordian) Solos--
Scene and Dance of the Young Swans, from
the Ballet, Swan Lake.......Tchaikovsky
Volga Tunes.......Transcribed by Shalayev
On the Way.........Soloviev-Sedoy
Anatole Shalayev, Nikolai Krllov
Hopak (Ukrainian Dance).......Soloviev-Sedoy
Shamil Yacudin
Dance from Kazbek (Mountain Folk Dance) .... Traditional
Gricori Beradze, Yason Zedashidze Anzor Beradze, Zaour Akhvlediani
Russian Folk Dance.........Traditional
Lydia Ustinova, Vladimir Chicirev, vsevolod nemolyaev
Songs--
The River Volga Flows........Fradkin
Folk Wedding Song Matushka 1.....Ponomarenko
Snow )
LUDMILLA ZlKlNA
Maria Gorodischeva at the Piano
The Soviet Dance in all its brilliance, with unsurpassed classical techniques and a matchless folk spirit is capsuled into one exciting evening by the Raduca Dancers. Appearing in the United States for the first time, tiie raduga dancers (pronounced Rahdu ga) take their name from the Russian word for rainbow. This is an all star company, presenting to many North American cities a first taste of the great dance traditions for which the U.S.S.R. is justly famed. And the program, specially designed for Columbia Artists Management by Gosconcert, the Soviet government concert agency, has been made to fully reveal the complete spectrum of Soviet Dance.
The Russian ballet, with a noble history' spanning two centuries, is represented by a group of classical dancers appearing in excerpts from the world's best loved dance reper?toire. Stars of the Bolshoi Ballet (including Shamil Yagudin and Yuri Zhdanov whose gravity defying leaps have mystified American critics), the first dancers from the famed Stanislavski Theatre, and leading members of the Ballets of Georgia, Latvia, Byelorussia and Uzbekistan make up the classical contingent of the Raduga Dancers.
Stately Georgians from the Georgian Folk Dance Ensemble (noted for their ability to dance en pointe without padded boots) ; members of the exuberant Moiseyev Company and members of Folk companies from places as varied as Tashkent and Gjiatsk, Vitebsk and Baku, appear colorfully costumed and magnificently schooled in a series of thrilling folk dance vignettes. The vibrant music of the Russian people has a special place in Raduga as played by a pair of Bayans (the Russian word for Accordian) and sung by Ludmilla Zikina, one of her country's most popular folk singers. And Eugene Avksentiev a great Balalaika virtuoso will bring a new dimension to this sweet voiced Russian ancestor of the guitar.
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