UMS Concert Program, February 4, 1967: The Royal Winnipeg Ballet --

Season: Eighty-eighth
Concert: Seventh
Complete Series: 3547
Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan

1966 Eighty-eighth Season 1967
UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Charles A. Sink, President Gail W. Rector, Executive Director Lester McCoy, Conductor
Seventh Program Eighty-eighth Annual Choral Union Series Complete Series 3547
Third program in the Sesguicentennial Year of The University of Michigan
The Royal Winnipeg Ballet
Saturday Evening, February 4, 1967, at 8:30 Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan
PROGRAM
AIMEZ VOUS BACH
Music.........Johann Sebastian Bach
Choreography.........Brian Macdonald
Pianist............Sylvia Hunter
Maestro.........James Clouser
New Girl........Donna Frances
Ballerina.......Christine Hennessy
Premier Danseur .... Bill Martin-Viscount
New Boy.........Leo Ahonen
Brian Anderson, Cavell Anderson, Diane Bell, Nicola Betts, Robert Bristol, Winthrop Corey, Anna Marie de Gorriz, Richard Foose, Graham Goodbody, Raymond Goulet, Florence Kingsbury, Donna Kirkbride, Shirley New, Jennifer Sholl, Heinz Spoerli, Marilee Williams
An intriguing development of the classical technique by the brilliant young Canadian choreographer Brian Macdonald, performed in simple rehearsal clothes, entered into the Company repertoire during the 1963-64 season. The choreography progresses with the keyboard accompaniment of seven of J. S. Bach's well known Inventions to full Company on stage and full orchestra in three movements of a Concertino. During the final Toccata and Fugue, the audience is presented with a genuine surprise ending.
Macdonald is official choreographer to The Royal Winnipeg Ballet, and is at present Director of the Royal Swedish Ballet. "Aimez Vous Bach " earned the Gold Star for Choreography at the Paris International Festival in 1964.
INTERMISSION
ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS
THE STILL POINT
Choreography..........Todd Bolender
Music.........Debussy, String Quartet
"At the still point of the turning world, neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent or decline. Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance."
from Burnt Norton--T. S. Eliot
Two young girls . . . Jennifer Shoix, Shirley New Two young men . . . Richard Foose, Heinz Spoerli
A young girl........Sheila MacKinnon
A young man........James Clouser
Widely acknowledged as one of this choreographer's finest works, The Still Point was first produced in New York for the Dance Drama Company, an experimental group, in January of 1955. The Company presented the work for the first time publicly in St. John's, Newfoundland, on February 24, 1966. An American by birth, Todd Bolender was a founding member of The New York City Ballet, and currently he directs the Cologne Ballet in Germany.
INTERMISSION
"GISELLE" PEASANT PAS DE DEUX
Choreography.........Leonid Laurovsky
Music............Adolph Adam
This is the Bolshoi-Laurovsky version of the Peasant Pas de Deux from ACT I. Donna Frances Leo Ahonen
"DON QUIXOTE" PAS DE DEUX
Choreography..........Martus Petipa
Music..............Minkus
Christine Hennessy Richard Rutherford
LES WHOOPS-DE-DOO
Choreography.........Brian Macdonald
Music.............Don Gillies
Costumes and Decor.........Ted Korol
A whoop-up dedicated to the misalliance of classical ballet and the Western myth.
All Come Centre and Rendezvous
Sheila Mackinnon Heinz Spoerli
Diane Bell James Clouser
Jennifer Sholl David Moroni
Brian Anderson, Cavell Anderson, Nicola Betts, Robert Bristol, Dick Foose, Raymond Goulet, Florence Kingsbury, Donna Kirkbride, Marilyn Lewis, Shirley New, Marilee Williams, Winthrop Corey.
Vision at the OX. Corral Sheila Mackinnon James Clouser
Through the Swinging Doors Jennifer Sholl Heinz Spoerli David Moroni
By the Light of the Silvery Moon Diane Bell James Clouser
Meanwhile Back at the Ranch The Men
Whoop-De-Doo
Jennifer Sholl David Moroni
And the Ensemble
Staff on Tour for THE ROYAL WINNIPEG BALLET
Director.........Arnold Spohr
General Manager.....J. Sergei Sawchyn
Musical Director.......Carlos Rausch
Pianist.........Sylvia Hunter
Ballet Master.......James Clouser
Production Stage Manager . . Tibor FeherecyhAzi Director of Wardrobe .... Doreen Macdonald
Concert Master.......Eugene Kash
Assistant Stage Manager .... Clarke J. Rogers Wardrobe Assistant......Brenda Bonner
Lighting designed for The Royal Winnipeg Ballet by John Stammers.
UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL PRESENTATIONS
All presentations are at 8:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted.
REMAINING PERFORMANCES, Second Semester
in Hill Auditorium
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra . . . 2:30, Sunday, February 26
Jose Greco Dance Company......Wednesday, March 8
Shirley Verrett, Mezzo-soprano.....Monday, March 13
Stockholm University Chorus......Thursday, April 6
Boston Symphony Orchestra......Saturday, April 8
Tickets: $5.00--$4.50--$4.00--$3.50--$2.50--$1.50
A special U of M Sesquicentennial event
ARTUR RUBINSTEIN . . . 2:30 p.m., Sunday, March 5 Tickets: $5.00--$4.50--$4.00--$3.50--$2.50--$1.50
1967 MAY FESTIVAL--April 22, 23, 24, 25 (Five Concerts). Orders for series tickets accepted: $25.00 -$20.00 -$16.00 -$12.00 -$9.00.
Chamber Music Festival
in Rackham Auditorium
Borodin Quartet (from Moscow) . . . 8:30, Friday, February 17
Program: Quartet No. 2 in D major...........Borodin
Quartet in F minor, Op. 95.........Beethoven
Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 73.......Shostakovich
Stockholm Kyndel String Quartet . . 8:30, Saturday, February 18 with Per-Olof Johnson, Guitarist
Program: Quartet in G major, Op. 64, No. 4.........Haydn
Guitar Quintet..........Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Quartet No. 4..............Bart6k
Trio Italiano d'Archi (from Rome) . . . 2:30, Sunday, February 19
Program: Trio in D major, Op. 14..........Boccherini
Trio (1959)..............Petrassi
Divertimento, KV 563, in E-flat major.......Mozart
Series Tickets: $8.00--$6.00--$5.00. Single Concerts: $4.00--$3.00--$2.00
For tickets and information, address UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY, Burton Tower, Ann Arbor, Michigan