UMS Concert Program, April 23, 1967: Seventy-fourth Annual May Festival -- The Philadelphia Orchestra

Season: Eighty-Eighth
Concert: Second
Complete Series: 3562
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
Second Concert Complete Series 3S62
Eighteenth program in the Sesquicentennial Year of The University of Michigan
Seventy-fourth Annual
MAY FESTIVAL
THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA
THE UNIVERSITY CHORAL UNION
THOR JOHNSON, Conductor
SOLOISTS
VERONICA TYLER, Soprano
MILDRED MILLER, Contralto
WALDIE ANDERSON, Tenor
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH, Cellist
Sunday Afternoon, April 23, 1967, at 2:30 Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan
PROGRAM
Magnificat in G minor, for Solo Voices, Mixed Chorus, and Orchestra........Vivaldi
chorus: Magnificat chorus: Deposuit potentes
soprano: Et exultavit soprano and contralto: Esurientes implevit
soprano: Quia respexit chorus: Suscepit Israel
contralto: Quia fecit chorus: Sicut locutus
chorus: Et misericordia chorus: Gloria
chorus: Fecit potentiam
University Choral Union, Veronica Tyler and Mildred Miller
Mary McCall Stubbins, Organist Marilyn Mason Brown, Harpsichordist
"The Martyr's Elegy," for Tenor, Mixed
Chorus and Orchestra........Ross Lee Finney
(Commissioned for The University of Michigan Sesquicentennial Celebration) chorus: Trampled and Mocked the Slave tenor: The Pure Spirit Shall Flow tenor: On the Silken Fringe chorus: The One Remains
chorus: Peace! Peace!
University Choral Union and Waldie Anderson
INTERMISSION
Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, for Violoncello and Orchestra . Dvorak Allegro
Adagio ma non troppo
Finale: allegro maestoso
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH
The Steinway is the official piano of the University Musical Society. The Baldwin Piano is the official piano of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS
UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY
INTERNATIONAL PRESENTATIONS--1967-1968
Note: All programs begin at 8:30 p.m. unless otherwise indicated.
SUMMER CONCERT SERIES-1967
Malcolm Frager, Pianist......... Friday, July 7
Monique Haas, Pianist......... Monday, July 10
Michel Block, Pianist......... Monday, July 24
Grant Johannesen, Pianist, and
Zara Nelsova, Cellist........ Monday, July 31
CHORAL UNION SERIES
Chicago Symphony Orchestra .... (2:30) Sunday, October 1 French National Orchestra, with
Eugene Istomin, Pianist.......Monday, October 9
Vienna Symphony.........Thursday, October 19
"Carmina Burana"--opera by Carl Orff . . (8:00) Sunday, October 29
Expo '67 Production with Les Ballets Canadiens
Christa Ludwig, Mezzo-soprano.....Tuesday, October 31
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London . Wednesday, January 17
Nathan Milstein, Violinist.......Monday, January 29
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra .... Saturday, February 24
Van Cliburn, Pianist..........Friday, March IS
Toronto Symphony Orchestra......Thursday, March 28
EXTRA SERIES
"Land of Smiles"--operetta by Franz
Lehar...........Monday, September 25
(Original Viennese production starring Giuseppe di Stefano)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra.....Saturday, September 30
Yomixjri Japanese Orchestra......Friday, November 10
National Ballet from Washington, D. C. . . Wednesday, January 24 Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.....Friday, March 8
CHAMBER ARTS SERIES
Chamber Symphony of Philadelphia .... Saturday, October 21
Berlin Philharmonic Octet......Sunday, November 5
Berliner Camerata Musicale.....Monday, November 13
Chicago Little Symphony.......Saturday, January 20
Music from Marlboro (vocal and
instrumental).......(2:30) Sunday, February 4
Munich Chamber Orchestra.....Thursday, February 29
San Pietro Orchestra of Naples......Friday, March 22
ANNUAL CHRISTMAS CONCERTS
"Messiah" (Handel)--Three performances . . December 1, 2, (2:30) 3
FESTIVALS
Fair Lane Festival (on the Dearborn campus) .... June and July
Dance Festival...........October 13, 22, 27
Chamber Music Festival........February 16, 17, 18
Ann Arbor May Festival (5 concerts) .... April 20, 21, 22, 23
For tickets and information, address UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY, Burton Tower, Ann Arbor, Michigan