UMS Concert Program, October 19, 1974: The Alvin Ailey City Center Dance Theater -- Alvin Ailey

Concert: Second
Complete Series: 3900
Power Center For The Performing Arts

The University Musical Society
of
The University of Michigan
Presents
The Alvin Ailey City Center Dance Theater
ALVIN AILEY, Artistic Director
CHARLES ADAMS -NERISSA BARNES -ENID BRITTEN -MASAZUMI CHAYA ULYSSES DOVE -JUDITH JAMISON -MELVIN JONES -MARI KAJIWARA
LINDA KENT -BERNARD LIAS -JODI MOCCIA -MICHIHIKO OKA
KENNETH PEARL -CYNTHIA PENN -KELVIN ROTARDIER -BETH SHORTER
WARREN SPEARS -ESTELLE SPURLOCK -CLIVE THOMPSON -SYLVIA WATERS
ELBERT WATSON -DUDLEY WILLIAMS -DONNA WOOD -PETER WOODIN
SARA YARBOROUGH -TINA YUAN
Ali Pourfarrokh, Associate Artistic Director and Ballet Master Dudley Williams, Assistant Ballet Master Ivy Clarke, General Manager
Saturday Evening, October 19, 1974, at 8:00
Power Center for the Performing Arts
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Second Program Fourth Annual Choice Scries, Power Center Complete Programs 3900
STREAMS
Music by Miloslav Kabelac ("Eight Inventions" Op. 45) Choreography by Alvin Ailey Lighting by Chenault Spence
Corale.........Kelvin Rotaedier and The Company
Giubiloso...........Tina Yuan, Clive Thompson
Recitativo..............Mari Kajiwara
Scherzo..........Dudley Williams, Michihiko Oka
Latnentoso..............Donna Wood
Danza.......Linda Kent, Estelle Spurlock, Beth Shorter,
Nekissa Barnes, Melvin Jones, Masazumi Chaya, Peter Woodin
Aria................The Company
Diabolico..............The Company
By arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., publishers and copyright owners.
HOW LONG HAVE IT BEEN
Music by Lightin' Hopkins
Choreography by Marleane Furtick
Costume by Stephen Chandler
Lighting by Shirley Prendergast
Judith Jamison
intermission
CARMINA BURANA
Music by Carl Orff Choreography by John Butler Lighting by Thomas Skelton
CARMINA BURANA is a theatre piece based on poems discovered in the library of the ancient Bavarian Benediktbeuren Monastery. A collection of 13th Century songs and poems composed by minstrels and monks who had freed themselves of monastic discipline--they are secular rather than sacred. The ballet is an abstract landscape of movement, not a realistic retelling of the poems. The prologue bemoans the everchanging fate of man, riding, then ground under by the Wheel of Fortune. The first part sings of the delights of spring. The second part celebrates the pleasures, extravagances and despairs of the tavern. The third is a series of love poems. The epilogue returns to the plaintive bemoaning of the ruthless Wheel of Fate. Stokowski characterized Carmina, musically, as "a synthesis of beauty of melodic line, remark?able rhythmic variations; lusty vitality; immense range of mood, humor, frenzy; folklike simplicity, satire, mystery, spontaneous eloquence and tranquility . . ."
Judith Jamison Sara Yarborough Clive Thompson Michihiko Oka Linda Kent Mari Kajiwara Estelle Spurlock Nerissa Barnes
Donna Wood Tina Yuan Kenneth Pearl Melvin Jones Ulysses Dove Masazumi Chaya Elbert Watson Peter Woodin
By arrangement with Belwin Mills Publishing Corp., sole U.S. agent for B. Schott's Soehne, Mainz, Publisher and Copyright Owner.
In collaboration with the University's Dance Program of the School of Music, these three dance concerts and two master classes constitute a halfweek dance resi?dency project, receiving support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Michigan Council for the Arts. It is the first of three dance residencies in the 197475 season under the sponsorship of the University Musical Society, and continues with the Pennsylvania Ballet, October 26 and 2 7, and the Paul Taylor Dance Company, March 12.
INTERNATIONAL PRESENTATIONS197475
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre......Sunday, October 20
Gregg Smith Singers.........Tuesday, October 22
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra......Wednesday, October 23
Esterhazy String Quartet.......Thursday, October 24
Pennsylvania Ballet.........Saturday and Sunday,
October 26 & 27
Slask, Folk Company, from Poland.....Wednesday, October 30
Jacques Loussier Trio, Jazzmen "Play Bach" . . Saturday, November 2
Andre Watts, Pianist.........Wednesday, November 6
(Rescheduled from October 16)
National Chinese Opera Theatre.....Sunday, November 10
Cleveland String Quartet......Wednesday, November 13
Carlos Montoya, Guitarist.......Tuesday, November 19
Soviet Georgian Dancers and
Tbilisi Polyphonic Choir.......Sunday, November 24
Juilliard String Quartet........Tuesday, December 3
Handel's Messiah.........Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
December 6, 7 & 8 Guarneri String Quartet and Gary Graffman, Pianist . Wednesday, January 8
Marcel Marceau, Pantomimist.....Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
January 10, 11 & 12
Detroit Symphony Orchestra.......Saturday, January 11
Syntagma Musicum from Amsterdam .... Thursday, January 23
Tokyo String Quartet.........Sunday, February 2
American Symphony Orchestra......Sunday, February 9
Moscow Chamber Orchestra.......Tuesday, February 11
Goldovsky Grand Opera Theater.....Thursday, February 13
JeanPierre Rampal, Flutist, and
Robert VeyronLa Croix, Keyboard.....Tuesday, February 18
Harkness Ballet..........Thursday, February 20
Chhau, Masked Dance of Bengal.....Saturday, February 22
Moscow Balalaika Ensemble and Ludmila Zykina . Monday, February 24 Paul Taylor Dance Company......Wednesday, March 12
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