UMS Concert Program, March 12, 1975: The Paul Taylor Dance Company --

Concert: Nineteenth
Complete Series: 3933
Power Center For The Performing Arts Ann Arbor, Michigan

The University Musical Society
of
The University of Michigan
Presents
The Paul Taylor Dance Company
CAROLYN ADAMS BETTIE DEJONG EILEEN CROPLEY RUBY SHANG
NICHOLAS GUNN MONICA MORRIS ELIE CHAIB
LILA YORK GREG REYNOLDS
RUTH ANDRIEN
Wednesday Evening, March 12, 1975, at 8:00
Power Center for the Performing Arts
Ann Arbor, Michigan
PROGRAM
Sports and Follies
Music by Erik Satie Choreography by Paul Taylor
Costumes by George Tacit Lighting by Jennifer Tipton
Carolyn Adams Nicholas Gunn Eileen Cropley
Ruby Shang Elie Chaib Monica Morris
(pause)
3 Epitaphs
American Folk Music
Choreography by Paul Taylor
Costumes by Robert Rauschenberg
Lighting by Jennifer Tipton
The music, an ancestor of jazz, was first played by country brass bands at weddings and funerals in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi.
Greg Reynolds Lila York Bettie deJong
Ruth Andrien
intermission
Nineteenth Program Fouth Annual Choice Series, Power Center Complete Series 3933
Churchyard
Music based on authentic medieval pieces by Cosmos Savage
Choreography by Paul Taylor
Costumes by Alec Sutherland
Lighting by Jennifer Tipton
Bettie deJong Carolyn Adams Nicholas Gunn Eileen Cropley
Elie Chaib Monica Morris Greg Reynolds
Ruth Andrien
intermission
Aureole
Music by George Frederic Handel Choreography by Paul Taylor
Costumes by George Tacit Lighting by Thomas Skelton
First Movement -Carolyn Adams Nicholas Gunn
Eileen Cropley Ruby Shang
Second Movement -Elie Chaib
Third Movement -Carolyn Adams Nicholas Gunn
Eileen Cropley Ruby Shang
Fourth Movement -Eileen Cropley and Elie Chaib
Fifth Movement -Full Cast
Under the sponsorship of the University Musical Society, in collaboration with the University's Dance Program of the School of Music, this concert and related events constitute a halfweek dance residency project, receiving support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Michigan Council for the Arts.
Rostropovich Returns!
Saturday, March 22, in Hill Auditorium at 8:30
with The University Symphony Orchestra
" wish with all my heart to do something for this country . . . this concert will be given for the continued wellbeing and success of the University Musical Society, and to establish a scholarship to be used by gifted and needy music students."
. . . Mstislav Rostropovich, on the occasion of his recent January recital in
Ann Arbor.
Program: Glinka: Overture to Russian and Ludmilla; Prokofieff: Classical Symphony in D major (Rostropovich conducting); SaintSaens: Cello Concerto in A minor (Rostropovich soloist, Theo Alcantara conducting).
Tickets available at Burton Tower or by mail.
Main floor, $8; first balcony, $7; second balcony, $6 and $4.
$25 includes a main floor seat and a reception ticket to "Meet the Artist"
reception after the performance.
UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY
Burton Memorial Tower, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104 Phones: 6653717, 7642538