UMS Concert Program, October 17, 1975: Martha Graham Dance Company -- Martha Graham

Concert: First
Complete Series: 3958
Ann Arbor, Michigan

The University Musical Society
The University of Michigan
Presents
Martha Graham Dance Company
MARTHA GRAHAM, Artistic Director
YURIKO KIMURA ROBERT POWELL
JANET EILBER TIM WENGERD MARIO DELAMO ELISA MONTE DIANA HART SUSAN McGUIRE AVIND HARRUM JESSICA CHAO
ROSS PARKES DIANE GRAY
PEGGY LYMAN DANIEL MALONEY PETER SPARLING LUCINDA MITCHELL BONNIE ODA HOMSEY DAVID CHASE HENRY YU
Friday Evening, October 17, 1975, at 8:00
Power Center for the Performing Arts
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Robert Powell, Ross Parkes, Associate Artistic Directors
Isamu Noguchi, Set Designer Jean Rosenthal, Lighting Designer
This performance is part of a halfweek dance residency, receiving support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Michigan Council for the Arts, and the Lila Acheson Wallace Fund. In collaboration with the University's Dance Program of the School of Music, a second residency will be held with the three performances of the Pennsylvania Ballet on March 29, 30, and 31.
First Program
Fifth Annual Choice Series, Power Center
Complete Programs 3958
PROGRAM
SERAPHIC DIALOGUE
Music by Norman Dello Joio Choreography by Martha Graham
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal 5c by Isamu Xoguchi
"Seraphic Dialogue" is the drama of Joan of Arc at the moment of her exaltation. In a dialogue with Saint Michael, Saint Catherine, and Saint Margaret, whose voices had guided her toward her destiny, she looks back upon herself as a maiden, a warrior, and a martyr, and, transfigured, is taken up to her place of honor.
Joan .................................................... Yuriko Kimura
Maid ....................................................... Diana Hart
Warrior .................................................... Elisa Monte
Martyr ............................................. Bonnie Oda Homsey
St. Michael................................................ Mario Delamo
St. Catherine ............................................... Peggy Lyman
St. Margaret ..............................................Susan McGuire
INTERMISSION
LAMENTATION
Music by Zoltan Kodaly Choreography by Martiia Graham
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal
Piano Accompaniment by Louis Stewart
"Lamentation" is a "dance of sorrows." It is not the sorrow of specific person, time, or place, but the personification of grief itself.
Peggy Lyman
DIVERSION OF ANGELS
Music by Norman Dello Joio Choreography by Martha Graham
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal
"The city seemed to stand in Eden or to be built in Heaven . . . The dust and stones of the streets were as precious as cold . . . Eternity was manifested in the light of day and something infinite beyond everything appeared which talked with my expectation and moved my desire . . . The Men! Immortal Cherubim! And young men glittering, and sparkling angels, and maids seraphic pieces of life and beauty. Boys and girls, tumbling in the streets and playing, were moving jewels, I knew not that they were born or should die ... The streets were mine, the temple was mine, their clothes and gold and silver were mine, and so were the sun and moon and stars, and all the world was mine, and I the only spectator and enjoycr of it."
Thomas Traiierne
"Diversion Of Angels" is a lyric ballet about the loveliness of youth, the pleasure and playful?ness, quick joy and quick sadness of being in love for the first time. It tells no story, but like a lyric poem, simply explores its theme.
White Couple ....................... Susan McGuire and Daniel Maloney
Red Couple...............................Yuriko Kimura and Ross Parkes
Yellow Couple .............................. Diana Hart and Tim Wengerd
Chorus............................Lucinda Mitchell, Bonnie Oda Homsey,
Elisa Monte, Jessica Chao, Henry Yu
INTERMISSION
APPALACHIAN SPRING
Music by Aaron Copland Choreography by Martha Graham
Set by Isamu Nocuchi lighting by Jean Rosenthal
Springtime in the Appalachian wilderness is celebrated by a young man and woman about to be married, by a revivalist preacher and his followers, and by a pioneer woman who dreams of the Promised Land.
The Pioneering Woman ...................................... Peggy Lyman
The Revivalist .......................................... Daniel Maloney
The Followers..................... Lucinda Mitchell, Bonnie Oda Homsey,
Diana Hart, Elisa Monte
The Husbandman........................................... Tim Wengerd
The Bride ................................................... Diane Gray
COMING EVENTS
Tokyo String Quartet........Wednesday, October 22
Moscow State Symphony........Saturday, October 25
Alexander Dimitriev, Conductor; Valerie Klimov, Violinist
Mussorgsky: A Night on Bald Mountain; Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major;
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9 in Eflat major
Burmese National Dance Theater......Sunday, October 26
Mario Escudero, Flamenco Guitarist.....Saturday, November 1
Lhamo Folk Opera of Tibet.......Sunday, November 2
Fiesta Folklorico, Mexico.......Monday, November 3
Scottish National Orchestra......Saturday, November 8
Alexander Gibson, Conductor; Michael Davis, Violinist
MacCunn: "The Land of the Mountain and the Flood"; Iain Hamilton: Violin Concerto
NTo. 1; Sibelius: Symphony 2 Michael Lorimer, Guitarist........Friday, November 14
17th and 18th century works; William Bolcom: "Seasons" (world premiere) "World of Jelly Roll Morton".....Wednesday, November 19
Los Angeles Philharmonic.......Thursday, November 20
Zubin Meiita, Conductor; Samuel Mayes, Cellist
Haydn: Symphony No. 22 ("The Philosopher"); Dvorak: Cello Concerto; Wagner: Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey, Siegfried's Funeral March, from Gotterdammerung, Prelude to Die Meistersinger
Pablo Casals Trio..........Sunday, November 23
Mozart: Trio in C major, K. 548; Leon Kirchner: Trio (1954); Brahms: Trio in C major, Op. 87
Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.....Monday, November 24
Gennady Roziidestvensky, Conductor; Viktoria Postnikova, Pianist
KarlBirger Blomdahl: Symphony No. 3 ("Facetter"); Prokofieff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in
C major; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
Handel's "Messiah"........Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
December S, 6, and 7 Puccini's La Boheme, Canadian Opera Company . . Saturday, January 10
Detroit Symphony Orchestra.......Sunday, January 11
Aldo Ceccato, Conductor; Gina Bachauer, Pianist
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3; and Symphony No. 3 ("The Eroica")
Beaux Arts Trio...........Friday, January 16
Prague Madrigal Antiqua........Sunday, January 25
Christopher Parkening, Guitarist......Friday, January 30
The Romeros, Guitarists.........Monday, February 9
Luciano Pavarotti, Tenor........Sunday, February 15
Ljubljana Dancers, Yugoslavia......Sunday, February 22
P.D.Q. Bach...........Thursday, February 26
Special Benefit Concert........Saturday, February 28
Royal Tahitian Dancers .... .... Monday, March 1
Ensemble Nipponia..........Thursday, March 4
Prague Chamber Orchestra........Friday, March 19
Preservation Hall Jazz Band.......Saturday, March 20
Berlin String Quartet.........Monday, March 22
Beethoven Quartet in Eflat, Op. 74 ("The Harp"); Schubert: Quartet in A minor, Op. 29 Detroit Symphony Orchestra........Friday, March 26
Aldo Ceccavo, Conductor; The University Choral Union; Karen Altman, soprano; Beverly
Wolff, contralto; Seth McCoy, tenor; Simon Estes, bass
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor ("Choral")
Pennsylvania Ballet.......Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
March 29, 30, and 31
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