UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY CHARLES A. SINK, PRESIDENT EARL V. MOORE, MUSICAL DIRECTOR

Tenth Concert 1931-1932 Complete Series 2007 Fifty-Third Annual Choral Union Concert Series , Soprano

Assisted by STUART ROSS, Pianist

Monday Evening, March 7, 1932, at 8:15 HILL AUDITORIUM, ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN

PROGRAM

ARIA, "O divina Afrodite," from the "Fedra" Romano Romani Miss Ponselle STAR VICINO AL BELL' IDOLO Salvatore Rosa A PASTORAL Veracini TRAUME Wagner CHANSON DE LA CIGALE Lecocq Miss Ponselle NOCTURNE, Opus 48, No. 1 Chopin PRELUDE IN A MINOR Debussy Mr. Ross ARIA, "Bel raggio lusinghier" Rossini

Miss Ponselle

Intermission

THE HARMONICA PLAYER David Girion THE GIRL WITH THE FLAXEN HAIR Debussy A CHINESE QUARREL Niemann Mr. Ross ON WINGS OF DREAM Arensky EROS Grieg LULLABY .' Sadero COME UNTO THESE YELLOW SANDS La Forge Miss Ponselle Management: Metropolitan Musical Bureau The Steinway Piano and the Skinner Organ are the official concert instruments of the University Musical Society.

ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS Thirty-Ninth Annual MAY FESTIVAL FOUR DAYS -:- SIX CONCERTS May 18, 19, 20, 21, 1932

Goeta Ljungberg (pronounced Yota Yungbairg), Sensational Swedish Soprano Juliette Lippe, Covert Garden Opera, Soprano Ruth Rodgers, American Oratorio Singer, Soprano Gladys Swartout, Metropolitan Opera, Contralto Beniamino Gigli, Metropolitan Opera, Frederick Jagel, Metropolitan Opera, Tenor , Opera, , Civic Opera, Baritone Chase Baromeo, Chicago Civic Opera, Gitta Gradova, Stellar American Pianist Palmer Christian, Organist

Earl V. Moore and the Choral Union will present the Ameri­ can premiere of the "Legende of the Invisible City of Kitej" by Rimsky Korsakoff, "The Psalms" by Strawin- sky, and the "Creation" by Haydn. Gustav Hoist, British Composer-Conductor, guest conductor in the American premiere of his own "Choral Fantasia." Words by Robert Bridges. Frederick Stock and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra will participate. Juva N. Higbee will direct the Children's Festival Chorus.