Choral Union Concert Series RISE STEVENS, Mezzo-Soprano JAMES SHOMATE at the Piano
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UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY Charles A. Sink, President Lester McCoy, Conductor Gail W. Rector, Executive Director First Concert 1957-1958 Complete Series 3215 Seventy.. ninth Annual Choral Union Concert Series RISE STEVENS, Mezzo-Soprano JAMES SHOMATE at the Piano THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 3, 1957, AT 8:30 HILL AUDITORIUM, ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN PROGRAM "Where'er you walk," from Semele . HANDEL *"Voi che sapete," from The Marriage of Figaro MOZART Water Lily Morning Dew GRIEG The First Meeting } A Dream AIle Dinge haben Sprache ERICH WOLFF Begegnung . HUGO WOLF Dein blaues Auge . BRAHMS Nichts. R. STRAUSS *"Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix," from Samson et Dalila SAINT-SAENS INTERMISSION Prelude in A minor DEBUSSY Menuet . RAVEL Impromptu in A-flat major, No.3 FAURE JAMES SHOMATE, Pianist The Fragrance of Song CECIL COWLES The Pasture CHARLES NAGINSKY Wild Swans . JOHN DUKE Monastery Evening 1 REGINALD BOARDMAN Arcady S . *Excerpts from Carmen BIZET Habanera Sequidilla "Chanson Boheme" (Gipsy Song) * RCA Victor Records Rise Stevens is heard this evening instead of Lily Pons, who is ill. A R S LON G A V I T A BREVIS 1957 - UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY CONCERTS - 1958 Twelfth Annual Extra Concert Series THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO Sunday, October 6 Mozart's comic-opera to be sung in English in a concert version (in costume) by the NBC OPERA COMPANY, Peter Herman Adler, Music Director. THE CAST Count Almaviva . .... Walter Cassel Basilio . ... .... ... .. Luigi VeIIucci Countess Almavivll . Marguerite WiIIauer Don CUrJio . ...... Fred Cushman SusantIG ... .. ..... ... Judith Raskin Bartolo .... , .. Emile Renan Figllro ..... ... .. Mac Morgan Antonio . .. , .... " Eugene Green Chuubino .... ... ... Regina Sarfaty Barbarina " ., . , .... ,., Berte Goapere Marcellina ... .. .. Ruth Kobart Crier . .. ... , . ,., . ... Richard Krause FLORENCE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Thursday, October 24 CARLO ZECCHI, Conductor RUDOLF SERKIN, Pianist Friday, November 15 VIENNA CHOIR Boys (2:30 P.M.) Sunday, January 12 MANTOVANI AND HIS NEW MUSIC Tuesday, March 11 SinKle Concerts: $3.50--$3.00-$2.50-$2.00-$1.50 Seventy-ninth Annual Choral Union Series BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Thursday, October 17 CHARLES MUNCH, Conductor YEHUDI MENUHIN, Violinist Tuesday, October 29 THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA Sunday, November 10 GEORGE SZELL, Conductor WILLIAM WARFIELD, Baritone Tuesday, November 26 DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Monday, February 17 'PAUL PARAY, Conductor OBERNKIRCHEN CHILDREN 'S CHOIR Tuesday, February 25 CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Sunday, March 2 FRITZ REINER, Conductor MYRA HESS, Pianist Saturday, March 8 VIENNA ON PARADE . Wednesday, April 2 CAPT. JULIUS HERRMANN, Conductor Single Concerts: $3 .50--$3.00-$2.50-$2.00-$1.50 Annual Christmas Concerts MESSIAH (HANDEL) December 7 and 8, 1957 Tickets: 75c and 50c (either concert). On sale beginning October 15. Eighteenth Annual Chamber Music Festival BUDAPEST STRING QUARTET . " February 21,22, 23,1958 Season Tickets : $3.50 and $2 .50. On sale beginning October 15. For tickets or information, address: UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY, Burton Memorial Tower. .