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UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY CHAELES A. SINK, PRESIDENT EARL V. MOORE, MUSICAL DIRECTOR Tenth Concert 1937-1938 Complete Series 2S14 Fifty-ninth Annual Choral Union Concert Series GEORGES ENESCO, Violinist SANFORD SCHLUSSEL at the Piano TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 1, 1938, AT 8:30 HILL AUDITORIUM, ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN PROGRAM Andante, Minuet, and Rondo MOZART Largo espressivo PUGNANI Bagatelle in Roumanian Style SCARLATESCU La Fontain d'Arethuse SZYMANOWSKI Kaddisch RAVEL (In Memoriam) Tzigane RAVEL INTERMISSION Sonata in G major LEKEU Tres modere—vif passionemente Tres lente Tres amine" The Steinway Piano is used exclusively in Enesco programs. The Steinway Piano and the Skinner Organ are the official concert instruments of the University Musical Society ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS Forty-fifth Annual May Festival 1. WEDNESDAY EVENING, May 11, 8:30 4. FRIDAY EVENING, May 13, 8:30 Soloist Soloist MARIAN ANDERSON, Contralto NINO MARTINI, Tenor THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA EUGENE ORMANDY and EARL V. MOORE, EUGENE ORMANDY, Conductor Conductors Prelude and Fugue in B minor . BACH Chorale Preludes: (Orchestrated by Lucien Caillet) Ach Herr, mich armen Sunder 1 Arias: Una furtiva lagrima from Herr Jesu Christ, ich weiss V BUXTEHUDE "Elisir d'amore" . DONIZETTI gar wohn J Racconto di Rodolfo, from Symphony in D major, No. 35 "La Boheme" .... PUCCINI (Haffner), K. 385 ... - MOZART NINO MARTINI The Blessed Damozel .... DEBUSSY Symphony No. 5 in E flat . SIBELIUS MARIAN ANDERSON Arias: 0 Paradiso! from WOMEN'S VOICES OF THE UNIVERSITY "L'Africana" . MEYERBEER CHORAL UNION E lucevan le stelle from Arias: 0 Don Fatale, from "Don "Tosca" PUCCINI Carlos" VERDI MR. MARTINI Ah! mon fils, from "Le Profet" MEYERBEER Perpetual Motion PAGANINI MISS ANDERSON (Orchestrated by Eugene Ormandy) Afternoon of a Faun .... DEBUSSY Till Eulenspiegel STRAUSS Interlude and Dance, from "La Vida Breve" DE FALLA 5. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, May 14, 2:30 ALL-WAGNER PROGRAM Soloist 2. THURSDAY EVENING, May 12, 8:30 MARJORIE LAWRENCE, Soprano ALL-RUSSIAN PROGRAM THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA Soloists EUGENE ORMANDY, Conductor AGNES DAVIS, Soprano Excerpts from "The Nibelungen Ring" ARTHUR HACKETT, Tenor Rheingold: CHASE BAROMEO, Bass a) Invocation of Alberich ARTUR RUBINSTEIN, Pianist b) Entrance of the Gods into Walhalla THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA Walkure: THE UNIVERSITY CHORAL UNION a) Du bist der Lenz EUGENE ORMANDY and EARL V. MOORE, b) Hoi yo to ho te Conductors MARJORIE LAWRENCE Overture to "Kowantchina" . MOUSSORGSKY c) Wotan's Farewell and the Magic Fire The Bells RACHMANINOFF Music I. The Silver Bells—Allegro ma non tanto Siegfried: ARTHUR HACKETT and CHORUS a) Wald weben II. The Golden Bells—Lento b) Siegfried Ascending the Mountain to AGNES DAVIS and CHORUS Meet Briinnhilde; and Finale III. The Brazen Bells—Presto Gotterdammerung: CHORUS a) Rhine Journey IV. The Mournful Bells—Lento lugubre b) Funeral March CHASE BAROMEO and CHORUS c) Immolation and Closing Scene Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, for Miss LAWRENCE Piano and Orchestra . TSCHAIKOWSKY ARTUR RUBINSTEIN 6. SATURDAY EVENING, May 14, 8:30 Soloists 3. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, May 13, 2:30 BRUNA CASTAGNA, Contralto Soloists HILDA BURKE, Soprano ALBERT SPALDING, Violinist AGNES DAVIS, Soprano HARDIN VAN DEURSEN, Baritone GIOVANNI MARTINELLI, Tenor YOUNG PEOPLE'S FESTIVAL CHORUS RICHARD BONELLI, Baritone THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA CHASE BAROMEO, Bass EUGENE ORMANDY and JUVA HIGBEE, ARTHUR HACKETT, Tenor Conductors THE UNIVERSITY CHORAL UNION Overture to "The Bartered Bride" SMETANA THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA Songs: The Virgin's Slumber Song . REGER EARL V. MOORE, Conductor The Snow-Drop . G RETCH AN IN OFF CARMEN (in concert form) . BIZET In These Delightful Pleasant An Opera in Four Acts Groves PURCELL CAST It Was a Lover and His Lass MORLEY Carmen BRUNA CASTAGNA Micaela 1 • YOUNG PEOPLE'S FESTIVAL CHORUS HILDA BURKE The Sorcerer's Apprentice . DUKAS FrasquitaJ " Cantata, "Paul Bunyan" ... JAMES Mercedes AGNES DAVIS HARDIN VAN DEURSEN Don Jose . GIOVANNI MARTINELLI YOUNG PEOPLE'S FESTIVAL CHORUS Escamillo RICHARD BONELLI Concerto in D major, Op. 77, for Morales] Violin and Orchestra . BRAHMS Zuniga J * CHASE BAROMEO ALBERT SPALDING Dancairo ARTHUR HACKETT Season Tickets (Six Concerts): $6.00, $7.00, and $8.00. May be ordered by mail. Address, with remittance: CHARLES A. SINK, President, School of Music, Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan. .