Part I Chronicle, 1926-2001
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1 Part I Chronicle, 1926-2001 This listing of some 711 programs includes staged opera performances performed under the auspices of the MCMA (in the 1930s), and later operas (1961- ) performed with the Madison Opera. The chronicle does not include chamber music concerts sponsored by the MCMA and concerts by the Madison Civic Band. It was commonplace in the early years of the MCMA to include chamber works and art songs on the orchestra’s concerts. These works (marked by an asterisk) are listed in the chronicle, but are not indexed in Part II. Each program is listed by the date of performance. An asterisk following the date indicates that the program was repeated, usually on the next day. Dr. Sigfrid Prager Tuesday, March 8, 1927 Music Director 1926-1948 Subscription Concert Central High School Auditorium 137 programs Dr. Sigfrid Prager, conductor Tuesday, December 14, 1926 Mozart, Symphony No.39, K.543 Subscription Concert Saint-Saëns, Concerto No.3 for Violin and Orchestra Central High School Auditorium Gilbert Ross, violin Dr. Sigfrid Prager, conductor Morgan, Hornpipe for String Instruments [Prof. B. Q. Morgan was a Vice President of Bizet, L'Arlesienne Suite No.2 the Civic. Music board.] Gounod, The Queen of Sheba (aria: “Plus grand dans MacDowell, Woodland Sketches (“Told at Sunset”) don obscurité”) Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Prelude) Esther Dale, soprano ---------------- Vuillermy, Jardin d'amour Thursday, April 21, 1927 Tchaikovsky, Serenade for String Orchestra Madison Männerchor 75th Jubilee Concert Tchaikovsky, Pourquoi* Masonic Temple Auditorium Esther Dale, soprano Dr. Sigfrid Prager, conductor Beethoven, Symphony No.2 Dobson, Yasmin* Mendelssohn, Incidental Music to “A Midsummer Esther Dale, soprano Night's Dream” (Nocturne) Robinson, Water Boy* Grieg, Landkjenning [“Landsighting”] Esther Dale, soprano Alexius Baas, bass Carpenter, Don't Ceare* Madison Männerchor Esther Dale, soprano Mozart Club Cadinar, Call me no more* Carroll Glee Club Esther Dale, soprano [Note: the Madison Civic Symphony played Grainger, Mock Morris these two selections at the end of a lengthy Berlioz, Damnation of Faust (“Racóczy March”) choral program.] ---------------- ---------------- 2 Tuesday, May 31, 1927 Thursday, February 23, 1928 Subscription Concert Subscription Concert Central High School Auditorium University Stock Pavilion Dr. Sigfrid Prager, conductor Dr. Sigfrid Prager, conductor Mendelssohn, Incidental Music to “A Midsummer Sibelius, Finlandia Night's Dream” (Wedding March and Mills, The Wreck of the Hesperus Nocturne) Evelyn Oldham-Baas, soprano Weber, Concertino for Clarinet and Orchestra Floyd Ferrill, tenor Harry Vogts, clarinet George Miller, bass Grieg, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Madison Civic Chorus Elsa Chandler, piano Beethoven, Symphony No.2 Saint-Saëns, Samson et Dalila (Bacchanale) Mendelssohn, Die erste Walpurgisnacht [“First Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherezade (“The Young Prince Walpurgis Night”] (sung in English) and the Princess”) Helen Hurst-Holscher, alto Hadley, Silhouettes Floyd Ferrill, tenor ---------------- George Miller, bass Tuesday, November 15, 1927 Madison Männerchor Subscription Concert Madison Civic Chorus Central High School Auditorium [First performance by the Madison Civic Dr. Sigfrid Prager, conductor Chorus.] ---------------- Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro [“The Marriage of Tuesday, May 8, 1928 Figaro”], K.492 (Overture) Subscription Concert Handel, Concerto for Organ [Piano] and Orchestra, Central High School Auditorium Op.4, No.4 Dr. Sigfrid Prager, conductor Sigfrid Prager, piano Weber, Euryanthe (Overture) Paine, The Tempest Bruch, Concerto No.1 for Violin and Orchestra Handel, Julius Caesar (aria: ???) Gilbert Ross, violin Thyra Hagen, soprano Burleigh, Evangeline, Tone Poem after Longfellow Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro [“The Marriage of (world premiere) Figaro”], K.492 (aria: “Dove sono”) Bizet, Carmen Suite No.2 Thyra Hagen, soprano ---------------- Burleigh, Evangeline, Tone Poem after Longfellow Brahms, Von ewiger Liebe* Thyra Hagen, soprano Sigfrid Prager, piano Grieg, Solveig's Song* Thyra Hagen, soprano Sigfrid Prager, piano Wolf, Und willst du deinen Liebsten sehen* Thyra Hagen, soprano Sigfrid Prager, piano Scott, Lullaby* Thyra Hagen, soprano Sigfrid Prager, piano Dvorák, Slavonic Dance No.3 Borodin, On the Steppes of Central Asia Thomas, Mignon (Overture) ---------------- 3 Tuesday, May 22, 1928 George Szpinalski, violin Choral Concert Tchaikovsky, Canzonetta Central High School Auditorium Granados, Jota Dr. Sigfrid Prager, conductor Sullivan, The Lost Chord Madison Männerchor Parker, A Song of Times Bullard, The Sword of Ferrara* Frances Silva Prager, soprano Madison Männerchor Madison Civic Chorus Bach, Gavotte* Godard, Suite for Flute and Piano* George Szpinalski, violin Florence Bennett, flute Gluck, Melody Sigfrid Prager, piano Wieniawski, Mazurka Debussy, La demoiselle elue [“The blessed damsel”] George Szpinalski, violin (sung in English) Breu, Frühling am Rhein* Thelma Halvorsen, soprano Madison Männerchor Helen Hurst-Holscher, alto Offenbach, Tales of Hoffmann (Barcarolle) Madison Civic Chorus Gounod, Faust (“Hunter's Chorus”) [Women's chorus only.] Madison Männerchor Gibbons, The Swan* ---------------- Thelma Halvorsen, soprano Wednesday, October 31, 1928 Lauretta Quam, soprano Subscription Concert Helen Hurst-Holscher, alto Capitol Theater Floyd Ferrill, tenor Dr. Sigfrid Prager, conductor W. L. Huff, bass Faure, Madrigal* Bizet, L'Arlesienne Suite No.2 Thelma Halvorsen, soprano Beethoven, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Lauretta Quam, soprano Gilbert Ross, violin Helen Hurst-Holscher, alto Wagner, Lohengrin (Elsa's Procession to the Floyd Ferrill, tenor Cathedral) W. L. Huff, bass David Welton, organ Schumann, Gypsy Life Whithorne, Chinatown (“Pell Street”) Lauretta Quam, soprano Nicolai, Merry Wives of Windsor (Overture) Helen Hurst-Holscher, alto ---------------- Floyd Ferrill, tenor Monday, November 26, 1928 Charles Wehrmann, bass Youth Concert Madison Civic Chorus Central High School Auditorium Mendelssohn, Die erste Walpurgisnacht [“First Dr. Sigfrid Prager, conductor Walpurgis Night”] (sung in English) Bizet, Carmen (chorus and march) Mendelssohn, Incidental Music to “A Midsummer Madison Civic Chorus Night's Dream” (Wedding March) [No orchestra for this concert: piano Beethoven, Symphony No.2 (second mvt.) accompaniment was provided by Prof. Leon Michaelis, Turkish Patrol Iltis.] Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro [“The Marriage of ---------------- Figaro”], K.492 (Overture) Sunday, October 21, 1928 Bizet, L'Arlesienne Suite No.2 (“Minuet”) Free Concert Delibes, Sylvia Ballet Suite (“Pizzicato”) Wisconsin State Capitol Rotunda MacDowell, Woodland Sketches (“To a Waterlily”) Dr. Sigfrid Prager, conductor Grainger, Mock Morris Debussy, Reverie (orch. Prager) Beethoven, Die ehre Gottes Friml, March “The Three Musketeers” Madison Männerchor ---------------- Bungert, Am Brünnelein* Madison Männerchor Handwerg, Das erste Lied* Madison Männerchor Mozart, Rondo for Violin and Orchestra, K.373 (arr. Kreisler) 4 Wednesday, December 5, 1928 Parker, A Song of Times Subscription Concert Frances Silva Prager, soprano Capitol Theater Madison Civic Chorus Dr. Sigfrid Prager, conductor Wolff, Secrecy* P. L. Ersland, horn Mozart, Missa Longa, K.262 (246a) (Gloria) Offenbach, Tales of Hoffmann (Barcarolle)* Madison Civic Chorus P. L. Ersland, horn Kremser, Netherlands Folk Songs Alvin Lamb, horn Charles Hinkson, bass Mendelssohn, Hunting Song Floyd Ferrill, tenor Madison Civic Chorus Madison Civic Chorus Massenet, Eve (Scene) Reddick, Wait 'til Ah Put on My Crown* Lauretta Quam, soprano Alvin Gillett, baritone Madison Civic Chorus Sigfrid Prager, pinao Lacome, Estudiantina Madison Civic Orchestra String Quartet, ensmble Madison Civic Chorus Grant-Schaeffer, Don't You Let Nobody Turn You ---------------- Roun'* Wednesday, February 6, 1929 Alvin Gillett, baritone Subscription Concert Sigfrid Prager, piano Capitol Theater Madison Civic Orchestra String Quartet Dr. Sigfrid Prager, conductor Marion-Cook, Exhortation* Alvin Gillett, baritone Wagner, Tannhaüser (Pilgrim's March) Sigfrid Prager, piano Mendelssohn, Symphony No.4, “Italian” Madison Civic Orchestra String Quartet Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue Keel, Trade Winds* Sigfrid Prager, piano Alvin Gillett, baritone Richard Church, guest conductor Sigfrid Prager, piano Delibes, Sylvia Ballet Suite Madison Civic Orchestra String Quartet Debussy, Reverie (orch. Prager) Hamblen, Love's Tribute* Chabrier, España Alvin Gillett, baritone ---------------- Sigfrid Prager, piano Wednesday, March 13, 1929 Madison Civic Orchestra String Quartet Subscription Concert Martin, Come to the Fair* Capitol Theater Alvin Gillett, baritone Dr. Sigfrid Prager, conductor Sigfrid Prager, piano Madison Civic Orchestra String Quartet Handel, Concerto for Organ [Piano] and Orchestra, Massenet, Eve (Scene) Op.4, No.4 Lauretta Quam, soprano Margaret Snyder, piano Madison Civic Chorus Massenet, Herodiade (aria: “Vision fugitive”) Mendelssohn, Hunting Song Mark Oster, baritone Madison Civic Chorus Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Prelude) Lacome, Estudiantina Massenet, Eve Madison Civic Chorus H. Carroll Fawcett, soprano ---------------- Mark Oster, baritone Sunday, January 20, 1929 Lauretta Quam, narrator Free Concert Donald Larson, piano Wisconsin State Capitol Rotunda Madison Civic Chorus Dr. Sigfrid Prager, conductor ---------------- Mozart, Missa Longa, K.262 (246a) (Gloria) Madison Civic Chorus Kremser, Netherlands Folk Songs (Prayer of Thanksgiving)