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MUSICAL AMERICA, Editorial,
1--I. L. BUTLER, President, Music Teachers' National
Association and Dean of School of Fine Arts,
March 124 1927:
PROGRAMS
(Subject to change)
Syracuse University:
The Ann Arbor festival has long since taken its assured
place 'as one of the most important annual events in the United
States. Its rank has been attained through the high standard of
the programs, the competence of the organizations ernployed and
the choice of assisting artists. In addition to the actual accom-
plishrnnts of more than three decades, the festival has a peculiar
significance. It has stood, anal still stands, as a demonstration
of the fact that American universities are not occupied exclusively
with the academic aspects of music, but are actively furthering,
through direct contact with the public, the development of musical
appreciation.
FIRST MAY FESTIVAL CONCERT
Wednesday Evening, May 1 S
Soloist-Ernestine Schumann-Heintz,
Contralto
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Frederick Stock, Conductor
Overture in D...........................randel
"Erda Scene"
"Waltraute Scene"
....................................W agner
Ernestine Schumann-Hleink
Symphony No, 7 in A Major..........Beethoven
Symnphonic Poem "On the Moldau"...... Smetana
Group of Songs
Ernestine Schumann-Heink
Finale from Fourth Symphony.....'Tschaikowsky
(c) Rondo.......................... ozart
(d) waltz in A Major...............Brahms
Lea Luboshutz
t~uneo, "Children's Ganes" .................B~izet
"Please accept my congratulations upon the fine series of
artists and organizations you are offering for your May Festival.
You ar-e evidently doing everything to spread the gospel of good
music. Such a strong list of attractions well deserves fine support."
I JURT1I .31A V FESTIVAL CONCERT
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I'm Wfay Eieming, May 2N)
Soloit-R-osa Ponselle, Soprano
(Jjicv 0 -,1Symphony Orchestra
Fredericlh Stock, Conductir
Unlversity Choral Union
Earl V. Moore, Conductor
"Pint em ps Passione"............... ..Borowski
Aria:
Rosa Ponselle
(a) Ode on Grecian Urn
(u) Fancy-scherzo
From First Choral
Symphony 1Holsr.
(First appearance in AMerica)
University Choral Union
Aria:
WALTER DAMOSCH, Conductor, New
CHARLES E. WATT, The Music News,
Editorial, Chicago:
York Symphony Orchestra:
The annual May Festival stands in the front rank of such
events and its influence on the community cannot be overestimated.
I am 'especially interested in the two principal works to -be per-
formed this May, the Beethoven Mass in D, and the Choral
Symphony by Holst, and wish with all my heart that I were free
to hear them."
SECOND MAY FESTIVAL CONCERT
Thursday Evening, May U)
"For thirty-four years Ann Arbor has' held its annual May
Festival and at no other time during that period has any other
May Festival of the country surpassed this one, and indeed, very
few at any time have kept pace with it. In the maintenance of
chorus, the choice of orchestra and the engagement of the very
best available artists, Ann Arbor has stood at the head. Ann
Arbor has presented more new works than almost any other com-
munity anci in its search for novelties and the engaging of proper
directors and artists no consideration has been in mind whatever
other than that they must be the very best that could be procured
anywhere-at any price. Every great artist of the past thirty-five
years has appeared at the Ann Arbor Festival and memory of
hundreds of gala occasions and immense successes provides an
unforgettable and a continuous array.
DOCTOR EDWIN J. STRINGHAM,
Music Critic, Denver Post:
--Soloists--
Betsy Lane Shepherd, Soprano
Elsie Baker, Contralto
Arthur Hackett, Tenor
William Sinmnions, Baritone
University Choral Union
Earl V. Moore, Conductor
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fredcrick Stock, Conductor
Compositions by Ludwig Van Beethoven (on
the centenary of the composer's death)
Leonore No. 3........................Beethoven
Scene from "Fidelio". t...............Beethoven
Quartet
"Mlissa Solemnis".................... Beethoven
Chorus, Quartet and Orchestra
Suite:
Group
Have just read the announcement of your coming May
Festival and I hasten to congratulate 'you upon the excellent
program, artists and conductors. I do not see how in the world
you can put out such a program as indicated for the prices you
intend to charge. The May Festival of Ann Arbor is one of
the best in the coentry. My heartiest congratulations and best
wishes for your splendid efforts."
Rosa. Ponselle
"In a Looliig Glass"......Deems Taylor
of Songs:
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THIRD MAY FESTIVAL CONCERT
Friday Afternoon, May- g
Rosa Ponselle
Dances from "Scenes de Ballet"......Glazounoff
FIFTH MAY FESTIVAL ('ONCERT
Saturday Afternoon, May 21
Soloist--Ernest utcheson, Pianist:
Chicago Symphony Orchestra,
Frederick Stock, Conductor
Tone Poem "Baba Yaga".. .............. Liadow
Symphony D Minor ...................... Dvorak
"Victory Ball"... .....................Schelling
Concerto for Piano Forte, E Flat, "Emperor"
...Beethoven
SIXTH MAY FESTIVAL (CON(ERT
Saturday Evenin7, May 21
.Carmen" ................................ Bizet
'Soloists:
Sophie Braslau ................ ....Contralto
Lois Johnston.......................Soprano
Armand Tokatyan. .............Tenor
Lawrence Tibbett.............. ...Baritone
Jam es ...... . ..........................Bass
University Choral Union
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Earl V. Moore,
(Ionduct or
MARGARET RICE, Secretary, Milwaukee
Orchestral Association:
I cannot forbear writing- to congratulate you on the character
of your program and your choice of artists. You certainly have
been fortunate in getting about the best in the concert field. I
don't wonder that your Festival programs are generally accepted as
a standard by which all other events of the kind are measured.
That Ann Arbor is chosen as the place for an American Premiere
of so important a work as Holst's "Choral Symphony" would
indicate a state of musical culture in your school arnd community
far from common. You make some of the rest of us wonder what
we have been accomplishing.
WILLIAM WADE HINSHAW,
Impresario, New York:
"Again you have announced a fine program for your annual
May Festival, the very finest musical event of the whole of
America. Although each program seems to be the best that
could be offered, you manage to offer a still better one each season.
For the past ten years or more I have made the trip from NeW
York to-Ann Arbor just to hear your wonderfully fine Festival,
and I hope to go again this season, as usual, even though I do
have to travel nearly two thousand miles to make the journey
and return."~
Lea Luboshutz, Violinist
Children's Chorus
Joseph E. Maddy, Conductor
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Frederick Strek, Conductor
Overture "Secret of Susanne"......Wolf Ferrari
Adagio and Finale from G Minor Concerto-
Bruch
Lea Luboshutz
Cntata, "Voyage of Arion".............Moore
Children's Festival Chorus
(a Praeludium et Allegro.....Pugnani-Kreisler
(b) .ielody .................... .........Gluck
ALFRED H. HUMAN, Editor "Singing",
New York:
Your traditional May event bears the reputation of being
one of the most representative festivals in the country, for years
being acknowledged a thoroughly artistic occasion well directed
and invariably worth attending.
L. E. BEHYMER, Impresario,
Los Angeles:
JOSEPH N. WEBER, President, American
Federation of Musicians, New York:
"I find the series unusuilly attractive and a group of artists
of great interest to the musical world, and of irresistable attraction
both in artistry and educaional authority. I am really surprised
that a city of that size is able to give such a bargain in musical
values. If your department stores, book counters or groceries
should advertise such bargains you would of necessity be com-
pelled to erploy the entire police force to keep the public from
breaking in to b. served. Here's hoping it will be necessary to
use the same procedure regarding the May Festival. Good luck
to you.".
THE MUSICAL DIGEST, Editorial by
Pierre V. R. Key, lNew York:
The Spring festival period is approaching, with several
societies nMtaking elaborate preparations to surpass previous accom-
plishments. One of these is the Ann Arbor Music Festival, long
eminent for its standards. That it will uphold its traditions there
can be little doubt. Those entrusted with guarding them appreci-
ate and are capable of fulfilling their responsibilities..
The value of such Festivals in advancing the art of music
cannot be overestimated. The activities of the Ann Arbor Uni-
versity School of Music, in this direction places it\among such
musical institutions which are leaders in the following ' of truly
progressive ahd constructive -1olicies of great value to the true
furthering of the art of music.
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J. ALBERT RIKER, Musical Courier,
Editorial, New York:
Ann Arbor has made itself nationally famous by the great
music festival that is held there each year under the direction of
the University Sch'ool of Music. It is by such accomplishments
that America is made musical. Such festivals as, these held each
year in Ann Arbor satisfy this need-and awaken in many visitors
and perhaps in many who are unable to be present, the first con-
ception of the meaning and delight of this great cultural and emo-
tional influence we call art. The Ann Arbor festival does more
than merely give a few programs of music executed by great
artists, it places a new cog in the wheel of spiritual, mental and
moral progress in America the importance of which cannot be
over-estimated.
HERBERT A. WITHERSPOON, President,
Chicago Musical College:
"I am indeed glad that Ann Arbor is going to have. another
Festival of Music, because I think such an undertaking fills a
vital need for the, American people. I remember with great
pleasure the Festivals in the past in which I took part, and I have
to congratultae you \anrd the May Festival Association for the
high standards which you have invariably provided.~
RUBIN GOLDMARK, President
"The Bohemians," New York:
GEORGE OSCAR BOWEN, President, Music
Supervisors' National Conference, Tulsa:
In my opinion the atmosphere which the Ann Arbor annual
May Festival creates is one of the most valuable assets to the city
and University from a cultural standpoint. It is to be regretted
that so few of our American cities have these annual festivals,
because of -he very evident value they are to the community as
a whole.
ROSA PONSELLE
Soprano
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