41 3 J ZJ, TWH-R ,MT IH1 -TUIB _ TE - -'',y"k':' ..R ~! ,', dg. F."'t1Y ST < ... 1.Y . " L l a Y.4 1 f*Y c at1--a s' /,' i 1 +M . TTMTM TMi 1,Tr-" 1- 1; LA NUN CONCERTS MAINTAINED BY - THE UNIVERS ITY MUSICAL Ann Arbor, Michigan Charles A. Sink, President sCcIETY Earl V. Moore, Musical Director ,,r -1929-Fifty-First Annual Series-1930 1929 -Fifty-First Annual Series-1930 October October November 15-GIOVANNI MARTINELLI, Metro- politan Opera Company Tenor, in song recital. 30-DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHES- TRA, OSSIP GABILOWITSCH, Conductor. 7-IGNACE JAN PADEREWVKI, World's most noted pianist, in recital. December December January January February March 3-LENER-BUDAPEST STRING a QUARTET Jeno Lener Imre Hartman Joseph Smilovits Sandor Roth 10-CLAUDIA MUZIO, Prima Donna Dramatic Soprano, Chicago Civic Op- era Association, in recital. 16-JASCHA HEIFETZ, in violin recital. 31-VLADIMIR HOROWITZ, in piano recital. November 19-TIE ENGLISH SINGERS, of Lon- don. Flora Mann Cuthbert Kelly Nellie Carson Norman Stone Lillian Berger Norman Notley in a program of madrigals, folk songs, ballets, canzonets and other music. Fifty-First Annual Choral Union Series 12-ELISABETH RETHBERG, politan Opera Dramatic Prima Soprano, in recital. Metro- Donna 10-DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHES- TRA, OSSIP GABRILOWITSCH, Conductor. HILL AUDITORIUM STAR Michigan's Greatest Concert Series C N _ CONCBE RTS 4 TEN ALL General Announcement The University Musical Society reviews with considerable satisfaction its record of achievements during the past century. With such a background, it hopes to carry on in larger measure in coming years and to continue to offer musical opportunities to members of the University and the public in general of a nature which will justify the high ideals of those musical pioneers who half a century ago were instrumental in organizing the Society. For the first season of the second half century of Choral Union Concerts, ten outstanding numbers have been scheduled involving the artistic services of the most eminent artists and organizations of the day, as follows: October 15 GIOVANNI MARTINELLI December 10 CLAUDIA MUZIO This distinguished prima donna of the Chi- cago Civic Opera Association was heard at an Ann Arbor Festival a number of years ago when she had just made her debut at the Metropolitan. Her success at that time was profound. Con- flict of dates and absence from the country has prevented until this time a return engagement. She is one of the outstanding singers of the day, both in opera and in recital. Possessing a glorious voice of volume and of an unusually attractive quality, combined with a most pleasing and at- tractive personality, she has become one of the most popular musicians before the public. The Pittsburgh Post said: "What an impres- sionable person Claudia Muzio is! We don't know when we have seen or heard a singer-who has appealed more. She is so gracious, and she sings so amazingly well." , _ 1 ,.. j.. ._ 4 sr S ti ' q J: y" w Y y " - k S: V. S rq X M 4 1 h i3. , . L « t 1 i k ' kk 1; y Y: gn I J r t.. .." { 1 +, } fl. t 4 i {. .. i 6 7". !¢ °_ - +; t P.. # ,: t 4 January 16 JASCHA HEIFETZ Senior Martinelli, for years leading tenor of the Metropolitan Opera Company was an Italia:: boy of humble circumstances. While serving in the army of his native land, his singing attracted the attention of his Captain who arranged for his musical education at Milan. In 1910 he made his debut. Puccini cast him in his opera "The Girl of the Golden West." Continental appearances followed and in 1913 he made his sensational debut at the Metropolitan Opera House where he has continued since that time occupying a stellar position. This remarkable virtuoso at the age of twenty- eight has twenty-five years of playing behind him. He first played the violin when he was three years old. From that time on through his childhood he averaged six hours a day practicing. At five he made his first public appearance and at seven he became a self supporting citizen. He esti- mates that he has played the violin for thirty thousand hours during his life time. This is the equivalent of playing nearly four years stead- ily without a break, with no time out for sleep or meals. The figure includes both the time he has spent giving concerts and in practicing. On his two previous appearances in Ann Arbor he made profound impressions, and the* public has continually demanded return engagements. October 30 DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OSSIP GABRILOWITSCH, Conductor Mr. Gabrilowitsch who returns this season, Distinguished in both fields, he has won enviable after a year's leave of absence, to the conductor- recognition throughout the world of music, and ship of Detroit's famous orchestra, will conduct because of his cultured character and attractive two concerts in the Choral Union Series. He is personality is admired by musicians and laymen entitled to musical immortality on two counts: everywhere. He has brought his organization to that of conductor and that of piano virtuoso. a remarkable state of artistic perfection. January 3 VLAIDMIR HOROWITZ His: career has been the logical development of an extraordinary gift and he has made his name in Europe on sheer ability. He was born in Kieff, in 1904. He studied under Professor Felix Blumenfeld and graduated at the age of seventeen with the highest honors. In 1922-3 he played twenty-three times in Petrograd to sold-out houses. In 1924 he toured Europe for the first time and last year he played forty-five engage- ments in eighty-one days on his American tour. He has appeared as soloist with all of the great orchestras in America and in Europe as well as in recital under the most critical auspices. He is generally acknowledged to be "the greatest pianist of the rising generation and the Paderewski of the future. November 7 IGNACE JAN PADEREWSKI IGNACE JAN PADEREWSKI In 1922, after a lengthy retirement from pianistic activities, while he served his native Poland as premier, Paderewski, returned to the concert "stage. It was an event of outstanding importance in the realm of music arts. The terrors in the war days had infinitely enriched the wealth of beauty in his soul, while his in- terpretative powers had broadened and in his pianistic touch there appeared a fresh quality that lifted the great Paderewski to even loftier height than he had hitherto experienced. This "King of Pianists" will be heard for the fifth time in Ann Arbor, in one of his brilliant stu- pendendous programs. J ASCHA HELFETZ February 12 ELISABETH RETHBERG November 19 THE ENGLISH SINGERS This group of six, Flora Mann, Nellie Carson, Lillian Berger, Cuthbert Kelly, Norman Stone and Norman Notley, have for many years culti- vated ensemble singing. Their programs include beside the madrigals, ballets, canzonets, etc., of the Elizabethan period, Italian and Spanish street cries, folk songs, modern English and French part songs and certain other works with piano accompaniment. Olin Downes, said "Oie o the finest concerts"; while F. D. Perkins in the New York Herald Tribune is quoted as saying: "A fascinating demonstration." The' New York World said that "their perfection of tone production was a revelation"; and the New York Sun stated that "the pictorial effect of the singers as they sangwas suggestive of some rare painting from an old master." Stich are the glowing tributes of the great critics. Miss Rethberg is one of the shining lights of the Metropolitan Opera House. Her home was in the Schwarzenberg in the Erz mountains. As a child she sang the songs which her mother sang and at seventeen entered the Dresden Conserva- tory to study piano. She chose singing however and after a strenuous period of study and effort made her debut in "Der Freischutz," followed shortly by an appearance in Carmen. At this time Richard Strauss invited her Vienna Opera. In 1920, Nikisch for the New Year's Concert at the She concertized in the large cities and the Continent and soon forged Her American successes have been to - join the engaged her Gewandhaus. of Germany to the front, equally bril- liant before the most critical and discriminating audiences. 1 March 10 DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OSSIP GABRILOWITSCH, Conductor Decemter 3 THE LENER-BUDAPEST QUARTET CLAUDIA MUZIO This quartet composed of Jeno Lener, first violin, Joseph Smilovits, second violin, Sandor Roth, viola and Imre Hartman, violoncello, will come to America for the first time this fall. All e roducts of the Budapest Academy. three being pupils of the great Hubay, while the fourth, Mr. Hartman, studied with Popper. The London lvenirw Standard says: "Their success has been extraordinary and they have raised chamber music to a pjich of popularity in this country it had not achieved since the good old days of Joachim." In 1919 they were members of the Grand Opera Orchestra in Budapest. When the rev- olution broke out they retired to a remote Hun- garian village to devote their energies to chamber music. Two years later the quartet made its first appearance in Vienna with Ravel, .the great French composer to hear his own string quartet played. Conquests of Paris, London, and all Europe followed. The full and varied activity of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra is a romance of musical \ achievement. In the short time of nine years, while it has been under the baton of Ossip Ga- brilowitsch, 4,t has built for itself solidly among the best orchestras of the world. Its distinguished conductor, in addition to possessing international musical renown, has sound judgment which has evolved sound constructive policies. No effort has been spared in assembling the excellent per- sonnel of players including many of international fame, and today the orchestra is famous not only for its technical mastery but for its exquisite purity of tone. Counted in years the Detroit Symphony Or- chestra is one of the youngest organizations of its kind in the United States but it has achieved so much and has reached such a high standard of performance that it can easily -stand compari- son with the oldest orchestras, not only of the United States but cf Europe. ELISABETH RETHBERG >I t- SCHEDULE OF PRICES Season tickets, ten concerts (including $3.00 May Festival Coupon) $6,00, $8.00, $10.00, $12.00, may be ordered at the office of the School of Music, Maynard Street. Remittance should be made payable to the University Musical Society, and mailed to CHARLES A. SINK, President, C.IOVANNi MARTINI3LLI VLADIMIR HOROWITZ School of Music Ann Arbor, Michigan f ' . -I I - U 2.- 1-