N~ PAGE FOURTEEN TIDE MICHIGAN DATT.Y SUNDAY. OCTOURR 6. THE MCT117~AN IQv. 11)A V l i VL~iI V.Ei:Y _._ i Enesco Traces Love Of Music To Ancestry Picked Up Violin By Ear By Listening To Songs Of Rumanian Gypsies In addition to his talents as vio- linist, composer and conductor, Georges Enesco has a grand opera to his .credit. His "Oedipus" taken from the Greek tragedy was first produced in Paris, 1936, and made a marked impression. Enesco has divid- ed his time between violin concerts and composing% He has toured France, Belgium, Holland and not only played but often has conduct- ed the various orchestras with which he appeared. His compositions par- ticularly the First and Second Rou- manian Rhapsodies have been played widely. Georges Enesco, world-famous vi- olinist, composer £ and conductor traces his intense love of music to his Roumanian ancestry. His father was a farmer, and as a child Georges was really exposed to the national flavor of the Roumanian folklore and music. He was so profoundly affect- ed by the music of the gypsies that he asked his father to get him a fiddle such as the one he had seen a gypsy musician play. Without knowing a I Life Of Tenor Richard Bonelli Reads Like Horatio Alger Story . ........ . Metropolitan Star Started As Newsboy And Farmer During School Years In the course of a brilliant singing career, Richard Bonelli, the man whose life story reads like a Horatio Alger novel, has earned a popularity which entitles him to the title of "Baritone of baritones." Mr. Bonneli, who made his debut with the Mertopolitan Opera in 1932, as Germont, the father in "La Trav- iata," supplements his operatic and concert = appearances with radio broadcasts. During the past season he compiled an enviable record. He was the first Metropolitan Opera singer to be engaged for the Ford "Universal Rhythm Hour," in a series that ran all summer and in addition he made three appearances as soloist on the Ford Sunday Eve- ning Hour. Invited To Washington He alone, of all American bari- tones, was invited to sing at the In- augural Concert given in Washing- ton last year in honor of President Roosevelt. This season, the New York Phil- harmonic has engaged him to play the important role of Amfortas in a concert version of Parsifal. Toscan-! ini selected him for this part when it was presented four years ago. Bonelli worked his way through high school, doing all sorts of odd jobs after hours. Newsboy, farmer's helper in harvest time,rbank mes- senger, bookkeeper, gardener in a cemetery, auto mechanic's helper and zinc miner-these were but a few of the jobs which kept the prospective ily. At the age of 13 he entered the Paris Conservatoire, studying violin, composition and theory with such masters as Massanet, Faure, Gedalge. Three years later the Conservatoire awarded hi mthe highest prize for violin and shortly thereafter he made his concert debut,,playing the Beet- thoven Concerto with the Colonne Orchestra. Enesco divided his time between violin concerts and c mposing. He toured France, Belgium, Holland and not only played, but often conducted the various orchestras with which he appeared. His compositions particu- larly the First and Second Roumani- an Rhapsodies, began to be played widely, and he returned to Roumania a figure of international acclaim. Established in the ranks of musical greats, he was presented to Queen Elizabeth of Roumania, who wrote poetry under the psudonym of Car-; men Sylva, and who was a devoted patron of the arts. Having been disappointed in many of her prote- ges, the Queen had refused to hear any others. Through the influence of Princess Bibesco, Her Majesty was prevailed upon to give him an au-; dience. opera star busy during his school years. It was while he was attending Syra- cuse University on a scholarship, that the Dean heard the young man sing. Musical talent ran in Bonelli's fam- ily and the Dean, deeply impressed with his ability convinced him to start out on thecventuresome but glamorous path which is the life of an opera star. Goes To France After studying for a time, a friend offered him the money to go to France and study. He accepted, and after Paris, events moved swiftly. He made his operatic debut with the Monte Carlo Opera and successes in Italy, y 1 CHORAL Happily UNION the Greatest World GEORGES ENESCO RICHARD BONELLI France, and Germany followed in rapid order. The name Bonelli was evolved from the Yankee, Bunn, during his stay in Italy, where it is quite common fdr the opera manager to demand a name of Italian fabrication. While singing with Mary Gardon in Paris he was engaged by the Chi- cago Opera Company, returning to America in 1925, he remained with that group until he joined the Metro- politan in 1932. Bonelli is not new to Ann Arbor music lovers; he appeared in last year's May Festival. He is also in- dispensable to the famous festivals at Worcester and Evanston. Singer Gets Stage Fright Before U.S. President Marion Anderson's only attack of stage fright in her long singing career was when she visited the White House. She had been invited to sing for the President and Mrs. Roosevelt and she had prepared an appropriate speech of thanks to the nation's exec- utive for the honor. When she entered the room, the President rose to greet her, remark- ing that she, looked just like her pic- tures. Choked with emotion, the great contralto trembled with stage fright and forgot her speech. in the Wednesday, October 23 MARIAN ANDERSON . . Thursday, November 7 RUDOLF SERKIN . . . . note, he repeated faultlessly the songs he had heard. Perceiving that the boy was unusually gifted, his father took him to the best teacher in Rou- mania who instructed him until his seventh year, and then suggested that he be taken to Vienna. Studied At \Vienna He was eager to study composition at the famous Vienna Conservatory and only consented 'to play the violin because some instrument had to be included in the curriculum, and the violin casses were the least crowded. Enesco was fortunate in attracting the attention of the director Hellmes- Berger, whose grandfather had learned conducting from Beethoven, and of the influential Bibesco fam- rNames " . . Contralto . . . . . Pianist Monday, November 18 DON COSSACK CHORUS SERGE JAROFF, Conductor Sunday, November 24, 3:00 P.M. NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA JOHN BARBIROLLI, Conductor Tuesday, December 3 RICHARD BONELLI ...... . Wednesday, December 11 BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Baritone SERGE KOUSSEVITSXY, Conductor V.. 4 Wednesday, January 1S VLADIMIR HOROWITZ . . . . Pianist r , MARIAN ANDERSON 4 rui e mmoriat o muic NOTHING MORE NEED BE SAID than the name Marian Anderson, for she has sung in Ann Arbor on previous occasions. No other artist has ever excelled her in winning the hearts of music lovers. Her appearances always mean packed houses. . . Tuesday, January 28 MINNEAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA DIMITRI MITROPOULOS, Conductor Thursday, February 20 BUDAPEST STRING QUARTET Tuesday, March 4 GEORGES ENESCO .I 9 9 9 9 Violinist OVER-THt-COUNTER SALE of all unsold season tickets and of single concert tickets begins on Monday, October 7, at 8:30 at the office of the University Musical Society, Main Floor, Burton Memorial Tower, The sale will continue so long as the limited supply of tickets lasts. Season tickets, $12.00 - $10.00. Single Concerts - $2.50-- $2.00-- $1.50. .I r , Ill.