&0 SU# tiAY'OCT, 18,.1942. THE MICHIGAN DAILY F .,.:_. mmmmm Artur Schnabel, Noted Pianist, Will Play Here Austrian Artist Will Give 5th Concert Of Series; Program Set For Dec. 3 Artur Schnabel, the renowned con- cert pianist will return once again to Hill Auditorium on Thursday, Dec. 3 for another Ann Arbor recital. Born in Lipnik, Austria, in 1882, he undertook a concert career after studying for five years under the world famous Leschelizhy. Although this career was largely restricted to European performances, he did, how- ever, make a trip to the United States in 1922. During the period from 1901 to 1933 Schnabel made his home in Berlin, where he firmly established his teaching reputation as Professor of the Hochschule in that city. Pupils flocked to him from all over the world. He also continued to perform with the finest symphony orchestras in Europe. After a concert engagement with the Boston Symphony in 1933, he left Germany and went to London where he then made his home. There, with Malcolm Sargeant and the London Symphony Orchestra he recorded among other works all five of Bee- thoven's piano concertos. Internationally recognized as the greatest living interpreter of Bee- thoven, Schnabel has gained this rep- utation through his intellectual ap- proach to music. His performances are characterized by fine interpreta- tions rather than brilliant displays of showmanship. Due to this many of his performances and recordings are greeted with highly conflicting re- views. In spite of his reputation, Schnabel does not wish to be known as a Bee- thoven specialist. "A musician should not carry a label of any kind, he says. "I play Beethoven because I like his works." On tour he also in- cludes Mozart, Schubert, Bach and Schumann in his repretoire. His operatic tastes show a strong preference for Verdi and a great dis- like of Wagner, whose music he de- scrbes as a baroque velvet curtain behind which is vacancy. In the field of composition he has tried his hand at the writing of ultra modern cham- ber music. When Schnabel plays here, the audience might as well be prepared 4for the fact that there will be no encores. Schnabel does not believe in them, his reason being that they distort the structure of the program. Only once did he break his iron bound rule and that was because a faulty chair prevented him from playing the first part of the program to his own satisfaction. Therefore he felt he owed it to Beethoven to make amends for the injustice done to his music. Schnabel now resides in the United States and after a year's absence from the concert stage, during which he devoted himself to composing, is now once again giving recitals as well as performing with the major sym- phony orchestras of the nation. Tentative Programs - 1942-43 Choral Union Series .1 GLADYS SWARTHOUT - October 29 Program *"Lascia ch'io pianga", from "Rinaldo" .. Hendel *Come Again Sweet Love .............Dowland (1563-1626) *"La Speranza" from "Ottone"..........Hendel *Aria: "Connais-tu le pays" from "Mignon".. ...... ....... ......................... Thom as Two Songs of the Auvergne .. Arr. by J. Canteloube a. Passo pel Prat (Come by the Fields) b. Malurous qu'o uno fenno (Unhappy He Who Has a Wife) *Cantiga de Ninar .................. Mignone *El Majo Discreto .................. Granados *Romance de Solita .................. Pittaluga Intermission Time (Suite for Voice and Piano) ............ .Clarence Olmstead (First Performance) Miranda .................... Richard Hageman The Linden Tree .............. Charles Griffes The Pasture .................. Charles Naginski *Into the Night .................. Clara Edwards Sing, O My Heart ............ Charles Kingsford *Victor Records CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA - November 8 Program Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36 .. Beethoven Adagio molto; Allegro con brio Larghetto Scherzo Allegro molto "Spirituals" for String Choir and Orchestra .. ...............................M orton Gould Proclamation Sermon A Little Bit of Sin Protest Jubilee Intermission Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, "Pathetique" ............................... Tschaikowsky Adagio; allegro non troppo Allegro con grazia Allegro molto vivace Finale; Adagio lamentoso ALBERT SPALDING - November 19 Program Sonata in A major ............ Corelli-Spalding Sonata in C minor, Op. 30, No. 2 ...... Beethoven First Sonata-Fantasy .............. Villa-Lobos Variations ............................ Joachini Intermission Nocturne, Op. 27, No. 2 .......Chopin-Wilhelmj Scherzo Valse ................ Chabrier-Loeffler En bateau ...........................Debussy Caprice (Etude en forme de valse) ......... .......... Saint-Saens-Ysaye ARTUR SCHNABEL - December 3 Program Sonata in C minor, Op. posth .........Schubert Sonata in D major (first movement 6/8) .. Mozart Sonata in A minor .................... Mozart Sonata in B-flat major, Op. posth ...... Schubert Two GreatX Gladys Swarthout has everything - voice, beauty, brains, and industry, according to a distinguished critic. These qualities have brought her fame in opera, concert, radio, and sound films. She occupies a fore- most place at the Metropolitan Opera and has partici- pated in major capacities in many other important opera companies. In concerts each year she thrills audiences in the great musical centers everywhere. Thursday, October 19 Tocctli sts .. i'".."Yi; i..rj Gladys Swarthout j LESTER HODGES, Accompanist HEIFETZ - February 16 Program Sonata No. 8 (K. 296) . . ................. Mozart Chaconne (violin alone) .................. Bach Intermission Concerto No. 4 ...................... Vieuxtemps Russian Group: a. Larghetto ....................... Prokofieff b. March .......................... Prokofieff c. Prelude ...................... Shostakovitch d. Meditation .....................Giazounoff e. Scherzo ...................... Tschaikowsky Emanuel Bay at the Piano No introduction is needed for this great American baritone. Mr. Eddy possesses a "voice heard round the world," and as an American ambassador-at-large his fame has encircled the globe. In' addition to splen. did diction he possesses distinctive gifts for acting, and great personal charm and magnetism. From first to last he is completely and naturally American - stardom has not spoiled him. Photographs Line Sink's Office Great performances of the past still' live in the headquarters rooms of the University Choral Union at the base of the towering Baird Carillon. Cream of the musical greats of the last quarter-century still in their con- cert primes, look down from a huge collection of pictures which stud the walls of two of the big rooms where the Choral Union has its offices. Each autographed, in most cases inscribed, the four hundred or more pictures all were personally collected by Dr. Charles A. Sink, President of the University Musical Society. His office walls, completely covered with pictures of great performers whom Sink has known intimately, are a museum of modern musical greats. In adjacent frames, Dr. Sink will point out Fritz Crisler, Lily Pons, John Philip Sousa, Nelson Eddy, all who have entertained ,at Ann Arbor in the last quarter-century. At ran- dom from the other side of the room he can select Helen Jepson, Enrico Caruso, Walter Damrosch. Chamber Music Festival Main feature of the Third Annual Chamber Music Festival, which will take place January 22 and 23, will be the appearance of the famed Roth String Quartet. The group com- prising a first and second violinist, violist and violincellist will give three concerts during the Festival. NOTICE Tickets for the individual con- certs are now on sale at the offices of the University Musical Society in Burton Memorial Tower. The sale ofseason tickets is continuing. Patrons are urged by Dr. Charles A. Sink, president of the Society, to purchase theirs as soon as pos- sible, 4 Nelson Eddy Wednesday, March 17 Choral. Union Concerts i " Guiomar Novacs Brilliant Brazilian Pianist The University Musical Society takes great pleasure in announcing that Guiomar Novaes, brilliant woman pianist, has been scheduled for the March 5th Choral Union concert. Quoting the New York World-Telegram after a recent New York performance, "The recital by Guiomar Novaes made it clearer than ever before that she is a poet of the keyboard. The personable Brazilian pianist breathed magic into a well-chosen group of pieces. She gave each of them particular care, the proper tonal proportions, a world of colors, and played with that ultra-smooth finish we have come to admire and to envy."_ HEIFETZ' very name means "violin" to the entire civil- ized world. For about two decades he has maintained a foremost position among the great violin virtuosi of all time. Season after season he is always welcomed back to the scenes of his earlier triumphs. His Ann Arbor audience is looking forward to his return engage- ment at Hill Auditorium.. Tuesday, February 16 Jascha Heifetz VIOLINIST ALBERT SPALDING's career shatters the old idea that rank- ing musicians must be long-haired foreigners. Of Amer- ican birth and training, his achievements have been recognized ' throughout the musical world. Often re- ferred to as the "aristocrat of the violin," he is a man Ii i 11 1 11 11 1