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SLAVIC SONGFEST:
Don Cossacks Chorus
Will Sin Dance Here
Boot-shod cossacks will invade
Ann Arbor, this year when the 29
members of the celebrated Don:
Cossack Chorus and Dancers will
take over the stage of Hill Au-
ditorium in an evening of rous-
ing Russian songs and tender lul-
labies.
Long famed for their kopec
dancing; the group will give the
fourth concert in the Choral Un
ion's' Extra Concert series on Jan.
15.
SINCE MAKING their Ameri-
can debut in 1930, these Cossack
choristers have dug a secure niche
for themselves in the musical
heart of their adopted country.
In 1936 the organization be-
came American citizens en
masse. They can still recite as
a body; their press clippings
aver, the Constitution in.its
entirety. I:::.
Hess Favors
Old Classics
For Concerts
Pianist To Offer
'Finest Music'
Myra Hess, who will give her
fourth Ann Arbor concert Novem-
ber 14, is a pianist who does not
formanceswithpopulpnweHd
believe in sugar-coating her per-
formances with popular works.
"It is the great classics," the
British artist says, "that are most
appreciated and enjoyed every-
where. It is we artists who train
the public. The more popular an
artist is, the greater his responsi-
biilty in making programs of noth-
ing but the finest music."
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HER . OWN experience, she
claims, has taught her that suc-
cess can be won without playing
programs which have a quick ap-
peal.
Success is something Miss
Hess is qualified to talk about.
She has been acclaimed by cri-
ties both in the United States
and in her native England for
her interpretations of Mozart
and Beethoven.
The late King George V made
her Commander of the Order of
the British Empire, a distinction
never before given to an instru-
mentalist.
DURING THE WAR she or-
ganized and participated in daily
lunch-hour concerts at the Na-
tional Gallery in London.
Their purpose was to give
work to many musicians, to raise
money for the Musicians' Be-
nevolent Fund, and above all, to
bring music to the people at a
time when they deeply needed
its spiritual help.
So great was the success of
these concerts that Miss Hess
inaugurated similar series in other
English communities.
In recognition of her contribu-
tion in bolstering the morale of+
her countrymen, she was mad3
Dame Commander of the Bri.tish
Empire, the highest honor a mu-
s&r ian can receive in England and
the title she proudly bears today.
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VISITING ARTIST: H
Vladimir Horowitz To
Show Piano Virtuosity
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SPOTLIGHT ON SOLOMON:
Famed British Pianist To Appear Here
Maestro of the group
of its chief attractions
sized (4 foot 10, 120
Serge Jaroff.-
and one
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pound)
SERGE JAROFF
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IT WAS Jaroff in 1920 who put
together the first Cossack chor-
us in an army camp near Con-
stantinople. Since that time he
Sink .Requests
Promptness
At Concerts
Charles A. Sink, president of
the University Musical Society,
requested yesterday that concert-
goers refrain from arriving late
for -concerts.
While the artists are perform-
ing no latecomers- will be -"admit-
ted, he warned. This policy, a so-
ciety tradition, will be maintained
for all concerts in the society's
five-concert series this season.
He said that il concerts will
begin promptly at the time sched-
uled.'
There will be no exceptions to
the Society rule, he emphasized.-
has led them in song in all parts
of the world.
Though his giant singers are
affectionate toward him, Jaroff
is still very mucp the martinet
in wringing the best possible
performances from the group.
Before. every concert he holds
an inspection. Fines of anywhere
from $1 to $25 may be leveled
at this time; $1 for something
like unshined boots, $25 for liquor
breath.
* * *
JUST AS after 21 transconti-
nental tours, America has come
to know the Cossacks, so have the
Cossacks come to know America.
By the time the second World
War sent a few of them into the
armed forces, their publicity re-
leases claim, they knew "the first
name of every hot-dog stand
owner west of the Mississippi."
Further, one release states, "Bus-
men used to ask them for road
directions."
Press releases aside, the Ameri-
can public seems pretty well
agreed that on stage, the Don
Cossacks are supreme.
Preceded by an established repu-
tation Vladimir Horowitz will ap-
pear Jan. 19 inthe eighth Concert
Series presentation.
Now in his 20th concert season
in the United States, the celebrat-
ed pianist has prompted musical
experts to write such praises as,
"One should be grateful to live in
the same century with Horowitz."
THE PIANIST'S concert debut
was made at the age of 16, as a
child prodigy., But even at his
birth-on October 1, 1904, in Kiev,
Russia-Horowitz' career was
foreshadowed by the very name of
the street on which he was born
-Musikalnyi Pereulak, which
means, roughly translated, Music
Street.
After a "trial" debut in his
native city, Horowitz's formal
bow in the musical world took
place in Kharkov in May, 1920,
Despite the unsettled post-revo-
lution conditions, two concerts
were arranged but they mush-
roomed to nine, all sold out.
In 1926 Horowitz played his
first recitals in Europe outside of
Russia. Overnight he became a
celebrity. Concert engagements
poured in.
* * *
HIS AMERICAN debut came in
1928, when he played as soloist
with the New York Philharmonic-
Symphony Orchestra.'
Despite his concert hall suc-
cess, one of Horowitz's greatest
satisfactions stems from his
friendship with the Russian
composer, Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Some of the excitement of that
association was captured by Horo-
witz when he reminisced, "Our
friendship . . . ripened through
the years, each meeting with him
revealing a new facet of his art,
a different side of a warm and
vibrant personality which the pub-
lic, who never really knew him,
called inscrutable."
* * *
HOROWITZ SPENT Rachma-
ninoff's last days with him before
the composer's death in 1943 in
Beverly Hills. During these final
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hours, Horowitz said, "His playing
never lost the tonal lustre which
made it unique among his key-
board colleagues."
Great praise indeed, coming
from a man whom many regard
as the finest living pianist. An in-
dication, also, that Horowitz,
throughout his overwhelming suc-
cess, has never been blinded by his
own brilliance.
Chicago Group
Will Feature
New Leader
Something new will be added to
the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
when it pays its annual visit to
Ann Arbor on March 4.
The prize addition to the or-
chestra is its fifth new conductor
in 60 years, Rafael Kubelik, who
succeeded Arthur Rodzinski on its
podium.
* * *
KUBELIK was born in Bychory,
Czechoslovakia, 35 years ago, and
received his early musical training
from his father, Jan Kubelik, a
world renowned violinist.
The tall, young conductor is
famous throughout Europe for
his many guest appearances
with major symphonies and' as
chief conductor of the noted
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra,
a post he held until 1948.
Young Kubelik graduated from
the Prague Conservatory at the
ago of 19, as a conductor and
composer. A year later he made his
first appearance leading the
Czech Philharmonic.
THE KUBELIKS made their
initial visit to the United States
in 1935, when father and son
gave recitals in numerous cities.
Kubelik spent the war years
conducting the Czech Philhar-
monic, which the Germans per-
mitted to continue operations.
With the end of the war came
world-wide successes for Kubelik.
In the last five years, he has con-
ducted symphony orchestras in
London, Moscow, Brussels, Stock-
holm, Copenhagen, Rome and Mi-
lan, to give only a partial list.
CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF
CONCERTS FOR 1950-1951
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A very popular and welcome bit
of reverse Lend-Lease will benefit
Choral Union concert-goers ,Mon-
day, November 20, when Solomon,
noted British pianist, will be heard
in the fourth concert of the cur-
rent series.
Renowned today as one of the
world's great pianists, Solomon
appeared before the King and
Queen of England in Buckingham
Palace at the age of nine, a year
after his debut. After tours on the
continent for a few years, he re-
tired from the concert stage to
concentrate on his musical studies.
HE RESUMED his concert ca-
reer in 1923 and was received with
tremendous enthusiasiam by au-
diences in England andEurope.
Three years later he made his.
first appearance nthe United
States, and was acclaimed as
"one of the top pianists of the
season."
He returned in 1939 .at the New
York World's Fair to play the Art-
hur Bliss Piano Concerto at the
request of the composer.
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UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY
HELEN TRAUBEL, Soprano .............. . ... . ......... . .October 5
LAURITZ MELCHIOR, Tenor... ........................October 10
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA,
Charles Munch, Conductor ........................October 22
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA,
Charles Munch, Conductor........................October 25
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA,
George Szell, Conductor .......................... November 5
MYRA HESS, Pianist ................. ............. November 14
SOLOMON, Pianist ........... .....................November 20
POLYTECH CHORUS OF FINLAND,
Ossi Elokas, Conductor ........................... November 28
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA OF LONDON,
Sir Thomas Beecham, Conductor ..................... December 3
"MESSIAH" (Handel) .. ......................8:30 December 9
"MESSIAH" (Handel) .......................... 2:30 December 10
Lester McCoy, Conductor
ERICA MORINI, Violinist ...... .. ..... ........................... January 11
DON COSSACK CHORUS,
Serge Jaroff, Conductor ............................ January 15
HOROWITZ, Pianist .................................. January 19
BUDAPEST STRING QUARTET (1st concert).........8:30 February 16
BUDAPEST STRING QUARTET (2nd concert).........8:30 February 17
BUDAPEST STRING QUARTET (3rd concert) ........2:30 February 18
CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA,
Thor Johnson, Conductor ................ . .... .February 20
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA,
Rafael Kubelik, Conductor.............. .............. March 4
HEIFETZ, Violinist......... ....................................March 14
FIRST MAY FESTIVAL CONCERT, Eugene Ormandy, Conductor ...May 3
SECOND MAY FESTIVAL CONCERT, Thor Johnson, Conductor ... May 4
THIRD MAY FESTIVAL CONCERT, Alexander Hilsberg, Conductor. .May 5
FOURTH MAY FESTIVAL CONCERT, Eugene Ormandy, Conductor.. May 5
FIFTH MAY FESTIVAL CONCERT, Thor Johnson, Conductor ......May 6
SIXTH MAY FESTIVAL CONCERT, Eugene Ormandy, Conductor ..May 6
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SOLOISTS
NANCY CARR, Soprano
EUNICE ALBERTS, Contralto
DAVID LLOYD, Tenor
OSCAR NATZKA, Bass
UNIVERSITY
CHORAL UNION
SPECIAL ORCHESTRA
MARY McCALL STUBBINS,
Organist
LESTER McCOY, Conductor
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