SUPPLEMENT Sir an ~IaiI4 SUPPLEMENT VOL. LXVII, No. 4 ANN ARBOR, MICH1GAN, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1956 FOUR PAGES 4; GI{EETINGS For the seventy-eighth consecutive season the University Musical Society will provide the University community with twenty-six major concerts. In the Choral Union Series, ten attractions are scheduled; and five in the Extra Concert Series. Handel's "Messiah" will be prsented twice; and the Quartetto Italiano in three concerts in the Chamber Music Festival. The annual May Festival will, as usual consist of six concerts in May. World-renowned orchestras from Europe and America, out- standing choral groups and other ensembles, and many eminent soloists, both vocal and Instrumental, will be heard, in a wide variety of compositions - romantic, classic and contemporary. The Board of Directors of the Muscial Society endeavors to provide members of the University, both students and faculty, music-lovers of the community, and other from far and wide, with opportunities of hearing a wide range of compositions of recognized cultural value, performed by artists and organizations with established reputations. It is hoped that this season's of fer- ings, both from the standpoint of performers and of programs, will meet with the harty approval of music-lovers and laymen alike. The Board of Directors is appreciative of the splendid co- operation which has attended their efforts through the years, and trusts that this seventy-eighth season will measure up to, or even surpass in enjoyment and cultural value those which have gone before,-thus exemplifying the legend of the founding fathers - ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS. - CHARLE S A. SINK, President Great Artists Colorful Life Makes ianist Living Legend Artur Rubinstein is probably one of the last of the world's great pianists, who were superb show- men as well. His stage presence, his ability to project his personality to his audi- ence when he walks onto the stage, has undoubtedly contributed to his immense popularity. His colorful life and many stage experiences have helped to make him a living legend. Howard Taubman, New York Times Music Critic, has said of him, "Rubinstein belongs to the grand line of pianists. In an era oa'fviolenge ~andpneuoticime i man. He is a citizen of the world. but also his wide culture hi rl ish for humanity, his capacity for cert tour in the United States in 1906, Rubinstein's popularity in Kurt Baum, Nelli Boston Symphony, Munch Tio Play In 78th Annual Choral Union Series By CAROL PRINS Kurt Baum and Herva Nelli will open the 1956-57 University concert series Thursday, October 4 at Hill Auditorium. Among the other world renown performers appearing in Ann Arbor under the sponsorship of the University Musical Society will be the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra with Herbert von Karajan con- ducting, Artur Rubinstein and the Boston Pops Tour Orchestta. Following the appearance of Baum, tenor soloist and Miss Nelli, Metropolitan Opera star, the 78th Choral Union Series will feature the Boston Symphony Orchestra Monday. October 15. The Boston Orchestra under the baton of Charles. Munch will also appear in Ann Arbor Wednesday. October 17 in the University-sponsored Extra Concert Series, in different programs. Berlin Philharmonic Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic will appear in Ann Arbor October 21, This appearance marks the sec- ond visit of the world-famous or- -' Robert Casadesus . , , Brtiish Pianist To Perform1 'U' Concert tuosi of the day, the eminent French pianist Robert Casadesus will be making his third appear- ance in Ann Arbor this fall. Praised by critics for his pure tone, clarity of expression and fine interpretations, the 57-year-old musician graduated from the Paris Conservatoire with all prizes. His American debut in 1935 with the New York Philharmonic-Sym- phony Orchestra prompted Arturo Toscanini, who was in the audi- ence at the time, to invite Casa- desus to play under him the fol- lowing season. . Today Casadesus is famed in winte residence in Princeton, New Jersey. During the spring and summer he tours the continent and teaches at the American Con- servatory in Fontainbleau,. For the first part of the year, Casadesus performed in Paris, then toured in Germany, Italy and England. He played at the Stras- bourg Festival, the Salzburg Fes- tival and the Montreux Festival in Switzerland. * burgh Festival, he played withd th Boston Symphony, the London Philharmonic and the London Players. Termed by the Minneapolis Star's John K. Sherman "a pianist mellowed by long experience and much playing, but not mellowed I into sentiment or mannerism," Casadesus will present the fourth concert in this year's Choral Union series. SchwarZKopf To Give U.S. Third E ncore Sparing eleven weeks from a whirlwind tour of European con- cert and opera houses, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf will give American audiences their third encore, ap- * pearing at the University Extra Concert Series, Wednesday, No- vember 14-. The German soprano, whose voice is exceeded only by her beauty and intelligence, left an in- delible stamp on thi cunr i "Rosenkavalier" and Donna El- vira in "Don Giovanni" for her American operatic debut with the San Francisco Opera Company., This country first heard Miss Schwarzkopf on October 25, 1953, when she captivated both press and public in a single dramatic leider performance sIanging' in The star of countless perform- * ances at Covent Garden, Vienna, La Scala, Lucerne, Salzburg, Ra- vinia, and Stratford, the many- splendored soprano will sing two roles for the Ann Arbor audience that accorded her fame abroad - Fiordihgi (Cosi Fan Tutte) and Alice (Falstaff). Von Karajan To Lead BerlinOrchetra a 'U By DONNA HANSON Making its first American tour, the Berlin Philharmonic Or- chestra will give its second performance in Ann Arbor October 31 at Hill Auditorium, The 166-member orchestra, conducted by Herbert von Karajan, has won fame through its extensive tours over the continent as one of the most respected in Europe. Organized in 1882, the Berlin Philharmonic has survived two world wars and by performing- for the Occupation troops for several I years after World War II, became a vitally important factor in the cultural restoration of Germany beginig in 1945. von Karajan Herbert von Karajan, the orchestra's 45-year-old maestro, has appeared with the Berlin Philharmonic since the death of -Wilheim 0 Furtwaengler in 1954. An Austrian VIENNA BOYS CHOIR - The Vienna Boys Choir wlil appear in Aim Arbor under the auspices of the University Musical So- ciety. The world renown singers will return to the U. S. on their thirteenth North American tour. American Tour Sol Hurok's famed Vienna Choir Boys, on tour in America for the thirteenth time since their founding 458 years ago, will appear in Hill Auditorium as the seventh concert in this year's Choral Union series. Well-received for their performance in Ann Arbor last season, the Boys also appeared on television's Omnibus and the Perry Como Show. The troupe of more than 20 boys is also featured in "Cinerama" and has recorded extensively on several labels. Last New Year's Eve the group made a surprise appearance in the Metropolitan Opera's Gala Performance of "Fledermaus." Imperial Decree Founded by Imperial decree in 1458, Vienna's historic Konvikt School which trains the Boys presented performances before the Concert stage excerpts from three Broadway opera successes will be presented by the fourth group in this year's Extra Con- cert Series, the' dePaur Opera Gala. Conducted by Leonad dePaur te newly-ormed organization wil present music from "Prgy and Bess," "Carmen Jones" and "Four Saints in Three Acts." While this is the first time the Opera Gala has performed in Ann Arbor, its predecessor, the dePaur Infantry Chorus, has been heard here on several occasions, the last beiny two years ago, The new dePaur group combines the talents of a chorus of 25 mixed voices and a 35-member orchestra-, Also accompanying the group are several soloists, including Inez Matthews and Lawrence Winters. As mezzo-soprano, Miss Matthews has been leading lady of several Broadway productions. Winters performed at last year's May Fes- tival. by birth, von Karajan was se- lected by the members of the or- chestra, an old tradition with the groulp. Prior to his appointment to the Berlin Philharmonic, von Kara- jan had been permanent musical director of La Scala in Milan and the London Philharmonic Orches- To create joy by means of great musical art throughout the con- tinent is the orchestra's one aim. Included in the Berlin Philhar- monic Orchestra's repertoire for its American tour is Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Opus 67." "Hungarian March from 'Damnation of Faust,' Opus 10." Handel's "Concerto grosso in B minor, Opus 6, No. 12" and "Sym- phony No. 5 in E minor, Opus 64" by Tschaikowsky. Also to be pe r f orm ed are Brahms' "Symphony No. 1 in C minor and "Symphony No. 2 in D major, Haydn's Symphony No. 2 in D major. Mahler's "Songs of a Wayfarer" and Mozart's "Sym- phony No. 25 in D major. Symphony No. 4 in D minor by Schumann, "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks" and Don Juan by Richard Strauss and Wagner's Overture to "Tannhauser" and "Prelude and Love-Death from "Tristan und Isolde" will also be performed. Artur Rubinstein ..* Eminent musician thiscounry cme rtherlate i hs ca rymter e n After he b ecea me famous throughout Europe and South America, Rubenstein again visited the United States in 1937. His suc- cess is now history. Time Magazine said this win- ter, "He is a great artist with the broadest popular following of any front-rank musician in the world." His concerts in the world's capi- tals are sold out hours after their announcement. In Rome tickets for his recitals are in such demand that lines of people waited through the night to buy tcikets. His rec- ord sales total a million dollars a year. * Rubenstein has said, "It's a lucky thing that people are will- ing to pay to hear me play. If they weren't I'd play anyhow." One Midwestern critic said of Rubenstein, "Rubenstein played... that means that the instrument spoke in tones of such sheer beauty that all other concerts of its kind faded into paleness by comparison." Austrian Imperial Court until the 0 Empire came to an end in 1918.! As a result, the Konvikt School inaugurated public concerts in! 1926 to obtain support for its pro- grams. Hurok has managed groups from the School on United States tours since 1932. Out of the thousands of boys who are brought to the institution each year by hopeful parents, only trained not only in music but in 100 are accepted to be housed and all scholastic subjects. Operetta This year the Choir Boys will present a costume operetta on their program. Divided into three parts, the concert will open with a group of sacred songs written in the six- teenth and seventeenth centuries. Following intermission, the Boys will change from their traditional sailor suits to high-heeled shoes, dresses and wigs for the operetta. Well Received The Vienna Choir Boys were well received by critics all over the U. S. on their last American tour. One critic said, "It would be dif- ficult to say which part of the program was the most charming, impressive or worthwhile. There is a purity and impersonality about the boys' voices especially suited to the sacred music of the Renaissance. provided it is sung with the polish, clarity and per- fection of detail which these boys possess." ChoalUnion Ticket Sales Season tickets for the 1955-56 Choral Union Series and the Extra ConertSeries are available in lumedamounts in all price ranges. Tickets for single concert in *Concert Series will be available to the public beginning September 24. After this time both season tickets and single tickets may be purchased. It was pointed out by charles A. Sink, president of the Univer- sity Musical Society that a large saving amounting almost to fifty percent can be made by purchas- ing season tickets. Tickets may be purchased at the University Musical Society of- fices in Burton Tower. However ticket sales on the night of the concert will be handled at the Hill Auditorium box office. Season tickets for the Choral Union include a price range from $10.00 in the top Bacn to$70 cert Series season tickets range from $5.00 in the top balcony to $8.50 in Block A. Single concert ticket prices for both series range from $3.50 to $1.50, ganization to the United States. Robert Ca s ade s us, eminent French pianist will perform in the chestra under the baton of Andre vember 20 fooed by Aru u benstein who will make his ninth appearance here, January 14. Boys Choir Ia n an a ft r n o o n ce rt Sun - Boys will be heard at Hill Audi- torium. Solomon, the distin- guished British pianist, will per- form in the eighth concert of the Choral Union Series January 20. I The appearance of two of the leading major orchestras in the United States will close the series. Thor Johnson conducting the 26 and the Cleveland Orchestra directed by George Szell will per- form Sunday, March 1. Extra Series The 11th annual Extra Concert Series will open Thursday, Octo- ber 11 with the appearance of Mantovani and his New Music. The second concert of the extra phony on October 17, who are als scheduled to perform in the Choral Union Series. Following the appearance of the Boston Symphony will be Elisa- beth Schwarzkopf, German con- cert and opera singer who will perform November 14. The dePaur Opera Gala are next featured in the Extra Series. The organization under the direction of Leonard dePaur, conductor will appear Thursday, January 10. * Boston Pops The Boston Pops Tour Orches- tra directed by Arthur Fiedler will close the Extra Concert Series in a Sunday afternoon concert, 1March 3. Opera Star To Appear Kurt Baum, noted Metropolitan Opera star, will perform Oct. 4 in Ann Arbor's Hill Auditorium. Born in Czechoslovakia with a German name, the singer is the ranking tenor of the Metropolitan Opera's Italian wing. This is most unusual in the operatic world where few Italian tenors would at- t emp a Germian operatic role, or When Biaum first came to the United States In 1939, he was giv- en the role of Radames in the Chi- cago Opera's production of "Aida." Last summer he flew to England especially to star in a command performance of "Aida" before Her 1Majesty, the Queen, as part of the Coronation festivities. Baum's debut at the Metropoli- tan was in a German opera, Strauss' "Rosenkavalier" but his role was that of an Italian tenor, although the language was Ger- As proof of his versatility, Baum has starred in the leasling roles of the great German operas, "Lo- hengrin" and "Meistersinger," as well as in "Manon Lescaut," "An- drea Chenier," "Carmen," and "Samson and Delilah" in the French Repertory. Baum has also established a good reputation in Europe and Latin America. For severa sa- Europe's most famous music cen- ters: La Scala, Milan, Florence's May Festival and leading opera houses and summer festivals. FIEDLER CONDUCTS: Can.Cans, Marches Feature 'Pops Concerts Traditional performances of(1 the "Messiah" are scheduled for o ge ze Saturday, December 1 at 8:30 pim. o g S e and Sunday, December 2 at 2.30 To Conduct p.m. Quartetto Italiano, world ie- nown musical organization. wil l Orchestra be heard in three concerts Feb- ruary 15, 16 and 17. The concerts The Cleveland Orchestra will be featured at the 17th an- Inual Ann Arbor visitor for nual Chamber Music Festival. iten years, maintains the t~ Also scheduled for the coming this year as it presents t musical season is the 64th annual concert in this season's May Festival to be held May 2-5. Union series. Performing in the annual festival Conducted by the re mandy, the University Choral phony orchestras of the w Union and the Festival Youth! The Cleveland Orchest chorus under the direction of Ifounded by the Russian-A Geneva Nelson. conductor. Nikolai Sokolc - later conducted by Artu Thor Johnson "~Fllowing the Second War, Szell took over thn To Coductand raised the organiza To Co ductquality of personnel and Thor Johnson, former assistant mance. professor at the University's~ The personnel was enla ISchool of Music, will conduct the the full complement of 10 Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra finest orchestral musician on Tuesday, February 26 at Hill IUnited States, And the se Auditorium. tended to a total of 30 wee With musical training from the The Orchestra is noted IUniverstiy of North Carolina and ildren's concerts, now be 1 ~ ..m _ e . epiit,- a timis anrm By VERNON NAHRGANG All over the country, wherever light music is enjoyed the Boston Pops Orchestra is known for the handling and production, in its own inimitable way, of popular and semi-classical musi. ous and the medium of the phono- grapb record the Pops has a na- tion-wide reputation for rousing marches, thunderous can-cans, comic satires on popular songs and its own renditions of theme Imusic from cigarette commercials. All of these variations and many more make up an evening's enter- I -Minmapnt wifh the Pnn - n I across the country, particularly on "The charm of these evenings," the phonograph record. Fiedler the critic continues, "is partly due andtheBoson op wee oe o Ito food and tobacco and demo- andtheBoson op wee oe o }cratic assembly, and partly, of the earliest ff'usicai groups to sell course, to the music." more than a million copies (a rec- iMuch of the credit for the suc- ord often beaten these days) of jcess of the Pops during the past a single recording. 25 yearo muto tAo it.slvr "Jalousie"s and "Gaite Parisienne" hardcnutr rhrFelr That recording was, of cour'se, The brilliant conductor came up the immensely popular "Jalousie." through the ranks, so to speak, as In past years, the Pops has also Ihe joined the Pops as a violinist recorded top-selling albums, with I i 1915 - allowing him to cele- Off enbach's "Gaite Parisienne" bae his 40th anniversary with near the top of the list, and in de- jthe orchestra last year. mand at all record stores. One of Fiedler's strongest pen- On its fifth American tour, 1chants makes itself known on the t~hp Pong will nnneai for a single cross-country tours of the orches- , an an- the last radition ,he last Choral nowned orld. ra was merican ff. and r Rod- World 3 baton tion in perf or- .rged to O of the s in the ason ex- ks. for its ing pre- ally in I