THE UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

The Canadian BrassFREDERIC MILLS, Trumpet RONALD ROMM, Trumpet

MARTIN HACKLEMAN, French Horn EUGENE WATTS, TromboneCHARLES DAELLENBACH, Tuba

FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 30, 1984, AT 8:30 HILL AUDITORIUM, ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN

PROGRAM

Overture to The Marriage of Figaro. ............ WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZARTan. BEHGLER

"The Four Seasons" ..................................... ANTONIO VIVALDIan. FRACKENPOHL

Canzona No. 4. ........................................ GIOVANNI GABRIELI

Toccata and Fugue in D minor. .................... JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACHan. MILLS

Mostly Fats. ...................................... THOMAS "FATS" WALLERan. HENDERSON

INTERMISSION

A Tribute to the Ballet. .............................. an. SONNY KOMPANEKSpecial thanks: JEFF MARTIN

Overture Russian DanceFanfare Sugar Plum FairySwan Lake Pizzicati (Delibes' Sylvia)In the Hall of the Mountain King Love Theme RecapitulationNutcracker FinaleRomeo and Juliet

Air on the G string ................................................. BACH

CBS Masterworks Records

Forty-fourth Concert of the 105th Season Special Concert

About the ArtistsFrom the China Wall to Carnegie Hall, the Canadian Brass has gained international renown for

their brilliant virtuosity and remarkable ensemble playing. The ensemble was formed in 1970 and has since been heard in concerts across Canada and the United States, as well as Europe, Japan, Saudi Arabia, the Soviet Union, and China. It was in 1977 that these players were chosen to tour the People's Republic of China in a cultural exchange program arranged by Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudcau.

The summer of 1983 was a busy one for the Canadian Brass. They participated in the opening ceremonies of the new 70,000-seat B. C. Place Stadium in Vancouver, which was broadcast live nationally on CTV. In June, at the Edmonton Commonwealth Stadium, the Brass performed before Prince Charles and Princess Diana, 60,000 fans, and an international television audience during the opening of Universiade, the World University Games. In August they played to a capacity audience in a Mostly Mozart Festival concert in New York's Avery Fisher Hall.

Their current 1983-84 season includes appearances with the New York Pops and Skitch Henderson at Carnegie Hall, the Philadelphia Pops and Peter Nero at the Academy of Music, and guest appearances with the symphony orchestras of Springfield, Indianapolis, Chattanooga, Denver, and Minnesota, as well as over 75 recitals. A number of new recordings this season includes a special album of music-making with the Berlin Philharmonic Brass.

The Brass's repertoire ranges from classical works to ragtime works to avant-garde works. Faced with a literature that included only a handful of great works for brass when they came together, the players have become unabashed transcribers of music from all areas. They have thus steadily gained a reputation for forging new paths into the uncharted areas of music for brass.

With their 24-karat, gold-plated matched instruments specially designed and craftcd by the late Rcnold Schilke of Chicago, the Canadian Brass has been seen by television audiences on such diverse programs as Camera 3, the Today show, Sesame Street, the Bravo TV cable network, and most recently with Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show and on PBS with John Williams and the Boston Pops.

The group performs this evening for the first time in Ann Arbor under Musical Society auspices.

Yo-Yo MA, Cellist ......................................... Wed. Apr. 4Stravinsky: Suite Italienne; Bach: Suite No. 5; Franck: Sonata in A major; Faure: Elegie, Papillon; Tchaikovsky: Melody; Paganini: Moses Fantasy

ORPHEUS CHAMBER ENSEMBLE ................................ Fri. Apr. 14J. C. Bach: Sinfonia in B-flat; Mozart: Bassoon Concerto, K. 191; Schocnberg: Vcrklartc Nacht, Op. 4; Bartok: Rumanian Dances

MAY FESTIVAL ..................................... Wed.-Sat. Apr. 25-28Tickets available for Thursday and Friday (Wed. & Sat. sold out)

Just announced! Ann Arbor Summer Festival, 1984

Premiere Season: June 30 -July 24, on the U-M campusMime Music Dance Theatre

Marcel Marceau, Sherrill Milnes, Edward Villella, Claire Bloom, and many other artists and performing groups . . . plus

lectures, films, master classes, and alumni activitiesFree brochure available from University Musical Society, Professional Theatre

Program, School of Music, and at various campus and city locations.

To be announced April 9: A New Season of International Presentations, 1984-85

Symphony orchestras from America and abroad, solo recitalists, chamber groups, ballet, chorus and opera . . .

Watch for new brochure!

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