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known MAY FESTIVAL, performed annually by the University Musical So ciety at the University of Michigan, was responsible for the excellent job of choral training done for both the Festival and Camp this season. In ad dition to the choral works presented at the Festival, the REQUIEM of Ga briel Faure and the MASS IN G by Franz Schubert were performed dur ing the camp season, with all student soloists. Plans call for continued ex pansion in chorus work for both camp and festival in future years. This program was greatly enhanced by William Hess, who was a faculty member at the camp, as well as a Fes tival artist, and who instructed in voice along with Harry Taylor of Catawba College, who continued doing a fine job of vocal teaching. Reviewing the Fourth Festival as a whole, it should be noted that this year’s program was one of unusual difficulty, especially for an orchestra with less than two weeks rehearsal time to prepare six concerts. Much of the music programme was of the type all too rarely heard, such as the piece by Frescobaldi, arranged by Dr. Hans Kindler, conductor emiritus of the National Symphony. Conductor Pfohl, who directed all of the concerts, as well as supervising the assembling of an orchestra of professional calibre, emphatically surpassed past attain ments this season. Among the well- known orchestras represented by players of the Festival Symphony were: San Francisco Symphony, New York Philharmonic and New York (Continued on Page 11) Norman Lamb Assistant Conductor Leo Panasevich Concertmaster HERE ARE THE SOLOISTS WHO PERFORMED JACOB LATEINER, a pianist of "extraor- d i n a r y attainments,” winner of the 1944 Philadelphia Orchestra Youth Contest. MARIQUITA MOLL, soprano, chosen b y Koussevitzky for a re cent Carnegie Hall pre sentation of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. NELL TANGEMAN, mezzo-soprano, a violin ist turned to a brilliant vocalist. RUGGIERO RICCI, violinist, internationally known as "a born vir tuoso—and more,” who made his New York de but at the age of nine. CHESTER WATSON, bass-baritone. who has been soloist with lead ing orchestras and ora torio societies and has appeared frequently on the radio. WILLIAM HESS, lead ing tenor of the Phila delphia Opera, the Bal let Society, and the ra dio, particularly known for his beautiful rendi tion of oratorio^ 3
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