Madrigal Singers, 1944-06-15

Madrigal Singers, Borden Parker Bowne Hall, Seeley Wintersmith Mudd Memorial Hall of Philosophy, University Avenue [later 3709 Trousdale Parkway], University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 1944 June 15, 2:30 p.m. Madrigal Singers (Jean Rotzler and Mary Elizabeth Liggett, sopranos; Rosemary Beemer and Jean Gage, mezzo-sopranos; Shirley Hayman and Patricia Emmons, contraltos); Max T. Krone, director. ❧ CONTENTS: Two choruses for female voices (a cappella), op. 18 (Stephen Vincent Benét, text) / Miklós Rósza. ❧ The Rósza work was performed in the third part of the four part program: 1. Music of the 17th and 18th centuries, 2. Music of the 19th and early-20th centuries, 3. Music of contemporary composers, 4. Folk songs. On the same program were works of Johannes Brahms and Gustav Holst. ❧ Announced in "Madrigal group ot give recital here tomorrow" Southern California Trojan (1944 June 14): p. 4. See http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll104/id/60160/show/60159 . Also announced in "Dr. Rozsa to conduct" Los Angeles Times (1944 June 18): p. III:5.