1965-1966 Season
November 21, 23, 1965 Kleinhans Music Hall
Four Centuries of Italian music
Vivaldi – Concerto for Two Mandolins
Nono – Liebeslied
Rossini – Semiramide Overture
Cimarosa – Il Matrimonio Segreto: Overture and Scene
Verdi – Te Deum
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Lukas Foss, conductor
Oswald Rantucci, mandolin
William Kuinka, mandolin
SUNYAB Chorus and Buffalo Schola Cantorum,
Robert Beckwith, director
December 17, 1965 Kleinhans Music Hall
Handel – Messiah
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Lukas Foss, conductor
Saramae Endich, soprano
Helen Vanni, mezzo soprano
Charles K. L. Davis, tenor
John West, bass
SUNYAB Chorus and Buffalo Schola Cantorum,
Robert S. Beckwith, director
January 14, 1966 Kleinhans Music Hall
American Musical Theatre II
Rodgers and Hammerstein – Sound of Music selections
Weill – Selections
Kern – Showboat selections
Gershwin – Porgy and Bess selections
Janiece Epke, soprano
Laurence Bogue, baritone
Roy Wilhelm, piano
John Charles Thomas, baritone
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Richard Dufallo, conductor
Buffalo Schola Cantorum
Robert Beckwith, director
January 30, 1966 St. Gerard’s Church
Festival of Music
Bach – Fantasia and Fugue in C Minor, prelude
Shaw – Praise to the Lord
Byrd – Mass for Three Voices, Gloria
Bacon – From the Precepts of Angelus Silesius
Verdi – Te Deum
Handel – The Amen Chorus
Bach – Fantasia in G Major, postlude
Squire Haskin, organ
Buffalo Schola Cantorum
State University of Buffalo Men’s Glee Club & Women’s Chorale
Robert Beckwith, conductor
March 18, 1966 Kleinhans Music Hall
American Musical Theatre IV
Sherman – Mary Poppins, selections
Bricusse – Roar of Greasepain, selections
Styne – Funny Girl, selections
Schmidt – Fantasticks, selections
Bock – Fiddler on the Roof, selections
Joseph B. Zito, arranger
Marjorie Gordon, soprano
Robert Kaye, baritone
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Richard Dufallo, conductor
Buffalo Schola Cantorum
Robert Beckwith, director
May 18, 1966 Kleinhans Music Hall
Orff – Carmina Burana
Vivaldi – Gloria
Carol Plantamura, soprano
Martin Lies, tenor
Arthur Burrows, baritone
Jan Valerio, soprano
Dorothy Hedden, contralto
Betty Riehle, piano
Roy Wilhelm, piano
George D’Anna, timpani
John Bergamo, Lynn Harbold, John Rowland, Jan Williams, percussion
Members of Buffalo Symphonia Orchestra
Buffalo Choral Arts Society
Robert Schulz, conductor