/ NEW COLLEGE NEWS RELEASE NEW COLLEGE, SARASOTA, FLORIDA FURMAN C. ARTHUR - INFORMATION

FOR RELEASE: THURSDAY P.H. OR AFTER

First concert of the seven to be held as part of the New

College Summer f-lusic Festival >:·Till be offered Saturday evening (June 17)

in Hamilton Center on the coller,e ca~pus.

second Hill be performed at

p.m.

Performing in the tt-10 concerts ~-Till be six of the leading

musicians lvho are serving as faculty for the festival plus two assisting

artists and a chamber .

Music lvill ranee from eighteenth century to the present

in pror,rams carefully planned by Festival music director Paul Holfe.

Leadine artists performing in the tlJO concerts ~vill be

violinist 'Holfe, oboist , violist Halter Trampler, cellist

Bernard Greenhouse, pianist Jacques Abram and flutist Julius Baker.

Assistin~ artists in the first two concerts will be

violinist Anita Brooker and cellist Christopher von Baeyer. The Festival

Chamber Orchestra also lvill assist in the second concert.

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:n the first half of Saturday's concert, t-1ozart' s 0uartet in F Major ~ilill be performed by Bloom, Holfe, Trampler, and Greenhouse~ followed by Debussy's Sonata played by Greenhouse and Abram. A quintet of Baker, Holfe, Miss Brooker, Trampler, and Greenhouse \ilill conclude the openinp, half of the propram with Ginastera's lmpresiones de la Puna.

After intermission, Abram, Holfe, Trampler, and Greenhouse

~-1111 play Brahm's 0uartet in G Hiner Opus 25.

Sunday afternoon at the concert to be performed at 11JC, the group of Holfe, Hiss Brooker, Trampler, Greenhouse and von Baeyer will play Boccherini's Ouintet inC Major followed by Baker and Abrams performing Poulenc's Sonata.

In the latter half of the Sunday performance, Baker ~ilill be the soloist ~ilith the Festival Chamber Orchestra in Bach's Suite

Number 2 in B Hinor. This ~-1ill be follm-1ed by Bloom and the orchestra in Barlow's "The Hinter's Passed." Concludinr, the afternoon program will be Bloom and Holfe and the festival orchestra performing Bach's

Concerto in C Minor.

Paul Holfe, in addition to being the musical director of the festival, is conductor of the Florida Hest Coast Symphony Orchestra, a member of the faculty at New College, first violinist of the Silvermine

String Ouartet, and a featured artist at the Casals Festival.

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Jacques Abram, who ~-1ill offer a recital as the fourth program in the concert series, has performed ~-1ith the Net.;r York Philhar­ monic, the Philadelphia, Chicap,o, , Houston and San Francisco symphony and has made numerous European tours.

Julius Baker is solo flutist · ~-1ith the NeH York Philharmonic, a member of the faculty of the of t-1usic and last year Has named by Time map,azine as one of the half dozen top flutists in the nation.

He also is former first flutist ~-1ith the Pittsburgh, Chicago and CBS

Symphony orchestras.

Robert Bloom v1as solo oboist for the NBC Symphony under

Toscanini and he has been with the Bach Aria Group since its founding.

Bloom, who appeared in a special concert at Netv Colle~e several years ago, has also been on the faculty of the Yale Graduate School of Husic.

Bernard Greenhouse is a member of the Bach Aria Group and the Beaux Arts Trio. He has taught at Juilliard, at the Hanhattan

School of Music, the University of Hartford, Indiana University and has recorded for RCA Victor, Columbia Records and others.

Walter Trampler has been a featured artist at the

Casals Festival, a soloist with the Budapest and Juilliard String

Ouartets, distinr,uished professor at the Juilliard School of Music and a founder-member of the Net-7 Music Quartet.

Tickets for the t\IIO concerts are now on sale at several locations in the area: Hullinp,ers Music Store and at Neel Auditorium at

~ffinatee Junior Colle~e in Bradenton; The Sport Shop in Sarasota; and at

Netv College. Special rates may be obtained in series of tHo, three or for the entire seven concerts.

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