BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEIJI OZAWA Music Director

TANGLEWOOD 1975

Eugene Cook photo Phyllis Curtin

Friday August 8 1975 Phyllis Curtin at 7pm Soprano

Weekend Prelude Phyllis Curtin, presently Adjunct Pro- fessor at , was a student

at the Berkshire Music Center, and is artist-in-residence at Tanglewood. She has traveled to all parts of the world singing in , with orchestras and in recital. Her repertoire, which ranges PHYLLIS CURTIN from the Baroque to the contemporary, soprano is enormous. She has appeared at , Milan, at , in Aus- RYAN EDWARDS tralia and New Zealand, and across the United States. Phyllis Curtin's roles at piano the in New York include the Countess in Le nozze di Fi- garo, Mistress Ford in , Eva in An Early Evening Of Latin -American Songs Die Meistersinger and Ellen Orford in . Her many recordings are on the RCA, Columbia, Louisville, Bach Guild and CRI label. She has appeared with the Boston Symphony on many Ryan Edwards is playing the Baldwin Piano occasions in performances of music by Bach, Haydn, Rossini and Copland and has also given Prelude concerts during the 1972 and 1973 Berkshire Festival seasons. Her most recent appearance with the Orchestra was last summer here at Tanglewood in a performance of Schoenberg's Gurrelieder. 1

Ryan Edwards Piano

Ryan Edwards graduated from Florida State University in 1957, and, as the re- cipient of a Fulbright grant, studied piano and composition with Nadia Bou- langer in Paris the following year. In 1958 he came to New York, where he has been an accompanist, music coach and teacher ever since. Also a composer. Ryan Edwards has written many songs performed by Phyllis Curtin. Miss Cur- tin and Mr Edwards toured Australia The Boston Symphony Orchestra records exclusively for Deutsche Grammophon during the summer of 1968, and together

BALDWIN PIANO / DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON & RCA RECORDS they have made recordings on the Co- lumbia, Vanguard and Cambridge labels.

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