BERKSHIRE FESTIVAL 1968

CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES

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THE BOSTON TRIO

SUNDAY AUGUST 18 at 10.30 am THEATRE TANGLEWOOD THE BOSTON TRIO

The Boston Trio was originally organized in 1961 with Phyllis Moss as the V & pianist. The following year Roger Shermont and John Sant Ambrogio joined Be the group, and the Trio has given concerts since in Massachusetts, New Hamp- Lx shire, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The players have played the A; M solo trio part in Beethoven's Triple Concerto with several orchestras, and have D in their repertoire most of the literature written for violin, cello and piano. Ei Be M ROGER SHERMONT was born in Paris and studied at the Paris Conservatory Pi V( with Jules Boucherit and Roland Charmy, graduating with the highest honors M M at the age of sixteen in 1939. X Before coming to the United States in 1947, he played many recitals and was CI M staff soloist with the Radio Diffusion Nationale in Paris. He also appeared Br as soloist with the Orchestre Nationale and the radio Symphonique. D< En Pc In the United States he has played as soloist with the National Orchestra of St New York, the Little Orchestra Society of New York and at the Boston Ns M Esplanade Concerts. He joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1950, He Pa was invited by Charles Munch to play the Brahms Concerto with the Boston

Vi Symphony Orchestra in 1961. Five years later he appeared with Arthur Fiedler Hi M as soloist with the Boston Pops Orchestra. His various solo appearances also H( include those with the Cape Cod, Wellesley and Manchester (New Hamp- shire) Orchestras.

Recently, Roger Shermont appeared with John Sant Ambrogio in performances of the Brahms with the North Shore Philharmonic and the Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) Symphony.

JOHN SANT AMBROGIO was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, and studied at Lebanon Valley College, Pennsylvania and at Ohio University. His cello teachers were Leonard Rose and Diran Alexanian, and he studied conducting an with Arthur Christman. In 1952 he won the Piatigorsky Award at Tangle- al wood, where he was a member of the Berkshire Music Center. His orchestral pl career began when he joined the Harrisburg Symphony. From there he went to the Seventh Army Symphony where he was principal cello and soloist in fa France and Germany. He joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1959. I j A. John Sant Ambrogio has given many solo recitals, including two in . He has made solo appearances with the Boston Pops, the New Jersey Fine Arts Orchestra and several orchestras in the New England area. He

teaches at Boston University and is co-director of the Red Fox Music Camp of in New Marlboro, Massachusetts. A distinguished teacher, John Sant Ambrogio has had two pupils who have become members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. PROGRAM

DVORAK Trio in E minor op. 90 T)umka , 1841-1904 Lento maestoso — allegro (quasi doppio movimento) Poco adagio — vivace Andante — vivace non troppo — andante — allegretto

Andante moderato (quasi tempo di marcia) — allegretto scherzando — tempo primo Allegro

Lento maestoso — vivace (quasi doppio movimento) — lento — vivace

RAVEL Trio in A minor (1914) 1875-1937 Modere

Pantoum: assez vif

Passacaille: tres large

Final: anime

BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS PHYLLIS MOSS, born in , began to play the piano at the age of V six. When she was eleven she was awarded a scholarship to the Curtis Institute Sa of Music and became one of the youngest students there. Her teacher was Be whose group of students included , L\ As Lucas Foss, and Gary Graffman. At the age of twelve she made her Phila- M delphia debut at a concert of the Philadelphia Sinfonietta under Sevitcky. She Di Ei played in New York when she was fifteen, as soloist with the Federal Symphony. B: M Since that time she has toured extensively and has been soloist with the Pi V< Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Boston Pops Orchestra, the Bamberger Sym- M M phony, the Boston Civic Symphony and many other orchestras. She has given X recitals at New York's Metropolitan Museum, the Brooklyn Academy of CI M Music, and the Gardner Museum in Boston. Phyllis Moss is at present on Bi the faculty at Wellesley College. D< E\ Pe St Ni M Pa

Vi Hi M H« THE FINAL PROGRAM

Sunday August 25 at 10.30 am

BOSTON SYMPHONY CHAMBER PLAYERS

BEETHOVEN Duet in E flat for violin and cello with two ai obbligato eyeglasses at P* FINE Partita for wind quintet fa BRAHMS Trio for piano, violin and cello in B major op. 8 A. d! of