1985–1986 Festival Series
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Beaux Arts Trio
October 10, 1985
The Beaux Arts Trio, the propitious unnion of pianist Menahem Pressler, violinist Isidore Cohen and cellist Bernard Greenhouse, celebrates its 30th anniversary this season. The Trio’s official public debut at the 1955 Berkshire Music Festival at Tanglewood marked the beginning of one of the most succesful musical collaborations of our time.
Susan Star
November 19, 1985
Tchaikovsky Competition winner Susan Starr has played to standing ovations with the world’s celebrated orchestras and conductors. Since her concert debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra at age six (she has subsequently gone on to perform with the orchestra on more than 30 occasion—a record), Starr has performed with such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, National Symphony, American Symphony (where she was Leopold Stokowski’s first soloist), New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and Dayton Philharmonic.
The Bach Aria Group
January 29, 1986
The Bach Aria Group was founded in 1946 by William Scheide, a musicologist and philanthropist, who had a strong sense of the universality of J.S. Bach’s music. Scheide provided direction to the work of the Bach Aria Group until his retirement in 1980. During that time, the Bach Aria Group had been heard on NBC SUnday morning radio broadcasts, played sold-out series at Town Hall and then at Alice Tully Hall in New York, and toured the United States, Europe, South America, and the Near East.