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Twenty-fifth Annual Membership Subscription Series
SILVER ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
Season 1979 - 1980 Fifth, Sixth, Seventh & Eighth Concerts
Friends of Chamber Music
presents
THE BEAUX ARTS TRIO
STANLEY DRUCKER, Clarinet
JOHN GRAHAM, Viola
BERNARD GREENHOUSE, Cello
THE JUlLLIARD STRING QUARTET
MENAHEM PRESSLER, Piano
DADE COUNTY AUDITORIUM
2901 West Flagler Street
Miami, Florida
Monday Evening, February 18, 1980
Wednesday Evening, February 20, 1980
Monday Evening, February 25, 1980
Wednesday Evening, February 27, 1980
8:30P.M.
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The First Evening of the Celebration- February 18, 1980
THE BEAUX ARTS TRIO
MEN AHEM PRESSLER, Piano ISIDORE COHEN, Violin
BERNARD GREENHOUSE, Cello
PROGRAM
Beethoven (1770-1827)
Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Trio in G major, Op. 1, No.2 (1795)
Adagio - Allegro vivace
Largo con espressione
Scherzo: Allegro
Presto
Trio, Op. 67 (1944)
Andante
Allegro non troppo
Largo
Allegretto
INTERMISSION
Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Trio in D minor, Op. 49 (1839)
Molto allegro agitato
Andante con moto tranquillo
Scherzo
Finale
Columbia Artists Management Inc., Personal Direction: Michael Ries
Associates: Hattie Clark and David V. Foster
165 West 57th Street, New York, N.Y. 10019
Steinway Piano Recordings: Philips and Mercury
Identified with. Friends of Chamber Music from the very first series of concerts, the Beaux Arts Trio
is also celebrating its Silver Anniversary this season. The Trio has performed for the Friends frequently
in the intervening years and has established itself as one of the favorite ensembles here as well as
throughout the United States and overseas.
Praise for the Trio has been echoed over and over, not only by audiences and critics, but by the
strictest judges of musical excellence - their fellow musicians. "An inspiring experience," was the
late Arturo Toscanini's verdict after hearing the trio play, .. fine chamber music with impeccable taste
and musicianship." When the late Robert Casadesus heard them, he immediately called them "the finest
trio I have heard in America." Zino Francescatti wrote ... "a great ensemble with great artists."
Menahem Pressler was born in Magdeburg, Germany but fled with his family to Israel when Hitler
came to power. He began his professional career in this, his adopted country at the age of 17, after flying
from Tel Aviv to San Francisco especially for a competition. Embarking on his first American tour,
he was soloist five times with the Philadelphia Orchestra, and was immediately awarded an unprecedented
three-year contract for several appearances each season with that world-renowned symphony.
He has since appeared with such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, The Cleveland Orchestra,
the Indianapolis Symphony, the National Symphony of Washington and the Royal Philharmonic, and
many others, playing under such distinguished batons of those of the late Dmitri Mitropoulos.and
George Szell, of Eugene Ormandy, Leopold Stokowski, Georges Enesco. Antal Dorati, Izler Solomon,
and others.
He regularly goes to Europe to fulfill concert and orchestral engagements and last spring returned
from Israel where he was soloist with the Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Paul Paray, as
well as performing several concerts with marked success. In Vienna Mr. Pressler recorded the Chopin
No. 2 and the Mendelssohn First .concerti. He resides in Bloomington, Indiana where he is a full
professor on the faculty of Indiana University.
Isidore Cohen was born in New York City and studied at the Juilliard School with Ivan Galamian.
He has been concertmaster of many orchestras including that of the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico.
He has had an extensive career in chamber music including membership in the Juilliard String Quartet,
Music from Marlboro and as guest artist with the Badapest String Quartet.
Bernard Greenhouse captured the attention of the music world when he made his New York debut
in Town Hall to critical acclaim. Formerly a fellowship student at Juilliard, Mr. Greenhouse went to
Europe for an audition with Pablo Casals which turned into two years of study with the great Spanish
master. Wrote Casals: "Bernard Greenhouse is not only a remarkable cellist, but what I esteem even
more, a dignified artist."
Other activities have included recitals in the major American cities, appearances with orchestras,
chamber groups and numerous recordings with RCA, Concert Hall and the American Recording
Society. He plays the famous "Paganini" Stradivarius cello dated 1707. He is on the faculty of
Manhattan School of Music and the New York State University.
The Second Evening of the Celebration - February 20, 1980
JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET
ROBERT MANN, Violin SAMUEL RHODES, Viola
EARL CARLYSS, Violin JOEL KROSNICK, Cello
and
Assisting Artists
JOHN GRAHAM, Viola BERNARD GREENHOUSE, Cello
Brahms (1833-1897)
PROGRAM
Sextet in G major, Op. 36 (1864)
Allegro non troppo
Scherzo - Allegro non troppo: Presto
giocoso: Tempo I
Poco adagio
Poco allegro
INTERMISSION
Schubert (1797-1828) Quintet in C major, D. 956 (1828)
Allegro ma non troppo
Adagio
Scherzo
Allegretto
Colbert Artists Management Inc., Ill West 57th Street, New York, N.Y. 10019
Recordings: Columbia Masterworks; RCA Victor.
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The Juilliard String Quartet -a name that over the years has become synonymous with chamber
music- has been a favorite with our members. Since the Quartet's founding in 1946 critics around the
world have sought to e_xplain.the special quality that sets it apart. The simple and succinct explanation
came from founderfleader Robert Mann himself in an interview with Martin Bookspan on an internationally
televised Beethoven program filmed in Europe. "We play contemporary music as if it were
the classics and we play the classics as if they were contemporary," said Mann, thus describing the
miraculous sense of discovery always present in the Juilliard's playing of music from Haydn to
today's composers.
As the quartet-in-residence since 1962 at the Library of Congress the Quartet plays its annual twenty
concerts on the priceless Stradivari instruments willed to the people of the United States by Gertrude
Clarke Whittall.
Wherever the J uilliard Quartet plays it is recognized as the foremost American quartet and as one of
the great quartets of history. "It is certainly no secret nowadays that the Juilliard's Beethoven is
matchless and its playing of Schoenberg and Bartok not to be touched by any other foursome holding
a ten-foot pole," in the opinion of James Roos of the Miami Herald.
For our Silver Anniversary Celebration the Juilliard has graciously consented to appear with the
listed guest artists in order to bring us Jess frequently heard masterpieces of the chamber music
literature. Our gratitude is extended to all of these artists for the extra rehearsals that these concerts
entail.
Stanley Drucker was appointed the New York Philharmonic Symphony's Solo clarinetist in 1960.
When he joined the orchestra as assistant principal and E-flat clarinetist in 1948 at the age of 19 he
became the youngest New York Philharmonic musician on record. He has been a member of the faculty
of the Juilliard School since 1968. In 1977 he gave the world premiere of the Clarinet Concerto by
John Corigliano with the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein. He was soloist with the
Stockholm Symphony and Toronto Symphony, and has appeared as guest artist with the Juilliard and
Guarneri Quartets.
John Graham has appeared throughout the United States as soloist and in chamber music
ensembles. He performs regularly with Speculum Musicae and the Galimir String Quartet and has
collaborated with the J uilliard String Quartet in numerous concerts and in recordings of Schoenberg's
"Verklaerte Nacht" and the complete viola quintets of Mozart on the CBS label. He has also appeared
as ~uest artist with the Guarneri String Quartet, has participated in several seasons of the Marlboro
Music Festival and its Music from Marlboro tours. He is artist-in-residence at the State URiversity
of New York at Stony Brook.
The Third Evening of the Celebration- February 25, 1980
JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET
ROBERT MANN, Violin
EARL CARL YSS, Violin
SAMUEL RHODES, Viola
JOEL KROSNICK, Cello
and
Assisting Artist
STANLEY DRUCKER, Clarinet
Schubert (1797-1828)
Brahms (1833-1897)
PROGRAM
Quartettsatz in C minor, D. 703 (1820)
Allegro assai
Quartet in A minor, Op. 51, No. 2 (1873)
Allegro non troppo
Andante moderato
Quasi minuetto: Moderato
Finale: Allegro non assai
INTERMISSION
Brahms Quintet in B minor, Op. 115 (1891)
Allegro
Adagio
Andantino - Presto non assai,
rna sentimento
Con moto - U n poco meno mosso
The Fourth Evening of the Celebration- February 27, 1980
JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET
~OBERT MANN, Violin
EARL CARL YSS, Violin
SAMUEL RHODES, Viola
JOEL KROSNICK, Cello
and
Assisting Artist
MEN AHEM PRESSLER, Piano
PROGRAM
Beethoven (1770-1821)
Mozart (1756-1791)
Quartet in F major, Op. 14, No. 1*
Allegro moderato
Allegretto
Allegro
Quartet in A major, K. 464 (1785)
Allegro
Menuetto
Andante
Allegro
INTER.MISSION
Brahms (1833-1897) Quintet in F minor, Op. 34 (1864)
Allegro non troppo
Andante, un poco adagio
Scherzo: Allegro
Finale: Poco sotenuto -
Allegro non troppo
*This composition was transcribed by Beethoven for string quartet in 1802 from the piano sonata in E major, Op. 14, No. I.
Management for Mr~ Pressler: Melvin Kaplan Inc., 1860 Broadway, Suite 1010, New York, N. Y. 10023.
During the early months of 1955 a group of dedicated music lovers assembled in a Coconut Grove
home to form a non-profit civic organization for the presentation of chamber music concerts in the
Greater Miami area.
Besides pledging their time and effort for the fledgling society they also agreed to back it financially
so that contracts with artists could be negotiated before sufficient funds were actually available from
membership dues.
The announcement of the formation of Friends of Chamber Music, however, brought forth such
enthusiastic response from the public that less than one year later on the occasion of the first concert
presented, the New Music String Quartet, over five hundred paid members attended, and the "Friends"
was launched on a sound financial basis.
That first season of concerts, 1955-56, both the Juilliard String Quartet and the Beaux Arts Trio
appeared for us. Both have become special favorites of our members.
During the years that follow.ed chamber music groups representing the elite of the genre have
appeared, including:
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Virtuosi di Roma
Budapest String Quartet
Quartetto Italiano
Borodin String Quartet
Guarneri String Quartet
Amadeus String Quartet
Leonard Rose and Jack Maxin
The Vienna Octet
Solisti di Zagreb
Quartetto di Roma
James Buswell and Seth Carlin
Lucerne Festival Strings
The Fine Arts String Quartet
The New York String Sextet
The English Chamber Orchestra
and many others. In all over one hundred fifty concerts have been given .
Concerts were first presented at the "White Temple" in down town Miami, an accoustically
desirable small auditorium. As the membership increased the need fo r a larger concert hall became
apparent, and Dade County Auditorium has been our home since. Some concerts also were held in the
Shenandoah Junior High School Auditorium, Gusman Cultural Center and Barry College
Auditorium.
The officers and Board of Directors are pleased to be able to offer this Silver Anniversary
Celebration to our members as a "thank you" for your support of the aims and purposes of our society.
The "Friends" are pledged to continue the presentation of chamber music events of the highest
quality in years to come.
