South Mountain is located about a mile south of the
center of Pittsfield on U.S. routes 7 and 20. For more
than sixty years South Mountain has been one of this
country's most distinguished musical centers. Alongside
such other music festivals as Marlboro and
Tanglewood, South Mountain has maintained its own
distinctive tradition of imagination and excellence.
Since its founding in 1918 by Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague
Coolidge, many internationally renowned artists have
appeared here. Among them can be numbered
Leonard Bernstein, Alexander Schneider, Leontyne
Price, Rudolph Serkin, the Beaux Arts Trio, the
juilliard Quartet, the Guarneri Quartet, the Cleveland
Quartet, and the Tokyo Quartet.
The concert hall seating 460, now listed on the
National Register of Historic Buildings, was designed
expressly for chamber music concerts and built in a
simple colonial style with timber salvaged from an old
textile mill.
Early festival performers included the Berkshire Quartet
and the Elshuco Trio, founded by the inspiration
of Mrs. Coolidge's visits to Blue Hill, Maine, where
the noted Kneisel Quartet made its summer home.
Among the members of the Kneisel Quartet was
Willem Willeke, a noted cellist and teacher at the
juilliard School. After the quartet disbanded, Mr.
Willeke moved to Pittsfield, and with Mrs. Coolidge's
support, formed the Elshuco Trio.
During the years of the festivals the concerts were
sustained wholly by Mrs. Coolidge. In 1935 the South
Mountain Association, a non-profit organization, was
incorporated for the purpose of continuing the
concerts of chamber music and other cultural activities
on South Mountain.
With the death in 1950 of Willem Willeke, who had
served from the beginning as Music Director, the
work was taken up by his wife, Sally Willeke, under
whose dedicated and determined direction South
Mountain has prospered and has maintained its
distinguished musical tradition.
In 1954 South Mountain embarked on a new educational
venture - Young Audiences Concerts. Each
year since that time South Mountain has brought as
many as thirty concerts a year into the schools of
Berkshire county where many children have heard
the performances of live music for the first time.
In May of 1983 the Board of Directors made the first
awards in the Willem Willeke Memorial Scholarship
program designed to benefit gifted string players,
residents of Berkshire County, who are pursuing
music careers.
In recent years South Mountain has presented a
series of four to six concerts in the concert hall from
August to early October. The following events are
scheduled for the 1986 season:
Saturday, August 23, Steinhardt, Eskin, Artymiw
Sunday, September 7, Festival Winds and
Menahem Pressler, Piano
Sunday, September 14, juilliard String Quartet
Sunday, September 28, Guarneri String Quartet
Sunday, October 5, Beaux Arts Trio
South Mountain programs are funded in part by the
sale of tickets, by endowment income, by contributions
from individuals and corporations, and by grants
from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and
Humanities and the Cultural Education Collaborative,
Institute for the Arts.
South Mountain Association
Mrs. Willem Willeke, Music Director
Lou R. Steigler, Executive Director
Board of Directors
Irwin Shainman, President
Mrs. John Galt, Vice-President
Stephen B. Hibbard, Vice-President
Richard S. Jackson, Vice-President
Mrs. Charles Bates, Clerk
Ralph R. Johnson, Jr., Treasurer
King Francis, Assistant Treasurer
Mrs. Nancy Dolbeare
Donald Herold
Robert Koch
John A. Kreiger
Paul Nixon
Richard D. Perera
Mrs. Donald Rodbell
Lou R. Steigler
Mrs. George E. Vazakas
Lawrence Wikander
Mrs. Willem Willeke
James V. Young
Box Twenty-three
Pittsfield, Massachusetts 01202
Telephone: 413-442-2106
The South Mountain Association
presents
The Beaux Arts Trio
Menahem Pressler, Piano
Isidore Cohen, Violin
Bernard Greenhouse, Cello
Sunday afternoon, October 5, 1986 at 3 o'clock
South Mountain, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770-1827)
Charles Jves
(1874-1954)
INTERMISSION
Trio in E flat major, Op. 1, No. 1
Allegro
Trio
Adagio cantabile
Scherzo: Allegro assai
Finale: Presto
Andante Moderato
TSIAJ - Presto
Moderato con mota
Franz Schubert
(1797-1828)
Trio No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 99
Allegro moderato
Andante un poco mosso
Scherzo: Allegro
Rondo: Allegro vivace
You are cordially invited to meet the artists at a reception outdoors at
the close of the concert. Today's concert by the Beaux Arts Trio marks
their 25th appearance in our series, and South Mountain is grateful for
the loyalty of these superb artists.
Columbia Artists Management, Inc., 165 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019.
Personal Direction: David V. Foster; Associate: Hattie Clark.
NOTE: For safety and comfort seating is re stricted to four occupants per pew section .
Your cooperation is requested.
Funded in part by the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, a state
agency.
