Friday, August 15, 2008

Beaux Arts Trio calls it quits after 53 years

The Beaux Arts Trio is wrapping up its 53 year run with its final concert. We presented the Trio's final Boston performance back in April. The final final concert will take place at Tanglewood next week.

David Weininger's piece in today's Globe profiles the Trio at its end and though the headline, Beaux Arts Trio to say goodbye to Tanglewood, implies this is only the group's final Tanglewood performance, it is indeed their final performance anywhere:

"Not every ensemble merits this question when its demise is in sight,
but this one undoubtedly does. The trio played its first concert at
Tanglewood in 1955, and it will play its final American concerts there
next week. In the intervening 53 years, it has taken its place as one
of the 20th century's foremost chamber-music groups, and has set a
standard for trio playing that will persist well after the group's end."

Read all of Beaux Arts Trio to say goodbye to Tanglewood.

A video is a virtual mockery of any chamber music performance, but I  would feel remiss if I didn't give you something  in the way of sound from the great Beaux Arts Trio. This video is the first movement from Dvorak's "Dumky" Trio performed in San Francisco's Herbst Theatre about two weeks after their final Celebrity Series performance:






UPDATE:

David Weininger writes that the Beaux Arts' original plan to end at Tanglewood has been changed since they last visited Boston:



Thanks for noting the column on the Beaux Arts on the blog. You write there that the headline is misleading and that the Tanglewood shows will be "their final performance[s] anywhere." I think that was the original plan, at least back when they came through Boston in April. Apparently they reconsidered, though, because there are a number of dates scheduled in Europe after Tanglewood:

http://beauxartstrio.org/beaux_arts_schedule.html

I believe their last concert is at the Lucerne Festival. If you go to the festival's calendar:

http://e.lucernefestival.ch/handler.asp?Id=2840


and click on September 6, you'll see a listing for the concert.

It all checks out, of course. Thanks, David!



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