Estival Quartet Lists Ninth Summer Series

DARTMOUTH alumni in or near Hanover will have the opportunity of hearing one of the leading New England string quartets play a series of five concerts this summer in the 1902 Room, Baker Library. The Estival Quartet, which began nine years ago as the Dartmouth Trio and has steadily grown in popularity and reputation, will be heard Thursday evenings, July 10, 17, 24, and 31, and on Monday evening, August 4.

Miss Orrea Pernel, a member of the Bennington College faculty and a favorite among the summer colony, will again play first violin, after her absence abroad last year. She replaces Michael Tolomeo of City College, New York. The place of George Grossman, violist, a member of the Guilet Quartet and recently soloist with the American Chamber Orchestra in their Town Hall concerts, who followed Miss Anne Bickford of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, will be filled by Karen Tuttle of Philadelphia and of the Curtis Institute. With Miss Pernel she gave a concert of viola and violin music at Dartmouth earlier this year. The cellist will again be George Finkel, whose reputation as a virtuoso performer is as firm in Bennington where he teaches as it is in Hanover. Edwin A. Sherrard, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Thayer School, plays second violin.

Guest artists for the 1958 season will be Gunnar Schoembreck, clarinetist; Lionel Nowak, composer and pianist; and Eugene Lehner, violist.

Two members of the Estival Quartet who will continue this season are Prof. Edwin A. Sherrard of Thayer School (left), violinist, and George Finkel of Bennington College, cellist.