Karen Tuttle plays Vaughan Williams Suite I, Viola and Piano

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Legendary violist and pedagogue Karen Tuttle 1920-2010 performs Ralph Vaughan Williams Suite I.

0:00 Prelude
3:15 Carol
5:28 Christmas Dance

In the early 1950s, Karen Tuttle became the first female member of the NBC Symphony Orchestra. In 1955, she collaborated with cellist Pablo Casals at the Pablo Casals Festival in Prades, where she returned several times. She also frequently participated in the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont. In 1958, she traveled to Fiji, Samoa, and Tahiti, and performed for native audiences there. She made her Carnegie Hall recital debut in February 1960. Her recital was reviewed by Harold Schonberg, a leading reviewer for The New York Times. He wrote, "About as large an audience as Carnegie Recital Hall has ever held jammed it yesterday evening at 5:30 to hear Karen Tuttle's recital. The violist, with Artur Balsam at the piano, gave a concert that seemed to be attended by every string player in town." Tuttle also performed and recorded with the Galimir, Gotham, and Schneider Quartets, which was revolutionary for a woman at the time. From 1965, she also played with the American String Trio.

From 1970 onward, she taught at the State University of New York at Albany, the Philadelphia Musical Academy, the Peabody Institute, Curtis, the Mannes College of Music, the Manhattan School of Music, and Juilliard. She retired in 2005.

Karen Tuttle was my beloved teacher at Juilliard where I studied with her for 6 years and served as her teaching assistant. I found this program she played at The National Gallery of Art that is displayed in the video but, this may not be the performance this audio is from.
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