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Broadus Erle
was born in Chicago on March 21, 1918. Six years later, having been
taught by his mother, he began playing in concert halls all over the
United States - a professional violinist.
He attended
the noted Curtis
Institute, in Philadelphia. He
was recitalist and concert master of such symphonies as the Columbia
Records and MGM Symphony, and founded the historic New music Quartet
in 1948, first quartet dedicated to performing contemporary music.
He performed
and taught at the Aspen (Colorado) Festival for three years before
joining the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra in Tokyo as concertmaster
from 1956 to 1960. In those years, he taught at the famed Toho
School, as an aide to the late Hideo Saito, "Toscanini of Japan."
In 1960, he joined the Yale School of Music faculty and eight years
later he was named "Professor of Violin."
Broadus Erle died on April 6, 1977.
A memorial concert in his honor was given at
Sprague Hall, part of Yale University, on May 1, 1977. Colleagues and musicians
from all over the world,
performed a program of his favorite works for strings. Among them,
leading a string ensemble, was his friend, former pupil and
colleague, Conductor Seiji Ozawa.
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