Myron Schwager
Myron Schwager (CFA’58) of Glen Burnie, Md., recently evaluated a book manuscript for the University of Rochester Press on former BU Opera Workshop director Sarah Caldwell and the opera companies she headed in Boston. Myron writes that he met Caldwell during freshman registration, when she thrust a piano score into his hands and asked him to accompany a young freshman vocalist whom she was auditioning. He subsequently performed many times as a cellist under her direction. He has performed in several Boston-based organizations and served as principal cellist for the Springfield, Mass., Symphony Orchestra and as cellist for the Hawthorne Trio. Later, he appeared with the Hartford Symphony, the Hartford Chamber Orchestra, the Nutmeg Orchestra, and other organizations. He performed with the Karas String Quartet for 30 years. Myron is a professor emeritus and former chair of the music history department at the University of Hartford’s Hartt School of Music.
From the Winter-Spring 2014 issue.