Cyprus 1973

 

Trumpet player, Bob Amato had finished his music studies at UMASS-Amherst in 1972 and by 1973, Bob was still living in the Amherst, Massachusetts area ‘freelancing’ which is another term for ‘starving’.

Bob’s former UMASS trumpet teacher, Walter “Wally” Chesnut got a phone call from Tamara Brooks who was the newly appointed Cyprus National Chamber Orchestra music director. Tamara Brooks was the outstanding Director and Conductor of the all female, Mt. Holyoke College Glee Club … Read the rest