Samuel Baron, flute
performer and teacher on the faculty at Yale, Mannes, Juilliard, and the State
University of New York at Stony Brook, and director of the Bach Aria Festival
and Institute, died on May 16, 1997. He was born in Brooklyn and studied violin
first, later switching to flute. He attended Juilliard and after graduation
reapplied as a conducting major.
