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Show Rampel, Ritter to Perform Bach f i- - : ......-.-- , --- ... - i ... . .. ... X -l ' : S' 1, ' " I JL ...- p.-' Jean-Pierre Rampal. World War II. He enrolled at the Paris Conservatory of Music in 1944 and five months later graduated with first prize in flute. His official career as a flutist began after the liberation of Paris in 1945. Acknowledged internationally internation-ally as one of the great virtuosos in history, Rampal performs an average of 200 concerts a year around the world. John Steele Ritter is a native of Louisiana and attended the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He was a first place winner in the Coleman Chamber Music Competition and is currently a music professor at Pomona College in Clare-mont, Clare-mont, California. For the past nine years, Ritter has regularly performed perform-ed with Rampal in the United States and Canada. At the March 2 concert Rampal and Ritter will be performing J.C. Bach's Sonata So-nata in D Major, J.S. Bach's Sonatas in F Major and B Minor, as well as Schubert's Introduction and Variations on "Trock'ne Blumen", Joplin's Rags, Marches and Waltzes" and "Fantaisie Brilliante sur Carmen" by Borne. Tickets to the concert are available at the Cosmic Aeroplane, 258 East First South, for 8, 10 and 12 dollars. For additional ticket information call 355-1445. KWHO 860AM welcomes world-reknowned flutist Jean Pierre Rampal to Symphony Hall Wednesday, march 2 at 8 p.m. "The Flute King", one of the most enthusiastic musicians musi-cians alive today, will be accompanied by harpsichordist harpsichor-dist and pianist John Steele Ritter. Rampal was born on Jan. 7, 1922, in Marseilles, France. He originally planned a career in medicine but switched to music during |