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I started studying with Mr. Totenberg when I was 14. My previous teacher, the esteemed Zinaida Gilels, had just passed away and insisted prior to her death that I continue my studies “only with Roman Totenberg.” When I arrived for my first lesson and rang the bell, Mr. Totenberg answered the door himself. He was impeccably dressed, wearing a suit and pocket square, had a soft understated smile, and a confident but not overbearing presence. He spoke to me in Russian though I learned he also knew Polish, English, German, French, and Italian. His studio was covered with autographed photos from the Roosevelts, famous musicians, and other prominent people. His noisy little bird observed our first meeting from a cage on the corner ...
New York, NY—On June 7, the concept of a “classical concert” as we know it will be turned on its ear. Performances by Attacca Quartet, Flutronix, and Cadillac Moon Ensemble will be influenced by input from the audience during the concert. Armed with their own cell phones, the audience will shape and direct the compositions being performed.
This unique performance will happen on Thursday, June 7, 7:30 p.m., in the auditorium of the Good Shepherd School, 620 Isham Street, in Manhattan’s tree-lined Inwood neighborhood. A suggested donation of $10 is requested.
The first half of the concert is traditional—with a twist. After a conventional performance of ...
I have practiced practically everyday of my life since I was 4 years old. There is good practice-where I manage what I have to do and efficiently do it (in 45 min.-1.5 hrs.) and bad practice-where I would count the endless hours (3-5 hrs. growing up) and actually move the handles of the clock to show my mom, look! Amazing! Wow, look at the time! I am done! Since I had my second daughter, I was thinking about practicing and how I think of it everyday. No matter where I am in the world, or what I am doing in the day, there’s always a moment when I think, ‘I’ve got to practice’ or ‘When the hell will I get to practice’ or scarily remember some part of the previous night’s nightmare of having ...
Famed Latvian-born, Israeli cellist Mischa Maisky will join the Moscow Soloists Chamber Orchestra with violist and conductor Yuri Bashmet in a United States tour that will include one stop in Toronto, Canada. www.roythomson.com
New Yorkers will have the opportunity to hear these virtuosos at their Avery Fisher Hall performance on April 28th, 2012 at 3 pm.
Photo: Mischa Maisky and Yuri Bashmet
I had the great pleasure of experiencing last summer’s rehearsal and performance of both Bashmet and Maischky, along with Evgeny Kissin and Vadim Repin – all regular guests at the prestigious Verbier Festival and one of my much cherished musical experiences.
Because of this wonderful experience, I am ...
Last week, at the invitation of International March of the Living (MOTL), I traveled to Poland to perform at the Holocaust memorial ceremony, held in Auschwitz-Birkenau. In addition to playing at the Auschwitz ceremony, I performed at a concert honoring the liberators who were the first to enter concentration camps and discover Nazi atrocities. I also visited sites around Poland, including the mass graves near Tykocin and the Treblinka concentration camp. As I flew back to the USA, I found that I was at a loss for words. Without a doubt, this was one of the most profoundly moving weeks of my life, yet at the same time I didn’t quite know what to say.Tykocin is a small village in northeastern Poland. Around the time of WWII it was ...
This past week, I spent 6 days as an artist in residence at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst). In addition to working with the students in the music department and performing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor, I spent much of the week playing for and speaking to large groups of non-music majors, who as part of their general education curriculum take classes exposing them to music and other arts. I was truly impressed by the commitment UMass showed to giving everybody an opportunity to experience art.In one week, I spoke to nearly 600 college students who, over the course of the year, were covering everything from traditional Sonata form in the Baroque and Classical periods to Indian Ragas. We talked about the inner ...
She possesses a level of talent and virtuoso technique one would be happy to hear at the Wigmore Hall, yet despite this she is presently virtually unknown in the UK. By day, she works in a Post Office sorting office. She is currently studying with pianist John Humphreys at Birmingham Conservatoire.
On 27th May Anna is giving an afternoon recital at The Red Hedgehog, an intimate arts venue in north London. Her programme includes Beethoven Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op 57 ‘Appassionata’ ...
In Friendship
One of the most fertile conjunctions in the history of music has been the combination of the smooth sonority of the clarinet and the resonant sound of stringed instruments — that fusion of quite different textures and sounds has produced great music in completely different eras. And that combination of sonorities has at particular moments been energized by the close friendship between a superb clarinet player and a particular composer — from Mozart and clarinetist Anton Stadler, and Carl Maria von Weber and clarinetist Heinrich Baermann, to Brahms and clarinetist Richard Mühlfeld, and Carl Nielsen and clarinetist Aage Oxenvad. In Friendship offers two works for clarinet and string quartet that grew out of ...
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