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...best thing a musician can possibly do after he has acquired a great deal of experience," says Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, "is to pass it on to younger musicians. So many people are now gone-Kreisler, Toscanini, Rachmaninoff-who never had students. This is a great loss." It is also a sad fact that few celebrated performers have much interest in teaching-and fewer still have any talent for it (Rachmaninoff, for example, was a dour, retiring man, hardly cut out to be the Mr. Chips of the keyboard). Fortunately for a few lucky cellists, however, Piatigorsky, 61, has both...
...Germantown baseball was the thing, and the de Pasquale boys were forever tossing their baseball equipment out of the second-floor window and sneaking off to the diamond. On Sunday afternoons, however, they were held captive in the living room and made to listen to recordings by Kreisler and Casals. "That's what it should sound like," Papa would say, and then he would lead the boys through their paces. If a little extra encouragement was needed, Papa administered a smart rap on the head with his violin bow. Gradually, recalls Francis, "we learned to love, chamber music...
...EDWARD KREISLER...
...founder of Chicago's Wurlitzer Co. (pianos, organs, jukeboxes), who bowed out of the family firm in 1949 to found Manhattan's Rembert Wurlitzer Co., which has bought, sold, authenticated or restored more than half the world's 600 known Stradivariuses, supplied instruments to Kreisler, Oistrakh and Stern; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...audience." He hates professional musicians "because professional musicians -professionals, not amateurs-hate music, and composers are even worse; they're a closed corporation." As for musical judgment: "I make fun of people who claim they can recognize music. They're phonies. I could play ten records by Kreisler, Heifetz, Elman, and no one could tell them apart." Humane Chicanery. Although he is sometimes billed as a musicologist, De Koven in fact has no degree from any college. Chicago-born, son of a doctor...