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2021-06-22 12:00:00
Patrick Maxwell listens to Mozart Violin Sonatas played by Oscar Shumsky and Leopold Mittman. '... a striking hold over tone and articulation ...'
2021-01-21 10:54:00
[…] track." This was from a time when I was profoundly unhappy at university, furious about the institutional arrogance, small-mindedness and snobbery I was encountering there, especially when I'd just spent the Easter holidays in New York sitting metaphorically at the feet of some really incredible musicians. That was the year I had a consultation lesson with Richard Goode, went to a lecture by Carl Schachter about Schenkerian analysis at the Mannes College, and met Oscar Shumsky, who put on an LP of Rachmaninov playing his own music, which blew my mind as I had never heard him before. Historical recordings were in their infancy of CD transfer back then, these gems were rare and precious and the idea that one day the whole lot would be available on computer at the touch of a button would never have been even a glimmer in the eye, let alone the ear. With […]
2020-02-12 16:35:50
Never-before-uploaded 1959 archival audio recording of violinist Oscar Shumsky, cellist Leonard Rose, and pianist Rosina Lhevinne performing Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio No. 1. Recorded live on the 28th of April, 1959 – at The Juilliard School. OSCAR Shumsky, LEONARD ROSE & ROSINA LHEVINNE | MENDELSSOHN PIANO TRIO NO. 1 | 1959 The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2019-10-29 18:29:19
Today is Armenian-American violinist and pedagogue Ida Kavafian‘s birthday. A student of Oscar Shumsky and Ivan Galamian, Ida currently serves distinguished teaching positions on faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School. Her famed students include: VC Artists Josef Špaček, Nikki & Timothy Chooi, Benjamin Beilman, Tessa Lark and Yu-Chien Benny Tseng. […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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