Word: feuermann
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...Paris, where he was conducting at the Opera. "It is so strong and so logical that it is very easy for every nationality to learn." At the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, Ozawa studied conducting with Hideo Saito, who had been a pupil of Cellist Emanuel Feuermann in Germany. Saito was aware his students lacked cultural grounding. "He said that if you know the music and have no tradition, then you must go to Europe," remembers Ozawa. "If you have talent, you should have a very good nose to smell which is good tradition and which...
Ozawa shrugs off criticism that he is culturally unsuited to some repertoires: "Once, as an encore after a recital in Japan, Feuermann played a Japanese tune -- pentatonic, with delicate quarter-tone shadings. Everyone said it was the best performance of that melody in history." Yet Japanese performers, educators and critics admit that the lack of real comprehension is the greatest hindrance to Japanese musicians' acceptance in the West. Students too are often taught to emulate their sensei (teachers) rather than to think for themselves. Perhaps it is no contradiction that Saito's most flamboyant pupil is also his staunchest admirer...
Like Cohen, Greenhouse also teaches at the Manhattan School and at Stony Brook; he resides in Long Island. Greenhouse has studied with the world's greatest cellists, including Emanuel Feuermann and Pablo Casals. The latter taught Greenhouse in France just after World War II for free--in exchange for his pledge to support the Spanish Republican cause. After spending some years as a soloist. Greenhouse opted for a somewhat less draining ensemble career. When his friends Menahem Pressler and Daniel Guilet approached him in 1955, he agreed to join them for eight to ten concerts. He has been a part...