Word: galamian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Ivan Galamian, 78, internationally renowned teacher of violin who in 35 years at the Juilliard School of Music taught many of today's leading violinists, including Itzhak Permian, Pinchas Zuckerman, Kyung-wha Chung, James Buswell and Jaime Laredo; of a heart attack; in New York City. A stickler for technical detail who nevertheless encouraged each student to develop his own stylistic individuality, Galamian once said that he urged his charges "to study for the love of music, not with the hope of glory. People can get tired of glory, but not of something they love...
Cohen, age 57, lives in Manhattan, where he is on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music and SUNY at Stony Brook. During the summer, he performs and teaches at the Marlboro Festival. The son of a scrap-metal dealer from Brooklyn, Cohen studied under Ivan Galamian at Julliard. Before joining the Beaux Arts Trio in 1968, Cohen spent more than ten years with the Julliard String Quartet. He has also appeared as a guest artist with the distinguished Budapest Quartet. In some ways, Cohen is the most jocular of the Beaux Arts, often relieving the tension of rehearsals...
...retired in 1968, Pressler and Greenhouse turned to Cohen, who is now 57. The son of a Brooklyn scrap-metal dealer, Cohen may have had music instilled in him by a grandmother who took him to the Yiddish theater and hummed through all the performances. He studied with Ivan Galamian at Juilliard and refined his chamber music skills during ten years as second violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet...