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Start 'Em Young. Today, while many Oriental string players get their major training in the U.S. with such top teachers as Gregor Piatigorsky and Juilliard's Ivan Galamian, home-grown instruction has turned into a near industry. The most famous Oriental string teacher is Japan's Shinichi Suzuki, 70, whose revolutionary start-'em-young technique produced tiny Miss Kasuya-one of a group of Suzuki prodigies now touring the U.S.-and her note-perfect Mozart. Suzuki's Talent Education Institute, founded in 1946, takes in pupils at the age of three, subjects them first...
...East. The Orientals are not only more available but competent and eager as well. As Isaac Stern explains: "A top-class Tokyo violinist starts at less than $100 a month, while in America today an orchestral musician is a member of an elite, well-paid profession." Adds Master Teacher Galamian, only partly in jest: "There was a time when all the finest violinists were Jewish and came from Odessa. Maybe now they will all come from the Far East...
...Then, for the first time in the competition's 27-year history, it named two winners: Korea's Kyung-Wha Chung, 19, and Israel's Pinchas Zuckerman, 18, both scholarship students at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music and products of eminent Juilliard Teacher Ivan Galamian...
Kyung (dubbed Cookie by Galamian) is one of seven musical children of an importer who now lives in Seattle. She started on piano at four, but switched to violin two years later because "I kept going to sleep at the keyboard" She left Seoul for Juilliard at twelve, knowing no English. As composed and lovely as a porcelain doll, she "never felt more comfortable" than in the competition, was calm enough to nap during the two-hour wait for the jury's decision...
...confidence befits the illustrious Buswell line age. James I was president of Wheaton College in Illinois; James II was a Presbyterian missionary; James III is a professor of anthropology at St. Louis University. When Young James's parents moved from Wheaton to New York, he studied with Ivan Galamian-America's foremost violin teacher-whose students included his "competition" and "closest colleagues," Itzhak, Pinchas and Young...