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...Cellist Gregor Piatagorsky is wrong. Sergei Rachmaninoff [May 13] did take students. One of them was the well-known pianist, Ruth Slenczynska, who describes her lessons with Rachmaninoff in her book Forbidden Childhood. As a teacher, he was apparently a painstaking technician who, after lessons, served his student tea in a glass...
...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...
Next month he will tackle Brahms's Sonata in F Major for piano and cello with Gregor Piatigorsky. He has never played it before. But Cellist Piatigorsky is not at all concerned. "Artur," he says, "will read the score on the plane to California, and he will make it sink into his mind and into his fingers, and when he arrives, he will know it better than I, who have played it all my life...
...Celibidache demands at least ten. He has been known, for example, to spend six rehearsals perfecting Webern's Variations for Orchestra, a work that lasts less than six minutes. The musicians who have worked under him agree that the result is worth all the painstaking labor. Says Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, recalling a performance at La Scala: "His accompaniment was unforgettable. I played a concerto I had played hundreds of times before, but with Celibidache it seemed like a completely new work. I never understood why a conductor so absolutely marvelous was as little known and as little in demand...
...personal stake in his art, and the university, so often aridly concerned with detached theory. "It is so exciting," says University of Southern California Music Department Chairman Raymond Kendall, "to walk into a studio in the afternoon and find two 18-year-olds playing in a string quartet with Gregor Piatigorsky and Jascha Heifetz." At Southern Illinois University, where former Metropolitan Opera Soprano Marjorie Lawrence, confined to a wheelchair by polio since 1941, conducts an opera workshop, Professor Howard R. Long declares: "When she puts on an opera, by God, it's an opera. I almost cry when...