Word: wieniawski
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unheeded Advice. When a student tackles a technically difficult piece, like the Wieniawski concerto, Galamian makes it a little more difficult by asking quietly: "Sure you are ready to play this?" He means from memory, the way he plays everything. Surprisingly, he never did much concertizing of his own. How could he, when he was 14 at the time of his first lesson? His first lesson as a teacher, that is. When he talks about his childhood in Moscow, he says only that he was the son of an Armenian cotton merchant, a shy boy who wanted...
...beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music," he once declared. Most of his music, including Sonata No. 1 For Piano ' and Violin, is more form than substance. Still, Jascha Heifetz plays it well, and includes satisfying little pieces by four other composers (Sibelius, Wieniawski, Rachmaninoff and Falla) on side...