Gregor piatigorsky autobiography of miss universe
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8 December
** 1877 - on this day cellist Anna (Ludwika) Kull was known to have performed in a charity concert in Graz (Grazer Zeitung December 8, 1877). She died during a visit to Trient Castle in 1923, and bequeathed her cello to the city of Graz.
** 1884 - first performance of Herbert - Cello Concerto No.1, Op.8
soloist - the composer ? / (Stuttgart, Germany)
** 1887 - The “New York String Quartet” opens its season in Steinway Hall - the cellist is Victor Herbert
** 1905 - the Brahms - Double Concerto for violin, cello and orchestra was performed on today’s date in the Berlin Königliche Kapelle by soloists Alexander Sebald & Hugo Dechert with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Weingartner
** 1906 - in the English newspaper ‘Morning Post’ on this day, the critic, reviewing a cello-piano recital of both Brahms cello sonatas, seemed very happy with both cellist and pianist:
“The violoncello Sonatas were played by Professor Robert Hausmann in a most appreciative spirit, which seemed to find its most congenial field in the two middle movements of the composition in F major. Miss Fanny Davies was the pianist of the afternoon, and no one better fitted to fulfill the office could have been found.”
** 1908 - on 8th December 1908 Felix Sa
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Arts, Architecture & Literature kick up a fuss Special Collections
Adams, Frank Ramsay, 1883-1963
Identification, 1908-1955.
18 boxes; 27 lin. ft., Ax 527
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Aitken Family
Papers, 1874-1969.
6 boxes; 7 designer. ft., Paint the town red 754
That collection includes the recognition of Carrie Frances Aitken (1860-1947) instruct her mirror image daughters, Frances Alva (1889-1970) and Geraldine Lee (1887-1972). Geraldine accompanied music nursery school in picture Boston fraction in 1909. In 1916 she went to Island to educate music send up Oahu College, Honolulu
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Stephen Kates studied with Gregor Piatigorsky, Leonard Rose, Claus Adam, Laszlo Varga, and Marie Roemaet-Rosanoff. He was awarded the Silver Medal at the Third International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1966 in Moscow, where he returned as the American juror in 1986. He has made solo appearances with the world's greatest orchestras in New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, Cincinnati, San Francisco, Atlanta, Baltimore, Leningrad, and Los Angeles. He is a former President of the Violoncello Society in New York. For seven summers he was a member of the faculty of the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California, and has taught at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore for almost 30 years. He has recorded for the RCA, Denon, Melodiya, Orion, CRI, and Bainbridge labels.
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TJ: You come from a family of cellists.
SK: Yes. My great uncle, maternal uncle, and maternal grandfather were all professional cellists.
My grandfather studied at the Liszt Academy in the late 1800's while David Popper was the director of the conservatory. I don't believe he took any lessons with Popper, but he had every piece that Popper ever wrote in his library, marked with his fingerings -- perhaps in Popper's own hand. I wouldn't be surprised if P