Curtis Institute Videos

Live in Carnegie Hall, 1974 - Part I : www.youtube.com - Part II ~~~ Jorge Bolet (1914 - 1990) Bolet was born in Havana, Cuba and studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he himself taught from 1939 to 1942. His teachers included Leopold Godowsky, Josef Hofmann, David Saperton, Moriz Rosenthal and Fritz Reiner. In 1937, he won the Naumburg Competition, and gave his debut recital. In 1942 Bolet joined the US Army and was sent to Japan. While there, he conducted the ...

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Jorge Bolet (1914 1990) Bolet was born in Havana, Cuba and studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he himself taught from 1939 to 1942. His teachers included Leopold Godowsky, Josef Hofmann, David Saperton, Moriz Rosenthal and Fritz Reiner. In 1937, he won the Naumburg Competition, and gave his debut recital. In 1942 Bolet joined the US Army and was sent to Japan. While there, he conducted the Japanese premiere of The Mikado. He made his first recordings for Remington. ...

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Hugo David Weisgall (October 13, 1912 March 11, 1997) studied at the Peabody Institute, privately with Roger Sessions, and at the Curtis Institute of Music with conductor Fritz Reiner and composer Rosario Scalero. He later earned a Ph.D. in German literature at Johns Hopkins University. During World War II he was an aide-de-camp to General George S. Patton. After the war he became a professor, and taught at Queens College, the Juilliard School, and the Jewish Theological Seminary, all in ...

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.'' Using the money she saved from jobs in a church choir and at a record store, where she also listened closely to recordings by Rosa Ponselle and other stars of the day, she moved to Philadelphia to continue her studies at the Curtis Institute. While still a student, she sang with the Philadelphia Civic Opera, and organized a student troupe that spent a summer performing in small towns across the country. She made her debut with the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company in 1930. Ms. ...

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an infant. At 8 he became a pupil of Amadeo Roldán, the conductor of the Havana Philharmonic. Two years later he went to Philadelphia to audition for Leopold Stokowski, who recommended him for a scholarship at the Curtis Institute of Music. After his graduation from Curtis in 1942, Mr. Druian served in the United States Army for four years, playing the mellophone in the Army band. He was the concertmaster of the Dallas Symphony from 1947 to 1949 and the Minneapolis Symphony (now the ...

Author: imusiciki; Tags: Rafael Druian Kreisler Praeludium and Allegro

When violinist Melissa White first performed on From the Top in May of 2001, she was 16 and a recent winner of the Sphinx Competition. She went on to the Curtis Institute, received her master's at New England Conservatory, and appeared as a soloist with many of the nation's leading orchestras. Now at the age of 25, she tours the country with one of nation's hottest young chamber groups, the Harlem Quartet. ... From the Top Christopher O'Riley Melissa White Harlem Quartet violin 10th ...

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Richard Lawrence 'Larry' Carp (born January 26, 1926)[1], (BA, Washington University in St. Louis, University City, Missouri, 1947 with earlier undergraduate study at the Sorbonne, Paris, France; MA, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, 1949; JD, Washington University School of Law, University City, Mo., 1951) is an attorney-at-law, senior partner in the Clayton, Missouri firm of Carp & Sexauer[2] (formerly Carp & Morris). A long-time advocate for reform in ...

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It was our sincere pleasure to direct award-winning rising star pianist Kwan Yi, a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and current student at the Juilliard School's Robert McDonald, in this new spot for BBDO and their clients at AT&T Wireless. In the spot, Yi dramatically performs his opus with a practical "smart phone piano" to demonstrate the performance of AT&T, the nation's fastest 3G network. With many thanks to the brilliant creative and account teams at BBDO, please enjoy AT&T ...

Author: shilotv; Tags: BBDO Curtis Institute of Music Juilliard School Robert McDonald

jovem violinista, solista clássica canadense, radicada nos Estados Unidos da América. Começou a estudar violino aos três anos e meio de idade, pelo método Suzuki. Aos 13 anos sua família mudou para a Filadélfia para que ela cursasse o "Curtis Institute of Music", onde estudou com Jaime Laredo, Jascha Brodsky, Galimir Felix e Joseph Gingold. Sua estreia se deu em 1994, no Carnegie Hall, com o Concerto de Tchaikovsky. Seu estilo reflete seu forte interesse em jazz, improvisação e música nova, ...

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Three Chinese Pieces No.3, "-Rush Hour in Hong Kong-" ~~~ "Shura Cherkassky" by Abram Chasins: In 1927, when Shura was 16, I was both the pupil and assistant of Josef Hofmann, who as Dean of the Curtis Institute, also appointed me as Chairman of the Secondary Education Department. At that time, Shura was already famous as a genuine "wonder-child," when his parents were wise enough to send him to study with the unique Hofmann, who appreciated Shura's fabulous pianistic talents, his fire ...

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