I loved the Nathan Milstein comments under your diary entry for that day. Of course, you would have loved the concert if you'd attended. As it happens - and I know you know it - the Jewish contribution to classical music (also other forms as well) is a quite remarkable one. Just to talk about the violin - one instrument - the number of prominent Jewish violinists is astonishing. Several years ago BBC Music Magazine asked 100 violinists to name the greatest violinists and the resulting top twenty included Oistrakh, Heifetz, Milstein, Kreisler, Menuhin, Kremer, Szigeti, Stern, Perlman, Zukerman, Gitlis, Kogan and Huberman!
"Got up. Ugh! Five seconds later things started becoming real, and English materialised in my brain and I fell back down and died. But I was resurrected to eternal hell" - Fantastically teenagery (again). And wow, thanks for sharing the Jon Hopkins piece, it's beautiful.
I loved the Nathan Milstein comments under your diary entry for that day. Of course, you would have loved the concert if you'd attended. As it happens - and I know you know it - the Jewish contribution to classical music (also other forms as well) is a quite remarkable one. Just to talk about the violin - one instrument - the number of prominent Jewish violinists is astonishing. Several years ago BBC Music Magazine asked 100 violinists to name the greatest violinists and the resulting top twenty included Oistrakh, Heifetz, Milstein, Kreisler, Menuhin, Kremer, Szigeti, Stern, Perlman, Zukerman, Gitlis, Kogan and Huberman!
"Got up. Ugh! Five seconds later things started becoming real, and English materialised in my brain and I fell back down and died. But I was resurrected to eternal hell" - Fantastically teenagery (again). And wow, thanks for sharing the Jon Hopkins piece, it's beautiful.