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The late Dorothy DeLay taught violin at Juilliard for more than 50 years, and a list of her pupils - from Itzhak Perlman and Kennedy to Midori and Sarah Chang - reads like a whos who of the violin world. For more than 10 years, the author was granted access to DeLays classes at Juilliard and the Aspen School, allowing her to craft this fascinating book that is both an exploration of the mysteries of teaching and learning and a feast of anecdotes about an extraordinary woman. HARDCOVER.
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Copyright 2000 by Barbara Lourie Sand All rights reserved.
Printed in Singapore
Published in 2000 by Amadeus Press, an imprint of Timber Press, Inc. The Haseltine Building 133 S.W. Second Avenue, Suite 450 Portland, Oregon 97204, U.S.A.
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Sand, Barbara Lourie. Teaching genius: Dorothy DeLay and the making of a musician / by Barbara Lourie Sand. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 1-57467-05-2-2 1. DeLay, Dorothy, 1917 2. Violin teachersUnited States Biography. I. Title.
ML423.D35 S36 2000 787.2'092dc21 [B] 99-056004
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To the memory of my father, Arthur Lourie
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CONTENTS
Foreword
by Zubin Mehta
9
Acknowledgments
11
Introducing Miss DeLay
15
Part One Dorothy DeLayHer Life and Legacy
1 DeLay's Life: A Limitless Sense of the Possible
23
2 Teaching Geniuses: Auer, Galamian, and DeLay
41
Part Two In the Studio
3 The Power of Primitive Thinking
63
4 Saturday's Children: The Pre-College Kids and Their Parents
73
5 The Upper School Students
95
6 The Aspen Music School: DeLay's Summer Studio
107
7 The Emperor's New Clothes? DeLay and Her Critics
123
Part Three The World Outside: On Stage and in Performance
8 Looking for Work
135
9 Prodigies
147
10 Sarah Chang's Story: How to Get to Carnegie Hall
161
11 Itzhak Perlman's Story: Bringing Out the Best
187
12 Toby Perlman's Story: Another Perspective
193
13 Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
203
14 Postscript
221
A Partial List of Dorothy DeLay's Students
227
Selected Bibliography
235
Index
237
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FOREWORD
by Zubin Mehta
I first heard of Dorothy DeLay when I was in my teens. She was a colleague of my father, so that from the start my story with her has not been about going out for coffee every day but about her tremendous gifts.
Dorothy is this fountain of plenty that never stops. She just keeps on bringing these little geniigeniusesto me: Midori, Sarah Chang, Gil Shaham, and others. I have worked with many of her former students, including Itzhak Perlman and Shlomo Mintz.
On the American scene, she is absolutely one of the foremost violin teachers. She has the great good fortune of collecting talent from all over the world, and not just soloists. Ninety-five percent of violin talent goes into orchestras of all kinds, and these excellent products of Dorothy DeLay's studio at Juilliard go not only to the greatest orchestras but to all kinds of orchestras everywhere. So we are all very, very grateful to her.
Soloists are something else. The soloist is one you cannot stop, like a meteor. The soloist will go his or her own way, so it is especially important that Dorothy is also a mother figure to everybody. She is there every day for them and guides them through their early life. She is not just a violin teacher: she
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