Teaching Genius: Dorothy DeLay and the Making of a Musician by Barbara Lourie Sand

By Barbara Lourie Sand

The overdue Dorothy hold up taught violin at Juilliard for greater than 50 years, and an inventory of her students - from Itzhak Perlman and Kennedy to Midori and Sarah Chang - reads like a who is who of the violin international. For greater than 10 years, the writer used to be granted entry to DeLay's periods at Juilliard and the Aspen tuition, permitting her to craft this interesting e-book that's either an exploration of the mysteries of educating and studying and a ceremonial dinner of anecdotes approximately a unprecedented lady. HARDCOVER.

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Abresch, New York. " Newhouse joined the army and DeLay followed along as much as she could as her husband was transferred to various parts of the country. , at the Pentagon as aide to Air Force General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold, writing his reports and speeches, and now and again accompanying him to conferences. Living in wartime Washington proved fascinating but difficult. "I was not really equipped to deal with it terribly well," DeLay said. "We had one baby and then when the war was over we had another, and I discovered I didn't like being a soloist.

Auer was then twenty-three, and he remained at the conservatory for forty-nine years in the course of which he is reputed to have taught more than five hundred students, many of whom undoubtedly made important reputations as concertmasters, chamber musicians, and orchestral players, but as usual, it was the big-name soloists who made the Auer name famous. Auer, the son of a house painter, was a violin prodigy who spent his teen years touring in the provinces in order to support himself and his father.

My mother used to tell me life is so full of opportunitiesthere are so many things you can do. You can do just anything you want. She was exaggerating, but I took it literally. When I first met my husband, we got to talking about how people feel about doing things, and I said, "Well, you know, given enough time, I think I could do anything that anybody has ever Page 27 DeLay and her cousin Nelson Turnbull, outside the family farmhouse in Medicine Lodge, Kansas. DeLay, Nelson, and Nelson's brother, Dick, dug a hole in the yard deep enough for them to sit in.

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