Piatigorsky
Americannoun
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He visited a final time in 1970 for a five-week tour with the cellist Gregor Piatigorsky.
From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2023
Christopher Isherwood was in the neighborhood, along with theater director Max Reinhardt and Russian cellist Gregor Piatigorsky.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2022
Gregor Piatigorsky, the great Russian American cellist, would later tell her: “The concerts you are playing at age 18 are the ones I did not play until I was in my 50s.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2020
As a teenager, he accompanied and conducted the orchestra for master classes by the legendary cellist Gregor Piatigorsky and violinist Jascha Heifetz, and Piatigorsky asked him to learn Rachmaninoff’s cello sonata.
From Washington Post • Dec. 5, 2019
A few years prior, Mrs. Piatigorsky had been criticized in some quarters for not acceding to Fischer’s demands for the 1963 tournament, which had led to his not playing.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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