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
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
That same day, Laurence Lesser, a Piatigorsky pupil who serves as the cello sage at the New England Conservatory, advised Annie Jacobs-Perkins, another Kirshbaum protégée, on Martinů’s Second Sonata.
From The New Yorker ● May 30, 2016
“We must get Bobby Fischer,” Gregor Piatigorsky told his wife.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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