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
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
Yet the Piatigorsky Festival—a ten-day affair, divided between the University of Southern California and Disney Hall—was not the place to muse on the cello’s reputation for solemnity.
From The New Yorker • May 30, 2016
Disney Hall will host some of the proceedings in the quadrennial Piatigorsky International Cello Festival, which also includes events at USC, where the celebrated cellist Gregor Piatigorsky taught before his death in 1976.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2015
At the closing ceremony, Mr. and Mrs. Piatigorsky posed for a photograph with Spassky on one side and Fischer on the other.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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