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
The lobby’s busts of a brooding Beethoven and beloved cellist Gregor Piatigorsky appeared to have been carrying on their otherworldly dialogue unconcerned by pandemic.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2021
“She learned with Piatigorsky and all of these famous old-school teachers, all these great artists of the past were being passed down to Christine and then to Starla.”
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
Though he didn’t realize it, if Fischer hadn’t accepted the invitation to the 1966 Piatigorsky Cup in Santa Monica, California, there wouldn’t have been such a tournament at all.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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