Mannes College the New School for Music Alumni - Adele T. Katz, Burt Bacharach, Carl Schachter, Carrie Feiner, Christine Berl, Cynthia MacDonald, Debor (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Adele T. Katz, Burt Bacharach, Carl Schachter, Carrie Feiner, Christine Berl, Cynthia Macdonald, Deborah Burton, Frederica von Stade, Gail Kubik, Gino Piserchio, Harry G. Pellegrin, JoAnn Falletta, Johanna Beyer, Julius Rudel, Lawrence Leighton Smith, Mariam Nazarian, Michel Camilo, Natan Brand, Patricia Neway, Semyon Bychkov (conductor), Victoria Bond, Vladimir Valjarevi, Yakov Kreizberg, Yen Lu. Excerpt: Yakov Kreizberg (Russian: 24 October 1959 - 15 March 2011) was a Russian-born American conductor. Yakov Kreizberg (born Yakov Bychkov) was born in Leningrad. He began studying piano at age 5. He attended the Glinka Choir School, where he began composing at age 13 and studied conducting with Ilya Musin. "Musin had an incredible system" Kreizberg recalled. The student would conduct and Musin would play at the piano, criticizing; then the roles were reversed, and Musin would comment again. Musin would use Beethoven sonatas, which contain "a world of feeling and expression," to teach conducting various articulations such as staccato, legato, phrasing, breathing. "Only after a while he gave me the first orchestral work, Beethoven's first symphony, saying: 'Remember everything you've done, but now do it with strings, oboes and horns.'" Kreizberg described himself as "essentially self-taught. What Musin taught was a foundation; everything else I learned from master classes of very good and bad conductors. From the bad, I learned what not to do." By the time he was allowed to emigrate, he had composed numerous works, all unpublished, in manuscript. The Soviet authorities, however, would not allow any handwritten paper to be taken out of the country so he had to leave his compositions behind. The experience was so frustrating that he gave up composition and decided to become a conductor. He emigrated to the United...