In the Key of Strawberry
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Arnold Steinhardt (born 1937 in Los Angeles, California), is an American violinist, best known as the first violinist of the Guarneri String Quartet.
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Do you remember your very first solo car drive? The excitement, the tinge of trepidation, yet a newfound feeling of independence and freedom? I certainly do. Although only sixteen or ..read more
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Ever since 1959, my first summer as a participant at the Marlboro Music Festival, I have always been given more than adequate sleeping accommodations. One summer in the 1960s, however ..read more
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I met Arnie Black shortly after moving to New York City in 1964, and we quickly became friends.
Arnie was a musician who wore many musical hats. He was a fine ..read more
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The Hungarian violinist Joseph Szigeti was born on this day, September 5, 1892. He began violin lessons at age seven, and because of his great aptitude for the instrument was ..read more
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The first performance with my “new” violin was at a Guarneri String Quartet concert in Ann Arbor, Michigan. My old friend the violinist Charles Avsharian came backstage afterward to say ..read more
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In 1972, after one of our Guarneri String Quartet concerts, Mischa Schneider, cellist of the Budapest String Quartet and our longtime friend and mentor, came backstage to greet us. Looking ..read more
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Recently, an employee from a local energy company came over to the house to discuss the possibility of installing solar panels. Once the location, number, and cost had been established ..read more
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In 1999 our old friends John Shattuck, then the U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic, and his wife Ellen Hume, invited me, my wife Dorothea, and my brother Victor to ..read more
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On January 16, 1938, clarinetist Benny Goodman, known as the King of Swing, and his band performed in a sold-out Carnegie Hall. They opened the concert with “Don’t Be that ..read more
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I’ve often heard that New Yorkers, living cheek to jowl with their neighbors, tend to keep to themselves. But that certainly wasn’t our experience when my wife Dorothea and I ..read more