Music: Iranian-Born Armenian Violin Pedagogue Ivan Galamian Born On This Day in 1903

Emil Lazarian 2019
The Violin Channel
Jan 23 2019


Iranian-born Armenian violinist Ivan Galamian was born on this day in 1903 – 116 years ago

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Iranian-born Armenian violinist Ivan Galamian was born on this day in 1903 – 116 years ago.

A student of French pedagogue Lucien Capet, he is remembered as one of the most influential violin teachers of the 20th Century – his famed students including Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Michael Rabin, Dorothy DeLay, Kyung-wha Chung, Charles Castleman, Eugene Fodor, Miriam Fried, Erick Friedman, Dong-Suk Kang, Ani & Ida Kavafian, Jaime Laredo and Donald Weilerstein.

 

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS