Seymour lipkin biography of michael
A devoted chamber musician, he was Artistic Director of the Boston Conservatory Chamber Players and played in the Lewin-Chang-Díaz Trio and the Lewin-Muresanu..
If you are talking about Louis Lipkin who married Rebecca Himmelfarb, he was born in , so he couldn't have arrived by himself in the s.
A Life in Music: Seymour Lipkin
Do you have any interesting anecdotes to share from your time with Leonard Bernstein?
Bernstein was a very complex personality. One had to watch out, because he would frequently include a hidden test in his instructions, to see if you knew what you were doing.
Once, I was assistant when he conducted Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, with the Philharmonic in the Parks. The final section contains complex rhythmic changes; Bernstein rebarred this section to make it more practical.
His main teachers were Massimiliano Damerini, Aldo Ciccolini, Seymour Lipkin, Rosalyn Tureck, Albert Fuller, the Trio di Trieste and the Juilliard Quartet.I had only a few days to be ready, as an assistant should, but said to myself: “Watch out, he will pull something“…so, I made sure to learn his revisions of the bar rhythms, even if learning the entire score was impossible in that amount of time.
Sure enough, he sent his son over to me, saying: “My father would like to listen to the last section from the audience; Please conduct it!“—Ouch!!! I was scared to death, but did it, and pa
