European influences on American Music [videorecording]

From:  Great conversations: the conductors: Mstislav Rostropovich / Eugene Istomin [video recording]

Title

European influences on American Music [videorecording]

Type of Material

moving image

Place of Publication/Creation

New York

Publisher

Peter Rosen Productions, Inc.

Date Issued

2005

Form

videorecording

video

Physical Description

7:02

Istomin welcomes Rostropovich and invites him to talk about European influences on American Music. Rostropovich speaks about the importance of musicians such as violin pedagogue Leopold Auer, whose students included Jascha Heifetz, Nathan Milstein, and Efrem Zimbalist. He speaks about Russian influences, including cellist Gregor Piatigorsky and composers Serge Rachmaninoff and Igor Stravinsky. Rostropovich also tells an anecdote about conductor Leonard Bernstein's cufflinks.