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"A student is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher." Exceptional teachers have the ability to so call their students into fullness of being that the art and the identity of the artist become nearly inseparable. Josef Gingold is one of those extraordinary teachers.
Josef Gingold, 80-year-old performer and teacher of violin at the University of Indiana, teaches his students to enter into communion with whatever music they are playing. He encourages young violinists to be true to themselves rather than to attempt to be better than another musician. Perhaps it was this attitude which led a peer to describe Gingold as "one of the most genuine human beings" he had met.
Gingold, for whom playing the violin has been his whole life, said, "One of the most important goals of my teaching is beauty of tone." Gingold realized early in his life that playing the violin is not just preparing one piece for one week. It is studying for a lifetime. As a young immigrant, he listened to musicians play the violin. Gingold soon recognized that each player had his own unique style --"a special quality of communication." He holds the gift of sharing that intimacy in his playing and instilling in his students reverence for this quality of living.
(A Gold Coin by David Blum in The New Yorker, February 4, 1991.)
- Brauninger
Josef Gingold, 80-year-old performer and teacher of violin at the University of Indiana, teaches his students to enter into communion with whatever music they are playing. He encourages young violinists to be true to themselves rather than to attempt to be better than another musician. Perhaps it was this attitude which led a peer to describe Gingold as "one of the most genuine human beings" he had met.
Gingold, for whom playing the violin has been his whole life, said, "One of the most important goals of my teaching is beauty of tone." Gingold realized early in his life that playing the violin is not just preparing one piece for one week. It is studying for a lifetime. As a young immigrant, he listened to musicians play the violin. Gingold soon recognized that each player had his own unique style --"a special quality of communication." He holds the gift of sharing that intimacy in his playing and instilling in his students reverence for this quality of living.
(A Gold Coin by David Blum in The New Yorker, February 4, 1991.)
- Brauninger
