With the exception of the individual members of my immediate family, the person who has impacted my life most significantly was, unquestionably…. Sir William Primrose!! In my up-coming autobiography, “Malibu Man”, (projected release Fall 2015) you will find numerous pages… Continue Reading
Beginning in July 1966 Andy Zaplatynsky, Danny Rothmuller, and I relocated to the Washington D.C. metropolitan area to begin our new lives as U.S. Marine Corps Non- Commissioned Officers and as three quarters of the “White House String Quartet”. Caught that… Continue Reading
Although Mr. Primrose was typically cheerful and enthusiastic by nature I remember arriving at his home for a lesson one day in early 1965 and finding him unusually animated, bright-eyed and sporting a huge smile from ear to ear. “Gooood… Continue Reading
I was so fortunate to have grown up with a father who loved me, loved music, loved the viola and was a wonderful and most insightful teacher. Dad had been a student of the great violin pedagogue, Carl Flesch, and… Continue Reading
It’s so difficult for me to fathom that I have been teaching the VIOLA for over 50 years. WOW, I must REALLY be old! Now, in my defense, I was only 13 years old when I began to… Continue Reading