"When I was a student at the Imperial Conservatory in St. Petersburg,'' says Violinist Jascha Heifetz, the great Leopold Auer "pointed the finger at me and told me to teach." Heifetz was game. But thanks to his concert career and a later period of semiretirement. he took his time following Auer's advice. When he settled down to teaching this winter. Heifetz decided to enlist his Los Angeles neighbors Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky and Violist William Primrose. Result: the most gifted string faculty in the world.
Last week the dream faculty was hard at work teaching 13 rigorously selected students at the University of...
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