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June 4, 2017
Weekend Journal
Free up your body to free up your sound on the violin! That was the main message of a master class by Donald Weilerstein at the Starling DeLay Symposium on Violin Studies at The Juilliard School.

"We're dealing with a lot of moving parts on the violin!"

Master class with Joan Kwuon at the Starling-DeLay Symposium on Violin Studies at The Juilliard School. 

 "Grab the floor with your toes if you're nervous -- put the tension somewhere else!"

Master class with Stephanie Chase, from the Starling-DeLay Symposium on Violin Studies
"We need to be faithful to the composer, even when it's Tchaikovsky and not Bach." Master class with Shmuel Ashkenasi at the Starling-DeLay Symposium on Violin Studies at The Juilliard School. 
Check back on Violinist.com this week and next for more reports by Editor Laurie Niles from the Starling-DeLay Symposium on Violin Studies at The Juilliard School in New York, including  a master class with Paul Kantor and pedagogy sessions with Brian Lewis, Kurt Sassmannshaus and Nicholas Kitchen.
Kevin Lawrence remembers the dedication and generosity of longtime The Juilliard School violin professor Margaret Pardee, who died last year at age 95.
Thoughts on Mahler's niece, the violinist Alma Rosé, who used her musical and personal leadership to survive and save others at at Auschwitz. By Paul Stein.

"Mr. Hadelich increasingly seems to be one of the outstanding violinists of his generation."

Our weekly roundup of reviews, with Augustin Hadelich, Benjamin Beilman, Elena Urioste and more.