Random Thoughts

• Who’s and What’s What
• VALUE or Not
• Life’s Lessons
• Against Musical Fundamentalism
• Swan Lake and Tosca
• Robert Gardner
• The Death of Fred Zlotkin
• Reminiscences
• About Bears and Honey
• The Luck of the Draw
• Master’s Degree Required; DMA Preferred
• An Antidote
• No Cure for Misguided Opportunity
• Choices
• Binaca
• A Cure for Popper Indigestion
• Making a Career in Chamber Music 1968-1976
• Making a Career in the Music World, as it existed in 1963
• The Chaperone of Death
• The Genius of Tieman Place
• The Virtue of Virtuoso Music
• “The Swan”
• Doing all 25%
• Defining Moments
• Invalidators and Saboteurs
• Validators and Friends
• Golden Dreams
• On Cello Teaching – Past and Present
• About Auditions