Occupation: Pianist Birth: November 15, 1942
I can't stand being in Chicago anymore and hearing the Brahms Violin Concerto in the elevator. Because that shows me that when they come to the conce….
Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life..
Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity..
In times of totalitarian or autocratic rule, music (indeed culture in general) is often the only avenue of independent thought. It is the only way pe….
An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away f….
When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace..
There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle..
Music has the capacity to create a greater reality..
And in English you have this wonderful difference between listening and hearing, and that you can hear without listening, and you can listen and not ….
To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations..
The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings..
European anti-Semitism goes much further back than to the partition of Palestine and the establishment of Israel in 1948. It even goes further back t….
I hope that my new status will be an example of Israeli-Palestinian co-existence, I believe that the destinies of the Israeli people and the Palestin….
The French Revolution gave us three... powerful ideas, or concepts - liberty, equality and fraternity. But these ideas... are not only right in thems….
Not only has the eyes taken over, but we have anaesthetised the ears through all the muzak that we hear all the time..
The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled….
Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that be….
I have heard Ori Kam on several occasions over the last few years and have always been deeply impressed with his playing. He possesses a rare combina….
But the ear, let us not forget, starts operating on the forty-fifth day of the pregnancy of a woman. Seven and a half months advance over the eye...(….
In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here..
Today, conducting is a question of ego: a lot of people believe they are actually playing the music..