MUSIClassical ALLEGRO
Topic: NEWS performers
Nina Totenberg: Lessons from My Father My father started teaching when he was 11 years old. His first student was 9. Ever since, he has loved it and learned from it. He once told me that you have to figure out how you do something in order to teach it to someone else. And if your system doesn't work for that someone else, you have to adapt it until it does. Sometimes that means re-fingering an entire concerto for a student to suit that person's physical and technical capabilities.
1926 Birth of Australian soprano Dame Joan SUTHERLAND in Sydney. m. Richard Bonynge.
Jeffrey Tate will become the new principal conductor of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, replacing Andrey Boreyko, who quit unexpectedly for reasons unclear, reports Die Welt of Berlin. The English-born Tate is likely to assume the position next spring. His management will probably confirm the appointment no earlier than January, according to MusicalAmerica.com 
1860 Birth of Polish pianist, composer and statesman Ignace Jan PADEREWSKI. d- 1941. 
Violinist Itzhak Perlman, especially in America, is not just a famous musician, he is the famous musician for millions of people - the personification of classical music." The Guardian 