A Conversation With; 2; Nadia Reisenberg

as boy this is albert patrick speaking we're particularly honored to have with us today at riverside reveals a great lady of the piano but i'm not dr eisenberg i'm rosenberg is internationally famous as a great artist i think it is safe to say is known in recent years as an outstanding teacher with a long list of pupils many of whom have become recognized artists are eisenberg career began in this country at least when she was introduced to american audiences with a debut recital in aeolian hall in nineteen twenty three appearances with the major orchestras followed rapidly a particularly unusual one with the lake water damage and which memorizing were introduced a c sharp minor concerto rooms of course not she has performed consistently the age of the gardens of their repertoire such as the previous of scrambling debussy's fantasy and the dandy symphony on the french mountain air not content with the unusual she has of course program for classics and noteworthy instance the performance of the complete mortar concerti and radio station wor in the early forties and then the list of

accomplishments is staggering so let's let the lady herself to tell us about some of them but rosenberg welcome to them you're here thank you for this wonderful introduction i want to just add that this was mr balanced and who conducted all these remote set conspiracy it was quite a feat that do you have any way of knowing if it was the first time in this country at that time it was i believe since then there have been a few artists who have lost but at that time i was the first one to cross of course engineers said yes perform them and we did some pretty unusual for him or late nineteen sixty seven or early nineteen sixty eight but tell us you know as we begin about your early years in russia you were born in russia is that iran has one brush areas that i studied libyan jail conservatory better than i had formerly called safe area called st peter's they're right maybe i need the guy who was quite an outstanding

world of the time by the way has quite a few very famous scientists among them just the quote used it with you and to hear my only really excellent schooling which i hadn't it's there's an even today did you begin at a very early age were your child prodigy when i was a child prodigy i did not begin very early for a very simple reason i never had a plan until i was six years old that was a present from my favorite uncle and it was very soon a plan that this is going to be the instrument i live for the rest of my life because i really fell in love with it and the absolute pitch and so on this is so that my parents moved to better than an artist so that i could study at the concert with that and how long is that course but honestly for your loan that they have it there is no set time we have so called laura courses which take whatever time you need

and then the high of course is unusually the time when they go from the lord to the harbor is about the age of about fifteen i would say that i was twelve when it year and went to a high of course and in fact i never had they a formal examination because i had to have a certain permission from the director who was set glass and i love that that timer most marvelous man and there i had to play the program and he's temping it's so cold and he's studio and my family's at their living here or the professor was also present there and i had to play that describes program for a blessing from the lord to the upper or the scales that will themes including anti isis as an active exercise and the vigilance or not then and all sorts of other things and then they hire smartly

give in a chaise five plus at this is equal to a hundred plus he and dad remember how gerson of sand stone and on the gaggle what should do is after all why don't we consider this an examination she is spiced with that five plus some listener let her go he is obviously and that is when i started to study with any kind of have a very happy years of study because i was inspired at all times was mr mcnichol i have it for himself oh yes certainly he studied it's a fun of in moscow is an excellent that in fact he is he accompanied all concerti by how it had extraordinary memory every container that a student brought was a company then the second piano without music a police informant was also he was an outstanding woman yes because there's a

story or a relative to the work of local goddess give a time in nineteen seventy greenman at which the young joseph hoffman played and joseph off was there a time and it was spoken of as a conductor which is how the names familiar to me who had a member of act out over and stefan of came to that they're back to visit and it has the youngest member of nico i've class was supposed to present you with a bouquet of flowers and i played the second and third moments of the feared beethoven concerto that time for you must have been fifteen a self described interesting collection and then you actually had your debut before the public in warsaw how did you get from a russian bear more with his business is rarely runaways so the safe from russia that is a long story wouldn't have been trying to tell the whole story of that and that my debut was indeed dead that is they are the debut with autistic before that it had already in air

stewardesses activists and you had the remarkable lock you might say of performing for the first time with religion skin is he was your first conductor pianist and as a charming story about that way who filed their storied he's very charming hour this was my debut of course i was very nervous and there was the young conductor and his key about whom i knew nothing at all except that he was to be my conductor the concert was a great success but when we met many years later in iraq and when he was the conductor and the lamb on a caucus there and i played this several times with me when i play begins affair broke off of concerto i once mentioned this to do you remember the time when i played it as my debut concert with you in la so i was so nervous and it was understandable it was my first debuted in august and it says well you don't know how nervous i was this was my debut isn't there

he was an associate conductor before associate conductor because now he was still an associate conductor because they come back to was amy malinowski quiz by the way my them after a binge stairs father was and from the debut in warsaw and was it a rather natural progression for you to think of coming to america and going to well i would think so because we've after all in the guise of a napping didn't see the letter hoover era running away from something and we have to eventually find a home where we could make our permanent home once again and so we came to this country coming band that was much easier and because that that there was no point there yet especially if you work at it and then in the arts and performing arts and that's how we came here and you almost immediately obtained the engagement which introduced you to beware republican and we'll

very soon after i came i was introduced to alexander lambert they observed says student of list who was at that time already about them an elderly gentleman he took great interest in me and a he was teaching me the game a complete scholarship and help me very much and it decided that i was ready to give it a second and that was this ad leg even though a manhole what is then the director of a school and not know it was the records that you know he was not and also should be mentioned that there was a long close association with joseph hoffman and alexander lambert yes well that is where i met joseph hoffman and that's when he hit me also land that's how would you remember what you played that are similar anti snacking know i wouldn't say i would not i really surprising there was some odd arrangement some of transcriptions because it was very much of them want to play celts are also not a bizarre your or us got

like three thousand go over all such things which don't do today it's true there's no shame in a way where that we have that we don't hear some of them i think because there are still a quite good is wilbert summit absolutely atrocious saint scout he tells abc's isn't it awkward as this gentleman fees and do what it is you began and two concert as widely i'm sure you had additional performances with orchestras throughout this time oh well yes i louis played with that all major orchestras in the united states and abroad because i went and concerts as the riders wear after being he soviets and the money the conductor has to name a few have been asking in the marriage to begin with and then those shanahan and bibb out of the oily many times and that adds in ski and go seats get

and the smaller orchestras such as the portion of the sun there were quite quite a few where's your concentration during this period of time that of a career that is where you are specifically a performing artist yes there's no question about it that you see after a second time it became apparent to me that my only love for teaching or expanding was really taking hold of me and as i began to be quite tired of traveling i have two sons and my husband and a desire to do have me at some time home and i began to where i think oh they were teaching a more extensive you see i was always interested in teaching in fact is when i was thinner eleven i remember very well so students in school with asked me not eisenberg do me some know how many were probably more for bike riding somebody takes you five minutes it will take me an hour and i would take fifteen minutes to explain to them

how to do it probably good for them so that i always enjoyed showing how things out to be done this way back new even from the earliest days that you're probably destined to be a teacher ultimate idea i almost would say yes this is a great love and i tell you i am a sound very modest but i seemed to have afforded this is quite up but from performance because we you know very well that we have great actors who have no no are you a specific palin how do some of the problems of others that are not problems exactly we have the so called artist teacher who can really show or less by example and only the bridge into intuitive student can grasp press hoffa was like well yes hoffman i would say that as studying that he was very exciting but in a very different way because i wasn't ready to study with him but had i

needed some basic knowledge or perhaps some knowledge of what they used to say i don't think he could have helped me you came to him in thirty seven was that rather than getting so big and danny was then delayed purchases and do you as it never brought the same things twice the rate for human melissa block it was always able to help you with your specific problems of interpretation as socially but it is a show which was so extraordinary as some very special and this is something which i feel is it completely neglected field i have you know now i teach many people who are graduates of colleges and some of them have really no idea what can be done with lead their own artistic but legislation you think

it was a sad thing to study review of course and hear him and i don't want to speak about his late eight years that was a great tragedy too painful to me yes i wonder one thing about hoffman although the present generation course was not fortunate to hear often in his prime but only heard the hoffmann the forties when he was already in decline one of the things for which he was so sometimes criticized often praised was his surging out of their voices this uncanny ability he had to find or did you find any new advice that i did not follow it are i think that it is sometimes it was out of proportion and he was fascinated by those things and a member of and i study they had a bounce nations with him and then anything but a funny to say that like you were sleeping is one

thing bad featuring or perhaps putting next the stands and notes which don't have them and so on was something which i could not adopt but then fortunately i was able to use that which suits me on this i have to be always very honest with myself and i i must say gain tremendous amount from him back to my many things that could not accept there is a recording which is still possible to obtain but hard to find out of the legendary seven gallaga at the metropolitan opera yes probably you attended sizing in which there is a recording of the year show by investors and toward the conclusion that he has that he brings out a voice which you just dream was there and i think it's very surprising i don't think it's perhaps anything that anyone but hoffman would dare to do but it's striking it's remarkable when i went to alabama was so amazing to me is that the match very did you

know that he said he knew his head they'll standard literature he did not know many contemporary works i brought many of them i lived at that claim that you have quite a few baghdad and he did not know any and sometimes you would call me and say what's the opus number on and this old that uses that rich i once went with him to a concert out of town and the brugger there was a mistake in the program he was going to play a second son that area no and the problem is that they're not then he said see you play because you see two it was all about the light that obviously gale then a bomb to be settled in the activists is that greed even if you're not checking this clark kent is it that you heal second you could be forgiven for many of these things for the most wonderful if i just to say

that as i say again i'm speaking of a certain time and not the last two years i think at this point we might introduce our audience to the artistry of mature eisenberg and we'll hear among many pieces a recording of the fantasy and sci major of joseph haydn the fantasy and sci major define performed by nadia rosenberg and we're speaking with matt eisenberg receiving when rosenberg from the beginning of your career have you been interested in performing chamber music or did you come to this rather laid oh no i have played chamber music again from probably the age of eleven twelve omar lived this is actually almost my greatest love the form of his many artists have said this of course there are those who are rather specific and that they perform just with chamber groups for the most part i think

that battle is one which is love for sharks key to a degree as another and they are not necessarily performing artists or so but you have been on i have given numerous recyclers with violinist the artist's alice i have done all the beethoven a synopsis with joseph's is that i have done once a musical then bacon says the violin i've laid off and now with the new program with lego sets of sinatra's fly the nest and cadence and others for doctors and others i have played many years with the budapest string quartet played great mathias quartets quintet song i know had this standard down and chairman is a good pitcher as well as the so after that i must be an iaea seated that all my students if you just as vital medical very important very important that is is a sense of ensemble which is this sense of give and take this sense of

of loosening this sense of knowing how and how much and at which point to come down and come out so make it sound and it's then you won't be the same view and the same between your two hands because it is set just the awareness of or the sound reaches around you and what role do you play at this point and so and it's very important to set such a great joy it's just as simple as that let's let our audience here another example of the artistry of niger eisenberg will hear two compositions of frederick chopin first the nocturne in d flat major opus twenty seven number two and then the missouri and b flat minor fb two compositions of frederic chopin performed by mud i'm not dr eisenberg first the nocturne in d flat major opus twenty seven number two and the mazurkas in b

flat minor that's asked nadia rosenberg for an encore now another work of chopin the buckle opus sixty an f sharp fb walker owner sharp opus sixty of frederic chopin performed by nadia rosenberg and not mr rosenberg correct reminds me while peace was playing that we should really speak of this as they have a large police and the first two as a country however wants the heck have you always been a performer of the music of russian composers i suppose that goes without saying that tchaikovsky wrote when you know if you're not really not really not really am let's say that's a i hear that was this city's ancient so called scarcity is a schmitter is in some way a unique patient i pride myself in and enjoying and knowing and are performing music of oh

thai names from the iraq to our contemporary forces abby is you all of us may have been a little more affinity with one group or the other it seems to me that that's what i play i love the host you have been an outstanding teacher in recent years but i wanted to actually begin and where you first affiliated with a sporting to begin privately you know i began privately well you're performing arts i was performing but then you see it most say that i don't believe in our time teaching some of our artists ai guilty of that they're somehow managing to do the two jobs i cannot when i decided that i was going to teach extensively at the set that was the time when i will not travel anymore and play only

occasionally and that is when i began to record which can be done in in the city itself and so on i feel it great responsibility toward the people educated and just to leave the area for two months of the temple for months and the time to me seems a very irresponsible thing to do and so since i love teaching and i enjoyed it i find a damn it can find it exciting i find very rewarding so that i've been extremely happy sense that i decided to do that was your affiliation always with the men's college of music well since nineteen fifty five yes then i'd before that i thought that the coach's at bat than i have even our great many private students who come from or those sorts of states and several students who commute from montreal canada sound from word chapel hill north carolina now this from macon

georgian and so and i had been i have many teachers many of my students that now teaching a different colleges soon and a united states and whenever they earned vacation they come to new york to add the repair program with mayor clay program for me and so on so that i have one of my students who have two of them for the mother mei brought out from that those were my children so to say i took them bury it had thought that you know i have only advances one of them are at it is a very fine jazz she's teaching our that there she's teaching at queens college the other one there at junior high i'm an eye is now teaching that prevented department of menace college and both have x and fairness and both of them won many crisis and so on it should be mentioned here that your activities on behalf of israeli students at this is i believe fairly recent development that has since nineteen

sixty i had been going to use every other summer and when i gave her a post graduate course and also a seminar and master class for young pianists and teaches dc my master classes i actually i hate the term of italy among the rework shops it does it lessen given in public where her i'm the one who plays i look after its show on my piano what i think should have been done and why it should have been done this way and then that takes us of course into more detail or as that s as it's needed dc and i find great many very talented people there and in fact there are about six or seven of them are here have that imagery suggests to them that they might and

they want to calm and then there is this wonderful organization america is a cultural foundation that gives them scholarships to come to study in the united states and several of them in fact that good i'm your stations quite right thank you where what arnott and brawn should be mentioned and rami bonnie for and of course you know mitterrand and seated finkelstein that's right that is that right i think that we cannot let memorizing or go without hearing some further examples of her art and we will hear two compositions a russian composer's a charming piece of tchaikovsky called all the lodge from a group opus forty and the prelude number fourteen by combining its key fb two compositions a russian composers all the laws should tchaikovsky and the greater number fourteen of company had ski performed by

melamed your eisenberg who was our guest this evening but rosenberg you have conquered so many worlds you have been an outstanding artis still aren't outstanding artist you're inspired teacher i get that from your students have you any thing that you want to do still have you in a dream that you have been realized no just to have some semblance to myself when i can sit down and study some more scores and catch up on the reading and see as many where the painting exhibition is this possible and just have time a little time this is the only dream it's good it's not too much is it you know i shouldn't think so but two objects to expect of one who's devoted her life to the propagation of art in one way or another we've spent the past hour in the fascinating company of an outstanding lady madonna to rosenberg rosenberg thank you for taking the time comes because i enjoy it's a lot to this is albert attract speaking