GRISHA: The Story of Russian-American Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky
by Margaret Bartley

GRISHA is the story of a struggle between father and son, both aspiring musicians.  While the father fails in the musical world of Tsarist Russia, his son becomes a world famous cellist. For Gregor Piatigorsky, success meant escaping the grip of his father, surviving the murderous Russian pogroms, fleeing from the Bolshevik Revolution and twice escaping the Nazi Holocaust. Read more...

Educational Study Guide For:
GRISHA: The Story of Russian-American Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky
by A.J. Keifer, Kelsey Francis and Margaret Bartley

This 40-page study guide is designed for secondary and college level teachers in English, Social Studies and Music. Included is a CD of two Piatigorsky recordings for use with the teaching unit. Read more... 

Historic Piatigorsky Concert CD

A historic concert honoring Gregor Piatigorsky was recorded on August 25, 2002 at the Essex County Courthouse, Elizabethtown, New York. The concert recreated the program that Piatigorsky performed in August 1942 on the day following his swearing in as an American citizen. It also includes four solo compositions by Gregor Piatigorsky. Read more...

Sanctuary Among the Birches

ADIRONDACK LIFE magazine, June 2001. OUT OF PRINT magazine featuring a six page article on Gregor Piatgorsky’s life in New York’s Adirondack Mountains (1939-1949) by Margaret Bartley. Cost: $8 Contact us to order.

Miraculous Teacher: Ivan Galamian and the Meadowmount Experience
by Elizabeth A. H. Green, Judith Galamian and Josef Gingold

A rare, out of print book, with limited quantities available. This is the only biography of the great violin pedagogue. Read more...

Viola recordings by Patricia McCarty: 4 CDs

An active proponent of the solo viola, Patricia McCarty has received critical acclaim throughout North America, Europe, Japan and in Australia, appearing as soloist with the Detroit Symphony and Houston Symphony. Winner of the First Silver Medal and Radio Prize in the Geneva International Competition when she was eighteen, Ms. McCarty has also been awarded two National Endowment for the Arts Solo Recitalist Grants. Her recordings have received international accolades, including Gramophone's “Critics Choice” and Strad “Selection CD”.

J.S. Bach - Six Cello Suites, performed on viola, 2 CD set
Cost: $18

Telemann - Twelve Fantasias (originally for violin)
Cost: $15

Schubert - "Arpeggione" Sonata, D 821
Beethoven - Romances, Op. 40 & Op. 50; Notturno, Op. 42
with Martin Amlin on piano
Cost: $15

Brahms - Sonatas, Op. 120
Schumann - Märchenbilder, Op. 113
with Martin Amlin on piano
Cost: $15

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Russian Disc - Anton Dvorak: Trio in F Minor, Op. 65
Trio in E minor, Op. 90
Eric Larsen, piano; Stephen Shipps, violin; Owen Carman, cello
Notes in English and Russian  Cost: $15

American Music in Moscow 1994, Cafe Music for Piano Trio: Paul Schoenfield - Sonata for Cello and Piano
Samuel Barber - Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano
William Bolcom - Trio for Piano, Violin, Cello
Eric Larsen, piano; Stephen Shipps, violin; Owen Carman, cello
Cost: $15

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