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said: "I think the greatest thing about Dorothy DeLay is that she has the ability to look at a young student or an old student and pretty much size up their character and the way that they think — their personality, basically — and how in a short period of time what's the best door to use to get them
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In 1997, the Dorothy Richard Starling Chair of Violin Studies was established with a leadership grant from the Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation to The Campaign for Juilliard. It was held by DeLay until the time of her death in March 2002, and a year later Itzhak Perlman was appointed to this
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said of DeLay's pedagogic approach: "I would come and play for her, and if something was not quite right, it wasn't like she was going to kill me. She would ask questions about what you thought of particular phrases—where the top of the phrase was, and so on. We would have a very friendly,
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interesting discussion about 'Why do you think it should sound like this?' and 'What do you think of that?' I was not quite used to this way of approaching things."
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She was the founder of the Stuyvesant Trio (1939–42) with her cellist sister Nellis DeLay and pianist Helen Brainard, and she played with
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By the mid-1940s, DeLay decided that she did not want to continue as a performer. In 1946, she returned to Juilliard to study with
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to parents who were musicians and teachers. She began studying violin at age 4. At age 14, she graduated from
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Kozinn, Allan. "Dorothy DeLay, Teacher of Many of the World's Leading Violinists, Dies at 84."
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High School, where her father was superintendent. DeLay studied for one year at the
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into here. And that's her method — the fact that there is really no method."
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from the Japanese Government in 1998. In 1975, she was recognized by the
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For an in-depth profile of Miss DeLay, see Helen Epstein's book
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List of music students by teacher: C to F § Dorothy DeLay
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In addition to many honorary degrees, Miss DeLay received the
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Teaching Genius: Dorothy DeLay and the Making of a Musician.
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University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music
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