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B
y the time violinist Ilya
Kaler had emigrated from
Russia to the United States
in 1991, he had played —
and taught — nearly all the standard
repertoire for violin and orchestra.
As he took over his teaching duties
at Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory
of Music, he celebrated his new coun-
try by tackling a new, rarely pro-
grammed piece — Leonard Bernstein's
In October alone, he'll also be fea-
tured in concerti by Tchaikovs
Brahms, Paganini and Beethoven, in
orchestras around the globe. Just
before flying to Michigan, he will play
first violin in a performance of Franz
Schubert's String Quintet in C major in
Bloomington. Guest cellist will be the
venerable Janos Starker.
"I'm an omnivoreplayer," Kaler says.
Born in Moscow in 1963, Kaler is
the only violinist ever to win gold
medals in three of the world's most
prestigious violin competitions: the
Tchaikovsky (1986), Sibelius (1985)
and Paganini (1981).
Kaler, whose father played violin in
the Moscow Radio Symphony
Orchestra for almost 50 years, showed
great talent at an early age. Beginning
Serenade for Violin and Orchestra.
The serenade, which dates from.
1954, is based on Plato's Symposium,
a discourse by five Greek philosophers
on the nature of love. Scored for solo
violin, strings, harp and percussion, its
style recalls the composer's
Jeremiah. Symphony and
Kaddish rather than his bet-
ter-known West Side Story.
"It's based on Greek phi-
losophy, but it's a 100 per-
cent American piece — you
can hear a lot of jazz influ-
ences in the melody and
rhythm," says Kaler, who
now teaches at Indiana
University in Bloomington.
Kaler will perform the
Ilya Kaler
Arie Lipsky
five-movement serenade,
which he terms "a post-neo-
at the Central Music School of the
classical concerto grosso" (solo piece for
Moscow Conservatory, the most rigor-
numerous instruments), with the Ann
ous training school for young musi-
Arbor Symphony Orchestra on.
cians in the former Soviet Union, he
Saturday, Oct. 19, at the city's historic
continued on to the Moscow
Michigan Theater.
Conservatory, earning both master's_
The 8 p.m. concert, conducted by
and doctoral degrees. His teachers at
the Israeli-born Arie Lipsky, also
the conservatory were Zinaida Gilels,
includes two better-known serenades
— Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (A Leonid Kogan and Victor Tretyakov,
and he studied privately with Abram
Little Night Music) and Brahms'
Shtern, both in Moscow and the
Serenade No. 1.
United States.
Lipsky, in his third season as the
Life as a Jew in the Soviet Union
symphony's music director, will speak
was a life of denial and disguise, Kaler
about the evening's program in a pre-
says. "My father was born in 1924 in
concert lecture, scheduled for 7 p.m.
Romania. He went to cheder (Jewish
school). He spoke Yiddish at home.
On The Go
"In my time, the word 'Jew' was
basically a swear word. You didn't get
The Bernstein serenade is only one of
on the bus without hearing someone
five major orchestral works Kaler will
say it under their breath," he says.,
perform this month.