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get influenced by my fellow stu-
dents. In Israel, they just don't have
post-graduate studies in music.
"I was supposed to start school in
sraeli pianist Victor Goldberg.
September, but I didn't get into the
lives a typical music student's
country till the end of October," he
life in New York City — if
that student is a carefully nur- says. "I will never forget those two
months — I didn't sleep more than
tured virtuoso beginning a block-
two hours a day. I had the feeling all
buster career.
I'd done so far was for nothing."
He studies on scholarship with
Caught in a bureaucratic night-
prestigious teacher Solomon
mare, Goldberg looked for help
Mikovsky at the Manhattan School
wherever he could find it. Among
of Music, practices upwards of five
those he contacted were the
hours a day, exchanges ideas and
Manhattan School
interpretations with his
of Music; Tel Aviv
fellow music students
University's Rubin
and gives recitals when-
Academy, where
ever he has a chance,
he'd earned a
both in New York and
bachelor's degree
throughout the country.
in music; the
Detroit-area audi-
American-Israel
ences will be able to
Cultural
hear the 25-year-old
Foundation, which
pianist 8 p.m. Saturday,
had granted him
April 10, when he per-
several scholar-
forms works by Haydn,
ships; New York's
Schumann,
Juilliard School,
Shostakovich and
where he had
Chopin in a Vivace
Victor Goldb erg appears
completed
a mas-
Series concert at the
Saturday, Ap ril 10, at the
ter's degree in
Birmingham Temple.
Birmingham Temple.
music the preced-
But, a few short
ing spring; the
months ago, Goldberg
International Keyboard Institute and
found his career in jeopardy. The
Festival, where he had won prizes in
only pianist accepted for the Artists
1999 and 2000; and every other
Diploma program at the Manhattan
mentor and friend he'd made in his
School of Music, with an audition
score that topped all other applicants 25 years.
Almost immediately, these sources
for the prestigious post-graduate
appointment, Goldberg had returned sent letters pleading his case to Daniel
Kurtzer, U.S. Ambassador in Israel.
home to his family in Netanya,
In addition, they alerted others to
Israel, for the summer.
his plight, including Benny Alon;
"Two weeks before I was going to
Natan Sharansky, Yossi Sharid, Yuri
leave Israel — I was almost packed
Shtern, Marina Solodkin and Yossi
— I went to get my visa at the U.S.
Beilin, all members or former mem-
Embassy," he remembers. "It was
bers of the Israeli Knesset; Miriam
almost routine. I was shocked when
Fierberg, mayor of Netanya; Hillary
they told me my visa application had
Clinton and Charles Schumer, U.S.
been denied. I had a full scholarship
senators from New York; U.S. Rep.
— it was absolutely not anticipated."
Jerrold Nadler of New York; and
The only reason given for the
other legislators from both countries.
rejection was the fear that the young
"So many kind and influential
pianist would violate his student visa
people were involved in getting me
by refusing to return to Israel.
my visa, people from the left and the
"I need to be in New York at this
time in my career," Goldberg says. "I right," Goldberg says.
Rabbi Ervin Birnbaum, chair of the
have to work with teachers; be
inspired by the symphony, the opera; Shearim Netanya Russian outreach
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A Hurdle Overcome
With his visa problems in the past, Israeli pianist
Victor Goldberg is five to study and perform.
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