Curtis legend is 102 today
mainEleanor Sokoloff, teaching piano into her second century.
Pictured today with ex-student Leon McCawley.
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Happy Birthday, Eleanor. My fondest memories of you are Curtis piano auditions and your iron-fist in a velvet glove style. Scales and arpeggios, no wonder I never had a career. You remain an unforgettable colleague.
Happy Birthday Eleanor!
The Curtis family is unbelievably richer for every thing you’ve done and continue to do!
As a student at Curtis it was always a great experience to see and hear Ms. Sokoloff. She always had something nice to say and greeted students in every possible field of study with warmness and encouragement. Truly a loved and wonderful person to know and wishing you a very Happy Birthday and may your new year be filled with continued good health, happiness and success in whatever you undertake.
There were many students who found Ms. Sokoloff to be cruel and abusive.
It would not surprise me if that was because scales and arpeggios were inflicted upon them. They are cruel instruments of torture indeed, like the martyrdom of saints to deserve heaven.
If you have any personal experience which you believe should be shared, then do it. If not, why are you posting this?
Dearest Eleanor, It’s only 62 years ago that I studied all too briefly piano with you but I loved every minute. Happy birthday and much, much love,
Arnold Steinhardt