Galamian school gets new chief
NewsMeadowmount School of Music, founded in 1944 by the arch-pedagogue Ivan Galamian, has named Janet Sung as its artistic director, starting immediately.
Sung is currently Head of Strings at the DePaul University School of Music in Chicago, as well as founding Artistic Director of Chamber Music Chicago. She studied for ten years with Josef Gingold.
Meadowmount School of Music offers seven weeks of tuition in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York for players aged 13 to 30.
Walter Levin, leader of the celebrated LaSalle string quartet, was probably thinking of Galamian and his school when he once said: ” All over the world, thousands of young violinists are being encouraged to produce a sound for which no repertoire has ever been written.”
My memories are that it was a good place for being forced to practice, if that’s what one needs. Otherwise, that many immature kids all away from home… oy vey what a headache.
Yes, and with hormones running rampant. However, such programs are key to getting into better schools.
It would be an even better school if it wasn’t limited to bowed-string players.