Teaching Genius (Dorothy DeLay And The Making Of A Musician)

Teaching Genius. (Dorothy DeLay and the Making of a Musician). Amadeus. Softcover. 240 pages. Amadeus Press #1574671200. Published by Amadeus Press.

Itzhak Perlman * Kennedy * Midori * and Sarah Chang were among Dorothy Delays students during her five decades as a violin teacher at Juilliard. For more than ten years, the author was granted access to DeLays classes and lessons at Juilliard and the Aspen Music Festival and School, and this book reveals DeLays deep intuition of each students needs. An exploration of the mysteries of teaching and learning, it includes a feast of anecdotes about an extraordinary character.