A Tribute to Isidor Saslav (1938-2013)
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Though we have a few new pieces edited and formatted we've decided to keep our tribute to Isidor Saslav on the front page for another two weeks. He was an exceptional man and he deserves the exception.
It's difficult to figure out how to credit and remember such a wonderful man in our digital age. One day he was here, the other he was gone, becoming part of the archives on a Web site, with no new submissions to enjoy. Here is a man whose beautifully talented hands I could have caressed time and over, and I always appreciated his deep sense of humor.
Why are loving people leaving us? Why? He is gone now, but he will always be a part of Swans. He will always be Isidor Saslav. And he will not be forgotten.
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Isidor Saslav: Dr. Isidor Saslav - b. March 18, 1938; d. January 26, 2013
Bio written by Isidor Saslav on the occasion of a recital he gave in March 2012. More...
Jan Baughman: A Humble Farewell
A fond farewell to Isidor Saslav, a man whose talent, compassion, curiosity, and caring made this world a more humane place. More...
Jonah Raskin: My Isidor Saslav
A tribute to Isidor Saslav, a man the author never met and yet he feels as though he's known him his whole life. More...
Peter Byrne: Artists Don't Die
Peter Byrne remembers Isidor Saslav -- musician, Shavian, and above all, true lover of art. More...
Gilles d'Aymery: The One And Only Isidor Saslav
Gilles d'Aymery remembers with heavy heart the irreplaceable Isidor Saslav. More...
Glenn Reed: Isidor Saslav And The Strings That Connect Us All
A tribute to Isidor Saslav and the strings that connect us all. More...
Manuel García, Jr.: Sympathetic Vibrations: Recollections Of Isidor Saslav
Remembering Isidor Saslav and the enchanting and liberating spectrum of delights for the spirit and occupations for the mind he created. More...
Guido Monte: To Isidor Saslav
A poem by Guido Monte to the memory of Isidor Saslav. More...
Concerts And An Opera In New York
Review of American Symphony, NY Philharmonic, and Metropolitan Opera. American premieres of violin concertos. More...
A violin legend and his memorials. More...
The political and literary conversion of a teenager: How Isidor Saslav discovered George Bernard Shaw and became a lifelong collector of everything Shavian he could unearth. More...
The Texas Music Educators' Association, world's largest, joins with flutist Sir James Galway, world's greatest. More...
The Great Meyerbeer-Mendelssohn Mystery
As part of Bard College's 2009 Summerscape Festival, Leon Botstein revives two operatic gems of converted Judaic culture -- Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots, and Mendelssohn's St. Paul -- in the context of the anti-Semitic Richard Wagner. More...
Following the deaths of three great historians/fictionalists -- Louis Auchincloss, J.D. Salinger, and Howard Zinn -- the author recounts his 40-year admiration of and ultimate meeting with Auchincloss -- a lifelong book collector's ambition fulfilled. More...
Detroit continues the process of destroying itself. More...
My Offerings For Your Pleasure
Isidor Saslav's recommendations for the 2012 Swans special edition about books, music, and films. More...
A look at a few notable events and noteworthy deaths in 2012. More...
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