No matter how well researched, a movie or book is a story with an autonomous existence and cannot resurrect the layered complexities and conflicts of a human being. The private, inner life makes me wonder to what extent our personal identity reflects our ultimate legacy: who or what determines who we are?
On April 17 next week, Papa’s birthday, I will be at the Colburn School of Music in Los Angeles to see a preview of the new documentary of my father: The Cellist: The Legacy of Gregor Piatigorsky, by Murray Grigor and Hamid Shams. The movie will be an important addition to the Piatigorsky Archive at [...]
Creativity is often judged by novel productions of one sort or another, such as science discoveries that lead to new paradigms; art creations, such as paintings, sculptures or prints; literature, including innovative novels, poems or essays; music compositions; even original thoughts, or for that matter, old thoughts considered in new perspectives. My father Gregor [...]
I remember when at the dawn of my career in science a lady I met for the first time at a social occasion deduced correctly by my name that my father was the world-famous cellist, Gregor Piatigorsky. Then, she took me by surprise by asking in a deadpan, serious voice, “Are you a failure like [...]
