Paul Zukofsky, Prodigy Who Became, Uneasily, a Virtuoso Violinist, Dies at 73

[paul secor]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/arts/music/paul-zukofsky-dead-virtuoso-violinist-literary-executor.html?_r=0

[JSngry]

Now that's a guy I would have like to have heard/seen live.

[paul secor]

But perhaps not a guy you'd want to meet.

[JSngry]

Would probably love to meet him, just as long as there was an easy exit.

[rostasi]

Will forever be grateful for his label of astounding interpretations of really great works: CP².
There's about 2 dozen releases and every one is an absolute gem.
The 3-LP set below changed my life and I remember loaning it out to anyone that
I thought needed to have their life changed as well.

Zukofsky and Cage got along very well. Zukofsky helped him realize what could be done
with the violin - even tho Zukofsky claimed that the first Freeman Etudes that Cage had
composed for him were "unplayable." Irvine Arditti, afterwards showed that they were
indeed playable (saw him do this in concert - had to pick my jaw up off of the floor).

Edited June 21, 2017 by rostasi

[Chuck Nessa]

I have missed those records for a long time.

[clifford_thornton]

Piano Space rules, as do the Zukofsky/Cage collaborations. 

the Louis Zukofsky scholarship issue is a bummer though.

[rostasi]

Nineteen albums here.