![]() The quartet gave its first public performance on 6 January 1930 of works by Franz Joseph Haydn, Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky, Aleksandr Konstantinovich Glazunov, and others to a sold-out house at the Woman's Club. Noting the dearth of live chamber music performances in Norfolk, Feldman founded the Feldman Quartet, made up of his students and other local musicians. Some of Feldman's many Norfolk pupils gained fame as professional musicians, including Harry Bluestone, a jazz musician and movie studio conductor Howard Boatwright, a prolific composer and professor of music at Yale University and Dora Marshall Mullins, who performed with the Feldman Quartet for thirty-eight years and taught violin at the Julliard School of Music. He auditioned for the violin section of the Philadelphia Orchestra but declined the chair when it was offered because he realized that his true calling was teaching and developing other players' talents. A morale-building revue entitled Frolicking Tars, for which he wrote much of the incidental music, started a national tour of naval installations but had to be cancelled because of the influenza outbreak in 1918.Īfter leaving the service with the rank of chief petty officer in 1919, Feldman remained in Norfolk and opened a music studio where he taught violin to adults and children. Feldman led a seventy-five-member group of musicians and at age twenty-one was perhaps the youngest bandmaster in the service. Later that year after the United States entered World War I, he enlisted in the navy and was assigned to the Norfolk naval station. It was there that Feldman developed his great love of chamber music.Īfter graduating in 1916 with a diploma in violin, Feldman led a small musical group in Atlantic City before accepting in 1917 a position as a music teacher in Norfolk, Virginia. One of hundreds who auditioned for the coveted position, he won the competition and studied for four years with Kneisel at the Institute of Musical Art in New York City, a forerunner of the Julliard School of Music. In 1912 while vacationing in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Feldman learned of an opportunity to study with Franz Kneisel, founder and director of the famed Kneisel Quartet and former concert master of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. ![]() ![]() He was purportedly the youngest person at that time ever to have done so. He began violin lessons at age seven and was invited at age fourteen to perform with the Franz Schubert Bund, a society of professional musicians that included members of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Feldman developed a passion for classical music as a child while accompanying his father to concerts, where they often stood in the gallery because they could not afford good seats. He may have added the middle initial to his name as an adult. Feldman (–24 August 1963), music teacher and impresario, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was the son of two Russian Jewish emigrants, Hyman Feldman, a shirt ironer, and Lena Feldman (maiden name unknown). ![]()
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