<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=516173" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Piano Recital of Isser Slonim at the Rubin Academy in Jerusalem</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A PIANO RECITAL OF ISSER SLONIM AT THE RUBIN ACADEMY IN JERUSALEM</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>An old man is not a paltry thing<br>His hands are hammers and strings<br>His mind holds the whole composition <br>Before it unflows to us.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In this bare room<br>With these simple chairs<br>His Russian students long hair<br>Bright their laughter- Youth, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He gives a life of integrity<br>To playing a music of strength<br>whose tones deepened<br>by mastery say, <br>“This is a real thing a great thing. “</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And this time its name is not fame and celebrity<br>but is one small man, <br>a teacher who bears in his own inner depth<br>all the music<br>his students have in long years<br>learned from him<br>whose fingers with fierce flexibility<br>play through<br>to the end<br>with intelligence and humor<br>the sounds which make us feel<br>we too may sometimes live<br>in a higher world, also.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Shalom+Freedman">Shalom Freedman</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=516173" data-title="A Piano Recital of Isser Slonim at the Rubin Academy in Jerusalem de Shalom Freedman" data-description="A PIANO RECITAL OF ISSER SLONIM AT THE RUBIN ACADEMY IN JERUSALEM An old man is not a paltry thing His hands are hammers and strings His mind holds the whole composition Before it unflows to us. In this bare room With these simple chairs His R..."></div> </div> </div>

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