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American Violinist Oscar Shumsky died on this day in 2000
Shumsky was widely celebrated for playing in the warm yet grand Romantic tradition of Russian-Jewish violinists of the twentieth century
His teaching career was equally distinguished, as he held faculty positions at the Curtis Institute of Music, the Peabody Conservatory, Yale University, and The Juilliard School
Here, Shumsky performs Kreisler’s Praeludium and Allegro in the Style of Pugnani with pianist Milton Kaye