English Speaking club - Isaac Stern

Isaac Stern

English Speaking club dedicated to the birthday of American violinist of Ukrainian origin Isaac Stern. The meeting was prepared by Svitlana Kolesnikova.

A new guest from the USA, California visited our Center. It was Josef Battilega who told about his liking for music, literature, theaters. Josef Battilega donated some books of his own to our Center and the members of the WOA have an opportunity to read them.

Usenko Svitlana:

I interesting formation in  The Columbia Encyclopedia: sixth edition/ edited by Pаul Lagasse. – 2000.– 3156 р. (Р.2715)

Isaac Stern (Ukrainian: Стерн Ісаак; July 21, 1920 – September 22, 2001) was a Ukrainian-born violin virtuoso. He was renowned for his recordings and for discovering new musical talent.

Brought to the United States as an infant, Stern began piano lessons at the age of six and violin lessons at eight. He studied at the San Francisco Conservatory and made his debut at 11 with the San Francisco Symphony Or­chestra. After his New York debut in 1937 at Town Hall, Stern made extensive and brilliantly successful world tours. He is considered one of the leading contemporary virtuosos.

Mirgorodckya Sasha:

Meeting a new native speaker and investigate his idea of the things you already know is always interesting. It is the best way to learn English and to learn the USA versatility.

Josef Battilega from California

Savescul Vadym:

The topics of our conversations with Joseph were very diverse because our today’s guest happened to have very interesting and versatile personality. So they varied from music and literature to differences between American and Ukrainian tax legislations, real-estate prices in the U.S., Ukraine, and EU and even, current healthcare reform initiated by Barack Obama. Since Joseph’s scope of interests was very broad virtually everybody had something to talk about with him, including Greek tragedy and Sumerian mythology.

California is here!