This afternoon at the Metropolitan Museum, I could not resist the chance of playing the music of Robert Saxton, on this wonderful Voirin bow owned and played by Samuel Dushkin .Dushkin was born in Suwa?ki, Poland. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire and with Leopold Auer in New York City and Fritz Kreisler. Works written for Dushkin, and premiered with this bow, include all the major works by his greatest collaborator, Igor Stravinsky, and Ravel’s orchestral version of Tzigane. Most violinists have unwittingly played his greatest musical hoax as a composer, the “Sicilienne in E-flat Major by Maria Theresia von Paradis” – very much in the spirit of the his teacher Kreisler’s multiple musical cons! Filmed by Malene Sheppard Skaerved
