Arnold Steinhardt: ‘Don’t put your parents in hock to buy a violin’
A couple of weeks ago I interviewed Arnold Steinhardt, leader of the Guarneri Quartet for 40 years, for the Cozio website. Steinhardt is articulate and warm, and he doesn't need an interviewer asking questions to draw him out – indeed, his Key of Strawberry, is one of my favourite blogs and his endearing wisdom should be read by all students and lovers of music. The Cozio article is about the instruments he's owned over the years and Steinhardt is forthcoming about how he fel