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I've known Pinchas Zukerman since he was a teenager.

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My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in his teens, he heard a great violinist, Jascha Heifetz, and he was so inspired listening to him that he bought himself a violin, and with a little help from an Italian teacher, he learned to play it.

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Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.

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There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.

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In Bombay, we have a fine concert hall. I think it is high time we built venues in Delhi and Calcutta, not only for western music, but also Indian music. It doesn't matter which party is in power; don't you think the capital of India should have a concert hall?

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The private sector is growing so incredibly in India, in every city you have industries for whom building a concert hall would be nothing financially. But they just don't do it.

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American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions.

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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.

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Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously.

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The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Musician

Born: April 29th, 1936

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