Walter Grossman was a very handsome and interesting man, and in those years a vital and strong influence in my life. He gave me much love and affection, and shortly after my first months of cello lessons, he was very encouraging. I remember him telling my father that some day my name would be up in lights.

Leonard Rose

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First was the establishment of a curved thumb on the bow, for without the thumb being capable of flexing, the bow arm must be faulty. Second, was a good left hand setting on the fingerboard in the lower positions. Third, were the early scales, exercises, and finger independence studies.

— Leonard Rose

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You played very well but I would like you to take the Fourth Sonata of Beethoven and figure it out for yourself.

— Leonard Rose

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She said go ahead, I handled the house before while you was gone, I guess I can do it again.

— Leonard Rose

The other thing that Frank Miller did for me was to give me a very strict diet of scales and very difficult etudes - Popper High School - forty marvelous etudes. They are still sort of my Bible today, as far as cello is concerned. All my students have to play that material.

— Leonard Rose

There was the barest minimum of religion at home. In my entire youth, until I left home at age 15, I remember going to Synagogue just a few times on Yom Kippur.

— Leonard Rose

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