Dorothy DeLay was the first woman and the first American to have been accorded a place among history's great violin pedagogues. From Itzhak Perlman to Midori and Sarah Chang, the list of her pupils reads like a Who's Who of today's virtuoso performers.

After spending nearly ten years in DeLay's studio, author Barbara Lourie Sand opens a window into DeLay's world and the children, parents, and managers who inhabited it. Sand examines the childhoods of several DeLay students, including Sarah Chang, weaving through these stories insights on the care and training of exceptional young artists.

Itzhak Perlman, Issac Stern, and Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg are among the musicians who share personal assessments of DeLay as a friend and teacher. Their recollections paint a rich portrait of a tenacious, loving, and brilliant woman whose motivating challenge was to find the approach that would lead to her charges' success.

Paperback, 225 pages, 9" x 6". Amadeus Press, ISBN#: 1-574-67120-0