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12 04, 2018

A Movie and a Memoir
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A Movie and a Memoir

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A Movie and a Memoir

By Joram Piatigorsky|2024-01-04T09:49:07-05:00April 12th, 2018|Categories: Blog, Perpectives|Tags: Colburn School of Music, Documentary, Gregor Piatigorsky, Los Angeles, Memoir writing, The Cellist, The Speed of Dark|0 Comments

On April 17 next week, Papa’s birthday, I will be at the Colburn School of Music in Los Angeles to see a preview of the new documentary of my father: The Cellist: The Legacy of Gregor Piatigorsky, by Murray Grigor and Hamid Shams. The movie will be an important addition to the Piatigorsky Archive at [...]

31 08, 2017

Meeting Myself in my Memoir
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Meeting Myself in my Memoir

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Meeting Myself in my Memoir

By Joram Piatigorsky|2021-02-27T08:52:37-05:00August 31st, 2017|Categories: Blog, Writing is how we explore our place in the world|Tags: British Columbia, By his Bootstraps, Changing Identity, David Gerold, James Gleick, Jewish Upbringing, Los Angeles, Marquis de Laplace, Memoir writing, New Year, Pierre Simon, Robert Heinlein, Rosh Hashanah, Short Story, Star Trek, Time Travel, truth in fiction, William Faulkner|2 Comments

Near the end of my upcoming memoir on my life in science, I think back on my trip to Lilloet in Canada to visit Van, my high school friend, whom I hadn’t seen in some 60 years. Van lived an independent life, including many years in a commune off the grid in British Columbia. Despite [...]