(Amadeus). Itzhak Perlman, Kennedy, Midori, and Sarah Chang were among Dorothy Delay's students during her five decades as a violin teacher at Juilliard. For more than ten years, the author was granted access to DeLay's classes and lessons at Juilliard and the Aspen Music Festival and School, and this book reveals DeLay's deep intuition of each student's needs. An exploration of the mysteries of teaching and learning, it includes a feast of anecdotes about an extraordinary character.

Sand, a music journalist, examines the teaching methods and personality of the first woman to have been accorded a place among history's great violin pedagogues. Her observations of DeLay in the classroom with students, as well as her interactions with parents, agents, and others, reveal that her pr