JAVS Fall 2007

NYUSteinhardt Steonhardt School of Culture. Educatoon, and Huml!n Development

that strongly. Also the idea that putting great energy into something you care about deeply can make you happy. This is a good lesson for an adolescent to learn. I feel very lucky to have figured this out as early as I did . Greenwood was, and continues to be, hard ro get admitted ro- but once there, there was very little competition. You can't have a real cham ber music experience and stay in competition with those around you. MD: Are there specific moments/situations/perfor mances from this time that you consider pivotal to your musical life? JS: I was assigned the slow movement of Op 132 Beethoven my last summer as a camper. We per formed it twice and also in a masterclass for Joel Krosnick. That piece made me decide to pursue a music career. lr was like "Knowing that music Like this exists, how can I not play it?" Also, I started as a violinist at Greenwood. It was John Ziarko, a coach and viola teacher at the camp, who recom mended that I try the viola, and then was my first reacher. He also assigned me chat Op 132. o I owe him, and Greenwood, a debt for finding the viola at all, and chen finding a reason ro need to play it. JS: I went through the obligatory withdrawal after my rime as a student, and felt chat MY experience as a camper was somehow special, and chat these new campers just didn't understand ... Then I was a coun selor for a year at the end of college. That was a dif ferent view. I came back as an alumnus co play some informal recitals once my quartet got going. I was always amazed ac how certain core things about the place stayed very constant, even as my own relation ship with it was subtly changing. At first , I was upset that [ wasn't experiencing everything for the first rime anymore. Then I started realizing how spe cial it was that the place still provided those experi ences for new generacjons every year. The constancy of that I really attribute co the incredible leadership of Deb Sherr {only the second camp direcror in Greenwood's 75 year history) and the great idealism of the camp's founders, Bunny and Dwight Little. MD: How has your relationship with the camp developed over time?

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