Jacob Siskind

Jacob Kohos Siskind (born June 9, 1928 in Montreal , † September 17, 2010 ) was a Canadian music critic.

Siskind had first piano lessons with Rose Goldblatt and was a student of Alfred La Liberté from 1939 to 1944 . From 1944 to 1949 he studied mathematics, physics and music at McGill University . Here he had piano lessons with Helmut Blume , organ lessons with Maitland Farmer and Kenneth Meek and violin lessons with Rachel Gilbert . He also studied piano at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec with Yvonne Hubert and in 1953 took private lessons with Benno Moiseiwitsch .

Siskind began writing as a music critic for the McGill Daily in 1945 and worked for the Montreal Standard from 1949 until it was hired in 1951 . From 1950 to 1965 he gave private piano lessons, also gave courses in English and psychology at McGill University between 1953 and 1956. In 1956 he became a theater critic for the Montreal Star newspaper .

In 1966, Siskind hosted the weekly program of the CTV Arts Calendar and Review together with Uriel Luft . In 1971 he became a critic for music, theater and ballet for the Monreal Gazette , and in 1978 he moved to the Ottawa Journal in the same position . After he was hired in 1980, he went to the Ottawa Citizen , where he stayed until his retirement in 1993.

After having worked variously as a commentator on the CBC productions Sights and Sounds , New Records and Arts National , between 1973 and 1980 he was the author and commentator of several music programs for the CBC with Frances Wainwright , including Great Keyboard Performances of the 20th Century , Musically Speaking and The Art of the Interpreter .

In 1982 he produced a fifteen-part radio program on Mozart's piano concertos with the pianist of the Beaux Arts Trio , Menahem Pressler , as a guest. In 1988 he worked as musical and scientific advisor on the two-hour documentary Ida Haendel: A Voyage of Music about the life of the violinist Ida Haendel , which was shown at Adrienne Clarkson's Summer Festival on CBC television.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary from legacy.com, accessed July 1, 2018