Yes, he was my idol when I was 13-18. I studied with him in NY at Juilliard when I was 16, living alone in the city a year after my father died... not a good idea of my mother's. Bad: school grades good: met Bernstein and played on a televised childern's concert in March 1961.Mr. Rose was a great teacher.. He passed on a great sound and was sensitive to let the individual grow. I think Yo Yo and I are testament to his genius.

The editing is hilarious. It’s not a problem for me at all

Thats some heavy ass video editing skills you got there

I've had 3 cello lessons now, and after watching Leonard Rose here, I question what I am, and also am not, being taught. I am not the messed up (cello taught) college aged student he mentions, instead I am nearly 70. I will carry on with this for the time being, however, until I can get this figured out. I appreciate all he is saying, but at 32 minutes I am going to take a break from this video, will watch the rest shortly. It is intense, but clearly very important information. I am grateful for this video.

Listening to Mr. Rose play the Faure Elegy with Henri Temianka conducting the California Chamber Orchestra changed my life for the better. His sound is lodged in my memory forever. He is the greatest American-born cellist of all time.

Maybe the most elegant and refined cellist ever. I was privileged to be in the orchestra accompanying him twice. Just spectacular.

Ron Leonard is one of the greatest teachers I've known. I wouldn't say that his lessons are 'duplicates' of these videos but he does incorporate these ideas into his own playing and teaching. I learned so much from him. Anyone who is studying with him should pay very, very close attention!

Brilliant! Thank you ❤

34:07 "Come on baby, speak. We have to plead with it." I love that.

Mr. Rose is my favorite musician. I've heard stories of people who cried when they have heard a particular piece of music for one reason or another. I sort of understood but thought it could be explained through psychiatry or maybe the persons state of mind at the time but it happened to me when I listened to Mr. Rose play the slow variation of the Rococo Variations by Tchaikovsky at about 4 o'clock in the morning many years ago...a recording. If you listen carefully. it is incredible.

Even from 1978 from old film through yoiutube that cello still rings.

Absolutely brilliant and spot on. I use this video for my violin students. Thank you, Leonard Rose.

Thank you for this wonderful video - what a great master, player and teacher, he was!

Wow. This is the first time I've heard his speaking voice, yet I've heard and admired his 'cello voice' for years.

Thanks so much for posting this, Steve! Extremely worthwile view for both teachers and students!

What a privilege to be able to get this lesson!

So fabulous to have to review, and to study! Kind knowledgable and warmly enthusiastic. What a treasure. Lynn Harrell

thanks so much for compiling this video..wonderful to watch...such a great master cellist

What a marvellous effort! Thank you Mr. Honigberg (honeytown) and all the best to you !!

This is so great! Thanks for posting.

this man is an amazing cellist! i have the opportunity to study with one of his best students- scott kluksdahl. amazing cellist by far.

Yes. I averaged 7 lessons per year with Mr. Rose at the Juilliard School from 1979 to 1984.

thanks for this great tribute

Fantastic!!!

I have an autograph over 50 years old, that I still cherish from Leonard Rose.

Thank you so very very much for this

Lessons with Ron Leonard are virtually duplicates of this video. So fantastic.

Great! Thanks for posting!!

Nicely done, Steve!

11:30 pure magic - elegance and beauty. Also hopelessly outclassing Stern who was so lazy in his late years.

Some of the terms he used, like figure 8 and sounding point I was like "someone else said that to me now who was it??!?" It was Steve Domka, my accompanist who plays violin in a couple orchestras around where I live. Great teacher.

Did you ever study with him? I did hear Rose play a concert of all the Beethoven Cello Sonatas around 1969 with Vladimir Sokolov in Philadelphia - wonderful memory!

His dry humor is wonderful. As an undergraduate I wasn't quite ready for it!!! More's the pity.

What a beautifully well done video! Kudo from an aspiring cellist in college :) Thanks for the great info!

Leonard Rose is my cousin and I wanted to hear him play a piece. The last time I heard him play I was a child.

My Teacher(G. Kagan of the Met Opera Orchestra fame) studied with Leonard Rose. And his approach to scales and bowing technique were of course passed down to me.

My Finnish teacher has one of N. Amati´s cellos. It has a very powerful tone but requires strength to get it out.

Just the opposite Nate. It was Rose who learned from lessons Galamian taught at the Meadowmount School of Music in the summer of 1952.

Is there a video of this lesson without the video editing? (Though I appreciate the hard work and the video itself!)

Thankyou!

Opening and closing the shoulder at the lower half. Maybe he misspoke, Very visible that the elbow angle was changing little in that sequence.

What’s with all the weird video editing techniques? Why is the background made black at times?

lol. I agree with Claude Frank.

I'd like to have the sound edited (add highs because his voice sounds very muffled, plus take some low mids out when he plays cello and also assimilate audio levels during his speech vs. concert clips) because I believe this is a tremendously important video for all cellists!!!

Awesome

GOD! ahhahahha I loved your comments. Leonard is so thrilling and a selfless teacher.

I'm sure he means that the stick should lie along the place on the fingers between the two joints that divide the fingers into three segments. so the hand should not slip so far down the bow that those two joints are below the stick, and the tips of the fingers are hanging down below the bottom of the frog.

Yes! They are so similar obviously because of the pedigree. What I meant is that Mr. Leonard truly mastered Rose's teaching in such a way that his bow arm and even the vibrato is essentially a duplicate. He sounds like Rose and even has that dry humor. "You want to bow straight..." Ha!

Mr. Honigberg, what is the string trio that is played at the end? Also what is that piano trio as well? so wonderful and I've been struggling to find music for the first ensemble format mentioned. thank you.

Thanks so much for posting this. I'm looking forward to watching the whole thing, but what is surprising so far (up to 10 minutes) is that he is talking about very basic ideas, familiar to any student who has gotten to an intermediate level; bow speed, pressure, and sounding point. Was Rose one of the first teachers to articulate these aspects of sound production? Hard to imagine.

What a great master! And a very kind man, too.

Alguna traducción en español (subt)?. Übersetzung nach Deutsch Sprache (subt)? Gracias /Danke.

Okay I'm confused. @19:20 When he is talking about the bow hold, what does he mean by He doesn't believe our fingers should go past the second joint?

I wonder if anyone remembers what brand strings he used.

I wish I could meet him... he seams cool

Who is the pianist that speaks at 20:49? Is that Claude Frank?

Interesting to see that dispute in the master class. I do think the F-sharp sounds better, but the point of the master giving directions is for the cellist to play and experiment with in practice rather than to fully understand right away. That was completely rude and blatant of the pianist to intrude on the lesson.

Really awesome video! The video effects, though, were kinda annoying. But I did learn a lot. :)

31:49 Christopher Bunting said one needs to play badly first! Let’s face it, we all had to scribble before we could write legibly.😎

How did you know that he was gifted in left hand technique? Is that something that can be perceived and distinguished from plain old hard work?

'COME ON BABY PLEASE' !!!!!!!!!!!!! 'We need to plead with it to sound. ' omg nobody understands it but Rose

damn... that clip of him playing with stern... such a master.

Can you please, PLEASE re-upload this without all the horrid video effects? Dear god.

✡️✝️Sept./27/2023.

21:03 😱

Leanord Rose taught my cello teacher's, teacher.

Spanish suuubs pleaseee

He turns into the Pope at 7:35

32:33