Sadah Shuchari (December 11, 1906 – 20 May 2001), or Sadah Schuhari, in Russian Сада Шухари, was an American violinist and music educator. She was concertmaster of the Vermont Philharmonic Orchestra from 1964 to 1979.
Early life
Sadah Shuchari was born Sadah "Sadie" Schwartz in
Enfield, Connecticut, the daughter of Charles Schwartz and Dora Gerber Schwartz.
Her parents were Jewish immigrants from
Romania;
her father sold insurance.
Shuchari attended the
Juilliard School,
and studied violin with
Leopold Auer and
Paul Kochanski.
She also studied with composer
Rubin Goldmark,
George Enescu, and
Felix Salmond.
Later in life, she earned a bachelor's degree from the
University of Vermont in 1962, and a master's degree from
Teachers College, Columbia University in 1964.
Career
Shuchari won the
Naumburg Scholarship in 1927, and the Schubert Memorial Prize in 1928. She performed at New York's
Town Hall
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venue with pianist
Isabelle Yalkovsky Byman
Isabelle Yalkovsky Byman (December 24, 1906 – December 27, 1981) was an American pianist and music educator. After a career as a concert pianist, Byman taught at Juilliard, and was head of piano pedagogy at the Manhattan School of Music.
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, in a concert for the
Franz Schubert centenary in 1928.
She played again with Yalkovsky at Juilliard in 1931.
Shuchari made recordings for
Victor in 1928 and 1934. She performed on radio programs.
She appeared as a soloist in recitals and with symphonies in
New York
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,
Boston,
Philadelphia,
San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Hartford, Toronto, Baltimore, Harrisburg, Fort Worth,
and El Paso in the 1930s.
She joined the faculty of
Vermont Junior College
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in 1945, as a professor of music.
She continued performing in Vermont into her later years, and was concertmaster of the Vermont Philharmonic Orchestra from 1964 to 1979. Her last public performance came in 1983, at the Vermont Philharmonic's 25th anniversary concert.
Personal life
Shuchari married insurance agent Wallace Parker Start in 1937.
They had two children, Frank and Meda, before they divorced in 1954.
In 1966 she remarried, to Alex Colodny.
Her second husband died in 1985. She died in 2001 in
St. Albans Town, Vermont, aged 94 years.
References
External links
Autographed publicity portrait of Sadah Shuchari(February 1930), signed to
Bessie Bartlett Frankel; in the Bessie Bartlett Frankel Collection, Ella Strong Denison Library; Claremont Colleges Digital Library
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1906 births
2001 deaths
People from Enfield, Connecticut
American violinists
Women violinists
Juilliard School alumni
Vermont College of Fine Arts faculty
University of Vermont alumni
Teachers College, Columbia University alumni
American people of Romanian-Jewish descent