Sol Babitz [SEP] place of death
Sol Babitz
Sol Babitz (October 11, 1911, Brooklyn, New York - 1982, Los Angeles) was an American violinist, teacher, writer and pioneer of historically informed performance. He married artist Mae Babitz in 1942 and had two daughters, Eve Babitz born in 1943 and Mirandi Babitz born in 1946 and lived in Hollywood across the street from the family of Jeff and Hope Corey. His family home was a musical and artistic salon with musicians Bernard Herrmann,Ingolf Dahl,Harry Lubin, Igor Stravinsky and poets Kenneth
, Mauricio Kagel, and György Ligeti. More recently, resident composers have included Steve Reich, Magnus Lindberg, Thomas Ades, Mark-Anthony Turnage, and Osvaldo Golijov.
A diverse group of notable musicians have been part of the Festival, including the jazz musician Eric Dolphy, pianist/conductor James Levine, sitar player Ravi Shankar, soprano Dawn Upshaw, and mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt-Lieberson, to name just a few. Sol Babitz, the Festival's first concertmaster, was a confidant of Stravinsky, and