Walter Levin

This Jewish violinist was fortunate to have been able to emigrate from Germany to a part of the world temporarily known as Palestine in 1938. Levin's contemporary, the violinist Henry Meyer, would not be so lucky and spent years of his life at hard labor in a series of concentration camps. The two men were born only a year apart from each other, in different parts of Germany. They would eventually become founders of the La Salle String Quartet, a highly praised and prolific chamber group that began as a student ensemble in the late '40s. In 1946 Levin began studying music and ...