MITCHELL LURIE.......One of the great students of Daniel Bonade. I studied with him from 1966 to 1971. He told me a story during my lessons about a recurring dream he was having.  He was in his 40's at that time and well into a very successful career as orchestra and L.A. Studio player. He told me..."I keep having a dream..." he said, "that I was in a lesson with Bonade and I was not prepared". He told me how nervous he was playing "unprepared" for the Master, Bonade. As I think of that time (and Bonade was still living) I wonder if he was telling me that I should practice more. I think he was empathic.  He felt his students "pain" and related it to his own pain. Mitchell told me another story.....how he was in the movie "They Shall Have Music" . It was in 1939 and the film was about a youth orchestra that had financial problems. Jasha Heitfetz, violinist, was the star of the film. Mitchell's' family had signed a contract that he would be there at all of the shootings. Alas.....he was invited to audition for the Curtis Institute. The audition fell on one of the last days of filming. He needed to get out of the film contract! Ironic, yes? His parents got a family friend, who was a doctor, to write a note saying that Mitchell was ill and could not play the final scenes. Mitchell went to Philadelphia to audition for Curtis and the rest is history! If you watch the movie (youtube) you will notice that the young Mitchell Lurie is in all the scenes.....except....the  ending. Now you know. Mitchell Mitchell, in the begining, gone at the end... Lurie was always trying to be better. Always searching for the sound he wanted. You can observe this in his youthful recordings in contrast to his late recordings. I think he found what he was looking for...