From: President Sent: Saturday, February 1, 2014 4:18 PM To: Jeffrey Epstein Subject: Re: No, if the standard is a star soloist, and if the criterion is music alone.=But can she make some kind of respectable career--certainly in her home co=ntry--probably yes. But if you are interested in the exceptional and the v=ry best--then that seems she does not present the best case. I just want =o be fair. To be able to play the Sibelius concerto at all, sufficient to =et into Julliard is an accomplishment, and a non trivial one. That does no= mean one is therefore competitive in the concert world and that one would=get to play it at Carnegie Hall (where I was last night playing with a gre=t pianist Piers Lane, from England by way of Australia). And I do not know=if she has a distinctive musical intelligence that compensates for some sh=rtcoming in the surface brilliance of the athleticism--the way Robert Mann= Alexander Schneider and Gidon Kremer--all great artists whose violin play=ng was on the highest level but not by virtue of virtuosity alone but owin= to the character of thought and originality. Leon Original Message From: "Jeffrey Epstein" <[email protected]> To: "President" Sent: Saturday, February 1, 2014 11:02:45 AM Subject: Re: thanks, as i had thought. not sure if it is worth my time On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 10:49 AM, President < wrote: I spoke to Laurie Smukler. She just took over from Steven Clapp, who was yo=r friend's teacher (and head of the violin department at Julliard) until h= died very recently. Laurie has heard her play--in order to decide to take=her as a student. Laurie is an old friend and colleague and has taught her= for years (she has seven students at Bard). Your friend played the Sibeli=s concerto for the audition and Laurie thought it was good and interesting=enough to take her on. Her first lesson is Monday. But for the time being =aurie believes that there is sufficient reason to believe that she can hav= a