<p>Fiddlestix-
It was in gest, I didn’t know Galamian,obviously(though I know people who studied under him), but one thing I have become convinced is that the great teachers, to a person, are a pretty tough bunch, in different ways. Arnold Steinheardt said Galamian as a teacher was tough and unapproachable,that at times his intensity seemed to go over the boundary into the personal, but he also said that once the teacher/student relationship ended, that he was good friend and mentor, so it was about the teaching (that was in AS’s memoir, violin dreams, which is a lot of fun). Leopold Auer was famous for his temper, Millstein loved telling a story about being in a studio lesson with Heifetz, and Heifetz played "scherzo tarrantela"by Wieznowski (sp?I am not a violinist, you can tell:)…Auer got so upset, he threw and broke a chair, and Millstein said he wet his pants, because he was up next and was playing the same piece:).</p>