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SIDNEY
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Robin Sherman
February 2, 2018
Joyce Oxfeld
July 27, 2017
Joyce Oxfeld
July 27, 2017
May your name be a blessing to all lives you touched and to our maker Hashem.
Joyce Oxfeld
Student
July 26, 2017
Joyce Oxfeld
Student
July 26, 2017
Joyce Oxfeld
Student
July 26, 2017
Joyce Oxfeld
Student
July 26, 2017
Joyce Oxfeld
Student
July 26, 2017
He wasn't always warm and fuzzy to get close too, but that's how ambitious professional musicians , who are driven as Sid were can be. But I learned the ropes about playing professionally at the earliest point with him, and I admire and genuinely miss him and always will.
Joyce Oxfeld
Student
July 26, 2017
I didn't see this tribute notice until now. I've known and admired Sidney Rothstein greatly since I was 11 years old and those were very formative years for me. Sidney was the first one to audition me on violin, for professional level repertoire . Someone who taught me how to comport myself onstage and in music circles, and present myself as well as I could.
Joyce Oxfeld
July 26, 2017
I echo Dr. Hester Sonder's sentiment, also being a Girls High graduate. Being inspired by Sidney, I became a synagogue Cantor for over 20 years and am currently conducting a choir of my own. Sid and I remained in touch over the years and he was always a great friend and mentor.
Robin Sherman
July 15, 2017
Mr. Rothstein was the instrumental teacher at Central High School during my time there (1967-1971). He did memorable work with the school orchestra, conducting the Mozart Requiem, Mendelsohn's Elijah -- even excerpts from Strauss's Rosenkavalier. He was my violin instructor.
Gary Freedman
June 26, 2017
This is to Sidney and his entire family. I was lucky enough to have met Sid when I was 16 years old and a student at Girls High School. We were rehearsing Beethoven' 9th Symphony with the Central High School orchestra for which Sidney was the conductor. This began a friendship that lasted for several years and I had the privilege of attending most of the Friday evening concerts of the Philadelphia Orchestral Society and the having a late supper with Sid and numerous members of the orchestra. He was young and dashingly handsome and his passion about music was infectious. We who knew him at that time in his life predicted that it was only a matter of time until he was invited to conduct a great orchestra and become its musical director which is exactly what happened.
Sid would invite selected musicians and me, a lyric soprano, to his apartment in West Philly where we would rehearse and then perform some of the most significant choral and string quartet pieces he could find. These were great times for all of us and I was inspired to apply to university as a music major where I spent 4 years immersing myself in the history, composing of and performing of classical music. It was because of Sidney Rothstein that my life was and is still made so much richer for my love and devotion to classical music! Sid will be missed by so many people whose lives he touched during his long and illustrious life and career and his legacy is carried on by the RSO whose very existence and success moving forward is, in large part, the result of Maestro Rothstein's works and devotion!
We will miss you Sidney...and your legacy will live on for decades after your passing!
Hester Sonder. M. D.
May 6, 2017
Dr.,Christine and Family,
I had the pleasure of knowing Sidney in the 70's. After a night of entertaining, Sidney would come to my family's restaurant, The Crystal Restaurant, and glow in the admiration of everyone. With his top hat and cape he certainly controlled not only the symphony, but everywhere he went.
We reunited again while I was a food service supervisor. That is where I had the pleasure of meeting you during one of your visits. I was so happy to see Sidney and we laughed while we remember back then.
May his memory be eternal.
Stephanie(Mantis) Hoffman
February 19, 2017
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