"Fred Zlotkin Reminisces: about growing up in the Slatkin household with parents Felix and Eleanor Slatkin and brother Leonard Slatkin". The Independent. London. September 9, 2003. Retrieved January 5, 2008.[dead link] "My grandfather Gregory Aller's name, prior to his coming to America at the turn of the century, was Grisha Altschuler. He changed the named to "Aller" because (or so I was told) there were so many Altschulers – indeed, it is a very common name. The Altschuler side of the family is really rife with musicians. Grisha's uncle, Modest Altschuler, was a cellist (making me 4th generation) and he had quite a career. Among other things, he did the St. Petersburg premiere of Tchaikowsky's Souvenir de Florence Sextet. When he came to America he formed the Russian Symphony Orchestra (early 1900s)."
