Violinist Isaac Stern dead at 81

[Ethan Minovitz <eminovitz...>]

Violinist Isaac Stern, famed for saving Carnegie Hall from the 
wrecking ball, died Saturday at New York Weill Cornell Medical Center 
of heart failure.  He was 81.

He played in the movies "Fiddler on the Roof" and "Humoresque," as 
well as the television series "Sesame Street." 

In 1991, he played a concert in Jerusalem when a siren warned of a 
Scud attack.  While the audience paused to put on gas masks, Stern 
didn't wear one.  He also played at Mount Scopus immediately after 
Israeli soldiers recaptured it in 1967.

He was a supporter of the American-Israel Cultural Foundation, which 
helped finance the studies of such Israeli perforers as Itzhak 
Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman.

Stern is survived by his wife, Linda Reynolds Stern; three children 
 from a previous marriage, daughter Shira, a rabbi, and sons Michael 
and David, both conductors; and five grandchildren. 

A full obituary can be found at 
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010922/us/obit_stern_5.html

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