Re: Violinist Isaac Stern dead at 81

[Trudi Goodman <goobietheg...>]

   My favorite quote from Isaac Stern: "We send them our Jews from 
Odessa...they send us their Jews from Odessa." -Referring to concertizing 
Classical musicians.
   I'll miss him the most, not just because he was a wonderful musiker but 
because he was also a great teacher...and great music teachers are hard to 
come by. If he'd taught me the violin, instead of the idiot I had in the 
second and third grades, I might still be playing it.
      Trudi the G


>From: "Ethan Minovitz" <eminovitz (at) canoemail(dot)com>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Violinist Isaac Stern dead at 81
>Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 23:15:10 -0700
>
>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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