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Itzhak Perlman

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Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.


— Itzhak Perlman


#inspirational

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.


— Itzhak Perlman


#classical #classical music #improvise #makes #music

Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled.


— Itzhak Perlman


#because #child #get #gifted #handled

When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.


— Itzhak Perlman


#carnegie hall #comes #concerto #done #feel

A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays.


— Itzhak Perlman


#capability #much #nothing #over #over it

Another thing that I don't like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue moon. Sometimes there are lessons when I don't pick up a violin at all.


— Itzhak Perlman


#blue #goes #how #i #i do

The most important thing to do is really listen.


— Itzhak Perlman


#important thing #listen #most #really #the most important

Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.


— Itzhak Perlman


#child #child prodigy #curse #got #possibilities

Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it.


— Itzhak Perlman


#experience #just #most #nerve-racking #people

So many things can drive you mad as a child, not only music.


— Itzhak Perlman


#drive #mad #many #music #only






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Did you know about Itzhak Perlman?

He served as music advisor to the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra from 2002 to 2004. As well as playing and recording the classical music for which he is best known Perlman has also played jazz including an album made with jazz pianist Oscar Peterson and klezmer. He had earlier sung the role in an excerpt from the opera on a 1980 Pension Fund Benefit Concert telecast as part of the Live from Lincoln Center series with Luciano Pavarotti as Cavaradossi and Zubin Mehta conducting the New York Philharmonic.

Itzhak Perlman (Hebrew: יצחק פרלמן‎; born August 31 1945) is an Israeli violinist conductor and instructor of master classes. He is regarded as one of the preeminent violinists of the 20th and early 21st centuries.

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