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Itzhak Perlman (Hebrew: יִצְחָק פרלמן; born August 31, 1945) is an Israeli-American violinist. He has performed worldwide and throughout the United States , in venues that have included a state dinner for Elizabeth II at the White House in 2007, and at the 2009 inauguration of Barack Obama .
Alpert was musical director of the 1995 PBS Great Performances special Itzhak Perlman: In the Fiddler's House (1996 Emmy Award for Outstanding Cultural Music-Dance Program and Golden Rose (Montreux) for same) and co-producer of the two Perlman klezmer CDs on the Angel Records/EMI label. [9]
The Last Klezmer: Leopold Kozlowski: His Life and Music (1994), directed by Yale Strom; Beyond Silence (1996), about a klezmer-playing clarinetist, directed by Charlotte Link; A Tickle in the Heart (1996), directed by Stefan Schwietert [112] Itzhak Perlman: In the Fiddler's House (1996), aired 29 June 1996 on Great Performances (PBS/WNET ...
CHICAGO - If this were a "normal" year, the music world would be celebrating Itzhak Perlman's 75th birthday - Aug. 31 - with uncounted tribute concerts and gala retrospectives. The Ravinia ...
Violinist/composer Alicia Svigals is widely considered to be the world's leading klezmer fiddler, and was a founder and longtime member of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics. In 2023 she was awarded an honorary doctorate in humane letters by the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City.
The Klezmatics are an American klezmer music group based in New York City, who have achieved fame singing in several languages, most notably mixing older Yiddish tunes with other types of more contemporary music of differing origins. [1] They have also recorded pieces in Aramaic and Bavarian.
The violinist Itzhak Perlman was the host of the four episodes of the 1982/83 season. Itzhak Perlman — Perlman performed with pianist Ken Noda including Igor Stravinsky's Suite Italienne, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Fantasia in D minor and Ballade No. 1 by Frédéric Chopin. [4]
Rogers visits Itzhak Perlman at a concert hall and reflects on his visit to Colonial Williamsburg. Aired on September 3, 1993. The "Then & Now" episodes have been the only time in the series where the Neighborhood Trolley has shown its Special Dimension, which is where it shows images from the past.