Itzhak Perlman
Itzhak Perlman
Itzhak Perlmanis an Israeli-American violinist, conductor, and pedagogue. Over the course of his career, Perlman has performed worldwide, and throughout the United States, in venues that have included a State Dinner at the White House honoring Queen Elizabeth II, and a Presidential Inauguration, and he has conducted the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and the Westchester Philharmonic. In 2015, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionViolinist
Date of Birth31 August 1945
CityTel Aviv, Israel
CountryIsrael
I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time.
In difficult times, people just like to hear music. They like to be moved by what they hear. And music speaks different languages.
In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell with the people! If someone weighs a couple more pounds, that's it!
That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.
So many things can drive you mad as a child, not only music.
For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.
... everybody has a different kind of talent and a different timetable as to when they develop ..
Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.
A Century of Wisdom is universal and will enrich readers for generations to come.
I do three things. I do teaching, I do conducting and I do playing. And each one of those sort of helps the other.
Every musical phrase has a purpose. It's like talking. If you talk with a particular purpose, people listen to you, but if you just recite, it's not as meaningful.
I listen to kids play a lot.
I love to work with young kids.
You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall.