1. Itzhak Perlman 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.
38 Facts About Itzhak Perlman
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Itzhak Perlman has conducted the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Westchester Philharmonic.
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Itzhak Perlman contracted polio at age four and has walked using leg braces and crutches since then and plays the violin while seated.
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When Itzhak Perlman was three years old, he sat and listened attentively to a violin recital on the radio, which inspired him to become a violinist.
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Itzhak Perlman's parents tried to enroll him at the Shulamit Conservatory, but he was denied admission for being too small to hold a violin.
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At age five, Itzhak Perlman was admitted to the Academy of Music in Tel Aviv, where he studied for eight years with Rivka Goldgart, a violin teacher of Russian origin, and gave his first recital at age ten.
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Itzhak Perlman moved to the United States at age 13 to study at the Juilliard School and Meadowmount School of Music with the violin teacher Ivan Galamian and his assistant Dorothy DeLay.
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Itzhak Perlman gained national attention when he appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show twice in 1958, and again in 1964, on the same show with the Rolling Stones.
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In 1963 and 1964, Itzhak Perlman made appearances with the National Orchestra Association in Wieniawski's Violin Concerto No 1, the New York Youth Orchestra in Beethoven's Violin Concerto, and with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
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Itzhak Perlman made his Carnegie Hall debut performing Wieniawski's Violin Concerto No 1 in 1963 and won the Leventritt Competition in 1964.
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From 1964 to 1966, Itzhak Perlman embarked on his first notable concert tour in the United States, performed in 30 cities, including Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Denver, Honolulu, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New Haven, Seattle, and St Louis.
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Itzhak Perlman returned twice to the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964.
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Itzhak Perlman first appeared with the New York Philharmonic at the Philharmonic Hall as a soloist on May 9,1965, playing Bruch's Violin Concerto No 1 under William Steinberg.
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Itzhak Perlman debuted with the Los Angeles Philharmonic with the same concerto on February 17,1966.
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In 1965, Itzhak Perlman debuted with the Cleveland Orchestra at Severance Hall in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concert under Louis Lane.
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Itzhak Perlman debuted with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival on August 4,1966, in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with conductor Thomas Schippers.
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Itzhak Perlman made his debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on December 16,1966, playing Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No 2 under Erich Leinsdorf.
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Itzhak Perlman debuted with the London Symphony Orchestra in 1968, performing Tchaikovky's violin concerto under the direction of Andre Previn.
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On May 25,1972, Itzhak Perlman debuted with the Berlin Philharmonic with the same concerto.
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The next day, Itzhak Perlman performed Mozart's Violin Concerto No 4 with the Vienna Philharmonic under Claudio Abbado.
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Itzhak Perlman 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.
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On July 5,1986, Itzhak Perlman performed at the New York Philharmonic's tribute to the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty, which was televised live on ABC.
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In 1987, Itzhak Perlman joined the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra for its concerts in Warsaw and Budapest as well as other cities in Eastern bloc countries.
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Itzhak Perlman toured with the IPO in the spring of 1990 for its first-ever performance in the Soviet Union, with concerts in Moscow and Leningrad, and again in 1994, performing in China and India.
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In 2015, on a classical music program titled The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center produced by WQXR in New York City, it was revealed that Itzhak Perlman performed the uncredited violin solo on the 1989 Billy Joel song "The Downeaster Alexa".
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Itzhak Perlman has been a soloist in a number of film scores, such as the theme of the 1993 film Schindler's List by John Williams, which won an Academy Award for Best Original Score.
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Itzhak Perlman played selections from the musical scores of the movies nominated for "Best Original Score" at the 73rd Academy Awards with Ma and at the 78th Academy Awards.
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Itzhak Perlman played at the state dinner attended by Queen Elizabeth II on May 7,2007, in the East Room at the White House.
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Itzhak Perlman performed John Williams's "Air and Simple Gifts" at the 2009 inauguration ceremony for Barack Obama along with Yo-Yo Ma, Gabriela Montero, and Anthony McGill.
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Itzhak Perlman made an appearance in Disney's Fantasia 2000 to introduce the segment Pines of Rome, along with Steve Martin.
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On November 2,2018, Itzhak Perlman reprised the 60th anniversary of his first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show as a guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
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In 1975, Itzhak Perlman accepted a faculty post at the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College.
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Itzhak Perlman teaches students one-on-one at the Perlman Music Program on Long Island, NY, rarely holding master classes.
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At the beginning of the new millennium, Itzhak Perlman began to conduct.
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Itzhak Perlman took the post of principal guest conductor at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
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Itzhak Perlman served as music advisor to the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra from 2002 to 2004.
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Itzhak Perlman is a distant cousin of the Canadian comic and television personality Howie Mandel.
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Itzhak Perlman has synesthesia and was interviewed for Tasting the Universe by Maureen Seaberg, which is about the condition.