A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays.
Itzhak Perlman Quotes
I look at raising funds for The Perlman Music Program as a challenge and as a way to provide opportunities for people who care about the future of classical music.
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| Birth: | 31st August, 1945 |
| Nationality: | American, Israeli |
| Profession: | Violinist |
About
Itzhak Perlman was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. He is an Israeli-American violinist, conductor and pedagogue. He 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. Perlman contracted polio at age four. He studied at the Juilliard School in New York City with the violin pedagogue Ivan Galamian and his assistant Dorothy DeLay. He resides in New York City with his wife, Toby, also a classically trained violinist. In 1975, he accepted a faculty post at the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College. In 2003, Mr. Perlman was named the holder of the Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation Chair in Violin Studies at the Juilliard School, succeeding his teacher, Dorothy DeLay. In 2015, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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