Yet in live performance, his generosity of spirit smashes any barriers one might expect from someone so famous, accomplished and revered. If I begin, I'll have to go on and on and on: at age 68, he's played with every major orchestra on the planet won four Emmys won a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award studied with Ivan Galamian and Dorothy DeLay played at President Obama's inauguration founded of the Perlman Music Program with his wife Toby holds the Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation Chair at The Juilliard School received the National Medal of Arts and much more.

He gave the audience a conspiratorial look, shrugged, and had everyone laughing as he got ready to play. After walking out onto stage at Disney Hall, taking his seat and placing his crutches at each side, Itzhak Perlman took his violin from Los Angeles Philharmonic concertmaster Nathan Cole and turned it over in his hands, as if to examine it.

Laurie Niles Review: Itzhak Perlman Plays Vivaldi and Conducts Berlioz with the Los Angeles Philharmonic

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