Mon Sep 24 2001 at 2:52:04 Isaac Stern is possibly the most well-known violinist of the 20th century. In over sixty years as a professional musician, Stern has worked with many great composers, and acted as a mentor for many younger musicians including Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman and Yo-Yo Ma. With more than one hundred classical recordings, Isaac Stern is the most recorded musical artist of our time. Stern was born on July 21, 1920 in Kremnets, Russia (now Ukraine). When Isaac was ten months old, his parents moved to San Francisco to flee from the Russian Revolution. Isaac was first trained in music (piano) by his mother at age seven and began taking