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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
Camilla Wicks, dazzling violinist from a young age, dies at 92
Camilla Wicks in her Hollywood Bowl debut in 1946. Wicks, who was a child prodigy who developed into a significant soloist at a time when violin virtuosos were mainly men, died on Nov. 25, 2020, in Weston, Fla. She was 92. Via Wicks family via The New York Times.
by Neil Genzlinger
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Howard Taubman, reviewing violinist Camilla Wicks New York debut at Town Hall in The New York Times in 1942, had to admit that she had a certain flair for the fiddle. He was especially impressed by her handling of difficult passages in the Paganini D major Concerto, a work requiring an abundance of technical skill.