My oldest daughter is a pianist; she plays concerts. We play together, also.
From Itzhak Perlman
When you live in a small country such as Israel, the dream of any musician is to go abroad.
A lot of people ask me, 'What is your goal now that you have done everything?' And I always say that my goal is to not be bored by what I do. The only way that I cannot be bored by what I do is if I play something and it's all new to me.
I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have.
I'm an acoustical person.
I have just one fiddle. It works, and that's it. It has been an old friend.
Only one of my grandchildren is serious about a musical instrument. The others dabble in it.
To bring a large audience to a piece of serious music and make it accessible does not mean reducing it in any way. And I've learned that if something is good, even if it is a little difficult, people will get that it is good.
I've been lucky to conduct the very best orchestras in the world: New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Berlin, the London Philharmonic.
If you can read, then you can recite Shakespeare. But that's not acting.
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