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From the CSO’s Archives: Great Music From Chicago
Episode 1 — Jean Martinon & Isaac Stern

CSOtv: https://cso.org/csotv/great-music/jean-martinon-isaac-stern/

***Courtesy of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association***

Recorded on March 4, 1962

In March 1962, Jean Martinon was in Chicago for three weeks of concerts, and two months later, he would be named the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s seventh music director. In this televised performance, filmed at WGN studios during that residency, he led the Orchestra in Handel’s Concerto grosso in G Minor, the Scherzo from Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Mozart’s First Violin Concerto featuring Isaac Stern.

REMEMBERING ISAAC STERN: ARTIST AND TEACHER

Music@Menlo’s : https://musicatmenlo.org/about/remembering-isaac-stern

Panelists:
Ara Guzelimian, host: Former faculty member of Isaac Stern’s chamber music workshops
David Finckel and Wu Han: Music@Menlo Artistic Co-Directors and teaching colleagues of Mr. Stern
Erin Keefe: Participant in the last chamber music workshops led by Mr. Stern
Michael Stern: Son of Isaac Stern; Music Director of the Kansas City Symphony

Photo Memories

Stern with his accompanist Alexander Zakin, 1970

Stern with Charlie Chaplin, 1947

Mstislav Rostropovich in tutu with Isaac Stern and Gregory Peck at the San Francisco Symphony’s celebration of Stern’s 70th birthday in 1990 at Stern Grove.

De Mao a Mozart – Les aventures de Isaac Stern en Chine – Sempé. Poster

Unveiling of the Hall’s Registered National Historic Landmark plaque, November 6, 1964

With the violin expert Étienne Vatelot

Isaac Stern with Mayor Ed Koch and Frank Sinatra

Mao to Mozart, Isaac Stern in China. Poster

Telegram from the Mayor to Isaac Stern 18 May 1960

Isaac with George and Barbara Bush

Isaac with Ronald Reagan

Isaac with Bill Clinton

Isaac with Lyndon B Johnson

Isaac with Moshe Dayan

Isaac and Chaim Potok

BOOK my first 79 years, Chaim Potok and Isaac Stern

A key for Venice 1996 ‘A life in Music’

Hurok presents Isaac Stern at Carnegie Hall.Image courtesy of Carnegie Hall Archives / Estate of Isaac Stern.”

with President and Mrs. Kennedy, and Mme. Malraux, May 11, 1962., Photograph by Robert Knudsen

Receives Honorary Doctorate in Music from Harvard University. Isaac Stern is flanked by author John Updike and molecular biologist Joan Argetsinger Steitz. Photo Jon Chase

1992 – Receives Honorary Doctorate in Music from Harvard University

Yehudi Menuhin, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Mstislav Rostropovich, Vladimir Horowitz, Leonard Bernstein, and Isaac Stern perform the “Hallelujah Chorus” from Handel’s Messiah on “The Concert of the Century,” a benefit concert for Carnegie Hall. The concert, which celebrated Carnegie Hall’s 85th anniversary, also featured members of the New York Philharmonic and the Oratorio Society of New York.

Caai Jer Ming, Isaac Stern and Henry Kissinger during the opening of the ‘Peking Opera of Mainland China’ After-Party at Metropolitin Opera House in New York City in 1980. Photo by Ron Galella/WireImage

Leonard Bernstein with Isaac Stern after Rochester Philharmonic concert, February 27, 1947

Leonard Bernstein with Isaac Stern, February 27, 1947

9/25/1969 Leonard Bernstein and Isaac Stern performed the 3rd movement of Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto at the White House State Dinner for Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. (Image: WHPO-2032-04)

Leonard Bernstein and Isaac Stern at the White House – 1969

Isaac « minding » Michael and Shira at home in New York

Gravestone in Gaylordsville, CT

At Michael’s graduation from the Curtis Institute

With 5 of his 7 grandchildren at his 80th birthday celebration in Gaylordsville: from left – Talia, Noah, Eytan, Ari and Sophia (photo, Cathleen Reinert)