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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/
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
De Mao a Mozart – Les aventures de Isaac Stern en Chine – Sempé
Unveiling of the Hall’s Registered National Historic Landmark plaque
With the violin expert Étienne Vatelot
With Mayor Ed Koch and Frank Sinatra
Mao to Mozart, Isaac Stern in China
Telegram from the Mayor of New York
Isaac with George and Barbara Bush
Isaac with Ronald Reagan
Isaac with Bill Clinton
Isaac with Lyndon B Johnson 1964
Isaac with Moshe Dayan
Isaac and Chaim Potok
BOOK my first 79 years, Chaim Potok and Isaac Stern
A key to Venice 1996
Hurok presents Isaac Stern at Carnegie Hall
with President and Mrs. Kennedy, and Mme. Malraux, May 11, 1962.
1992 – Receives Honorary Doctorate in Music from Harvard University
The Concert of the Century
Caai Jer Ming, Isaac Stern and Henry Kissinger
Leonard Bernstein with Isaac Stern, February 27, 1947
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)
Draft of a poem by Leonard Bernstein on the occasion of his 60th birthday
With Marc Chagall
Isaac playing to Michael, Vera and Shira on the terrace of 211 CPW
Isabelle Zakin, Isaac and Vera Stern
At the Kennedy Center Honors with the family 1984
Cartoon by Al Hirschfeld 1978
Isaac playing Kreisler to his granddaughter Talia
With Shira and Michael
After playing the Bach Double concerto at the Naantali Festival in Finland 1994 with his son David and daughter-in-law Katharina Wolff
Celebrating his 80th birthday at Carnegie Hall
