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Isaac Stern joins Meryl Streep and Itzhak Perlman in 'Music of the Heart,'
a film which addresses the importance of arts education.
approaching home, so the conversation
is briefly interrupted. A short while
later, Stern bounces in. He's wearing
jeans, a checkered sports shirt and a
seersucker jacket, the last of which he
dumps on a chair with his briefcase
and a pair of hip-looking shades.
He looks and acts as spry as some-
one two decades younger. He takes a
few moments for "absolutions"
upstairs and returns to discuss his
first 79 years.
He was born in July 1920 in
Kreminiecz, a small town on the bor-
der between Russia and Poland.
Shortly after his birth, the family
immigrated to the United States, set-
tling in San Francisco where they
had relatives. He started piano
lessons when he was 6 but switched
to the violin when he saw a neighbor
child playing . one.
He was good but no virtuoso until
sometime between the ages of 10 and
11 when, over a period of months,
he suddenly recognized the magic in
his hands and fingers. Although his
parents were agnostic, they enrolled
him in Hebrew school, hoping he'd
attract a wealthy Jewish patron there.
It worked. The cantor heard him
play and brought him to the atten-
tion of a music lover who helped
subsidize his education. She paid for
his lessons locally, sent Isaac and his
mother to New York to pursue his
studies further and even bought him
an expensive violin to play.
It is one of the ironies of Stern's
life that while he has always railed
against religion, his daughter is a
Reform rabbi (with a congregation in
New Jersey) and both his sons cele-
brated their bar mitzvah.
"I do not believe that if I am not an
observant Jew the year round, I have to
go [to synagogue] on Rosh Hashanah
and Yom Kippur to show that I am a
Jew," he says. Still, he never works on
those holidays, refuses to perform in
Germany and Austria and began his
successful campaign to save Carnegie
Hall from the wreckers at a Passover
seder when he was seated next to then-
New York City Mayor Robert Wagner.
Stern also is a major supporter of
Israel, and founded the American-
Israel Cultural Foundation. He cur-
rently is the organization's chairman
emeritus. And who can forget news
footage of Stern performing in
Jerusalem during the Gulf war, alone
on stage, his audience in gas masks?
He visits Israel regularly, notably
during and after every one of its
conflicts. One of the most moving
sections of the book is his descrip-
tion of playing for four burn vic-
tims, pilots who crashed, just after
the Six-Day War.
"I was put on earth to bring com-
fort, relief and beauty," he says.
"There's only one thing an artist can
get that's greater than any other
recognition, and that's suddenly, in
one unexplainable moment, to feel
necessary and useful.
"What moment could have been
more than that? What am I [here]
for? I'm [here] to bring comfort,
relief [through the] beauty of human
creativity." 17
Isaac Stern, out with his newly
published memoir, My First 79
Years, joins Meryl Streep and
Itzhak Perlman in the film Music
of the Heart, opening today.
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