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	Isaac Stern - Biography
		Stern is one of the most recorded musical artists of our time, with more than a hundred recordings of over two hundred works by sixty-three composers to his credit.
		Isaac Stern is an originating member of the National Endowment for the Arts, and he is currently chairman of the board of the American-Israel Cultural Foundation and chairman and founder of the the Jerusalem Music Centre.
		Stern is a Commander of the French Ordre de la Couronne (1974), holds the Commander's Cross of the Danish government's Order of the Dannebrog (1985), and is a Fellow of Jerusalem (1986).
	www.sonyclassical.com /artists/stern/bio.html (1358 words)

	Isaac Stern - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Isaac Stern (July 21, 1920 – September 22, 2001) is widely considered one of the finest violin virtuosi of the twentieth century.
		In 1979, the Chinese government invited Stern to tour and teach in their country.
		Stern became famous both for his great recordings and for championing younger players.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isaac_Stern (295 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Isaac Stern
		Isaac Stern (July 21, 1920 – September 22, 2001) was a violinist, also known as a fiddler, widely considered one of the finest of the twentieth century.
		Stern recorded concertos by Brahms, Bach, Beethoven and Mendelssohn among others, as well as more modern works by Samuel Barber, Béla Bartók, Igor Stravinsky, and Leonard Bernstein.
		Isaac Stern was born in Kreminiecz, Russia, in 1920, and came with his parents to America when he was ten months old.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Isaac-Stern (1353 words)

	USATODAY.com - Master violinist Isaac Stern dies at 81 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Stern was one of the last great violinists of his generation and helped advance the careers of generations of musicians who followed, including Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman and Yo-Yo Ma.
		Stern was born in 1920 in Ukraine in the fledgling Soviet Union.
		Stern ended his boycott of Germany in 1999 for a nine-day teaching seminar, saying it was time to see how young German musicians were absorbing their musical heritage of Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Mendelssohn.
	www.usatoday.com /life/music/2001-09-22-isaac-stern-dies.htm (1013 words)

	Isaac Stern (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Virtuoso violinist Isaac Stern was born in Kreminiesz, Russia on July 21, 1920.
		Stern took up the violin at the age of eight, and within three years was a soloist with the San Francisco Symphony.
		Isaac Stern has appeared in concerts throughout the world, playing his 1740 Guarneri, and has gained recognition as an unofficial "United States Musical Ambassador." Antonio Stradivari made about 1,100 violins during his lifetime, in the 17th and early 18th centuries, of which about 550 survive.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/sternI.html (270 words)

	CMT.com : Isaac Stern : Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Known as one of the leading violinists of the 20th century, Isaac Stern has played for symphonies and orchestras and has performed many concerts and recitals.
		Born in Russia in 1920, Isaac Stern is considered an American violinist.
		In 1985 Isaac Stern was awarded the first "Artist Laureate" for his continuous work and loyalty with the Sony Classical label.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/stern_isaac/bio.jhtml (520 words)

	APPRECIATION / Stern's musical journey began in San Francisco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Stern, who died Saturday at 81, was born in 1920 in what is now Ukraine but came to San Francisco with his parents a year later.
		In Israel, Stern made notable appearances in the wakes of the 1967 and 1973 wars, and his 1981 trip to China was the basis for the Oscar-winning documentary "From Mao to Mozart."
		Never a particularly dazzling virtuoso, Stern was notable rather for the integrity, vigor and emotional honesty of his playing, especially in the standard works of the Classical and Romantic repertoire.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/09/24/DD119860.DTL (663 words)

	Isaac Stern
		Isaac Stern had a style all his own, the combination of a flawless virtuosity with a tenderness in his playing.
		I got a chance to meet Mr Stern when he played in Skokie, IL as a soloist with the Skokie Symphony - this was in 1962.
		I stood in line to shake hands with Mr Stern who was talking and visiting with all who waited in line despite the fact he must have been tired after a solo performance.
	suewidemark.freeservers.com /isaac_stern.htm (614 words)

	Kennedy Center: Biographical information for Isaac Stern
		Issac Stern is universally considered to be one of the greatest musicians of all time.
		When Stern was less than a year old, his parents fled with him from the Russian Revolution and settled in San Francisco.
		Stern is not only a champion musician, he has also championed cultural preservation in America.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entitY_id=3807&source_type=A (545 words)

	Educational CyberPlayGround: Isaac Stern teaches Violin to New York City's 43 School Superintendents.
		Isaac Stern has coached budding violin virtuosos for decades, but the students he took on yesterday were a different breed altogether: New York City's 43 school superintendents, most of whom had never touched a violin before.
		Stern said, lifting his own delicate instrument to the proper position as the school administrators looked on.
		Stern hopped off his conductor's platform to give her some personal attention, said afterward that she wanted to keep her violin.
	www.edu-cyberpg.com /Music/isaacstern.html (846 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Music \| Isaac Stern children sue executor
		Stern, who died in 2001, was among the most respected classical musicians in history and credited with discovering Itzhak Perlman and cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
		Stern's children said they were not contesting their father's will, but the actions of Mr Moorhead.
		Stern's children said they had learned the items were on the market when a Philadelphia musician called Stern's son, Michael, and inquired about a violin he saw on the internet.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/music/4078403.stm (370 words)

	American Masters . Isaac Stern \| PBS
		irtuoso violinist Isaac Stern is one of the twentieth century’s most renowned, celebrated and recorded musicians.
		Isaac Stern was born in Kreminiecz, Russia in 1920.
		Known for his great political involvement, Stern was a defender of Carnegie Hall (and its president for more than thirty years) and a founding member of the National Endowment for the Arts.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/stern_i.html (442 words)

	Isaac Stern
		Isaac Stern and Carnegie Hall are inextricably linked: without his charismatic leadership in the early 1960s, the Hall would have faced the wrecking ball and a red skyscraper would have been erected in its place.
		Stern shown in Weill Recital Hall; two family concert matinees in Stern Auditorium, two special concerts featuring young artists in Weill Recital Hall, and a festive evening concert in Stern Auditorium with distinguished friends and colleagues.
		Isaac Stern at 80: A Carnegie Hall Celebration has been made possible by the generosity of Walter and Marge Scheuer and Family.
	www.sonyclassical.com /artists/stern/adnews_sternat80.html (625 words)

	FORWARD : News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Isaac Stern, who died of heart failure September 22 at the age of 81, was remembered this week as one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century, but also, like the Jew he was, as one who could not help arguing with the world to make it a better place.
		Stern's second wife Vera, the mother of his three children, is a survivor of the Holocaust.
		Stern was one of the first major violinists to champion such modern composers as Bartok and Berg, whose works are now accepted as masterpieces but at the time were considered controversial.
	www.forward.com /issues/2001/01.09.28/news9.html (1097 words)

	BBC News \| AMERICAS \| Violinist Isaac Stern dies
		Master violinist Isaac Stern, who is credited with saving Carnegie Hall from demolition, has died at the age of 81.
		Mr Stern campaigned against its destruction, rallied the opposition and ultimately secured legislation that allowed the city to acquire the structure in 1960 for $5 million.
		The violin virtuoso is survived by his wife Linda Reynolds Stern, whom he married in 1996, three children from a previous marriage, and five grandchildren.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/1559001.stm (387 words)

	Google Search: rochberg Isaac Stern (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	Critic's Corner - Isaac Stern; My First 79 Years - Isaac Stern with Chaim Potok
		Stern traveled more than nine months in any given year and spent such short periods of time with his family one could not expect a normal family life to endure.
		Stern saw to it that Perlman had his chance at the golden ring of fame.
		Stern's goals included sharing his ideas and what he'd learned about what is possible in music, share all that with younger performers and particularly with young teachers: how to search inside for what is achievable in music.
	www.businessknowhow.com /Writers/criticscorner/ccisaacstern.htm (1171 words)

	Legendary Violinists. Isaac Stern
		From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China
		Stern celebrated the 25th anniversary of his Carnegie Hall debut in 1968.
		In a career lasting more than 60 years, Stern remained faithful to the creed of those virtuosos to whom fame is a natural adjunct to talent and industry.
	www.thirteen.org /publicarts/violin/stern.html (389 words)

	Isaac Stern (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Zukerman began playing violin at the age of 8 and moved to the United States with the guidance of violinist Isaac Stern and cellist Pablo Casals in 1962.
		Bruce Springsteen, Isaac Stern and Miriam Makeba may appear to have little in common â“ aside from musical talent â“ yet they are all among those who have...
		The Linda and Isaac Stern Foundation has commissioned Richard Danielpour to write a new piece in honor of Isaac Stern, the foundation announced.
	www.wikiverse.org /isaac-stern (395 words)

	Stern, Isaac. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Brought to the United States as an infant, Stern began piano lessons at the age of six and violin lessons at eight.
		He was particularly noted for his warm, rich tone in a repertoire that ranged from the Baroque to the Romantic and the modern.
		Stern is considered one of the 20th cent.’s leading virtuosos.
	www.bartleby.com /65/st/Stern-Is.html (224 words)

	Stereophile: Violinist Isaac Stern Dies
		Stern had suffered from heart disease in recent years, even as he kept to a busy schedule of performing, teaching, and working as president of Carnegie Hall, the 110-year-old venue he helped save from the wrecker's ball more than 40 years ago.
		Stern was instrumental in the revival of chamber music in the 1960s, a period in which he also became a prominent advocate for governmental support of the arts.
		Stern is survived by his third wife, Linda Reynolds Stern, three children from a previous marriage (sons Michael and David are both conductors), and five grandchildren.
	www.stereophile.com /news/11150 (981 words)

	Violinist Isaac Stern's Inspiration by Michelle Malkin -- Capitalism Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Stern returned to Israel during the Yom Kippur War in 1973 to perform in hospitals for wounded patients.
		In 1979, Stern visited China in the wake of the Cultural Revolution -- under which Chinese musicians were thrown in jail or executed for listening to, and performing, Western classical music.
		A documentary of the tour sanctioned by Stern (titled "From Mao to Mozart") exposed the world to the sad story of Tan Shuzhen, a violinmaker imprisoned for over a year for the crime of crafting Western instruments.
	www.capmag.com /article.asp?ID=1160 (782 words)

	Daily online newspaper: The Christian Science Monitor
		Isaac Stern was more than just a violinist.
		Stern's vivid teaching style and devotion to education is best preserved on film, from the Oscar-winning 1981 documentary "From Mao to Mozart," an account of a trip to China, to the recent feature film and documentary "Music of the Heart," rather than in his disappointingly stiff, ghost-written memoirs, "My First 79 Years" (Knopf).
		Stern did develop close ties to a talented musical administrator from Cologne, Germany, Franz-Xaver Ohnesorg, and was decisive in having him named head of New York City's Carnegie Hall, a short-lived appointment that proved disastrous as MR.
	www.csmonitor.com /2001/0928/p15s1-almp.htm (643 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Children in court battle over Isaac Stern's estate
		Now he and Isaac Stern's two other children have taken the executor of their father's estate to court, arguing that he needlessly disposed of many of the late musician's personal items, including violins, bows and his music collection.
		But the children say that the executor's friendship with Linda Reynolds Stern, the violinist's third wife, whom he married when he was 77, led him to cut them out of the estate, which they value at $12m.
		Stern was one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century, a champion of modern composers and the man credited with discovering Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman.
	www.guardian.co.uk /usa/story/0,12271,1369584,00.html (608 words)

	CNN.com - Violinist Isaac Stern dies at 81 - September 23, 2001
		In addition to winning praise for his interpretations of symphony standards, Stern was a champion of contemporary music, and recorded new works for violin by contemporary composers.
		For 40 years, Stern was president of Carnegie Hall, and led the effort to save it from demolition in 1960 and to restore it in 1986.
		Stern was a founding member of the National Endowment for the Arts, and was chairman of the board of the American-Israel Cultural Foundation and chairman and founder of the Jerusalem Music Centre.
	www.cnn.com /2001/SHOWBIZ/News/09/22/isaac.stern.obit/index.html (609 words)

	Isaac Stern: Beyond the Fiddle to the Heart of a Man, by George Robinson, from the KlezmerShack
		Isaac Stern: Beyond the Fiddle to the Heart of a Man, sent out 5 Oct 2001.
		Stern was always willing to put his time and energy into that principle, not just with Curtis students for whom his chamber music seminar, Fitzpatrick says, "will be a lasting memory of him for many of our students," but with children and adults around the world.
		But there is some consolation in the knowledge that Isaac Stern built large, built a legacy of music, of commitment to music-making and commitment to Jewish and cultural causes that lasted well after the last notes of his playing faded from the air, and will continue to last now that he is gone.
	www.klezmershack.com /articles/robinson/011005.isaacstern.html (987 words)

	Online NewsHour: In Memoriam: Isaac Stern - September 24, 2001
		ISAAC STERN: I came from a family where no child was an educated child without some knowledge of the arts.
		TERENCE SMITH: Stern debuted with the San Francisco Symphony in 1936 at the age of 16.
		Stern later served as the President of the Carnegie hall corporation, and spearheaded the campaign for the restoration of the famed concert hall in the 1980's.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/remember/july-dec01/stern_9-24.html (319 words)

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