Today's Birthday in Music: August 31 (Perlman)

1945 - Itzhak Perlman, Tel Aviv, Israel; violinist, conductor and pedagogue

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Making the Grade (Strings magazine, Aug./Sept. 2004)

Perlman plays:

Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto (Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in Russia, Zubin Mehta conducting)


March from Prokofiev's Love for Three Oranges (arr. Heifetz)


Perlman conducts a Master Class in Russia

Today's Birthdays in Music: April 28 (LeFanu, Tate)

1947 - Nicola LeFanu, Wickham Bishops, England; composer, pedagogue

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1943 - Jeffrey Tate, Salisbury, England; conductor

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Inspired Minds

Jeffrey Tate conducts the English Chamber Orchestra in the second movement of the Mozart's Symphony No. 41 (The Jupiter)