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Isaac Stern (Ukrainian: Исаак Стерн, Russian: Айзек Стерн; July 21, 1920 – September 22, 2001) was a Ukrainian-born violinist and conductor. He was renowned for his recordings and for discovering new musical talent.
Isaac Stern was born into a Jewish family in Kremenets, Ukraine. He was fourteen months old when his family moved to San Francisco. He received his first music lessons from his mother, then in 1928 enrolled at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he studied until 1931 before going on to study privately with Louis Persinger. He returned to the San Francisco Conservatory to study for five years with Naoum Blinder, to whom he said he owed the most. At his public début on February 18, 1936, aged 15, he played Saint-Saëns' Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor with the San Francisco Symphony under the direction of Pierre Monteux. Reflecting on his background, Stern once memorably quipped that cultural exchanges between the US and Soviet Russia were simple affairs: "They send us their Jews from Odessa, and we send them our Jews from Odessa."
Actors: Jo Weeks (miscellaneous crew), Armin Mueller-Stahl (actor), Lynn Redgrave (actress), Marc Warren (actor), David Hirschfelder (composer), Susanna Lenton (miscellaneous crew), Noah Taylor (actor), Geoffrey Rush (actor), Nicholas Bell (actor), Chris Haywood (actor), Googie Withers (actress), John Gielgud (actor), Scott Hicks (writer), Scott Hicks (director), Greg Sitch (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Based on the true story of Australian pianist David Helfgott, this delightful movie charts the traumatic early years through adulthood. Telling the story in flashback we see David as a child prodigy and as he grows up while his patriarchal father abuses him and his siblings with the memory of his childhood in Europe and the loss of his family in the concentration camps. David finally breaks away from his father and goes away to study overseas, he later suffers a breakdown and returns to Australia and a life in an institution. Many years later he is released and through several twists of fate (in reality even more unlikely than film portrays) he starts playing a piano in a bar before finally returning to the concert hall.
Keywords: 1950s, abuse, abusive-father, abusive-parent, apology, astrologer, australia, bath, bathtub, beachActors: Ramon Pipin (composer), Rosy Varte (actress), Lionel Vitrant (actor), Roger Lumont (actor), Teddy Bilis (actor), Thierry Lhermitte (actor), Roger Lumont (actor), Marc de Jonge (actor), Charles Denner (actor), Francis Lax (actor), Jean-Luc Bideau (actor), Jean-Paul Farré (actor), Christian Clavier (actor), Georges Klotz (editor), Patrick Massieu (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Musical,