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A surname or family name is a name added to a given name. In many cases, a surname is a family name and many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name". In the western hemisphere, it is commonly synonymous with last name because it is usually placed at the end of a person's given name.
In most Spanish-speaking and Portuguese-speaking countries, two or more last names (or surnames) may be used. In China, Hungary, Japan, Korea, Madagascar, Taiwan, Vietnam, and parts of India, the family name is placed before a person's given name.
The style of having both a family name (surname) and a given name (forename) is far from universal. In many countries, it is common for ordinary people to have only one name or mononym.
The concept of a "surname" is a relatively recent historical development, evolving from a medieval naming practice called a "byname". Based on an individual's occupation or area of residence, a byname would be used in situations where more than one person had the same name.
Itzhak Perlman (Hebrew: יצחק פרלמן; born August 31, 1945) is an Israeli-American violinist, conductor, and pedagogue. Over the course of his career, Perlman has performed worldwide, and throughout the United States, in venues that have included a State Dinner at the White House honoring Queen Elizabeth II, and a Presidential Inauguration, and he has conducted the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and the Westchester Philharmonic.
In 2015, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Perlman was born in Tel Aviv in 1945, then British Mandate of Palestine, now Israel. His parents, Chaim and Shoshana Perlman, were natives of Poland and had independently immigrated to Palestine in the mid-1930s before they met and later married.
Perlman first became interested in the violin after hearing a classical music performance on the radio. At the age of three, he was denied admission to the Shulamit Conservatory for being too small to hold a violin. He instead taught himself how to play the instrument using a toy fiddle until he was old enough to study with Rivka Goldgart at the Shulamit Conservatory and at the Academy of Music in Tel Aviv, where he gave his first recital at age 10, before moving to the United States to study at the Juilliard School with the violin pedagogue Ivan Galamian and his assistant Dorothy DeLay.
Actors: Fernando Martins (composer), António Vitorino D'Almeida (actor), Augusto Portela (actor), Philippe Leroux (actor), Pedro Lacerda (actor), Luis Filipe Borges (actor), Jorge Palma (actor), Mané Ribeiro (actress), Lourenço Henriques (actor), Manuel Sá Pessoa (actor), Tiago Teotónio Pereira (actor), Jorge Oliveira (actor), Erick Andrade (writer), João de Brito (actor), David Mesquita (actor),
Genres: Musical,Actors: Jessica Hecht (actress), Alain Azoulay (producer), Alain Azoulay (actor), Curt Sletten (actor), Brett Emanuel (actor), Jason Ross Levy (actor), H. Alsuwaidi (composer), H. Alsuwaidi (writer), H. Alsuwaidi (director), Michelle LaRue (actress), H. Alsuwaidi (producer), Sean Riggs (actor), Ross Blakeman (actor), Manoela Wunder (actress), Talin Agon (actress),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Boyd Banks (actor), Sarah Clifford (miscellaneous crew), Kim Estes (actor), Ann Magnuson (actress), Angela Sostre (producer), Angela Sostre (producer), Michael Patrick Breen (actor), Jennifer Rhodes (actress), Josie Davis (actress), Samantha Kuester (costume designer), Rob Zabrecky (actor), Yan Feldman (actor), Rafael Feldman (actor), Kuma (actor), Rigg Kennedy (actor),
Plot: Boris is a driven businessman, who has achieved a great deal of success in the time he has been in America. He is forced to, go back to his Russian roots, to keep his fortune in tact. The story takes new twists, when his wife and children start going in new directions. Boris enlists the aid of a former friend from the Ukraine. Nikolai is an intellectual, on welfare, who by his own admission is legally insane. Reluctantly, he collaborates with an ex-porno director. They become partners with Boris on a film project. When the production that seemed destined to fail starts to show promise, Boris encounters new problems that must be resolved.
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Xavier Russell (actor), Harry Fielder (actor), Ken Russell (producer), Richard Chamberlain (actor), Melvyn Bragg (writer), Glenda Jackson (actress), Kenneth Colley (actor), André Previn (composer), Ken Russell (director), Michael Bradsell (editor), Andrew Faulds (actor), Graham Armitage (actor), Ben Aris (actor), Max Adrian (actor), Imogen Claire (actress),
Plot: The compelling and bizarre story of Tchaikovsky's life and music. In Ken Russell's own words: "It's the story of the marriage between a homosexual and a nymphomaniac."
Keywords: 1880s, 1890s, 19th-century, auto-erotocism, ballet, based-on-book, based-on-novel, boiling-alive, brother-brother-relationship, camera-obscuraActors: Nikolai Cherkasov (actor), Pierre Bertin (actor), Alexandre Rignault (actor), Gilles Ségal (actor), Jean Dréville (director), Jacques Ferrière (actor), Paul Andréota (writer), Paul Andréota (writer), Oleg Strizhenov (actor), Viviane Gosset (actress), Alla Larionova (actress), Natalya Velichko (actress), Caroline Clerc (actress), Aleksandr Galich (writer), Jean Houbé (actor),
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