Isaac Stern - Saint-Saens Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso{Restored Image}(HD)

Isaac Stern (Russian: Исаак Стерн; 21 July 1920, Kremenets -- 22 September 2001) was a Ukrainian-born violin virtuoso. He was renowned for his recordings and for discovering new musical talent. saac 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 before enrolling at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 1928 where he studied until 1931 before going on to study privately with Louis He returned to the San Francisco Conservatory to study with Naoum Blinder for five years. He said he owed the most to 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 sen