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...Born. To Isaac Stern, 39, Russian-born violinist, and Vera Lindenblit Stern, 32: a second child, first boy; in Manhattan. Name: Michael. Weight...
...American Ballet Theater's dramatic ballerina, who has made modern ballet's earthy heroines her own, brought grace and precision to classical roles as well; and Herbert Ross, 33, choreographer of sex-swept ballets (Tristan, Metamorphoses) and nightclub acts; she for the third time (No. 2: Violinist Isaac Stern), he for the first; in Majorca, Spain...
...minutes one evening last week, an audience in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall watched a short (5 ft. 6 in.), pudgy man in white tie and tails play a 1737 Guarneri del GesÙ violin. In that time Virtuoso Isaac Stern, backed by the New York Philharmonic, worked his way through three separate concertos (Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, Brahms's Concerto for Violin and Cello, Alban Berg's Violin Concerto), giving each of them the luminous tone and the warmly lyric sentiment that are his specialties...
...concerto recalled, among other things, that at 39, Isaac Stern is not only one of the world's great violinists but one of the U.S.'s fastest-moving, farthest roving musicians. He often talks of slowing down to give some time to teaching, but he is now in the midst of a countrywide tour, will play some 80 concerts by the end of April, then pack his Guarneri and head for his second tour of Russia (six weeks) before hitting the European summer festival circuit. Last week Stern was not in the least bothered at having to play...
...that Mark Twain did not stay around Boston long enough to again meet his Russian-Jewish counterpart, Sholom Aleichem. Sholom Aleichem was the greatest of Yiddish folk writers and there will be no more great ones. Sholom Aleichem and Isaac Peretz, another master storyteller, have provided Arnold Perl with the material which Perl has transformed into excellent theatre. The Boston six day engagement is an all too brief revival of the 1953 New York hit. It is a world of bittersweet laughter, presented in the form of three short sketches...