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DIED. ISAAC STERN, 81, classical violinist who played everything from Bartok to Bach in his own impassioned style; of heart failure; in New York City. He practiced obsessively. "I have begged him not to play so much," manager Sol Hurok told the New York Times in 1959. "I tell him, 'The less you play, the longer you will play.' It does no good." Stern was a generous teacher who mentored and encouraged cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Itzhak Perlman and pianist Emanuel Ax (see Eulogy, below...
...first met ISAAC STERN when I was a young pianist, just beginning to perform. I was so bowled over by the force of his personality and reputation that it was many years before I realized he was not 7 ft. tall. One of the thrills of being onstage with him was the feeling of belonging he exuded. Once, after a concert in which he had played particularly brilliantly, even though the day had been spent in tiring travel, he said to the rest of us playing with him, "You know, I'm just a stage animal." It was that quality...
...1950s, Wong became one of the first ethnic Chinese broadcast reporters in the U.S. Although he suffered from Bell's palsy, casting directors found his looks perfect for the wise-old-man roles he played in films such as The Joy Luck Club and The Last Emperor. DIED. ISAAC STERN, 81, dynamic violinist who was an ardent supporter of Israel and a tireless advocate of music education and government funding of the arts; in New York City. Stern, who spearheaded a 1960 effort that saved Carnegie Hall from demolition, is one of the most recorded classical musicians in history...
...celebrity. Constant exposure is just part of the game. “Truthfully,” Magliozzi says, “this is the first crushing paparazzi moment of my life.” Magliozzi, a fan of Boston’s Jammin’ 94.5 and Howard Stern, was quite surprised to hear that his dad was even that well known. “People do tend to ask me a lot about cars,” says the young Magliozzi, adding, “[they] assume that I know a lot about cars which is unfortunately false...
...West had developed a fairly well-defined profile of the typical suicidal terrorist. That man would be young, 18 to 24, born in poverty, a victim of some personal tragedy, a despairing zealot with nothing to lose. He would be fanatic in behavior and belief: stern, moralistic, teetotaling. The status of shahid, or holy martyr, would solve his earthly issues in paradise, and someone would give money to his family on earth. If he hailed from the rebel training camps of Afghanistan, where the cult of jihad gets its earthly gunmen, he would be fundamentalist in his faith, ignorant...