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Kleiber was the perfect dancer - so perfect that you could see the process. After all, dance is a process; it's a series of snapshots. Kleiber knew how to connect people to the flow, so he could stop managing people.
Itay Talgam
You
People
Dance
Dancer
See
Perfect
Could
He
Knew
How
Managing
Stop
After
Process
Connect
Series
Flow
A whole generation of veteran composers has never taken a stand or provided an example and has produced in the music academies generations of docile workers for the music industry. What can you expect from downtrodden workers who see music as a type of profession, like stenography, and not an act of creation that by its nature is subversive?
Itay Talgam
Music
Nature
You
Generation
Veteran
Example
Creation
Type
Music Industry
See
Composers
Never
Taken
Generations
Docile
Like
Academy
Industry
Provided
Expect
Subversive
Produced
Workers
Act
Stand
Who
Profession
Whole
It is good medicine to go to a concert hall and forget the harshness of what's going on. It can be a very positive thing.
Itzhak Perlman
Positive
Good
Medicine
Positive Thing
Harshness
Concert
Concert Hall
Hall
Go
Very
Forget
Going
Thing
I always find that there is a real communication between voice and violin.
Itzhak Perlman
Communication
Find
Voice
Between
Always
Real
Violin
One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.
Itzhak Perlman
Listening
Three
Important
Performing
Most
Conducting
The Most Important
Teaching
Elements
When you are 8 or 9, you should have a childhood. You should have adolescence. You should go through everything in a normal way.
Itzhak Perlman
You
Everything
Way
Adolescence
Through
Go
Normal
Childhood
Should
To bring a large audience to a piece of serious music and make it accessible does not mean reducing it in any way. And I've learned that if something is good, even if it is a little difficult, people will get that it is good.
Itzhak Perlman
Music
Good
People
Will
Difficult
Way
Something
Piece
Make
Learned
Audience
Does
Accessible
Reducing
Get
Any
Little
Mean
Large
Large Audience
Even
Serious
Bring
Difficult People
When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.
Itzhak Perlman
Work
You
Trust
Try
Problems
Important
Once
Carnegie
Carnegie Hall
Out
Small
Feel
Hall
Concerto
Done
Orchestra
Little
Work Out
Play
As for minimalism, I don't care, don't care, don't care to repeat myself, repeat myself.
Itzhak Perlman
Myself
Care
Minimalism
Repeat
dont Care
I'm a mushroom freak. I make a mushroom soup where I use maybe six or seven varieties, not just portobello and shiitake, but dried porcini and morels.
Itzhak Perlman
Mushroom
Seven
Freak
Dried
Make
Soup
Six
Maybe
Just
Where
Use
So many things can drive you mad as a child, not only music.
Itzhak Perlman
Music
You
Drive
Mad
Only
Child
Many
Things
I feel that you always pay when you are a child.
Itzhak Perlman
You
Pay
Feel
Always
Child
Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it.
Itzhak Perlman
Experience
People
Competition
Some People
Thrive
Nerve-Racking
Some
Most
Just
Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things.
Itzhak Perlman
You
Wonderful
Sometimes
Mouth
Kids
Get
Wonderful Things
Things
Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.
Itzhak Perlman
You
Those
Possibilities
Terrible
Because
Got
Child
Curse
Prodigy
I look at raising funds for The Perlman Music Program as a challenge and as a way to provide opportunities for people who care about the future of classical music.
Itzhak Perlman
Music
Future
People
Opportunities
Challenge
Care
Way
Classical
About
Classical Music
Look
Provide
Who
Funds
Program
Raising
Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.
Itzhak Perlman
Music
Future
Proposition
Expensive
Preparing
I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time.
Itzhak Perlman
Time
You
Power
Every
Member
Beating
Instantaneously
Feel
Knows
Real
Conductor
Real Power
Orchestra
Just
You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall.
Itzhak Perlman
You
People
Nervous
Important
Carnegie
Carnegie Hall
Some
More
Small
Feel
Hall
Concerto
Lot
Get
Front
Orchestra
Where
Place
Why
Play
I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen.
Itzhak Perlman
You
Three
Important
Other
Ears
See
Support
Most
Most Important Thing
Learn
Concerts
Important Thing
Doing
Conducting
Listen
The Most Important
Different
Perspectives
Really
Different Perspectives
Teaching
Each
Now
Thing
Things
Need
For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop.
Itzhak Perlman
Alone
You
People
Judge
Important
Extremely
Say
Develop
Talent
Talented
Becomes
Leave
Really
Who
When I came to the United States, I appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show as a 13-year-old, and I played a Mendelssohn Concerto, and it sounded like a talented 13-year-old with a lot of promise. But it did not sound like a finished product.
Itzhak Perlman
Finished
Sullivan
States
Promise
Finished Product
Talented
Like
Ed Sullivan
Concerto
Sound
Came
Lot
Did
Product
Show
Appeared
United
United States
Played
In the musician, there is a tendency to have a narrowness. It's all compartmentalized. I am playing the violin; that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.
Itzhak Perlman
Education
Day
You
Every Day
Practice
Nothing
Every
Else
Musician
Tendency
Know
Am
Just
Playing
Violin
My oldest daughter is a pianist; she plays concerts. We play together, also.
Itzhak Perlman
Together
Daughter
Pianist
Also
She
Concerts
Oldest
Play
Plays
I have just one fiddle. It works, and that's it. It has been an old friend.
Itzhak Perlman
Old
Has-Been
Been
Friend
Just
Just One
Fiddle
Old Friend
Works
Television will always err on the side of making something not quite as classy as it could be.
Itzhak Perlman
Will
Side
Television
Something
Classy
Could
Always
Making
Err
Quite
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