For more than half of the quartet’s existence, from 1974 to 2016, Mr. Krosnick was its stalwart cellist, the instrumental baritone complementing the higher voices of the first violin ...

The violin was used to play the hymn Nearer My God To Thee as the ship went down. Meanwhile a letter written by one of most well-known survivors of the Titanic disaster, Colonel Archibald Gracie ...

A child prodigy from Tel Aviv, Israel, Perlman heard a violin performance on the radio at age 3 and fell in love. About 10 years later, in 1958, he made his U.S. debut on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” ...

Shortly after arriving in the U.S., Perlman made the first of his two appearances on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” giving the first widespread public exposure to the rising violin star, who made his ...

The violin played in the 1997 epic movie "Titanic" about the Belfast-built ship's disaster is expected to fetch up to £60k at auction this month as the world acknowledges the 113th anniversary of ...

Renowned as "the reigning virtuoso of the violin who notably conveys the joy of music," Perlman contracted polio at the age of four. He has used crutches for decades, but now uses an electric scooter, ...

It was even more special for Gomez, who idolized Perlman when he was a teen playing violin in Venezuela’s ... s concert with classical works used in films, including Verdi’s Overture to ...

Among all of the great violin concertos, sonatas and other works that populate Itzhak Perlman‘s extensive catalogue ... Flowers” from “Nutcracker” used in Disney’s “Fantasia ...