BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//WordPress - MECv5.22.2//EN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.mccoycenter.org/ BEGIN:VEVENT UID:MEC-b87470782489389f344c4fa4ceb5260c@mccoycenter.org DTSTART:20230402T190000Z DTEND:20230402T210000Z DTSTAMP:20220928T182500Z CREATED:20220928 LAST-MODIFIED:20230315 SUMMARY:Itzhak: A Film By Alison Chernick – Free Screening DESCRIPTION:FREE! Join us at the McCoy Center to learn about this renowned violinist’s life before he appears live at the Center on April 26, 2023, with the New Albany Symphony Orchestra!\nFrom Schubert to Strauss, Bach to Brahms, Mozart to…Billy Joel, Itzhak Perlman’s violin playing transcends mere performance to evoke the celebrations and struggles of real life; “praying with the violin,” says renowned Tel Aviv violinmaker Amnon Weinstein. Alison Chernick’s enchanting documentary looks beyond the sublime musician to see the polio survivor whose parents emigrated from Poland to Israel, and the young man who struggled to be taken seriously as a music student when schools saw only his disability. Itzhak himself is funny, irreverent and self-deprecating, and here his life story unspools in conversations with masterful musicians, family and friends, and most endearingly his devoted wife of 50 years.\nAs charming and entrancing as the famous violinist himself, ITZHAK is a portrait of musical virtuosity seamlessly enclosed in warmth, humor, and above all, love.\nFeaturing the Mershad Digital Experience!\n\n\n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
FREE! Join us at the McCoy Center to learn about this renowned violinist’s life before he appears live at the Center on April 26, 2023, with the New Albany Symphony Orchestra!
From Schubert to Strauss, Bach to Brahms, Mozart to…Billy Joel, Itzhak Perlman’s violin playing transcends mere performance to evoke the celebrations and struggles of real life; “praying with the violin,” says renowned Tel Aviv violinmaker Amnon Weinstein. Alison Chernick’s enchanting documentary looks beyond the sublime musician to see the polio survivor whose parents emigrated from Poland to Israel, and the young man who struggled to be taken seriously as a music student when schools saw only his disability. Itzhak himself is funny, irreverent and self-deprecating, and here his life story unspools in conversations with masterful musicians, family and friends, and most endearingly his devoted wife of 50 years.
As charming and entrancing as the famous violinist himself, ITZHAK is a portrait of musical virtuosity seamlessly enclosed in warmth, humor, and above all, love.
Featuring the Mershad Digital Experience!
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