Itzhak – Film Screening (FREE)

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Alison Chernick’s enchanting documentary Itzhak – a 2019 Grammy® Award nominee for Best Music Film – 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 Perlman himself is funny, irreverent, and self-deprecating, and here his life story unspools in conversations with masterful musicians, family, and friends.

From Schubert to Strauss, Bach to Brahms, Mozart to…Billy Joel, Perlman’s violin playing transcends mere performance to evoke the celebrations and struggles of real life. 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.

See Itzhak Perlman in concert on March 12.