August 26, 2008
Chamber Musicians Felt the Love
“The accomplishments of The Perlman Music Program were quite apparent at a concert on Friday marking the close of its Chamber Music Workshop.”
August 08, 2008
The Perlman Music Program Well Underway
“The Perlman Music Program has quickly developed an international reputation as a leader in the field of classical music training institutions.”
August 04, 2008
Goings On About Town
July 11, 2008
Young Virtuosi At Perlman Music Program
“It is striking at first to see just how young and how talented the students are who participate in The Perlman Music Program, violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman’s summer camp. You will be dumbfounded watching them play, as if they are magically expressing their souls through music.”
June 19, 2008
Sublime Music On Soft Summer Nights
“It is often said by people in the audience, if you close your eyes at one of their concerts, you can swear you are in Philharmonic Hall at Lincoln Center. There are only thirty-eight students, selected from a very large number of applicants, and it would not be an exaggeration to describe some of them as prodigies, and all of them as excellent.”
March 24, 2008
A Give and Take Between Experienced and Emerging –
A Performance by an Ensemble that Grew Out of the Perlman Program
“The most immediately striking element of the Mendelssohn performance was not the music making, polished as it was, but the ensemble’s body language……these players attentively watched for cues from Mr. Perlman and one another and seemed genuinely engaged in the give and take. The performance illuminated the richness of Mendelssohn’s melodic imagination and had the fluidity and zest you expect from musicians who react to one another rather than merely play their lines.”
August 23, 2007
Sheer Joy by Perlman
“The title of the program was “Tutti Suonare” of “everybody plays” and, indeed, over the course of the evening every student participant in the [Chamber Music] Workshop played on at least one selection…..A single member of the illustrious faculty joined the students on each selection and this included Mr. Perlman himself, who took the stage to rapturous ovations to close each half of the program.”
August 09, 2007
Changing the Lives of The Young Musicians –
Celebrated violinist brings his charges to Old Whalers
“I think that some of these kids are kept in a kind of mold of the gifted child. They practice four hours a day. Their families are making serious sacrifices for them. I think they feel the weight of responsibility…..The program is about making a musician and being a person. We want to cultivate all aspects of their personality. The kids are at a very intense time in their development. But I see to much personal growth and enormous possibility in them”. –Toby Perlman
July 27, 2007
Promise Fulfilled in Perlman Protégés
“Patrick Romano, a faculty member of the program and conductor of the chorus, had a vigorous, dynamic conducting style, which elicited clear, crisp, well-blended singing. At times he stepped away from the podium, making strong, sharp gestures, or signaled a hush with fingers to his mouth, or put a hand on his cheeks to remind them how to shape a vowel. And it worked…”
August 08, 2002
What Itzhak Perlman Learned at Camp -
While Helping Students, His Wife Says, He Reinvented Himself
“Itzhak Perlman doesn’t tell students how to play. He asks them judge their own playing as a critic would.
For me one of the great things about teaching is not so much what to say but to know what not to say. If somebody is talented, they contain a certain kind of magic, and that magic is very precious, because it is on very precarious ground. It’s like a very fine leaf that if you shake it too much, it breaks. You have to let the branch grow until it becomes strong enough that if you shake it, it won’t break.”
July 25, 2002
A Musical Dream Come True –
Thou Shalt Learn to Play Without Being Tortured
“In Toby’s dream all gifted young musicians are nurtured with kindness and respect. They develop social skills and learn to share the spotlight. If they don’t master the music it’s the teacher’s failure. And if they burn out young, an overly ambitious parent may be hovering backstage.”
June 27, 2002
How Do You Get to Camp? Practice of Course –
Teenagers Who Play Music, Not Tennis
“I told this guy I practice 4 hours a day…All my friends are music friends…Camp is wonderful; it’s really exciting to have people around who are similar to me.”
