NEW YORK -- Isaac Stern, the master violinist who saved Carnegie Hall from the wrecking ball, died Saturday. He was 81. Stern was one of the last great violinists of his generation and helped advance ...

From 1975: World-famous violin virtuoso Isaac Stern “filled the (Spokane) Opera House Monday night with some of the most superb violin music this generation is likely to hear.” “The listener at a ...

NEW YORK - Isaac Stern, the master violinist who saved Carnegie Hall from the wrecking ball, died Saturday. He was 81. Stern was one of the last great violinists of his generation and helped advance ...

Of the many young violinists who feel called, Isaac Stern was one of the chosen. He had faced the fearsome scrutiny of New York critics in a Town Hall recital like dozens of other ambitious youngsters ...

NEW YORK -- It was Isaac Stern's last standing ovation at Carnegie Hall. After some six decades and 200 performances there, Stern was gone. And yet he wasn't. A month after his death at age 81, the ...

We're spending this hour with pianist Yefim Bronfman, starting with a Mozart (1756-1791) recording he made with violinist Isaac Stern. We hear the closing movement of the Violin Sonata in E-flat.

Violinist Isaac Stern celebrated his 80th birthday Saturday night at the Kennedy Center by playing a Beethoven sonata and sitting second fiddle in the world premiere of a new piano quintet. Despite ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Hungarian violinist Barnabas Kelemen has studied with the late virtuoso Isaac Stern and won Gramophone magazine's award for best chamber music CD of 2013, but what he is really ...