American Masters

So who made these violins? German, French, and Jewish. Jewish violins? Show me Jewish violins. Anything that happened in my childhood had to do with yes, practice... no, practice. Maybe just thought, you have a talent use it because you're not going to be a tennis player. People who heard me play said, "Oh yeah, well, very nice but he's disabled." I think the question in some people's minds was the fact that he walked with crutches. They called it wrong. They really called it wrong. He approaches music the way he approaches everything in life with passion and with joy. Get the violin sound. It was like fireworks, boom boom boom Do you find as you're getting older you don't like anybody? Toby was blown away by Itzhak's playing and, she was a goner I was a goner... goner! The people who came to Auschwitz, they came always with the violin In other words, this was strictly for survival He got a gift, because what he is doing there it's not music, this is praying with the violin.