Editing Isaac Stern (section)

==Music career==
In 1940, Stern began performing with Russian-born pianist [[Alexander Zakin]], collaborating until 1977.<ref name="NYT">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/16/obituaries/alexander-zakin-87-a-piano-accompanist.html|title=Alexander Zakin, 87, A Piano Accompanist|work=The New York Times|date=16 October 2011|access-date=18 December 2011}}</ref> Within musical circles, Stern became renowned both for his recordings and for championing certain younger players. Among his discoveries were cellists [[Yo-Yo Ma]] and [[Jian Wang (cellist)|Jian Wang]], and violinists [[Itzhak Perlman]] and [[Pinchas Zukerman]].

In the 1960s, he played a major role in saving New York City's [[Carnegie Hall]] from demolition, by organizing the Citizens' Committee to Save Carnegie Hall.  Following the purchase of Carnegie Hall by New York City, the Carnegie Hall Corporation was formed, and Stern was chosen as its first president, a title he held until his death.<ref name="Kozinn"/>  Carnegie Hall later named its main auditorium in his honor.<ref>{{cite news | title=Violinist Isaac Stern dies | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1559001.stm |work=BBC News | date=23 September 2001 | access-date=21 July 2007}}</ref>

Among Stern's many recordings are concertos by [[Johannes Brahms|Brahms]], [[Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach]], [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]], [[Felix Mendelssohn|Mendelssohn]], [[Jean Sibelius|Sibelius]],  [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Tchaikovsky]], and [[Antonio Vivaldi|Vivaldi]] and modern works by [[Samuel Barber|Barber]], [[Béla Bartók|Bartók]], [[Igor Stravinsky|Stravinsky]], [[Leonard Bernstein|Bernstein]], [[George Rochberg|Rochberg]], and [[Henri Dutilleux|Dutilleux]]. The Dutilleux concerto, entitled ''[[L'arbre des songes]]'' ["The Tree of Dreams"] was a 1985 commission by Stern himself. He also [[Dubbing (music)|dubbed]] actors' violin-playing in several films, such as [[Fiddler on the Roof (film)|the 1971 film adaptation]] of ''[[Fiddler on the Roof]]''.

Stern served as musical advisor for the 1946 film ''[[Humoresque (1946 film)|Humoresque]]'', about a rising violin star and his patron, played respectively by [[John Garfield]] and [[Joan Crawford]]. He was also the featured violin soloist on the soundtrack for the film adaptation of ''Fiddler on the Roof''.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/dec/09/usa.arts | title=Children in court battle over Isaac Stern's estate | work=The Guardian | first=Dan | last=Glaister | date=2004-12-09 | access-date=2015-04-12}}</ref>  In 1999, he appeared in the film ''[[Music of the Heart]]'', along with [[Itzhak Perlman]] and several other famed violinists, with a youth orchestra led by [[Meryl Streep]] (the film was based on the true story of [[Roberta Guaspari]], a gifted violin teacher in [[Harlem]] who eventually took her musicians to play a concert in Carnegie Hall).

{{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?153146-1/isaac-stern-first-79-years Interview with Stern on ''My First 79 Years'', 26 October 1999], [[C-SPAN]]| video2 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?154186-1/first-79-years ''Booknotes'' interview with Stern on ''My First 79 Years'', 23 January 2000], [[C-SPAN]]}}
In his autobiography, co-authored with [[Chaim Potok]], ''My First 79 Years'', Stern cited [[Nathan Milstein]] and [[Arthur Grumiaux]] as major influences on his style of playing.

He won Grammys for his work with [[Eugene Istomin]] and [[Leonard Rose]] in their famous chamber music trio in the 1960s and '70s, while also continuing his duo work with Alexander Zakin during this time. Stern recorded a series of piano quartets in the 1980s and 1990s with [[Emanuel Ax]], [[Jaime Laredo]] and Yo-Yo Ma, including those of [[List of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart#Other chamber music|Mozart]], [[Quintet for Piano and Winds (Beethoven)|Beethoven]], [[Piano Quartet (Schumann)|Schumann]] and [[Piano Quartet No. 1 (Fauré)|Fauré]], winning another [[34th Grammy Awards#Classical|Grammy]] in 1992 for the [[List of compositions by Johannes Brahms by genre#Quartets|Brahms]] quartets Opp. 25 and 26.

In 1979, seven years after [[Richard Nixon]] made the [[1972 Nixon visit to China|first official visit]] by a US president to the country, [[China|the People's Republic of China]] offered Stern and pianist [[David Golub]] an unprecedented invitation to tour the country. While there, he collaborated with the China Central Symphony Society (now China National Symphony) under the direction of conductor [[Li Delun]]. Their visit was filmed and resulted in the [[Academy Award|Oscar]]-winning documentary, ''[[From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China]]''.