Itzhak Perlman and the Music That Remained
from This Day, But Better
On October 15, 1995, violinist Itzhak Perlman snapped a string mid-performance at Carnegie Hall — and finished a complete Beethoven sonata on three strings. What he said afterward became one of the most quoted statements about resilience in modern memory.
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