Monday with Mozart & Perlman

Today is the last day of August, making next Monday Labor Day already.  Where has the summer gone?   At any rate, on this day in 1945, Itzhak Perlman was born in Tel Aviv.  Perlman taught himself to play the violin on a toy violin when he was rejected form the music school at age 4 for being too small to hold one.  He has gone on to become one of the worlds premier Violinists, Conductor and Pedagogue.  Little known by most folks he has also recorded Puccini's "Tosca" that featured Renata Scotto, Plácido Domingo, and Renato Bruson, with James Levine conducting.  He had earlier sung the role in an excerpt from the opera on a 1980 Pension Fund Benefit Concert telecast as part of the Live from Lincoln Center series with Luciano Pavarotti as Cavaradossi and Zubin Mehta conducting the New York Philharmonic. 

Your Monday with Mozart features Perlman and fellow Israeli Pinchas Zukerman in their live performance with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under Zubin Mehta's baton at The Huberman Festival in 1983.  Their performance was of Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola in E Flat Major, K364.  Continuing the celebration of Perlman's birthday over on my tumblr, I have Perlman's performance of Mozart's Violin Concerto Number 3 in G Major, K 216.  That performance is with the Vienna Philharmonic under James Levine. 

Now it is time for a little flesh fest as we all cruise and peruse this week's edition of Monday's Undies posted down below.  While over on my tumblr, your Hottie of the Day!, Toby Tucker would certainly give me a reason 2(X)IST if I didn't already have one!  Thanks for the visit, see you again soon.  Until next time as always, Enjoy!