As violinist, mentor, and activist, Isaac Stern left his mark on the history of 20th century American music. Born in the Ukraine in 1920, he grew up in San Francisco, where he began playing the violin ...

American violinist Isaac Stern found friends and fans in China when he made pioneering visits to the country in its early reform days in the 1970s and 1980s. Though he died at age 81 in 2001, his ...