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3 MSC Opera and Per forming Arts Society will open its 1986-87 season with a performance that promises to knock the socks off even the most uncultured cad. The San Antonio Sym phony and internationally acclaimed violinist Itzhak Perlman will perform Sunday at 3 p.m. in Rud der Auditorium. Perlman, along with the 83-member sym phony, will perform va rious works by Brahms, including “Tragic Over ture in D minor,” “Varia tions on a Theme by Haydn” and “Concerto in D major for Violin and Or chestra. ” Perlman has performed with every major orches tra in the world and has left behind the image of a brilliantly skilled musician and compassionate hu man being. “He’s a prodigiously gifted violinist, manually and technically. I don’t think he knows any lim its,” Jacques Israelievitch, concertmaster for the St. Louis Symphony has said of Perlman. “I think he’s one of the very best violi nists on the stage today. ” And if monetary value is any indication of musi cal quality, this should be a real humdinger. Anne Black, OPAS program coordinator, says the performance cost the organization just under $60,000. Perlman is an Israeli- born musician who began playing when he was five years old, about the time he was stricken with polio. He became permanently crippled in both legs, but what his lower limbs lacked, his upper ones more than made up for. Denied many things as a child because of his dis ability, he concentrated all his efforts on studying the violin, which seemed to come naturally. Victor Aitay, concert- master of the Chicago Symphony, has said of Perlman, “You can teach the violin to a certain de gree, but if you don’t have the inborn talent, you can only go so far. You have to be born with certain qualities, with the right temperament. You can not create a person like that, but can only polish his talents. ” Perlman’s parents en rolled him at the Tel Aviv Academy of Music, where he proved to be an out standing student. But al though his great talent was expected to propel him into the musical lime light, launching his career was proving to be a prob lem. His lucky break came at age 13 when he was in vited to take part in “The Ed Sullivan Caravan of Stars,” a group picked to represent Israel on “The because of a newspaper strike, so only the people who attended were aware of his awesome talent. The next year he won the prestigious Leventritt Competition and finally drew newspaper atten tion, but for more than his outstanding performance. After the curtain calls he went backstage to dis cover that the 200-year- old violin he had bor rowed from Julliard had been stolen. It later turned up at a Times Square pawn shop where it had been pawned for $15. Since then, Perlman has achieved worldwide success. He was selected as Mu sician of the Year by Musi cal America in 1981 and was one of 12 Americans Violinist Itzhak Perlman and the San Antonio Symphony will open OPAS’ fall season on Sun day at 3 p.m. in Rudder Auditorium. Ed Sullivan Show” and then tour the United States. Soon after, he fulfilled his childhood dream when he was accepted to The Julliard School in New York to study under Ivan Galamian and Doro thy DeLay. At 17, Perlman made his Carnegie Hall debut, but no review was written about the performance more accessible to the dis abled. He’s also on the board of two rehabilita tion hospitals for severely handicapped children, and frequently consults with architects about ways to overcome architectural barriers that the hand icapped often face. The San Antonio Sym phony, which performs more than 150 concerts during its 39-week sea son, has presented many of the world’s great artists including Andre Watts, Lorin Hollander, Bella Davidovich and Maxim Shostakovitch. Andrew Schneck, con ductor, is the youngest first prize winner of the In ternational Competition for Conductors. Only single seats are still available for the per formance. Tickets are $24.75 for students and $29 for non-students and can be purchased at the MSC Box Office. — by Nancy Neukirchner Auto Service “Auto Repair At Its Best” General Repairs on Most Cars & Light Trucks Domestic & Foreign OPENMON-FRI 7:30-5:30 ONE DA Y SERVICE IN MOST CASES CALL FOR APPOINTMENT 846-5344 Just on€ mile north of A&M 111 Royal, Bryan •SBB Across S. Collese From Tom's B-B-Q "" i -mm f/raS-Tl INTRODUCING J * /Hill MAIL STORE T * * r* * ¥ ¥ ¥ /Im^L m7©m 1^7 POSTAL AND BUSINESS SERVICES & MORE MAILBOX RENTALS PACK •SHIP UPS •AIRBORNE, ETC. 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