I'm Alan Alder, and this is clear and vivid conversations about connecting and communicating.

With pollen season upon us, I'm resting my voice for a couple of weeks, and I'm using the opportunity to dip into the

clear and vivid archives to celebrate two great musical communicators. First is the violin virtuoso, Itso,

Itsok Perlman. Back in July of 2018, we had a wonderful conversation in his Manhattan apartment.

Here's its sock.

The challenge of playing the Mendelsohn Violin Concerto for the first time

is because you don't know whether you'll survive it.

But once you survive it, the challenge is what do you do the second time?

What do you do the third time?

What do you do the 10th time?

You have to have something inside of you that says, oh, this is something special.

That's it, Sock Perlman, one of the world's greatest violinists.

We had a really interesting conversation about one of the world's oldest forms of communication,

music. We recorded our talk in his apartment in Manhattan, and as soon as we

began, I couldn't resist asking him about his unusual style of relating to his audience, unusual

for classical musicians anyway. You know what I love is the way you talk to the audience.

Do you talk to all audiences at recitals are just a few?

Let me tell you what I do.

I usually don't talk to the audience to begin with at all.

The first half of the concert I usually just play, but not talking.

And then the second half?

And then the second have a talk a little bit, yeah.

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