Perlman, who was born in what is now Israel and lives in New York, made headlines beyond music in 2014 when he received an apology from Air Canada for not receiving the help he needed after landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport. Story continues below advertisement
We are living in a difficult political climate. I’m wondering, in this political moment, do you think there is a heightened value to what you do? I always felt that music brings everybody together, because music is really an international language. No matter where you go – whether you go to the Middle East or you go to the Far East or countries that have a strange relationship between each other – and you see that there was a cultural exchange, it’s like a barometer; you feel that relations improve. Music is always the first thing that brings you a signal that relationships are starting to improve. It brings people together.
Every one of them is associated with a particular film and it’s very interesting. For example, take the [music] from. Robin Hood was made into several movies. But this one was a very early one. Whenever I play this I always think about black and white movies. And of course the guy who wrote it, [Erich Wolfgang] Korngold, was one of those composers who came into Hollywood from Europe. So it’s more like European sound. You hear this old-fashioned kind of wonderful playing.Well, it is fun.
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