Trivia

graduate of Juilliard

Children: Noah, U.S. attorney; Navah, concert pianist; Leora, singer and caterer; Rami, pop musician; Ariella, flutist.

One of 5 recipients of the 2003 Kennedy Center Honors; other recipients were James Brown, Carol Burnett, Loretta Lynn, and Mike Nichols.

He was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington D.C.

Starling Chair at Juilliard School in New York City. (June 2009)

Performed George Gershwin's Summertime with Larry Adler on Parkinson (1971) in 1980.

Father of Ariella Shoshana Perlman (born in 1984) and father-in-law of Robert Edward Ontko Johnson.