"He really gave his life to me and so did my mom. "I knew I had – inside – something extremely powerful." "Then a friend said to my father: 'Forget the clarinet, give him the violin.'" So he started on a half-sized violin.
But first he taught little Pinchas the recorder and at six, the clarinet. His father Yehuda, a master klezmer musician and a professional violinist, who'd played with the Warsaw Philharmonic before the war, discovered his baby son could be soothed by the sound of his violin. His parents survived Auschwitz and underwent a long and dangerous journey to move to Israel from Poland in 1947, where he was born the following year. Zukerman's career trajectory was far from easy, though his talent brought him luck along the way. Making a career is just not as simple as that."
So they go and strive for that, but they find that it's very disappointing. "Lots of young string players today watch clips on YouTube and say, 'I want to be like that famous musician'.
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