On the 100th anniversary of his birth, here’s “Isaac Stern, Life’s Virtuoso,” a documentary that aired on PBS’ “American Masters,” back in the year 2000. The narrator is Meryl Streep.

I believe that’s Franz Waxman at the piano behind the end credits. Stern worked with Waxman on the Joan Crawford-John Garfield melodrama “Humoresque” (for which Waxman arranged his “Carmen Fantasy”). Stern’s hands can be seen in the film whenever Garfield’s character plays.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiqroKOZzpw

The Istomin-Stern-Rose Trio in music by Franz Schubert:

Stern plays Bach:

Stern plays Barber:

Stern on “The Jack Benny Program”:

Stern in a photo inscribed to Carnegie Hall, an institution he would save from the wrecking ball ten years later.