For once, Itzhak Perlman was in the audience, not onstage. That seed sprouted into “An Evening with Itzhak Perlman,” an autobiographical recital coming to the Chicago Theatre April 21.

Maya Shankar, Ph.D., serves as Senior Advisor for the Social ... She is a former graduate of the Juilliard School of Music pre-college division and a private violin student of Itzhak Perlman.

A child prodigy from Tel Aviv, Israel, Perlman heard a violin performance on the radio at age 3 and fell in love. About 10 years later, in 1958, he made his U.S. debut on “The Ed Sullivan Show ...