In the Sesame Street video, a young violinist runs upstairs to a platform, and sits down with her violin. Perlman, who contracted polio aged four and has walked using leg braces and crutches ever ...

decided he wanted to be a violinist when he was 2 years old and saw Elmo playing one on “Sesame Street.” Little Jacob would take a pair of chopsticks and pretend one was a violin and the other ...

In a rendition of "Sing After Me", Joshua Bell had the formidable Telly Monster accompanying him on Tuba. Apparently the first tune Bell learned on the violin was the Sesame Street theme – so he must ...

Aisslinn Nosky credits “Sesame Street” for introducing her to the violin. The Canadian musician was watching an episode of the children’s series when it happened to feature Itzhak Perlman ...