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