Ida Haendel may be a septuagenarian, but she's also a woman who defies age. Today, she says, she has more to offer as an artist than ever before.

Conductor Jeffrey Tate spent a good deal of his childhood in hospitals and wheelchairs. To repay modern medicine for teaching him to walk, he became a doctor. But his greatest contribution to society has been through his music.

A versatile violinist and conductor, Dmitry Sitkovetsky has created musical magic with the world's best orchestras.

Equally at home standing in front of an orchestra or penning his own work, Pierre Boulez is one of the most important musical figures of our time.

Singer Jessye Norman has been described as the "virtual incarnation of the mask of tragedy" for the mournful operatic roles she has played. But these days, she's playing a more comfortable role: Healer of the soul and Girl Scout.