FILE - In this Dec. 19, 1982, file photo Conductor Zubin Mehta, left, with seven of the world greatest violinists Ida Haendal (2nd left), Isaac Stern, Ivry Gitlis, Pinchas Zukerman, Itzhak Perlman and Shlomo Mintz and Dr. Steven Paul, right, during a press conference held in Tel Aviv, Israel. Ivry Gitlis, an acclaimed violinist who played with famed conductors, rock stars and jazz bands around the world and worked to make classical music accessible to the masses, has died in Paris at 98. (AP Photo/Max Nash)