Performs with at least twelve American orchestras: San Francisco, Detroit (Tornakowsky), Boston (Munch and Monteux), Philadelphia (Ormandy), National Symphony, Chicago (Reiner), Milwaukee, Seattle, Rochester, Los Angeles, Rhode Island and New England. Once again spends a part of the summer in Marlboro. Official launch of the Istomin-Stern-Rose Trio at the Israel Festival. In November and December, plays concertos and trios in London.

Rehearsing with Stern and Rose, 1961